Patents Examined by Angela K Davison
  • Patent number: 10809581
    Abstract: Provided is an active matrix substrate 20a in which either a plurality of source lines (data lines) 15S or a plurality of gate lines 13G, as constituent elements of the active matrix substrate 20a, are vertical lines extending in the longitudinal direction, and the other are horizontal lines. Among a plurality of pixel control elements 16T that are provided in correspondence to a plurality of pixels and are connected with the data line 15S and the gate lines 13G so as to control display of the corresponding pixels, respectively, a part of the pixel control elements 16T connected with one same horizontal line are arranged on one side with respect to the respective vertical lines to which the pixel control elements are connected, the side being different from a side on which the other pixel control elements connected with the same horizontal line are arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayuki Nishiyama, Kohhei Tanaka, Takeshi Noma, Ryo Yonebayashi, Yosuke Iwata
  • Patent number: 10802349
    Abstract: A flexible liquid crystal display panel is provided. The flexible liquid crystal display panel includes a color filter substrate and a plurality of polymer walls. The color filter substrate includes a second glass substrate, a light-shielding layer and a second flexible substrate, and the light-shielding layer is disposed between the second glass substrate and the second flexible substrate. The polymer walls are disposed between the array substrate and the color filter substrate. A width of each polymer wall is equal to a width of each light transmission portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: He Jiang
  • Patent number: 10802311
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device configured such that a fixing unit is provided in an empty space between a liquid crystal panel and a light guide plate of a backlight unit in order to support the liquid crystal panel together with a mold and to fix an optical sheet and such that the fixing unit is provided with a reflection member in order to improve luminance at a light-incident part of the light guide plate, whereby image quality is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyoung-Jae Kim, Woo-Seok Cho
  • Patent number: 10802350
    Abstract: A liquid crystal panel includes two substrates, an outer light-shielding portion, an inner light-shielding portion, and spacers. The substrates are bonded to each other. The outer light-shielding portion is disposed outer than an outer periphery of area display area in which an image is displayed between the substrates. The inner light-shielding portion is disposed inner than an inner periphery of the display area between the substrates. The spacers are disposed between the substrates. The spacers include outer spacers and at least one inner spacer. The outer spacers are disposed to overlap the outer light-shielding portion. The at least one inner spacer is disposed to overlap the inner light-shielding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Shioaku, Yuta Senokuchi
  • Patent number: 10788708
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a technique capable of enhancing evenness of a planar light. A planar light source device includes a light source, a holding substrate, a light distribution control element having a light incident surface and a light outputting surface, a reflection part reflecting the light which has been reflected in an inner side of the light distribution control element toward the side of the display surface, and a case which houses the light source, the holding substrate, the light distribution control element, and the reflection part. A part opposite to the side of the display surface, in relation to at least the light distribution control element in a region between the light distribution control element and an inner wall of the case, is covered by the reflection part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiko Sawanaka, Masaaki Takeshima, Saki Maeda, Masayoshi Aoshima, Kengo Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 10788719
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes first to fourth pixel electrodes neighbored each other in a first direction, a common electrode at least partially overlapping the first to fourth pixel electrodes, and a first data line and a second data line extended in a second direction different from the first direction, and neighbored each other where the first data line is interposed between the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode, the second data line is interposed between the third pixel electrode and the fourth pixel electrode, and at least one slit defined in the common electrode is interposed between the second pixel electrode and the third pixel electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Won Ho Kim, Sung Man Kim, Min Chul Song, Hwa Yeul Oh, Yeon Mun Jeon
  • Patent number: 10782569
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel and a display device, the display panel includes a frame glue, an alignment mark, and a blocking wall, and the blocking wall is defined between the alignment mark and the frame glue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignees: HKC Corporation Limited, Chongqing HKC Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yunqin Hu
  • Patent number: 10768456
    Abstract: A low temperature poly-silicon (LTPS) display panel and a liquid crystal display device include a color filter substrate, an array substrate, and a frame sealing glue. The array substrate includes a glass substrate, a functional structure layer, and a third inorganic dielectric layer. The third inorganic dielectric layer connects with the frame sealing glue, and at least a row of first anti-crack holes are formed on the third inorganic dielectric layer adjacent to the frame sealing glue. The at least a row of first anti-crack holes include a plurality of the first anti-crack holes arranged in a direction along and in parallel with the frame sealing glue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xiaojiang Yu
  • Patent number: 10761357
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel and a display device, comprising: an array substrate, an opposite substrate arranged opposite to the array substrate, a driver circuit; a common electrode layer on a side of the opposite substrate facing the array substrate; and a liquid crystal layer located between the opposite substrate and the array substrate; the array substrate includes: a display area, a non-display area, a signal line in the display area, and a switchover terminal in the non-display area, where the switchover terminal includes: a first connection terminal electrically connected with the driver circuit, a second connection terminal electrically connected with the signal line, and an electrically-conductive layer covering the first connection terminal and the second connection terminal; the electrically-conductive layer is insulated from the common electrode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHONGQING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Rui Wang, Shaoru Li, Xiaofeng Ma, Fei Shang
  • Patent number: 10747067
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a substrate, a switching element provided on the substrate and including a relay electrode, a first electrode provided further away from the substrate than the switching element, a first insulating film provided on the first electrode and having a first thickness, a second electrode provided on the first insulating film, a second insulating film provided on the second electrode and having a second thickness and a third electrode provided on the second insulating film and supplied with a same potential as that of the first electrode. The second thickness is greater than the first thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Ozeki, Seiji Uejima, Nobutaka Ozaki
  • Patent number: 10739648
    Abstract: A display device is disclosed, which includes: a first substrate including; a switch unit; and a pixel electrode electrically connecting to the switch unit and comprising: a first finger portion with a first inner edge; a second finger portion with a second inner edge and a first outer edge; a contacting portion electrically connecting to the switch unit; a first bending portion connecting the first finger portion and the contacting portion and having a third inner edge; and a second bending portion connecting the second finger portion and the contacting portion and having a fourth inner edge and a second outer edge. The first finger portion has a first width along a first direction, the first bending portion has a second width along the first direction, the first direction is substantially parallel to a gate-line-extending direction, and the first width is greater than the second width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shun-Chen Yang, Ying-Tong Lin
  • Patent number: 10732451
    Abstract: The color filter substrate includes a substrate, a plurality of spaced color filter films disposed on the substrate, a black matrix disposed between adjacent color filter films, and a high refractive transparent layer disposed on a side of the black matrix between the color filter films having different colors away from the substrate, the high refractive transparent layer having a refractive index higher than that of a intermediate medium, and the intermediate medium is a medium filled in a display panel comprising va color filter substrate and a counter substrate. The present disclosure is capable of at least partially solving a problem that the color film substrate cannot simultaneously satisfy the requirements of avoiding cross color and increasing transmittance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignees: HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xinya Zhang, Qianqian Zhang, Chun Wang, Kun Wang, Yuqi Liu
  • Patent number: 10725345
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Masateru Morimoto, Saori Sugiyama, Motoharu Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 10718977
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: 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
  • Patent number: 10705376
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device comprises a backlight module and a liquid crystal display module in a light emitting path of the backlight module. The liquid crystal display module includes a first conductive substrate facing the backlight module, a second conductive substrate spaced apart from the first conductive substrate, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first conductive substrate and the second conductive substrate. The second conductive substrate includes a transparent substrate, a color filter layer formed on the transparent substrate, and a light converting layer formed on the color filter layer, and a transparent conductive layer formed on the light converting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: ADVANCED OPTOELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Hsin-Chiang Lin, Chien-Cheng Kuo, Pin-Chuan Chen, Lung-Hsin Chen, Wen-Liang Tseng
  • Patent number: 10698245
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device, includes a first substrate including a first conductive layer, a second substrate including a base having a first upper surface on a side opposite to a first lower surface opposed to the first substrate, a second conductive layer provided on the first upper surface, a third conductive layer provided on the first upper surface and electrically connected to the second conductive layer, a fourth conductive layer covering the third conductive layer and having a light-shielding property, a first through hole provided in the base, and an insulating material overlapping the connection material and having a light-shielding property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshikatsu Imazeki, Hayato Kurasawa
  • Patent number: 10690973
    Abstract: An electronic device is disclosed, which includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, wherein the substrate has a thickness t and a width WS; a first hole penetrating through the substrate, wherein the first hole has a first area A1? on the first surface and a second area A1 on the second surface; and a second hole penetrating through the substrate, wherein the second hole has a third area A2? on the first surface and a fourth area A2 on the second surface, and a distance d is between the first hole and the second hole, wherein values oft, WS, A1?, A1, A2?, A2, and d are conformed to the following equation (I): N × log ? ( ( A ? ? 1 ? + A ? ? 1 + A ? ? 2 + A ? ? 2 ? ) / 2 ) t ? d < WS - N × log ? ( A ? ? 1 ? + A ? ? 1 + A ? ? 2 + A ? ? 2 ? ) t ( I ) wherein N is greater than 0 and less than 1E6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jui-Jen Yueh, Kuan-Feng Lee, Chandra Lius, Yuan-Lin Wu
  • Patent number: 10684506
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a direct-type backlight module and a liquid crystal display the direct-type backlight module includes a back frame, a backlight source, optical films and the elastic rope. The install pillars are arranged on the first edge and the second edge opposite to the first edge of the back frame. The backlight source is arranged within the back frame. The elastic rope and the install pillars cooperatively defines the supporting net opposite to the backlight source. The optical films are arranged on the supporting net, and thus may be supported by the supporting net. In this way, the optical films may be prevented from collapse, so as to exclude the diffusion plate. Not only the cost of the manufacturing process may be reduced, and the thin design of the backlight module may be realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: HUIZHOU CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gang Yu, Dehua Li
  • Patent number: 10678089
    Abstract: A liquid crystal lens, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are disclosed. The liquid crystal lens includes a liquid layer located between a first substrate and a second substrate, the liquid layer includes a liquid crystal layer and a filler layer, the filler layer is filled in a square between the first substrate and the second substrate except the liquid crystal layer; the liquid crystal layer is made of a material different from the filler layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhongxiao Li, Wenqing Zhao, Ming Yang, Qian Wang, Haiyan Wang, Xiaochen Niu, Can Wang, Dacheng Zhang
  • Patent number: 10670903
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device comprises a first substrate includes a first area, a second area adjacent to the first area, and a first terminal portion located in the first area, and a second substrate includes an edge including a linear portion located between the first area and the second area, the second substrate overlapping the second area, wherein the second substrate further comprises a protruding portion protruding than the linear portion and a second terminal portion located in the protruding portion, and the display device further comprises a holding layer holding a gap between the second area and the protruding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Ishizaki, Hayato Kurasawa, Masanobu Ikeda