Patents Examined by Eli D Strah
  • Patent number: 10312454
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound for an organic optoelectric device, an organic optoelectric device, to which the compound is applied, and a display device, wherein the compound is represented by chemical formula 1. The detailed contents regarding chemical formula 1 are the same as defined in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sangshin Lee, Dong Min Kang, Youngkwon Kim, Jun Seok Kim, Eun Sun Yu, Byoungkwan Lee, Kipo Jang, Sujin Han
  • Patent number: 10253220
    Abstract: Provided are an acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive composition including a (meth)acryl-based polymer and a phosphonic acid compound of formula (1): wherein R is a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon residue having 1 to 18 carbon atoms which may have an oxygen atom, or a salt thereof, the composition containing 0.005 to 3 parts by weight of the phosphonic acid compound of formula (1) based on 100 parts by weight of the (meth)acryl-based polymer; a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer made from the acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive composition; a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer-attached substrate film having the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer; a laminate including the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer-attached substrate film; and an image display device including the laminate or the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer-attached substrate film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinsuke Akizuki, Yuusuke Toyama, Atsushi Yasui
  • Patent number: 10234723
    Abstract: A backlight unit including: a light source; and a photoconversion layer disposed separately from the light source to convert a wavelength of incident light from the light source and thereby provide converted light, wherein the photoconversion layer includes a polymer matrix and a plurality of anisotropic semiconductor nanocrystals disposed in the polymer matrix, and wherein the polymer matrix includes a polymer having a repeating unit represented by Chemical Formula 1: wherein R1 is hydrogen or a methyl group, each R2 is independently hydrogen or a C1 to C3 alkyl group, and R3 is a C2 to C5 alkyl group, wherein the polymer exhibits elasticity at a temperature between a glass transition temperature of the polymer and about 100° C., and wherein the plurality of anisotropic semiconductor nanocrystals are aligned along a long axis thereof for the photoconversion layer to emit polarized light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
    Inventors: Hyun A Kang, Dmitri V. Talapin, Patrick D. Cunningham, Eun Joo Jang
  • Patent number: 10228491
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a radical-curable adhesive composition including a radical-polymerizable first compound that includes at least two hydroxyl groups in the molecule, and having hydroxyl value of 500 mg KOH/g or greater, and a polarizing plate and an optical member including the radical-curable adhesive composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Eun-Soo Huh, Kwang-Seung Park, Mi-Rin Lee, Sung-Hyun Kim, Jun-Wuk Park
  • Patent number: 10175534
    Abstract: A compensation film includes a first retardation layer including a polymer having negative birefringence, and a second retardation layer including a liquid crystal having positive birefringence, where the first retardation layer has an in-plane retardation (Re1) of 320 nm to 1050 nm for incident light having wavelength of 550 nm, the second retardation layer has an in-plane retardation (Re2) of 180 nm to 910 nm for the incident light, an entire in-plane retardation (Re0) of the first and second retardation layers for the incident light is a difference between the in-plane retardations of the first and second retardation layers, an angle between slow axes of the first and second retardation layers is 85 to 95 degrees, and the entire in-plane retardation (Re0) of the first and second retardation layers for the wavelength of 450 nm, 550 nm and 650 nm satisfies Re0 (450 nm)<Re0 (550 nm)<Re0 (650 nm).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyung Jun Kim, Sang ah Gam, Myung Sup Jung, Hyun-Seok Choi
  • Patent number: 10150911
    Abstract: The present specification relates to a novel compound, and a color conversion film, a backlight unit, and a display device, comprising the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Hoyong Lee, Kichul Koo, Minyoung Kang, Duy hieu Le
  • Patent number: 10100234
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive composition, and more particularly, to an acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive composition capable of showing an excellent anti-static performance, and solving a transferring problem of additives and a problem concerning a balance of low-rate and high-rate peel strength, by comprising a) an acrylic copolymer including a monomer having a functional group capable of chelating with a metal salt, and a hydrophobic monomer and b) a metal salt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: No Ma Kim, Jae Gwan Lee, An Na Lee
  • Patent number: 10093840
    Abstract: The present invention provides an adhesive composition comprising a tertiary amine group-containing acrylic copolymer and a sulfonate group-containing acrylic copolymer, a polarizing plate and a liquid crystal display device comprising the adhesive composition. The adhesive composition of the present invention comprises a tertiary amine group-containing acrylic copolymer and a sulfonate group-containing acrylic copolymer wherein an ionic functional group can be introduced by cross-linking reaction thereof, thereby exhibiting good antistatic properties and excellent durability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: DONGWOO FINE-CHEM CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Han Young Choi
  • Patent number: 10072183
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a radical-curable adhesive composition including a (A) radical-polymerizable compound that includes at least one hydrophilic functional group in the molecule in greater than 30 parts by weight and less than or equal to 93 parts by weight; a (B) multifunctional (meth)acryl-based compound in 5 to 40 parts by weight; a (C) phosphate compound that includes one or two (meth)acrylic groups in the molecule in 1 to 40 parts by weight; and a (D) radical initiator in 0.5 to 20 parts by weight, with respect to 100 parts by weight of the radical-curable adhesive composition, and a polarizing plate and an optical member including the radical-curable adhesive composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Eun-Soo Huh, Kwang-Seung Park, Mi-Rin Lee, Jun-Wuk Park
  • Patent number: 10054726
    Abstract: Provided are a polarizing plate and a liquid crystal display device. The polarizing plate, which is lightweight and has a thin thickness and excellent physical properties including durability, water resistance, workability, pressure-sensitive adhesion and a light leakage prevention effect; and the liquid crystal display device including the same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: In Kyu Park, Ki Ok Kwon, No Ma Kim, In Ho Hwang, Sung Hyun Nam, Sung Soo Yoon, Kyun Il Rah, Min Ki Lee
  • Patent number: 10035934
    Abstract: The present application relates to a polarizing plate and a liquid crystal display device. The polarizing plate which is thin and light, meets requirements for physical properties such as durability, moisture resistance, workability and light leakage inhibiting ability, and has an antistatic property, and the liquid crystal display device including the same may be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: In Kyu Park, No Ma Kim, In Ho Hwang, Sung Soo Yoon, Min Joon Kim
  • Patent number: 10011749
    Abstract: Disclosed is an article that includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a re-workable adhesive composition, the first substrate being bonded to the second substrate through the adhesive composition. The adhesive composition is derived from a moisture curable polyurethane hot melt adhesive composition that includes a polyurethane prepolymer that includes the reaction product of a first crystalline polyester polyol having a number average molecular weight of from at least 5500 grams per mole (g/mol) to about 20,000 g/mol and a melting point of at least 40° C., and a polyisocyanate. The re-workable adhesive composition is cleanly removable from at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate after conditioning the article at a temperature of from at least 60° C. to no greater than 100° C. for a period of about 30 minutes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: H.B. Fuller Company
    Inventors: Sudipto Das, Henry P. Meyer, Anthony J. Ostlund
  • Patent number: 9986645
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a transparent conductive polymer electrode including a plurality of electrode lines formed of droplets of conductive polymer, each of the electrode lines including first and second regions having different conductive polymer droplet hit densities. The first region has a ratio of b/a within a range of 0.2 to 0.8, where “a” is a distance from a center to an edge of the electrode line in at least one direction of width and length directions thereof, and “b” is a distance from the center to an edge of the first region in the at least one direction. The second region is the remaining region of the electrode line, and the conductive polymer droplet hit density of the second region is lower than that of the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventor: Joon-Hyung Kim
  • Patent number: 9975967
    Abstract: Regioselectively substituted cellulose esters having a plurality of aryl-acyl substituents and a plurality of alkyl-acyl substituents are disclosed along with methods for making the same. Such cellulose esters may be suitable for use in optical films, such as optical films having certain Nz values, ?A optical films, and/or +C optical films. Optical films prepared employing such cellulose esters have a variety of commercial applications, such as, for example, as compensation films in liquid crystal displays and/or waveplates in creating circular polarized light used in 3-D technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Eastman Chemical Company
    Inventors: Charles Michael Buchanan, Michael Eugene Donelson, Elizabeth Guzman-Morales, Peter Borden Mackenzie, Bin Wang
  • Patent number: 9927660
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device in which even in the case of using a photo-alignment technique, excellent afterimage characteristics can be stably obtained. Provided is a liquid crystal display device including a TFT substrate having an alignment film, an opposed substrate which is arranged to face the TFT substrate and on which an alignment film is formed, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the alignment films, wherein the alignment films are materials that can provide a liquid crystal alignment restraining force by irradiating polarized light, and the ratio of oxygen atoms on the surface of the alignment film is higher than that in the alignment film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuo Imanishi, Yosuke Hyodo, Chikae Matsui, Hidehiro Sonoda, Noboru Kunimatsu
  • Patent number: 9920249
    Abstract: A liquid crystal composition, a liquid crystal film and a display device are provided. The liquid crystal composition can be uniformly aligned with no problems such as dewetting in an operation of aligning horizontally alignable liquid crystals. Also, a state of the aligned liquid crystal compound can be stably maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Dae Hee Lee, Sin Young Kim, Da Mi Lee, Moon Soo Park
  • Patent number: 9904118
    Abstract: A frame sealant and a process for preparing the same, and a liquid crystal display panel and a liquid display containing the frame sealant. The frame sealant comprises a curing resin, an anion exchange resin, a photoinitiator, a heat curing agent, a coupling agent, an organic filler, and an inorganic filler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ang Xiao
  • Patent number: 9903990
    Abstract: Provided are a pressure-sensitive adhesive, a polarizing plate, and a liquid crystal display device. The pressure-sensitive adhesive may be used to provide a polarizing plate which has a tensile modulus that varies in a thickness direction, and for example, which has a smaller thickness and a lighter weight, and also satisfies all of the physical properties required for the polarizing plate such as durability, water resistance, workability and light leakage preventability, and a liquid crystal display device including the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Soo Yoon, No Ma Kim, In Ho Hwang, In Kyu Park, Min Joon Kim
  • Patent number: 9874772
    Abstract: A flexible display and method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the flexible display includes a display panel configured to display images, a window substrate disposed on a first surface of the display panel, and a lower passivation film attached to a second surface of the display panel opposing the first surface. The flexible display can also include a lower adhesive layer interposed between the display panel and the lower passivation film. The lower adhesive layer can include a plurality of isolated-pattern portions and a peripheral portion surrounding the isolated-pattern portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youn Joon Kim, Jung Hun Lee, Sang Jo Lee, Jusuck Lee, Kyung Min Choi
  • Patent number: 9816011
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pressure sensitive adhesive composition, a protective film for optical elements, an optical element and a liquid crystal display device. The present invention may provide a pressure sensitive adhesive composition and a protective film for optical elements, having a high peel force at a low rate and a low peel force at a high rate, the balance of which is excellently maintained and showing excellent wettablity to an adherend, durability, repeelability, transparency and antistatic performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Kee Young Kim, Jeong Min Ha, No Ma Kim