Patents Represented by Attorney Robert E. Bushnell
  • Patent number: 8232575
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display includes a display substrate including a display substrate including an organic light emitting element and a pixel defining layer having an opening defining a light emitting region of the organic light emitting element, an encapsulation substrate arranged opposite to the display substrate, a sealant arranged at an edge between the display substrate and the encapsulation substrate to seal a space between the display substrate and the encapsulation substrate from an outside and a filler filling the space between the display substrate and the encapsulation substrate, wherein the pixel defining layer has a thickness that varies by location, and a portion of the pixel defining layer closest to the sealant at edges of the display substrate having a thickness that is greater than a thickness of the pixel defining layer at all other portions of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyung-Jun Lee, Sung-Jin Bae
  • Patent number: 8227881
    Abstract: A solar cell having improved efficiency and its method of manufacture includes: forming a porous layer on a surface of a semiconductor substrate; spraying a compound containing a dopant on the porous layer; and forming an emitter layer on the surface of the semiconductor substrate by diffusing the dopant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sang-Wook Park
  • Patent number: 8227100
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a negative active material for a lithium ion battery and a lithium ion battery including the negative active material. The negative active material for a lithium ion battery includes a hexagonal lithium vanadium composite oxide including lithium, vanadium, and magnesium. The lithium and the vanadium are included in a mole ratio within a range of 1.15?Li/V?1.35, and the magnesium and the vanadium are included in a mole ratio within a range of 0.01?Mg/V?0.06. The present invention provides a negative active material for a lithium ion battery having a stable crystal structure, excellent high rate of charge and discharge, and good charge and discharge cycle characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Inagaki, Akira Takamuku, Geun-Bao Kim
  • Patent number: 8227987
    Abstract: Provided are a protecting layer for a plasma display panel (PDP), a method of forming the same, and a PDP including the protecting layer. The protecting layer includes a magnesium oxide-containing layer having a surface to which magnesium oxide-containing particles having a magnesium vacancy-impurity center (VIC) are attached. The protecting layer is resistant to plasma ions and has excellent electron emission effects, and thus, a PDP including the protecting layer can be operated at low voltage with high discharge efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min-Suk Lee, Jong-Seo Choi, Suk-Ki Kim, Yury Matulevich, Jae-Hyuk Kim, Soon-Sung Suh, Hee-Young Chu
  • Patent number: 8227114
    Abstract: The method of preparing a negative active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte rechargeable battery includes mixing a vanadium compound and a lithium compound and then subjecting the mixture to first firing to obtain Li1.0(VxMy)1.0O2 having a layered halite type structure (where 0.5?x?1.0, 0?y?0.5, x+y=1, and M is selected from the group consisting of group 2 to 15 elements of the periodic table and combinations thereof); and adding a lithium compound to the Li1.0(VxMy)1.0O2 and then subjecting the resultant to second firing. The negative active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte rechargeable battery prepared according to the preparing method has high crystallinity, and excellent charge and discharge characteristics at a high rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Tokita, Hideaki Maeda, Naoya Kobayashi, Sung-Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 8227978
    Abstract: A top emission type white organic light emitting device (OLED) has a high resolution and a wide color gamut, and a color display apparatus uses the same. The white OLED includes a substrate; a reflective electrode formed on the substrate; an organic light emitting layer formed on the reflective electrode; a semi-transparent electrode formed on the organic light emitting layer; and in the white OLED, a wavelength of a resonating mode determined by an optical thickness between the reflective electrode and semi-transparent electrode is shorter than a shortest wavelength in a visible light region of a white light spectrum generated in the organic light emitting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-hun Lee, Sung-kee Kang, Sang-yeol Kim, Mu-gyeom Kim, Jung-bae Song
  • Patent number: 8227092
    Abstract: Provided is an organic electroluminescent device including an organic layer interposed between a pair of electrodes, the organic layer including a layer formed of a titanium oxide derivative or a mixture layer containing a titanium oxide derivative. The organic electroluminescent device has higher luminescent efficiency, a longer lifetime and a lower operating voltage than a conventional organic electroluminescent device, and can be easily manufactured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong-Jin Park, Yu-Jin Kim, Sang-Hoon Park, Jhun-Mo Son
  • Patent number: 8227110
    Abstract: A secondary battery includes: a bare cell having an electrode assembly including two electrodes and a separator arranged between the two electrodes, a cell container having an opening and adapted to contain the electrode assembly, and a cap assembly adapted to cover the opening; and an accessory unit having a protective circuit module and adapted to be electrically connected to the bare cell via at least one electrode from outside of the bare cell. The accessory unit is adapted to be affixed to the bare cell with an adhesive member arranged in at least a portion of facing surfaces of both the bare cell and the accessory unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kyu-Nam Han
  • Patent number: 8227845
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display that prevents a material used to form a source electrode and a drain electrode from being diffused into an active layer and reduces contact resistance between the source and drain electrodes and a first electrode includes: a substrate; an active layer arranged on the substrate and including silicon; a gate electrode arranged on the substrate and insulated from the active layer; a source electrode and a drain electrode each of a single layer structure, insulated from the gate electrode, and electrically connected to the active layer; a first electrode electrically connected to either the source electrode or the drain electrode; an organic light emitting layer arranged on the first electrode; and a second electrode arranged on the organic light emitting layer, each source electrode and drain electrode includes an aluminum alloy containing nickel and silicon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hyun-Eok Shin
  • Patent number: 8227093
    Abstract: Provided is a cyclometalated transition metal complex represented by Formula 1, Formula 2 or Formula 3: By including a new ancillary ligand, the cyclometalated transition metal complex can efficiently emit red light using a phosphor by intersystem crossing (ISC) of excitons to triplet states and then metal to ligand charge transfer (MLCT). An organic light emitting device prepared using the transition metal compound shows high luminous efficiency and high external quantum efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-Hun Byun, Hee-Kyung Kim, Lyong-Sun Pu, Shinichiro Tamura, Das Rupasree Ragini, Jong-Jin Park, Byoung-Ki Choi, Yi-Yeol Lyu, O-Hyun Kwon, Young-Mok Son
  • Patent number: 8227804
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting display device including: a gate electrode formed on a substrate; a first insulating layer formed on the gate electrode; an active layer formed on the first insulating layer, facing the gate electrode; a second insulating layer formed on the first insulating layer, having first openings to expose the active layer; source/drain electrodes formed on the second insulating layer, so as to be connected to exposed portions of the active layer through the first openings; and a metal layer formed on the active layer and contacting the second insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Huiwon Yang, Ki-Ju Im, Chaun-Gi Choi, Eun-Hyun Kim, Steve Y. G. Mo
  • Patent number: 8227111
    Abstract: A secondary battery includes an electrode assembly including: a winding having a positive electrode plate, a negative electrodes plate, and stacked together with a separator interposed between the positive and negative electrode plate; a can having an opening portion to receive the electrode assembly; a cap assembly including a cap plate to close the opening portion of the can, the cap plate having an electrolyte injection hole arranged therein; and a first extension groove having a greater diameter than that of the electrolyte injection hole, the first extension groove being arranged in an entering portion of the electrolyte injection hole and having at least one hollow portion arranged on the surface of the first extension groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinwook Kim, Hideaki Yoshio, Jinwan Jeong, Jaeil Seong, Soonki Woo
  • Patent number: 8226448
    Abstract: A laser beam irradiation apparatus irradiates a laser beam to a sealing unit disposed between a first substrate and a second substrate to seal the first substrate and the second substrate. The laser beam irradiation apparatus includes a laser head for irradiating the laser beam; and a control unit for controlling a drive-velocity and a drive-direction of the laser beam. The laser beam is controlled by the control unit which repetitively performs a backward and forward movement along a first direction, and passes a same position at least twice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Alexander Voronov, Gyoo-Wan Han, Tae-Wook Kang, Cheol-Lae Roh
  • Patent number: 8228033
    Abstract: A protective circuit board and a battery pack using the same, which includes a groove formed at one side and receives an external connection terminal in the groove, is provided. The protective circuit board for a battery, which is formed by mounting a number of electrical devices on a board on which a wiring pattern is formed and which is connected to a bare cell so as to protect a battery, comprises a groove formed on a surface of the protective circuit board, and an external connection terminal formed inside the groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ki-Sung Hong, In-Kyu Park, Bo-Hyun Byun
  • Patent number: 8227972
    Abstract: A display filter includes a base film disposed on a display panel. The base film includes a phototransmissive unit having a constant horizontal cross-sectional area, and a light absorbing unit which includes a light absorbing material and surrounds the phototransmissive unit. A plasma display panel (PDP) may include the display filter. The display filter may improve ambient contrast by increasing the transmittance of light emitted by a display panel and by blocking externally incident light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yeon-Joo Choi, Cha-Won Hwang, Sang-Mi Lee, Seung-Goo Baek
  • Patent number: 8227146
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cathode catalyst for a fuel cell, a membrane-electrode assembly for a fuel cell including the cathode catalyst, and a fuel cell system. The cathode catalyst includes a core including RuO2, and Se and Pt. The Se and Pt are disposed to enclose the core. The cathode catalyst for a fuel cell of the present invention can have excellent catalyst efficiency, even if less platinum is included therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Myoung-Ki Min, Chan Kwak, Alexey Alexandrovichserov
  • Patent number: 8212244
    Abstract: A blue organic light emitting device is provided. The blue organic light emitting device comprises a first electrode; a second electrode; and an organic layer including an electron transport layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the electron transport layer includes a material having an energy gap of 2.8 eV or more between a highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) and a lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mie-Hwa Park, Kyung-Hoon Choi, Young-Suck Choi, Young-Ho Park
  • Patent number: 8211582
    Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell body that includes a middle plate and an electricity generating unit that generates electricity by a reaction of air and fuel. The middle plate includes a plurality of unit sections, a supply passage formed inside the middle plate, a supply opening for supplying the fuel to the supply passage, a plurality of inlet openings formed on the unit sections, a discharge passage formed inside the middle plate, a plurality of outlet openings formed on the unit sections, and a discharge opening for discharging the fuel from the discharge passage. The fuel is supplied to the unit sections through the inlet openings, and the fuel discharged from the unit sections being discharged to the discharge passage through the outlet openings. In one embodiment, an opening area of an inlet opening become smaller as the inlet opening is located farther from the supply opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Inhyuk Son, Dongmyung Suh
  • Patent number: 8212242
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an OLED display, and an OLED display according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a substrate member, an OLED including a first electrode formed on the substrate member, an organic emission layer formed on the first electrode, and a second electrode formed on the organic emission layer, and a cover layer formed on the second electrode and covering the OLED. The cover layer includes a cover main body and a corner-cube pattern formed on an opposite side of a side that faces the second electrode among both sides of the cover main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eun-Ah Kim, Soon-Ryong Park, Woo-Suk Jung, Hee-Chul Jeon, Noh-Min Kwak, Hee-Seong Jeong, Joo-Hwa Lee, Chul-Woo Jeong
  • Patent number: 8206549
    Abstract: An etching apparatus includes: an etching chamber; a piping unit disposed in an upper portion of the etching chamber and including a plurality of nozzles via which an etchant is sprayed; a substrate mask disposed below the piping unit; and a transfer unit disposed below the substrate mask and used to transfer a substrate. The substrate mask interposed between the piping unit including the nozzles and the substrate has a mesh structure or a plurality of holes or slits. Thus, the generation of microbubbles can be prevented during a wet etching process so that a thin layer formed on the substrate can be etched at a uniform etch rate. Also, a lift unit having a fixing unit may be disposed on a lateral surface of the substrate mask. The lift unit moves the substrate mask up and down so as to obtain a uniform etch rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Myeng-Woo Nam, Chang-Soo Kim, Jung-Hyun Kwon