Patents Examined by Timothy L Rude
  • Patent number: 9798188
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a detecting accessories of a liquid crystal panel. The detecting accessories comprises a backlight module and two adjusting plates. The backlight module comprises a bottom plate, an edge frame surrounding the bottom plate, a backlight source assembled on the bottom plate, and a diffusion plate disposed opposite to the bottom plate, and the diffusion plate covers the edge frame. Each adjusting plate comprises a carrying section and an assembling section. The two adjusting plates are disposed adjacent with each other. The assembling sections of each adjusting plates are detachably assembled on one side of the edge frame away from the bottom plate. The light of the backlight source emits outward through the diffusion plate. The carrying sections of the two adjusting plates are configured for shading an edge of the diffusion plate for changing an emitting area of the diffusion plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Quan Li, Yujun Xiao, Guofu Tang
  • Patent number: 9791728
    Abstract: A fixture for preventing deformation of a glass panel of a display module, for receiving and fixing a light guide plate and a glass panel. It comprises an array cell and a color filter cell. The array cell is provided with a metal routing layer. The color filter cell is provided with a color resist layer. The fixture consists and a lower fixing end, with upper ends, the array cell and the color filter cell received in the upper fixing end, while lower ends thereof received in the lower fixing end, so the color resist layer in the color filter cell and the metal routing layer in the array cell are aligned in parallel. By a gap between the glass panel and the inner side face and bottom surface, the glass panel fine tunes properly for quick recovery by virtue of its gravity when deformation occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Cheng Hung Chen, Jingfeng Xue
  • Patent number: 9791749
    Abstract: A display device including: a substrate including a display area in which pixels are positioned and a peripheral area around the display area; a common electrode and a pixel electrode that are positioned on the display area and overlapping with each other, with a first insulating layer disposed therebetween; a common voltage line positioned on or below the common electrode and contacting the common electrode; an edge common voltage line connected with the common voltage line and formed along an edge of the display area; and a first common voltage transfer line contacting the edge common voltage line in the peripheral area and configured to transfer a common voltage to the common voltage line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyung Sup Byeon, Sung Hoon Kim, Ji-Won Sohn
  • Patent number: 9766520
    Abstract: The invention discloses array substrate, manufacturing method thereof, display panel and display device, array substrate comprises TFTs, common electrodes, common electrode lines, data lines and gate lines, each TFT comprises gate, active layer corresponding to the gate, protective layer corresponding to the gate line or gate, and ESL, the active layer and protective layer are provided in the same layer and separated from each other; the ESL is provided with source holes and drain hole corresponding to the active layer, protective hole corresponding to the protective layer but not overlapping with the data line, and connecting holes corresponding to the common electrode and common electrode line; and distance between each connecting hole and the protective hole closest thereto is smaller than that between the connecting hole and the source or drain hole closest thereto, and/or, diameter of said protective hole is smaller than those of the source and drain holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Feng, Guangyan Tian, Haipeng Yang, Xuebing Jiang, Xiaoye Ma
  • Patent number: 9766506
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes features to prevent damage to the liquid crystal alignment layer when a color filter substrate and a thin-film transistor array substrate are moved relative to each other. The liquid crystal display panel may include a column spacer on the color filter substrate under the black matrix and a bump pattern on the array substrate where the column spacer and the bump pattern are in contact with each other. The array substrate may otherwise include a planarization layer with a step portion and a protective layer on the planarization layer where the protective layer is in contact with the column spacer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Heonkwang Park, SangHee Yu, SungHyun Cho, SangWoon Kim, TaeSang Kim
  • Patent number: 9759965
    Abstract: A liquid crystal device includes: a display area comprising pixels; a peripheral area disposed at an edge of the display area; a common voltage application wiring configured to transfer a common voltage; and a data voltage application wiring configured to transfer a data voltage. A ratio of a width of the common voltage application wiring and a width of the data voltage application wiring is in a range of 2:1 to 1:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gak Seok Lee, Byoung-Hun Sung, Duck Jong Suh
  • Patent number: 9753283
    Abstract: A head-up display device includes a projector, an expansion optical system, an estimating part, a determination part, and a light amount control part. The projector has a light source and a liquid crystal panel. The expansion optical system expands an imagery output from the projector. The estimating part estimates a relative position of the sun with respect to a mobile unit. The determination part determines whether the liquid crystal panel is protected based on a relation between the relative position estimated by the estimating part and a solid angle representing a range in which a light from the sun is incident to the liquid crystal panel through the expansion optical system. The light amount control part decreases an amount of light incident to the liquid crystal panel when the determination part determines that the liquid crystal panel should be protected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Nambara
  • Patent number: 9733420
    Abstract: A light guide may be located behind an electronic display and have a number of LEDs located adjacent an edge thereof. A thermal plate may be placed adjacent to said plurality of LEDs and may be in conductive thermal communication therewith. The thermal plate may comprise a first portion located above the electronic display and a second portion located below the electronic display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Manufacturing Resources Internationak, Inc.
    Inventors: William Dunn, Marcos Diaz
  • Patent number: 9733526
    Abstract: The present invention provides a curved display panel and a curved display apparatus. The curved display panel comprises a curved color filter substrate, a liquid crystal layer and a curved thin film transistor array substrate. The curved color filter substrate comprises a first curved substrate, a color-resisting array layer, a first protective layer and a common electrode; the curved thin film transistor array substrate comprises a second curved substrate and a pixel array layer. The present invention can diminish the dark fringes appearing in border areas of different domains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chuan Wu, Zui Wang
  • Patent number: 9733539
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device are disclosed. Each of pixels in the display panel includes a pixel area; a switch element located near an intersection of a data line and a scan line; a pixel electrode electrically connected to the switch element; and a common electrode located on the first substrate. The common electrode comprises first common electrodes superposing data lines or scan lines and having the same first width; and second common electrodes overlapping with respective pixel areas and having the same second width, the first width is the same as the second width. Alternatively, the common electrode comprises first slits, which have the same first slit width, located above data lines and scan lines, and second slits, which have the same second slit width and are located in respective pixel areas. The first slit width is the same as the second slit width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignees: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Niu, Zhihua Ling, Lingxiao Du, Jun Ma, Sitao Huo, Tianyi Wu
  • Patent number: 9726926
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display device including a reflection type image display portion having a sheet-like anisotropic scattering member. In an area, in an in-plane direction, of the anisotropic scattering member, a low-refractive index area and a high-refractive index area are disposed in a mixture style. The anisotropic scattering member is disposed so that a light is scattered when an outside light is made incident from a surface side on which a degree of a change in a refractive index in a vicinity of a boundary between the low-refractive index area and the high-refractive index area is relatively large, and is emitted from a surface side on which the degree of the change in the refractive index in the vicinity of the boundary between the low-refractive index area and the high-refractive index area is relatively small.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventor: Masashi Mitsui
  • Patent number: 9726884
    Abstract: The displaying apparatus unit according to the present invention includes a first holder configured to hold a displaying element, a second holder configured to hold an optical operating plate which operates on light from the displaying element, a first dustproof cover member disposed between the first holder and the second holder, and configured to cover a whole side surface of the displaying element, and a second dustproof cover member disposed between the first dustproof cover member and the second holder, wherein the first dustproof cover member is in contact with the first holder, the second dustproof cover member is in contact with the second holder, the first dustproof cover member and the second dustproof cover member are in contact with each other, and the first dustproof cover member has a hardness higher than that of the second dustproof cover member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takehiro Koyama
  • Patent number: 9719639
    Abstract: A display has an array of display pixels formed from display layers such as one or more polarizer layers, a substrate on which an array of display pixel elements such as color filter elements and downconverter elements are formed, a liquid crystal layer, and a thin-film transistor layer that includes display pixel electrodes and display pixel thin-film transistors for driving control signals onto the display pixel electrodes to modulate light passing through the display pixels. A light source such as one or more laser diodes or light-emitting diodes may be used to generate light for the display. The light may be launched into the edge of a polymer layer or other light guide plate structure. A light guide plate may include phase-matched structures such as holographically recorded gratings or photonic lattices that direct the light upwards through the array of display pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mingxia Gu, Chenhua You, Jun Qi, Yanming Li, Young Cheol Yang, Jean-Jacques Drolet, Wei Chen, Victor H. Yin
  • Patent number: 9715103
    Abstract: A display panel can display images or information on at least one surface side and transmit external light through a transmissive display element. The display panel includes a plurality of light-emitting elements that emit light to the one surface side and can be driven independently and a plurality of transmissive display elements that can be driven independently. Alternatively, a display panel transmits external light through a double-side light-emitting element and a transmissive display element. The display panel includes a plurality of double-side light-emitting elements that can be driven independently and a plurality of transmissive display elements that can be driven independently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kaoru Hatano
  • Patent number: 9709854
    Abstract: A reliability of seal portion of a liquid crystal display device can be improved by the following structure. A liquid crystal display device includes: a TFT substrate which includes a display region and a terminal part, and has an inorganic insulating film formed on an organic passivation film and an alignment film formed over the inorganic insulating film; a counter substrate, the TFT substrate and the counter substrate bonded together by a sealing material formed at a seal part surrounding the display region; and a liquid crystal sealed inside. At the seal part, a transparent conductive oxide film is formed between the inorganic insulating film and the alignment film. The transparent conductive oxide film exists inside an edge of the TFT substrate and hence, the edge of the TFT substrate is free of the transparent conductive oxide film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Takenori Hirota, Yasuhiro Kanaya, Hidehiro Sonoda, Toshiki Kaneko
  • Patent number: 9703133
    Abstract: A display module, and a liquid crystal display (LCD) device including the same, includes a guide panel surrounding a side surface of a liquid crystal panel. The guide panel and a cover bottom are fastened to each other by hooks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Guen Taek Oh
  • Patent number: 9696556
    Abstract: The display device includes an image display the screen of which includes a plurality of sub-pixels of three primary colors R, G and B for displaying a 2D image and a 3D image; and a DFD-PDLC lenticular lens array which includes a plurality of parallel DFD-PDLC lenticular lens elements, wherein the direction of the long axis of each of the DFD-PDLC lenticular lens elements is vertical or slant to the screen of an image display, the DFD-PDLC lenticular lens array is installed in front of the screen of the image display, the optical refractive index of the DFD-PDLC lenticular lens elements is variated under the drive of an external drive voltage V(f) to switch between the display of a 2D image and the display of a 3D image on the screen of the image display, wherein f is the drive frequency of the external drive voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: ZHANGJIAGANG KANGDE XIN OPTRONICS MATERIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mingyan Lin
  • Patent number: 9696573
    Abstract: A display module, and a liquid crystal display (LCD) device including the same, includes a guide panel surrounding a side surface of a liquid crystal panel. The guide panel and a cover bottom are fastened to each other by hooks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Guen Taek Oh
  • Patent number: 9690148
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display panel and device. The liquid crystal display panel includes a first subpixel and a second subpixel each having a plurality of display domains. The first subpixel includes a first pixel electrode and a first common electrode. The second subpixel includes a second pixel electrode and a second common electrode. The display domains of the first subpixel and the display domains of the second subpixel are respectively formed by patterning the first common electrode and the second pixel electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiangyang Xu
  • Patent number: 9690150
    Abstract: An electro-optical display device according to the present invention includes a TFT substrate having a first electrode; a flexible circuit substrate extended in such a way as to protrude outwardly from the TFT substrate, wherein a second electrode is formed at the flexible circuit substrate and is connected to the electrode; a reinforcement plate which is extended from the TFT substrate to the flexible circuit substrate in such a way as to cover portions of the first electrode and the second electrode which are connected to each other and, further, is protruded from the flexible circuit substrate; and a resin formed to extend over a portion of a surface of the flexible circuit substrate which is protruded from the substrate, a portion of a surface of the reinforcement plate which is protruded from the flexible circuit substrate, and an end surface of the TFT substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Ueno, Takayuki Fukuda