Patents Examined by Ida M. Soward
  • Patent number: 11711943
    Abstract: Provided is a display panel including a main display area, a component area having a transmissive area, a peripheral area outside the main display area, a substrate, a bottom metal layer on the substrate, and defining an opening corresponding to the transmissive area, a valley portion adjacent to a boundary between the bottom metal layer and the transmissive area, and a thin-film encapsulation layer on the valley portion, and including an inorganic layer and an organic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyunghyun Choi, Seongjun Lee
  • Patent number: 11710694
    Abstract: Integrated circuit (IC) structures include transistor devices with interconnect structures, e.g., a source contact, drain contact, and/or gate contact. The interconnect structures have rounded top surfaces. Contouring the top surfaces of transistor contacts may decrease the likelihood of electrical shorting and may permit a larger volume of insulating dielectric between adjacent contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Ebubekir Dogan, Ramanan Ehamparam, Jiho Kang
  • Patent number: 11706963
    Abstract: A large-area display apparatus may include: a cover plate; a plurality of unit display panels arrayed on one surface of the cover plate, each of the unit display panels including a substrate; a display area defined at middle portions of the substrate; a non-display area around the display area; a pad portion disposed in the non-display area; a first terminal disposed outside the pad portion in the non-display area; and a second terminal apart from the first terminal disposed outside the pad portion in the non-display area; and a connecting member disposed between two unit display panels, the connecting member connecting the first terminals of the unit display panels and the second terminals of the unit display panels, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: MyungHo Ban, Dongik Kim, Subin Kim, BumSik Kim, KyungMin Kim
  • Patent number: 11706942
    Abstract: A display device includes: a substrate including a display area and a non-display area; a circuit portion including a first circuit portion and a second circuit portion on the non-display area; a valley portion separating the first circuit portion and the second circuit portion from each other; and a thin film encapsulation layer sealing the display area, the thin film encapsulation layer extending from the display area to the valley portion, and the first circuit portion is between the valley portion and the display area, the second circuit portion is at an outside of the valley portion, an internal layer on the first circuit portion includes a plurality of island portions that are apart from one another in a first direction and a second direction crossing the first direction, and an external layer on the second circuit portion includes at least one groove extending in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiho Bang, Wonsuk Choi
  • Patent number: 11696466
    Abstract: A 3D display apparatus in which a display panel has a curvature is provided. A lower barrier layer, an upper barrier layer and lenticular lenses may be sequentially stacked on the display panel. The lower barrier layer and the upper barrier layer may include openings corresponding pixel areas of the display panel, respectively. Each opening of the lower barrier layer and each opening of the upper barrier layer may be disposed on an imaginary line passing through the corresponding pixel area of the display panel and a setting region. Thus, in the 3D display apparatus, the quality of the realized 3D image may be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young Min Kim, Ju Seong Park, Hoon Kang, Keong Jin Lee, Myung Soo Park, Dong Yeon Kim, Se Wan Oh
  • Patent number: 11690247
    Abstract: A display panel, in which a main display area, and a component area including a plurality of pixel groups and a transmission area are defined, includes a substrate, an inorganic insulating layer disposed on the substrate, where a first hole is defined through the inorganic insulating layer to correspond to the transmission area, a plurality of main display elements disposed on the inorganic insulating layer in the main display area, and a plurality of auxiliary display elements disposed on the inorganic insulating layer and corresponding to the pixel groups, respectively. The substrate includes a first base layer, a first barrier layer, a second base layer, a compensation layer, and a second barrier layer, which are stacked one on another, and a refractive index of the compensation layer has a value between a refractive index of the second base layer and a refractive index of the second barrier layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyunghyun Choi, Seongjun Lee, Kohei Ebisuno, Heeseong Jeong
  • Patent number: 11690248
    Abstract: A light emitting display device includes a lower substrate, a thin film transistor on the lower substrate, a passivation layer disposed on the thin film transistor and including hydrogen, an overcoating layer disposed on the passivation layer and planarizing the passivation layer, a light emitting element disposed on the overcoating layer and including an anode, a light emitting layer on the anode, and a cathode on the light emitting layer, a bank disposed on the overcoating layer and defining a light emitting area, an adhesive layer on the light emitting element and the bank, and a hydrogen absorbing layer disposed on the adhesive layer and including a hydrogen absorbing filler, wherein a side end of the bank is disposed more inwardly than side ends of the adhesive layer and the hydrogen absorbing layer, wherein the side ends of the adhesive layer and the hydrogen absorbing layer are disposed more inwardly than a side end of the overcoating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yeon Kim, Goeun Kim, HyeonTae Seo, Eunjin Kim, Jungyeon Kim, JinHo Kim, Tae-Hoon Kim, KyoungHoon Kim, KwangSeon Lee, Hongdae Shin
  • Patent number: 11690246
    Abstract: In a display panel including a main display area, a component area including a transmission area, and a peripheral area outside the main display area, the display panel includes: a substrate; an inorganic insulating layer over the substrate and including a first hole corresponding to the transmission area; a planarization layer over the inorganic insulating layer; a pixel definition layer over the planarization layer and having a thickness of 1.3 ?m to 2 ?m; and a thin film encapsulation layer over the pixel definition layer, wherein an angle between a side surface of the pixel definition layer and an upper surface of the planarization layer is 30 degrees to 40 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jihwang Lee, Jaehyun Kim, Youngseo Choi, Seungwoo Seo, Soyeon Jeong, Sungchul Kim
  • Patent number: 11683950
    Abstract: A display panel and an electronic device are provided. The display panel includes: an opening area; a display area surrounding the opening area; at least one isolation ring, wherein at least a part of the at least one isolation ring is located between the display area and the opening area, and the at least one isolation ring surrounds the opening area; and a drainage structure extending from a sidewall of an isolation ring in the at least one isolation ring along a straight line passing through a center of the isolation ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bei Wang, Jia Zhao, Xiaobo Du, Haidong Wu, Huameng Liu
  • Patent number: 11682735
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a drain, a source, a gate electrode, and a nanowire between the source and drain. The nanowire has a first section with a first thickness and a second section with a second thickness greater than the first thickness. The second section is between the first section and at least one of the source or drain. The first nanowire includes a channel when a voltage is applied to the gate electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung Hun Lee, Dong Woo Kim, Dong Chan Suh, Sun Jung Kim
  • Patent number: 11682613
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for improving the impedance matching of semiconductor package substrates by incorporating one or more magnetic build-up layers proximate relatively large diameter, relatively high capacitance, conductive pads formed on the lower surface of the semiconductor package substrate. The one or more magnetic layers may be formed using a magnetic build-up material deposited on the lower surface of the semiconductor package substrate. Vias conductively coupling the conductive pads to bump pads on the upper surface of the semiconductor package substrate pass through and are at least partially surrounded by the magnetic build-up material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Zhiguo Qian, Kaladhar Radhakrishnan, Kemal Aygun
  • Patent number: 11678509
    Abstract: A display device includes: a substrate including a display area, the display area including a front area and a corner area disposed at a corner of the display area; a main dam disposed between the front area and the corner area; and a plurality of corner dams disposed in the corner area. The corner area may include a plurality of stripe areas defined by the plurality of corner dams. The plurality of corner dams extend from the main dam and is disposed along an edge of the plurality of stripe areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Ho Hyun, Hyoung Sub Lee, Hye Min Lee, Woo Yong Sung
  • Patent number: 11672152
    Abstract: Display unevenness in a display panel is suppressed. A display panel with a high aperture ratio of a pixel is provided. The display panel includes a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode, a third pixel electrode, a first light-emitting layer, a second light-emitting layer, a third light-emitting layer, a first common layer, a second common layer, a common electrode, and an auxiliary wiring. The first common layer is positioned over the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode. The first common layer has a portion overlapping with the first light-emitting layer and a portion overlapping with the second light-emitting layer. The second common layer is positioned over the third pixel electrode. The second common layer has a portion overlapping with the third light-emitting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Inventors: Daiki Nakamura, Shingo Eguchi, Tomoya Aoyama, Nozomu Sugisawa, Junya Maruyama, Kazuhiko Fujita, Masataka Sato, Susumu Kawashima
  • Patent number: 11664409
    Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) stack for a display including a substrate, a first LED stack disposed on the substrate, a second LED stack disposed on the first LED stack, a third LED stack disposed on the second LED stack, a first color filter interposed between the first LED stack and the second LED stack, and a second color filter interposed between the second LED stack and the third LED stack, in which the second LED stack and the third LED stack are configured to transmit light generated from the first LED stack to the outside, and the third LED stack is configured to transmit light generated from the second LED stack to the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Seoul Viosys Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong Hyeon Chae, Chung Hoon Lee, Seong Gyu Jang, Chang Yeon Kim, Ho Joon Lee
  • Patent number: 11664410
    Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) stack for a display including a first LED stack including a first conductivity-type semiconductor layer and a second conductivity-type semiconductor layer, a second LED stack disposed on the first LED stack, a third LED stack disposed on the second LED stack, an intermediate bonding layer disposed between the first LED stack and the second LED stack to bond the second LED stack to the first LED stack, an upper bonding layer disposed between the second LED stack and the third LED stack to couple the third LED stack to the second LED stack, and a first hydrophilic material layer disposed between the first LED stack and the upper bonding layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Seoul Viosys Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong Hyeon Chae, Seong Gyu Jang, Ho Joon Lee, Chang Yeon Kim, Chung Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 11659761
    Abstract: A display panel comprises a substrate including a plurality of polymer layers, an inorganic interlayer insulating film, and a semiconductor layer between the plurality of polymer layers and a panel array over the substrate. The semiconductor layer within a substrate may ground electric charges entered from the outside through the semiconductor layer. Thus, the display panel protects an array provided on the substrate and improves the reliability of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Young Oh, Sung-Ki Kim, Chang-Hyun Song, Hyo-Jae Lee
  • Patent number: 11646319
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure are related to polyimide substrates and display devices, a plurality of intaglio patterns are formed on at least a portion of one surface of a polyimide substrate, a high transmissive filling is disposed inside the intaglio pattern, thus an overall transmittance of the polyimide substrate is enhanced. Furthermore, the filling having a certain range of a coefficient of thermal expansion is disposed in the intaglio pattern to maintain a heat resistance of the polyimide substrate, an element being required a high temperature process could be disposed on the polyimide substrate having an enhanced transmittance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sunghoon Kim, Dongchae Shin, KyungMo Son
  • Patent number: 11631832
    Abstract: An electroluminescent display panel and a display apparatus are provided. The display panel includes: a base substrate including a display region and a non-display region; an encapsulating structure on the base substrate, extending from the display region to the non-display region; and a crack dam structure on the base substrate, locating at an edge of the non-display region and on a side of the encapsulating structure away from the display region. The crack dam structure includes: an inorganic layer on the base substrate, including a plurality of dams and a plurality of slots, the dams and the grooves locating at an edge of a side of the inorganic layer away from the display region; and an organic layer, on the inorganic layer, covering at least the dams and fill the slots, wherein a surface of the organic layer away from the base substrate includes at least a non-planar structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chenxing Wan, Wang Ding
  • Patent number: 11626457
    Abstract: A display device having improved image quality characteristics including a substrate including a transmission area and an emission area defined by a pixel-defining layer; a display element including a pixel electrode at least partially exposed by the pixel-defining layer, an intermediate layer arranged on the pixel electrode, and an opposite electrode arranged on the intermediate layer; a thin film encapsulation layer arranged on the display element, the thin film encapsulation layer including at least one inorganic encapsulation layer and at least one organic encapsulation layer; and an external light-absorbing layer at least partially overlapping the emission area and arranged on the thin film encapsulation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyangyul Kim, Jaehong Kim, Hyunho Jung, Sunhwa Kim, Hyomin Kim, Heeseong Jeong
  • Patent number: 11624959
    Abstract: A display device includes an array substrate, a second substrate and a black matrix. The array substrate includes a first substrate, at least one electrostatic protecting component and a shielding layer. The first substrate has a display region and a peripheral region located outside the display region. The electrostatic protecting component is disposed on the first substrate in the peripheral region, and the electrostatic protecting component includes a semiconductor layer. The shielding layer includes an insulating material, and the shielding layer is disposed on the first substrate in the peripheral region, wherein the shielding layer overlaps the semiconductor layer. The second substrate is opposite to the first substrate. The black matrix is disposed between the second substrate and the first substrate. The shielding layer is disposed between the black matrix and the first substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Chen-Kuan Kao, Ching-Che Yang