Patents Examined by Anthony G. Quash
  • Patent number: 9581754
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a light guide plate that includes upper, lower and side surfaces; a light emitting element disposed to face an edge surface that is a part of the side surfaces; a reflection sheet that is bent to face the lower surface of the light guide plate and parts of the side surfaces thereof except for the edge surface; and an adhesive material disposed on the reflection sheet in a planar shape of dots or stripes and attaches the reflection sheet to the light guide plate. The lower surface of the light guide plate includes concaves and convexes formed to cause light that advances in the light guide plate to be reflected inside and to advance toward the upper surface. The thickness of the adhesive material is smaller than a maximum value of a height difference of the concaves and convexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Michihide Shibata
  • Patent number: 9581859
    Abstract: An optical deflector which deflects incident light, includes an optical deflection element which deflects the incident light when a distribution of internal refraction indexes of the optical deflection element is modulated. The light incident on the optical deflection element is emitted from the optical deflection element after passing through the optical deflection element a plurality of times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Shikii, Keiji Sugiyama, Katsuhiko Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9575583
    Abstract: A touch display device includes a display panel, a conductive layer disposed on the display panel, a touch electrode disposed adjacent to the conductive layer and on the display panel, a routing line coupled to the touch electrode, and a polarizer disposed on the touch electrode and the conductive layer, where the conductive layer and the touch electrode are formed of the same material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoon-Hwan Woo, Min-Ho Na, Sun-Jung Lee, Sang-Soo Hwang
  • Patent number: 9575344
    Abstract: A display module includes a panel frame, a display panel, a system frame, and a printed circuit board. The panel frame includes a baseplate having at least one edge, at least one sidewall located on the edge, at least one top wall adjacent to the sidewall, and a support element. An accommodating space is formed by the sidewall and the baseplate. The support element includes a first support portion and a second support portion connected to the first support portion. The support element extends from the edge of the baseplate toward the outside of the accommodating space. The display panel is disposed on the panel frame. The first support portion is disposed on the system frame. The printed circuit board is disposed on the second support portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chien-Ting Liao, Chian-Hsing Huang, Po-Hung Chen
  • Patent number: 9521403
    Abstract: A display device includes: an image display means for displaying left-eye images and right-eye images alternately; a light-shielding means for generating an effect of binocular parallax in images displayed by the image display means; and a detection means for detecting a position of an observer, wherein the light-shielding means includes an image transmitting portion through which images of the image display means are transmitted and an image non-transmitting portion through which images are not transmitted, which moves a position of the image transmitting portion by ½, ¼ or ? of a light-shielding portion pitch prescribed by an arrangement interval of the image transmitting portion based on a detected result of the detection means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Goro Hamagishi
  • Patent number: 9495026
    Abstract: A touch panel and touch-controlled display device are provided. The touch panel includes a transparent substrate, a touch-sensitive electrode pattern, a decoration pattern and an electric-control trace. The transparent substrate includes a touch area and a surrounding area surrounding the touch area. The touch-sensitive electrode pattern is disposed on the touch area of the transparent substrate. The decoration pattern is disposed on the surrounding area of the transparent substrate to form a frame side part not surrounding the touch-sensitive electrode pattern. The electric-control trace is located in the surrounding area, stacked on the transparent substrate and the decoration pattern, and electrically connected to the touch-sensitive electrode pattern. Since the electric-control traces are with low-visibility characteristic, the electric-control traces are invisible from the transparent substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: HANNSTOUCH SOLUTION INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Hui-Shu Lee, Yao-Chih Chuang, Ching-Feng Tsai
  • Patent number: 9459481
    Abstract: An in-cell touch display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate parallel to the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer configured between the first and second substrates, and a black matrix layer disposed at a surface of the first substrate facing to the liquid crystal layer. The black matrix includes a plurality of opaque conductive lines. The opaque conductive lines are divided into a first group, a second group and a third group of opaque conductive lines. The second group of opaque conductive lines is formed with N polygonal regions where N is a positive integer. The opaque conductive lines in any one of the polygonal regions are electrically connected together while any two polygonal regions are not electrically connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: SUPERC-TOUCH CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hsiang-Yu Lee
  • Patent number: 9442325
    Abstract: The present invention includes liquid crystal held between an array substrate including a display area and a color filter substrate, a seal material pasting the both substrates together outside in plan view of the display area, and column spacers between the both substrates. The seal material includes a seal periphery surrounding the display area, and seal extending portions forming an injection port of the liquid crystal by extending the seal periphery outside in plan view of the display area from both end of a partial opening. The seal periphery includes no spacer therein, and the seal extending portions include spacers therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Isao Nojiri, Toshiro Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 9431436
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an array substrate is disclosed. A first conductive pattern, a first insulating layer, a second conductive pattern, and a second insulating layer on a base substrate is successively formed. The second insulating layer and the first insulating layer are patterned with a double-tone mask. At least a half lap joint via hole in the second insulating layer, and at least a full lap joint via hole in both the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer is formed. The second conductive pattern corresponds to a part of the half lap joint via hole, and the first conductive pattern corresponds to the whole of the full lap joint via hole. A third conductivity pattern is formed on the surface of the second conductivity pattern and the first insulating layer and a fourth conductive pattern is formed on the surface of the first conductive pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weifeng Zhou, Jian Guo, Xing Ming
  • Patent number: 9411183
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention disclose a liquid crystal display device and a method for manufacturing the same. The liquid crystal display device comprises: a color filter substrate including a first transparent substrate; and an array substrate including a second transparent substrate, wherein the first transparent substrate has a first transparent magnetic film layer formed thereon, the second transparent substrate has a second transparent magnetic film layer formed thereon, and the first transparent magnetic film layer and the second transparent magnetic film layer have the same magnetism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiongcan Zuo, Junhwan Lim
  • Patent number: 9405159
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a touch liquid crystal display device, a liquid crystal display panel, an array substrate and a color film substrate, and belongs to the field of liquid crystal display. The touch liquid crystal display panel includes an array substrate and a color film substrate, on said array substrate is formed a GOA circuit, and at the outer side of said color film substrate is formed a touch signal transmission line. The touch liquid crystal display panel further comprises a shielding electrode located between said GOA circuit and said touch signal transmission line, said shielding electrode being used for shielding the interference caused by the clock signal of said GOA circuit to the touch sensing signal on said touch signal transmission line. The present disclosure can reduce the interference caused by the clock signal of said GOA circuit to the touch sensing signal on said touch signal transmission line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yunsik Im, Teng Ye, Lijun Zhao, Yaohu Liu
  • Patent number: 9395586
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate. In the first substrate, gate lines extend in a first direction, and a first source line and a second source line extend in a second direction orthogonally crossing the first direction. A pixel electrode having a first belt-like main electrode is arranged approximately in a central portion between the first source line and the second source line and extending in the second direction. A first belt-like sub-electrode covers the gate line between the first source line and the second source line and extending in the first direction. The second substrate includes a counter electrode having a second main electrode arranged on the first and second source lines and extending in the second direction. A liquid crystal layer is held between the first substrate and the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Jin Hirosawa, Arihiro Takeda, Nobuko Fukuoka, Yusuke Morita, Kazuya Daishi
  • Patent number: 9383494
    Abstract: A polarizing plate includes a polarizer and at least one protective film on at least one side of the polarizer. The protective film has an in-plane retardation (Re) of greater than about 10,000 nm at a wavelength of 550 nm, as calculated by Re=(nx?ny)×d, wherein nx and ny are indexes of refraction in x-axis and y-axis directions of the protective film, respectively, and d is a thickness of the protective film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: CHEIL INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kwang Ho Shin, Dong Yoon Shin, Eun Su Park, Hae Ryong Chung, Eun Kyeong Seo
  • Patent number: 9377630
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention provides a 3D display device and a manufacturing method thereof. The 3D display device includes a display unit; and a birefringent grating stacked at a light emitting side of the display unit, wherein the birefringent grating including a concave lens film, and liquid crystal polymer covering the concave lens film, a long or short axis of the liquid crystal polymer being parallel to a ridge direction of the concave lens film, and a polarization direction of emitting light of the display unit is parallel to the ridge direction of the concave lens film of the birefringent grating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanbing Wu, Jinye Zhu, Xiaohu Guo, Weitao Chen
  • Patent number: 9360711
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention disclose a liquid crystal display. The liquid crystal display comprises: a color filter substrate and an array substrate assembled together with a sealant, wherein an electrode is formed between an edge portion of an effective display region of the array substrate and the sealant, and the metal electrode is connected to a first DC power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xinli Ma, Heecheol Kim, Jai-il Ryu
  • Patent number: 9348075
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a polarizing plate includes fabricating a base film, dyeing the base film by using iodine, stretching the base film to form a polarizing film, firstly drying the polarizing film at a first temperature, and secondly drying the polarizing film while sequentially increasing a temperature from the first temperature to a second temperature higher than the first temperature. The polarizing plate and a liquid crystal display including the same are manufactured through the above method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Duckjong Suh, Jeonguk Heo, Hee Wook Do, Jung-Hun Lee, Boo-Kan Ki, Min Oh Choi, Sang-Gu Lee
  • Patent number: 9329438
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display. The liquid crystal display includes a first substrate and a second substrate, the second substrate apposite the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer positioned between the first substrate and the second substrate, a spacer formed between the first substrate and the second substrate, the spacer contacting a first region of the first substrate and a second region of the second substrate. The first substrate has a groove including a first groove surrounding an outer boundary of the first region and a second groove surrounding the first groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ju-Yong Park, Ji-Young Jeong, Jae-Ho Lee, Eung-Gyu Lee
  • Patent number: 9316853
    Abstract: A combination backboard includes a main body to which a first bracket is coupled. The main body includes a base plate and first and second side plates perpendicularly mounted to the base plate and opposite to each other. The first and second side plates have an end forming a first coupling section adjacent to the first bracket. The first bracket includes a first bottom plate and a third side plate perpendicularly mounted to the first bottom plate. The third side plate has two ends forming resilient first coupling slots corresponding to the first coupling sections to receive and retained the first coupling sections therein for coupling the first bracket and the main body together. Also provided are a backlight module and a liquid crystal display device that use the combination backboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Gang Yu
  • Patent number: 9312281
    Abstract: A TFT array substrate includes a pixel region and a wiring region disposed outside the pixel region. The wiring region has a wiring layer including scan or data wirings. A repair wiring layer including repair wiring is disposed insulatedly below or above the wiring layer. A scan or data wiring has a first intersection and a second intersection with a repair wiring section of the repair wiring. When the scan or data wiring is broken, a repair wiring section is cut off the repair wiring by a first cut-off point and a second cut-off point, and the broken scan or data wiring is electrically connected to the repair wiring section through soldering the first intersection and the second intersection. Thus, products that would otherwise be rejected in the manufacturing process of LCD panels can be repaired, which decreases the reject ratio, increases the yield and saves the production cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yizhuang Zhuang, Jungmao Tsai, Songxian Wen, Mingfeng Deng, Xiaoxin Zhang
  • Patent number: 9302585
    Abstract: A meter includes a liquid crystal display having a liquid crystal display surface and a case housing the liquid crystal display surface, an analog meter device including a dial portion having a plurality of translucent indicators, a light source configured to illuminate the dial portion from a back side of the dial portion, and an illumination light-passing section formed in a lateral edge portion of the case, configured to pass light from the light source toward the translucent indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasushi Funada