Patents Examined by Dung Nguyen
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Patent number: 10001684Abstract: The present application discloses an array substrate having a signal line; a common electrode line; an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protector comprising a first discharging terminal coupled to the signal line, and a second discharging terminal coupled to the common electrode line; and an ESD protector repair unit comprising a first repair terminal in close proximity to the first discharging terminal but separated from each other, a second repair terminal in close proximity to the common electrode line but separated from each other.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2015Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Cuili Gai, Zhongyuan Wu, Jingwen Yin, Longyan Wang
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Patent number: 9997891Abstract: A tunable source includes a short-cavity laser optimized for performance and reliability in SSOCT imaging systems, spectroscopic detection systems, and other types of detection and sensing systems. The short cavity laser has a large free spectral range cavity, fast tuning response and single transverse, longitudinal and polarization mode operation, and includes embodiments for fast and wide tuning, and optimized spectral shaping. Disclosed are both electrical and optical pumping in a MEMS-VCSEL geometry with mirror and gain regions optimized for wide tuning, high output power, and a variety of preferred wavelength ranges; and a semiconductor optical amplifier, combined with the short-cavity laser to produce high-power, spectrally shaped operation. Several preferred imaging and detection systems make use of this tunable source for optimized operation are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2017Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignees: Thorlabs, Inc., Praevium Research, Inc.Inventors: Alex Ezra Cable, Vijaysekhar Jayaraman, Benjamin Michael Potsaid
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Patent number: 9995973Abstract: A display device may include a common electrode, a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode, an insulation layer, and a liquid crystal layer. The first pixel electrode overlaps the common electrode. The second pixel electrode is electrically connected to the first pixel electrode and is positioned between the first pixel electrode and the common electrode. A first portion of the second pixel electrode does not overlap the first pixel electrode in a direction perpendicular to the common electrode. A second portion of the second pixel electrode overlaps a first portion of the first pixel electrode. A second portion of the first pixel electrode does not overlap the second pixel electrode in the direction perpendicular to the common electrode. The insulating layer is positioned between the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode. The liquid crystal layer is positioned between the common electrode and the second pixel electrode.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Dong-Chul Shin, Oh Jeong Kwon, Su Jin Kim, Jin Won Kim, Dong Han Song, Ki Chul Shin, Sung-Jae Yun, Hyeok Jin Lee
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Patent number: 9997890Abstract: A multisection digital supermode-distributed Bragg reflector (MSDS-DBR) comprising: a plurality P of digital supermode Bragg reflector (DS-DBR) grating sections arranged along a waveguide; wherein each DS-DBR grating section is configured to pass or reflect light over a given spectral region, the given spectral region being different from the spectral regions of the other DS-DBR grating sections; wherein each DS-DBR grating section comprises a plurality M of grating sub-regions, each sub-region corresponding to a spectral sub-band within the spectral region of the DS-DBR grating section, and wherein each grating sub-region includes a positive electrical contact and a negative electrical contact; said grating sub-region being configured to pass or reflect light of its spectral sub-band when an electrical bias is provided between its positive and negative electrical contacts.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2017Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Rockley Photonics LimitedInventor: Aaron John Zilkie
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Patent number: 9991663Abstract: A solid-state laser device includes: a first water tank which houses a laser rod and a lamp and into which coolant is introduced; an outer inlet which is provided in a member forming a chamber and through which coolant is received into the chamber; and an outer outlet provided in said member and through which a coolant is discharged to the outside of the chamber. The solid-state laser device further includes: two second water tanks that house electrodes of both ends of the lamp, respectively, and communicate with the first water tank; a coolant inflow passage of which one end communicates with the outer inlet and the other end forms inner inlets opened to only the second water tanks; and a coolant outflow passage of which one end communicates with the outer outlet and the other end forms an inner outlet opened to the first water tank.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2017Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Dai Murakoshi
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Patent number: 9979157Abstract: An external resonator type light-emitting device includes a light source oscillating a semiconductor laser light and a grating element configuring an external resonator together with the light source. The light source includes an active layer oscillating said semiconductor laser light. The grating element includes an optical waveguide and a plurality of Bragg gratings formed in the optical waveguide. The optical waveguide includes an incident face to which the semiconductor laser light is incident and an emitting face from which an emitting light having a desired wavelength is emitted. A half value reflectance R50 is larger than a reflectance R2 at an emitting end of the light source. A half value reflectance R50 is 3% or larger. A combined reflectance is not less than the half value reflectance R50 in a wavelength region ??50.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2016Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventors: Jungo Kondo, Shoichiro Yamaguchi, Tetsuya Ejiri
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Patent number: 9977271Abstract: A liquid crystal display including: a first substrate; a gate line and a data line formed or otherwise disposed on the first substrate; a drain electrode disposed on the first substrate; a first insulating layer disposed on the gate line and the data line; a first electrode disposed on the first insulating layer; a second insulating layer disposed on the first electrode; and a second electrode disposed on the second insulating layer. The first insulating layer and the second insulating layer have a first contact hole exposing a portion of the drain electrode. The contact portion of the second electrode is connected to the drain electrode through the first contact hole, and the contact portion overlaps the first electrode adjacent the first contact hole. The overlap increases capacitance of the display panel so as to decrease kickback voltage and reduce flicker.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2016Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kyoung Ju Shin, Sung Hwan Kim, Se Young Song
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Patent number: 9979158Abstract: A vertical cavity surface emitting laser comprising a first reflector, a second reflector comprising a layer stack of semiconductor or isolating layers, an active region arranged between the first and second reflectors, and an additional layer on top of the layer stack at the light output side, said additional layer forming an output interface of the laser, wherein the refractive index of the additional layer is smaller, equal to or larger than the smallest refractive index of the refractive indices of said layer stack.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2017Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: Technische Universitaet BerlinInventors: Dieter Bimberg, Gunter Larisch, James A. Lott
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Patent number: 9977272Abstract: An in-cell touch display panel structure includes upper and lower substrates configured therebetween a display material layer, a black matrix sensing electrode layer, a sensing electrode trace layer, and an insulation layer. The black matrix sensing electrode layer is composed of a plurality of opaque conductor lines, which are patterned to form a plurality of sensing electrodes. The sensing electrode trace layer is composed of a plurality of trace conductor lines. The insulation layer is disposed between the sensing electrode trace layer and the black matrix sensing electrode layer. Each sensing electrode is connected with at least one trace conductor line. The plurality of trace conductor lines are disposed at positions corresponding to those of the plurality of opaque conductor lines of the black matrix sensing electrode layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2014Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: SUPERC-TOUCH CORPORATIONInventor: Hsiang-Yu Lee
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Patent number: 9971166Abstract: A liquid crystal lens panel includes a lower lens electrodes divided into lower lens electrode groups; an upper lens electrode positioned opposite to the lower lens electrodes; alignment layers positioned on the lower lens electrodes and the upper lens electrode, respectively; and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the lens electrodes that includes liquid crystal molecules. The liquid crystal layer forms a liquid crystal lens upon application of an electric field by the upper lens electrode and the lower lens electrode groups, and each of the lens electrode groups corresponds to a unit of the liquid crystal lens. The alignment layer is divided into a first region and a second region positioned about a center of the liquid crystal lens, and the liquid crystal molecules included in the first region and the second region are aligned at different angles whose signs are opposite to each other.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2014Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: Jong Suk Lee
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Patent number: 9966722Abstract: An internally switched fiber laser amplifier is disclosed and claimed. The switch is integrated directly into the fiber amplifier, so that the output power from each fiber amplifier can be switched between N selectable output fibers with minimal (approx. 1%) loss. The switch may be a close coupled pump switch, a spherical mirror or a planar mirror. The fiber laser amplifier may switch both pump and source lights, or may switch only the pump light then combine it with the source light before sending it to a gain amplifier.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2017Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: Northrop Grumman Systems CorporationInventors: Gregory D. Goodno, James G. Ho
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Patent number: 9966727Abstract: A fiber laser system enables an improved reflection resistance property. The fiber laser system includes fiber lasers (2 through 4) each having a laser medium which is an optical fiber made from silica glass. A difference between respective lasing wavelengths of any given two of the fiber lasers is greater than a wavelength equivalent to a half width at half maximum of a peak deriving from a vibration mode of a planar four-membered ring of a Si—O network structure of silica glass.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2017Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: FUJIKURA LTD.Inventor: Masahiro Kashiwagi
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Patent number: 9958739Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes an insulation substrate, a plurality of pixels disposed on the insulation substrate, where each pixel has a shape elongated in a horizontal direction, and includes a thin film transistor formation region and a display area; and a reference voltage line extending in a vertical direction along a center of the display area, where the display area includes a single high-gray subpixel area and two low-gray subpixel areas, and the single high-gray subpixel area is positioned between the two low-gray subpixel areas.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2017Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Cheol Shin, Hak Sun Chang, Jang Wi Ryu, Jae-Soo Jang, Ki Chul Shin, Seong Young Lee
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Patent number: 9960567Abstract: A laser device includes a silicon substrate, a buffer layer on the silicon substrate, a laser cavity on the buffer layer including a first active region based on group III-V semiconductor quantum dots, and a semiconductor optical amplifier that is integrated with the laser cavity on the buffer layer, includes a second active region based on group III-V semiconductor quantum dots, and amplifies light emitted from the laser cavity.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2014Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Taek Kim
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Patent number: 9958699Abstract: Polarizing beam splitters and systems incorporating such beam splitters are described. More specifically, hybrid polarizing beam splitters and systems with such beam splitters that incorporate polymeric reflective polarizers aligned with MacNeille or wire grid reflective polarizers are described.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2013Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Philip E. Watson, Yarn Chee Poon, Andrew J. Ouderkirk
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Patent number: 9946130Abstract: A display device includes: first and second drain electrodes; an organic insulating film; an inorganic insulating film formed on the organic insulating film; and first and second pixel electrodes formed on the inorganic insulating film. The organic insulating film includes an organic insulating film opening spanning the first drain electrode and the second drain electrode. The inorganic insulating film covering the organic insulating film includes first and second inorganic insulating film openings. The first pixel electrode is connected to the first drain electrode via the first inorganic insulating film opening. The second pixel electrode is connected to the second drain electrode via the second inorganic insulating film opening.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2015Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Mitsutaka Okita, Noriyoshi Kanda, Toshiyuki Higano
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Patent number: 9948064Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes a step of forming a mesa portion including an active layer above a substrate, and an n-type layer above the active layer, a step of forming a current confinement portion on left and right of the mesa portion, the current confinement portion including a p-type current blocking layer, an n-type current blocking layer above the p-type current blocking layer, and an i-type or p-type current blocking layer above the n-type current blocking layer, and a p-type doping step of diffusing p-type impurities into the i-type or p-type current blocking layer, an upper portion of the n-type current blocking layer, and left and right portions of the n-type layer to change the upper portion of the n-type current blocking layer and the left and right portions of the n-type layer to p-type semiconductors.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2017Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hiroaki Tsuchiya, Harunaka Yamaguchi, Eiji Nakai
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Patent number: 9946129Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a first insulation substrate; a gate line disposed on the first insulation substrate; a first data line and a second data line disposed on the first insulation substrate; a color filter disposed on the first insulation substrate and disposed between the first data line and the second data line; a first light blocking member disposed on the first data line and the second data line; and a second light blocking member disposed on the color filter and the first light blocking member, extending in the same direction as the gate line, and overlapping the first light blocking member on the first data line and the second data line.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2015Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hyung Gi Jung, Swae-Hyun Kim, Yeo Geon Yoon, Sung Hee Hong, Hyung June Kim, Jae Hwa Park, Young Goo Song, Sung Hoon Kim
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Patent number: 9948059Abstract: A semiconductor laser light source includes a semiconductor substrate formed of a first conductivity type semiconductor material, a lower cladding layer formed of the first conductivity type semiconductor material on the semiconductor substrate, a waveguide layer on the lower cladding layer, and an upper cladding layer formed of a second conductivity type semiconductor material on the waveguide layer. The waveguide layer includes a core area and rib areas thinner than the core area on either side of the core area. The core area has a quantum dot active layer, and the rib areas have no quantum dot layer. The waveguide layer forms a laser part having the core area with a constant width and a spot size converter having the core area with a taper width from a side adjacent to the laser part toward an end of the spot size converter.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2016Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Tokuharu Kimura, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, Kazumasa Takabayashi, Ayahito Uetake
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Patent number: 9948063Abstract: Concatenated distributed feedback lasers having novel waveguides are disclosed. The waveguides allow for coupling of the laser beam between active and passive waveguide structures and improved device design and output efficiency. Methods of making along with methods of using such devices are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2016Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: Thorlabs Quantum Electronics, Inc.Inventors: Catherine Genevieve Caneau, Feng Xie, Chung-En Zah