Patents Examined by Dung T. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 12055826
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a liquid crystal panel, and a printed circuit board that is electrically coupled to a terminal portion of the liquid crystal panel by electrically conductive particles arranged in a state of being aligned as viewed in plan view, wherein the terminal portion has a plurality of panel terminals arranged along a first direction extending along one side of the liquid crystal panel, the panel terminal has a long side extending along a second direction obliquely intersecting with the first direction and a short side extending along a direction intersecting with the second direction, and an arrangement direction of the electrically conductive particles is arranged along a third direction intersecting with the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinsuke Fujikawa
  • Patent number: 12055825
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of display pads, a portion of the plurality of display pads being extended along a first direction and arranged along a second direction intersecting the first direction, and a flexible circuit board including a plurality of substrate pads electrically connected to the plurality of display pads, and a plurality of dummy pads spaced apart from the plurality of substrate pads and arranged in parallel to the plurality of substrate pads along the second direction, a portion of the plurality of dummy pads have an extension length in the first direction and a width in the second direction substantially same as an extension length in the first direction and a width in the second direction, respectively, of the plurality of substrate pads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eunbyul Kim, Daegeun Lee, Sukho Choi
  • Patent number: 12044932
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal device includes a first liquid crystal cell and a second liquid crystal cell. The first liquid crystal cell and the second liquid crystal cell each include a first strip electrode, a second strip electrode, a third strip electrode and a fourth strip electrode. The extension direction of each of the first strip electrode and the second strip electrode in the first liquid crystal cell is different from the extension direction of each of the first strip electrode and the second strip electrode in the second liquid crystal cell. The extension direction of each of the first strip electrode and the second strip electrode is orthogonal to the extension direction of each of the third strip electrode and the fourth strip electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kojiro Ikeda, Takeo Koito, Koichi Nagao, Shinichiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 12044931
    Abstract: A display device has a display area and a terminal area, the terminal area being formed on the TFT area, in which the counter substrate does not overlap, a driver IC being disposed on the terminal area, a first heat dissipation plate being adhered to a back of the TFT substrate in a portion corresponding the terminal area, a second cover glass being disposed on the counter substrate, a first edge being disposed at an edge of the second cover glass, an LED as a light source being disposed at a second edge, which is an opposing edge to the first edge of the lens, a second heat dissipation plate, on which the lens and the LED are disposed, being disposed at a second cover glass side, in which the lens, the LED and the second heat dissipation plate are fixed to the TFT substrate through the first heat dissipation plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Yuta Wakabayashi, Yasuyuki Hanazawa, Michikazu Noguchi, Ryou Shimmen
  • Patent number: 12044915
    Abstract: An information handling system display may include a display panel cell, a mold frame, and a chip-on-film. The chip-on-film may be coupled to the display panel cell. The chip-on-film may include one or more protrusions. A first portion of the chip-on-film may be adjacent to the one or more protrusions across a width of a first surface of the chip-on-film. The one or more protrusions may be in contact with a mold frame of the display. The first portion of the chip-on-film adjacent to the one or more protrusions may not be in contact with the mold frame of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Guentaek Oh, BongJun Lee
  • Patent number: 12038631
    Abstract: A switchable waveplate includes a substrate, a first electrode layer on the substrate, an alignment layer on the first electrode layer and including alignment patterns formed thereon, a liquid crystal layer on the alignment layer, and a second electrode layer on the liquid crystal layer. The alignment patterns are determined based on angles of interest at a plurality of regions of the switchable waveplate. The liquid crystal layer includes liquid crystal molecules that are arranged according to the alignment patterns and are pre-tilted when no electric field is applied to the liquid crystal layer. The first electrode layer and the second electrode layer are configured to apply electric fields of different magnitudes to a plurality of zones of the switchable waveplate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Chulwoo Oh, Hsien-Hui Cheng, Xiaoze Ou, Linghui Rao
  • Patent number: 12038639
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including a display area and a non-display area; a flexible printed circuit board overlapping and attached to the display panel; a pair of first alignment indicia disposed in the non-display area; a pair of second alignment indicia adjacent to the first alignment indicia; a pair of third alignment indicia disposed on the flexible printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Myong-Soo Oh, Doo San Park, Hyun Chul Jin, Seong Ho Choi
  • Patent number: 12038656
    Abstract: A display device including a display area configured to display an image, a first non-display area disposed adjacent to the display area, a second non-display area disposed adjacent to the first non-display area, and a first driving voltage line disposed in the first non-display area and the second non-display area, the first driving voltage line being configured to be applied with a first driving voltage and includes a first sub-driving voltage line including first holes, and a second sub-driving voltage line disposed on the first sub-driving voltage line and including second holes, in which the second holes include first sub-holes and second sub-holes having a different size than the first sub-holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyung Chul Lim, Yang Hee Kim, So Yeon Park, Sang Hun Oh, Sung Woo Jung
  • Patent number: 12038650
    Abstract: A phase difference plate includes a phase difference plate P1 and a phase difference plate P2. An in-plane slow axis of the phase difference plate P1 is orthogonal to an in-plane slow axis of the phase difference plate P2. The phase difference plate P2 includes a layer of a liquid crystal material oriented in an in-plane direction. An in-plane retardation ReP2(?) at a wavelength A nm of the phase difference plate P2 satisfies the following formulae (e1) and (e2): {Re2 (400)?Re2(550)}/{Re2(550)?Re2(700)}<2.90 (e1), and Re2(400)/Re2(700)>1.13 (e2). An in-plane retardation ReP1(?) of the phase difference plate P1 at a wavelength ? nm and the in-plane retardation ReP2(?) of the phase difference plate P2 at the wavelength ? nm satisfy the following formulae (e4) and (e5): ReP1(550)>ReP2(550) (e4), and ReP1(400)/ReP1(700)<ReP2(400)/ReP2(700) (e5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masakazu Saito, Kazuhiro Osato, Masashi Aimatsu, Kei Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 12025870
    Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a display panel having a display portion, a connecting portion, and a bending portion; a main support layer; and an auxiliary support layer including a main portion and a folded-back portion connected to the main portion as a unitary structure. An edge portion of the display apparatus includes a stacked structure. The stacked structure includes the connecting portion; the folded-back portion on the connecting portion; at least a part of the main portion on a side of the folded-back portion away from the connecting portion; a part of the main support layer; and a part of the display portion on a side of the part of the main support layer away from the main portion. Layers of the stacked structure is curved toward a back side of the display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chao Wang, Pan Zhao, Zhiliang Jiang, Fei Li, Dianjie Hou, Song Wang, Chang Liu, Qian Ma
  • Patent number: 12026011
    Abstract: A novel electronic device is provided. Alternatively an electronic device of a novel embodiment is provided. An electronic device includes a ring portion and a display portion. The display portion is flexible. The display portion has a top surface and a first side surface in contact with at least one side of the top surface. The first side surface has a curved surface. The top surface includes a first display region. The first side surface includes a second display region. The first display region and the second display region are continuously provided. The electronic device is mounted such that the ring portion is in contact with a user's finger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Kuwabara, Masaaki Hiroki
  • Patent number: 12025881
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device including a liquid crystal layer containing strip-like polymers and liquid crystal molecules, a third transparent substrate, and a transparent layer disposed on the third transparent substrate and having a refractive index lower than that of the third transparent substrate, wherein the transparent layer includes strip portions which include first and second end portions, and a middle portion, the first end portion has a first width greater than a width of the middle portion, the second end portion has a second width greater than the width of the middle portion, and first wiring lines overlap the strip portions, respectively and extend in a same direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Tenfu Nakamura, Kentaro Okuyama, Kojiro Ikeda
  • Patent number: 12025893
    Abstract: A display device includes an array substrate, a counter substrate, a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode spaced apart from the first pixel electrode in a first direction, a third pixel electrode spaced apart from the second pixel electrode in the first direction, a first wiring line positioned between the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode and extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, a second pixel electrode row including the second pixel electrode and composed of a plurality of pixel electrodes aligned in the second direction, a third pixel electrode row including the third pixel electrode and composed of a plurality of pixel electrodes aligned in the second direction, a first insulating film disposed on a lower-layer side of the first wiring line, and a spacer protruding from the counter substrate toward the array substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Hikaru Yoshino, Junichi Morinaga
  • Patent number: 12019322
    Abstract: A display device is provided and includes a liquid crystal display panel; and a backlight device opposed to the liquid crystal display panel via a polarizing plate; the backlight device including a frame comprising at least four bars; a first adhesive layer provided on one surface of the bars; a reflective sheet; a lightguide disposed on the reflective sheet in the frame; and a light source disposed in the frame and configured to emit light to the lightguide, wherein the frame includes a portion that is exposed from the liquid crystal display panel in a plan view, and a resin adhesive layer having a light-shielding property covers an external surface of the liquid crystal display panel and the portion of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Tetsuro Ochi, Ken Sugiyama, Toshiyuki Tsubota, Kazunari Nishita
  • Patent number: 12013618
    Abstract: An array substrate (10) and a display device (16) are provided, and the array substrate includes a base substrate (1) and includes a pixel array (1) and an auxiliary conductive structure (3) which are on the base substrate (1); the pixel array includes a plurality of pixel units (2) arranged in an array and a plurality of pixel electrodes (21), and each of the plurality of pixel units (2) includes at least one of the plurality of pixel electrodes (21); the auxiliary conductive structure (3) surrounds at least one of the plurality of pixel electrodes (21) and is insulated from the plurality of pixel electrodes (21); a resistivity of a material of the auxiliary conductive structure (3) is less than or equal to a resistivity of a material of the at least one of the plurality of the pixel electrodes (21).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianbo Xian, Hongfei Cheng, Jian Xu, Yong Qiao
  • Patent number: 12007654
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes: a first substrate having a first side and a second side opposed to the first side; a display region provided with pixels; a first partial peripheral region between the first side and the display region; a second partial peripheral region between the second side and the display region; a plurality of signal lines configured to supply signals to switching elements in the pixels; a plurality of first terminals provided in the first partial peripheral region and configured to be electrically coupled to a driver integrated circuit; a plurality of second terminals provided in the second partial peripheral region and configured to be supplied with signals for inspection; and a first coupling circuit provided between the first terminals and the display region in the first partial peripheral region and configured to switch between coupling and decoupling the signal lines and the second terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Gen Koide, Hiroyuki Abe, Kazune Matsumura
  • Patent number: 11988934
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a first light modulation assembly, including: a first substrate; a second substrate opposite to the first substrate; a first conductive layer disposed on the first substrate; a second conductive layer disposed on the second substrate; a first insulating layer disposed on the first substrate; and a first light modulation layer disposed between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bi-Ly Lin, Rong-Jyun Lin, I-Wen Yang, Chih-Chung Hsu
  • Patent number: 11982893
    Abstract: A display device includes an array substrate including a display region and a peripheral region, a counter substrate opposite to the array substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the array substrate and the counter substrate. The display region includes a plurality of data signal lines and a plurality of scanning signal lines, the peripheral region includes a first wiring pattern arranged with a plurality of wirings connected to each of the plurality of scanning signal lines and a second wiring pattern applied with a certain potential, the first wiring pattern includes a first straight portion extending along the first direction, a second straight portion extending along the second direction, and a bending portion connecting the first straight portion and the second straight portion, and the bending portion includes a first wiring having a staircase-like stepped shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventor: Kentaro Kawai
  • Patent number: 11977307
    Abstract: The cholesteric liquid crystal display (CLCD) device includes first and second cholesteric liquid crystal panels that reflect light within different wavelength ranges. Both panels have gate lines that extend from one side to the other. A gate driver is electrically connected to the first panel's gate lines. Additionally, a flexible printed circuit is electrically connected to both the first and second panels' gate lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventor: Han Wen Huang
  • Patent number: 11971635
    Abstract: A U-shaped unit and a liquid crystal element with U-shaped coplanar electrode units provided by the invention are capable of increasing a horizontal electric field intensity in a power supply state, so that when the invention is applied to be used as a liquid crystal driving element, a required horizontal electric field intensity can be achieved with a lower driving voltage to reduce a required driving power when the liquid crystal element is used as a display screen, thereby achieving an effect of power saving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Chia-Yi Huang, Wei-Fan Chiang, Yi-Hong Shih