Patents Examined by Huyen Ngo
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Patent number: 10386673Abstract: A liquid crystal display device and a liquid crystal display module are disclosed. The liquid crystal display module comprises a backlight unit, a liquid crystal display panel, and a quantum rod film between the backlight unit and the liquid crystal display panel. The liquid crystal display panel comprises an upper substrate, a lower substrate, a liquid crystal being filled between the upper and lower substrate, and an upper polarizer arranged at the outer side of the upper substrate, that is the light-emitting side of the liquid crystal display panel. The quantum rod film is arranged between the lower substrate and the backlight unit. The liquid crystal display module adopts the quantum rod material that may emit polarized light to replace the conventional color filter and the lower polarizer to achieve the purposes of high contrast, high color saturation, low power consumption and low cost for the color liquid crystal display.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2015Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yong Fan
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Patent number: 10283644Abstract: A thin film transistor includes a first oxide semiconductor, a source electrode, a drain electrode, a gate insulating film and a gate electrode. A second oxide semiconductor layer is between the first oxide semiconductor layer and the source electrode. A third oxide semiconductor layer is between the first oxide semiconductor layer and the drain electrode. The content ratio of oxygen/Indium in each of the second semiconductor layer and the third oxide semiconductor layer is equal to or larger than that of the first semiconductor layer. A thickness of each of the second semiconductor layer and the third oxide semiconductor layer is bigger than that of the first semiconductor layer.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2016Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Isao Suzumura, Norihiro Uemura, Takeshi Noda, Hidekazu Miyake, Yohei Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 10216043Abstract: Embodiments relate to a liquid crystal display and a manufacturing method thereof, and more particularly, to a liquid crystal display including an alignment layer pattern and a manufacturing method thereof. The liquid crystal display includes a lower panel including a first alignment layer and a signal line. An upper panel faces the lower panel and uncovers an end portion of the signal line of the lower panel. A sealant is positioned between the lower panel and the upper panel and couples the lower panel and the upper panel with each other. The first alignment layer includes a first portion and a second portion that are separated from each other in a first direction, and the sealant is disposed between the first portion and the second portion and separated from the first portion and the second portion in the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2016Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sang-Myoung Lee, Seung Jun Yu, Do Yeong Park, Young Goo Song, Sang Woo Whangbo
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Patent number: 10209567Abstract: Disclosed is a display device with a capacitive touch panel including a laminate between a display panel and a cover layer, the laminate having a viewing-side polarizing plate; a first conductive layer, a dielectric layer and a second conductive layer constituting a capacitive touch sensor; and a substrate, in which the first conductive layer, dielectric layer, second conductive layer, and substrate are positioned closer to the cover layer than is the viewing-side polarizing plate, the first conductive layer is formed on one surface of the substrate, the dielectric layer is formed on a surface of the first conductive layer opposite to the substrate side, the second conductive layer is formed on a surface of the dielectric layer opposite to the first conductive layer side, the substrate has an optical film with a phase difference of (2n?1)?/4, where n is a positive integer, the viewing-side polarizing plate has a polarizing film, and a slow axis of the optical film intersects a transmission axis of the polarizType: GrantFiled: November 28, 2017Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: ZEON CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuya Toyoshima, Shunsuke Yamanaka
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Patent number: 10182202Abstract: A display apparatus with a panel supporting portion includes a supporting body that has a plate shape and supports an end edge portion of an optical sheet. The supporting body includes a panel supporting portion in an outside end edge portion. The panel supporting portion supports an end edge portion of the display panel, and has a rib on an inside end edge portion and a fitting portion that fits one position regulating portion of an optical sheet. The rib has a cut-out portion in which a portion of the rib that corresponds to an end of the fitting portion is cut out so that a height is gradually lowered toward the fitting portion. Load application to the display panel on both end portions of the fitting portion is suppressed by the cut-out portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2015Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tsuyoshi Ozeki
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Patent number: 10168593Abstract: Disclosed are a liquid crystal display panel and an array substrate thereof. The array substrate includes a substrate body, a first metal layer, a first dielectric layer, and a second dielectric layer, an insulating layer, and an electrode layer. The first metal layer, the first dielectric layer, and the second metal layer form a first capacitor; the second metal layer, the insulating layer, and the electrode layer form a second capacitor; the electrode layer is connected with the first metal layer through a channel hole penetrating through the first dielectric layer and the insulating layer, so that the first capacitor is connected with the second capacitor in parallel. Through the above way, the area of a gate driver on array (GOA) circuit on the array substrate can be reduced, which is beneficial for the narrow frame design of the liquid crystal display panel.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2015Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Co., LtdInventor: Sikun Hao
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Patent number: 10156919Abstract: An in-cell touch display structure includes: an upper substrate, a lower substrate, a display material layer configured between the upper and lower substrates, and a thin film transistor and sensing electrode layer. The thin film transistor and sensing electrode layer includes a gate line sub-layer having a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of connection segments separated by the gate lines, and a source line sub-layer having a plurality of source lines, a plurality of sensing conductor lines, and a plurality of sensing conductor segments separated by the source lines and the sensing conductor lines, wherein part of the sensing conductor segments and part of the connection segments are electrically connected together to form a plurality of sensing conductor blocks.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2017Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: SUPERC-TOUCH CORPORATIONInventor: Hsiang-Yu Lee
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Patent number: 10120239Abstract: In a provided vertical alignment method, a pixel region, and the pixel region is divided into four sub regions of equal sizes which each is designed to be a square, and a pattern unit on the mask comprises a photic region corresponding to one sub region and a shading region corresponding to the other three sub regions in shape and size. The mask is employed to implement linear UV light irradiation to one sub region according to a certain irradiation angle to obtain a alignment direction of the one sub region, and then, the position of the mask and the certain irradiation angle of the irradiation are maintained to be unchanged. By rotating the pixel region 90° with three times, and the irradiation is implemented to the other three sub regions. Accordingly, the four sub regions have four alignment directions different from one another.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2016Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Chao Ma, Xiaolong Ma, Yungjui Lee
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Patent number: 10095071Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is provided, which includes a transistor including an oxide semiconductor layer, a resin layer, a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer having an opening, and a liquid crystal layer. One of the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer is a pixel electrode layer which is electrically connected to the transistor, and the other of the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer is a common electrode layer. The liquid crystal display device is configured to display an image by a lateral electric field mode.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2016Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuji Ishitani, Daisuke Kubota
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Patent number: 10088720Abstract: A thin film transistor (TFT) array substrate, including: a gate line and a data line, which are formed on a substrate, and a sub-pixel unit defined by intersecting of the gate line and the data line, wherein, the sub-pixel unit comprises a thin film transistor device, a first pixel electrode layer and a second pixel electrode layer; the first pixel electrode layer is insulated from the second pixel electrode layer; the second pixel electrode layer is located over the first pixel electrode layer, and the pattern of strip-like pixel electrodes of the second pixel electrode layer overlap up-and-down with the pattern of the first pixel electrode layer; and the strip-like pixel electrodes make a tilt angle with an initial orientation of liquid crystals, and a gate line is parallel to the strip-like pixel electrodes close to the gate line.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2017Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Rongge Sun
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Patent number: 10080316Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electronic display assembly including a backlight that is positioned to illuminate a liquid crystal display, and a novel cooling mechanism in the form of a thermal plate that is located and configured to transfer heat from the backlight to a thermally conductive housing of the electronic display assembly. The thermal plate is preferably placed in conductive thermal communication with the backlight and with the thermally conductive housing for this purpose. One or more air flow apertures may pass through the thermal plate. A convective cooling loop may also be provided, which cooling loop may include a fan that is located to move cooling air over the thermal plate and/or though one or more apertures in the thermal plate. Both a top and bottom thermal plate may be employed in some exemplary embodiments.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2016Date of Patent: September 18, 2018Assignee: Manufacturing Resources International, Inc.Inventors: William Dunn, Don Le, Ware Bedell
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Patent number: 10048429Abstract: An illuminator apparatus uses positional offset of an array of light emitting areas and a lens array to control resulting direction and diffusion of a combined overall beam of light. Specifically, translation of the lens array relative to the light emitting area array enables steering of the overall beam, and rotation of lens array relative to the light emitting area array controls overall beam divergence.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2014Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Joseph Ford, William Maxwell Mellette
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Patent number: 10047933Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a frame for fixating a component of a backlight source to a rectangular back plate. A long border of the frame has a first arc-shaped structure configured such that a central position of the long border is bent inwards relative to two ends of the long border. Each short border of the frame has a second arc-shaped structure configured such that two ends of the each short border are bent inwards relative to a central position of the each short border. First connection members for engagement with the back plate are disposed at the central position of the long border, and positions, close to the two ends, of the long border, respectively, and second connection members for engagement with the back plate are disposed at the central position of each short border, and positions, close to the two ends, of the each short border, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI BOE DISPLAY LIGHTING CO., LTD.Inventors: Qiping Zhang, Wenbo Sun, Yanfeng Li, Tongmin Liu, Xing Wang, Yang Yang
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Patent number: 10042224Abstract: The present disclosure provides a touch display panel, comprising: a first substrate; a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate; a display medium layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; a sensing electrode layer disposed on the first substrate; and an electrostatic releasing layer disposed on the second substrate, and a sheet resistance of the electrostatic releasing layer is 109-1012?/?. The present disclosure also discloses a touch display device using the said touch display panel.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2016Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATIONInventors: Miao-Ting Chen, Hsi-Chien Chen, Huei-Ying Chen, Hsing-Yuan Hsu, I-An Yao, Po-Yang Chen, Kuo-Jung Wu, Chen-Wei Chi
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Patent number: 10031390Abstract: A display device including a first base substrate, gate lines disposed on the first base substrate and extending in a first direction, parasitic capacitance electrodes coupled to the gate lines, data lines extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, transistors, each coupled to one of the gate lines and coupled to one of the data lines, and pixels sequentially arranged in the first direction, each of the pixels coupled to a corresponding one of the transistors, respectively, in which each of the transistors includes a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode, and wherein widths of the parasitic capacitance electrodes in adjacent pixels measured along the first direction are different from each other.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2016Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ji Sun Kim, Jong Hee Kim, Young Wan Seo, Jae Keun Lim
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Patent number: 10012876Abstract: A blue phase liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display device.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2015Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., LtdInventor: Yuejun Tang
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Patent number: 10012862Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal cell, comprising the steps of: providing frame-sealing glue between an array substrate and a transparent plate of a color filter substrate; irradiating the frame-sealing glue from a side of the color filter substrate facing away from the array substrate with ultraviolet light until the frame-sealing glue is cured, so as to fixedly connect the transparent plate and the array substrate; and forming a light-shielding layer on a side of the transparent plate facing away from the array substrate, wherein the light-shielding layer has a projection along a vertical direction covering the frame-sealing glue. A liquid crystal cell manufactured through such a method has superior display effects.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2015Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignees: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yuejun Tang
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Patent number: 10015455Abstract: The optical apparatus includes multiple reflective light modulators, an illumination optical system and multiple dichroic surfaces separating a light flux from the illumination optical system into multiple color lights to introduce them to the light modulators and combining the multiple color lights reflected by the light modulators. The optical system includes a condenser lens disposed between an area in which light source images are formed and the multiple reflective light modulators. The light modulators are arranged such that their long sides are parallel to a first section, and a condition of f/D1>f/D2 is satisfied where f represents a focal length of the condenser lens, D1 and D2 represent maximum effective widths of the areas in which the light source images are formed in the first section and in a second section parallel to an optical axis and orthogonal to the first section.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2015Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takehito Kawasumi
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Patent number: 10001677Abstract: A touch display panel and a display apparatus are provided. The touch display panel includes: a first substrate, a second substrate, a common electrode layer, a touch electrode layer and a touch electrode wire layer. The common electrode layer is an entire piece of electrode; thus, respective display units may be ensured to have the same common voltage during a display driving, thereby solving the conventional problem of image flicker and non-uniform display of the display panel due to different common voltages in the respective display units caused by different resistances of the block-shaped electrodes in the common electrode layer. Moreover, the touch electrodes in the touch electrode layer are metal grid electrodes. Hence, the resistances of the touch electrodes are reduced and a touch sensitivity of the touch display panel is improved, while a high light transmittance of the touch display panel is ensured.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2016Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignees: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yungang Sun, Chunmei He, Gujun Li, Kang Yang
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Patent number: 9995966Abstract: A display panel and a display apparatus are disclosed, the display panel including: a first substrate; a second substrate arranged to face the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second substrates; and a retardation compensation layer including a grid pattern which is provided on one or more of the first and second substrates, and is configured to compensate for optical anisotropy of the liquid crystal layer and includes a first parameter in a first direction and a second parameter in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. A structure for compensation for optical retardation is provided within the display panel to replace a conventional viewing angle compensation film, and thus the panel manufacturing process is shortened and a cost reduction is achieved.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2016Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Young Mo Kang