Patents Examined by Anne Hines
  • Patent number: 9846333
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a liquid crystal panel is provided with steps of: providing an array substrate having a first electrode with a plurality of slots and a second electrode thereon, and a color filter substrate; applying a first photo alignment film to the array substrate, and performing a first irradiation treatment on the first photo alignment film to have a first pretilt angle; applying a second photo alignment film to the color filter substrate, and performing a second irradiation treatment on the second photo alignment film to have a second pretilt angle antiparallel to the first pretilt angle; sealing a liquid crystal molecule and a photopolymerizable monomer within a space between the first photo alignment film and the second photo alignment film to form a liquid crystal panel; and performing a third irradiation treatment on the liquid crystal panel to carry out a polymerization of the photopolymerizable monomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star OptoElectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yanjun Song, Chungching Hsieh, Yongchao Zhao, Xiang Li
  • Patent number: 9842961
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a light-emitting device including the steps of forming a first resin including a phosphor on a light-emitting diode chip mounted on a package body, measuring color coordinates of light emitted by combination of the light-emitting diode chip and the phosphor, correcting the color coordinates by forming a second resin on the first resin, and curing the first resin and the second resin after correcting the color coordinates, in which the first resin is not fully cured before measuring and correcting the color coordinates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyuck Jung Choi, Dae Hee Kim
  • Patent number: 9843015
    Abstract: A light-emitting device having the quality of an image high in homogeneity is provided. A printed wiring board (second substrate) (107) is provided facing a substrate (first substrate) (101) that has a luminous element (102) formed thereon. A PWB side wiring (second group of wirings) (110) on the printed wiring board (107) is electrically connected to element side wirings (first group of wirings) (103, 104) by anisotropic conductive films (105a, 105b). At this point, because a low resistant copper foil is used to form the PWB side wiring (110), a voltage drop of the element side wirings (103, 104) and a delay of a signal can be reduced. Accordingly, the homogeneity of the quality of an image is improved, and the operating speed of a driver circuit portion is enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Takeshi Fukunaga
  • Patent number: 9835315
    Abstract: A connecting element for connecting at least two rails adapted for mounting semiconductor light sources. The connecting element has a bottom wall and two side walls emerging from the bottom wall on opposite sides. The walls form a U-shaped profile. The connecting element is configured for accommodating at least one rail adapted for mounting semiconductor light sources in an accommodating area delimited by the bottom wall and the side walls, and the connecting element has latching elements arranged with a regular longitudinal pattern on at least one wall for latching with the accommodated rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventors: Philipp Erhard, Eckhard Frank, Helmut Neuhauser
  • Patent number: 9835856
    Abstract: An A liquid-crystal adaptive optics actuator comprising a two-dimensional array of pixels (14), wherein each pixel (14) is connected to a control circuit by means of a control line signal path (16, 20) that comprises an electrical interconnection (16) and a meandering resistor (20), each resistor having a resistance value selected to equalize the RC time constant of each control line signal path associated to each pixel. Each control line is thus capable of carrying one or more control signals and the control line signal path is configured such that all the pixels respond to the control signals with a uniform response time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventor: Steven R. Collins
  • Patent number: 9831638
    Abstract: The spark plug has a shaft shaped center electrode, insulator, terminal fitting, ground electrode and resistor. The insulator has an axially penetrating shaft hole, and the center electrode is held in a tip end side of the shaft hole. The terminal fitting has a shaft and a terminal part. The shaft is held in a base end side of the shaft hole. The terminal part is projected from a base end of the shaft hole to a base end side of the spark plug. The ground electrode faces the center electrode in a tip end side of the shaft hole. The resistor is disposed between the center electrode and the terminal fitting in the shaft hole. An axial length L of the resistor is 15 mm?L?22.5 mm. An axial length T of the shaft satisfies a relation of 1.25?T/L.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Watanabe, Hiroshi Araki
  • Patent number: 9829181
    Abstract: Disclosed is a lighting device which includes: a cover; a placement portion disposed within the cover; a light source which includes a substrate disposed on the placement portion, a light emitting device disposed on the substrate, and a connector connected to the substrate; a cap which is coupled to both ends of the cover respectively and has at least one opening; a socket including a connection portion which is coupled to the cap and is inserted into the opening of the cap. The connection portion of the socket is inserted into the opening of the cap and is rotated, and then is physically and electrically connected to the connector of the light source. The lighting device according to the embodiment of the present invention can be substituted for a conventional fluorescent lamp. Since the lighting device according to the embodiment of the present invention does not use a wire electrically connecting the socket to the light source, there is no requirement for a soldering process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byeong Guk Min, Seung Hyuk Lee
  • Patent number: 9817288
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device comprising a TFT substrate having pixels each including a common electrode formed on an organic passivation film, an interlayer insulating film formed so as to cover the common electrode, a pixel electrode having a slit and formed on the interlayer insulating film, a through-hole formed in the organic passivation film and the interlayer insulating film, and a source electrode electrically conducted to the pixel electrode via the through-hole. A taper angle at a depth of D/2 of the through-hole is equal to or more than 50 degrees. The pixel electrode covers part of a side wall of the through-hole but does not cover the remaining part of the side wall of the through-hole. This configuration facilitates the alignment film material to flow into the through-hole, thereby solving a thickness unevenness of the alignment film in vicinity of the through-hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yasushi Tomioka, Toshimasa Ishigaki, Hidehiro Sonoda, Sumito Ueta
  • Patent number: 9812662
    Abstract: A light-emitting element of the present invention can have sufficiently high emission efficiency with a structure including a host material being able to remain chemically stable even if a phosphorescent compound having higher emission energy is used as a guest material. The relation between the relative emission intensity and the emission time of light emission obtained from the host material and the guest material contained in a light-emitting layer is represented by a multicomponent decay curve. The relative emission intensity of the slowest component of the multicomponent decay curve becomes 1/100 for a short time within a range where the slowest component is not interfered with by quenching of the host material (the emission time of the slowest component is preferably less than or equal to 15 ?sec); thus, sufficiently high emission efficiency can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeyoshi Watabe, Satoshi Seo
  • Patent number: 9810420
    Abstract: Provided are an illumination device and a light fixture including the illumination device. The illumination device includes a body formed of a thermally-conductive material that includes a planar heat transfer surface and a fastener that is compatible with a base that couples the body to the light fixture. A substrate formed, at least in part from a dielectric material supports an array of light emitting diodes and a plurality of contacts electrically connected to the light emitting diodes. A thermally-conductive planar surface is provided to the dielectric material of the substrate to be placed in thermal communication with the heat transfer surface and conduct heat generated by the light emitting diodes to the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: HINKLEY LIGHTING, INC.
    Inventor: Michael Kachala
  • Patent number: 9806499
    Abstract: A spark plug 1 includes a tubular housing 2, a tubular insulator 3 held inside the housing 2, a center electrode 4 held inside the insulator 3 such that a distal end portion 41 protrudes, a ground electrode 5 that forms a spark discharge gap G between it and the center electrode 4, and a standing member 6 that stands distalward from a distal end portion 21 of the housing 2. In at least one of a pair of side surfaces 61 of the standing member 6 which face in a plug circumferential direction, there is formed a guide step portion 62 for guiding the flow of an air-fuel mixture in a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine to the spark discharge gap G.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kanechiyo Terada
  • Patent number: 9806281
    Abstract: The invention relates to a structure comprising at least two impermeable substrates, at least one of these substrates being transparent, at least one intermediate adhesive film and at least one electronic or optoelectronic organic device between the two substrates, said device comprising a stack of organic layers comprising a photoelectroactive layer, with, on either side of the latter, additional organic layers that facilitate the transport of charge, among which layers mention may be made of a hole transport layer and an electron transport layer, said stack being inserted between two carriers, said stack of organic layers essentially containing materials the glass transition temperature (TgM) of which is such that TgM?Tgf?130° C., where Tgf is the glass transition temperature of the material from which the intermediate adhesive film is made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: AGC GLASS EUROPE
    Inventors: Benoit Domercq, Marek Novotny, Sebastien Linthout, Jonathan Vivier, Nunzio Vigneri
  • Patent number: 9799709
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a pixel unit, a method of manufacturing the same and a display device. The pixel unit comprises an anode layer, a pixel definition layer, an organic light-emitting layer and a cathode layer, wherein the anode layer includes a plurality of pixel anodes in an array arrangement, and the pixel definition layer is disposed on the anode layer and includes a plurality of spaced pixel definition units, wherein the pixel definition units correspond to the pixel anodes one by one, and each pixel definition unit delimits a light-emitting region on the corresponding pixel anode, and the organic light-emitting layer is provided within the light-emitting regions, and the cathode layer is provided on the organic light-emitting layer. The present invention remarkably increases light extraction efficiency by improving the structure of the pixel unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Shi, Lujiang Huangfu, Xiaowei Xu
  • Patent number: 9798077
    Abstract: In various embodiments, an illumination structure includes a discrete light source disposed proximate a bottom surface of a waveguide and below a depression in a top surface thereof. A top mirror may be disposed above the discrete light source to convert modes of light emitted from the discrete light source into trapped modes, thereby increasing the coupling efficiency of the illumination structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: OREE ADVANCED ILLUMINATION SOLUTIONS LTD
    Inventors: Yosi Shani, Tania Kosburd, Dafna Bortman Arbiv
  • Patent number: 9784430
    Abstract: Disclosed is a lens (100) for a lighting device (10) comprising a solid state lighting element (20), the lens comprising a light exit surface (110); a central lens portion (120) opposite said light exit surface; an inner annular reflective element (130) opposite said light exit surface and extending away from said light exit surface by a first distance (d1), said inner annular reflective element delimiting said central lens portion; and a side surface defined by an outer annular reflective element (140) opposite said light exit surface and extending away from said light exit surface by a second distance (d2) that is larger than the first distance such that the outer annular reflective element extends beyond the inner annular reflective element. A lighting device such as a light bulb including such as lens is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: PHILIPS LIGHTING HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Mo Shen, Yun Li, Aibin Zou
  • Patent number: 9784420
    Abstract: The present invention provides a light-emitting diode (LED) device and a method for manufacturing the same. The LED device comprises: a substrate (1); a chip (2) disposed on the substrate (1); and a first lens (3) disposed on the substrate (1) and spaced from the chip (2); wherein the first lens (3) comprises luminescent powder (7) and at least one of light-diffusing particles (8) and light-reflecting particles (10). The LED device provided by the present invention has a high luminous efficiency, and solves the problem in the prior art that the LED device has a small angle of emergence and the emergent light emergence lacks of uniformity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: SICHUAN SUNFOR LIGHT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sen Wang, Kun Zhao, Ming Zhang
  • Patent number: 9780509
    Abstract: A lamp socket includes a first socket portion, a second socket portion, and a neck portion joining the first and the second socket portions. The first socket portion defines a first cylindrical volume proximate to an open end of the lamp socket. The second socket portion is concentric with the first socket portion and defines a second cylindrical volume distal from the open end of the lamp socket. The second socket portion has a smaller diameter than the first socket portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Inventor: Kenneth S. Chin
  • Patent number: 9778520
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device, a common electrode is formed on an organic passivation film, an interlayer insulating film is formed on the common electrode, a pixel electrode with a slit is formed on the interlayer insulating film, and a through hole is formed in the organic passivation film and the interlayer insulating film, so that the pixel electrode is connected to a source electrode of a TFT through the through hole. Further, the taper angle around the upper base of the through hole is smaller than the taper angle around the lower base. Thus, the alignment film material can easily flow into the through hole when the diameter of the through hole is reduced to connect the pixel and source electrodes, preventing display defects such as uneven brightness due to the absence of the alignment film or due to the alignment film irregularity around the through hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yasushi Tomioka, Yosuke Hyodo, Hidehiro Sonoda, Noboru Kunimatsu
  • Patent number: 9772443
    Abstract: An optical fiber is a linear radiator uniform in the longer direction thereof, and a lighting device uses the optical fiber. The optical fiber is a lighting fiber having a core and a cladding. In the fiber, as the cladding, there is used a polymer obtained by polymerizing a polymerizing ingredient containing 90% or more by weight of vinylidene fluoride, and the cladding has a crystallinity of 45% to 52%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Hironobu Maeda, Ryuichi Kamei, Shinji Sato
  • Patent number: 9773957
    Abstract: Provided are a light source circuit unit that improves light extraction efficiency, as well as an illuminator and a display that include such a light source circuit unit. The light source circuit unit includes: a circuit substrate having a wiring pattern on a surface thereof, the wiring pattern having light reflectivity, a circular pedestal provided on the circuit substrate, a water-repelling region provided at least from a peripheral edge portion of the pedestal to a part of a side face of the pedestal, and one or two or more light-emitting device chips mounted on the pedestal, and driven by a current that flows through the wiring pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Koichi Yamamoto, Takehito Hirose, Shigeru Teshigahara