Patents Examined by Gwendolyn Blackwell
  • Patent number: 9146427
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a norbornene monomer, a polynorbornene derivative, a liquid crystal alignment film including the same, and a liquid crystal display device including the same. More particularly, the present invention relates to a norbornene monomer, a polynorbornene derivative, a liquid crystal alignment film including the same, and a liquid crystal display device including the same, which have an alignment property by photoreaction, excellent thermal stability and photoreactivity, the increased photo-reaction rate and reliability of the alignment film, thereby showing high manufacturing process efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Dai-Seung Choi, Heon Kim, Sung-Ho Chun, Sung-Joon Oh, Dong-Woo Yoo, Yu-Chan Kang
  • Patent number: 9102126
    Abstract: A readily removable film containing a substrate layer (A) and a readily removable layer (B), wherein the substrate layer (A) contains a thermoplastic resin, the readily removable layer (B) contains from 30 to 60% by weight of a mixture of a crystalline polypropylene resin having a degree of crystallinity of at least 65% and a thermoplastic resin immiscible with the crystalline polypropylene resin, and from 40 to 70% by weight of a fine powder, in which the thermoplastic resin immiscible with the crystalline polypropylene resin is blended in a ratio of from 105 to 300 parts by weight relative to 100 parts by weight of the crystalline polypropylene resin, and the readily removable layer (B) is stretched at least monoaxially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: YUPO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Suzuki, Kou Nakamura, Kazuyuki Kimura, Seiichiro Iida
  • Patent number: 9090824
    Abstract: A polarizing plate includes two protective films and a polarizer provided between the two protective films, and the polarizer has a thickness of 3 ?m to 18 ?m, at least one of the protective films has a thickness of 3 ?m to 40 ?m and contains at least one resin and a compound in an amount of 1 part by mass to 20 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the resin, the compound having at least one hydrogen-donating group capable of forming a hydrogen bond and a ratio of molecular weight to number of aromatic rings of 300 or less, and the polarizing plate has a thickness of 15 ?m to 70 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobutaka Fukagawa, Yu Naito, Akio Tamura, Yutaka Nozoe, Hiroshi Inada
  • Patent number: 9085124
    Abstract: A heat sealable polypropylene resin laminate film having good toughness and heat sealing strength and energy sufficient for packaging heavy goods, mainly fruits and vegetables, and a package made of such film, is a laminate film having three or more layers, a substrate layer made of a crystalline polypropylene resin, a heat sealable layer having a melting point of not more than 150° C., and an intermediate layer. The product of the tensile modulus of elasticity (GPa) in both orthogonal directions of the film is 3.1-6.0 (GPa)2, and the heat sealing energy is not less than 11N·cm/15 mm when the film is sealed, such that the heat sealing strength of the film is not less than 8N/15 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: Toyo Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Kawai, Hirokazu Oogi, Naonobu Oda, Tadashi Nakaya, Tooru Imai, Yuka Sako
  • Patent number: 9079374
    Abstract: A sealable and peelable film comprising a four layer coextrudate comprising a core layer contributing predominantly towards the thickness of the film, a first sealing layer provided on one side of the core layer and a second sealing layer, or alternatively a laminating layer, provided on the other side of the core layer, and the film comprising a peeling layer in between the first sealing layer and the core layer and/or in between the second sealing layer, or alternatively the laminating layer, and the core layer, and wherein the peeling layer is adjacent the first sealing layer and/or the second sealing layer and/or the laminating layer, and wherein the relative thickness of the peeling layer and its adjacent sealing and/or lamination layer (p:s/l ratio) is from 1:10 to 5:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Innovia Films Limited
    Inventors: Jonathan Hewitt, Martin Richard Cockroft
  • Patent number: 9069210
    Abstract: A display device includes a first substrate, a first alignment layer disposed on the first substrate, a second substrate, a second alignment layer disposed on the second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first and second alignment layers and having liquid crystal molecules. At least one of the first and second alignment layers includes an initial alignment layer and a pretilting layer including a self-assembled monolayer disposed on the initial alignment layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyosik Kim, Su Jeong Kim, Hokil Oh, Hoon Kim, Kichul Shin, Jae-Hoon Jung
  • Patent number: 9068072
    Abstract: CPVC pipe in diameters in the range from 15 mm (0.5 inch) to 15.24 cm (6 ins), to carry hot and cold aqueous streams under 690 KPa (100 psi) pressure and 82.2° C. (180° F.) in continuous service, is extruded from a compound in which the CPVC has a high Cl content in the range from 66.5%-70%, when modified with either of two specific impact high rubber modifiers in an amount greater than 5 parts but no more than 6 parts per 100 parts of CPVC. Extruded CPVC pipe provides a HDB measured according to ASTM D2837-01 which is 25% or more greater than that required for commercial pipe as specified in ASTM D2846. As a result, both SDR-11 and SDR-13.5 pipe are produced which provide a HDB of at least 1250 psi (8.62 MPa) at the 100,000 hr intercept.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Lubrizol Advanced Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Arthur L. Backman, Rocco A. Mango, Robert S. Newby, Andrew M. Olah
  • Patent number: 9052441
    Abstract: Disclosed is a dual layer prism sheet including two patterned prism sheets adhered to each other with an adhesive layer interposed therebetween. The adhesive layer includes a polymeric adhesive and a lubricant. A liquid crystal display including the dual layer prism sheet is also disclosed. Each pattern on the prism sheet is arranged to make a predetermined angle with a liquid crystal panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-Hwan Hong, Jeong-Uk Heo, Ho-Yun Byun, Boo-Kan Ki, Min-Oh Choi
  • Patent number: 9040129
    Abstract: A protective film to a polarizer including a cellulose acylate and satisfying the following requirement (1) or (2): (1): The surface of the film has a pH of from 3.0 to 4.5. (2): The surface of the film has a pH of more than 4.5 and at most 6.0, and the film has a moisture permeability of at least 2800 g/m2·day.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobutaka Fukagawa, Yu Naito, Masato Nagura, Yoshio Ishii
  • Patent number: 9023440
    Abstract: The invention provides a liquid crystal alignment film, a method for preparing the same and a liquid crystal display device comprising the same. The alignment film comprises a polyimide obtained by reacting a compound as shown in Formula 2 or Formula 3 with an aromatic diamine as shown in Formula 1, wherein the R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R1?, R2?, R3?, R4?, R5?, R6?, R7?, or R8? is H, an alkyl, an aralkyl or a haloalkyl, and the Ar is an aryl. The liquid crystal alignment film has a tactic spatial configuration, decreases the ?-? attractive interaction between the polyimide backbones, allows the directional and homogenous alignment of the liquid crystal molecules on the surface of the polyimide, and thereby increases the contrast of the liquid crystal display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Beijing Boe Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ang Xiao, Haibo Zhu, Sunghun Song, Wei Li, Zhiyong Liu
  • Patent number: 9011994
    Abstract: A gas-barrier multilayer film including: a base member; and at least one thin film layer formed on at least one surface of the base member, wherein at least one layer of the thin film layer(s) satisfies at least one of requirements (A) and (B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Akira Hasegawa, Toshiya Kuroda, Masamitsu Ishitobi, Takashi Sanada, Toshihiko Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9011987
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display including a first substrate; a second substrate facing the first substrate; a thin film transistor disposed on the first substrate; an organic layer disposed on the thin film transistor; a pixel electrode disposed on the organic layer; a lower alignment layer disposed on the pixel electrode; a common electrode disposed on the second substrate; and an upper alignment layer disposed on the common electrode, wherein a first free radical included in the organic layer and a second free radical included in at least one of the lower alignment layer and the upper alignment layer are radical bonded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Hyup Lee, Sang Gyun Kim, Jang-Hyun Kim, Tae Hoon Kim, Seung Wook Nam, Keun Chan Oh, Taek Joon Lee
  • Patent number: 9011993
    Abstract: An optical compensation structure and a display device are disclosed. The former comprises a front side polarizer and a rear side polarizer arranged at both sides of a VA liquid crystal unit; the front side polarizer includes a front side polarization unit and a first front side TAC film; the absorption axis of the front side polarization unit is perpendicular to the horizontal normal of the VA liquid crystal unit; the rear side polarizer includes a rear side polarization unit and a biaxial film; and the absorption axis of the rear side polarization unit is parallel to the horizontal normal. The region having serious dark-state light leakage can be transferred from a horizontal viewing angle to a vertical viewing angle, which improves the display effect. Meanwhile, there is no addition of the number of layers of the biaxial film which reduces the cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chih-Tsung Kang, Bo Hai
  • Patent number: 9005722
    Abstract: A color material dispersion liquid comprising a color material represented by the following general formula (I), a dispersant, and a solvent having a solubility of the color material of 0.1 (mg/10 g solvent) or less at 23° C., having excellent solvent resistance and excellent electrical reliability; a color resin composition for color filters, which can form a color layer that has high contrast, excellent solvent resistance and excellent electrical reliability; a color filter formed with the color resin composition for color filters; a liquid crystal display device having the color filter; and an organic light-emitting display device having the color filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masato Okada
  • Patent number: 8999467
    Abstract: The present invention relates to cured coatings comprising: at least one filler, a polyalkoxysilane matrix, and at least one cured aminosilane in an amount between 5.5 to 40.0 wt % of the total weight of the cured coating. These cured coatings can be used in optics or electronics, and in devices such as lamps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Nicolas Chechan, Matthieu Dhenaut, Virginie Mercier, Marcel Rene Bohmer
  • Patent number: 8999463
    Abstract: An anti-dazzling laminate made of an optical laminate including a light transparent base material and an anti-dazzling layer having a concavoconvex shape provided on the material. The laminate simultaneously satisfies formulae: 0?G100?15 (I), 0.1?Hs?5.0 (II), 0.3?Rz?1.8 (III) wherein G100 represents a scintillation value which is a standard deviation of a variation in brightness distribution at a resolution of 100 ppi measured on the surface of the laminate; Hs represents the surface haze value of the laminate; and Rz represents the average roughness of the concavoconvex shape of the anti-dazzling layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Mikami, Yukimitsu Iwata, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Takashi Kodama
  • Patent number: 8999462
    Abstract: The present invention provides a photosensitive monomer of which hydrogen atoms of benzene ring of a hard core are substituted by fluorine atoms to increase the electronegativity of the hard core, so that the curing voltage of the curing process is reduced. The photosensitive monomer of the present invention not only reduces the curing voltage and curing time of the curing process of liquid crystal panels, but also increases the pretilt angle of liquid crystal molecules to reduce the response time of a liquid crystal display, so that image sticking and MURA phenomenon are reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sikun Hao, Chung-Ching Hsieh, Chung Yi Chiu
  • Patent number: 8993076
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal additive, a liquid crystal composition and a liquid crystal panel thereof. The liquid crystal additive of the present invention has a higher clear point, so that adding the liquid crystal additive into a liquid crystal composition of a liquid crystal panel can omit the process of forming alignment films to reduce manufacturing costs and time of liquid crystal panels; meanwhile, the MURA phenomenon due to the different effects of liquid crystal molecules and liquid crystal reactive monomers on alignment films is avoided, so as to improve the uniformity of liquid crystal panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Houng-Chieh Lu
  • Patent number: 8986849
    Abstract: A hot stamped high strength part which is excellent in post painting anticorrosion property, which hot stamped high strength part has an alloy plating layer including an Al—Fe intermetallic compound phase on the surface of the steel sheet. The alloy plating layer is comprised from phases of a plurality of intermetallic compounds, a mean linear intercept length of crystal grains of a phase containing Al: 40 to 65 mass % among the phases of the plurality of intermetallic compounds is 3 to 20 ?m, an average value of thickness of the Al—Fe alloy plating layer is 10 to 50 ?m, and a ratio of the average value of thickness to the standard deviation of thickness of the Al—Fe alloy plating layer satisfies the following relationship: 0<standard deviation of thickness/average value of thickness?0.15.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Maki, Kazuhisa Kusumi, Masayuki Abe, Masao Kurosaki
  • Patent number: 8981108
    Abstract: An optical film including at least one compound represented by formula (1) is disclosed. In the formula, Y11, Y12 and Y13 each independently represent methine or a nitrogen atom; R11, R12 and R13 each independently represent formula (A), (B) or (C) or a hydrogen atom, provided that at least two of R11, R12 and R13 each independently represent formula (A), (B) or (C). In the formulae, L12, L22, and L32 each represent a 5-membered heterocyclic group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo Hamasaki, Hideyuki Nishikawa, Makoto Takahashi, Takashi Miyahara, Masuji Motoki, Masaaki Tsukase