Patents by Inventor Jin Hyuk Kwon
Jin Hyuk Kwon 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).
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Patent number: 10222533Abstract: The described technology relates to a backlight unit and a display device including the backlight unit. In one aspect, the backlight unit includes a light source and a light guiding plate configured to guide light emitted from the light source. The backlight unit also includes an optical sheet integrally formed with the light guiding plate and including a micro pattern configured to emit light reflected from the light guiding plate.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2015Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Kookmin University Industry Academy Cooperation FoundationInventors: Jae Gab Lee, Hoe Sub Soh, Jin Hyuk Kwon
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Publication number: 20170031084Abstract: The described technology relates to a backlight unit and a display device comprising including the backlight unit. In one aspect, the backlight unit includes a light source and a light guiding plate configured to guide light emitted from the light source, The backlight unit also includes an optical sheet integrally formed with the light guiding plate and including a micro pattern configured to emit light reflected from the light guiding plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2015Publication date: February 2, 2017Inventors: Jae Gab Lee, Hoe Sub Soh, Jin Hyuk Kwon
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Publication number: 20150062490Abstract: Disclosed is a backlight unit that includes: a light guide plate that guides light, using internal total reflection; a plurality of short wavelength light sources that are disposed on a side of the light guide plate and radiate short wavelength lights into the light guide plate; a three-color light source array that is disposed on the bottom or the top of the light guide plate and includes a plurality of color conversion materials exciting the short wavelength lights from the short wavelength light sources into red or green or blue; and a lenticular lens array sheet that is disposed between the three-color light source array and the liquid crystal panel and refracts the three color lights emitted from the three-color light source array into the subpixels.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2012Publication date: March 5, 2015Applicant: Research Cooperation Foundation of Yeungnam UniversityInventor: Jin Hyuk Kwon
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Publication number: 20140150865Abstract: The present invention relates to a solar cell capable of maximizing a concentrating area and cell efficiency by disposing a cell in a progress direction of light, that is, in a vertical direction to a concentrating direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2012Publication date: June 5, 2014Applicant: Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yeungnam UniversityInventors: Jin Hyuk Kwon, Jae Hak Jung
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Patent number: 8284346Abstract: A backlight unit for a liquid crystal display panel includes a diffusor that diffuses light emitted from a front surface thereof, a reflective plate that reflects light toward a rear surface of the diffusor; and a collimator that collimates the light emitted from the front surface of the diffusor toward the liquid crystal display panel. The collimator includes a base layer that refracts the diffused light from the diffusor toward the liquid crystal panel, a collimating layer of lenses disposed along two perpendicular directions on a front surface of the base layer, and a reflective pattern on a rear surface of the base layer along a boundary of each of the lenses, the reflective pattern exposing an aperture portion of the base layer facing each of the lenses.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2008Date of Patent: October 9, 2012Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jae-Hyun Park, Sung-Hun Kim, Jong-Keun Shin, Jin-Hyuk Kwon, Byoung-Ku Kim
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Publication number: 20120154713Abstract: A liquid crystal display including: a liquid crystal panel including front and rear glass substrates, a plurality of liquid crystal sub-pixels for red, green, and blue respectively corresponding to three color, i.e., red, green, and blue, lights, and disposed between the front and rear glass substrates, and a color filter disposed between the plurality of liquid crystal sub-pixels and the front glass substrate; a backlight unit disposed behind the liquid crystal panel, and including a plurality of three color light suppliers spaced apart from each other in groups and supplying the three color lights; and a lenticular lens array disposed between the backlight unit and the liquid crystal panel, and inducing the three color lights emitted from the three color light suppliers to the liquid crystal sub-pixels and the color filter of the liquid crystal panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2010Publication date: June 21, 2012Applicant: Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yeungnam UniversityInventor: Jin Hyuk Kwon
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Patent number: 8094259Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display (LCD) without a color filter, the LCD including: a liquid crystal panel comprising front and rear glass substrates and a plurality of red, green, and blue liquid crystal subpixels disposed between the front and rear glass substrates corresponding to red, green, and blue lights, respectively; a backlight unit disposed in rear of the liquid crystal panel and comprising a plurality of three-color light supply units supplying the red, green, and blue lights, respectively, and separated from one another so that the plurality of three-color light supply units are compartmentalized; and a lenticular lens array disposed between the liquid crystal panel and the backlight unit, inducing the red, green, and blue lights irradiated by the three-color light supply units into the red, green, and blue liquid crystal subpixels included in the liquid crystal panel and comprising a plurality of lenticular lens groups comprising a plurality of lenticular lenses, wherein the plurality of lentiType: GrantFiled: March 19, 2009Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yeungnam UniversityInventor: Jin-Hyuk Kwon
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Patent number: 7905647Abstract: A prism sheet, a back light unit using the same and liquid crystal display device having the back light unit are disclosed, for improvement of light concentration, frontal luminance and viewing angle, in which the prism sheet includes a light-condensing film. The light condensing film has a plurality of prism peaks, each having a triangular cross section inclined surface which is inclined from a top surface of the light-condensing film at an angle of about 20° to about 40°.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2005Date of Patent: March 15, 2011Assignee: LG. Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hoe Sup Soh, Man Hoan Lee, Ji Su Yoon, Sung Keun Lee, Jin Hyuk Kwon
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Patent number: 7690820Abstract: An optical sheet includes a substrate having rear and front surfaces, a micro-lens-array on the front surface of the substrate, the micro-lens-array including a plurality of micro-lenses, a plurality of protrusions spaced apart from each other on the rear surface of the substrate, and an intercepting reflector layer on the protrusions.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2007Date of Patent: April 6, 2010Assignee: Cheil Industries, Inc.Inventors: Kyung Joon Lee, Seung Man Chio, Jee Hyun Yang, Jin Hyuk Kwon
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Publication number: 20100060817Abstract: A backlight unit for a liquid crystal display panel includes a diffusor that diffuses light emitted from a front surface thereof, a reflective plate that reflects light toward a rear surface of the diffusor; and a collimator that collimates the light emitted from the front surface of the diffusor toward the liquid crystal display panel. The collimator includes a base layer that refracts the diffused light from the diffusor toward the liquid crystal panel, a collimating layer of lenses disposed along two perpendicular directions on a front surface of the base layer, and a reflective pattern on a rear surface of the base layer along a boundary of each of the lenses, the reflective pattern exposing an aperture portion of the base layer facing each of the lenses.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2008Publication date: March 11, 2010Applicant: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jae-Hyun Park, Sung-Hun Kim, Jong-Keun Shin, Jin-Hyuk Kwon, Byoung-Ku Kim
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Publication number: 20090262280Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display (LCD) without a color filter, the LCD including: a liquid crystal panel comprising front and rear glass substrates and a plurality of red, green, and blue liquid crystal subpixels disposed between the front and rear glass substrates corresponding to red, green, and blue lights, respectively; a backlight unit disposed in rear of the liquid crystal panel and comprising a plurality of three-color light supply units supplying the red, green, and blue lights, respectively, and separated from one another so that the plurality of three-color light supply units are compartmentalized; and a lenticular lens array disposed between the liquid crystal panel and the backlight unit, inducing the red, green, and blue lights irradiated by the three-color light supply units into the red, green, and blue liquid crystal subpixels included in the liquid crystal panel and comprising a plurality of lenticular lens groups comprising a plurality of lenticular lenses, wherein the plurality of lentiType: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2009Publication date: October 22, 2009Inventor: Jin-Hyuk Kwon
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Publication number: 20080192484Abstract: An optical sheet includes a substrate having rear and front surfaces, a micro-lens-array on the front surface of the substrate, the micro-lens-array including a plurality of micro-lenses, a plurality of protrusions spaced apart from each other on the rear surface of the substrate, and an intercepting reflector layer on the protrusions.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2007Publication date: August 14, 2008Inventors: Kyung Joon Lee, Seung Man Chio, Jee Hyun Yang, Jin Hyuk Kwon