Patents Examined by Anthony J Frost
  • Patent number: 11874485
    Abstract: An augmented reality providing device includes a lens including a reflective mirror, a display module on at least one side surface of the lens and configured to display an image, and an anti-reflective module between the display module and the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaejoong Kwon, Juhwa Ha, JeongWoo Park, Subin Jung
  • Patent number: 11871603
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a panel protective film disposed below the display panel, and a first adhesive layer disposed between the display panel and the panel protective film, where a test speed of a tensile test of the panel protective film is about 5 millimeters per minute (mm/min), Young's modulus of the panel protective film is measured in a range of strain in which strain of the panel protective film is about 0.05 percent (%) to about 0.5%, and the panel protective film has the Young's modulus of about 4324 megapascals (MPa) to about 4792 MPa at about 25 degrees Celsius.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kicheol Song, Youngmoon Kim, Nari Ahn
  • Patent number: 11860390
    Abstract: Provided are a wavelength selective absorption filter including a resin and the following dye A and dye D, each of which has a main absorption wavelength band in a different wavelength range, in which an absorbance Ab (?) at a wavelength ? nm of this wavelength selective absorption filter satisfies a relationship of the Relational Expression (I) 0.05<Ab (450)/Ab (430)<1.00, as well as a polarizing plate and an organic electroluminescent display device or liquid crystal display device including the wavelength selective absorption filter. The dye A is a dye having a main absorption wavelength band in the wavelength selective absorption filter at a wavelength of 400 to 430 nm. The dye D is a dye having a main absorption wavelength band in the wavelength selective absorption filter at a wavelength of 640 to 730 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Nobutaka Fukagawa, Daisuke Sasaki, Yoshihiro Jimbo, Hidetomo Furuyama
  • Patent number: 11860457
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a substrate for a display apparatus includes: a first substrate; a translucent coloring layer that includes a plurality of color regions and that overlaps with the first substrate; a first translucent resin layer that overlaps with the first substrate at boundaries of the color regions; and a light shielding layer that overlaps with the first translucent resin layer on an opposite side to the first substrate side. A width of the light shielding layer in a direction parallel with the first substrate is equal to or smaller than a width of the first translucent resin layer in the parallel direction on a cross section vertical to the first substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Koichiro Adachi, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Seiji Uejima
  • Patent number: 11845256
    Abstract: A composite film module, a method for manufacturing the same, a light collecting device and a display device are provided. Each composite layers includes first and second refractive index layers, and a refractive index of the first refractive index layer is greater than that of the second refractive index layer. One first refractive index layer is provided between every two adjacent second refractive index layers. Along a thickness direction of a composite film module, first and second composite layers are adjacent to each other, a refractive index of the first refractive index layer in the first composite layer is greater than that of the first refractive index layer in the second composite layer, and the refractive index of the second refractive index layer in the first composite layer is greater than that of the second refractive index layer in the second composite layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuefeng Gu
  • Patent number: 11837119
    Abstract: A display device including a display panel, a variable adhesive layer disposed on the display panel and a cover member disposed on the variable adhesive layer is provided. The variable adhesive layer includes a block copolymer and a plasticizer mixture, and the plasticizer mixture has a low critical solution temperature (LCST) of 60° C. to 80° C. The plasticizer mixture is phase-separated into two phases at a temperature equal to or higher than the low critical solution temperature, thereby significantly lowering adhesion of the variable adhesive layer. Accordingly, the display device of the present disclosure has excellent adhesion reliability and provides an advantage of easy reworking since the adhesion significantly decreases at a temperature equal to or higher than the low critical solution temperature. In addition, the display device has excellent folding characteristics due to the presence of the plasticizers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yeoo Youn, JeongBeom Park
  • Patent number: 11827814
    Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive composition and a use thereof are provided. The present application can provide a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition which has excellent performance to block ultraviolet rays including a blue region of 380 nm or more and exhibits excellent durability upon reliability evaluation without deteriorating the optical characteristics of a polarizing plate when applied to the polarizing plate. The pressure-sensitive adhesive composition of the present application can be used, for example, for a polarizing plate and an organic light emitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Inventors: Ha Song Yun, Seung Ju Noh, Hyun Hee Son, Kwang Su Seo
  • Patent number: 11822108
    Abstract: The present invention provides a polarizing element which has an excellent antireflection function as being applied to an image display device; and a circularly polarizing plate and an image display device, each of which has a polarizing element. The polarizing element has an alignment film and an anisotropic light-absorbing film formed using a dichroic substance, in which a degree S of alignment of the anisotropic light-absorbing film is 0.92 or more, an average refractive index nave at a wavelength of 400 to 700 nm of the alignment film is 1.55 or more and less than 1.78, an in-plane refractive index anisotropy ?n at a wavelength of 550 nm of the alignment film is less than 0.10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yasukazu Kuwayama, Fumitake Mitobe, Yuzo Fujiki, Jun Takeda
  • Patent number: 11817019
    Abstract: A display device including a substrate including first and second flat regions spaced apart from each other, and a bendable region between the first and second flat regions, a display layer on a first surface of the substrate in the first flat region, a first passivation layer on the first surface of the substrate in the bendable region, a second passivation layer on a second surface of the substrate, the second passivation layer defining cavities spaced apart from each other in the bendable region, and support members on the second surface of the substrate in the first flat region and the second flat region, wherein a first density of the cavities corresponding to a first area in the bendable region is less than an average density of the cavities, and wherein a first bending stress of the substrate at the first area is greater than an average bending stress of the substrate in the bendable region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeong Oh Jin, Cheol Hwan Eom
  • Patent number: 11770946
    Abstract: A window for a display device includes: a film having flexibility; and at least one coating layer disposed on the film. As tensile stress acting on the film increases, the film is elastically deformed in a first range of strains of the film and plastically deformed in a second range of strains of the film greater than the first range, the first and second ranges being defined by a relationship between the tensile stress and a strain of the film in accordance with the tensile stress. The film has a yield strain in a third range from about 1.9% to about 2.25%, and the yield strain is defined as the strain of the film when a yield stress of the relationship in the first range is applied to the film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Heonjung Shin, Jeoungsub Lee, Hyun Joon Oh
  • Patent number: 11770893
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including a bending area; and a first passivation film and a second passivation film disposed on a first surface of the display panel to be spaced apart from each other. The second passivation film includes a first flat portion and a first stepped portion overlapping the bending area, and a thickness of the first stepped portion is less than a thickness of the first flat portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung Min Song, Ki Nyeng Kang, Seon Beom Ji, Tae Hoon Yang
  • Patent number: 11768549
    Abstract: Embodiments of a vehicle interior system are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the system includes a base with a curved surface, and a display or touch panel disposed on the curved surface. The display includes a cold-bent glass substrate with a thickness of 1.5 mm or less and a first radius of curvature of 20 mm or greater, and a display module and/or touch panel attached to the glass substrate having a second radius of curvature that is within 10% of the first radius of curvature. Methods for forming such systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Jordon Thomas Boggs, Michael Timothy Brennan, Atul Kumar, Arpita Mitra, William Michael Seiderman, Yawei Sun, Wendell Porter Weeks
  • Patent number: 11752737
    Abstract: An aesthetically-enhanced structure is formed by fusing a translucent layer with an aesthetic-enhancing layer. The translucent layer includes natural fibers impregnated by a thermoplastic. The translucent layer or the aesthetic-enhancing layer provide one or more aesthetic properties visible through the translucent layer, for example, a pattern, a color, a texture, a pigment, a dye, a design, an image or a relief.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Lingrove Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph E. Luttwak
  • Patent number: 11753702
    Abstract: The invention is directed at sputter targets including 50 atomic % or more molybdenum, a second metal element of niobium or vanadium, and a third metal element selected from the group consisting of titanium, chromium, niobium, vanadium, and tantalum, wherein the third metal element is different from the second metal element, and deposited films prepared by the sputter targets. In a preferred aspect of the invention, the sputter target includes a phase that is rich in molybdenum, a phase that is rich in the second metal element, and a phase that is rich in the third metal element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: H.C. Starck Solutions Euclid, LLC
    Inventors: Gary Alan Rozak, Mark E. Gaydos, Patrick Alan Hogan, Shuwei Sun
  • Patent number: 11733433
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a protective film for a substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, a substrate and a manufacturing method of a display panel. The substrate includes a plurality of panel regions correspondingly forming a plurality of display panels. Each of the panel regions has a first region corresponding to a bending region of the display panels. The protective film includes a entire film layer and a hollow portion, the size of the entire film layer matches the size of the substrate, and the hollow portion is for exposing the first region in each of the panel regions when the protective film is attached to the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignees: 1) CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu Zhang, Hao Yan, Haitao Yi, Zhenghong Wang, Zhiliang Jiang
  • Patent number: 11733435
    Abstract: Provided are a polarizing plate protective film including a resin and a coloring agent having an absorption maximum wavelength in a range of 560 to 620 nm or 460 to 520 nm in an amount of 0.1 parts by mass or more with respect to 100 parts by mass of the resin, in which a film thickness is 1 to 18 ?m, and a moisture content is 0.5% by mass or less, a polarizing plate in which the protective film is used, and a liquid crystal display device in which the polarizing plate is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Nobutaka Fukagawa, Yu Naito, Hiroki Kuwahara, Daisuke Sasaki, Hidetomo Furuyama, Natsuru Chikushi
  • Patent number: 11732163
    Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive composition and a use thereof are provided. The present application can provide a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition which has excellent performance to block ultraviolet rays including a blue region of 380 nm or more and exhibits excellent durability upon reliability evaluation without deteriorating the optical characteristics of a polarizing plate when applied to the polarizing plate. The pressure-sensitive adhesive composition of the present application can be used, for example, for a polarizing plate and an organic light emitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Inventors: Ha Song Yun, Seung Ju Noh, Hyun Hee Son, Kwang Su Seo
  • Patent number: 11728459
    Abstract: A display panel includes a panel cover; and a plurality of display modules removably attached to the panel cover. Each of the plurality of display modules includes a substrate including a mounting surface on which a plurality of inorganic light emitting diodes is mounted, and a module plate attached to a surface opposite to the mounting surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kwangjae Lee, Sungsoo Jung, Kyungbae Kim, Hyeongyeol Choi
  • Patent number: 11723270
    Abstract: Disclosed are an organic optoelectronic device includes an anode and a cathode facing each other and an organic layer disposed between the anode and the cathode, wherein the organic layer includes at least one of a hole injection layer, a hole transport layer, a light emitting layer, and an electron transport layer, and the light emitting layer includes a first host, a second host, and a phosphorescent dopant represented by Chemical Formula 4, and a display device including the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kipo Jang, Byungku Kim, Giwook Kang, Hanill Lee, Sung-Hyun Jung, Ho Kuk Jung, Youngkyoung Jo, Eun Sun Yu
  • Patent number: 11709293
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes an electronic panel foldable together with a window; and a first functional layer and a second functional layer each foldable together with the window and the electronic panel. The second functional layer is disposed farther from the window than the first functional layer, and has a thickness in a range from about 30 micrometers to about 50 micrometers and a modulus in a range from about 3 gigapascals to about 8 gigapascals, and the first functional layer is disposed closer to the window than the second functional layer, and has both a thickness equal to or greater than that of the second functional layer, and a modulus less than that of the second functional layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jeoungsub Lee, Heonjung Shin, Hyun Joon Oh, Daeho Yoon