Patents Examined by Mariceli Santiago
  • Patent number: 11940637
    Abstract: Provided is a color transformation filter including a plurality of nanostructures included in a subpixel and spaced apart from each other, the plurality of nanostructures having a first refractive index, a low refractive index layer provided adjacent to the plurality of nanostructures, the low refractive index layer having a second refractive index less than the first refractive index, and a color transformation element included in the low refractive index layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., IUCF-HYU (INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY)
    Inventors: Sunjin Song, Seokho Song, Wonjae Joo, Myongjong Kwon
  • Patent number: 11940105
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of candle lamps, and in particular, to a lamp with a flame simulation effect achieved by light emission from through holes. The lamp includes a base, and further includes: a light emitting module, arranged on the base and configured to generate a light source; a light guide portion, arranged on the base and covering the light emitting module, wherein the light guide portion is configured to guide and diffuse the light source generated by the light emitting module; a light shield, arranged on the base and covering the light emitting module, wherein dense through holes for exporting the light source to the outside are formed in the light shield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Inventor: Valentin Shcheglov
  • Patent number: 11940638
    Abstract: A plant growth lighting fixture includes a lighting fixture main body having a light exit surface, a light source held on the lighting fixture main body, and a reflective-type circularly polarizing film that selectively reflects circularly polarized light having a particular rotational direction. The reflective-type circularly polarizing film is releasably affixed to the light exit surface of the lighting fixture main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Kuniyasu, Ryosuke Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11932177
    Abstract: A cladding part has a carrier part and a surface covering, which is arranged on a side of the carrier part that faces the surface covering. The surface covering is made of an intrinsically stiff knitted-fabric material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Aumann, Florian Dechant, Johann Gasslhuber, Dienhung Huynh
  • Patent number: 11933472
    Abstract: A lighting device for a motor vehicle having a light source, a light guide with an entrance surface, and a hologram disposed on or in the light guide. The lighting device is configured such that light emanating from the light source enters the entrance surface of the light guide and interacts with the hologram so that an image stored in the hologram is reconstructed and is visible to an observer of the lighting device. The light guide has a first exit surface and a second exit surface. The lighting device is configured such that light that has interacted with the hologram exits through the first exit surface and that light that has not interacted with the hologram exits through the second exit surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Hella GmbH & CO. KGAA
    Inventor: Martin Muegge
  • Patent number: 11932343
    Abstract: A handlebar grip set has two turn signals, two operating kits, and two grips. Each of the two turn signals is detachable and has a base, an illumination module assembled to the base, and a housing assembled to the base and covering the illumination module. Each operating kit has a button module electrically connected to the illumination module of a corresponding one of the turn signals. Each one of the grips surrounds the base of a corresponding one of the turn signals. The base of each turn signal is configured to be assembled to one of two ends of a handlebar. The turn signals of the handlebar grip set provide sufficient warning function when a bicycle equipped with the handlebar grip set is turning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignees: Q-LITE CO., LTD., KILEY LIGHTING TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Bao-Liang Chen
  • Patent number: 11927870
    Abstract: A pixel structure is provided. The pixel structure includes a display unit and a shading unit, and at least a portion of the shading unit is disposed on the display unit. The display unit includes a pixel switch element and a self-illuminating element, and the self-illuminating element is electrically connected to the pixel switch element. The shading unit includes a shading electrode and a shading layer, and the shading layer is disposed on the self-illuminating element and electrically connected to the shading layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: ACER INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jui-Chieh Hsiang, Chih-Chiang Chen
  • Patent number: 11927850
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device having high luminance and high CR in a front direction and especially useful as a head-mounted liquid crystal display device, for example. The liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal panel; an optical element; and a backlight, arranged in this order from a viewing surface side. The optical element includes a first polarizer, a retardation layer, and a second polarizer. The first polarizer, the retardation layer, and the second polarizer are arranged in this order from the viewing surface side. The first polarizer and the second polarizer are reflection polarizers. A reflection axis of the first polarizer and a reflection axis of the second polarizer are parallel to each other. In oblique directions at azimuths of 0°, 45°, and 90° at a polar angle of 60°, a polarization state of light incident on the first polarizer is elliptical polarization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichi Kawahira, Masahiro Hasegawa, Ryosuke Saigusa, Akira Sakai
  • Patent number: 11927853
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the field of display technology, and in particular to a display substrate, a display panel, and a display device. The display substrate includes a first electrode, a first wire, and a second wire; the first electrode is provided with a plurality of slits; the first wire is provided on a side of the first electrode, and a first gap is provided between the first wire and the first electrode, and the first wire being electrically connected to the first electrode; a second wire provided on a side of the first electrode away from the first wire, and a second gap being provided between the second wire and the first electrode; wherein each of the slits is provided with a first end and a second end opposed to each other, and the first end is close to the first wire, and the second end is close to the second wire, and a light-transmitting part of the first end is larger than a light-transmitting part of the second end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: HEFEI BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yunfei Liu, Wei Zhang, Jilei Gao, Bin Li, Benzhi Xu, Chao Li, Lu Niu, Qi Liu
  • Patent number: 11923185
    Abstract: A method of forming a high-pressure plasma lamp includes providing a lamp bulb. The lamp bulb includes a top channel and a bottom channel. The method includes inserting a top electrode element into the top channel of the lamp bulb. The method includes providing a glass tubular structure attached to a bottom electrode element. The method includes filling the lamp bulb with a liquified gas through the bottom channel of the lamp bulb. The method includes inserting the bottom electrode element and the glass tubular structure into the bottom channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: KLA Corporation
    Inventors: Mark S. Wang, Joshua Wittenberg
  • Patent number: 11921399
    Abstract: An optical device including an achromatic phase doublet and a method of driving an optical device having reduced chromatic aberration is provided. The optical device includes an electroactive lens including an electroactive material layer, wherein the electroactive lens is configured to form a doublet phase function by applying a voltage to the electroactive material layer, the doublet phase function including a kinoform phase function and a harmonic lens phase function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Vladislav Olegovich Tigaev, Svetlana Vladimirovna Danilova, Dmitriy Evgenyevich Piskunov, Gavril Nikolaevich Vostrikov, Nikolay Victorovich Muravev, Mikhail Viacheslavovich Popov
  • Patent number: 11906839
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display device and an electronic equipment. The display device includes: a display module, the display module having a light emitting side; a phase retarder, the phase retarder is disposed on the light emitting side of the display module; wherein a range of a compensation value of the phase retarder is [?/16, ?/4), (?/4, 7?/16], [9?/16, 3?/4) or (3?/4, 15?/16], where ? is a wavelength of light emitted by the display module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: HUIZHOU CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Bo Hai
  • Patent number: 11899297
    Abstract: A novel foldable display device or an electronic device using the same, e.g., a portable information processor or a portable communication information device, is provided. A foldable display device of which a display panel can be folded n times (n?1, and n is a natural number) at a curvature radius of greater than or equal to 1 mm and less than or equal to 100 mm is obtained. The display device can be miniaturized by being foldable. In addition, in the state where the flexible display panel is opened, display which is unbroken and continuous over a plurality of housings is possible. The plurality of housings can store a circuit, an electronic component, a battery and the like inside as appropriate, and the thickness of each housing can be small.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshiharu Hirakata
  • Patent number: 11898723
    Abstract: A support pole is received in a pole receiver. The pole has an outwardly biased spring tab that is compressible by an inside surface of the pole receiver until the spring tab is inserted to a location above a top surface of the pole receiver, thereby creating a secure attachment of the torch assembly to the pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Lamplight Farms Inc orporated
    Inventors: Lucas Henry Zeitler, Robert Woodruff, David A. Reed
  • Patent number: 11879618
    Abstract: An LED string light includes a first conducting wire, a second conducting wire, and a third conducting wire which are arranged in parallel. The first, second, and third conducting wires all comprise a conducting wire core and an insulation layer coating a surface of the conducting wire core, and the first conducting wire and the second conducting wire define a plurality of lamp welding regions. The LED string light also includes a plurality of SMD LEDs respectively disposed at the plurality of lamp welding regions. The first conducting wire is selectively cut off at a plurality of first positions and the second conducting wire is selectively cut off at a plurality of second positions based on whether the plurality of the SMD LEDs are connected in series or in hybrid of series and parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: ZHUHAI BOJAY ELECTRONICS CO.LTD.
    Inventors: Xiwan Shan, Tuxiu Yang, Yundong Ai, Jie Zhang, Qunlin Li, Qiming Liu, Su Yan, Jingtian Wu, Yanyong Liu, Junchao He, Jiahui Cai, Yue Chen
  • Patent number: 11875964
    Abstract: A triple-point cathode coating and method wherein electrically conductive NEA diamond particles cast or mixed with the adhesive medium and electrically insulative NEA diamond particles are cast or mixed with the adhesive medium to form a plurality of exposed junctions between electrically conductive diamond particles and electrically insulative diamond particles to reduce any electrical charges on a structure coated with the coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Physical Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan D. Rameau, Nicholas R. Craig
  • Patent number: 11870222
    Abstract: A spark plug electrode with an electrode tip formed on an electrode base using an additive manufacturing process, such as a powder bed fusion technique. The spark plug electrode includes an intermediate layer located between the electrode tip and the electrode base, where the intermediate layer has a coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) that is between that of the electrode base and the electrode tip and includes a whole area connection. In some examples, the whole area connection is non-uniform in thickness so that it is thicker in one section than it is in another section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: FEDERAL-MOGUL IGNITION GMBH
    Inventors: Werner Niessner, Daniel Konig
  • Patent number: 11860484
    Abstract: A liquid crystal element (100) includes a plurality of unit electrodes (10), a liquid crystal layer (LQ), and a plurality of wall members (WL). Each of the unit electrodes (10) includes a first electrode (1) and a second electrode (2). A voltage is applied to the liquid crystal layer (LQ) from each of the unit electrodes (10). The wall members (WL) are arranged in the liquid crystal layer (LQ). The liquid crystal layer (LQ) has a waveform retardation (RT). Two or more of a plurality of peaks (P1) in the retardation (RT) correspond to positions of respective wall members (WL).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: OSAKA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Sunri Lee, Giichi Shibuya, Hiroyuki Yoshida, Masanori Ozaki
  • Patent number: 11858237
    Abstract: An exterior light signaling vehicle glazing selected from a rear window, a side window or a windshield includes a first glazing which forms an outer glazing and has first and second main faces; diodes; and for each diode, a primary optical system or a collimating optical system between the diodes and the second main face, followed by a redirecting optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Mathieu Berard, Olivier Delrieu, Pascal Bauerle
  • Patent number: 11860463
    Abstract: A HUD includes a plate that connects an emission-surface of the LCD and a heat sink, is formed of a material having a higher thermal conductivity than air, and is provided with an emission-surface exhaust heat path that is formed to: include a holding region fixed to a periphery of the emission-surface directly or via a material having a higher thermal conductivity than air, and an intermediate region connecting the holding region and the heat sink; connect an end portion, which is opposite to the holding region, of the intermediate region with the heat sink directly or via a material having a higher thermal conductivity than air; extend from the emission-surface to the heat sink via the plate; and have a thermal gradient greater than that of a heat transfer path for transferring heat from the emission-surface to the heat sink by using air as a medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Eiji Kawawa, Toshinori Sugiyama, Tomoki Yamamoto, Tatsuya Nakazawa, Keisuke Sawada, Akio Misawa, Nozomu Shimoda