Patents Examined by William D Peterson
  • Patent number: 10877309
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal panel having first and second substrates and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates; a first polarizing film and an optical film sequentially disposed on an outer surface of the first substrate; a backlight unit under the liquid crystal panel; a first frame under the backlight unit; a second frame surrounding a side surface of the backlight unit; a pad on the second frame; and an adhesive layer between the liquid crystal panel and the pad, wherein the optical film is separated from the pad, and wherein the first polarizing film overlaps the pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-Dae Han, Sung-Rae Lee
  • Patent number: 10852592
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is disclosed. The liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, and a plurality of grooves periodically spaced apart from each other over the first substrate. The liquid crystal display device also includes a pixel electrode and a common electrode spaced apart from each other over the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer including a plurality of liquid crystal capsules on the grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung-Im Hwang, Hyun-Sook Jeon
  • Patent number: 10852590
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes substrates, a liquid crystal layer between the substrates, a seal member between the substrates and surrounding the liquid crystal layer, an electrode in a first region of one of the substrates, the first region overlapping a region surrounded by the seal member, a first conductive film in a second region of the one substrate, the second region being a region outside the seal member, a second conductive film in the one substrate and extending from the electrode toward the first conductive film, a first insulating film disposed between the first and second conductive films, including a contact hole in a portion of the second region overlapping the first conductive film, and the first conductive film and the second conductive film being electrically connected to each other through the contact hole, and a second insulating film that covers the contact hole and is moisture-proof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshihito Hara
  • Patent number: 10852578
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display panel and a manufacturing method of the liquid crystal display panel. The display panel includes a color filter substrate. The color filter substrate includes a color resist layer. The color resist layer includes a first color resist region and a second color resist region. The first color resist region is arranged corresponding to a display region. The second color resist region is arranged corresponding to a non-display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wei Wang
  • Patent number: 10843536
    Abstract: An adaptive screen including at least one liquid crystal shutter. At least one of the shutters includes at least two active zones which are addressed by a control signal which permits the switchover of the at least one corresponding shutter between a passing configuration, in which a transmittance is equal to a maximum value, and a blocking configuration, in which the transmittance is equal to a minimum value. A “principal” active zone covers a surface area of the adaptive screen which is equal to or lower than 60% of the surface area of the adaptive screen, in order to reduce the response time of the principal active zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: David Hue, Kedar Sathaye, Jean-Louis De Bougrenet, Emmanuel Daniel, Laurent Dupont, Samir Abbas, Samir Bentahar
  • Patent number: 10845647
    Abstract: A display device includes a backlight unit and a display panel disposed above the backlight unit, where the backlight unit includes a light guide plate, a housing which is disposed at one side of the light guide plate and accommodates a wavelength converting member, and a flexible glass film which covers one side of the housing, and a first laser welding part is disposed between the flexible glass film and the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Woo Suk Seo, Sung Chul Kim, Won Jin Kim, Jung Hyun Kim, Seok Hyun Nam, Si Joon Song, Kwang Wook Choi
  • Patent number: 10838252
    Abstract: A light and thin display device is provided. The light and thin display device includes: an LED light bar disposed at a light-incident end of a light guide plate and attached to an inner side of a heat dissipation plate; a base connected with an outer side of the heat dissipation plate; a water cooling pipe including an inlet port, an outlet port, and multiple bending segments connected between the inlet port and the outlet port. The bending segments are attached to the heat dissipation plate for circulating coolant liquid. By making full use of the heat dissipation capacity of the heat dissipation plate and the heat conduction base, the area of the heat dissipation plate is reduced and heat dissipation fins are avoided. The display device is ensured light and thin and has a good heat dissipation effect. The cost of the heat dissipation structure is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: HUIZHOU CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mingjun Zhou
  • Patent number: 10824024
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus having a display device including a display panel and a light source. The display panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate disposed oppositely, and a display medium layer disposed therebetween. The light source is disposed adjacent to the display panel. The display panel includes several display units, including a first display unit and a second display unit when light passes through the display medium layer. The second display unit is farther from the light source than the first display unit. It is designed that the second haze value is greater than the first haze value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Yoshiga, Chi-Liang Chang
  • Patent number: 10816842
    Abstract: An array substrate, a method for manufacturing the same, a liquid crystal display panel, and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes a first substrate, signal lines and an insulating layer; the insulating layer is disposed on the first substrate, and grooves are disposed on a side of the insulating layer facing away from the first substrate and disposed in a region of the insulating layer corresponding to a non-display region of the array substrate; and the signal lines are disposed on inner walls of the grooves, a direction of the inner walls of the grooves is arranged such that at least a portion of light incident on the signal lines from a side of the first substrate facing away from the signal lines is reflected to a display region of the array substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHONGQING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Peng Li, Zhe Li, Jaikwang Kim, Zhijian Qi, Keke Gu, Zhidan Sun, Xiaoji Li, Haoxiang Fan, Lan Xin, Junhong Lu, Xiaochen Cui
  • Patent number: 10809561
    Abstract: A display panel includes a substrate, an opposite substrate opposite to the substrate, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the substrate and the opposite substrate, a pixel array disposed between the substrate and the liquid crystal layer, and first polarized patterns. The pixel array includes a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of active devices, and a plurality of first electrodes. The active devices are electrically connected to the scan lines and the data lines. The first electrodes are disposed on the substrate. Each of the first electrodes includes a plurality of slits. The first polarized patterns overlap with the first electrodes in a direction perpendicular to the substrate. The first polarized patterns are disposed between the substrate and the opposite substrate. An extending direction of the first polarized patterns is different from an extending direction of the slits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yen-Hua Lo, Hsin-Chun Huang, Wen-Rei Guo, Hsing-Yi Hsieh
  • Patent number: 10782550
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device, a display panel includes a display region in which an image is to foe displayed, and a non-display region formed into a frame shape surrounding the display region. The non-display region includes a first region in which the gate driver is arranged, and a second region in which the source driver is arranged. The non-display region has a non-light transmitting layer formed therein, which is configured to restrict transmission of light. The non-light transmitting layer has a first slit formed therein, which extends through the first region and the second region and passes through the non-light transmitting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ibaraki, Tomohiro Murakoso
  • Patent number: 10768457
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a display screen, including: preparing a first substrate and reserving at least one first hole region on the first substrate; preparing a second substrate and reserving at least one second hole region on the second substrate; adding liquid crystals onto the first substrate or the second substrate and aligning the first substrate with the second substrate such that the first hole region is aligned with the second hole region; and forming a hole penetrating the first substrate and the second substrate through the first hole region and the second hole region. The liquid crystals do not occupy the first hole region and the second hole region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiang Feng, Zhaokun Yang, Qiang Zhang, Sha Liu, Xiao Sun, Yanqing Chen, Yun Qiu, Ruizhi Yang, Tao Wang
  • Patent number: 10761382
    Abstract: A pixel structure including a substrate, a signal line, a plurality of pixel units and a light blocking pattern layer is provided. The signal line is disposed on the substrate and has opposing first and second sides. Two adjacent pixel units are disposed respectively on the first side and the second side of the signal line. Each pixel units includes an active device, a common electrode, an insulating layer, and a pixel electrode. The insulating layer is located on the common electrode. The pixel electrode is located on the insulating layer and is electrically connected to the active device. The pixel electrode includes an edge strip electrode and a plurality of extension electrodes. The extension electrodes respectively extend from the edge strip electrode toward the signal line. The light blocking pattern layer is located between two adjacent pixel units, and the light blocking pattern layer and the signal line overlap with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Chan-Yuen Chang, Chun-Ru Huang, Chao-Wei Yeh
  • Patent number: 10761391
    Abstract: A device includes a number of grating stages having a liquid crystal layer disposed between at least two substrates, where at least one is coated with a photo-alignment layer and transparent electrodes. Each grating stage may be switchably responsive to a voltage, with grating periods of each grating stage selected such that, when the voltage is applied to a grating stage and a laser beam is passed therethrough, optical energy from the laser beam in plus and minus first orders is deflected toward sides of the grating stage and optical energy from a zero order of the laser beam is allowed to pass through the grating stage. A polarization state of the laser beam may be maintained from an input through an output. Each grating stage may include a thickness selected to achromatize the laser beam through the grating stages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventor: Joshua Lentz
  • Patent number: 10761392
    Abstract: We describe a multimode reconfigurable optical spatial mode multiplexing system having first and second first and second input beams and a beam combiner to combine these into an optical output. At least one of the paths comprises a polarisation-independent reconfigurable phase modulator to impose a controllable phase profile on an input beam in an input beam phase modulating optical path, to controllably convert a spatial mode order of the input beam from a lower to a higher order spatial mode. The system also has a control input to control the phase modulator to configure the phase profile for the mode conversion. The input beams are combined into a multiple spatial mode combined beam output independent of a polarisation of the input beams. The number of spatial modes of the combined beam can be more than a number of spatial modes in either of the first and second input beams separately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Cambridge Enterprise Limited
    Inventors: Daping Chu, Haining Yang
  • Patent number: 10747083
    Abstract: A liquid crystal lens, a lens assembly, an optical apparatus, and a display device are provided. The liquid crystal lens includes a first transparent substrate; a second transparent substrate, provided opposite to the first transparent substrate; a liquid crystal layer, provided between the first and second transparent substrates; and at least one first electrode and at least one second electrode, both of which being provided at a side of one of the first and second transparent substrates proximal to the liquid crystal layer. The at least one first electrode and the at least one second electrode are alternately arranged to be insulated from each other and have an interval therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaochen Niu, Xue Dong, Xiaochuan Chen, Wenqing Zhao, Dacheng Zhang
  • Patent number: 10747064
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device is disclosed, which comprises a first substrate and a second substrate; a pixel electrode provided in each of the plurality of pixels on the first substrate; a common electrode provided on the first substrate; an auxiliary line connected to the common electrode; a column spacer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate; and moving stopper walls provided on the first substrate to restrict a moving range of the column spacer and spaced apart from the auxiliary line. As a moving range of the column spacer may be restricted by the moving stopper walls, an alignment direction of a liquid crystal layer is not changed by movement of the column spacer, whereby a spot defect of the LCD device may be avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: HyunGoog Cho, KyungTae Park, Donghoon Ha
  • Patent number: 10732467
    Abstract: Provided is a reflective liquid crystal display device of an embodiment, including a plurality of pixel areas having a blue pixel area and a white pixel area adjacent to each other in a first direction, wherein the blue pixel area includes a first blue pixel part including a first pixel electrode and a first blue filter that overlaps the first pixel electrode, and a second blue pixel part including a second blue filter that does not overlap the first pixel electrode, wherein the white pixel area includes a first sub-white pixel part including a second pixel electrode and a third blue filter that overlaps the second pixel electrode, a second sub-white pixel part disposed between the second blue pixel part and the first sub-white pixel part and including the third blue filter, and a first white pixel part adjacent to the first sub-white pixel part and including the second pixel electrode and a first white filter that overlaps the second pixel electrode, which may improve the color sense for white light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seunghyun Park, Junho Song
  • Patent number: 10718981
    Abstract: An LCD device includes self-compensated ITO patterns. Each pixel area of the LCD device comprises at least two sub-pixel areas and each sub-pixel area is formed with an electrode pattern different from other sub-pixel areas. The at least two sub-pixel areas each have at least two solid electrodes. The two solid electrodes in one sub-pixel area are corresponding to the two solid electrodes in the other sub-pixel area and designed with complimentary dimensions. If the solid electrode in one sub-pixel area has at least one larger size in a longitudinal direction than in a lateral direction, the corresponding solid electrode in the other sub-pixel area has at least one smaller size in the longitudinal direction than in the lateral direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: VastView Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Cheng Chung Peng, Yuhren Shen
  • Patent number: 10712620
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal device according to the invention includes forming an inorganic alignment film on a side of an element substrate that faces the liquid crystal layer and on a side of a counter substrate that faces the liquid crystal layer, forming an hydrophobic film that covers the inorganic alignment film, and removing at least a portion of the hydrophobic film that is formed outside a pixel region of the element substrate and the counter substrate when viewed in plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Abe, Yoshio Taniguchi