Patents Examined by Kevin Quarterman
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Patent number: 11972704Abstract: The flexible display device may include a display panel, including a display area, a non-display area and a bending area, bent in a rear direction so that one edge of the display panel has a predetermined curvature, a first back plate and a second back plate, disposed on a rear surface of the display panel, a cushion tape disposed on a rear surface of the first back plate, and a fixing tape, disposed between the cushion tape and the second back plate, made of an adhesive layer in the bending area. Accordingly, there is an effect of improving the quality of the flexible display device by reducing the peeling defect of the bending area.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Junho Yun, DongWon Jang, Lokdam Baek
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Patent number: 11974366Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, an electroluminescence element, a partition structure, a light conversion element and an intermediate layer. The electroluminescence element is disposed above the substrate. The partition structure is disposed above the electroluminescence element and includes a first opening. The light conversion element is disposed in the first opening. The intermediate layer is disposed above the light conversion element and the partition structure. The intermediate layer has a first part and a second part. In a top-view direction, the first part overlaps the light conversion element, the second part overlaps the partition structure, and a thickness of the first part is greater than a thickness of the second part.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: InnoLux CorporationInventors: Hsiao-Lang Lin, Tsung-Han Tsai, Kuan-Feng Lee
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Patent number: 11963421Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of pixels. At least one of the pixels includes a green light wavelength conversion layer, a color filter layer and a light path. The light path passes through the green light wavelength conversion layer and then passes through the color filter layer. The color filter layer includes a green pigment and a yellow pigment.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: InnoLux CorporationInventors: Hsiao-Lang Lin, Tsung-Han Tsai
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Patent number: 11953188Abstract: A bulb including light emitting diodes is optionally used to achieve a variety of light output colors and/or intensities. In some embodiments, the inputs to a three-way bulb are configured to perform other functions, such as power a motor. In some embodiments, a bulb including light emitting diodes includes a replicable cover and/or a replicable LED. This cover may be configured to project images or support a shade made of a heat sensitive material. The bulb may include a digital signal processor and/or a timer.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Inventor: Steven Michael Colby
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Patent number: 11956985Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a polarization member facing the display panel, a cover window including an inorganic material and facing the display panel with the polarization member therebetween, and a window bonding member which is between the cover window and the polarization member attaches the cover window to the polarization member. The window bonding member which attaches the cover window to the polarization member has a modulus of about of 1 MPa to about 10 MPa.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jun Su Park, Gi Suk Kwon, O Jun Kwon, Young Gil Park, Na Ri Ahn
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Patent number: 11953434Abstract: Disclosed is a spectroscopic device, system, and method for measuring the concentration of one or more molecular species of interest in a gas, liquid or solid sample, where the device may be portable, may be commercially manufactured, and/or may be adapted to existing systems and/or integrated with new systems to provide optical gas sensing for such systems. The disclosed devices, systems, and methods can be particularly useful in monitoring the purity of, e.g., a certain gas species, including determining whether a gas mixture contains certain gas species above a set concentration limit.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignees: SHELL OIL COMPNY, THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITYInventors: Mark Zondlo, Lei Tao, Da Pan, Josh Collins, Paul Guiguizian, Howard Y. Bell, Alice Margaret Sophie Elliott, Patrick Minter Killough, Bernardus Maria Geertshuis, Herie Javier Soto
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Patent number: 11946622Abstract: Methods, systems and devices associated with an electronic candle are described. In one example, an electronic candle comprises a housing having a through-hole at its top and a component shell. The component shell encloses a transfer mechanism including a driver motor and one or more gears positioned inside the component shell, a light emitting component coupled to the transfer mechanism such that the transfer mechanism causes the light emitting component to move vertically up or down to protrude from the housing or to retract into the housing, a lid positioned inside the component shell and movable to remain in at least one of an open configuration or a closed configuration, and a controller configured to turn on or off the light emitting component. The candle also includes a controller configured to turn on or off the light emitting component.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: L&L Candle Company, LLCInventor: Xiaofeng Li
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Patent number: 11947212Abstract: An electronic device which is capable of being bent in a first direction and includes a plurality of light-emitting units and a plurality of conductive patterns overlapping with at least a portion of the plurality of light-emitting units and extending in a second direction. The first direction and the second direction have an angle ? of not greater than 30 degrees.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: InnoLux CorporationInventors: Yuan-Lin Wu, Yu-Chia Huang, Yu-Ting Huang, Kuan-Feng Lee, Chia-Hung Hsieh
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Patent number: 11916357Abstract: A spark plug including a terminal end, a firing end, an axial centerline extending between the terminal end and the firing end, and an insulative core extending between the terminal end and the firing end. The insulative core includes a central bore coincident with the axial centerline extending through the insulative core, and an insulative nose extending along the axial centerline at the firing end of the insulative core, the insulative nose having an axial length and defining an end surface of the insulative core, wherein a cross-sectional area of the insulative nose perpendicular to the axial centerline varies along the axial length of the insulative nose with a cross-sectional area along at least a portion of the axial length being less than a surface area of the end surface so that a perimeter surface along the portion of the axial length of the insulative nose has a concave profile.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2023Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: EcoPower Spark, LLCInventor: David Resnick
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Patent number: 11909178Abstract: A prechamber spark plug having a thermally enhanced prechamber cap with a thermally conductive core, such as one made from a copper-, aluminum- and/or silver-based material. Due to its location and function, a prechamber cap is exposed to thermal energy from a pre-combustion process taking place within a prechamber, as well as thermal energy from a combustion process taking place in a main combustion chamber. Thus, the prechamber cap is being heated on both its interior and its exterior and, if not sufficiently cooled, can become so hot that it undesirably triggers preignition events in the engine. The thermally enhanced prechamber cap may include a main body with an interior surface and an exterior surface, a thermally conductive core with one or more thermal segments and insert segments, and one or more openings extending between a prechamber and a main combustion chamber, where each opening extends through an insert segment that is designed to resistant to corrosion and/or erosion.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: FEDERAL-MOGUL IGNITION GMBHInventors: Werner Niessner, Peter Janas-Habu, Michael A. Golin
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Patent number: 11904059Abstract: A light emitting apparatus including a first light emitter including at least one first light emitting diode and a wavelength converter, and a second light emitter including at least one second light emitting diode, in which the first light emitting diode emits light having a central wavelength in a range of violet or blue, the second light emitting diode emits light having a central wavelength in a range of about 400 nm to 420 nm, the wavelength converter includes green and red phosphors to convert light of the first light emitting diode into the white light, in the white light, an irradiance of light emitted from the first light emitting diode is less than that from the red phosphor, and an irradiance of light emitted from the second light emitting diode is greater than that of the white light emitted from the first light emitter at the same wavelength.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: SEOUL VIOSYS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hee Ho Bae, A Young Lee, Yeong Min Yoon
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Patent number: 11898956Abstract: Disclosed is a spectroscopic device, system, and method for measuring the concentration of one or more molecular species of interest in a gas, liquid or solid sample, where the device may be portable, may be commercially manufactured, and/or may be adapted to existing systems and/or integrated with new systems to provide optical gas sensing for such systems. The disclosed devices, systems, and methods can be particularly useful in monitoring the purity of, e.g., a certain gas species, including determining whether a gas mixture contains certain gas species above a set concentration limit.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignees: SHELL OIL COMPNY, THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITYInventors: Mark Zondlo, Lei Tao, Da Pan, Josh Collins, Paul Guiguizian, Howard Y. Bell, Alice Margaret Sophie Elliott, Patrick Minter Killough, Bernardus Maria Geertshuis, Herie Javier Soto
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Patent number: 11898959Abstract: Raman systems and methods use advantages offered by increased laser mobility/path length and photon migration to analyze diffusively scattering solids, including pharmaceuticals. A collimated laser excitation beam having a first diameter induces from a sample a backscattered collimated Raman collection beam with a second diameter. The collimated laser excitation beam and the collimated Raman collection beam form a counter-propagating collimated optical path, and the collimated laser excitation beam is preferably smaller in diameter than the diameter of the backscattered collimated Raman beam. The collection beam to a spectrograph for Raman analysis of the sample. A Raman calibration standard may be placed in the collimated optical path, and/or the sample may be supported in a reflective holder that may be at least partially spherical and/or may form part of a multi-well plate. The counter-propagating collimated optical path may be contained within a Raman microscope.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Inventor: Harry Owen
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Patent number: 11898711Abstract: A lightbar assembly connector for use in a modular lightbar system to connect two or more lightbar assemblies together and having a design and configuration that enables the lightbar assembly connector and lightbar assemblies to be connected by moving the lightbar assembly connector in a direction generally transverse to the longitudinal axis of the lightbar assembly (or by moving the lightbar assembly in a direction generally transverse to the major surface of the lightbar assembly connector). It is thus possible to assemble a modular lightbar system comprised of a plurality of lightbar assemblies and lightbar assembly connectors, any of which are easily removable, replaceable, or serviceable without having to remove or move lightbar assemblies that do not need to be replaced or serviced.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2023Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: MAXLITE, INCInventors: Aymen Chami, Yaolin Tang
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Patent number: 11903241Abstract: An organic EL device including a first barrier film that contains primarily silicon nitride, a second barrier film that contains primarily silicon nitride, an organic EL element that is disposed between the first barrier film and the second barrier film, a first flexible substrate that is disposed opposite the organic EL element with the first barrier film interposed therebetween, a second flexible substrate that is disposed opposite the organic EL element with the second barrier film interposed therebetween, and a third barrier film that is disposed between the second barrier film and the organic EL element, and contains primarily silicon nitride.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yuka Isaji
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Patent number: 11903237Abstract: A display apparatus, includes: a first pixel, a second pixel, and a third pixel each configured to emit different colors; an organic light-emitting diode on a substrate and including a pixel electrode, an intermediate layer, and an opposite electrode; a black matrix on the organic light-emitting diode; a column spacer on the same layer as the black matrix and spaced apart from the black matrix by a first distance in a plan view; and a first quantum conversion layer on the substrate to correspond to an emission area of the first pixel and including first quantum dots.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sunkyu Joo, Keunchan Oh, Inok Kim, Jangsoo Kim, Jaecheol Park, Jaemin Seong, Yousik Shin, Gakseok Lee
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Patent number: 11892730Abstract: A backlight module, a display device, and a method of assembling a display device are disclosed. The backlight module includes a backplate, a middle frame, and a bonding adhesive. The middle frame is disposed on the backplate. A first adhesive holding slot is disposed between the backplate and the middle frame. At least one adhesive passage hole is defined in the middle frame. One end of the at least one adhesive passage hole is connected to the first adhesive holding slot, and another end of the at least one adhesive passage hole defines an opening at a top of the middle frame.Type: GrantFiled: July 4, 2023Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITEDInventors: Xiaohui Yang, Haijiang Yuan
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Patent number: 11885731Abstract: An optical particle detector including at least one channel intended to receive a fluid carrying at least one particle, and across which light rays are intended to pass such that the light rays are partially scattered by the at least one particle, a plurality of photodetectors capable of receiving said scattered light rays, wherein the detector includes at least one optical waveguide configured to collect, at least at one entrance of the waveguide, light rays that were not scattered by the at least one particle and having crossed the channel, and to reinject the unscattered light rays into the channel through at least one exit of the waveguide.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignees: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, CPE LYON FORMATION CONTINUE ET RECHERCHE, ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON, INSTITUT NATIONAL DES SCIENCES APPLIQUEES DE LYON, UNIVERSITE CLAUDE BERNARD LYON 1Inventors: Salim Boutami, Maryse Fournier, Gabriel Jobert, Christian Seassal, Cécile Jamois
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Patent number: 11879780Abstract: A coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscope imaging apparatus, comprising: a laser light source (21), a two-dimensional oscillating mirror assembly (22), a first light dichroic mirror plate (23), an objective lens (24), a sample translation platform (25), a collection device (26), and a data processing module; the laser light source (21) is used for producing a first laser beam and a second laser beam; the first laser beam and the second laser beam are coaxially emitted and are incident on the two-dimensional oscillating mirror assembly (22); the first laser beam and the second laser beam leaving the two-dimensional oscillating mirror assembly pass through the first light dichroic mirror plate (23) and the objective lens (24); the objective lens (24) focuses the first laser beam and the second laser beam onto the sample translation platform; the signal light produced on the sample translation platform (25) passes through the objective lens (24).Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2019Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: WEIPENG (SUZHOU) MEDICAL DEVICES CO., LTD.Inventors: Yan Xia, Bin Yang, Rui Li
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Patent number: 11880045Abstract: A motion generator including a frame, a mount movable with respect to the frame, and an emitting device having a beam outlet configured to emit an electromagnetic beam therefrom, and where the emitting device is coupled to and movable together with the mount relative to the frame. The motion generator is also operable in a first mode in which the beam outlet travels in a spiral pattern that alternatingly increases and decreases in radius, where for any given point in the spiral pattern the beam outlet produces a beam speed, a beam direction, an instantaneous beam radius, and a beam radius rate of change, and where the beam speed, the beam direction, and the beam radius rate of change may be adjusted independently.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Inventor: Paul Kratzke