Patents Examined by Angela K Davison
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Patent number: 11762232Abstract: The invention provides a display device, comprising: a first substrate having a display region and a peripheral region adjacent to each other; a second substrate having a first light shield layer and a color resist layer, the color resist layer having a first color resist layer, a second color resist layer and a third color resist layer disposed on the first light shield layer in a strip shape, respectively; a display molecular layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; a first light sensing region disposed on the first substrate and the second substrate; a first spacer region surrounding the first light sensing region, and further comprising: a second light shield layer forming a first projection area on the second substrate; a fourth resist layer forming a second projection area on the second substrate; wherein a ratio of the second projection area to the first projection area is between 0.01 and 0.07.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2019Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: AU OPTRONICS (KUNSHAN) CO., LTD.Inventors: Kai Ti Chang, Po-Chun Chiu
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Patent number: 11762140Abstract: A wire grid polarizer (WGP) can include an array of support-ribs on a substrate. Sides of the support-ribs can be inclined to one side. A wire can be applied on an upper-side and distal end of each support-rib, each wire being separate from wires on adjacent support-ribs. The WGP can be made with reduced or no etching.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2022Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Moxtek, Inc.Inventors: R. Stewart Nielson, Bradley R. Williams, Bob West
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Patent number: 11762244Abstract: The displacement between a TFT substrate and a counter substrate and the cut of an alignment film caused by a columnar spacer are prevented. A liquid crystal display device includes: a TFT substrate including a scanning line extending in a first direction, a picture signal line extending in a second direction, a pixel electrode formed in a region surrounded by the scanning line and the picture signal line, and a common electrode formed as opposed to the pixel electrode through an insulating film; a counter substrate disposed as opposed to the TFT substrate and having a spacer; and a liquid crystal sandwiched between the substrates. A common metal interconnection is formed to cover the picture signal line or the scanning line, and stacked on the common electrode. A through hole is formed on the common metal interconnection. The tip end of the spacer is disposed inside the through hole.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2023Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Japan Display IncInventors: Masateru Morimoto, Saori Sugiyama, Motoharu Miyamoto
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Patent number: 11754874Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display panel, including: first and second substrates; a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates; a first linear polarizer provided at a side of the first substrate facing away from the liquid crystal layer and having an absorption axis extending along a first direction; a second linear polarizer provided at a side of the second substrate facing away from the liquid crystal layer and having an absorption axis extending along a direction perpendicular to the first direction; a first quarter-wave plate provided at the side of the first substrate facing away from the liquid crystal layer; a second quarter-wave plate between the first substrate and the liquid crystal layer; and a first half-wave plate provided at the side of the first substrate facing away from the liquid crystal layer, and/or a second half-wave plate between the first substrate and the liquid crystal layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuanying Wang, Jun Zhou, Fan Tian, Yuefeng Gu
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Patent number: 11758763Abstract: A display panel is provided, including an array substrate; a light-emitting layer located at a side of the array substrate and including a plurality of light-emitting units; a touch dielectric layer located at a side of the light-emitting layer facing away from the array substrate and including a plurality of first apertures; a black matrix located within each of the plurality of first apertures; and a color filter layer located at a side of the touch dielectric layer facing away from the array substrate and including a plurality of color filter units. An orthographic projection of each of the plurality of first apertures on the light-emitting layer is located between two adjacent light-emitting units of the plurality of light-emitting units. The plurality of color filter units is in one-to-one correspondence to the plurality of light-emitting units.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: HUBEI YANGTZE INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION CENTER OF ADVANCED DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Leilei Cao, Ai Xiao, Jiaxian Liu, Ming Yang
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Patent number: 11740515Abstract: A display device includes a display panel and a shock absorbing structure including protrusions and an elastic member. The display panel has a folding area. The protrusions are disposed on the display panel and they may be arranged in a pattern. The elastic member is disposed on the protrusions such that a part of an upper portion of each of the protrusions is impregnated within the elastic member. Methods of manufacturing the display device are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2020Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: Juhee Song
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Patent number: 11726369Abstract: A substrate, an optical device include the same, and a method of making the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a substrate includes a base layer, a plurality of column spacers disposed on the base layer, and a ball spacer attached to or embedded in at least one of the plurality of column spacers. The spacers having excellent dimensional accuracy and adhesiveness on the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2019Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Inventors: Cheol Ock Song, Han Min Seo, Nam Seok Bae, Jae Sung Han, Seung Heon Lee
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Patent number: 11721705Abstract: An array substrate and a method for manufacturing the same, a display panel, and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes a base substrate, a stacked structure, a common-electrode line, and a conductive structure. The stacked structure is disposed on a first surface of the substrate. The stacked structure includes a contact pad, a common-electrode layer, and a gate line. The contact pad is disposed on the first surface of the base substrate. The base substrate defines a first via hole at a position corresponding to the contact pad. The common-electrode layer is connected with the contact pad. The common-electrode line is disposed on a second surface of the base substrate. An orthographic projection of the gate line on a plane where the common-electrode line is located at least partially overlaps with the common-electrode line. The conductive structure is connected with the contact pad and the common-electrode line.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2022Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignees: MIANYANG HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., HKC CORPORATION LIMITEDInventors: Zhiwei Li, Baohong Kang
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Patent number: 11719871Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 13, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kang-Soo Han, Eun-Jung Kim, Gug-Rae Jo, Hyung-Bin Cho
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Patent number: 11716873Abstract: Disclosed are a display panel, a manufacturing method thereof, and a displaying device. The display panel comprises a pixel layer, a support layer, a lens unit and a cover plate which are stacked in sequence. The support layer is located on a luminescent layer of the pixel layer. The lens unit comprises a lens layer, wherein the lens layer comprises a lens area and a non-lens area, and the lens area comprises multiple lenses arranged in an array. The display panel further comprises a polarization unit disposed on a light path between the pixel layer and the lens layer and configured to filter out light emitted from the pixel layer to the non-lens area.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2021Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Duohui Li, Kang Guo, Mengya Song, Zhen Liu, Xiao Zhang, Xin Gu
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Patent number: 11708962Abstract: An optical system including a lighting component and a switchable diffuser in optical communication with the lighting component. The optical system may further include a low absorbing optical component. At least one outer surface of the switchable diffuser and/or the low absorbing optical component includes light redirecting structures. When the switchable diffuser is in a first state and the optical system produces a light output, the light redirecting structures are configured to increase the full width at half-maximum (FWHM) of the light output of the optical system in at least one direction by at least 5 degrees relative to that of an otherwise equivalent optical system that does not include the light redirecting structures.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2022Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANYInventors: John A. Wheatley, Guanglei Du, Kenneth A. Epstein
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Patent number: 11703701Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes a display panel and a visible angle adjustment panel. The visible angle adjustment panel has a liquid-crystal layer. The liquid-crystal layer has a plurality of cell gaps, wherein the thicknesses of the cell gaps are different from each other, and the thicknesses of the cell gaps gradually increase along a direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATIONInventors: Hong-Sheng Hsieh, Hao-Yu Chen, Cheng-Jen Chu, Jyun-Sian Li, Chu-Hong Lai
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Patent number: 11698550Abstract: A composite lens system may include one or more first optical elements configured to provide a first focal length selected from a first continuous range of focal lengths, as well as one or more second optical elements configured to provide a discrete focal length selected from a plurality of discrete focal lengths. The one or more first optical elements and the one or more second optical elements may be configured in series such that the composite lens system provides an output focal length based on a combination of the selected first focal length and the selected discrete focal length.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2021Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Andrew Acreman, Nathan James Smith, David James Montgomery
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Patent number: 11686986Abstract: Disclosed are a display substrate, a fabrication method for the display substrate, and a display device. By arranging a flat layer with a flat surface facing the second metal layer between a first metal layer and a second metal layer, the second metal layer deposited on the flat layer is also relatively flat, so that the second metal wirings with the same width and spacing as that of first metal wirings can be formed. The etching resolutions of the metal wirings in the fanout region corresponding to the first metal layer and the second metal layer in the solutions of the present disclosure can be the same.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignees: Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Na Zhao, Xianxue Duan, Miao Yuan
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Patent number: 11668970Abstract: A display device includes: a color filter including a first transmissive filter, a second transmissive filter, and a third transmissive filter, the first, second and third transmissive filters being configured to transmit respective light beams having peak wavelengths different from each other; a first selective-wavelength-reflection layer adjacent to an optical-input surface of the first transmissive filter, the first selective-wavelength-reflection layer being configured to reflect light of a wavelength band that passes through the third transmissive filter; a second selective-wavelength-reflection layer adjacent to an optical-input surface of the second transmissive filter, the second selective-wavelength-reflection layer being configured to reflect light of a wavelength band that passes through the third transmissive filter, the second selective-wavelength-reflection layer being identical in composition to the first selective-wavelength-reflection layer; and a light emitter configured to emit light that tType: GrantFiled: November 22, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Naru Usukura
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Patent number: 11668980Abstract: A spatial light modulator and a liquid-crystal module are provided. The spatial light modulator includes a first liquid-crystal module and a second liquid-crystal module that are arranged opposite to each other. The first liquid-crystal module includes a first array substrate, a first color filter substrate, and a plurality of first spacers disposed therebetween. The second liquid-crystal module includes a second array substrate, a second color filter substrate, and a plurality of second spacers disposed therebetween. The first array substrate, the first color filter substrate, the second color filter substrate, and the second array substrate are stacked sequentially. At least one first spacer forms a first overlapped unit, and at least one second spacer forms a second overlapped unit. An orthographic projection of the first overlapped unit on the first array substrate fully overlaps an orthographic projection of the second overlapped unit on the first array substrate.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2020Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: HUBEI YANGTZE INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION CENTER OF ADVANCED DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Shihao Tang, Yang Zeng, Feng Lu, Qijun Yao, Yaodong Wu, Ziyu Shi, Yaqi Kuang
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Patent number: 11668978Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes a display panel and a backlight module. The display panel includes sub-pixels and a light-shielding layer disposed around the sub-pixels. A reflective nano-grating is disposed on one side of the light-shielding layer near the backlight module. The backlight module provides a backlight source for the display panel, and the backlight source is converted into a polarized light in the display panel. The reflective nano-grating is used to reflect at least one part of the polarized light emitted toward the reflective nano-grating back to the backlight module for recycling.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2019Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Pengfei Zhang
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Patent number: 11662627Abstract: A liquid crystal display according to an exemplary embodiment of the present system and method includes a first insulation substrate, a thin film transistor disposed on the first insulation substrate, a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor, a protrusion disposed on the pixel electrode, a second insulation substrate facing the first insulation substrate, a common electrode disposed on the second insulation substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the pixel electrode and the common electrode, wherein one pixel includes a thin film transistor formation region where the thin film transistor is disposed and a display area where the pixel electrode is disposed, and the protrusion is disposed to overlay at least a portion of edges of the display area.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2020Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Youn Hak Jeong, Wan Namgung, Hong Min Yoon, Ho Jun Lee, Pil Gyu Kang, Seung Kyu Lee, Yun Seok Lee
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Patent number: 11650464Abstract: According to an aspect, an optical element includes: a first substrate including a first electrode; a second substrate stacked on the first substrate and including a second electrode; a liquid crystal layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate; a sealing member extending along an outer periphery of the liquid crystal layer; a first spacer provided on an inner side of the sealing member; and a conductive column provided on an outer side of the sealing member and electrically connecting the first electrode and the second electrode. The conductive column and the first spacer include the same material.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2022Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Takeo Koito, Kojiro Ikeda, Tae Kurokawa
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Patent number: 11650451Abstract: A color filter substrate includes: a base substrate; a black matrix arranged on a surface of the base substrate and defining a plurality of first light-transmitting regions a plurality of second light-transmitting regions and a plurality of third light-transmitting regions on the base substrate; a color resist layer including a first color resist, a second color resist and a third color resist arranged in the first light-transmitting regions, the second light-transmitting regions and the third light-transmitting regions respectively, the first color resist covering the black matrix between two adjacent first light-transmitting regions, and the second color resist covering the black matrix between two adjacent second light-transmitting regions; and a common electrode layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2020Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignees: HKC Corporation Limited, Chongqing HKC Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yanna Yang