Patents Examined by Eli D Strah
  • Patent number: 11872787
    Abstract: A window pane includes a transmission control layer including a first glass sheet, a second glass sheet, and a liquid crystal material disposed between the first glass sheet and the second glass sheet. Each of the first glass sheet and the second glass sheet has a thickness of about 1 mm or less. A first panel is bonded to the first glass sheet of the transmission control layer. A second panel is bonded to the second glass sheet of the transmission control layer. The transmission control layer is disposed between the first panel and the second panel. The liquid crystal material is controllable to adjust a transmittance of the window pane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignees: CORNING INCORPORATED, MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: James Gregory Couillard, Lisa Lynn Griesbach Hawkins, James Martin Grochocinski, Rainer Neeff, Felix Fritz Rudolf-Schlosser
  • Patent number: 11867988
    Abstract: A layered structure including a transparent substrate; a photoluminescent layer disposed on the transparent substrate and a pattern of a quantum dot polymer composite; and a capping layer disposed on the photoluminescent layer and including an inorganic material, a method of producing the same, a liquid crystal display including the same. The quantum dot polymer composite includes a polymer matrix; and a plurality of quantum dots in the polymer matrix, the pattern of the quantum dot polymer composite includes at least one repeating section and the repeating section includes a first section configured to emit light of a first peak wavelength, the inorganic material is disposed on at least a portion of a surface of the repeating section, and the inorganic material includes a metal oxide, a metal nitride, a metal oxynitride, a metal sulfide, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Deukseok Chung, Shin Ae Jun, Tae Won Jeong, Yong Seok Han
  • Patent number: 11845884
    Abstract: An adhesive resin and an adhesive composition for an optical member including the same is provided. The adhesive resin includes an acrylic copolymer formed by polymerizing a monomer mixture including a monomer represented by [Formula 1], a (meth)acrylic monomer having a cross-linkable functional group, and an alkyl (meth)acrylate-based monomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Inventors: Yoon Jung Kim, Min Ki Lee, Eun Suk Kim, Kee Young Kim
  • Patent number: 11827727
    Abstract: A photo-alignment polymer has a repeating unit represented by Formula (1), in Formula (1), R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, X represents —O—, —S—, or —NR2—, in which R2 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, L1 represents a single bond or a divalent linking group, P represents a photo-aligned group, and A represents an acid-cleavage group which is decomposed by an action of acid to produce a polar group
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Soichiro Watanabe, Yutaka Nozoe, Takashi Iizumi, Akio Tamura, Tomoaki Yokota, Keisuke Yoshimasa, Ayako Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11820102
    Abstract: A composite material having a plurality of discrete layers layered on top of each other including a thermoformable foil or film layer; a core material layer; and a nonwoven material layer. The nonwoven material layer is adapted to face a stream of air and the core material layer is sandwiched between the nonwoven material layer and the thermoformable foil or film layer. The composite material may be used to form an air duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Zephyros, Inc.
    Inventors: Markus Volkmann, Radka Pigová
  • Patent number: 11822179
    Abstract: A touch sensor panel includes a base layer, a touch sensor layer, and a first insulating layer in this order. The touch sensor layer includes a patterned conductive layer. A water vapor transmission rate Pc of the base layer at a temperature of 40° C. and a humidity of 90% RH is not higher than 900 g/(m2•24 hr). A water vapor transmission rate Pa of the first insulating layer at a temperature of 40° C. and a humidity of 90% RH is not higher than 900 g/(m2•24 hr).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignees: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED, DONGWOO FINE-CHEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byunghoon Song, Wonkyu Jung
  • Patent number: 11809044
    Abstract: A liquid crystal retardation film, a polarizing plate for light emitting displays including the same, and a light emitting display including the same are provided. The liquid crystal retardation film includes: a first retardation layer having no alignment layer, a UV absorbent primer layer, and a second retardation layer sequentially formed in the stated order, wherein each of the first retardation layer and the second retardation layer may be a liquid crystal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Hee Choi, Jin Sook Kim, Jung Hun You, Sun Hong Park, Sang Hum Lee
  • Patent number: 11796717
    Abstract: An antireflection plate has a structure in which a hard coat layer, an antireflective layer having a low refractive index layer, a protective layer, and an overcoat layer are laminated in this order on a transparent resin substrate. The low refractive index layer is a cured body of a curable composition containing 50 to 200 parts by mass of (B-2) hollow silica fine particles, and the low refractive index layer has a refractive index of 1.20 to 1.45. The protective layer is a cured body of a curable composition containing 7.5 to 35 parts by mass of (B-3) spherical silica fine particles, and the protective layer has a thickness of 10 to 15 nm and a refractive index of 1.45 to 1.50. The overcoat layer includes a polymer of a fluorine-containing silicon compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: FUKUVI CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Saito, Daisuke Hayashi, Yu Arai
  • Patent number: 11787985
    Abstract: An adhesive film for polarizing plates, a polarizing plate including the same, and an optical display including the same are provided. The adhesive film for polarizing plates is formed of an adhesive composition comprising: a (meth)acrylic copolymer; an adhesion promoter; a mixture of an isocyanate curing agent and a carbodiimide curing agent; and a UV absorbent, and the adhesive film has a glass transition temperature of about ?47° C. to ?40° C., and the adhesive film has a light transmittance of about 3% or less at a wavelength of about 380 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mi Yeon Yu, Seung Jun Lee, Woo Jin Jeong, Ha Yun Cho, Il Jin Kim
  • Patent number: 11762276
    Abstract: Provided is a compound that is fluidized by light irradiation and reversibly non-fluidized, and is not significantly colored. Provided is a photoresponsive compound represented by the following general formula (1), the photoresponsive compound being fluidized by light irradiation and reversibly non-fluidized: R1—Z1?Z2—R2??General formula (1) wherein Z1 and Z2 are N or CH, while Z1?Z2, R1 contains an aromatic hydrocarbon structure, R2 contains an aromatic heterocyclic structure, and a hydrogen atom is bonded to at least one carbon atom bonded adjacent to a carbon atom in the aromatic heterocyclic structure bonded to the Z2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Yukiko Nakai, Kouji Sugama, Haruo Horiguchi, Kazuaki Nakamura, Toyoko Shibata
  • Patent number: 11739236
    Abstract: A resin composition includes a first (meth)acrylate monomer a second (meth)acrylate monomer containing an oxy group or a divalent alkyl group, a urethane (meth)acrylate oligomer, and at least one photoinitiator. A content of the first (meth)acrylate monomer is about 1.6 to about 4.7 times greater than a content of the urethane (meth)acrylate oligomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Keisuke Morita
  • Patent number: 11708512
    Abstract: The present application provides an adhesive composition for a foldable display including a thermocurable resin; and a crosslinking agent, wherein the thermocurable resin includes a unit derived from a compound including at least one N or O; and at least one unshared electron pair in the molecule, and the thermocurable resin has a glass transition temperature of ?70° C. or lower, an adhesive film using the same, and a foldable display including the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Hee Song, Hyon Gyu Park, Hyun Cheol Kim
  • Patent number: 11697749
    Abstract: A multilayer adhesive tape is provided, including: a first outer adhesive layer; an intermediate adhesive layer; and a second outer adhesive layer sequentially. At least one of the first outer adhesive layer and the second outer adhesive layer includes a cured product of an outer adhesive composition including a high molecular weight prepolymer having a weight average molecular weight of 100,000 g/mol or more and 1,500,000 g/mol or less and a low molecular weight prepolymer having a weight average molecular weight of 1,000 g/mol or more and 80,000 g/mol or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Inventors: Sle Lee, Ho Kyung Song, Jae Sung Hong, Jun Man Choi, Jang Soon Kim
  • Patent number: 11680192
    Abstract: The invention relates to a polymer obtainable by the radical polymerization of at least one monomer, namely one or more (meth)acrylate monomers and optionally, in addition, vinylic comonomers, wherein the polymer has a molar mass MW of at least 5,000 g/mol and at most 200,000 g/mol and at least one of the monomers is functionalized with at least one epoxy group, wherein the proportion of the epoxide-functionalized monomer(s) (a) is more than 30 wt %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: TESA SE
    Inventors: Thilo Dollase, Markus Brodbeck, Alexander Fischer, Marco Kupsky, Alexander Prenzel
  • Patent number: 11675233
    Abstract: The present, invention provides a liquid crystal display device that can exhibit excellent retardation stability against heat and that can prevent reduction in contrast ratio due to scattering even when the liquid crystal display device includes a retardation layer formed by polymerization of a reactive monomer, and a method for producing a liquid crystal display device suitable for production of the liquid crystal display device. The liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes paired substrates and a liquid crystal layer provided between the paired substrates. At least one of the paired substrates includes a retardation layer formed from a polymer of at least one type of monomer. The at least one type of monomer includes a photo-aligning monomer that is to be aligned by polarized light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masanobu Mizusaki, Yuichi Kawahira
  • Patent number: 11667843
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal alignment agent composition including a copolymer for liquid crystal alignment agent containing two types of repeating units classified according to the types of diamine-derived functional groups, and a crosslinker compound in which the protecting group having a specific structure was introduced, a method for preparing a liquid crystal alignment film using the same, and a liquid crystal alignment film and a liquid crystal display device using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Seongku Kim, Kichul Koo, Hoonseo Park, Jung Ho Jo, Soonho Kwon
  • Patent number: 11667844
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal alignment composition that not only exhibits high degree of imidization and excellent film strength when manufacturing a liquid crystal alignment film, but also can realize improved alignment property and electrical properties, a method for preparing a liquid crystal alignment film using the same, a liquid crystal alignment film and a liquid crystal display using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Young Yoon, Kichul Koo, Jung Ho Jo, Soonho Kwon, Hyeongseuk Yun, Seongku Kim, Hoonseo Park
  • Patent number: 11661535
    Abstract: An adhesive composite is provided that may include a substrate and an adhesive layer overlying the substrate. The adhesive layer may include at least a first region of a high Tg adhesive material and a second region of a low Tg adhesive material. The first region of the adhesive layer may be co-planar with the second region of the adhesive layer. The high Tg adhesive material may include a first glass transition temperature Tg1 and the low Tg adhesive material may include a second glass transition temperature Tg2, where Tg1 is greater than Tg2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Inventors: Jan Scheffel, Andreas Roth-Rosenkranz
  • Patent number: 11656503
    Abstract: The sealing material composition of the present disclosure includes a lactone-based compound having at least two functional groups A represented by the Chemical Formula (1) and a curing agent that is thermally reactive with the lactone-based compound and contains a compound having at least two of one or more kinds of functional groups B selected from the group consisting of a mercaptan group, a hydroxyl group, and a secondary amine group where, a is an integer of 0 or 1, and * is an atomic bond.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masanobu Mizusaki
  • Patent number: 11655403
    Abstract: A curable mixture, a partially cured composition, a cured composition, an article containing either the partially cured composition or the cured composition, and a method of bonding two substrates are provided. The partially cured composition functions as a pressure-sensitive adhesive while the cured composition functions as a structural or semi-structural adhesive. The curable mixture can be applied to a first substrate by printing or dispensing, if desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Kelly A. Volp, Kathleen S. Shafer, Ross E. Behling, Ann M. Gilman, Mark F. Ellis, Matthew R. D. Smith, Aaron T. Hedegaard, Xiaoming Jiang, Cyrus A. Anderson