Patents Examined by Gerald J Sufleta, II
  • Patent number: 11906842
    Abstract: An optical film for a back light unit that includes an array of light emitting diodes. The optical film includes a substrate, and a plurality of regions of spatially modulated microstructures on at least one side of the substrate. The spatially modulated microstructures have different sizes and/or shapes configured to create a gradient structure within each region. The gradient structure within each region is constructed and arranged to cause more spreading of light when positioned directly above an individual light emitting diode and less spreading of light at locations not directly above an individual light emitting diode. Within the back light unit, the gradient structure converts light beams emitted by the respective light emitting diode at different angles into a more uniform and higher on-axis luminance upon exiting the back light unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: BrightView Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer Aspell, Thomas A. Rinehart, Bing Shen, Kenneth L. Walker
  • Patent number: 11906772
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed that relate to backlight modules, displays including a backlight module, and methods for assembling a backlight module. In one example, a backlight module for a display comprises light sources affixed to a printed circuit and a light guide plate. An adhesive affixes the printed circuit to the light guide plate. The light guide plate comprises a body and a plurality of projections extending from the body, with the plurality of projections retaining two or more of the light sources between the projections and the body of the light guide plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Nalini Kanth Kurumaddali
  • Patent number: 11898733
    Abstract: A solid state lighting (SSL) with a solid state emitter (SSE) having thermally conductive projections extending into an air channel, and methods of making and using such SSLs. The thermally conductive projections can be fins, posts, or other structures configured to transfer heat into a fluid medium, such as air. The projections can be electrical contacts between the SSE and a power source. The air channel can be oriented generally vertically such that air in the channel warmed by the SSE flows upward through the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Scott E. Sills
  • Patent number: 11880105
    Abstract: A backlight module and a display apparatus are provided. The backlight module includes a lamp panel, multiple light-emitting elements, an encapsulation layer, and a fill-light structure. The lamp panel has multiple backlight regions and multiple fill-light regions each arranged between two adjacent backlight regions. The lamp panel has an integral structure. The multiple light-emitting elements are arranged in an array on each of the multiple backlight regions. A distance between two adjacent light-emitting elements disposed on both sides of the fill-light region is greater than a distance between two adjacent light-emitting elements disposed on a same side of the fill-light region. The encapsulation layer is disposed on the lamp panel and covers the multiple light-emitting elements. The fill-light structure is configured to adjust a tone parameter of the fill-light region to be within a tone-parameter range of the multiple backlight regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Xiaogang Hu, Haijiang Yuan
  • Patent number: 11874562
    Abstract: A component for dissipating heat of a device, a backlight module, and a display panel are disclosed. The component for dissipating heat of the device includes a first elastic body and a heat dissipation apparatus, and a first temperature threshold is set. The component for dissipating heat of the device dissipates heat of the device and ensures heat insulation of the device by a physical method, and does not include a sensor or a logic circuit. Therefore, it has low cost and eco-friendly applications, and does not consume electrical power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignees: HUIZHOU CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS DISPLAY CO., LTD., TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shixin Zhou
  • Patent number: 11876082
    Abstract: A backlight circuit includes a lamp panel and a plurality of electron microscope assemblies. The lamp panel includes a driving substrate and a plurality of light-emitting chips on one side of the driving substrate. The electron microscope assemblies are disposed on first sides, away from the driving substrate, of the light-emitting chips in a one-to-one correspondence manner. Each electron microscope assembly includes a transparent electrode shield, an electrolyte, and an electrode plate. The transparent electrode shields are disposed on a first side of the driving substrate. The light-emitting chips are positioned in the transparent electrode shields. The electrode plates are disposed on first sides, away from the driving substrate, of the transparent electrode shields. The electrolytes are filled between the transparent electrode shields and the electrode plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Guangping Wei, Yaohui Qin, Yiyao Xu, Caiyu Song, Rongrong Li
  • Patent number: 11868002
    Abstract: A backlight module and a display device having same are provided in the present disclosure. The backlight module includes a plurality of backplanes that are combined, where a plurality of light-emitting units are disposed. Each of the light-emitting units includes a first light-emitting unit located in the combining areas of the adjacent backplanes, and a second light-emitting unit located in the other areas of the backplanes. In at least one backplane, a first resistance between the first light-emitting unit and the corresponding power source high-potential signal input terminal is smaller than a second resistance between the second light-emitting unit and the corresponding power source high-potential signal input terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xingyi Liu
  • Patent number: 11867375
    Abstract: A radiation-emitting semiconductor chip includes a semiconductor layer sequence having an active layer for generating electromagnetic radiation. The semiconductor chip also includes a reflector at a side surface of the semiconductor layer sequence having a reflector surface facing the semiconductor layer sequence and extending obliquely with respect to the active layer. The semiconductor chip further includes a top surface extending transversely with respect to the reflector surface and having a first emission region. The semiconductor chip additionally includes a further reflector situated opposite the reflector. The semiconductor chip is configured such that electromagnetic radiation generated in the active layer during operation is reflected by the reflector and emerges from the semiconductor chip via the emission region of the top surface. A main emission direction of the emerging electromagnetic radiation together with the active layer form an emergence angle of between 30° and 80° inclusive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: AMS-OSRAM INTERNATIONAL GMBH
    Inventors: Laura Kreiner, Bruno Jentzsch
  • Patent number: 11858655
    Abstract: An aviation integrated optics and lighting unit for securing to a light receptacle of an aircraft. The aviation integrated optics and lighting unit comprises a housing, a light-emitting device, and an optical sensor. The light-emitting device is secured to the housing. The optical sensor is positioned in the housing and is configured to capture optical data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Appareo Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Matt Dondoneau, Kristofer Garberg, Nicholas L. Butts
  • Patent number: 11860477
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a back plate; an optical film disposed on the back plate; and a support module disposed between the back plate and the optical film, wherein the support module includes a base, and the base includes a hollow space and a curved surface away from the back plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ming-Tien Wang, Chin-Tu Tsai, Chih-Hung Hsu, Chih-Hung Liu, Hsiang-Yu Juan
  • Patent number: 11860476
    Abstract: The invention refers to a diffusion plate and a backlight module having the diffusion plate. The diffusion plate comprises a plate-body and a plurality of pyramid-like structures arranged on a surface of the plate-body. Each pyramid-like structure has a bottom surface, a first convex portion and a second convex portion. The first convex portion and the second convex portion have different vertex angles, and therefore the pyramid-like structure can also be called as “pyramid-like structure with multiple vertex angles”. The pyramid-like structures with multiple vertex angles can increase the light splitting points, which can improve the light splitting effect of the diffusion plate. The light source of a single light-emitting diode can be divided into eight point-light sources (light splitting points) or more, which is double the number of light splitting points compared with the traditional pyramid structure with single vertex, and thus can greatly improve the light diffusion effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Entire Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yan-Zuo Chen, Hung Han Kao, Tsung-Chang Yang
  • Patent number: 11852918
    Abstract: Provided is a light source device including: a housing body; a light source substrate located over and accommodated in the housing body; a plurality of inorganic light-emitting elements over the light source substrate; an optical sheet located over the plurality of inorganic light-emitting elements, accommodated in the housing body, and spaced away from the light source substrate; and at least one spacer accommodated in the housing body and in contact with a bottom surface of the optical sheet. A region of an upper surface of the light source substrate overlapping the plurality of inorganic light-emitting elements does not overlap the at least one spacer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Rina Yamamoto, Ken Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 11852917
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a backlight module and a preparation method therefor, and a display panel. According to the present invention, solid white ink is attached to a second base plate, and then the solid white ink corresponding to positions of bonding pad units is removed by means of laser engraving, so as to prevent the screen-printing white ink from damaging the second base plate. Aligned assembling is performed on a first assembly and a second assembly using a vacuum pairing device. The vacuum pairing device may be reused in other preparation processes of the display panel. Therefore, the device investment can be reduced, and the production costs can be lowered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bin Zhao, Juncheng Xiao, Xiaodan Lin
  • Patent number: 11855243
    Abstract: A light-emitting device is applicable to a backlight module. The light-emitting device includes a substrate, a light-emitting diode (LED) and an encapsulation body. The encapsulation body is on the substrate and covers the LED. The encapsulation body includes a base and a lens. The base has a base surface. The lens has a lens surface. The lens surface conforms to a cubic Bezier curve. The cubic Bezier curve has a start point and an end point. The start point of the cubic Bezier curve is at the base surface. The end point of the cubic Bezier curve corresponds to the center of the LED. The lens surface is provided with a concave portion at the end point. The lens increases the light-emitting angle of the LED, so that the spacing between light-emitting devices can be increased, thereby reducing the number of light-emitting devices to be used and the costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: WISTRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bin Luo, Rui-Hua Wang, Chih-Chou Chou
  • Patent number: 11846837
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display device, including a display panel provided with an electromagnetic induction layer and a backlight module provided with a quantum dot film The quantum dot film contains a plurality of second-color quantum dots, a plurality of third-color quantum dots, and a plurality of magnetic particles. The electromagnetic induction layer is configured to generate a directional magnetic field to make the magnetic particles move directionally in the quantum dot film, and to make a density of the second-color quantum dots and the third-color quantum dots located in an edge area of the quantum dot film greater than a density of the second-color quantum dots and the third-color quantum dots located in a central area of the quantum dot film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: HUIZHOU CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xinyu Wang, Guofeng Kuang, Yuqing Geng
  • Patent number: 11841577
    Abstract: A backlight module includes: a plurality of lamp groups arranged in an array on a base substrate, each lamp group comprises a plurality of mini light emitting diodes, a plurality of lead wires in the lamp group, an external anode and an external cathode; a plurality of anode wires and cathode wires electrically connected to external anodes and external cathodes of a plurality of rows of lamp groups, respectively, wherein in at least some of the plurality of cathode wires, one same cathode wire is electrically connected to the external cathodes of the lamp groups located in different rows. Same-type anode wires comprise a plurality of anode wires to which same-wire lamp groups are connected, and orthographic projections of the same-type anode wires on the base substrate do not overlap with an orthographic projection of one same lead wire in the lamp group on the base substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhiyong Wang, Yong Song, Lingyun Shi
  • Patent number: 11835817
    Abstract: A light source module including a light guide plate, a light-emitting assembly and an optical film is provided. The light guide plate has a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, a first side surface, a second side surface opposite to the first side surface, and a light incident surface connecting the first surface, the second surface, the first side surface and the second side surface. The light-emitting assembly is disposed beside the light incident surface and is adapted to provide a light beam toward the light incident surface. The optical film is disposed on the second surface. The optical film has a light-emitting surface parallel to the second surface and away from the light guide plate. The light-emitting surface includes a first edge region adjacent to the first side surface, a second edge region adjacent to the second side surface, and a central region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Wei-Ju Chen, Chin-Lung Chen
  • Patent number: 11835818
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display apparatus and a light source apparatus thereof. The light source apparatus includes a reflective sheet in which a through hole is formed, a light source disposed in the through hole and including a light emitting diode, and a substrate to which the light emitting diode is attached and including a protection layer disposed on one side facing the reflective sheet. The protection layer includes a first protection layer disposed adjacent to the light emitting diode, and a second protection layer having a lower reflectance than the first protection layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sungyeol Kim, Chunsoon Park, Kyehoon Lee
  • Patent number: 11833970
    Abstract: The disclosure refers to an internal rearview device (1) adapted for use with a motor vehicle, comprising: a rearview element comprising at least one of a reflective element (10) and a display element, with the rearview element having a normal state and at least one anti-glare state, in which a glare experienced by a driver of the vehicle as a result of light reflected at the rearview element is reduced; a bezel (32) surrounding the rearview element and being surrounded by a housing (60); control means comprising sensor means connected to at least one printed circuit board (40, 50), which is arranged between the housing (60) and the rearview element, for controlling at least the state of the rearview element; and a mount assembly (70) which is configured to attach the housing (60) to the vehicle; wherein the perimeter edge (31) of the bezel (32) is exposed to and is viewable by the driver of the vehicle when said device (1) is normally mounted in the vehicle; said perimeter edge (31) comprises a curved surfac
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Motherson Innovations Company Limited
    Inventors: Andreas Herrmann, Chang Kyun Han, Cheol Ho Yim, Ho Jin Huh, Won Sik Hong, Geon Young Choi, Chang Hwan Lim, Freshipali Ali
  • Patent number: 11835819
    Abstract: A reflective sheet comprises a plurality of perforations for extending a plurality of light-emitting elements therein, the reflective sheet further comprises a central line passing through its center, at least one first dimming area, and at least one second dimming area, and the distance between the at least one first dimming area and the central line is smaller than the distance between the at least one second dimming area and the central line. The light-emitting elements are distributed in the at least one first dimming area and the at least one second dimming area, the at least one first dimming area has a first dimming means, the at least one second dimming area has a second dimming means, the dimension of the first dimming means is different from the dimension of the second dimming means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Radiat Opto-Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Tzu-Ching Yang, Ya-Yun Hsieh, Pei-Ling Kao, Pei-Fen Hou