Patents Examined by Robert H. Kims
  • Patent number: 6924873
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display device for displaying colors by transmission and reflection modes and a method for producing such devices, whereby the additive color mixing can be used, the structure is simplified, the driving-voltage is lower, the contrast is higher, the response speed is higher, and the screen can be larger. This objective can be achieved by a method including the following steps: mixing 0.001 to 20 wt % of dichromatic melanotic pigment into chiral nematic liquid crystal mixed with chiral dopant; preparing a mixture of the liquid crystal and prepolymer to be polymerized into transparent polymeric solid; inserting the mixture into the space between two conductive substrates, wherein at least one of which is transparent; and irradiating ultra-violet light or neighboring short-wavelength light onto the mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Inventor: Tadahiro Asada
  • Patent number: 6924869
    Abstract: Display panel with the integrated driver circuit, the display panel comprises an isolating array substrate and further comprises a plurality of peripheral areas, a liquid crystal injection hole, display area, gate driver circuit and data driver circuit. This invention disposes the data driver circuit on the adjacent edge of the peripheral area, and disposes the liquid crystal injection hole on one peripheral area which is opposite to one of the adjacent edges. This invention makes it convenient to design the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventor: Jian-Shen Yu
  • Patent number: 6924854
    Abstract: A structure for a thin film transistor LCD includes a data line extending in a first direction; a source electrode protruded for a predetermined length from the data line; a gate electrode in a second direction so as to be overlapped with a portion of the source electrode and the data line; and a drain electrode of which a portion is overlapped with the gate electrode. The drain electrode is bent according to the contours of the data line and the source so that wider channel can be obtained even without increasing the width of the gate electrode. A pixel electrode is connected to a region of the drain which is not overlapped with the gate electrode and positioned at the inner side of the region forming the data line and the gate electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: LG.Philips LCD Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jae-Young Chung
  • Patent number: 6924858
    Abstract: A reflector has protuberances and recesses in each pixel region. The distances between the respective peaks of each two adjacent protuberances in the pixel region are distributed in the range from 5 ?m to 15 ?m. The incidence of peak distances within the range of ±0.5 ?m from the most frequent peak distance ranges from 40% to 80%, and the area of regular reflection surfaces of the reflector tilted at angles of 4.5° or less to the principal surface of a substrate in the pixel region accounts for 35% or less of the area of the pixel region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kohei Nagayama, Yasuyuki Hanazawa
  • Patent number: 6924855
    Abstract: A flat panel displaying apparatus is disclosed. The flat panel displaying apparatus includes a liquid crystal display module displaying a picture, a chassis surrounding edges of the liquid crystal display module, defining an external appearance of the flat panel displaying apparatus, a printed circuit board provided with a connector connected to an external system by a connection cable, being grounded to the chassis, a liquid crystal display controller provided in the printed circuit board, activating the liquid crystal display module, and a ground portion formed around the liquid crystal display controller. With this configuration, emission of electromagnetic waves of the printed circuit board is minimized and reliability of the product is enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kyu-Hwang Chung
  • Patent number: 6922219
    Abstract: A transflective liquid crystal display includes an upper substrate having an upper alignment film, a lower substrate having a reflective part for reflecting a light and a transmissive part where light transmits through the lower substrate, a liquid crystal positioned between the upper substrate and the lower substrate, a reflective part alignment film on the lower substrate corresponding to the reflective part and a transmissive part alignment film on the lower substrate corresponding to the transmissive part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2005
    Assignee: LG. Philips LCD Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun Suk Jin, Won Seok Kang
  • Patent number: 6922226
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a liquid crystal display device, including upper and lower substrates with a liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween; a sealant between the upper and lower substrates; a plurality of source and gate pads on the lower substrate; a plurality of gate and data lines on the lower substrate, each gate line being electrically connected with the corresponding gate pad, each data line being electrically connected with the corresponding source pad; a gate insulating layer between the gate lines and the data lines; a source PCB electrically connected with the plurality of source pads; a gate PCB electrically connected with the plurality of gate pads; and a plurality of transmitting wires on the lower substrate, the transmitting wires being electrically connected with the gate and source pads across the sealant such that the source PCB is electrically connected with the gate PCB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2005
    Assignee: LG. Philips LCD Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-Il Park, Won-Gyun Youn, In-Duk Song, Keuk-Sang Kwon, Yong-Ik Bang
  • Patent number: 6922224
    Abstract: A silicon-backed microdisplay with reduced flicker and a protected glass-side conductive layer. The silicon-backed microdisplay includes a silicon die, a silicon-side conductive layer disposed on the silicon die, and a silicon-side passivation layer arranged on the silicon-side conductive layer. The silicon-backed microdisplay also includes a cover glass, a glass-side conductive layer disposed on the cover glass and a glass-side passivation layer of a predetermined material and thickness arranged on the glass-side conductive layer. Liquid crystal material is sandwiched between the glass-side passivation layer and the silicon-side passivation layer in the silicon-backed microdisplay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2005
    Assignee: National Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew Douglas Penry, Russell Flack
  • Patent number: 6919934
    Abstract: A fabricating method of an array substrate for a transflective liquid crystal display device includes: forming a gate electrode and a gate line on the substrate; depositing a first insulating layer on the gate electrode and the gate line; forming an active layer on the first insulating layer over the gate electrode; forming an ohmic contact layer on the active layer; forming source and drain electrodes on the ohmic contact layer, and a data line connected to the source electrode, the data line defining a pixel region with the gate line; depositing a second insulating layer on the source and drain electrodes, and the data line, the second insulating layer having an inorganic material; forming a reflective plate on the second insulating layer at the pixel region, the reflective plate having a transmissive hole; forming a third insulating layer on the reflective plate; and forming a pixel electrode on the third insulating layer at the pixel region, the pixel electrode being transparent and connected to the drain
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: LG. Philips LCD Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyoung-Su Ha, Won-Seok Kang, Joo-Soo Lim, Se-duk Kim
  • Patent number: 6919936
    Abstract: An active matrix liquid crystal panel comprises an active matrix substrate, on which a plurality of parallel signal lines and a plurality of parallel scanning lines are arranged for forming a matrix of pixels. The second common electrodes formed in an upper layer where comb-shaped pixels exist have a plurality of apertures. When the signal line has a breakage, a cutting means can cut the two ends of the root trace connected to a closed-loop branch through one of the apertures, and a welding means can weld the broken signal line and the isolated closed-loop branch extended from a first common electrode in a lower layer together through one aperture and another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: Hannstar Display Corporation
    Inventors: Lee Deuk Su, Chung Te-Cheng
  • Patent number: 6919933
    Abstract: In a semiconductor circuit in a display device, there are provided a first gate electrode of a first MOS transistor formed on a semiconductor layer via a gate insulating film, a second gate electrode of a second MOS transistor formed on the semiconductor layer via the gate insulating film at a distance from the first gate electrode, first and second one conductivity type impurity introduced regions formed in the semiconductor layer on both sides of the first gate electrode to serve as source/drain of the first MOS transistor, and first and second opposite conductivity type impurity introduced regions formed in the semiconductor layer on both sides of the second gate electrode to serve as source/drain of the second MOS transistor. One of the first and second opposite conductivity type impurity introduced regions is formed to contact mutually to the second one conductivity type impurity introduced region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: Fujitsu Display Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Hongyong Zhang, Noriko Uchida
  • Patent number: 6919943
    Abstract: In a pair of substrates which sandwich a liquid crystal therebetween, a substrate 2a for a liquid crystal device that is positioned opposite from the viewing side. A pixel electrode 9 is formed on the surface of a base 6a as a light reflecting film. A pattern in which a plurality of convexities 10c are arranged is formed on the surface of the light reflecting film 9. These convexities 10c are formed into rectangular dome shapes such that the spatial shape thereof that extends along one axis of the two orthogonal X, Y axes that pass through said convexities themselves is different from the spatial shape thereof along the other axis. The light reflecting film 9 achieves both light directivity and light scattering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi Tsuyuki, Mutsumi Matsuo, Chihiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 6919945
    Abstract: An array substrate for a transflective liquid crystal display device includes a substrate, a thin film transistor having a channel, a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode on the substrate, a first passivation layer on the thin film transistor, wherein the first passivation layer has a first contact hole exposing the drain electrode, a reflector on the first passivation layer, wherein the reflector is over the thin film transistor and has an opening corresponding to the first contact hole, a second passivation layer on the reflector, wherein the second passivation layer has a second contact hole through the opening, and a transparent electrode on the second passivation layer, wherein the transparent electrode has a hole over the channel of the thin film transistor and contacts the drain electrode of the thin film transistor through the first and second contact holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: LG. Philips LCD Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kyoung-Su Ha
  • Patent number: 6919946
    Abstract: Compensation of a liquid crystal display can be achieved using a compensation structure, having, in the following order: a) a first o-plate; b) a first retarder; c) a liquid crystal cell; d) a second retarder; and e) a second o-plate. The first and second retarders can be c-plates or biaxial retarders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Richard C. Allen, Thomas Bachels, Jürg Fünfschilling, Martin Schadt, Hubert Seiberle
  • Patent number: 6919950
    Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid crystal device, comprising an antiferroelectric liquid crystal material (AFLC material) having smectic layers, and two substrates confining the AFLC material therebetween, wherein the AFLC material is uniaxial negative. Preferably, the AFLC material is uniaxial as a consequence of a surface stabilization and of a selected smectic tilt angle ? of the AFLC material. Preferably, the angle ? is in the range of 40°???50°, especially 45°. The invention also relates to electrooptic liquid crystal devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Inventors: Roman S. Dabrowski, Witold J. Drzewinski, Herman Pauwels, Anders Dahlgren, Sven T. Lagerwall, Per Rudquist, Koen D'Have, Marek Matuszcyk, Pontus Jagemalm
  • Patent number: 6917399
    Abstract: An optical body includes a substrate and a cholesteric liquid crystal layer disposed on the substrate. The cholesteric liquid crystal layer has a non-uniform pitch along a thickness direction of the layer and comprises a crosslinked polymer material that substantially fixes the cholesteric liquid crystal layer. The crosslinking hinders diffusion of cholesteric liquid crystal material within the cholesteric liquid crystal layer. In other methods of making an optical body, a reservoir of chiral material is provided during the process over a first cholesteric liquid crystal layer to diffuse into the layer and provide a non-uniform pitch. Alternatively, two coating compositions can be disposed on a substrate where the material of the first coating composition is not substantially soluble in the second coating composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Richard John Pokorny, Marc Dudley Radcliffe, Philip Edwin Watson, Christopher Chadwick Bowley, Ikuko Ebihara
  • Patent number: 6917407
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of gate lines arranged in a first direction and spaced apart at a constant interval, a plurality of data lines arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the gate lines at a constant interval so as to define pixel regions arranged in a matrix configuration, a plurality of pixel electrodes formed in the respective pixel regions, and a dummy data line formed at one side of the pixel electrodes connected to the last data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignee: LG. Philips LCD Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hun Jeong, Hong Soo Kim, Bong Rae Cho
  • Patent number: 6917397
    Abstract: A connector is provided for preventing a connection terminal inserted into a connector housing from being dislodged. The housing has a hanging projection formed at an inner bottom surface of a through hole and a body portion inserted into the through hole from one side opening of the through hole, for providing a power supply line. The body portion includes a joint portion for fixing the body portion to the power supply line, a head portion having a hanging jaw engaged with the hanging projection of the housing, and a connection portion formed with an inclination that is negatively inclined along its insertion direction and faces with the inner bottom surface of the housing, for connecting the head portion thereby connected with the joint portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Young-Duk Kim
  • Patent number: 6914652
    Abstract: The invention provides a transflective liquid crystal display device which can provide a display with good visibility, and a method of producing the same. A method of producing a liquid crystal display device in which a step of forming an inner polarizing layer of a transflective liquid crystal panel to perform a displaying operation in a transmission mode and a reflection mode includes making the direction of extension of openings, or through holes, formed in a reflective layer to reflect incident light and the direction of exerting stress to apply a material of the inner polarizing layer are the same when the material of the inner polarizing layer is applied while exerting a stress thereupon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2005
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Chiyoaki Iijima
  • Patent number: 6914654
    Abstract: An external electronically controlled illumination module utilizing polarizing beam splitters to split the light beam I from a projection lamp into two polarization states, selectively altering the state of each polarized light beam to reject a controlled portion of the light where the selectively altered beams are recombined and passed to the projection system optics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2005
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventor: Peter J. Janssen