Patents Examined by Donald Raleigh
  • Patent number: 9798182
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device, including a lower polarizing plate configured to have a transmission axis in a first direction, a liquid crystal layer on the lower polarizing plate, an upper polarizing plate on the liquid crystal layer, the upper polarizing plate including a first polarizing plate and a second polarizing plate, the first polarizing plate having a transmission axis in the first direction, the second polarizing plate having a transmission axis in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and color filters including a white filter and a colored filter, the white filter overlapping with the first polarizing plate, and the color filter overlapping with the second polarizing plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wan Soon Im, Nam Seok Roh, Young Goo Song, Hyoung Cheol Lee, Yong Woo Hyung, Hyung June Kim, Joong Gun Chong, Jong Hak Hwang
  • Patent number: 9799848
    Abstract: Provided is an organic electroluminescent display device, including a substrate, an organic light-emitting device on the substrate, and an encapsulation layer formed on the organic light-emitting device and the substrate. The encapsulation layer includes an inorganic layer and a polymer organic layer alternatingly stacked with an intermediate layer formed of a first organic monomer between the inorganic layer and the polymer organic layer, and one surface of the intermediate layer is bonded to the inorganic layer through bonding sites on a surface of the inorganic layer and another surface of the intermediate layer is bonded to the organic layer by polymerization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min-Ho Oh, Yoon-Hyeung Cho, Yong-Tak Kim, So-Young Lee, Jong-Woo Kim, Ji-Young Moon
  • Patent number: 9797578
    Abstract: A color cover/change/mixture structure of a light bulb/tube/fixture includes an enclosure, a base, a cold cathode fluorescent lamp tube, and a color cover. The enclosure is a tubular body having a non-light-transmitting or light-transmitting top and a light-transmitting bottom. The base has a bottom surface having retention pawls for engaging and retaining the cold cathode fluorescent lamp tube. The cold cathode fluorescent lamp tube, after combined with the base, is disposed and mounted in the enclosure. Heads are mounted to two ends of the enclosure. The color covers have different colors and are selectively mounted to the enclosure to change the color of light emitting from the cold cathode fluorescent lamp tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Inventors: Shu-Bin Wang, Tzu-Yen Wang
  • Patent number: 9784900
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an illumination device including a light source unit including a light-emitting element having a light-emitting surface, a reflective surface formed around the light-emitting surface and having higher optical reflectivity than the light-emitting surface, a wavelength conversion member which converts a wavelength of emitted light from the light-emitting surface, an optical member located between the light source unit and the wavelength conversion member and including a light path adjustment mechanism which guides, to the reflective surface, light returned from the wavelength conversion member to the light-emitting surface, and a lightguide opposed to the wavelength conversion member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hirohisa Miki, Shigesumi Araki
  • Patent number: 9784428
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate to a lighting device with an optoelectronic light source, an optical body downstream thereof for distributing the light, and a diffuser downstream of the latter, onto the light entry surface of which the light emitted by the optical body falls and the light exit surface of which represents a light emission surface of the lighting device. To homogenize the luminous intensity on the light exit surface, in addition to distributing the light with the optical body, the diffuser is not provided to be uniformly scattering to such an extent that light falling thereon in a central region is scattered more intensely than light falling thereon in an edge region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventors: Krister Bergenek, Florian Boesl, Andreas Dobner, Katrin Kondula, Reiner Windisch, Dennis Sprenger, Meik Weckbecker
  • Patent number: 9780259
    Abstract: A light-emitting device comprises a textured substrate comprising a plurality of textured structures, wherein the textured structures and the textured substrate are both composed of sapphire; and a light-emitting stack overlaying the textured substrate, comprising a first conductivity type semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second conductivity type semiconductor layer, wherein each of the plurality of textured structures comprises a top portion having a first top-view shape, and a bottom portion parallel to the top portion and having a second top-view shape, wherein the first top-view shape comprises a circle or an ellipse, the first top-view shape comprises a first periphery and the second top-view shape comprises a second periphery, the first periphery is enclosed by the second periphery, and various distances are between each of the first periphery and the second periphery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: EPISTAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ta-Cheng Hsu, Ya-Lan Yang, Ying-Yong Su, Ching-Shian Yeh, Chao-Shun Huang, Ya-Ju Lee
  • Patent number: 9777894
    Abstract: A method of producing a partial luminaire includes arranging at least one semiconductor chip that emits electromagnetic radiation on a substrate, and applying an elastic waveguide, disposed downstream of the at least one semiconductor chip in an emission direction, such that the elastic waveguide projects at at least one of its side surfaces beyond the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Mönch, Thomas Bleicher
  • Patent number: 9778505
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device, includes: a liquid crystal display panel having a first substrate and a second substrate with a display area and a non-display area; a backlight that irradiates the liquid crystal display panel with light; an adhesive layer that adheres the liquid crystal display panel to the backlight; a first polarizing plate stuck onto the first substrate; and a second polarizing plate stuck onto the second substrate, in which an outer edge of the second polarizing plate is located outside an outer edge of the second substrate, a light impermeable film and an alignment mark part are formed in the non-display area of the first substrate, and the light impermeable film and the alignment mark part are different in infrared transmittance or infrared reflectance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Atsushi Tanabe
  • Patent number: 9780332
    Abstract: The present disclosure is related to display panels, especially to flexible electronic devices. By means of adding an inorganic membrane with surface roughness between a bonding layer and a PI film, in order to effectively improve the dimensional stability of plastic substrate and the water/oxygen barrier property of flexible substrate during the PI film fabrication and the follow-up process, improving the yield of good products and prolonging the working life thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: EVERDISPLAY OPTRONICS (SHANGHAI) LIMITED
    Inventors: QiGuo Zhang, ChengPei Huang, ChuWang Huang
  • Patent number: 9780328
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes a first substrate, a display unit defining an active area on the first substrate and including an insulating layer, a second substrate on the display unit, one or more signal lines outside the active area and on the insulating layer, and a sealant between the first substrate and the second substrate. The sealant bonds the first substrate and the second substrate, and covers at least a portion of the signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-Min Hong, Hyun-Min Hwang, Hyun-Young Kim, Eun-Jae Na
  • Patent number: 9780534
    Abstract: A multi-electrode spark plug having a large spark target volume is disclosed. The spark plugs have a plurality of ground electrode rods which extend from the base of the spark plug and are twisted around center electrode to provide a plurality of substantially equidistant spark points relative to the center electrode. The spark points are formed in parallel and around the elongated axis of the spark plug. This configuration enables the spark to be created where the localized concentration of fuel to air is richer, such as that which may exist when the engine is operating with lower revolutions per minute. Test results indicate that automobiles equipped with the multi-electrode spark plugs exhibit improved fuel economy, and substantially reduced emissions and air pollution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Inventor: Laurian Petru Chirila
  • Patent number: 9780536
    Abstract: A spark plug having a spark plug body and an insulator arranged therein, in which insulator a passage is provided in which a center electrode, an ignitor and a glass seal connecting the center electrode to the ignitor and acting as an interference-suppression resistor are arranged. At least one additional interference-suppression element is arranged in the passage of the insulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: FEDERAL-MOGUL IGNITION GMBH
    Inventor: Werner Niessner
  • Patent number: 9778405
    Abstract: A light guide plate and a light source module are described. The light guide plate includes a main body, first stripe microstructures and second stripe microstructures. The main body includes a light incidence surface, a light-emitting surface and a light reflective surface opposite to the light-emitting surface. The light incidence surface is connected between the light-emitting surface and the light reflective surface. The light-emitting surface includes a first microstructure region and a second microstructure region arranged sequentially, and the first microstructure region is near the light incidence surface. The first stripe microstructures are disposed in the first microstructure region and extending along a direction from one side near the light incidence surface to the other side away from the light incidence surface. The second stripe microstructures are disposed in the second microstructure region along the direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Radiant Opto-Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Chia-Yin Chang, Chin-Ting Weng
  • Patent number: 9780304
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an array substrate, a method for ink jet printing thereon, an organic electroluminescent display, and a display panel. The array substrate comprises an active region which comprises a plurality of pixel regions arranged in an array, and a contact hole region which is arranged at an outer side of the active region and comprises a plurality of contact holes. An anti-overflow region comprising at least one pixel hole is arranged between the contact hole region and the active region. By means of the pixel hole in the anti-overflow region, during ink jet printing on the array substrate, the ink flowing from the active region to the contact hole region can be made to flow into the pixel hole in the anti-overflow region, thus alleviating the problem in which residual liquid in the contact holes of the contact hole region is difficult to clean up and thus leads to display defects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hsiaowen Hung, Shinsuke Iguchi
  • Patent number: 9773760
    Abstract: According to one aspect, an LED package comprises a plurality of LEDs and a primary optic disposed adjacent the LEDs wherein the primary optic includes protrusions for mixing light developed by the plurality of LEDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Cree, Inc.
    Inventors: Bernd P. Keller, Eric J. Tarsa, Zongjie Yuan, Kurt S. Wilcox
  • Patent number: 9772069
    Abstract: Provided is an electro-mechanoluminescent (EML) film. The EML film includes an upper supporting layer including an upper PDMS layer, including PDMS to which a stress is applied, and an upper electrode layer that is formed on a bottom of the upper PDMS layer and includes the PDMS and AgNW which are mixed with each other, a lower supporting layer including a lower PDMS layer and a lower electrode layer that is formed on a top of the lower PDMS layer and includes the PDMS and the AgNW mixed with each other, and an emitting layer formed between the upper electrode layer and the lower electrode layer, the emitting layer including a mixture, where a luminescent material with metal ions doped thereon is mixed with the PDMS, and simultaneously causing ML of a first color based on the stress and EL of a second color based on the electric field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Soon Moon Jeong, Seong Kyu Song
  • Patent number: 9769914
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate to plasma actuators that generate fluidic flow. In one or more embodiments, a plasma actuator includes a first electrode and a second electrode. A dielectric film physically separates the first electrode and the second electrode of the plasma actuator. The dielectric film is configured to be attached to a surface to facilitate the plasma actuator providing fluidic flow for an environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC
    Inventor: Subrata Roy
  • Patent number: 9766485
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display according to the present invention includes a liquid crystal panel, an LED light source to irradiate a back surface side of the liquid crystal panel with light, a diffusion plate disposed between the liquid crystal panel and the LED light source, a reflection sheet disposed on a side opposite to the diffusion plate with respect to the LED light source, a panel holder disposed on a back surface side of the reflection sheet, and at least one photodetector disposed on the back surface side of the reflection sheet and to detect light reflected by a back surface of the diffusion plate and propagated in a gap between the reflection sheet and the panel holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuta Imanishi, Hideki Tanizoe
  • Patent number: 9765947
    Abstract: The present invention relates inter alia to an array comprising i times j array elements, wherein the array elements may comprise at least one quantum dot and/or at least one photoluminescent compound. Further the present invention relates to devices comprising these arrays. The arrays and devices can be used to generate white light with high color purity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Junyou Pan, Niels Schulte, Thomas Eberle
  • Patent number: 9766391
    Abstract: A light guide plate and a light source module are described. The light guide plate includes a main body, first stripe microstructures and second stripe microstructures. The main body includes a light incidence surface and an optic surface. The light incidence surface is connected to the optic surface. The optic surface includes a first microstructure region and a second microstructure region arranged sequentially, and the first microstructure region is near the light incidence surface. The first stripe microstructures are disposed in the first microstructure region and extending along a direction from one side near the light-incident surface to the other side away from the light-incident surface. The second stripe microstructures are disposed in the second microstructure region along the direction. A gradient of each second stripe microstructure is gradually varied along the direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Radiant Opto-Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Chia-Yin Chang, Chin-Ting Weng