Patents Examined by Angela K Davison
  • Patent number: 10673021
    Abstract: A package structure, a flexible display screen, and a method for manufacturing the package structure are provided. The package structure is used for packaging and being bonded on a display panel. The package structure includes a first inorganic layer, the first inorganic layer includes a number of first inorganic elements that are discontinuously arranged on the display panel and a number of second inorganic elements each of which is connected between two adjacent first inorganic elements. By providing the second inorganic elements between the discontinuously arranged first inorganic elements, so that the first inorganic elements and the second inorganic elements are arranged alternately and prevent each other from absorbing water/oxygen, thereby improving the water/oxygen barrier performance of the package structure, that is, the package performance of the package structure is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: SHENZHEN ROYOLE TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yiming Chen
  • Patent number: 10670902
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a thin film transistor (TFT) disposed on a substrate. The TFT is divided into pixel regions. Pixel electrodes are disposed in the pixel regions, respectively. The pixel electrodes are electrically connected with the TFT. A roof layer is disposed over the pixel electrodes. Fine spaces, which are spaced apart from each other, are each disposed between each of the pixel electrodes and the roof layer. The fine spaces include a first region and a second region that is below the first region. The second region includes a protrusion protruding in a direction substantially parallel to the substrate with respect to the first region. An alignment layer is disposed on an inner surface of each of the fine spaces. Liquid crystal molecules fill each of the fine spaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Boram Lee, Jiseong Yang, Taehwan Kim, Jonghwan Lee, Seokjoon Hong
  • Patent number: 10663813
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display including a plurality of pixels disposed in a matrix of pixel rows and pixel columns, the liquid crystal display including: a plurality of gate lines formed on a first substrate and disposed two between every pixel row; a plurality of data lines formed on the first substrate and disposed one between every two adjacent pixel columns; a common voltage line formed on the first substrate and extending in a pixel row direction along a vertical center of the pixel; and a plurality of pixel electrodes and common electrodes formed on the first substrate and overlapping with each other with an insulating layer therebetween, each pixel electrode positioned in a pixel, and in which two pixel electrodes in the two pixel columns disposed between two adjacent data lines among the plurality of data lines are both connected to any one of the two data lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jong Woong Chang
  • Patent number: 10663797
    Abstract: Provide are a composite optical sheet used for a liquid crystal display (LCD) device and a method of manufacturing the composite optical sheet. The LCD device includes: a liquid crystal panel; a surface light-emitting module; a base layer disposed between the liquid crystal panel and the surface light-emitting module; a diffusion pattern layer disposed on a surface of the base layer facing the surface light-emitting module and configured to diffuse light incident from the surface light-emitting module; a prism pattern layer disposed on a surface of the base layer facing the liquid crystal panel and including a plurality of first unit prisms; and a prism film adhered to the prism pattern layer and including a plurality of second unit prisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Katsutoshi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 10649258
    Abstract: A display device including a back cover; a plurality of light sources coupled to the back cover; a guide panel positioned at the back cover, the guide panel including a seating portion, and a guide wall portion; a display panel supported on the seating portion of the guide panel; a top case including a front part covering an edge portion of a front surface of the display panel and a lateral part covering the guide wall portion of the guide panel, wherein the lateral part of the top case comprises a first part and a second part, the first part being further recessed than the second part; a fastener that couples the top case, the guide panel, and the back cover by penetrating the first part of the top case, the guide wall portion of the guide panel and an edge of the back cover, a first end of the fastener is placed at the first part of the top case; and a rear cabinet that covers the first end of the fastener and the first part of the top case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Honghae Do, Jonggil Pyo, Jongman Park, Jein Lee, Kwangho Choi
  • Patent number: 10622384
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes, on one of two substrates with liquid crystal held therebetween, first and second wires respectively arranged in a first and a second directions, third wires arranged in the first direction and connected to the second wires, pixels arranged corresponding to crossing positions between the first and the second wires, a first and a second driver ICs respectively connected to each first and each third wires. Each pixel includes a lower electrode, an upper electrode including slits, and domains alignment-divided in accordance with formation directions of the slits. One of the lower and the upper electrodes is a pixel electrode and the other is a common electrode. Each third wire is placed in a boundary between the domains. With this structure, provided is a liquid crystal display capable of narrowing a frame area and improving display quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya Baba, Takafumi Hashiguchi, Naoya Hirata
  • Patent number: 10606135
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a liquid crystal panel, includes a color filter substrate, an array substrate, a liquid crystal disposed between the color filter substrate and the array substrate, a chip on film, a driver chip and a circuit board disposed on the chip on film, one end of the chip on film is bonded to an end face of the array substrate and is electrically connected with a metal line array in the array substrate, the other end of the chip on film is bound with the circuit board. The invention also discloses a method for fabricating a liquid crystal panel and a display apparatus. When applying signal to the liquid crystal panel, the chip on film is bonded to the end face of the array substrate to realize the conduction of the metal line array avoiding the longer bonding region extended from a side of the TFT substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: HUIZHOU CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yung-jui Lee, Chengwen Que
  • Patent number: 10600997
    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display mounted in a housing. The display may have an array of display pixels that provide image light to a user. The array of display pixels may form an active display structure with a rectangular shape. The rectangular active display structure may be surrounded by an inactive border region. Optical structures such as a sheet of glass or another optical member may have portions that are configured to bend light from the display pixels along the periphery of the active display structure. The optical member may have an area that is larger than the area of the active display structure, so that the presence of the optical member may serve to enlarge the apparent size of the display. Solidified liquid polymer may be used to support the optical structures and may be interposed between the optical structures and the active display structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tseng-Mau Yang, Christopher D. Prest, Dale N. Memering
  • Patent number: 10591766
    Abstract: A display apparatus including a substrate, a gate line, first and second driving transistors, and a color filter layer is provided. The substrate has first and second light emitting regions and a circuit region. The first light emitting region is disposed to be adjacent to the second light emitting region, and the circuit region is disposed to be adjacent to the first and second light emitting regions. The gate line is disposed in the circuit region and extends along a direction. The first and second driving transistors are respectively disposed in the circuit region, have a channel region, and corresponds to the first and second light emitting regions. The color filter layer has a main portion in the first light emitting region and an extending portion in the circuit region and connected to the main portion. The extending portion extends along the direction and overlaps the channel regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Inventors: Pai-Chiao Cheng, Hsia-Ching Chu, Chandra Lius
  • Patent number: 10580707
    Abstract: A modulator includes a modulator body, a transparent conductive film, a power supply and a current detection assembly, the modulator body includes an internal electrode and a gold foil layer disposed opposite to each other, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the internal electrode and the gold foil layer; the transparent conductive film is disposed on a surface of the gold foil layer away from the liquid crystal layer, and a gap is formed between the transparent conductive film and the gold foil layer; the gold foil layer and the transparent conductive film are electrically connected respectively to terminals of different polarities of the power supply, and the current detection assembly is connected in series between the gold foil layer and the power supply, or the current detection assembly is connected in series between the transparent conductive film and the power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tao Zhang, Haifeng Liu, Guoping Qian, Hao Shang
  • Patent number: 10578883
    Abstract: An autostereoscopic display system includes a display including a plurality of addressable pixels. Each of the plurality of pixels includes two or more sub-pixels. The display is adapted to have n views in the horizontal direction wherein n is an integer greater than or equal to 2. A native pixel density of the display in the horizontal direction divided by n is greater than 75% of a native pixel density in the vertical direction. The system further includes a view selector that, for each of two or more viewing perspectives, makes one of the views visible and a multiplexer system in operative connection with the display. The multiplexer system is adapted to controllably shift light horizontally from at least one of the plurality of pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Richard A. Muller, Neal I. Weinstock, MIchael Hack
  • Patent number: 10564476
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel is provided. The liquid crystal display panel comprises: a first substrate (110) and a second substrate (120) which are oppositely arranged, and a liquid crystal layer (130) arranged between the first substrate (110) and the second substrate (120); an alignment film (300) arranged on an inner side of the first substrate (110); and a compensation film (400) arranged on an inner side or an outer side of the second substrate (120). The inner side of the first substrate (110) and the inner side of the second substrate (120) are sides facing each other, and the outer side of the second substrate (120) is a side provided away from the inner side of the second substrate (120).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yafeng Yang, Xin Li
  • Patent number: 10539849
    Abstract: A color change member includes: a color change layer that has a light incident surface, a light emission surface, and a side surface; a first protective layer that is provided on the light incident surface of the color change layer; and a second protective layer that is provided on at least a part of the side surface of the color change layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventors: Yusuke Moriya, Kensaku Maeda
  • Patent number: 10520654
    Abstract: An ultra-thin broadband retardation film is provided. The broadband retardation film includes a first retardation film and a second retardation film. The second retardation film is disposed on a side of the first retardation film, wherein an in-plane retardation value Ro of the first retardation film is between 70 nm and 130 nm, an in-plane retardation value Ro of the second retardation film is between 140 nm and 260 nm, and an angle between an optic axis of the first retardation film and an optic axis of the second retardation film is between 35° and 70°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: imat corporation
    Inventors: Tsai-An Yu, Da-Ren Chiou, Shih-Ming Hung, Peng-Shun Tsai, Yi-Ting Chiu, Kuo-Chen Wu, Yi-Chien Chen
  • Patent number: 10495896
    Abstract: An optical module (1A) includes a polarization beam splitter (10A) having a light splitting surface (11), polarization elements (20, 40), and respectively arranged on an optical path of a first polarization component (L2) transmitted through the light splitting surface (11) and an optical path of a second polarization component (L4) reflected by the light splitting surface (11), a reflective SLM (30) that modulates and reflects the first polarization component (L2) passing through the polarization element (20), and a reflective SLM (50) that modulates and reflects the second polarization component (L4) passing through the polarization element (40). The first modulation light (L3) passing through the polarization element (20) again and then reflected by the light splitting surface (11) and the second modulation light (L5) passing through the polarization element (40) again and then transmitted through the light splitting surface (11) are combined with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Takashi Inoue, Hirotoshi Terada
  • Patent number: 10488713
    Abstract: A display apparatus including: a lower substrate bent around a first bending axis that extends in a first direction; an upper substrate opposing the lower substrate and having a first surface facing the lower substrate; a pixel electrode disposed on the lower substrate; a color filter disposed on the lower substrate so as to correspond to the pixel electrode; and a first column spacer disposed on the first surface so as to correspond to at least a portion of the color filter and extending in a second direction that intersects the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyukjin Kim, Jaejin Song
  • Patent number: 10488563
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a display substrate and a display panel, a method for manufacturing the same and a display device. The method for manufacturing the display substrate includes a step of form an optical grating. The step of forming the optical grating includes: forming an intermediate layer on an outer surface of a transparent base substrate in such a manner that the intermediate layer includes stripe patterns arranged at intervals; forming a display film layer on an inner surface of the transparent base substrate where the intermediate layer is formed; and applying an opaque material onto a surface of the intermediate layer or between the stripe patterns of the intermediate layer on the transparent base substrate, to form light-shielding stripes and light-transmitting stripes which are arranged alternately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yanbing Wu
  • Patent number: 10488703
    Abstract: A display apparatus having enhanced color reproduction, and a display apparatus including a light absorption sheet that absorbs light having a wavelength corresponding to yellow light and/or orange light in the light are provided. The display apparatus includes: a backlight unit; a liquid crystal panel configured to selectively block light emitted from the backlight according to an electric field; and a light absorption sheet disposed on a front side of the liquid crystal panel for absorbing light having a predetermined range of wavelength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nae-Won Jang, Young Chol Lee, Byoung-Jin Cho, Wook-Jae Jeon, Seung Hun Chae
  • Patent number: 10481427
    Abstract: An array substrate, a manufacturing method, a display panel and an electronic device are provided. The array substrate includes a substrate, and a gate line, an insulation layer, an active layer and a data line which are formed on the substrate. The insulation layer is provided on the gate line, the data line is provided on the gate line through the insulation layer and is crossed with the gate line, and the active layer is provided between the gate line and the data line in a direction perpendicular to the substrate, and a first shield layer is provided on the gate line through the insulation layer, and the first shield layer covers the gate line in the direction perpendicular to the substrate and is electrically insulated from the gate line, the active layer and the data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Dawei Shi
  • Patent number: 10473965
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an array substrate and its manufacturing method and display panel, wherein, the method for fabricating the array substrate including the steps of: providing a substrate; sequentially forming a TFT functional layer, a touch signal transmission line, a first insulating layer, a first electrode, and a second insulating layer on the substrate; forming a first via and a second via on the second insulating layer by photolithography; forming a second electrode and a metal pattern on the second insulating layer; wherein the metal pattern connects the touch signal transmission line and the first electrode through the first via, and the second electrode connects the source and/or drain through the second via. By the above-described method, the present disclosure can reduce the manufacturing process of the array substrate, thereby reducing the manufacturing cost of the array substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Lihua Zheng, Huanhuan Bu, Pan Yang