Patents Examined by Kendrick Hsu
  • Patent number: 9261720
    Abstract: A curved liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel, a backlight unit, a bottom cover and a reinforcement frame. The liquid crystal display panel includes a thin film transistor substrate and a color filter substrate. The backlight unit applies light to the liquid crystal display panel. The bottom cover supports the backlight unit and has a flat shape. The reinforcement frame has a predetermined curvature and is attached to the bottom cover. The flat bottom cover is mounted on the reinforcement frame such that the flat bottom cover has the predetermined curvature of the reinforcement frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Se Min Lee, Hyun Woo Jang, Ji Eun Son, Joo Young Yeon, Jae Yeon Song, Yong Joong Yoon, Hyo Sung Lee, Han Tae Seo
  • Patent number: 9256102
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a backlight module, comprising a backsheet, and a light guide plate and a middle frame provided on the backsheet; the backsheet being assembled with multiple spacers, one side of the spacer being connected with the side wall of the backsheet, the opposite side thereof being tightly connected with the light guide plate, on the spacer further being provided with a holding groove; a slot connected to the holding groove being provided corresponding to each spacer on the side wall of the backsheet; the middle frame comprising a vertical supporting portion, the vertical supporting portion comprising multiple intertongue, each intertongue corresponding to each holding groove, on the side wall of the intertongue being provided with a hook; the middle frame being assembled in the holding groove through the intertongue, the hook and the slot being engaged with each other. The present invention further discloses a liquid crystal display device comprising the backlight module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yuchun Hsiao, Chengwen Que
  • Patent number: 9250475
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device (100A) of the present invention includes a liquid crystal layer (1) and first and second alignment films (12, 13) which are provided with an alignment treatment. The liquid crystal layer (1) includes, in each of the pixels, a plurality of first small sections (14a) separated by a wall (10) and the first alignment film (12) and a plurality of second small sections (14b) separated by the wall (10) and the second alignment film (13). Each of the plurality of first small sections (14a) has a first liquid crystal region (11a). Each of the plurality of second small sections (14b) has a second liquid crystal region (11b). Each of the first and second liquid crystal regions (11a, 11b) includes a nematic liquid crystal material and a dichromatic dye (21a, 21b). The dichromatic dye (21a) of the first liquid crystal region (11a) is aligned along the alignment direction of the first alignment film (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasushi Asaoka, Kiyoshi Minoura, Eiji Satoh, Sayuri Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 9250466
    Abstract: The invention provides a transreflective color filter and a method for manufacturing the same, and a liquid crystal display device. The transreflective color filter comprises a substrate and color resin layers formed on the substrate, wherein the color resin layers include transmissive portions and reflective portions, regions of the substrate corresponding to the transmissive portions have concaves formed therein, and a part of the transmissive portion fills the concave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinbo Lu, Jisheng Zhao, Jianshe Xue, Chen Liu
  • Patent number: 9239484
    Abstract: A thin film transistor substrate (20a) includes an insulating substrate (10a), a semiconductor layer (13a) provided on the insulating substrate (10a) and having a channel region (C), and a channel protection layer (25) provided in the channel region (C). The channel protection layer (25) is made of a multilayer film in which first insulating films and second insulating films are alternately layered. A relationship between a refractive index Ra of the first insulating film and a refractive index Rb of the second insulating film is Rb/Ra?1.3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tokuaki Kuniyoshi
  • Patent number: 9235085
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes first and second substrates facing each other, each of the first and second substrates having a first substrate having a display region, a non-display region, and a seal pattern region disposed in the non-display region; a protection layer on the first substrate and having a first seal pattern groove in the seal pattern region; first and second dams on the second substrate and respectively disposed at both ends of the first seal pattern groove, the first and second dams configured to form a second seal pattern groove corresponding to the first seal pattern groove; a pixel electrode on the first substrate; a common electrode on one of the first and second substrates; a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates; and a seal pattern having one end inserted into the first seal pattern groove and the other end inserted into the second seal pattern groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Won-Jun Choi, Se-Joon Baek, Sung-Lim Nam, Bum-Sik Seo, Hyuck Oh, Hyo-Il Jeon
  • Patent number: 9235050
    Abstract: A light guide plate receives light emitted from the light source, and emits the light from a light emitting surface. A prism sheet reflects light at a predetermined angle among the light emitted from the light emitting surface, allows the reflected light to enter the light guide plate, and transmits light at another angle. A polarization control element is provided between a 1/4 wavelength plate and a reflection-type liquid crystal display element so as to be parallel to the light emitting surface. The polarization control element splits the light emitted from the 1/4 wavelength plate into first polarized light allowed to transmit as illumination light that enters the reflection-type liquid crystal display element and second polarized light reflected so as to enter the light guide plate, and reflects the light modulated and emitted by the reflection-type liquid crystal display element toward an imaging lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Manabu Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9220173
    Abstract: The present invention provides a back frame of flat panel display device, which includes at least two primary assembling pieces. The at least two primary assembling pieces both include a joint section. The at least two primary assembling pieces are joined to form a main frame structure of the back frame by having corresponding joint sections joined to and mating each other. At least one of the primary assembling pieces includes a reinforcement structure formed on the joint section thereof. The present invention also provides a method for manufacturing a back frame and a backlight system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi-Cheng Kuo, Yu-Chun Hsiao, Chong Huang, Jia-He Cheng
  • Patent number: 9213195
    Abstract: A display device (50aa) includes a display panel (30) which has a display region (D) for image display and a non-display region (N) surrounding the display region (D), and has flexibility, wherein a reinforcing member (35a) is bonded to in the non-display region (N) of the display panel (30) such that the display region (D) is exposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noriko Watanabe, Takuto Yasumatsu
  • Patent number: 9207473
    Abstract: A method of disassembling a liquid crystal display comprising a plastic frame having two inner walls and two loading planes, an optical film, a LCD panel and a double-sided tape. One side of the double-sided tape respectively adheres the optical film, One inner wall and the two loading planes, and the other side thereof adheres the LCD panel, and the optical film and the LCD panel are together installed in the plastic frame. The method comprises a protruding part is pressed, so the plastic frame is deformed, and the side of the double-sided tape still adheres the optical film and the plastic frame, with the deformation of the plastic frame, one corner of the LCD panel is released from the other adhering surface of the double-sided tape; and the released corner of the LCD panel is lifted till the LCD panel is totally removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignees: AU OPTRONICS (SUZHOU) CORP., LTD., AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Xiao-Hui Wei
  • Patent number: 9201183
    Abstract: An optical film, a circular polarizing plate, and a display device are provided. The optical film may exhibit a desired phase retardation property in a wide wavelength range even when it is relatively thin. The optical film may exhibit the ΒΌ wavelength phase retardation property. The optical film may be manufactured by a simple process. The optical film may be used in LCDs such as a reflective LCD, or OLEDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Hyuk Yoon, Byoung Kun Jeon, Moon Soo Park
  • Patent number: 9201185
    Abstract: Various embodiments are disclosed that relate to display panel backlight systems that output light with a narrower angular intensity distribution than a diffuse backlight. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a backlight system comprising a wedge-shaped light guide comprising a thin end and a thick end, the thick end of the wedge-shaped light guide comprising a linear reflector with plurality of facets, and wherein the backlight system also comprises a plurality of light sources arranged along the thin end of the wedge-shaped light guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventor: Timothy Large
  • Patent number: 9195110
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display comprising: a vertically aligned liquid crystal layer located between a first and a second substrate, a first and a second polarizing layer, and an optical compensation plate having negative biaxial optical anisotropy; wherein at least either the first or the second substrate has protrusions having approximately the same first height and protruding into the liquid crystal layer, the protrusions being formed only inside of the sealing material, the liquid crystal layer in the protrusion-free position having a second height, and the area of the region in which the thickness of the liquid crystal layer is equal to the value obtained by subtracting the first height from the second height as a result of the existence of the protrusions accounting for ?%, which belongs to 5% to 50%, of the area of the region where the liquid crystal layer exists on the substrate with protrusions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshihisa Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 9182530
    Abstract: A light guide plate includes a body portion, first unit optical elements extending on the body portion in the light guide direction, and second unit optical elements disposed in between the first unit optical elements on the body portion. The width of each first unit optical element gradually decreases from that at the center to that at each end in the light guide direction. The ratio of the height to the width in each first unit optical element at the center is higher than the ratio of the height to the width in each second unit optical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Goto, Hiroshi Sekiguchi, Hiroshi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9176339
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is discussed, which includes a first substrate and a second substrate, which face each other; a liquid crystal layer formed between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a column spacer formed between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the column spacer is formed within a light-shielding region on the first substrate or the second substrate, and a width of the light-shielding region in the periphery of the column spacer is greater than that of the light-shielding region where the column spacer is not formed. Since the width of the light-shielding region in the periphery of the column spacer is greater than that of the light-shielding region where the column spacer is not formed, even though an alignment film is damaged by the column spacer, light leakage can be prevented from occurring at the damaged portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang Ho Kim, Yong Min Ha
  • Patent number: 9170462
    Abstract: An array substrate comprises a first metal layer in which first signal lines are disposed; a second metal layer in which second signal lines are disposed; an insulation layer provided between the first and second metal layers. A repairing line is provided in edge regions of the second metal layer and insulated from the second signal lines, and the repairing line comprises a first longitudinal portion, a second longitudinal portion and a transverse portion, the first longitudinal portion is electrically connected to the second longitudinal portion by the transverse portion. A projection of the first longitudinal portion in a plane of the first metal layer intersects with one end of each of the first signal lines, and a projection of the second longitudinal portion in the plane of the first metal layer intersects with the other end of each of the first signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jian Guo, Weifeng Zhou, Xing Ming, Hao Wu
  • Patent number: 9164343
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for saving by-pass capacitor by using circuit board, which includes (1) providing a liquid crystal panel including two glass substrates and liquid crystal material containing liquid crystal molecules, the glass substrates forming a liquid crystal panel driving circuit, which includes a gate driver, a source driver, gate lines, and data lines; (2) providing a power supply module and a power connection circuit board including a base material on which a power route and a grounding route are provided to respectively form exposed copper zones at a location where a by-pass capacitor is desired to form so as to form an equivalent by-pass capacitor; (3) connecting the gate driver and the source driver via the power connection circuit board to the power supply module; and (4) activating the power supply module to control rotation of the liquid crystal molecules of each of the pixel units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Jiehui Qin, Xiaoping Tan, Poshen Lin
  • Patent number: 9158154
    Abstract: A backlight module is disclosed, which includes an outer frame having a sidewall and a hole formed on the sidewall, an inner frame disposed inside of the outer frame, and an adhesive device. The inner frame includes a block wall and a support. The block wall has an inner surface, an outer surface, and a breakable section. The outer surface is in contact with the sidewall, and the breakable section is disposed corresponding to the hole. The adhesive device is disposed on the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ching-Hung Cheng, Ta-Jen Huang
  • Patent number: 9116375
    Abstract: The present invention provides a connection structure for panel and frame and holding member thereof. The connection structure includes a panel and a frame supporting the panel. The panel and the frame use a plurality of holding members to fix and hold. The holding member includes a presser and a connection part extending from one side of the presser. The connection part includes a first extension part and a second extension part. The first extension part and the second extension part connect a corresponding connection element on the side of the frame. As such, the present invention saves the front frame and fixes a liquid crystal panel and a frame of a liquid crystal module to reduce the transportation risk, protect the liquid crystal panel from damage, simplify the overall assembly structure of the liquid crystal module and reduce the assembly cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Lifeng Wang, Yuchun Hsiao, Yi-cheng Kuo
  • Patent number: 9110338
    Abstract: A mask for curing frame sealant and a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel manufacturing method are provided in the present invention. A transition region is formed in a joining area between a shading region and a transparent region. The shading region is adjacent to the transparent region and the transition region joins the shading region, the transition region includes at least two shading portions and a transparent portion. The shading portion and the transparent portion are alternatively arranged. When the mask is utilized for exposure, the irradiation transmittance in the transition region is lower than the irradiation transmittance in the transparent region and higher than the irradiation transmittance in the shading region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chung Yi Chiu