Patents Examined by Ryan Crockett
  • Patent number: 12222610
    Abstract: This invention discloses a display panel including a sub-pixel. The sub-pixel includes a switch device, a first electrode, a transparent electrode, and a reflective electrode. The switch device and the first electrode are disposed in the reflective region and electrically connected. The transparent electrode is disposed on the first electrode and in the reflective region and the light transmissive region. The transparent electrode has a first length in a first direction and a second length in a second direction. The reflective electrode is disposed on the transparent electrode and in the reflective region. The reflective electrode has a third length in the first direction and a fourth length in the second direction, and the third length is greater than the first length, and the fourth length is greater than the second length. The transparent electrode, the reflective electrode, and the first electrode are electrically connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: HANNSTAR DISPLAY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Min-Jung Ho, Hsien-Tang Hu
  • Patent number: 12222605
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a first substrate, a second substrate on the first substrate, a third substrate between the first substrate and the second substrate, a first optical media layer between the first substrate and the third substrate, and a second optical media layer between the second substrate and the third substrate. A sidewall of the third substrate is recessed from a sidewall of the first substrate and a sidewall of the second substrate to form a recessed portion. Another sidewall of the third substrate protrudes from another sidewall of the first substrate and another sidewall of the second substrate to form a protruding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Jen-Hai Chi, Chean Kee
  • Patent number: 12222606
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a dimming glass, including: a glass substrate; and at least two dye liquid crystal cells on the glass substrate. The dye liquid crystal cells are mutually stacked and bonded with each other via an adhesive layer. The dye liquid crystal cell includes a central region and a peripheral region surrounding a periphery of the central region. The dye liquid crystal cell includes a cell gap adjusting structure in at least the peripheral region, which is configured to adjust a cell gap of the dye liquid crystal cell to be consistent. An embodiment of the present disclosure further provides a transportation device, including the dimming glass described above and used as a window glass of the transportation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD
    Inventors: Donghua Zhang, Hongliang Yuan, Qi Zheng, Kangdi Zhou, Zhangxiang Cheng, Xiaoqiang Zhang, Yaqian Li, Zhikai Wu
  • Patent number: 12222609
    Abstract: A display panel including a plurality of sub-pixel units disposed on a first base substrate is provided, wherein a size of an opening region of a first sub-pixel unit along a first direction is greater than that of a second sub-pixel unit; wherein at least one of the sub-pixel units includes a first electrode provided with at least one slit extending along the first direction, and an orthographic projection of the slit on the first base substrate is located within a range of an orthographic projection of the opening region of the sub-pixel unit on the first base substrate; and wherein a size of the slit in the first sub-pixel unit along a second direction intersecting the first direction is smaller than that in the second sub-pixel unit. A display device is further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignees: NANJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Guanglan Sun
  • Patent number: 12210251
    Abstract: A liquid crystal light control device includes a plurality of liquid crystal cells arranged in a stack. Each of the plurality of liquid crystal cells includes a first substrate and a second substrate opposite the first substrate, a first electrode and a second electrode both of which have a strip pattern arranged on at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate, a first alignment film on the first substrate and a second alignment film on the second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate. The strip pattern is arranged alternately with the first electrode and the second electrode, an alignment direction of the first alignment film is aligned with a direction of extension of the strip pattern, and an alignment direction of the second alignment film is arranged intersecting the alignment direction of the first alignment film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kojiro Ikeda, Takeo Koito, Tae Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 12210247
    Abstract: This liquid crystal element comprises a liquid crystal layer LC and a plurality of unit-electrodes U1 and U2, each including a first electrode E1 that is linearly formed, a second electrode E2 that is linearly formed and receives a voltage different from that of the first electrode E1, and a resistive layer HR having higher electric resistivity than the first electrode E1 and the second electrode E2, characterized in that the resistive layer HR in each of the plurality of unit-electrodes U1 and U2 is separated from the resistive layer HR in the adjacent unit-electrodes U1 and U2 and is disposed in a region AR between the first electrode E1 and the second electrode E2 in a plan view, and at least some unit-electrodes U2 from among the plurality of unit-electrodes U1 and U2 have an auxiliary electrode EC in the region AR, the auxiliary electrode EC being linearly formed with a line width equal to or smaller than the line width of at least one of the first electrode E1 and the second electrode E2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Elcyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Giichi Shibuya, Sunri Lee, Masanori Ozaki
  • Patent number: 12210264
    Abstract: An optical deflection apparatus is provided with an optical deflection element and a compensating optical element. The optical deflection element deflects incident light in a first direction (a voltage application direction) in which a voltage is applied (one-dimensional scan). The compensating optical element is an element which has an incidence surface and an emission surface, which compensates for a deflection deviation in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction and to an optical axis of the incident light of deflected light having been deflected by the optical deflection element and incident from the incidence surface, and which arranges a direction of travel of compensated light to be emitted from the emission surface on a same plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Sakamoto, Yuichi Akage, Sohan Kawamura, Masahiro Ueno, Soichi Oka
  • Patent number: 12204227
    Abstract: A liquid crystal element is provided that can inhibit occurrence of voltage drop between one end and the other end of each electrode. A liquid crystal element (100) includes a liquid crystal layer LQ, a plurality of first arcuate electrodes (1), and a plurality of second arcuate electrodes (2). The first arcuate electrodes (1) are disposed concentrically about an optical axis (AX) of the liquid crystal element (100) and applies first voltage (V1) to the liquid crystal layer (LQ). The second arcuate electrodes (2) are disposed concentrically about the optical axis (AX) and applies second voltage (V2) to the liquid crystal layer (LQ).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: OSAKA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Giichi Shibuya, Sunri Lee, Hiroyuki Yoshida, Masanori Ozaki
  • Patent number: 12204216
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display area, a peripheral area, a pixel electrode disposed, a switching element, a scanning line, a signal line, a metal layer which overlaps at least one of the signal line and the scanning line, an antireflection layer which covers the metal layer, a common electrode which covers the antireflection layer and a power supply line disposed in the peripheral area, to which a common voltage is supplied. The common electrode and the metal layer are connected to the power supply line in the peripheral area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kyosuke Watanabe, Jin Hirosawa, Masanobu Ikeda
  • Patent number: 12204212
    Abstract: A display apparatus having an excellent boosting function is provided. The display apparatus is provided with a pixel having a function of adding data (a boosting function). A capacitor for boosting voltage is provided in the pixel, and data is added by capacitive coupling to be supplied to a display device. The capacitor for boosting voltage and a capacitor for retaining data are placed on top of each other, whereby the capacitance value of the capacitor for boosting voltage can be increased. Thus, the pixel can have an excellent boosting function, without significantly losing the aperture ratio or definition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Kawashima, Naoto Kusumoto
  • Patent number: 12197079
    Abstract: The present application relates to a backlight board, a manufacturing method, and a display panel. A substrate of the backlight board carries a reflective layer, a white oil layer, soldering pads, and lamp beads. Windows are defined in the white oil layer. Soldering pads are disposed in the windows. The lamp beads are electrically connected to the soldering pads. The reflective layer is configured to reflect light emitted from the electrified lamp beads, which achieves reflection of light emitted from the lamp beads to the reflective layer, improvement of reflectivity of the backlight board, and enhancement of a light usage rate of the backlight board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zhuonan Shi
  • Patent number: 12197102
    Abstract: Disclosed are a liquid crystal lens component and a driving method therefor, and a display device. The method includes: applying a common voltage signal to a second electrode; and applying a driving signal to a first electrode, which includes: in two image frames that are adjacent to each other, applying driving signals with opposite polarities to the first electrode in one liquid crystal lens unit; in one image frame, applying driving signals with the same polarity to the plurality of first sub-electrodes in a same first electrode group, applying driving signals with the same polarity to the plurality of first sub-electrodes in a same second electrode group, applying positive voltage driving signals to partial first sub-electrodes of all first sub-electrodes in the liquid crystal lens component, and applying negative voltage driving signal to the remaining first sub-electrodes of all the first sub-electrodes in the liquid crystal lens component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhongxiao Li, Weili Zhao, Jing Yu
  • Patent number: 12197093
    Abstract: A display device includes: a base substrate, a transistor disposed on the base substrate, an organic layer disposed on the transistor, a display element layer disposed on the organic layer, and a pixel electrode disposed between the organic layer and the display element layer. The pixel electrode includes a first electrode layer disposed between the organic layer and the display element layer and containing an organic matter derived from the organic layer, and a second electrode layer disposed between the first electrode and the display element layer and not containing the organic matter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jung-Woo Lee
  • Patent number: 12193293
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a display panel and a manufacturing method thereof, and a terminal device, which are applied to the field of terminal technologies. The display panel includes a rigid substrate, a driving circuit layer arranged on the rigid substrate, and a first organic layer structure, a conductive layer, and a second organic layer structure that are sequentially arranged away from the rigid substrate, where the rigid substrate and the driving circuit layer are arranged bypassing a bendable region, and first organic layer structure, the conductive layer, and the second organic layer structure are distributed in at least a first peripheral region, the bendable region, and a binding region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: HONOR DEVICE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yabin An, Wei Qu, Feng Zhang
  • Patent number: 12181751
    Abstract: The present application discloses a display panel, an array substrate, and a manufacturing method thereof. In the display panel of the present application, capacitance of a array substrate is formed between a first common electrode and a pixel electrode, and a second electrode layer is provided with a second common electrode in a same layer as a drain electrode and a source electrode, and the first common electrode is connected to the second common electrode, which can prevent a difference between positive and negative polarities of the first common electrode and the pixel electrode, thereby solving the problem of horizontal crosstalk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jing Liu
  • Patent number: 12174477
    Abstract: The present application discloses a touch display panel including a first substrate, a liquid crystal, and a second substrate, wherein the first substrate is located on a light-exiting side of the touch display panel. The first substrate includes a first underlayer, a touch structure layer, a thin film transistor layer, and a pixel electrode layer. The touch structure layer and the thin film transistor layer are disposed on a side of the first underlayer close to the liquid crystal, and the pixel electrode layer is disposed on the thin film transistor layer. The touch structure layer includes a touch electrode, which is multiplexed as a common electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Bao Zha
  • Patent number: 12169340
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first panel. The first panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a first transparent electrode, a second transparent electrode, and a first signal line. The second substrate is opposite to the first substrate. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first transparent electrode is disposed between the first substrate and the liquid crystal layer. The second transparent electrode is disposed between the second substrate and the liquid crystal layer. The first signal line is electrically connected to the first transparent electrode and extending along a first direction. The impedance of the first signal line is less than the impedance of the first transparent electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ting-Wei Liang, Jiunn-Shyong Lin, I-An Yao, Tzu-Chieh Lai, Chung-Chun Cheng, Shih-Che Chen
  • Patent number: 12164142
    Abstract: A system includes a housing including a front panel, a rear panel, an upper panel, and a lower panel. The system includes a first circuit board or substrate, at least one data processor coupled to the first circuit board or substrate and configured to process data, and at least one optical module coupled to the first circuit board or substrate. Each optical module is configured to perform at least one of (i) convert input optical signals to electrical signals that are provided to the at least one data processor, or (ii) convert electrical signals received from the at least one data processor to output optical signals. The system includes at least one inlet fan mounted near the front panel and configured to increase an air flow across a surface of at least one of (i) the at least one data processor, (ii) a heat dissipating device thermally coupled to the at least one data processor, (iii) the at least one optical module, or (iv) a heat dissipating device thermally coupled to the at least one optical module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Nubis Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Johannes Winzer, Ron Zhang
  • Patent number: 12158665
    Abstract: A display device includes a first substrate, a first alignment layer, a second substrate, a second alignment layer, and a display medium. The first alignment layer is disposed on the first substrate. The second substrate is disposed opposite to the first substrate. The second alignment layer is disposed on the second substrate, and the first and second alignment layers are located between the first and second substrates. The display medium is located between the first and second alignment layers, where a surface of the first alignment layer facing the display medium and a surface of the second alignment layer facing the display medium have topographies with irregular areas surrounded by micro-structures. Besides, a manufacturing method of the display device is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: AUO Corporation
    Inventor: Yi-Ling Lin
  • Patent number: 12158669
    Abstract: An electro-optical device is an display device provided with a display region for displaying an image and a peripheral region provided outside the display region, and includes a first substrate including a plurality of pixel electrodes provided in the display region, a second substrate including a counter electrode facing the plurality of pixel s, a seal member being provided in the peripheral region, and containing a UV-curable material, and an electro-optical layer being arranged in a region surrounded by at the first substrate, the second substrate, and the seal member and having optical characteristics that change in accordance with an electric field, wherein one substrate of the first substrate and the second substrate includes a non-conductive region that overlaps with the seal member in plan view, is in the same layer as the plurality of pixel electrodes or the counter electrode, and is not provided with a film having conductivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahito Yoshii