Patents Examined by Charles S Chang
  • Patent number: 12259610
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel displaying an image; a top chassis provided along an outer periphery of the display panel and supporting the display panel, the top chassis including a magnet fastening portion therein; a chassis cover provided on an exterior of the top chassis and covering the top chassis; a magnet provided on the magnet fastening portion and configured to allow the chassis cover to be detachably mounted to the top chassis; and an elastic bracket configured to fasten the magnet to the magnet fastening portion, the elastic bracket may include a bracket body to which the magnet is mounted and an interference portion configured to interfere with the magnet fastening portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daegun Hong, Byoungjung Kim, Sungdo Jo, Byeonghwan Choi
  • Patent number: 12259615
    Abstract: A backlight apparatus includes an LED substrate having a principal surface over which a plurality of light-emitting elements that emit excitation light are arrayed, a phosphor layer containing a phosphor that emits fluorescence upon receiving the excitation light, a wavelength-selective reflecting layer disposed between the phosphor layer and the LED substrate, and a louver film disposed between the wavelength-selective reflecting layer and the LED substrate and having a plurality of louvers. The wavelength-selective reflecting layer has different transmittances according to wavelengths and/or angles of incidence of light falling thereon. The louver film blocks the fluorescence and the excitation light falling thereon at an angle greater than or equal to a first angle and smaller than 90 degrees with respect to a direction normal to a film surface of the louver film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Satsuki Hagihara, Kazuhiko Negoro, Mayumi Hori, Kenichi Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 12256571
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, a semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate, and including a first channel portion, a second channel portion, a connecting portion disposed between the first channel portion and the second channel portion, and electrode regions, a first insulating layer disposed on the semiconductor layer, a gate conductor disposed on the first insulating layer and including a first gate electrode overlapping the first channel portion and a second gate electrode overlapping the second channel portion, signal lines disposed on the substrate, a first electrode electrically connected to at least one of electrode regions of the semiconductor layer, an emission layer disposed on the first electrode, and a second electrode disposed on the emission layer, and the first channel portion and the second channel portion of the semiconductor layer each have a first width greater than a second width of the connecting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Han Bit Kim, Mee Jae Kang, Keun Woo Kim, Doo-Na Kim, Sang Sub Kim, Do Kyeong Lee, Jae Hwan Chu
  • Patent number: 12253759
    Abstract: The present invention has a pixel which includes a first switch, a second switch, a third switch, a first resistor, a second resistor, a first liquid crystal element, and a second liquid crystal element. A pixel electrode of the first liquid crystal element is electrically connected to a signal line through the first switch. The pixel electrode of the first liquid crystal element is electrically connected to a pixel electrode of the second liquid crystal element through the second switch and the first resistor. The pixel electrode of the second liquid crystal element is electrically connected to a Cs line through the third switch and the second resistor. A common electrode of the first liquid crystal element is electrically connected to a common electrode of the second liquid crystal element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hajime Kimura
  • Patent number: 12248161
    Abstract: Provided is an optical filter capable of reducing the dependency on the angle of light incidence. An optical filter 1 includes a hydrogenated silicon-containing film 4, wherein in a Raman spectrum of the hydrogenated silicon-containing film 4 measured by Raman spectroscopy a ratio (SiH/SiH2) obtained from a ratio between an area of a peak derived from SiH and an area of a peak derived from SiH2 is 0.7 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON ELECTRIC GLASS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiichi Sahara, Masaaki Imura, Takako Tojo
  • Patent number: 12250837
    Abstract: A pixel structure includes: a gate electrode disposed on a base substrate; a gate insulation layer covering the gate electrode; a source electrode, an active region, a drain electrode, a first doped region and a secondary electrode metal layer disposed on an upper surface of the gate insulation layer sequentially; two second doped regions at two ends of an upper surface of the active region; and a passivation layer covering source electrode, a portion of the active region exposed to the second doped regions, the second doped regions, the drain electrode, the first doped region and the secondary electrode metal layer. The passivation layer is provided with a primary pixel electrode and a secondary pixel electrode disposed thereon, the primary pixel electrode is connected to the drain electrode, and the secondary pixel electrode is connected to the secondary electrode metal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Yang Pu, Rongrong Li
  • Patent number: 12248227
    Abstract: In a method for driving an optical element including a first liquid crystal cell, the first liquid crystal cell includes a first substrate on which first and second transparent electrodes are arranged in a first direction, a second substrate on which third and fourth transparent electrodes are arranged in a second direction, and a first liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate, and the method includes the steps of inputting a first signal to the first transparent electrode, inputting a second signal having a phase difference of ? with respect to the first signal to the second transparent electrode, inputting a third signal having a phase difference of ? with respect to the first signal to the third transparent electrode, and inputting a fourth signal having a phase difference of ? with respect to the third signal to the fourth transparent electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Takayuki Imai, Kojiro Ikeda, Takeo Koito
  • Patent number: 12242166
    Abstract: A Fresnel liquid crystal lens structure includes a first substrate and a second substrate arranged oppositely, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a liquid crystal layer located therebetween, wherein the first electrode is a plate-shaped electrode, the second electrode includes concentric ring electrodes; concentric ring electrodes are divided into electrode groups in a first direction to divide the formed Fresnel liquid crystal lens into lens regions; each electrode group is divided into sub-electrode groups arranged periodically in a first direction to divide each lens region into sub-lens regions arranged periodically; and each sub-electrode group includes electrodes to form a sub-lens region having a step shape and the quantity of electrodes in a sub-electrode group within a different electrode set is different. A display device including the Fresnel liquid crystal lens structure and a method for driving a Fresnel liquid crystal lens are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Haiyan Wang
  • Patent number: 12224294
    Abstract: This disclosure provides an array substrate, including: a display region and a peripheral region. The peripheral region includes at least one first sensor. The first sensor includes a photodiode and a driving circuit which are electrically connected to each other. The photodiode includes: an anode, a cathode and a photosensitive material layer. The array substrate includes: a base substrate, a plurality of thin film transistors, a common electrode and a pixel electrode. The common electrode is reused as an anode of the photodiode. The pixel electrode is reused as a cathode of the photodiode. One of the plurality of thin film transistors is reused as a first transistor of the driving circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yunke Qin, Lei Wang, Yue Tong, Wenhao Tian, Xuan Feng
  • Patent number: 12216366
    Abstract: Provided is a pixel structure. The pixel structure includes: a first electrode, a second electrode, and a liquid crystal layer that are disposed on one side of a substrate and successively stacked, wherein one of the first electrode and the second electrode is a pixel electrode and the other of the first electrode and the second electrode is a common electrode, and the second electrode includes a plurality of electrode branches sequentially arranged in a first direction, wherein each of the electrode branches includes a first end portion, a body portion, and a second end portion that are successively connected in a second direction, the body portion including at least one body segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignees: HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qianqian Zhang, Chun Wang, Yuqi Liu, Hui Wang, Hongmei Yang, Wei Ren
  • Patent number: 12216372
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to apply a sufficient electrical field to a liquid crystal material in a horizontal electrical field liquid crystal display device typified by an FFS type. In a horizontal electrical field liquid crystal display, an electrical field is applied to a liquid crystal material right above a common electrode and a pixel electrode using plural pairs of electrodes rather than one pair of electrodes. One pair of electrodes includes a comb-shaped common electrode and a comb-shaped pixel electrode. Another pair of electrodes includes a common electrode provided in a pixel portion and the comb-shaped pixel electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Kimura, Hideki Uochi
  • Patent number: 12210378
    Abstract: Electronic devices may be provided having internal components mounted to a structural glass support member. The structural glass support member may have a planar front surface that forms a front surface of the device. The structural glass support member may have bent portions that form sidewall surfaces of the device. Portions of the structural glass support member may form a transparent display cover layer. A rigid or flexible display may be mounted to the structural glass support member. Additional internal device components may be mounted to the display. A thin enclosure for enclosing the internal components in the device may be mounted to the structural glass support member. The thin enclosure may be mounted to the structural glass support member using a peripheral member. The thin enclosure may be free from attachments to internal components or may be adhesively bonded to one or more internal components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jeremy C. Franklin, Fletcher R. Rothkopf, John P. Ternus, Kevin D. Gibbs
  • Patent number: 12204193
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a second substrate, a retardation layer, and a polarizer in this order from a back face side, and includes a plurality of pixels arrayed in a matrix shape, in which the first substrate includes a reflective layer that reflects light, a first electrode and a second electrode that are capable of generating a transverse electrical field in the liquid crystal layer, and a first horizontal alignment film that is in contact with the liquid crystal layer, the second substrate includes a second horizontal alignment film in contact with the liquid crystal layer, the liquid crystal layer has a twist alignment when no voltage is applied, and the retardation layer includes a ?/4 plate, a ?/2 plate, and a positive C plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Terashita, Kouichi Watanabe, Takehisa Yoshida, Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh
  • Patent number: 12204204
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel; a light source module on a rear side of the display panel and configured to generate light supplied to the display panel, the light source module including a plurality of light sources configured to emit light and a printed circuit board (PCB) on which the plurality of light sources are provided; and a bottom chassis on a rear side of the light source module and on which the light source module is provided, wherein the PCB includes: an insulating layer, a first conductive layer on a lower surface of the insulating layer, and a second conductive layer on an upper surface of the insulating layer, and an area of the second conductive layer is smaller than an area of the first conductive layer, and the PCB is convexly bent in a direction toward the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyukjun Jang, Kyehoon Lee, Youngmin Lee, Yonghun Kwon, Sunyoung Kim, Hyungsuk Kim, Seungyong Shin
  • Patent number: 12204195
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a scattering structure, a dimming structure and a controller. The dimming structure is arranged on the scattering structure. The controller is electrically connected to the dimming structure. The controller includes a first control unit, and the first control unit is provided to adjust the transmittance of the dimming structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: En-Hsiang Chen, Chih-Chin Kuo, Mao-Shiang Lin, Hsu-Kuan Hsu, WenQi Lin, Tzu-Chieh Lai
  • Patent number: 12204191
    Abstract: A liquid-crystal display panel includes a first region and a second region, and a transmittance of the first region is greater than a transmittance of the second region; the liquid-crystal display panel includes a plurality of sub-pixels; the plurality of sub-pixels include a first-color sub-pixel and a second-color sub-pixel, a transmittance of the first-color sub-pixel is greater than a transmittance of the second-color sub-pixel, and an area of the first-color sub-pixel is greater than an area of the second-color sub-pixel; and the plurality of sub-pixels further include a first-region sub-pixel and a second-region sub-pixel that have a same color, the first-region sub-pixel is located within the first region, the second-region sub-pixel is located within the second region, and a thickness of a color-resistance layer of the first-region sub-pixel is less than or equal to a thickness of a color-resistance layer of the second-region sub-pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignees: CHONGQING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jingyu Wang, Zhe Li, Zhidan Sun, Ruiqi Pan, Dan Lei, Zhengyuan Teng, Peng Li, Xiaoji Li, Taeyup Min, Hailin Qin
  • Patent number: 12205938
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a sustaining layer, multiple substrates, multiple photoelectric units, and multiple signal layers. The substrates are arranged on a contact surface of the sustaining layer. A first end edge of at least one substrate approaches a first end edge of the sustaining layer, and a first side edge of one substrate is adjacent to a second side edge of another substrate. The photoelectric units are arranged on the first or/and second surfaces of the substrates. The signal layers are arranged on the substrates and electrically connected to the photoelectric units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: PANELSEMI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chin-Tang Li, Ting-Yen Lin, Chen-Hsun Yang
  • Patent number: 12204126
    Abstract: Provided is an optical film and an electroluminescence display device that suppress a decrease in transmittance of a front surface and suppress a change in tint in an oblique direction with respect to the front surface, in a case of being used in a micro LED. The optical film includes a light absorption anisotropic layer containing a dichroic coloring agent compound, in which the light absorption anisotropic layer has an absorption axis in a normal direction of the film and has an alignment degree of 0.7 or greater at 530 nm, and in a case where transmittances at 460 nm, 530 nm, and 630 nm in a direction of 45° with respect to the normal direction of the film are respectively defined as Tb, Tg, and Tr, relationships of Expressions 0.1?Tb/Tr?0.5 (1) and 0.2?Tg/Tr?0.6 (2) are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Naoya Nishimura
  • Patent number: 12204221
    Abstract: A high-brightness handwriting liquid crystal device is provided. The device includes a substrate, a first base layer disposed on the substrate, a first conductive layer disposed on a side of the first base layer away from the substrate, a second conductive layer opposite to the first conductive layer, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer, and a second base layer disposed on a side of the second conductive layer away from the liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal layer includes a cholesteric liquid crystal mixture and a plurality of spacers, wherein a plurality of lattices is defined by the plurality of spacers, and the cholesteric liquid crystal mixture is filled in the plurality of lattices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: WICUE USA INC.
    Inventor: Fenghua Li
  • Patent number: 12197059
    Abstract: In a first aspect, the present disclosure relates to a system comprising a writing instrument, wherein the writing instrument comprises a solution of one or more salts and a writing orifice. Furthermore, the system comprises a drawing substrate configured to change color based on the concentration of the one or more salts and/or water content, wherein the drawing substrate comprises cholesteric liquid-crystals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: BIC Violex Single Member S.A.
    Inventor: Nikolaos Chrysanthakopoulos