Patents Examined by Dung Nguyen
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Patent number: 9754976Abstract: An element substrate is provided, including a substrate, a metal layer, a planarization layer and a first conductive layer. The metal layer is disposed on the substrate. The planarization layer is located on the metal layer, wherein the planarization layer includes a contact hole, the contact hole has a continuous wall and a bottom, the bottom exposes the metal layer, and the bottom of the contact hole has a first width. The first conductive layer is located on the planarization layer, wherein the first conductive layer includes an opening, the opening exposes the contact hole, and the opening has a second width above the contact hole, wherein the relationship of the first width and the second width is modified to decrease illumination loss and to prevent problems of shot-circuiting and insufficient capacitance.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2014Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATIONInventors: Yueh-Ting Chung, Shao-Wu Hsu, Yung-Hsin Lu, Jyun-Yu Chen, Kuan-Yu Chiu, Chao-Hsiang Wang
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Patent number: 9746724Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a display panel including: a lower display substrate on which a plurality of pixel electrodes are disposed in a matrix and data lines extend in a column direction between adjacent pixel electrodes; an upper display substrate on which a common electrode is disposed; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the lower display substrate and the upper display substrate and including liquid crystal molecules. The display panel includes a plurality of unit pixels, each unit pixel including pixels having different colors, and each pixel including one of the pixel electrodes. A gap between neighboring unit pixels is larger than a gap between neighboring pixel electrodes within each unit pixel, and a data line positioned between the neighboring unit pixels has a portion having a width larger than that of a data line positioned between the neighboring pixel electrodes within each unit pixel.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2015Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ki Kyung Youk, Hyun-Ho Kang, O Sung Seo, Seung Jun Yu, Ha Won Yu, Yeo Geon Yoon, Sang-Myoung Lee, Tae Kyung Yim
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Patent number: 9746701Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device may include a display panel for displaying an image and a back cover provided behind the display panel and coupled to the display panel. A bending assembly may be coupled to the back cover to bend the display panel. A controller may be provided that is configured to control the bending assembly to apply a physical force to the back cover to bend the display panel a prescribed amount.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2013Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jaehyun Sung, Jinsu Kim, Ahreum Lee, Hyeoncheol Song, Sangdon Park, Moungyoub Lee, Heewon Kwon, Deogjin Lee, Inkeun Ryu
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Patent number: 9746711Abstract: A pixel structure is provided. The pixel structure includes a substrate and an insulating layer on the substrate. The insulating layer includes a plane region. An electrode pattern is disposed on the insulating layer and located on the plane region. The electrode pattern includes a bottom layer and a plurality of protrusions connected to the bottom layer. The protrusions protrude from the top surface of the bottom layer towards a direction away from the substrate. The bottom layer covers the plane region. A plurality of slits are formed between the protrusions so as to expose portions of the bottom layer. A liquid-crystal display having the pixel structure is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2015Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATIONInventors: Hsin-Yu Lee, Ching-Che Yang, Chen-Kuan Kao, Wen-Jyh Sah
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Patent number: 9746684Abstract: For comfortable viewing of a 3-D scene at various viewing angles, a display having a large tracking range for a variable viewer distance is required. A controllable light-influencing element deflects light in coarse steps in a viewer range. Within said steps, the light is deflected by a further controllable light-influencing element continuously or with fine gradation. The light modulation device is suitable in holographic or autostereoscopic displays for guiding the visibility ranges of the image information to be displayed so as to follow the eyes of the viewers.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2016Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: SEEREAL TECHNOLOGIES S.A.Inventors: Bo Kroll, Gerald Futterer, Norbert Leister, Stephan Reichelt, Ralf Haussler
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Patent number: 9746713Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel is provided and includes a pair of substrates arranged face to face so as to sandwich a liquid crystal layer, a lower electrode formed on a lower substrate, an upper electrode formed on the lower substrate through an insulating layer, in which plural slits are formed in each sub-pixel, wherein each of the plural slits is formed as an aperture in which both ends thereof in the longitudinal direction are closed, and an alignment film formed so as to cover a surface of the upper electrode and the insulating layer. The plural slits have different widths at both ends of slits in a longitudinal direction, and a rubbing direction of the alignment film is a direction crossing longitudinal edges of each of the slits.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2016Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Aya Yoso, Joji Nishimura, Hayato Kurasawa
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Patent number: 9746627Abstract: A semiconductor laser module includes a semiconductor laser element outputting a laser light; an optical fiber; an optical component disposed at an outer periphery of the optical fiber and fixing the optical fiber; a first-fixing agent fastening the optical component and the optical fiber; a light-absorbing element disposed at an outer periphery of the optical component and fixing the optical component; a first light-blocking portion disposed between an end into which the laser light is incident of the optical fiber and the optical component; and a housing accommodating therein the semiconductor laser element, an end into which the laser light is incident of the optical fiber and the first light-blocking portion. The optical component has an optical transmittance at a wavelength of the laser light, and the light-absorbing element has an optical absorptivity at a wavelength of the laser light.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2016Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuta Ishige, Naoki Hayamizu, Etsuji Katayama, Toshio Kimura
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Patent number: 9742143Abstract: Methods and related modular laser systems, e.g., distributed aperture, ultra short pulsed laser, are provided on a host platform having multiple compartments and groups of components where each group has a different environmental sensitivity such as temperature, humidity, vibration, etc or other installation constraints. Each component group is placed in different compartments of the host platform based on constraints comprising equipment, size, available installation footprint, equipment interconnection, and location constraints. For example, one group with one temperature sensitivity falling within environments provided for aircraft passengers or crews can be placed in the crew or passenger compartments. Other components having a greater temperature tolerance might be placed in an equipment bay having a different temperature range than a crew/passenger cabin. Other components might be placed in an area without any environmental controls or even pressurization (e.g., a cargo bay).Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2016Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventor: Gerald C Manke, II
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Patent number: 9742147Abstract: After forming a first trench extending through a top semiconductor layer and a buried insulator layer and into a handle substrate of a semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) substrate, a dielectric waveguide material stack including a lower dielectric cladding layer, a core layer and an upper dielectric cladding layer is formed within the first trench. Next, at least one lateral bipolar junction transistor (BJT), which can be a PNP BJT, an NPN BJT or a pair of complementary PNP BJT and NPN BJT, is formed in a remaining portion of the top semiconductor layer. After forming a second trench extending through the dielectric waveguide material stack to re-expose a portion of a bottom surface of the first trench, a laser diode is formed in the second trench.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2016Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Jin Cai, Effendi Leobandung, Ning Li, Tak H. Ning, Jean-Olivier Plouchart, Devendra K. Sadana
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Patent number: 9735536Abstract: Optical system and method for the provision of at least one high-frequency modulated light pulse having a pump light source for the provision of high-frequency pump light pulses; an optical resonator having a coupling element for coupling the pump light pulses into the resonator and a decoupling element for decoupling the at least one high-frequency modulated light pulse from the resonator and an optically non-linear frequency conversion medium arranged in the resonator for transforming the pump light pulses in each case into two conversion light pulses and one residual pump light pulse. The resonator comprises a feedback arm for at least one of the two conversion light pulses and/or the residual pump light pulse, in which an optically non-linear feedback medium is arranged for the optical modulation of the at least one conversion light pulse and/or the residual pump light pulse.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2016Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: Baden-Wuerttemberg Stiftung gGmbHInventors: Harald Giessen, Tobias Steinle, Andy Steinmann
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Patent number: 9735539Abstract: An optoelectronic device includes a semiconductor substrate, having front and back sides and having at least one cavity extending from the back side through the semiconductor substrate into proximity with the front side. At least one optoelectronic emitter is formed on the front side of the semiconductor substrate in proximity with the at least one cavity. A heat-conducting material at least partially fills the at least one cavity and is configured to serve as a heat sink for the at least one optoelectronic emitter.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2016Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Tongbi T. Jiang, Weiping Li, Xiaofeng Fan
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Patent number: 9735541Abstract: A method of calibrating a tunable laser includes shifting a filter output peak defined by a tunable optical feedback filter of the tunable laser in an optical spectral domain to align with a target etalon output peak of a plurality of spaced etalon output peaks defined by an etalon of the tunable laser. The method also includes shifting a cavity frequency grid defined by cavity modes of the tunable laser to align a target cavity mode of the cavity frequency grid with the filter output peak and shifting the spaced output peaks defined by the etalon to align a target etalon output peak with a target wavelength of an output wavelength grid. The method includes modifying a bias current and a modulation current of a gain section of the tunable laser to achieve a defined output modulation amplitude and a defined extinction ratio.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2014Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Xiangjun Zhao, Cedric Fung Lam, Steven Fong
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Patent number: 9733517Abstract: A display device according to an aspect of the present invention includes a cover member and a display panel. The cover member includes a base material and a light-shielding layer provided in a frame-like manner. A double-faced adhesive sheet is provided so as to cover the surface of the base material and an edge portion on an inner circumferential side of the light-shielding layer. A plurality of grooves not deep enough to penetrate the light-shielding layer are provided on the edge portion on the inner circumferential side of the light-shielding layer to which the double-faced adhesive sheet is bonded. The grooves extend from the inner circumference toward an outer circumference of the light-shielding layer. The grooves are arranged side by side along the inner circumference of the light-shielding layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2016Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Kiyoshi Miyashita, Kimio Anai, Hiroshi Azuma
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Patent number: 9733535Abstract: An array substrate comprises: a substrate; and a plurality of gate lines (101) and a plurality of data lines (102), which are formed on the substrate. Two adjacent gate lines (101) and two adjacent data lines (102) intersect with each other to form a pixel region. Each pixel region comprises two pixel electrodes (103) and two thin-film transistors (TFTs). The drain electrodes of two thin-film transistors (TFTs) are respectively connected to two pixel electrodes (103), the source electrodes of two thin-film transistors (TFTs) are respectively connected to two data lines, and the gate electrodes of two thin-film transistors (TFTs) are connected to one of two gate lines.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2012Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Chang Xie, Jaegeon You
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Patent number: 9728931Abstract: An injector arrangement for providing an electron beam. The injector arrangement comprises a first injector for providing electron bunches, and a second injector for providing electrons bunches. The injector arrangement is operable in a first mode in which the electron beam comprises electron bunches provided by the first injector only and a second mode in which the electron beam comprises electron bunches provided by the second injector only.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2014Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Andrey Alexandrovich Nikipelov, Vadim Yevgenyevich Banine, Pieter Willem Herman De Jager, Gosse Charles De Vries, Olav Waldemar Vladimir Frijns, Leonardus Adrianus Gerardus Grimminck, Andelko Katalenic, Johannes Antonius Gerardus Akkermans, Erik Loopstra, Wouter Joep Engelen, Petrus Rutgerus Bartraij, Teis Johan Coenen, Wilhelmus Patrick Elisabeth Maria Op'T Root
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Patent number: 9726842Abstract: An optical source that implements a wavelength tunable laser diode (t-LD) and a Mach-Zehnder (MZ) modulator within a single package is disclosed. The optical source, which outputs a modulated signal beam and a local beam of a continuous wave (CW), accompanies a control circuit mounted on several circuit boards. Only one of the circuit boards is rigidly mounted on the housing of the optical source. Rest of the circuit boards is moderately fixed to the housing through the rigidly fixed circuit board to suppress stresses caused in the housing and the circuit boards when the optical source is rigidly installed in the host system.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2016Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Device Innovations, Inc.Inventors: Kuniyuki Ishii, Hiromi Kurashima, Takashi Kondo
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Patent number: 9722384Abstract: A gas laser apparatus may include: a laser chamber connected through a first control valve to a first laser gas supply source that supplies a first laser gas containing a halogen gas and connected through a second control valve to a second laser gas supply source that supplies a second laser gas having a lower halogen gas concentration than the first laser gas; a purification column that removes at least a part of the halogen gas and a halogen compound from at least a part of a gas exhausted from the laser chamber; a booster pump, connected through a third control valve to the laser chamber, which raises a pressure of a gas having passed through the purification column to a gas pressure that is higher than an operating gas pressure of the laser chamber; and a controller that calculates, on a basis of a first amount of a gas supplied from the booster pump through the third control valve to the laser chamber, a second amount of the first laser gas that is to be supplied to the laser chamber and controls the firType: GrantFiled: May 3, 2016Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Gigaphoton Inc.Inventors: Natsushi Suzuki, Osamu Wakabayashi, Hiroaki Tsushima, Masanori Yashiro
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Patent number: 9720295Abstract: Disclosed are an LCD device and a method of manufacturing the same, in which a passivation layer and a pixel electrode are simultaneously formed by a single mask process using a half tone mask, and thus, manufacturing efficiency increases, and a defective contact due to loss of the pixel electrode can be prevented in a pad area. The LCD device includes a pad part including a pad area and a contact area. The LCD device includes a pixel pad formed in the pad area, a pixel bar formed in the contact area, and a bridge layer contacting the pixel pad with the pixel bar. The bridge layer is formed as a single layer or multi layers, and formed of one or more of a transparent conductive material and an opaque conductive material.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2012Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Young Ki Jung, Jae Sung Yu, In Hyuk Song, Jae Hoon Park, Han Seok Lee
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Patent number: 9720268Abstract: An edge narrowing method for a display panel is disclosed. The method includes the steps of providing the display panel, a grinding apparatus and a polishing apparatus; tilting the display panel so that the first substrate and a grinding member of the grinding apparatus have a first grinding angle therebetween; grinding the first substrate and the light-shielding area with the grinding apparatus while the display panel is tilted at the first grinding angle, thereby forming a first grinding end surface; stopping grinding of the first substrate and the light-shielding area when the width of the light-shielding area is between 0.35 and 1 mm; and polishing the first grinding end surface with the polishing apparatus to form a first end surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Yu Chen Liu, Chung Wei Liu, Shu Chih Wang, Chia Shin Weng
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Patent number: 9722392Abstract: A MOPA laser system that includes a seed laser configured to output pulsed laser light, an amplifier configured to receive and amplify the pulsed laser light emitted by the seed laser; and a pump laser configured to deliver a pump laser beam to both the seed laser and the amplifier.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Candela CorporationInventors: Jayant D. Bhawalkar, Xiaoming Shang, Jinze Qiu, Christopher J. Jones, James Hsia