Patents Examined by Wen-Ying P. Chen
  • Patent number: 9817271
    Abstract: A display panel is provided. The display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a plurality of thin film transistors, a plurality of metal wires, a protection layer, a first alignment layer, and a plurality of agglomerates. The first substrate has at least a display area and a non-display area located outside the display area. The second substrate is disposed opposite to the first substrate. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The thin film transistors and the metal wires are disposed on the first substrate, the protection layer overlaying at least a portion of the metal wires. The first alignment layer is disposed on the protection layer for exposing a first surface of the protection layer. The agglomerates are disposed on at least a portion of the first surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chu-Chun Cheng, Yu-Ju Chen, I-Hua Huang, Wan-Shan Yang, Chun-Teng Chen, Chen-Kuan Kao, Kuei-Ling Liu
  • Patent number: 9818765
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a display having an array of display pixels on a substrate. The display pixels may be organic light-emitting diode display pixels or display pixels in a liquid crystal display. In an organic light-emitting diode display, hybrid thin-film transistor structures may be formed that include semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors, silicon thin-film transistors, and capacitor structures. The capacitor structures may overlap the semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors. Organic light-emitting diode display pixels may have combinations of oxide and silicon transistors. In a liquid crystal display, display driver circuitry may include silicon thin-film transistor circuitry and display pixels may be based on oxide thin-film transistors. A single layer or two different layers of gate metal may be used in forming silicon transistor gates and oxide transistor gates. A silicon transistor may have a gate that overlaps a floating gate structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Osawa, Kyung-Wook Kim, Ming-Chin Hung, Shih Chang Chang, Yu-Cheng Chen
  • Patent number: 9810951
    Abstract: A first substrate includes a first insulating substrate. A first organic insulating film is arranged on the first substrate in a circumference area outside an active area. The first organic insulating film includes a first surface and a first concave portion in the circumference area. A second substrate includes a second insulating substrate. A circumference color filter is laminated on a circumference shield layer and includes a second concave portion arranged facing the first concave portion. The second concave portion spreads toward the first substrate. A second organic insulating film covers the circumference color filter and includes a second surface and a third concave portion covering the second concave portion. A seal material is arranged between the first surface and the second surface, and between the first concave portion and the third concave portion to attach the first substrate and the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventor: Ayumi Mori
  • Patent number: 9810958
    Abstract: An electro-optical device including a pixel electrode provided over one side of a substrate, a conductive layer provided between the substrate and the pixel electrode, and a relay electrode provided between the substrate and the conductive layer. The conductive layer includes a first conduction section protruding toward the pixel electrode and a second conduction section protruding toward the relay electrode. The first conduction section is cylindrical-shape having an upper surface which is attached to the pixel electrode, and having a side surface sloping from the upper surface. The pixel electrode is electrically connected to the relay electrode through the conduction section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Ito, Takafumi Egami, Hidenori Sokabe
  • Patent number: 9804404
    Abstract: The liquid crystal grating of the present disclosure may include a plurality of grating element groups for forming dark fringes and transparent fringes. The dark fringe of each grating element group may be arranged adjacent to a transparent fringe of a neighboring grating element group. Each grating element group may include a plurality of first grating elements and at least one second grating element arranged parallel to each other. At least one of the first grating elements is transparent so as to form the transparent fringe of the grating element group, and different first grating elements are enabled to be transparent so as to change positions of the transparent fringes. The second grating element is opaque, the first grating elements and the second grating element that are opaque may be used to form the dark fringes of the grating element group, and the second grating element may have a width greater than that of each of the first grating elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chiachiang Lin
  • Patent number: 9804432
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate includes a first pixel electrode which comprises a first contact portion and a first strip electrode with a first length, a second pixel electrode which comprises a second contact portion located on a same straight line with the first contact portion and a second strip electrode with a second length equal to the first length, and a third pixel electrode which comprises a third contact portion disposed at a position displaced from the same straight line of the first contact portion and a third strip electrode with a third length different from the first length, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer held between the first substrate and the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Jin Hirosawa
  • Patent number: 9798198
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first interlayer insulation film located above a first gate line and a second gate line, a first common electrode extending over the first interlayer insulation film, a second interlayer insulation film covering the first common electrode, and a first pixel electrode disposed on the second interlayer insulation film. The first common electrode extends, from a position opposed to the first pixel electrode, beyond the source line in the first direction and beyond the gate line in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Keisuke Takano, Jin Hirosawa, Arihiro Takeda, Hirokazu Morimoto
  • Patent number: 9778511
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device: includes: a first polarizer; a liquid crystal cell including a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules aligned in parallel with a substrate of the liquid crystal cell; a first compensation film; and a second polarizer, wherein, as viewed perpendicularly to the substrate, an absorption axis of the first polarizer is parallel with an optical axis of the first compensation film, and an angle ? between the absorption axis of the first polarizer and an optical axis of the liquid crystal layer satisfies 0°<?, in a cross section of the liquid crystal cell as viewed along a transmission axis of the first polarizer, an optical axis of the liquid crystal layer and the optical axis of the first compensation film have a tilt angle in the same direction to a face of the substrate, and the first compensation film has a positive birefringence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Tatsuya Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 9759963
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a first substrate; a first electrode on the first substrate, and a plurality of first cutouts defined in the first electrode; an insulating layer on the first electrode; a second electrode on the insulating layer, a plurality of second cutouts defined in the second electrode, and a plurality of branch electrodes defined by the plurality of second cutouts; a second substrate facing the first substrate; and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate. The second cutouts have a linear shape which extends in a length direction, widths of the plurality of first cutouts is larger than that of the plurality of branch electrodes in a width direction crossing the length direction, and the second cutouts overlap the plurality of first cutouts, in the length direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hwa Yeul Oh, Yeon-Mun Jeon, Young Je Cho
  • Patent number: 9746705
    Abstract: Discussed is a liquid crystal display device which facilitates to repair a backlight unit and corresponding internal parts without separation of a cover glass and a liquid crystal display panel, wherein the liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel, a backlight unit disposed at a lower side of the liquid crystal display panel, and a conductive tape electrically connected with the liquid crystal display panel and the backlight unit, wherein the conductive tape includes a first conductive adhesive member, a non-adhesive pad attached to one surface of the first conductive adhesive member, and a second conductive adhesive member attached to the other surface of the first conductive adhesive member, and wherein the first conductive adhesive member is attached to the liquid crystal display panel, and the second conductive adhesive member is attached to the backlight unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hoseok Lee, HyunKi Kim
  • Patent number: 9740056
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus with electrodes comprising openings that is less susceptible to disturbance of the contour shape of the display part. The apparatus includes two substrates, a first electrode, a second electrode. A display part is demarcated in a region where the two electrodes overlap, and an offset region is set from the display part edge to the inside. The electrodes comprise first openings disposed in a non offset region, and second openings disposed in the offset region. First openings comprises a shape wherein a branch part disposed so that the longitudinal direction thereof extends along a first direction and a branch part disposed so that the longitudinal direction thereof extends along a second direction are connected. Second openings comprises openings disposed so that the longitudinal direction thereof extends along the first direction, and openings disposed so that the longitudinal direction thereof extends along the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Iwamoto, Makoto Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9739923
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device including: an illumination device, and a liquid crystal panel that is arranged so as to be stacked on a light-emitting surface side of the illumination device, wherein the illumination device includes a light guide plate in which a side end surface extending in a first direction is a light incident portion, a plurality of light-emitting elements that align along a first direction and, each of the plurality of light-emitting elements faces a light-irradiating surface in the light incident portion, and a plurality of groove rows that are formed of a plurality of grooves which are linearly arranged in a second direction on an opposite surface facing the light-emitting surface of the light guide plate, the second direction intersects the first direction in an in-plane direction of the light-emitting surface, and that are arranged in parallel in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichi Momose, Nobutaka Urano
  • Patent number: 9740060
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a first polarizer; a liquid crystal cell including a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules horizontally aligned to a face of a substrate; and a second polarizer. The liquid crystal display further includes a first optical compensation film disposed between the first polarizer and the liquid crystal cell, an absorption axis of the first polarizer, an optical axis of the first optical compensation film, and an optical axis of the liquid crystal layer being parallel to each other in a view of the liquid crystal cell in a direction orthogonal to the face of the substrate of the liquid crystal cell. The optical axis of the liquid crystal layer of the liquid crystal cell and the optical axis of the first optical compensation film have a tilt angle from the face of the substrate of the liquid crystal cell in a same direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Iwasaki, Ayako Muramatsu, Hiroyuki Kaihoko
  • Patent number: 9733520
    Abstract: A display panel includes a gate line, a first data line crossing the gate line, a first voltage applied to the first data line, a second data line in parallel with the first data line and spaced apart from the first data line, a second voltage different from the first voltage applied to the second data line, a first thin film transistor electrically connected to the first data line, a second thin film transistor electrically connected to the second data line, a first pixel electrode electrically connected to the first thin film transistor, and disposed between the first data line and the second data line, and a second pixel electrode electrically connected to the second thin film transistor, and disposed opposite to the first pixel electrode with reference to the second data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang-Hyeon Song, Il-Gon Kim, Mee-Hye Jung, Se-Hyoung Cho
  • Patent number: 9726949
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a pixel substrate, a counter substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. The pixel substrate includes a pixel electrode and a common electrode. The counter substrate has a conductive light shielding layer and faces the pixel substrate. The liquid crystal layer is sealed in between the pixel substrate and the counter substrate. The common electrode and the light shielding layer are electrically coupled to each other via a protection circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Inamura
  • Patent number: 9703152
    Abstract: In an IPS mode liquid crystal display device, a counter electrode is formed flat on a first insulating film. A second insulating film is formed in the peripheral portion of the counter electrode. A third insulating film is formed so as to cover the counter electrode and the second insulating film. A pixel electrode is formed on the third insulating film. The second and third insulating films are present between the pixel electrode and the counter electrode in the periphery of the pixel. The third insulating film is present between the pixel electrode and the counter electrode in the portion other than the peripheral portion of the pixel. An electric field between the pixel electrode and the counter electrode is smaller in the periphery of the pixel than in the vicinity of the center of the pixel, to prevent the occurrence of a domain in the periphery of the pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Takeshi Sakai, Toshimasa Ishigaki, Yasushi Tomioka
  • Patent number: 9693026
    Abstract: In a projection type display apparatus, a lighting device includes two reflection type cutoff filters (first cutoff filter and reflective second cutoff filter) which block out ultraviolet range light on an output optical path from a light source. A cut on wavelength of the second cutoff filter on the front side is longer than that of the first cutoff filter on the rear side. The two cutoff filters are formed on planar-shaped first faces of a first integrator lens and a second integrator lens. For this reason, both input faces of the two cutoff filters are orthogonal to an apparatus optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Tomikawa, Takenori Hirota, Ryuichi Kurosawa
  • Patent number: 9684211
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device having a second substrate and a first substrate that is placed so as to face the above-described second substrate with pixel regions aligned in a matrix is provided with: protrusions that are formed on pixel boarders and protrude from the second substrate on the liquid crystal side; first electrodes made of sidewall electrodes formed on sidewalls of protrusions and a lower end side electrode extending from the sidewall electrodes on the bottom side; and second electrodes made of a first linear electrode formed within a pixel region and a second linear electrode that is formed on the second substrate and faces the first linear electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC
    Inventors: Osamu Itou, Takato Hiratsuka
  • Patent number: 9678392
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer arranged between the first and second substrates, and a secondary spacer. The secondary spacer has a bottom face fixed to the first substrate and a top face forming a gap with respect to the second substrate. The top face of the secondary spacer is provided with a first electrode and the second substrate is provided, at a location corresponding to the top face of the secondary spacer, with a second electrode. When the liquid crystal panel is driven and depressed, the first electrode electrically engages the second electrode so that a pixel electrode of the liquid crystal display panel at the depressed site is electrically connected to the ground thereby eliminating a high voltage difference between the pixel electrode and a common electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Yuejun Tang
  • Patent number: 9670411
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid crystal device including an element substrate, a counter substrate which is arranged to face the element substrate, a liquid crystal layer which is arranged between the element substrate and the counter substrate, and inorganic alignment films which are arranged between the element substrate and the liquid crystal layer and between the counter substrate and the liquid crystal layer. A silane compound film with which a fullerene is modified is arranged to cover the inorganic alignment film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Naoki Tomikawa