Patents Examined by Jia Pan
  • Patent number: 9798206
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes: an array substrate; a seal material; and an opposite substrate, wherein the array substrate includes: a plurality of thin film transistors formed in correspondence to respective intersection parts of a plurality of gate wirings and a plurality of source wirings; a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor; an opposite electrode formed to face the pixel electrode; a gate extraction wiring that connects the gate wirings and a connection terminal formed in an outer area of the seal material; a conductive film that covers the gate extraction wiring with sandwiching a first insulation film therebetween; and a second insulation film that covers the conductive film in at least part of the outer area of the seal material, and wherein the conductive film is applied with an electrical potential of the opposite electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Nagano, Shigeaki Noumi, Osamu Miyakawa
  • Patent number: 9791751
    Abstract: An LCD lower substrate assembly is assembleable with an LCD upper substrate assembly. The LCD lower substrate assembly includes a carrier board and a first alignment pad, a first alignment wire and a first group of adaption pads having a function of electrical conduction, which are arranged on the carrier board. The first alignment pad is electrically connected to the first alignment wire to receive a voltage signal and to apply the voltage signal to the first alignment wire. The first-group adaption pads are electrically connected to the first alignment wire in a spaced manner to receive the voltage signal that, after the assembly of the two substrate assemblies, is transmittable to a first group of common electrodes on the LCD upper substrate assembly. Connection portions between the adaption pads and the first alignment wire and the first-group adaption pads do not cross other alignment wires on the carrier board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Guo Zhao
  • Patent number: 9791950
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display with a force sensitive display surface has a liquid crystal layer between a liquid crystal control layer and a window layer. A color filter layer with color filters or a 3D filter layer with 3D barrier units may be provided between the liquid crystal layer and the window layer. The control, window, color or 3D filter layer comprises an electrically conductive sensor structure comprising piezoresistive material for sensing the force applied by a user's finger on the display, and the sensor structure may, additionally, provide capacitance varying for sensing the touch position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Gunnar Klinghult, Peter â„«berg
  • Patent number: 9791730
    Abstract: An LCD device according to a group of embodiments comprises array and counter substrates, a liquid-crystal layer and a liquid-crystal alignment layer, where the array substrate or the counter substrate further comprises: a pattern of color filter layer, formed of a plurality of color regions; a pattern of light-shielding film, comprising band-shaped portions that run along boundaries of the color regions; and protrusions formed by the color filter layer and run along boundaries of the color regions; and boundaries between the color regions being respectively deviated from centerlines of the band-shaped portions by 1 ?m or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Akihiko Miyoshi
  • Patent number: 9791746
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display panel. The liquid crystal display panel includes a TFT substrate and a CF substrate that are respectively provided with first and second alignment films that allow for vertical light alignment, so that after irradiation of ultraviolet light, the first alignment film and the second alignment film have alignment directions that are substantially parallel but opposite to each other and the liquid crystal molecules are set at a tilt angle for being nearly vertically aligned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanjun Song, Chungching Hsieh, Yongchao Zhao, Xiang Li
  • Patent number: 9733538
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides a TFT array substrate, in which TFT elements and pixel electrodes being correspondingly connected with the TFT elements are arrayed in matrix on an insulating substrate, the TFT array substrate including: gate bus lines made from a first metal material; source bus lines made from a second metal material; pixel electrodes made from a third metal material; a clock wiring made from the first metal material; a branch wiring made from the second metal material; and a connection conductor made from the third metal material, the connection conductor connecting the clock wiring and the branch wiring at a connection part in a periphery area, the connection part having a branch-wiring via hole, which exposes the branch wiring which is covered with the connection conductor, and overlaps the clock wiring at least partly in a plane view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Isao Ogasawara, Takaharu Yamada, Masahiro Yoshida, Satoshi Horiuchi, Shinya Tanaka, Tetsuo Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 9733527
    Abstract: A display device includes a first color pixel, a second color pixel neighboring the first color pixel in a first direction, a third color pixel neighboring the second color pixel in the first direction, a fourth color pixel neighboring the first color pixel in a second direction, a fifth color pixel neighboring the second color pixel in the second direction, and a sixth color pixel neighboring the third color pixel in the second direction, wherein each of the first color pixel, the second color pixel, the fourth color pixel and the fifth color pixel has a first long-side length, the third color pixel has a second long-side length which is greater than the first long-side length, and the sixth color pixel has a third long-side length which is less than the first long-side length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Arihiro Takeda, Keiji Tago, Kayoko Miyazaki, Ayumi Mori
  • Patent number: 9715153
    Abstract: A display device includes a transparent substrate having a display region with a plurality of scanning signal lines and video signal lines intersecting thereon, a first terminal formed outside the display region connecting to a first terminal wiring and a second terminal wiring connected to a semiconductor chip, and an inverted staggered thin film transistor. The first terminal includes a first portion, a second portion on the first portion, a third portion having an exposed planar terminal plate on the second portion, a plurality of first vias between the first portion and the second portion, and a plurality of second vias between the second portion and the third portion. The first portion is connected to the first and second terminal wirings, and each of the plurality of first vias is not overlapped with each of the plurality of second vias in plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Takahiro Ochiai, Mitsuru Goto
  • Patent number: 9709855
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a first substrate; a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate; a light blocking member disposed on one of the first substrate or the second substrate, where the light blocking member is disposed in a display area including a plurality of pixel areas, and the light blocking member includes a plurality of extensions having a predetermined plane shape; and a plurality of first spacers disposed on one of the first substrate and the second substrate and contacting an upper surface of a plurality of thin films disposed on the other of the first substrate and the second substrate, in which the extensions of the light blocking member includes a first extension and a second extension, and the first extension overlaps the first spacers, and the second extension does not overlap the first spacers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung Ho Park, Tae Yong Eom, Soo Jeong Huh
  • Patent number: 9709858
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) including: a first substrate; a first subpixel electrode applied with a voltage; a second subpixel electrode applied with another voltage; an insulating layer between the first and second subpixel electrodes; a second substrate; and a common electrode positioned on the second substrate. The first subpixel electrode includes a first subregion under the insulating layer and a second subregion thereon, the first and second subregions are coupled to each other through a contact bole formed in the insulating layer, the second subpixel electrode is positioned on the insulating layer, the first subregion of the first subpixel electrode and a third subregion of the second subpixel electrode overlap, and the first subregion of the first subpixel electrode is formed with concave portions at edges of left and right lateral sides of a planar shape including a cross-shaped connecting portion at its center and four trapezoids enclosing the cross-shaped connecting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyung Gi Jung, Swae-Hyun Kim
  • Patent number: 9703154
    Abstract: A first polarizing plate having a polarization axis in a first direction, a second polarizing plate having a polarization axis in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, a plurality of first structure bodies provided for the first substrate, a plurality of second structure bodies provided for the first substrate, a first electrode layer covering top surfaces and side surfaces of the plurality of first structure bodies, a second electrode layer covering top surfaces and side surfaces of the plurality of second structure bodies, and a third electrode layer that is provided for a second substrate and overlaps at least partly with the second electrode layer are provided. The side surfaces of the first structure bodies and the side surfaces of the second structure bodies are parallel to the first direction or the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kubota, Akio Yamashita, Masaru Nakano
  • Patent number: 9703107
    Abstract: A three-dimensional display device of a parallax barrier system including a liquid crystal display device of an IPS system having a TFT substrate and an opposed substrate as well as a liquid crystal barrier panel of a TN system having a first substrate and a second substrate, in which the opposed substrate of the liquid crystal display device and the second substrate of the liquid crystal barrier panel are opposedly arranged by interposing a polarizer, the TFT substrate includes a pixel configured by a common electrode having a slit above a pixel electrode configured in a planar shape, and includes a first pixel in which an angle made by an alignment axis of the TFT substrate and a direction of a long axis of the slit is ?1 and a second pixel in which an angle made by the alignment axis of the TFT substrate and the direction of the long axis of the slit is ?2, ?1 and ?2 are in a relationship ?1=??2, the first pixel and the second pixel are arranged to switch in a first direction, and arranged to switch in a s
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Masaru Nakakomi, Hiroaki Komatsu, Yuji Maede, Hirotaka Imayama
  • Patent number: 9696589
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a light source unit, a first substrate provided on the light source unit, an electrode layer provided on the first substrate, a second substrate separate from the electrode layer, a polarizing plate provided on a surface of the second substrate, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the electrode layer and the second substrate, a reflecting unit provided on a surface of the first substrate; and a wire grid polarizer provided on an opposite surface of the first substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jaeseung Chung, Dongouk Kim, Joonyong Park, Bongsu Shin, Daeyoung Lee, Sunghoon Lee, Gugrae Jo, Sukgyu Hahm
  • Patent number: 9696560
    Abstract: A new 2D/3D switchable display apparatus matches a polarization direction of light output from a 2D image display panel with a rubbing direction of a lower alignment layer of a liquid crystal lens, and tilts a rubbing direction of an upper alignment layer of the liquid crystal lens and a direction of a polarization axis of a polarizer at a predetermined angle, thereby reducing a loss of light passing through the liquid crystal lens, making it possible to improve luminance of images, improve the quality of 3D images in the horizontal direction, prevent or reduce color separation and moire phenomena, and reduce the manufacturing cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hae-Young Yun, Il-Joo Kim, Hyun-Seung Seo, Seung-Hoon Lee, Jin-Hwan Kim, Seung-Jun Jeong
  • Patent number: 9686876
    Abstract: A display for a construction machine includes: a metal case that is detachably supported on a construction machine frame via a universal joint (a joint member); a liquid crystal display (a display unit) that is attached to the metal case; and a control board that is attached to the metal case and is configured to perform a display control on the liquid crystal display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventor: Tomohiro Saitou
  • Patent number: 9678380
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a substrate including a display region and a non-display region, a light leakage preventing layer disposed on the substrate along the non-display region, a step providing layer disposed on the light leakage preventing layer, and a hydrophobic layer disposed on the step providing layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang Hun Kwak, Sang Hun Lee, Chul Huh
  • Patent number: 9671636
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display. An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure provides a liquid crystal display including a first substrate, a thin film transistor located on the first substrate, a pixel electrode located on the thin film transistor, a first roof layer that faces the pixel electrode and is formed of a first color filter layer, a capping layer located on the first roof layer; and a second roof layer that is located on the capping layer and is formed of a second color filter layer, in which a plurality of first microcavities is formed between the pixel electrode and the first roof layer, and the plurality of first microcavities forms a first liquid crystal layer that includes a liquid crystal molecule, and a plurality of second microcavities is formed between the second roof layer and a second substrate that is located on the second roof layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eun Hee Han, Ho Yun Byun
  • Patent number: 9664915
    Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes a display panel generating an image, a phase retarder disposed on the display panel, a first polarizer disposed on the phase retarder, a liquid crystal lens disposed on the first polarizer, and a second polarizer disposed on the liquid crystal lens. The phase retarder has a first optical axis and the first polarizer has a second optical axis crossing the first optical axis. The second polarizer has a third optical axis substantially in parallel to the second optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyunseung Seo, Seung Jun Jeong
  • Patent number: 9664952
    Abstract: A moisture-proof structure includes: a sealing layer surrounding or covering a moisture-proof target between a first base material and a second base material; a moisture-proof material provided in contact with an outer side of the sealing layer and in a peripheral section of the first base material and the second base material, in which the peripheral section is located outside the sealing layer; and an uneven structure provided in a part of the first base material that makes contact with the moisture-proof material and in a part of the second base material that makes contact with the moisture-proof material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Kenichi Nagaoka, Noboru Murabayashi, Yoshinari Shirata
  • Patent number: 9658484
    Abstract: A pattern structure includes a plurality of pattern structure units arranged on a same plane, where each of the plurality of pattern structure units includes a plurality of microstructures defined on a surface thereof and having a width of less than about 1 micrometer (?m); and a connection layer disposed between the plurality of pattern structure units and having a width of less than about 10 ?m, where the connection layer connects the plurality of pattern structure units to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Sunghoon Lee, Dongouk Kim, Joonyong Park, Jihyun Bae, Bongsu Shin, Jong G. Ok, Ilsun Yoon, Jaeseung Chung, Sukgyu Hahm