Patents by Inventor Ki-Chul Shin

Ki-Chul Shin 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: 10466541
    Abstract: A display device including a first substrate, a pixel unit disposed on the first substrate and including a first sub-pixel electrode, a second sub-pixel electrode and a third sub-pixel electrode, the first through third sub-pixel electrodes being adjacent to one another, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a first wavelength conversion layer disposed on a surface of the second substrate facing the first substrate, and overlapping the first sub-pixel electrode, a second wavelength conversion layer disposed on the surface of the second substrate facing the first substrate, and overlapping the second sub-pixel electrode, a transmissive layer disposed on the surface of the second substrate facing the first substrate, and overlapping the third sub-pixel electrode, a first cholesteric liquid crystal layer disposed on a surface of the first wavelength conversion layer facing the first substrate, a second cholesteric liquid crystal layer disposed on a surface of the second wavelength conversion layer facin
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Ki Chul Shin, Ho Kil Oh
  • Patent number: 10423043
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display including: a lower electrode including a unit pixel electrode; an upper electrode including an upper unit electrode facing the unit pixel electrode; and a liquid crystal layer between the lower electrode and the upper electrode and including a plurality of liquid crystal molecules aligned approximately perpendicular to the surfaces of the lower electrode and the upper electrode in the absence of an electric field, wherein the unit pixel electrode includes a stem forming a boundary between a plurality of sub-regions and a plurality of minute branches extending in different directions in two different sub-regions, the upper unit electrode includes an opening facing the stem and extending parallel to the stem, any alignment aid to pretilt the liquid crystal molecules is absent, and a length of the minute branches is equal to or less than about 53 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jang Wi Ryu, Cheol Shin, Hak Sun Chang, Ki Chul Shin, Jae-Soo Jang, Ka Eun Kim, Ho Kil Oh, Se Hyun Lee, Hyo Ju Jung, Sang Hyeon Song, Sang Jin Jeon
  • Publication number: 20190278142
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a pixel electrode which is disposed on the first substrate and comprises a first sub-pixel electrode and a second sub-pixel electrode adjacent to the first sub-pixel electrode along a first direction, and a shielding electrode which is disposed on the same layer as the pixel electrode and comprises a first area having a first width and a second area having a second width which is smaller than the first width along a second direction which crosses the first direction, and the first sub-pixel electrode may be adjacent to the first area along the second direction, and the second sub-pixel electrode may be adjacent to the second area along the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Ho Kil OH, Hoon KIM, Ki Chul SHIN
  • Publication number: 20190265559
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display including a partial plate electrode along with a minute pattern in a pixel electrode thereby increasing the viewing angle and the lateral visibility of the liquid crystal display, as well as the response speed A step provider is provided to reinforce the control force of the liquid crystal molecules, thereby reducing the texture generated in the center of the pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Hak Sun CHANG, Eun-Kil PARK, Hyun-Ho KANG, Jang Wi RYU, Seung-Suk YANG, Ki Chul SHIN, Se Hyun LEE, Jae-Soo JANG, Hyo Ju JUNG
  • Publication number: 20190258119
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a display panel, an opposite display panel, a liquid crystal layer between the display panel and the opposite display panel. The display panel includes a first base substrate, a pretilt alignment stabilization layer including a polymer of a reactive mesogen, a first vertical alignment layer including a decomposition product of a polymerization initiator between the first base substrate and the pretilt alignment stabilization layer, and a pattern electrode between the first base substrate and the first vertical alignment layer. The opposite display panel includes a second base substrate, a patternless electrode on the second base substrate, and a second vertical alignment layer on the patternless electrode, which includes the decomposition product of the polymerization initiator. The liquid crystal layer includes a liquid crystal composition having negative dielectric anisotropy. A surface of the LCD that faces a viewer has a concave shaped curve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Heung Shik PARK, Sang Gyun KIM, Hyun Ku AHN, Ki Chul SHIN
  • Publication number: 20190250467
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a thin film transistor panel including a first alignment layer, an opposing panel including a second alignment layer, and opposite to the thin film transistor panel, and a liquid crystal layer between the thin film transistor panel and the opposing panel, and including liquid crystal molecules, wherein a difference between a pretilt angle provided by the first alignment layer and a pretilt angle provided by the second alignment layer is equal to or greater than about 0.8 degree.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Su Jeong KIM, Oh Jeong KWON, Ki Chul SHIN
  • Patent number: 10371988
    Abstract: A curved liquid crystal display including a first curved substrate; a second curved substrate; a liquid crystal layer including liquid crystal molecules having negative dielectric anisotropy, the liquid crystal layer being interposed between the first and second curved substrates; a first curved liquid crystal alignment layer interposed between the liquid crystal layer and the first curved substrate; and a second curved liquid crystal alignment layer interposed between the liquid crystal layer and the second curved substrate. The second curved liquid crystal alignment layer has an average value of surface roughness values greater than an average value of surface roughness values of the first curved liquid crystal alignment layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong Han Song, Oh Jeong Kwon, Su Jin Kim, Jin Won Kim, Ki Chul Shin, Dong Chul Shin, Sung Jae Yun, Hyeok Jin Lee
  • Publication number: 20190227355
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display including: a lower electrode including a unit pixel electrode; an upper electrode including an upper unit electrode facing the unit pixel electrode; and a liquid crystal layer between the lower electrode and the upper electrode and including a plurality of liquid crystal molecules aligned approximately perpendicular to the surfaces of the lower electrode and the upper electrode in the absence of an electric field, wherein the unit pixel electrode includes a stem forming a boundary between a plurality of sub-regions and a plurality of minute branches extending in different directions in two different sub-regions, the upper unit electrode includes an opening facing the stem and extending parallel to the stem, any alignment aid to pretilt the liquid crystal molecules is absent, and a length of the minute branches is equal to or less than about 53 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Jang Wi RYU, Cheol SHIN, Hak Sun CHANG, Ki Chul SHIN, Jae-Soo JANG, Ka Eun KIM, Ho Kil OH, Se Hyun LEE, Hyo Ju JUNG, Sang Hyeon SONG, Sang Jin JEON
  • Publication number: 20190212618
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) includes a substrate, an overcoat layer disposed on the substrate, and a pixel electrode disposed on the overcoat layer. The pixel electrode includes a stem electrode and a plurality of branch electrodes. The stem electrode extends in a first direction and in a second direction crossing the first direction to have a cross shape, and the plurality of branch electrodes extends from the stem electrode obliquely to the first direction and the second direction. The overcoat layer includes a base layer and a plurality of ridge patterns which protrude from a surface of the base layer. The plurality of ridge patterns extends in a different direction from the direction in which the plurality of branch electrodes extends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: ISRAEL ESTEBAN LAZO, Heung Shik PARK, Ki Chul SHIN
  • Patent number: 10345655
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display including a partial plate electrode along with a minute pattern in pixel electrode thereby increasing the viewing angle and the lateral visibility of the liquid crystal display, as well as the response speed A step provider is provided to reinforce the control force of the liquid crystal molecules, thereby reducing the texture generated in the center of the pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hak Sun Chang, Eun-Kil Park, Hyun-Ho Kang, Jang Wi Ryu, Seung-Suk Yang, Ki Chul Shin, Se Hyun Lee, Jae-Soo Jang, Hyo Ju Jung
  • Patent number: 10338435
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a liquid crystal display including a first insulation substrate. A pixel electrode is disposed on the first insulation substrate. A first alignment layer is disposed on the pixel electrode. A second insulation substrate faces the first insulation substrate. A common electrode is disposed on a surface of the second insulation substrate, which the surface of the second insulation substrate faces the first insulation substrate. A second alignment layer is disposed on a surface of the common electrode, which the surface of the common electrode faces the first insulation substrate. A liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first alignment layer and the second alignment layer. The liquid crystal layer includes liquid crystal molecules. Liquid crystal molecules adjacent to at least one of the first alignment layer and the second alignment layer have a pre-tilt angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Won Kim, Oh Jeong Kwon, Su Jin Kim, Dong Han Song, Ki Chul Shin, Dong-Chul Shin, Sung-Jae Yun, Hyeok Jin Lee
  • Patent number: 10330990
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a pixel electrode which is disposed on the first substrate and comprises a first sub-pixel electrode and a second sub-pixel electrode adjacent to the first sub-pixel electrode along a first direction, and a shielding electrode which is disposed on the same layer as the pixel electrode and comprises a first area having a first width and a second area having a second width which is smaller than the first width along a second direction which crosses the first direction, and the first sub-pixel electrode may be adjacent to the first area along the second direction, and the second sub-pixel electrode may be adjacent to the second area along the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Ho Kil Oh, Hoon Kim, Ki Chul Shin
  • Publication number: 20190179185
    Abstract: A display device according to an exemplary embodiment includes: a thin film transistor array panel including a first pixel electrode connected to a first thin film transistor a second pixel electrode adjacent to the first pixel electrode and connected to a second thin film transistor; and a color conversion display panel overlapping the thin film transistor array panel, wherein the color conversion display panel includes a color conversion layer including a semiconductor nanocrystal and a transmissive layer, the thin film transistor array panel includes a first shielding electrode positioned between the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode and a second shielding electrode positioned adjacent to the first pixel electrode and separated from the first shielding electrode, and different voltages are applied to the first shielding electrode and the second shielding electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Ho Kil OH, Kyung Min KIM, Kyeong Jong KIM, Heung Shik PARK, Ki Chul SHIN, Dong-Chul SHIN, Jae-Soo JANG
  • Publication number: 20190179189
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display including: a display panel including an upper panel, a lower panel, and a liquid crystal layer disposed therebetween; and a backlight unit configured to provide light to the display panel. The upper panel includes a color conversion layer and an upper polarizer that respectively include semiconductor nanocrystals, the lower panel includes at least one of a B-plate compensation layer and an A-plate compensation layer, and a lower polarizer, the upper polarizer is disposed at a lower portion of the color conversion layer, and at least one of the upper panel and the lower panel includes a negative type of C-plate compensation layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Heung Shik PARK, Ki Chul Shin, Ho Kil Oh, Israel Esteban Lazo Martinez, Jae-Soo Jang
  • Patent number: 10317746
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a pixel electrode having a stem electrode in a first direction and a plurality of branch electrode extending from the stem electrode. An angle between the stem electrode and each of the branch electrode increases as the branch electrodes approach a center of the stem electrode and the angle decreases as the branch electrodes approach an end of the stem electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Israel Esteban Lazo, Heung Shik Park, Ki Chul Shin
  • Patent number: 10317734
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a thin film transistor panel including a first alignment layer, an opposing panel including a second alignment layer, and opposite to the thin film transistor panel, and a liquid crystal layer between the thin film transistor panel and the opposing panel, and including liquid crystal molecules, wherein a difference between a pretilt angle provided by the first alignment layer and a pretilt angle provided by the second alignment layer is equal to or greater than about 0.8 degree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Su Jeong Kim, Oh Jeong Kwon, Ki Chul Shin
  • Patent number: 10276721
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first gate line, a first data line, and a first pixel. The first pixel includes: a first subpixel including a first thin film transistor connected to the first gate line and data line, and a first liquid crystal capacitor, wherein a first terminal of the first liquid crystal capacitor is electrically connected to the first thin film transistor and a second terminal of the first liquid crystal capacitor is configured to receive a common voltage; and a second subpixel including a second thin film transistor connected to the first gate line and data line, a second liquid crystal capacitor, wherein a first terminal of the second liquid crystal capacitor is configured to receive the common voltage, and a thin film transistor resistor electrically connected between the second thin film transistor and a second terminal of the second liquid crystal capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Hoon Jung, Heung Shik Park, Ki Chul Shin, Dan Bi Yang, Min-Joo Han, Ji Phyo Hong
  • Publication number: 20190121178
    Abstract: A liquid crystal composition, a liquid crystal display (LCD) device using the liquid crystal composition, and a method of manufacturing an LCD device are provided. The liquid crystal display device comprises: a first substrate; a liquid crystal layer disposed on the first substrate, the liquid crystal layer including a liquid crystal compound; and a first liquid crystal alignment layer disposed between the first substrate and the liquid crystal layer, wherein the first compound includes a first compound, which has at least one hydrophilic group bonded to one end of a core structure thereof and a benzoyl derivative moiety bonded to the other end of the core structure thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Heung Shik PARK, Kyeong Jong KIM, Ki Chul SHIN
  • Publication number: 20190121205
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display including a liquid crystal panel including: a gate line and a data line disposed on a first substrate; a transistor connected to the gate line and the data line; a pixel electrode connected to the transistor; a second substrate facing the first substrate; red and green color conversion layers and a transmission layer disposed on one surface of the second substrate; a common electrode disposed on one surface of the red and green color conversion layers and the transmission layer; and a liquid crystal layer including liquid crystal molecules disposed between the first and second substrates. The data line is disposed adjacent to one edge of the pixel electrode, and an arrangement of liquid crystal molecules disposed at a part corresponding to the data line is the same as an arrangement of liquid crystal molecules of a part corresponding to the pixel electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Israel Esteban Lazo Martinez, Kyeong Jong Kim, Heung Shik Park, Ki Chul Shin
  • Publication number: 20190113799
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a display device including: a thin film transistor array panel; an anti-reflective layer overlapping the thin film transistor array panel; and a color conversion display panel positioned between the thin film transistor array panel and the anti-reflective layer, wherein: the color conversion display panel may include a color conversion layer including a semiconductor nanocrystal and a transmissive layer; the anti-reflective layer may include an adhesive layer positioned on the color conversion display panel, a low-reflective layer overlapping the adhesive layer, and a base film positioned between the adhesive layer and the low-reflective layer. A dye is present in one of the layers of the anti-reflective layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Ki Chul SHIN, Seon-Ah CHO