Patents Examined by José M. Diaz
  • Patent number: 11440463
    Abstract: A vehicular exterior door handle assembly includes a handle portion, a light transmitting cover element disposed at least partially along a length dimension of the handle portion, and an illumination module having an illumination source. When the illumination source is electrically powered, light emitted by the illumination source passes at least partially along the length dimension of the handle portion. With the exterior door handle assembly mounted at a door handle region of a vehicle door and when the illumination source is electrically powered, light that passes at least partially along the length dimension of the handle portion is viewable by a person viewing the handle portion of the exterior door handle assembly. When the illumination source is not electrically powered, the illumination source is covert to the person viewing the handle portion of the exterior door handle assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: MAGNA MIRRORS OF AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: David A. Dingman, Brett A. Gorby, Keith D. Foote
  • Patent number: 11435639
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a privacy film and a display device including the privacy film, and more specifically, to a privacy film capable of reducing a viewing angle by including a first substrate, a first electrode disposed on the first substrate, a plurality of light blocking patterns disposed on the first electrode, a light transmission layer disposed on the first electrode and the plurality of light blocking patterns and including a plurality of capsules, a second electrode disposed on the light transmission layer, and a second substrate disposed on the second electrode, and a display device including the privacy film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sooyoun Kim, SeongYong Uhm, Seong-Il Kim, SeokHo Lee
  • Patent number: 11435039
    Abstract: A device for lighting a court including at least one lighting strip extending substantially horizontally along at least one side of the court, at a predefined height relative to the court of less than 3.5 meters. The strip includes a series of light sources distributed along its length, each of the light sources projecting a light beam oriented perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the strip. The at least one strip includes rails which extend along a length of said strip and are suitable for holding a fixing element at any point along the length of said rails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: NLX
    Inventors: Jérôme Papineau, Jean-Luc Tournebise
  • Patent number: 11422298
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a liquid crystal panel and an illumination unit which illuminates the liquid crystal panel. The illumination unit includes a light guide comprising a first side surface, a main surface opposing the liquid crystal panel and an opening made by a notch or a through hole, a first light source opposing to the first side surface, and a second light source provided closer to the opening than to the first light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Ota, Kazutaka Nagaoka, Michihide Shibata, Toshihiro Yajima
  • Patent number: 11421855
    Abstract: A white light source includes a light source and a phosphor conversion component. The light source emits short wavelength light peaked at a peak wavelength of 570 nanometers or shorter. The phosphor conversion component includes a light conversion layer comprising a phosphor effective to convert the short wavelength light to converted light. The light conversion layer includes light passages comprising openings or passage material that does not comprise the phosphor and is light transmissive for the short wavelength light. The light source is disposed respective to the phosphor conversion component so as to illuminate the light conversion layer with the emitted short wavelength light and to pass the short wavelength light through the light passages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: MATERION CORPORATION
    Inventor: Michael P. Newell
  • Patent number: 11417687
    Abstract: A high-definition display device is provided. A display device with low power consumption is provided. A highly reliable display device is provided. The display device includes a first transistor and a display element electrically connected to the first transistor. The first transistor includes a first oxide, a second oxide, a first conductor, a second conductor, a third conductor, a first insulator, and a second insulator. The first conductor and the second conductor are positioned over the first oxide to be apart from each other. The first insulator is positioned over the first conductor and the second conductor and includes an opening. The opening overlaps with a portion between the first conductor and the second conductor. The third conductor is positioned in the opening. The second insulator is positioned between the third conductor, and the first oxide, the first conductor, the second conductor, and the first insulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Koji Kusunoki, Yoshiaki Oikawa, Kensuke Yoshizumi
  • Patent number: 11416030
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are example edge-to-edge display devices and related methods. An example display device includes a display screen and a backlight including a light guide frame defining a cavity therein. The example display device includes an integrated circuit coupled to the display screen. The example display device includes a flexible printed circuit in communication with the integrated circuit and including an electrical component coupled thereto. The electrical component is at least partially disposed in the cavity of the light guide frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: John Lang, Seh Kwa, Zhiming Zhuang, Jackson Tsai, Jun Jiang
  • Patent number: 11415282
    Abstract: The present invention provides an LED module that can prevent breakage of an LED chip due to pulse lighting for a flash when the LED module is used in a flashing lamp. An LED module (10) for flashing lamp includes: an LED substrate (13); plural LEDs (12); and plural resin layers (11). In the LED module (10), the LEDs (12) are mounted on a mounting surface of the LED substrate (13). Each resin layer (11) is stacked on a surface of each LED (12) opposite to the LED substrate (13). Adjacent resin layers (11) stacked on the LEDs (12) are separated from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: HotaluX, Ltd.
    Inventor: Norimasa Mizobe
  • Patent number: 11407354
    Abstract: A headlight system for a banking vehicle is provided. The headlight system includes a plurality of optical assemblies being arranged about an optical horizon and an optical vertical axis. Each of the plurality of optical assemblies includes an illumination source and an optical element. Each of the illumination sources is configured to direct light toward a corresponding one of the optical elements to produce an illumination region. The illumination regions combine to form an illumination pattern that includes at least one illumination region that is radial and is positioned relative an optical origin. The intersection between the optical horizon and the optical vertical axis defines the optical origin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: J.W. SPEAKER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bradley William Kay, Dragan Popovic
  • Patent number: 11385397
    Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device including a reflective sheet with high rigidity and low shrinkage and expansion, the liquid crystal display device comprising: a liquid crystal panel; a light guide plate provided below the liquid crystal panel; a light source for supplying light to the light guide plate; a reflective sheet provided below the light guide plate; a glass fiber coating layer provided on the upper surface and/or the lower surface of the reflective sheet; and a lower chassis provided below the reflective sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoonki Park, Byoungjin Cho, Jongbin Kim, Wonyeop Jang
  • Patent number: 11378851
    Abstract: The present application provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a display region, a non-display region, and a terminal region. The non-display region includes a lower bezel region at a lower end of the display region. The terminal region is provided with a connecting terminal, the terminal region includes a first terminal region, and the first terminal region is positioned in the lower bezel region, wherein an included angle between a longitudinal direction of a first connecting terminal and a lower bezel in the first terminal region meets a preset condition, and a width of the first connecting terminal is greater than a threshold. This application reduces the width of the lower bezel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventor: Li Hu
  • Patent number: 11369711
    Abstract: A lighting device that comprises a housing, a first visible light source, a second visible light source, an air filter, an airway, and an air circulation mechanism for each airway. The first visible light source contributes to the light output of the device, whereas the second visible light source is responsible for germicidal irradiation by activating a visible-light activatable photocatalytic coating on the air filter. The airway has an air inlet and an air outlet. The air circulation mechanism sucks an ambient air through the air inlet, forces the air through the air filter, and releases the air through the air outlet. The air filter traps airborne particles. The second visible light source is disposed adjacent to the air filter and activates a photocatalyst material in the antiviral photocatalytic coating. Airborne microbials trapped by the air filter are decomposed by the activated photocatalyst material in the antiviral photocatalytic coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Aleddra Inc.
    Inventors: Chia-Yiu Maa, Chun-Te Yu
  • Patent number: 11372268
    Abstract: There is provided a display unit that is able to provide an indoor environment comfortable to a user. This display unit includes a frame member and a flexible display. The frame member is disposed, in a structure including a daylighting section that lets light through, around the daylighting section and includes a winder including a rotary shaft. The flexible display includes a dimming layer and a display device layer including a light-emitting layer disposed on the dimming layer, and is windable with rotation of the rotary shaft provided in the winder of the frame member and drawable from the winder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Inventors: Takeshi Yamamoto, Soya Araki, Yoshinori Tachikawa, Yohei Azuma, Yoichiro Eshita, Hayato Niwa
  • Patent number: 11372303
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a transparent structure. The structure may include at least one light source, a transparent light-carrying guide layer optically coupled with the at least one light source. The structure may include refractive layers where a light absorbing feature is operably associated with the light-carrying guide layer to absorb any light not internally reflected in the light guide layer, at least adjacent the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Clarisse Mazuir, Matthew E. Last, Ryan J. Garrone, Budhadipta Dan, Khadijeh Bayat, Gregory A. Cohoon, Jack E. Graves
  • Patent number: 11353741
    Abstract: The present application discloses a display module and a display device. The display module includes: a liquid crystal display panel; a micro light-emitting diode (LED) display panel disposed under the liquid crystal display panel and bonded to the liquid crystal display panel, wherein the micro LED display panel only displays white color; a first driving chip configured to drive the liquid crystal display panel to emit light and display; and a second driving chip configured to drive the micro LED display panel to emit light and display. Power consumption of the display module is reduced, and contrast of a double-layer display panel is significantly increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Weina Yong
  • Patent number: 11353649
    Abstract: The invention provides a display device, including: a backlight module with a backlight area and a transmissive area; The transmissive area of the backlight module is disposed to have at least one MicroLED light emitting unit, when the microLED light emitting unit is turned on the backlight module, the camera module does not work, and the display area of the display panel and the transmissive display area are able to display the picture normally, thus entering the full-screen display state When the camera module is working, turn off the MicroLED light-emitting unit, the camera module obtains sufficient imaging light, and the display panel corresponding to the backlight area can display the picture normally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventor: Guowei Zha
  • Patent number: 11353747
    Abstract: A backlight module and a liquid crystal display are provided. The backlight module has a substrate, a plurality of soldering pads, and a reflective pattern layer. The soldering pads are distributed on the substrate and each of the soldering pads has a soldering pad size. The reflective pattern layer covers the soldering pads and the substrate. The reflective pattern layer has openings, positions of the openings correspond to positions of the soldering pads, each of the openings has an opening size, and the opening size is smaller than the corresponding soldering pad size. The backlight module is provided with the openings in the reflective pattern corresponding to the positions of the soldering pads, and the opening size of the openings is smaller than the soldering pad size of the soldering pads, thereby increasing a ratio of the reflective pattern layer to the substrate. Therefore, brightness is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guowei Zha, Changwen Ma
  • Patent number: 11345851
    Abstract: A photosensitive composition including a quantum dot; a binder polymer including a carboxylic acid group; a photopolymerizable monomer including a carbon-carbon double bond; and a photoinitiator, a patterned film produced therefrom and a display device including the same. The quantum dot includes a seed including a first semiconductor nanocrystal, a quantum well including a second semiconductor nanocrystal, the quantum well surrounding the seed and a shell disposed on the quantum well, the shell including a third semiconductor nanocrystal and not including cadmium, the second semiconductor nanocrystal has a different composition from each of the first semiconductor nanocrystal and the third semiconductor nanocrystal, and an energy bandgap of the second semiconductor nanocrystal is smaller than an energy bandgap of the first semiconductor nanocrystal and an energy bandgap of the third semiconductor nanocrystal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taekhoon Kim, Seonmyeong Choi, Jongmin Lee, Tae Gon Kim, Young Seok Park, Shin Ae Jun
  • Patent number: 11349077
    Abstract: Disclosed is an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display comprising a substrate; an organic light emitting element disposed on the substrate; an encapsulation substrate disposed on the organic light emitting element; and an adhesive layer formed on the substrate, covering the organic light emitting element, and bonding the substrate on which the organic light emitting element is formed with the encapsulation substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung-Hyun Son, Hoon Kim
  • Patent number: 11340490
    Abstract: The present application discloses a backlight module and a display device thereof. The backlight module includes a light guide plate, a side part thereof including a light incident surface; a light bar, including a circuit board and a plurality of photoelectric elements disposed on the circuit board, wherein the circuit board includes spacing parts located between two adjacent photoelectric elements, and light emitting surfaces of the photoelectric elements correspond to the light incident surface; and a reflective sheet, disposed between the light guide plate and the light bar, wherein the reflective sheet includes hollowed parts, and the hollowed parts are correspondingly disposed between the light emitting surfaces and the light incident surface, so as to reduce a reflective brightness of the photoelectric elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignees: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED, CHONGOING HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jiahe Cheng