Patents Examined by Donald L Raleigh
  • Patent number: 11360355
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of manufacturing a display panel and the display panel. The display panel is applied to a display device having a camera, and the display panel includes an alignment film layer, a liquid crystal layer, and a camera hole. The method includes: performing laser treatment to the alignment film layer to obtain a first light transmission hole and performing laser treatment to the liquid crystal layer to obtain a second light transmission hole. The method provided by the invention reduces a difference of amount of ambient light entering at different angles of the alignment film layer and the liquid crystal layer, and thereby improves imaging quality of the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Inventor: Xiaohui Nie
  • Patent number: 11362168
    Abstract: A display panel including sub pixels, a plurality of first and second scan lines, a plurality of first and second data lines, a plurality of first and second auxiliary lines and first conductive vias is provided. The sub pixels are arranged into first rows arranged in a first direction and second rows arranged in a second direction. The second rows are electrically connected to the first and second scan lines in alternation and are electrically connected to the first and second data lines in alternation. Each first auxiliary line includes a first portion electrically connected to a corresponding first scan line and a second portion spaced away from the first portion. The second auxiliary lines are respectively located between two adjacent first rows. Each second scan line is electrically connected to a corresponding first scan line through at least one second auxiliary line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Jia-Hong Wang, Min-Tse Lee, Sheng-Yen Cheng, Yueh-Hung Chung, Han-Ming Chen, Ping-Wen Chen, Hung-Chia Liao, Ya-Ling Hsu, Chen-Hsien Liao
  • Patent number: 11353191
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to an illumination device for providing a divergent illumination. The illumination device comprises a light source for emitting light in a visible spectrum; an output aperture, through which the light emitted from the light source exits the illumination device; and a layer structure. The layer structure comprises a scattering layer of a plurality of nanoscale scattering elements embedded in a host material and is positioned in an optical path of the emitted light that extends between the light source and the output aperture. The layer structure comprises further a pair of areal electrical contact layers, wherein the areal electrical contact layers extend at opposite sides of the scattering layer and are electrically connectable with a power source to generate an electric field across the scattering layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: CoeLux S.r.l.
    Inventors: Simone Bonanomi, Matteo Molteni, Sandro Usseglio Nanot
  • Patent number: 11352555
    Abstract: A composition including a quantum dot, a dispersing agent for dispersing the quantum dot, a polymerizable monomer including a carbon-carbon double bond, an initiator, a hollow metal oxide particulate, and a solvent, and a quantum dot-polymer composite manufactured from the composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shang Hyeun Park, Jong-Hoon Ka, Shin Ae Jun
  • Patent number: 11353648
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a backlight module and a display device. The backlight module includes a backboard, the backboard includes a base plate and a plurality of side plates perpendicular to the base plate. The plurality of side plates are connected end to end around the base plate, and define an accommodating space having an opening with the base plate. The backlight module further includes a light guide plate (LGP) located in the accommodating space and a light source located at a light incident side of the LGP. The light source includes a substrate and a light emitting element disposed on the substrate, the substrate is parallel to and mounted on one side plate. One light emergent side of the light-emitting element (302) is opposite to the light incident side of the LGP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gongtao Zhang, Jian Sang, Haiwei Sun, Guangquan Wang, Zhihui Zeng, Jianbiao Ding
  • Patent number: 11347104
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a backlight module, a liquid crystal display apparatus, and a method of manufacturing the backlight module. The backlight module includes: a support plate including a first surface; a light source fixed to the first surface of the support plate, having a light exit face, and configured to emit a light from the light exit face; an adhesion assembly disposed on the first surface of the support plate, and including at least one adhesion part extending from the light exit face of the light source in a direction away from the light source; and a light guide plate including: a bottom surface adhered to the first surface of the support plate through the at least one adhesion part of the adhesion assembly; a top surface located opposite to the bottom surface and serving as a light exit face of the light guide plate; and a side surface surrounding the bottom surface and the top surface. A portion of the side surface serves as a light entry face of the light guide plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignees: CHONGQING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chaojie Zhang, Liang Gao, Sijun Lei, Yansheng Sun, Dengqian Li
  • Patent number: 11350496
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus including a controller including a real time clock, an LED driver, and an LED luminaire including a first light emitting unit including a first LED to emit light having a peak wavelength between 300 to 470 nm and a wavelength converter, and at least one of a second light emitting unit to emit light having a peak wavelength between 286 to 304 nm to cause production of vitamin D, a third light emitting unit to emit light having a peak wavelength between 605 to 935 nm to cause production of a cell activating substance, and a fourth light emitting unit to emit light having a peak wavelength between 400 to 430 nm to sterilize pathogenic microorganisms, in which the controller controls the LED driver to change an irradiance of light emitted from at least one of the light emitting units according to time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Ho Song, Bo Yong Han
  • Patent number: 11333319
    Abstract: An illuminating module includes a light source assembly which includes a first lens unit. The light source assembly is configured to produce an illuminating beam, wherein the optical apparatus includes an optical modulation module and a light guiding module, the optical modulation module is parallel corresponding to the first lens unit, the illuminating beam passes through the optical modulation module to be an image beam having an image, and the image beam travels in the light guiding module, and leaves the light guiding module. The illuminating beam obliquely enters the optical modulation module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignees: SINTAI OPTICAL (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD., ASIA OPTICAL CO., INC.
    Inventors: Yung-Neng Xiao, Ru-Ping Huang, Chien-Chih Hsiung
  • Patent number: 11332066
    Abstract: A vehicle body component comprising a lighting means arrangement, which is configured as a LED strip being at least bendable in the longitudinal direction thereof and comprises a plurality of LEDs arranged one after the other and electrically interconnected; and a base body configured to receive the lighting means arrangement at a light exit side. Further disclosed is a method for manufacturing a body component and a method for controlling a lighting means arrangement on a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: vosla GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Pecher, Lutz Pötzschner, Matthias Böttcher, Markus Winkler
  • Patent number: 11328923
    Abstract: In the excimer lamp according to the present invention, a flat discharge vessel having a substantially rectangular cross-sectional shape and comprising a pair of planar parts and a pair of side-surface parts has a pair of external electrodes disposed on the respective outer surfaces of the planar parts. The end parts of the external electrodes are provided with an auxiliary electrode extending to a region that is made smaller than the distance between the planar parts. A lead that supplies electricity to the external electrode is connected to the auxiliary electrode in the region that is made smaller than the distance between the planar parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Ushio Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigeki Fujisawa, Kazuyuki Mori
  • Patent number: 11322556
    Abstract: The disclosure is related to creating different functional micro devices by integrating functional tuning materials and creating an encapsulation capsule to protect these materials. Various embodiments of the present disclosure also related to improve light extraction efficiencies of micro devices by mounting micro devices at a proximity of a corner of a pixel active area and arranging QD films with optical layers in a micro device structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Vue Real Inc.
    Inventor: Gholamreza Chaji
  • Patent number: 11320700
    Abstract: A panel structure, a display device, and an alignment detection method for the panel structure are provided in the present disclosure. The panel structure includes a first substrate and a second substrate which are oppositely disposed, and further includes a capacitor group including a first capacitor and a second capacitor. The first capacitor includes a first A electrode and a first B electrode which are oppositely disposed; the second capacitor includes a second A electrode and a second B electrode which are oppositely disposed; the first A electrode and the second A electrode are on the first substrate, and the first B electrode and the second B electrode are on the second substrate; the first B electrode is misaligned with the first A electrode along a first direction; and the second B electrode is misaligned with the second A electrode along an opposite direction of the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Hubei Yangtze Industrial Innovation Center Of Advanced Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jiaxin Li
  • Patent number: 11320582
    Abstract: An illumination device is disclosed that may constitute a partition wall or the like having an impact in a bright and brilliant space. An illumination device according to an embodiment may include: a plurality of light guide plate units each including a light guide plate and an LED substrate; and a base to which the plurality of light guide plate units are attached so as to be laid over the base. The attachment surface of the base is divided into sections for attaching the light guide plate units so as to lay the light guide plate units over the base and each section is provided with an IC board for driving the corresponding LED substrate and snap-fit engagement portions for fixing the light guide plate unit to the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Onitsuka, Junya Fujita, Takehiro Agata
  • Patent number: 11320692
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a display for an electronic device that includes a liquid crystal display panel assembly, a backlight assembly that includes a light source, and a spatially varying polarizer that provides phase retardation that varies as a function of propagation length away from the light source. The display may also include a linear polarizer and other optical components that improve the efficiency of the backlight assembly, thereby reducing power consumption, cost, space requirements, and provide other advantages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Valve Corporation
    Inventor: Joshua Mark Hudman
  • Patent number: 11320678
    Abstract: A pressure sensor and a pressure detecting method are provided, the pressure sensor includes a liquid crystal cell including a cholesteric liquid crystal layer, a liquid crystal state detector module and a pressure finder module, and the liquid crystal cell includes a pressure receiving surface. The liquid crystal state detector module is configured to detect a liquid crystal arrangement state in the cholesteric liquid crystal layer in a situation where a pressure is applied on the pressure receiving surface of the liquid crystal cell; the pressure finder module is configured to find a value of the pressure corresponding to the liquid crystal arrangement state from a pre-stored correspondence table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ying Wang, Tien Lun Ting, Xue Cao, Chuncheng Che, Hailin Xue, Xibin Shao, Peizhi Cai
  • Patent number: 11314137
    Abstract: A display device for displaying at least one of graphical information and alphanumeric data may include a housing, a display housed within the housing, a backlight housed within the housing and for generating visible light to illuminate the display, a light guide plate coupled between the display and the backlight within the housing and configured to guide the visible light generated by the backlight, a laminate exposed through the housing and covering a portion of the light guide plate, wherein the laminate has a variable optical transmittance based on a voltage applied to the laminate, and a controller housed within the housing and configured to control the voltage applied to the laminate in order to control the variable optical transmittance and modulate emission of light generated by the backlight transmitted through the laminate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Guentaek Oh, Yong-Gu Kang
  • Patent number: 11315782
    Abstract: A cathode material for use in a high-pressure discharge lamp contains a matrix based on tungsten having a tungsten content of greater than or equal to 95% by weight, tungsten carbide, and oxides and/or predominantly oxidic phases of one or more emitter elements from the group of rare earth metals, Hf, and Zr. The cathode material additionally contains predominantly carbidic phases of the one or more emitter elements from the group of rare earth metals, Hf, and Zr. A high-pressure discharge lamp would contain such a cathode composed of the above cathode material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignees: Plansee SE, Osram GmbH
    Inventors: Hannes Traxler, Ingmar Wesemann, Wolfram Knabl, Alexander Tautermann, Maria Nilius
  • Patent number: 11309377
    Abstract: A pixel circuit disposed in a pixel region including three subpixel regions includes: three light-emitting elements that are disposed in the subpixel regions and have mutually different luminescent colors; one drive circuit that is disposed in a subpixel region serving as a first subpixel region, and supplies drive current to the three light-emitting elements in time division; and a positive power supply line serving as a first power supply line that is disposed in a subpixel region serving as a second subpixel region, and supplies power supply voltage to the drive circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventor: Masanori Ohara
  • Patent number: 11307448
    Abstract: In order to resolve a problem in which, when an electronic component is provided in a hole provided in a display, the light of the display enters the hole or, oppositely, light having entered the hole enters the display, provided is a mobile terminal comprising: a cover glass; a display panel provided on the rear surface of the cover glass so as to have a plurality of layers; a cut-out region formed on at least one of the plurality of layers; a side optical shield film provided on the side surface of the at least one layer exposed to the outside by the cut-out region; and a front optical shield film provided to one region adjacent to the cut-out region of the cover glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yanghwan Kim, Ilkyoung Cho
  • Patent number: 11309374
    Abstract: A mask component includes a first mask plate and a second mask plate, and the first mask plate includes a first shield region, a first open region disposed in the first shield region, an electronic component shield region disposed in the first open region, a connecting shield region disposed in the first open region. The electronic component shield region is connected to the first shield region by the connecting shield region. The connecting shield region includes a first connecting shield region disposed on one side of the electronic component shield region and a second connecting shield region disposed on another side of the electronic component shield region, and the first mask plate is configured to evaporate a common electrode to obtain a first region of the common electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiao Du