Patents Examined by Angela K Davison
  • Patent number: 10274779
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing a display substrate, a display substrate, and a display device. The method for manufacturing a display substrate comprises: providing a container, which is positioned horizontally and which contains a curable liquid, and the bottom of which is flat; immersing a side of the substrate parallel to the bottom of the container in the horizontal direction into the curable liquid; and performing curing treatment of the curable liquid until the curable liquid is solidified on the side of the substrate to form a film layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guoqiang Zhong, Sangman Yuk, Bin Li, Tao Zhu, Huifang Yuan, Wenhao Tang, Haibin Yin, Qun Fang, Anxin Dong, Jian Chen
  • Patent number: 10267978
    Abstract: A backlight module including a back plate and a light guide plate structure and a light source assembly disposed on the back plate, wherein the light guide plate structure is mainly formed by splicing a plurality of light guide plate blocks, each of the plurality of light guide plate blocks includes a splicing end surface and at least one incident light end surface, and the light source assembly is disposed on at least one incident light end surface of the light guide plate blocks. Additionally, a liquid crystal display including the above backlight module is disclosed. The light guide plate structure in the backlight module may reduce a light mixing height of the backlight module and is advantageous to thinning the product; in addition, the structure of the light guide plate is simple and easy to be implemented, which is advantageous to lower the cost of the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Fan, Zuoyuan Qin
  • Patent number: 10261355
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display device, including a display panel; a sealant layer on the display panel; a transparent protective layer covering an active area of the display panel; and a protective cover fixed by the sealant layer to cover the transparent protective layer. The transparent protective layer fills up a gap between the protective cover and the display panel, a refractive index of the transparent protective layer being substantially close to a refractive index of the protective cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD, HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Changdi Chen, Tao Yang
  • Patent number: 10254578
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a first substrate; a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate, where a display area and a non-display area are defined in each of the first and second substrates; a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; a common voltage line disposed in the non-display area of the first substrate; a light-shielding pattern disposed on the common voltage line and including an open portion, which at least partially exposes the common voltage line; and a dummy color layer disposed below the common voltage line and at least partially overlapping the open portion. The light-shielding pattern includes a first stepped portion disposed on a side of the open portion and a second stepped portion disposed on another side of the open portion, and the dummy color layer overlaps at least one of the first and second stepped portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Hee Shin, Dong Hyeon Ki, Bo Yeong Kim, Byoung Sun Na
  • Patent number: 10247878
    Abstract: A light guide plate (LGP) includes a positioning block that includes a positioning block body and a liquid filled and hermetically sealed in a receiving compartment formed in the interior of the positioning block body. The liquid is expandable with a drop of temperature so as to increase a volume thereof and thus enlarge a size of the positioning block body through elasticity of the positioning block body. In this way, the LGP positioning block is adjustable with the variation of the surrounding temperature so as to achieve effective positioning of the light guide plate and providing high reliability of a liquid crystal display device including the light guide plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Gang Yu, Dehua Li
  • Patent number: 10241255
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a backlight module and a liquid crystal display, the backlight module comprises: a light guide plate, a first light source and a second light source; wherein said light guide plate comprises a light emitting surface and a bottom surface as well as a side surface; said light emitting surface and said bottom surface define thickness of said light guide plate, said light guide plate at least comprises a first portion which is relatively thicker and a second portion which is relatively thin; said first light source is provided opposite the side of said light guide plate, said second light source is provided opposite said bottom surface or said light emitting surface of said light guide plate second portion. Through the above way, the present disclosure can achieve the split-screen display of the display device, simultaneously reducing the power consumption of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Guowei Zha
  • Patent number: 10241340
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a three-dimensional display device and a driving method thereof. In a previous frame of display time, one part of second sub-pixels in a liquid crystal display panel are controlled to display a left eye view, and the other part of second sub-pixels display a right eye view. In a next frame of display time, positions of light emitting areas and black areas in an electroluminescent display panel are interchanged, and the second sub-pixels that display the left eye view in the previous frame display the right eye view in the next frame, and the second sub-pixels that display the right eye view in the previous frame display the left eye view in the next frame. The sum of the previous frame and the next frame of display time is less than a predetermined maximum time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pengcheng Lu, Ming Yang, Xiaochuan Chen, Wenqing Zhao, Lei Wang, Rui Xu, Jian Gao, Xiaochen Niu, Haisheng Wang, Changfeng Li, Bin Ma, Qian Wang
  • Patent number: 10229645
    Abstract: A display device includes: pixels corresponding to respective colors arranged in matrix, wherein each pixel has a pixel circuit portion in which a circuit for display driving of the pixel is arranged and a pixel opening to be an area obtaining effective display light, the pixel openings of the pixels corresponding to at least one color have an area different from areas of the pixel openings of pixels corresponding to other colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Hidemasa Yamaguchi, Hironao Tanaka, Daisuke Ito
  • Patent number: 10222527
    Abstract: A polarizer includes a buffer member and linear metal patterns. The buffer member includes protrusions. Each protrusion has downwardly-increasing width. The buffer member is formed of polymer. The linear metal patterns, spaced apart from each other, are extended in a first direction. Each linear metal pattern covers a respective protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kang-Soo Han, Eun-Jung Kim, Gug-Rae Jo, Hyung-Bin Cho
  • Patent number: 10215994
    Abstract: A display panel, a method of manufacturing the display panel, and a display apparatus are provided in the embodiments of the present invention. The display panel comprises a first substrate assembly and a second substrate assembly, and a first polarizing filter and a second polarizing filter. The first substrate assembly and the first polarizing filter are located on a light output side. A lens grating is disposed between the first polarizing filter and the first substrate assembly of the display panel, and a substrate of the first substrate assembly serves as a substrate of the lens grating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kun Wu
  • Patent number: 10203580
    Abstract: An electrode applicable in liquid crystal display (LCD), an array substrate, a display panel, and a display device are provided. The electrode applicable in LCD includes a plurality of electrode comb teeth with a slit therebetween, adjacent electrode comb teeth being connected to each other at one end of each comb tooth; the other ends of the adjacent electrode comb teeth forming an opening, at least one protrusion being provided between the adjacent electrode comb teeth at the opening end; and the protrusion being connected to the electrode comb tooth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pengcheng Zang, Weiyun Huang, Xiaojing Qi
  • Patent number: 10204940
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of an array substrate is provided in this invention, a protective layer for the channel is formed by magnetron sputtering and thermal annealing treatment with the oxygen concentration greater than 21%, at a temperature of 300˜400° C. and the material of the protection layer includes Al2O3. The present invention further includes an array substrate and a liquid crystal display panel with the array substrate. The present invention prevents the impurity such as hydrogen atom into the channel, and the quality of the protective layer prepared by the present invention is higher to ensure the electrical properties of the channel and process easy to be achieve and conducive to industrialization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Wei Wang
  • Patent number: 10191187
    Abstract: An outdoor display apparatus is provided. The outdoor display apparatus includes a display panel, a transparent panel disposed in front of the display panel, a light-blocking layer disposed on a front surface of the transparent panel and configured to block a portion of light transmitted to the display panel, an anti-graffiti layer disposed on a front surface of the light-blocking layer, a light-absorbing layer disposed on a rear surface of the transparent panel, and an anti-fog layer disposed on a rear surface of the light-absorbing layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Hyun Cho, Jin Soo Pyo, Jung Kyun Kim
  • Patent number: 10191325
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device and a liquid crystal display panel thereof. Each pixel unit comprises staggered reflecting regions and transmitting regions. The reflecting region is corresponded with a reflective layer and a common electrode. The transmitting region is corresponded with a pixel electrode and a common electrode. By applying voltages to the pixel electrode and the common electrode, the transflective display of the liquid crystal display panel can be achieved. With the aforesaid arrangement, the electrode structure employed by the present invention is capable of reducing the drive voltage, raising the luminous transmittance and enlarging the view angle. With the vertical orientation, the dark-state light leakage can be diminished to promote the display contrast. The difficulty of the manufacture process can be reduced with the single cell thickness structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Chang Xie
  • Patent number: 10180594
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mirror display that can suppress warp of a half mirror plate with a reflective polarizer under heat to prevent distortion of a reflected image in a mirror mode. The mirror display of the present invention includes a half mirror plate that includes a first reflective polarizer and a first base material, a display device, and a warp-suppressing member that suppresses shrinking of the first reflective polarizer under heat. The first reflective polarizer and the first base material are integrated, and the display device is disposed on the back surface side of the half mirror plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hakoi, Masahiro Hasegawa, Akira Sakai, Kiyoshi Minoura
  • Patent number: 10175403
    Abstract: There is provided an optical member that can realize a liquid crystal display apparatus that is excellent in mechanical strength and has high illuminance. An optical member according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a polarizing plate, a reflective polarizer, and a prism sheet in the stated order. The optical member has a reflectance of 70% or more for linearly polarized light having a wavelength of 650 nm entering the reflective polarizer at 45°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kozo Nakamura, Shouhei Maezawa, Takehito Fuchida, Hiroyuki Takemoto, Nao Murakami
  • Patent number: 10175404
    Abstract: An optical film includes a first compensation film and a second compensation film having a retardation for incident light different from the first compensation film, wherein the first compensation film includes a first liquid crystal layer including liquid crystals which are obliquely tilted relative to a surface of the first compensation film, and the second compensation film has a refractive index satisfying Relationship Equation 1 and Relationship Equation 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Ohyama, Kitae Park, Hyunseok Choi, Koh Kamada
  • Patent number: 10156758
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display is provided according to the present disclosure, which pertains to the technical field of display. At least one liquid crystal sub pixel comprises a first branch sub pixel, a second branch sub pixel, and a third branch sub pixel, respectively having a first thin film transistor and a first branch sub pixel electrode, a second thin film transistor and a second branch sub pixel electrode, and a third thin film transistor and a third branch sub pixel electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cheng Hung Chen, Zuomin Liao
  • Patent number: 10144288
    Abstract: A display including a liquid crystal layer, a light source, and a wall. The liquid crystal layer includes a first display area, a second display area, and a transition area therebetween. The light source is configured to generate light of a first intensity to illuminate the first display area with light of the first intensity, and generate light of a second intensity that is greater than the first intensity to illuminate the second display area with light of the second intensity. The wall is opposite to the transition area and is configured to permit passage of light of the first intensity and light of the second intensity to the transition area such that at the transition area there is a gradual transition from light of the second intensity proximate to the second display area to light of the first intensity proximate to the first display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignees: DENSO International America, Inc., DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunji Yamauchi, Homare Shirai, Charles Hummer
  • Patent number: 10126576
    Abstract: A flexible display apparatus includes a flexible substrate including a first surface, a second surface, a first side surface and a second side surface connected to the first side surface. A display layer is disposed on the first surface. A first substrate extension portion extends from the first side surface and is bent along the first side surface to overlap the flexible substrate. A second substrate extension portion extends from the second side surface and is bent along the second side surface to overlap the flexible substrate and the first substrate extension portion. First and second drivers provide driving signals to the display layer, wherein the first and second drivers are mounted on the first and second substrate extension portions, respectively. A first conductive connection member is disposed between the first and second substrate extension portions, electrically connecting the first extension portion with the second extension portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Na-Ri Park, Sung-Un Park