Patents Examined by Paisley L Wilson
  • Patent number: 11829016
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a display surface on which an image is displayed, a film disposed above the display panel, a bottom chassis disposed under the display panel, a pole frame disposed under the bottom chassis, and a pole chassis. The pole frame includes a fixing portion and an elastic portion. The pole chassis is coupled with the elastic portion. The film includes a first portion disposed on the display panel and a second portion extending from the first portion and coupled to the pole chassis. The pole frame and the pole chassis cooperate to exert a force on the film, and thus the film may be extended to the bottom chassis from the display panel without being deformed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yongil Kim
  • Patent number: 11817463
    Abstract: Provided are a driving backplane and a method for manufacturing the same, a display device. The method includes: forming a first conductive pattern including signal lines; forming an insulating layer having via holes; forming a second conductive pattern including pairs of coupling electrodes; sequentially forming an inorganic material layer and an organic material layer; performing step exposure and developing on the organic material layer to form an intermediate pattern including a hollow-out portion, a completely-reserved portion and a half-reserved portion; the completely-reserved portion is thicker than the half-reserved portion, a thickness of the half-reserved portion is x times that of the inorganic material layer; etching the inorganic material layer and the intermediate pattern until a part of the inorganic material layer, corresponding to the hollow-out portion, is removed; an etching selection ratio of the inorganic material layer to the intermediate pattern is 1:y, 0<x?y.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY. GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenjie Xu, Jing Wang, Xiaodong Xie, Tsungchieh Kuo, Weiwei Chu, Yuan Li
  • Patent number: 11809038
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a reflective or transflective liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal cell whose liquid crystal molecules are aligned in a planar or vertical manner, this liquid crystal cell being formed of a transparent front substrate located on the side of an observer, and a rear substrate, also transparent, which extends under the front substrate, parallel to and at a distance from the latter, these two front and rear substrates being joined together with a sealing frame which delimits a sealed enclosure in which a liquid crystal composition is confined, the front and rear substrates being coated on the opposite faces thereof with electrically conductive transparent electrodes and counter-electrodes, the optical properties of the liquid crystal composition being changed by applying an electric field at the crossing point between an electrode and a corresponding counter-electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd
    Inventors: Michel Sagardoyburu, Simon Springer
  • Patent number: 11803003
    Abstract: In one aspect, an optical device comprises a plurality of waveguides formed over one another and having formed thereon respective diffraction gratings, wherein the respective diffraction gratings are configured to diffract visible light incident thereon into respective waveguides, such that visible light diffracted into the respective waveguides propagates therewithin. The respective diffraction gratings are configured to diffract the visible light into the respective waveguides within respective field of views (FOVs) with respect to layer normal directions of the respective waveguides. The respective FOVs are such that the plurality of waveguides are configured to diffract the visible light within a combined FOV that is continuous and greater than each of the respective FOVs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Chulwoo Oh, Vikraman Parthiban
  • Patent number: 11774811
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to prevent an overhang in a through hole in the display area when through holes in the organic passivation film in the display area and in the terminal area are simultaneously formed. The structure to realize this purpose is as follows: the terminal area having a lead wire, formed from a first metal, and extending to the display area, a first insulating film covering the lead wire, a second metal formed on the first insulating film, and a third metal formed on the surface of the second metal, wherein the first insulating film has a first through hole and a second through hole, the second metal has a first portion that connects with the lead wire via the first through hole, the second metal has a second portion that overlaps the second through hole, the second portion is separated from the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hidetatsu Nakamura, Yasuhiro Kanaya, Gen Koide, Hiroyuki Abe
  • Patent number: 11774817
    Abstract: A pixel structure and a display device are provided. The pixel structure includes a first metal layer, a transparent electrode layer, and a second metal layer. The first metal layer includes a plurality of first metal lines, a plurality of second metal lines, and a third metal line. The transparent electrode layer is disposed in a space formed by the first metal layer. The second metal layer is disposed over the first metal layer and the transparent electrode layer and disposed on a side of the transparent electrode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zui Wang
  • Patent number: 11726376
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device with a high aperture ratio is provided. A liquid crystal display device with low power consumption is provided. The display device includes a display portion and a driver circuit portion. The display portion includes a liquid crystal element, a first transistor, a scan line, and a signal line. The driver circuit portion includes a second transistor. The liquid crystal element includes a pixel electrode, a liquid crystal layer, and a common electrode. Each of the scan line and the signal line is electrically connected to the first transistor. The scan line and the signal line each include a metal layer. The structure of the first transistor is different from that of the second transistor. The first transistor is electrically connected to the pixel electrode. The first transistor includes a first region connected to the pixel electrode. The pixel electrode, the common electrode, and the first region have a function of transmitting visible light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Yukinori Shima, Kenichi Okazaki, Natsuko Takase
  • Patent number: 11719983
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The display panel includes: a first medium and a first spacer wall between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the first sub-panel has filter pixels arranged at intervals, the first spacer wall is black and arranged along spaces between filter pixels, and a dielectric coefficient of the first spacer wall is greater than that of the first medium; and a second sub-panel on a light emergent side of the first sub-panel and including a second medium and a second spacer wall between the third substrate and the fourth substrate, wherein the second sub-panel has display pixels arranged at intervals, the second spacer wall is black and arranged along spaces between display pixels, and a dielectric coefficient of the second spacer wall is greater than that of the second medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yang Yue, Qi Yao, Yong Yu, Hua Huang, Tong Yang, Shi Shu, Chuanxiang Xu, Xue Jiang, Haitao Huang, Xiang Li, Zhao Cui
  • Patent number: 11714328
    Abstract: Disclosed is a terminal, including: a display screen including a sensor area, the sensor area being a transparent display area on the display screen; a sensor disposed below the display screen, the sensor having a photosensitive portion; and a color-changing layer above the display screen, where the photosensitive portion of the sensor is within a first orthographic projection range of the sensor area, and the sensor area is within a second orthographic projection range of the color-changing layer; the transparent display area is transparent when the sensor is in operation; and the color-changing layer is configured to switch between a colorless state and a colored state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lintao Zhang, Wei Chen, Jiwei Chen, Jing Gao, Zhiwen Xu
  • Patent number: 11703724
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a liquid crystal panel, a camera and a lead line. The liquid crystal panel includes a display area, an incident light control area, and a peripheral area. The camera overlaps the incident light control area. The display area includes a pixel electrode. The incident light control area includes a control electrode different in shape from the pixel electrode. The lead line is connected to the control electrode in the display area between the peripheral area and the incident light control area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventor: Yoshiro Aoki
  • Patent number: 11698558
    Abstract: A display device includes: a first pixel including a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, and a third sub-pixel; and a second pixel including the first sub-pixel, the second sub-pixel, and a fourth sub-pixel. The first pixel and the second pixel are alternately arranged in a row direction and a column direction. The third sub-pixel and the fourth sub-pixel are alternately arranged in the column direction. A branch electrode in one of two first sub-pixels adjacent in the column direction extends in a first direction, and a branch electrode in the other thereof extends in a second direction. A branch electrode in one of two second sub-pixels adjacent in the column direction extends in the first direction, and a branch electrode in the other thereof extends in the second direction. Each branch electrode in the third sub-pixel and the fourth sub-pixel includes a bending portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Masaaki Kabe, Jin Hirosawa, Hayato Kurasawa
  • Patent number: 11693288
    Abstract: A highly reliable semiconductor device is provided. A second insulating layer is positioned over a first insulating layer. A semiconductor layer is positioned between the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer. A third insulating layer is positioned over the second insulating layer. A fourth insulating layer is positioned over the third insulating layer. A first conductive layer includes a region overlapping with the semiconductor layer, and is positioned between the third insulating layer and the fourth insulating layer. The third insulating layer includes a region in contact with a bottom surface of the first conductive layer and a region in contact with the fourth insulating layer. The fourth insulating layer is in contact with a top surface and a side surface of the first conductive layer. A fifth insulating layer is in contact with a top surface and a side surface of the semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masami Jintyou, Daisuke Kurosaki, Masakatsu Ohno, Junichi Koezuka
  • Patent number: 11681188
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present inventive concept provides a display device including: a substrate; a metal layer disposed on the substrate; a pixel electrode disposed on the metal layer and including a protrusion overlapping the metal layer; a first insulating layer covering the metal layer and the pixel electrode; an extension of a drain electrode disposed on the first insulating layer and overlapping a portion of the protrusion; a second insulating layer covering the first insulating layer and the extension; and a pixel electrode connector disposed on the second insulating layer and overlapping the protrusion and the extension, wherein the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer include a first opening exposing an upper surface of the protrusion and an upper surface of the extension, and the pixel electrode connector contacts the upper surface of the extension and the upper surface of the protrusion through the first opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: In Woo Kim
  • Patent number: 11681176
    Abstract: The present invention provides a solar reflective-absorptive device, comprising: an IR reflective transparent conductive film; a flexible transparent conductive film; a layer of liquid crystal dispersion in polymer matrix or polymer dispersion in liquid crystal domains allocated between said flexible IR reflective transparent conductive film and said flexible transparent conductive film. The liquid crystal dispersion is in polymer matrix or polymer dispersion domains, and comprises metalorganic dye compositions with absorption in the visible and/or IR regions of solar spectrum. The aforesaid liquid crystal dispersion consists of nematic mixtures and/or cholesteric mixtures comprising of chiral mesogenic or none-mesogenic chiral materials in nematic for IR absorption and/or broadband cholesteric materials for dynamic (electrically tunable) IR and visible absorption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: GAUZY LTD.
    Inventors: Hassan-Ali Hakemi, Adrian Lofer, Eyal Peso, Dana Gal-Fuss
  • Patent number: 11675238
    Abstract: A display panel includes: a first substrate and a second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes a first base, and a light extraction portion and a light conversion portion that are disposed on a first side and located in each sub-pixel region. The first base has the first side facing the second substrate. A refractive index of the light extraction portion is greater than or equal to a refractive index of the first base, and a refractive index of a portion of the light conversion portion in direct contact with the first base is less than the refractive index of the first base. The second substrate includes a second base, and at least one light reflecting structure and at least one light absorbing structure that are disposed at a side of the second base facing the first substrate and located in the sub-pixel region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qian Wang, Xue Dong, Qingxun Zhang, Xiaochuan Chen, Wenqing Zhao, Zhongxiao Li
  • Patent number: 11635669
    Abstract: A device includes a first substrate and a second substrate. The device also includes a birefringent medium layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. Orientations of directors of optically anisotropic molecules included in the birefringent medium layer varying periodically with an in-plane pitch tunable by an external field to adjust a diffraction angle of a light beam diffracted by the birefringent medium layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Lu Lu, Hao Yu, Mengfei Wang, Junren Wang, Yun-Han Lee, Nicholas John Diorio, Barry David Silverstein
  • Patent number: 11630333
    Abstract: Display panel and display device are provided. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels and a blocking metal wire. The pixel includes a display unit and a control unit driving the display unit. The display unit at least includes a heating element and a phase change material layer. The heating element includes a first connecting terminal and a second connecting terminal. The control unit includes a first signal terminal and a second signal terminal. The control unit includes at least one diode, which includes a diode semiconductor layer including a first electrode contact region, a second electrode contact region and a connecting region. The blocking metal wire covers the connecting region and is insulated from the connecting region. The blocking metal wire is electrically connected to each of the first signal terminal and the first signal source or to each of the second connecting terminal and the second signal source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shaolong Ma, Feng Lu, Qijun Yao
  • Patent number: 11609476
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a light deflection device having a simple structure suitable for reducing the size and weight where a deflection angle can be increased. The object can be achieved with a light deflection device including: a light deflection element that deflects incident light in one direct to be emitted; a driving unit that drives the light deflection element; and a diffraction element that is disposed on a light emission side of the light deflection element in which a periodic structure pitch gradually changes from a center of deflection from the light deflection element toward an outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yukito Saitoh, Hiroshi Sato
  • Patent number: 11586077
    Abstract: A display device comprises an upper base substrate; a lower base substrate which protrudes from the upper base substrate along a first direction in a plan view; a first printed circuit film which is attached to a first pad area in a portion of the lower base substrate protruding from the upper base substrate along the first direction; and an upper common electrode which is disposed between the upper base substrate and the lower base substrate, wherein the first printed circuit film is provided in plural numbers, the first printed circuit films are arranged to be spaced apart from each other along a second direction intersecting the first direction, and the upper common electrode overlapping a space between adjacent first printed circuit films along the first direction is recessed further inwardly in the first direction than the upper common electrode overlapping the first printed circuit film along the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Inventors: Sun Kwun Son, Dong Hyeon Ki, Na Hyeon Cha
  • Patent number: 11541731
    Abstract: Provided are a light control film whereby flickering is hard to recognize when observing external light via the light control film, a light control member comprising same, a vehicle, and an electricity supply method for the light control film. In the vehicle 130, the light control film 1 having a vertically-aligned liquid crystal layer is attached to a sunroof 132. The light control film 1 is attached to the sunroof 132 of the vehicle 130 such that the liquid crystal molecules fall to the rear of the vehicle 130 when an electric field is applied to the liquid crystal layer. As a result, passengers in the vehicle do not sense any flickering inside the car and have no discomfort.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masato Okabe