Patents Examined by James A. Dudek
  • Patent number: 11487171
    Abstract: In an electro-optical device, a light shielding layer is provided at a first substrate between a second capacitance electrode and a second interlayer insulating layer, in a layer between the second capacitance electrode of a capacitance element and the pixel electrode. The light shielding layer includes a first portion stacked on the second capacitance electrode, and a second portion that protrudes from an end portion of the first portion, through a side of the first capacitance electrode of the capacitance element, toward both sides in a width direction of a semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kikuya Morita
  • Patent number: 11487165
    Abstract: Disclosed are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes: a first metal layer arranged on a substrate; a first insulating layer arranged on the first metal layer and the substrate; a second metal layer arranged on the first insulating layer; a second insulating layer arranged on the second metal layer and the first insulating layer, covering the first metal layer and the second metal layer; and a sealant arranged on the second insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Zhongnian Liu
  • Patent number: 11487172
    Abstract: An array substrate, a display panel and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes a substrate, a color resist layer disposed on a side of the substrate, and a black matrix layer disposed on a side of the color resist layer away from the substrate. The color resist layer includes a plurality of color resists of different colors. The black matrix layer includes a plurality of light-shielding strips and a plurality of openings. An orthographic projection of an opening on the substrate overlaps an orthographic projection of a color resist on the substrate. The array substrate also includes a light-converging layer disposed between the color resist layer and the black matrix layer. The light-converging layer includes a plurality of light-converging portions, and a light-converging portion converges light incident on the light-converging portion to a light-shielding strip of the plurality of light-shielding strips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiao Gao, Yingzhang Qiu
  • Patent number: 11487175
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an array substrate, a dimming liquid crystal panel and a display panel. The array substrate includes: a first transparent electrode layer with a plurality of slit structures, wherein the first transparent electrode layer includes a plurality of domains with an equal area, the plurality of domains include at least two types of domains, the at least two types of domains are arranged in a mosaic shape; a plurality of gate lines extending along a row direction and a plurality of data lines extending along a column direction, the plurality of gate lines and the plurality of data lines crossing to define a plurality of dimming regions arranged in an array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignees: HEFEI BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yue Du, Yuntian Zhang, Liangliang Jiang, Lei Guo, Ke Dai, Jiaqing Liu
  • Patent number: 11480838
    Abstract: The purpose of the invention is to realize the display whose screen is seen as floating in the transparent medium. The present invention, for example, takes a following structure. A display device including a transparent display device being fixed in a pedestal including: the transparent display device having a display area and a first transparent medium, the first transparent medium existing between the display area and the pedestal, in which scanning lines and video signal lines are formed in the display area, scanning line lead wires and video signal lead wires are formed in the first transparent medium, and provided an area of the display area is S1, and an area of the first transparent medium is S2, S2/S1 is 0.5 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Youhei Iwai
  • Patent number: 11480839
    Abstract: In a substrate body of an electro-optical device, a first groove, and a second groove extending in a direction intersecting the first groove are formed. A capacitance element is constituted by a layered film that includes a first conductive film, a dielectric film, and a second conductive film sequentially layered in a region including the first groove and the second groove. When the first groove and the second groove intersect, the intersection becomes wide during etching. However, when the first groove and the second groove do not intersect, such as when the first groove and the second groove are spaced apart, a wide portion is less likely to be generated. Accordingly, the first insulating film easily fills the grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoki Yokota, Kikuya Morita
  • Patent number: 11480829
    Abstract: An array substrate, a method for manufacturing an array substrate, and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes a first substrate, a first common electrode layer, a second common electrode layer, a frame sealing adhesive and a conductive adhesive. The first common electrode layer is disposed at an edge of the first substrate and is in a grid shape; the second common electrode layer is disposed at an inner side the first common electrode layer, and includes a light-transmitting portion provided in a grid shape, and a gate insulating layer is provided on the light-transmitting portion. The frame sealing adhesive is disposed on the first common electrode layer. The conductive adhesive is disposed in the frame sealing adhesive and partially extends onto the gate insulating layer corresponding to the light-transmitting portion. The conductive adhesive is configured to electrically connect with a common electrode of a color filter substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignees: Beihai HKC Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., HKC Corporation Limited
    Inventors: Xiaodong Wang, Peixin Lin, Lidan Ye
  • Patent number: 11474405
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a switching element, a common electrode, an insulating film covering the common electrode, a first pixel electrode electrically connected to the switching element in a first contact hole penetrating the insulating film, and a transparent conductive film electrically connected to the common electrode in a second contact hole penetrating the insulating film. The first pixel electrode and the transparent conductive film are arranged in a first direction in a same layer. A size of the first contact hole and a size of the second contact hole are different from each other in planar view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Hideki Shiina
  • Patent number: 11469256
    Abstract: An array substrate includes a base substrate and a GND trace. The GND trace is disposed along an edge of the substrate, and the GND trace includes a plurality of conductive line segments separated from each other and a connection structure disposed on a side of the GND trace away from the base substrate. The connection structure electrically connects the conductive line segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ling Han, Tao Ma, Chengshao Yang, Qingmeng Wu
  • Patent number: 11454849
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first area, second area, liquid crystal layer, and a plurality of pixels. Each subpixel includes an opening area including a first opening area and a second opening area. The pixels include a first pixel positioned in the first area and a second pixel positioned over a boundary of the first area and the second area. The opening area of the second pixel is smaller than the opening area of the first pixel when opening areas of subpixels of same color are compared. An each imaginary line showing the boundary of the first opening area and the second opening area is a same straight line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Masato Nakamura, Daichi Hosokawa, Yuki Kuramoto, Hideyuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11442299
    Abstract: Disclosed are a display module, a display device and a viewing-angle switching method. The display module includes a backlight module, a display panel, a lower polarizer sheet, a viewing-angle switching element and a transparent cover plate; the viewing-angle switching element and the transparent cover plate are arranged between the display panel and the lower polarizer sheet, and the transparent cover plate is arranged on a side of the viewing-angle switching element that is close to the lower polarizer sheet; the backlight module is configured to supply light that meets a preset condition, the viewing-angle switching element is configured to switch viewing-angle modes of the display module; the viewing-angle modes include; a first viewing-angle mode and a second viewing-angle mode; and a viewing-angle range of the first viewing-angle mode is smaller than a viewing angle range of the second viewing-angle mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignees: Chongqing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Pan Yuan, Sijun Lei, Liang Gao, Xianyong Gao, Yansheng Sun, Yunsong Li, Zhicai Xu, Yong Long, Ying Zhang, Dengqian Li, Guojian Zhang, Fanjian Zeng, Shanbin Chen, Sen Tan, Hebing Ma, Chaojie Zhang, Song Liu, Xinzhi Shao, Yong Deng, Xiangchao Chen, Genchuan Yan, Ying Yang, Xinyu Wang
  • Patent number: 11435629
    Abstract: An object is to provide an optical element in which a wavelength dependence of reflection is small, a light guide element including the optical element, and an image display device including the light guide element. The optical element includes a plurality of cholesteric liquid crystal layers having different selective reflection center wavelengths, in which the cholesteric liquid crystal layer has a liquid crystal alignment pattern in which a direction of an optical axis derived from a liquid crystal compound changes while continuously rotating in at least one in-plane direction, and in a case where a length over which the optical axis rotates by 180° in the in-plane direction is set as a single period, a permutation of lengths of selective reflection center wavelengths and a permutation of lengths of the single periods match each other in the cholesteric liquid crystal layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sato, Yukito Saitoh, Katsumi Sasata
  • Patent number: 11428981
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes pixels including a reflective region for display in a reflection mode and a transmissive region for display in a transmission mode. The liquid crystal display panel includes a liquid crystal layer including a nematic liquid crystal material having negative dielectric anisotropy and a chiral agent, a pixel electrode including a reflective conductive layer and a transparent conductive layer, a counter electrode, a light diffusing structure provided in common to the reflective region and the transmissive region, and a first vertical alignment film provided between the pixel electrode and the liquid crystal layer, and a second vertical alignment film provided between the counter electrode and the liquid crystal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Sasaki, Hiroyuki Hakoi, Takashi Satoh, Junichi Hashimoto, Ming Ni
  • Patent number: 11424274
    Abstract: In an electro-optical device, in an interlayer insulating layer provided in a layer between a transistor and a scanning line, a first opening and a second opening are respectively provided on both sides of a semiconductor layer in plan view, and a portion of a gate electrode is provided inside each of the first opening and the second opening. Therefore, the gate electrode configures a light shielding wall inside each of the first opening and the second opening. Of the first opening and the second opening, the first opening is provided at a position overlapping with the scanning line in plan view, and the gate electrode is electrically connected to the scanning line via the first opening. The second opening is provided at a position that does not overlap with the scanning line in plan view. Thus, the width of the scanning line can be made narrower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Oikawa
  • Patent number: 11417688
    Abstract: Provided is a method to manufacture a liquid crystal display device in which a contact hole for the electrical connection of the pixel electrode and one of the source and drain electrode of a transistor and a contact hole for the processing of a semiconductor layer are formed simultaneously. The method contributes to the reduction of a photography step. The transistor includes an oxide semiconductor layer where a channel formation region is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Kaoru Hatano
  • Patent number: 11415851
    Abstract: Provided is a display device. The display device comprises: a substrate including a display area having a plurality of pixels and a non-display area, a plurality of data lines connected to each of the plurality of pixels and extending in a first direction, a plurality of first gate lines connected to each of the plurality of pixels and extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, a plurality of second gate lines extending along the first direction from one end of the display area to a line contact portion contacting each of the plurality of first gate lines, and a plurality of off voltage lines extending in a direction opposite to the first direction from the other end of the display area opposite to one end of the display area to a periphery of the line contact portion and insulated from the plurality of second gate lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Inventors: Dong Hee Shin, Geun Ho Lee, Yong Hee Lee
  • Patent number: 11415735
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device comprises first and second substrates and a liquid crystal layer. The second substrate has first and second surfaces and a side surface elongated in a first direction. The side surface includes first and second inclined surfaces on which end portions on the first surface side further protrude in a second direction intersecting the first direction than end portions on the second surface side. The first inclined surface is inclined at a first angle to a thickness direction of the second substrate. The second inclined surface is inclined at a second angle smaller than the first angle to the thickness direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventor: Nobuko Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 11409173
    Abstract: An array board 11b includes a display section AA, a source line 20 connected to the display section AA, a test circuit 40 connected to the source line 20 and configured to test the display section AA, a panel-side image input terminal that is disposed such that the test circuit 40 is between the terminal and the display section AA and to which a signal to be supplied to the source line 20 is input, a terminal connection line 51 connecting the source line 20 to the pane-side image input terminal 35A and the terminal connection line 51 including the terminal connection line 51 at least a part of which overlaps the test circuit 40 and a flattening film (insulation film) 28 at least disposed between an overlapping portion of the test circuit 40 and the terminal connection line 51.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yohsuke Fujikawa
  • Patent number: 11397346
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a first substrate and a second substrate arranged so as to face each other; a display region included in each of the first substrate and the second substrate; a transparent region formed inside the display region in a planar view; a frame region formed between the display region and the transparent region so as to surround the transparent region along an outer edge of the transparent region in a planar view; a polarizer formed in either the first substrate or the second substrate and having an opening overlapping the transparent region; a first transparent conductive film formed in a first conductive layer between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a second transparent conductive film formed in a second conductive layer between the first conductive layer and the second substrate. The second transparent conductive film is in the frame region in a planar view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Shinji Horie
  • Patent number: 11397357
    Abstract: A dimming panel and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The dimming panel includes: a first base substrate and a second base substrate opposite to the first substrate; a first electrode on the first base substrate; a second electrode on the second base substrate; and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second base substrate. The first electrode includes a plurality of first electrode strips arranged at intervals in a first direction and a plurality of second electrode strips arranged at intervals in the first direction, the plurality of first electrode strips are located in a first electrode layer, the plurality of second electrode strips are located in a second electrode layer on a side of the first electrode layer away from the first base substrate. An orthographic projection of a combination of first and second electrode strips on the first base substrate is an integrated plane without gaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiaxing Wang, Hongliang Yuan, Xiaojuan Wu, Qi Zheng, Yao Bi, Zhiqiang Zhao, Xuan Zhong, Zhangxiang Cheng, Donghua Zhang, Ce Wang