Patents by Inventor Eun-Kyung YEON

Eun-Kyung YEON has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11428807
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a first substrate and a pixel array layer disposed on a first surface of the first substrate, a vibration generator including a sound output unit which vibrates the display panel to output a sound and a first ultrasonic wave output unit which vibrates the display panel to output ultrasonic waves, and a first ultrasonic wave absorbing film overlapping the first ultrasonic wave output unit in a thickness direction of the display panel, where the first ultrasonic wave absorbing film absorbs the ultrasonic waves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eun Kyung Yeon, Yi Joon Ahn, Ga Na Kim, Jung Hun Noh
  • Publication number: 20220194847
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a window includes: radiating a laser to a glass; immersing a laser-irradiated glass in a KOH solution to form a groove in the glass and to perform a primary reinforcement on the glass; masking the groove of a primarily reinforced glass; and performing a secondary reinforcement on a masked glass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Yu Ri KIM, Eun-Kyung YEON, Sung Hoon KIM, Seong Jin HWANG
  • Publication number: 20220198965
    Abstract: Provided are a window member, a display device and a method of manufacturing display device. The window member includes a first surface, and a second surface opposite to the first surface, and defining a groove at the first surface that is recessed toward the second surface, and that has a rounded end portion, wherein a thickness of the window member at a portion at which the groove is formed is less than a depth of the groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Eun Kyung YEON, Sung Hoon KIM
  • Publication number: 20220190060
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel in which first holes arranged in a first direction and a second direction that intersects the first direction are defined, and a first panel bottom member which is disposed on one surface of the display panel and in which second holes arranged in the first and second directions are defined. A maximum length of a second hole among the second holes in the first direction satisfies ā€œeƗ(a+c)ā€ where a denotes a maximum length of a first hole among the first holes in the first direction, c denotes a minimum distance between neighboring first holes among the first holes in the first direction, and e is a positive integer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Jae Been LEE, Yi Joon AHN, Sung Hoon KIM, Eun Kyung YEON
  • Publication number: 20220173126
    Abstract: A tiled display device includes a plurality of display devices including a plurality of display areas including pixels, and a coupling area between adjacent display areas from among the plurality of display areas. Each of the plurality of display devices includes: a substrate including a first portion configured to support the display area, a second portion extending from the first portion to be bent, and a third portion extending from the second portion, a display layer on the first portion of the substrate and including the pixels, a connection line at an edge of the first portion of the substrate and connected to the plurality of pixels, a pad portion on the third portion of the substrate, a fan-out line on the second portion of the substrate and connected between the pad portion and the connection line, and pattern holes penetrating the second portion of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Cheol Min PARK, Yi Joon AHN, Atsushi NEMOTO, Woo Suk SEO, Eun Kyung YEON, Jae Been LEE, Tae Ho LEE
  • Publication number: 20220077225
    Abstract: A display device includes a pixel in a display area. The pixel includes a first electrode and a second electrode that are spaced apart from each other, a first insulating layer disposed on the first and second electrodes and including a trench corresponding to a region between the first and second electrodes, light emitting elements disposed in the trench, each of the light emitting elements including a first end portion and a second end portion, a first contact electrode disposed on the first end portion of each of the light emitting elements and the first electrode, and a second contact electrode disposed on the second end portion of each of the light emitting elements and the second electrode. The trench includes a first trench accommodating the light emitting elements, and second trenches disposed in the first trench.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: Samsung Display Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Hoon KIM, Yi Joon AHN, Eun Kyung YEON, Jae Been LEE
  • Publication number: 20220077197
    Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device may include a first substrate, a first set of light emitting elements, and a second set of light emitting elements. The first substrate may include a first set of holes. Each hole of the first set of holes may extend through the first substrate. Each of the first set of light emitting elements and the second set of light emitting elements may overlap the first substrate. The first set of holes may be positioned between the first set of light emitting elements and the second set of light emitting elements in a plan view of the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Sung Hoon KIM, Jung Hun NOH, Yi Joon AHN, Eun Kyung YEON, Jae Been LEE
  • Publication number: 20220052146
    Abstract: A display panel including: a substrate having a through hole, a conductive part disposed on an inner surface of the through hole and a resin part in the through hole and adjacent to the conductive part; a circuit layer disposed at a first side of the substrate; and a pad disposed at a second side of the substrate and electrically connected to the circuit layer by the conductive part, wherein a width of the through hole is larger near the first side or the second side of the substrate than at a center of the through hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: YI JOON AHN, EUN-KYUNG YEON, JAEBEEN LEE
  • Patent number: 11243738
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel; a first sound generating device disposed below the display panel, where the first sound generating device generates a sound by causing the display panel to vibrate; and a second sound generating device disposed below the display panel, where the second generating sound generating device generates a sound by causing the display panel to vibrate. The first sound generating device includes: a first vibrator which vibrates in a first direction, which is a thickness direction of the display panel; and a second vibrator which vibrates in the first direction, and the second sound generating device includes: a third vibrator which vibrates in the first direction; and a fourth vibrator which vibrates in a second direction, which is perpendicular to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eun Kyung Yeon, Yi Joon Ahn, Ga Na Kim, Jung Hun Noh, Jae Been Lee
  • Publication number: 20220037296
    Abstract: A tiled display comprises display devices adjacent to one another and each comprising first pixels and second pixels, a first boundary area where longer sides of at least two of the display devices are adjacent to each other, and a second boundary area where shorter sides of at least two of the display devices are adjacent to each other. Each of the first pixels and the second pixels comprises sub-pixels. The first pixels are disposed in the first boundary area such that the sub-pixels of the first pixels are parallel to the longer sides of the display devices. The second pixels are disposed in the second boundary area such that the sub-pixels of the second pixels are parallel to the shorter sides of the display devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: Samsung Display Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Eun Kyung YEON, Yi Joon AHN, Sung Hoon KIM, Jae Been LEE
  • Publication number: 20220036775
    Abstract: A display device includes a first display panel including a first substrate, and a second display panel adjacent to the first display panel in a first direction and including a second substrate. One side surface of each of the first and second substrates adjacent to a first boundary between the first display panel and the second display panel includes an uneven pattern, the uneven pattern of the first substrate includes a plurality of first convex portions and a plurality of first concave portions between the first convex portions, the uneven pattern of the second substrate includes a plurality of second convex portions and a plurality of second concave portions between the second convex portions, each of the first convex portions includes at least one first hole passing through the first substrate, and each of the second convex portions includes at least one second hole passing through the second substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Jae Been LEE, Yi Joon AHN, Eun Kyung YEON
  • Publication number: 20220028964
    Abstract: A display device includes: a substrate comprising a first contact hole; a thin-film transistor layer on a first surface of the substrate and comprising a plurality of insulating layers and a thin-film transistor; an etching stopper on one or more of the insulating layers and contacting the substrate through a second contact hole surrounding the first contact hole in a plan view; a connection line on the etching stopper; and a pad part on a second surface of the substrate opposite the first surface of the substrate and connected to the connection line through the first contact hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Jae Been LEE, Yi Joon AHN, Sung Hoon KIM, Eun Kyung YEON
  • Publication number: 20220005914
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a display device includes forming a first hole that extends into a substrate, through a first wet etching process using a first etchant and forming a second hole that extends from the first hole further into the substrate, through a second wet etching process using a second etchant. The second etchant has a pH different from a pH of the first etchant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Jaebeen LEE, Eun-Kyung YEON, Yi Joon AHN, Sunghoon KIM
  • Publication number: 20210296373
    Abstract: A display device includes a first substrate having a display area and a non-display area adjacent to the display area, the first substrate including a substrate through-hole penetrating the first substrate in a thickness direction, an etching stopper disposed on a first surface of the first substrate, the etching stopper including a stopper through-hole that overlaps the substrate through-hole and penetrates the etching stopper in the thickness direction, a data line disposed on the etching stopper, a substrate connection electrode that fills the substrate through-hole and the stopper through-hole, the substrate connection electrode being disposed in the display area and electrically connected to the data line, and a first pad disposed on a second surface of the first substrate opposite to the first surface and overlapping the substrate connection electrode. The first pad is electrically connected to the substrate connection electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: Samsung Display Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Eun Kyung YEON, Jung Hun NOH, Yi Joon AHN, Jae Been LEE
  • Patent number: 11076234
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel; a panel bottom member disposed on the display panel; a middle frame disposed on the panel bottom member; an electronic permanent magnet attached to the panel bottom member and that switches between an activation state to generate a magnetic force and an inactivation state; and a vibrator attached to the middle frame and that vibrates, wherein the electronic permanent magnet and the vibrator overlap each other in a thickness direction of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ga Na Kim, Yi Joon Ahn, Jung Hun Noh, Eun Kyung Yeon
  • Patent number: 11054857
    Abstract: A foldable display device includes: a display panel including a first area and a second area that are symmetrical with respect to a folding axis; a lower member below the display panel; a first sound output unit on a lower surface of the first area; a first fixing part above the lower surface of the first area and overlapping the first sound output unit in a thickness direction; and a first vibration output unit on a lower surface of the second area, wherein the first fixing part and the first vibration output unit are symmetrical with respect to the folding axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung Hun Noh, Eun Kyung Yeon, Yi Joon Ahn
  • Publication number: 20210192989
    Abstract: A display device includes a flexible substrate including a folding area, a non-folding area adjacent to the folding area along a first direction, and a first surface in both the folding area and the non-folding area, a light-emitting element layer on the flexible substrate, and a support which faces the light-emitting layer with the flexible substrate therebetween, forms an interface with the first surface of the flexible substrate and is bendable together with the flexible substrate. The support includes a first support corresponding to the folding area, a second support corresponding to the non-folding area, and a through hole extended through the support. The through hole is extended through the first support, and a first portion of the first surface of the flexible substrate is exposed to outside the support by the through hole in the first support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Yi Joon AHN, Jung Hun NOH, Eun Kyung YEON, Jae Been LEE
  • Publication number: 20210181847
    Abstract: A display device and a haptic feedback method having the same provide a display panel which displays an image, a cover window on a first surface of the display panel and including a tactile pattern, and an actuator which is disposed on a second surface opposite the first surface of the display panel and overlaps the tactile pattern in a width direction of the display panel. The actuator outputs a sensing voltage according to applied pressure and generates vibrations according to applied driving voltages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Jung Hun NOH, Yi Joon AHN, Ga Na KIM, So Young YEO, Eun Kyung YEON, Jae Been LEE
  • Patent number: 10899662
    Abstract: According to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, a method of manufacturing a display window includes preparing a mother substrate, performing a salt treatment on the mother substrate to form a silicon-rich layer in a surface of the mother substrate to a first depth from the surface of the mother substrate, and removing the silicon-rich layer, wherein the first depth is greater than a depth of any cracks in the surface of the mother substrate, and a ratio of silicon content in the silicon-rich layer to a silicon content in the mother substrate is 1.2 to 1.4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hoi Kwan Lee, Cheol Min Park, Eun Kyung Yeon, Jeong Seok Lee, Seung Ho Kim
  • Publication number: 20200401187
    Abstract: A foldable display device includes: a display panel including a first area and a second area that are symmetrical with respect to a folding axis; a lower member below the display panel; a first sound output unit on a lower surface of the first area; a first fixing part above the lower surface of the first area and overlapping the first sound output unit in a thickness direction; and a first vibration output unit on a lower surface of the second area, wherein the first fixing part and the first vibration output unit are symmetrical with respect to the folding axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Jung Hun NOH, Eun Kyung YEON, Yi Joon AHN