Patents by Inventor Lei Niu

Lei Niu 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: 10234732
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device are disclosed. Each of pixels in the display panel includes a pixel area; a switch element located near an intersection of a data line and a scan line; a pixel electrode electrically connected to the switch element; and a common electrode located on the first substrate. The common electrode comprises first common electrodes superposing data lines or scan lines and having the same first width; and second common electrodes overlapping with respective pixel areas and having the same second width, the first width is the same as the second width. Alternatively, the common electrode comprises first slits, which have the same first slit width, located above data lines and scan lines, and second slits, which have the same second slit width and are located in respective pixel areas. The first slit width is the same as the second slit width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignees: Shanghai Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd., Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lei Niu, Zhihua Ling, Lingxiao Du, Jun Ma, Sitao Huo, Tianyi Wu
  • Publication number: 20180340664
    Abstract: An intelligent automotive headlamp module with combined functions comprises a three-color laser light source array (1), a beam combination lens assembly (2) used for converging three-color laser light, an electric-controlled deflecting reflector unit (3) arranged in the light emergence direction of the laser beam combination lens assembly (2), and a transmission-type fluorescent material (5), wherein the reflecting surfaces (A-1, B-1) of the reflector unit rotate around the axes in a reciprocating mode at a high speed, and thus a reciprocating scanning segment is formed; the transmission-type fluorescent material (5) converts blue single-wavelength light irradiating the front side of the transmission-type fluorescent material (5) into white complex-wavelength light, and the white complex-wavelength light is output from the back side of the transmission-type fluorescent material (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Inventors: Juejing YANG, Liangliang WANG, Lei NIU
  • Patent number: 10116928
    Abstract: A 3D display screen and a 3D display device are provided. The 3D display screen comprises a pixel array comprising m laterally displaced groups. The laterally displaced group includes n rows of sub-pixel units, the sub-pixel units in a same sub-pixel unit row are arranged in a first lateral direction, m is a positive integer larger than or equal to 1, and n is a positive integer larger than or equal to 2. The sub-pixel unit includes a plurality of light-shielding stripes, and two adjacent light-shielding stripes have a gap of P in the first lateral direction. Along the first lateral direction, the nth sub-pixel unit row has a lateral displacement of P with respect to the 1st sub-pixel unit row, the ith sub-pixel unit row has a lateral displacement of P/n with respect to the (i?1)th sub-pixel unit row, where i is a positive integer and 1<i?n.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignees: Shanghai Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd., Tainma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jialing Li, Lei Niu, Zhihua Ling
  • Publication number: 20180188602
    Abstract: There are provided a backlight module and a display device. The backlight module includes: a light guide plate and a point light source. The light guide plate comprises a first part and a second part. The first part includes a first light incidence surface and a first light-emitting surface intersecting with the first light incidence surface. The second part includes a second light incidence surface and a second light-emitting surface intersecting with the second light incidence surface. The first light incidence surface intersects with the second light-emitting surface, the first light-emitting surface and the second light incidence surface are arranged oppositely, and both the first light-emitting surface and the second light-emitting surface comprise grating structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Yaoyang Liu, Lei Niu, Jialing Li, Yuan Ding, Jun Ma
  • Patent number: 10015475
    Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) display and an electronic device are provided. The 3D display has a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in a plurality of sub-pixel repeating groups, and a cylindrical lens grating including a plurality of cylindrical lenses arranged in parallel disposed on top of the display panel and covering all the sub-pixels in the display panel. The sub-pixels have M number of different colors capable of being mixed to generate a white color. M is a positive integer greater than 2, and M number of successive sub-pixels along a first direction have different colors. Two adjacent sub-pixels form a main pixel, any two adjacent main pixels are different, and each sub-pixel repeating group includes one or more main pixels. The cylindrical lens grating divides all the sub-pixels into a plurality of 3D viewpoints of a 3D image, the 3D viewpoint has same sub-pixel arrangement sequences as the sub-pixel repeating groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignees: Shanghai Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd., Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jialing Li, Lei Niu, Kang Yang
  • Publication number: 20180157056
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device includes a display panel which includes display devices; a micro lens group located above a light-emitting side of the display panel, and the micro lens group includes micro lens devices, and the micro lens devices are disposed to correspond to the display devices, respectively, and distances between centers of the micro lens devices and centers of the corresponding display devices are gradually increased along a direction from a center position to an edge position of the display panel. Further, a liquid lens disposed on a side of the micro lens group away from the display panel, and the liquid lens is configured for realizing multi-layer display of a suspension image by changing a phase of incident light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2018
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Applicant: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yaoyang LIU, Lei NIU, Jian XU, Jialing LI
  • Publication number: 20180136817
    Abstract: A display panel is provided. The display panel comprises a display panel; and a light modulation substrate disposed opposite to the display panel. The light modulation substrate includes a base layer and a transparent dielectric layer covering the base layer. The base layer has a first surface facing the display panel and an opposing second surface, and the transparent dielectric layer is disposed on the first surface of the base layer. A plurality of reflective gratings are disposed on the base layer. The transparent dielectric layer has a first surface facing the base layer and an opposing second surface, and the second surface of the transparent dielectric layer is a transparent dielectric layer surface. The transparent dielectric layer has a refractive index of n, and n>1. Outgoing light of the display device converges to a plurality of light-emitting points outside the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventors: Fan YANG, Lei NIU, Jun MA, Jialing LI
  • Publication number: 20180102078
    Abstract: The present application provides a display panel. Blocks of the display panel have the characteristic of random arrangement, which can eliminate a ghosting problem caused by periodic arrangement, and the randomness is subjected to some limitations and restrictions, thereby avoiding the wiring difficulty in the related art in which blocks are arranged completely randomly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Applicant: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Jian XU, Yaoyang LIU, Jialing LI, Lei NIU
  • Patent number: 9897816
    Abstract: A glasses-free 3D liquid crystal display device includes an array substrate, a plurality of data lines disposed horizontally and a plurality of gate lines disposed vertically on the array substrate, a plurality of pixel units defined by the data lines and the gate lines. A pixel unit includes a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel that are horizontally disposed and adjacent to each other. The data line is a periodically varying flexuous line extending horizontally, in addition, or alternatively, the gate line is a periodically varying flexuous line extending vertically. The display device reduces the unevenness of moire fringes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhangben Wu, Jun Ma, Lei Niu, Xingchen Wang
  • Patent number: 9897585
    Abstract: A geomechanical fluid-solid coupling testing device for water inrush from coal mine collapse column, which has a testing bed and a collapse column simulating device, wherein the testing bed has a box type structure with an opening at its top and is provided therein with multiple layers of similar materials in which a tunnel or a mining face can be dug out; and the collapse column simulating device comprises a plexiglass barrel with openings at both its top and bottom, the plexiglass barrel is provided at its top opening with a plexiglass lifting device and a hard plastic baffle, and the plexiglass lifting device is provided with a lifting level which is connected with a lifting rope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY, BEIJING
    Inventors: Qiang Wu, Lei Niu, Shucai Li, Shouqiang Liu, Yifan Zeng
  • Publication number: 20180004054
    Abstract: Disclosed are a spatial light modulator and a display device, where 2*2 adjacent pixel electrodes are a pixel group, through-holes corresponding to the respective pixel electrodes are located proximate to the center of the pixel group, and a photo spacer is located at the center of the pixel group, so that the photo spacer can overlap with the through-holes, or the photo spacer can be arranged in close proximity to the through-holes. If the photo spacer overlaps with the through-holes, then a black matrix layer covering the photo spacer, and a black matrix layer covering the surrounding of the photo spacer may cover at least a part of the through-holes; and if the photo spacer is arranged in close proximity to the through-holes, then the black matrix layer covering the surrounding of the photo spacer may cover at least a part of the through-holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jialing LI, Lei NIU, Jian XU, Yaoyang LIU
  • Publication number: 20170293188
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device are disclosed. Each of pixels in the display panel includes a pixel area; a switch element located near an intersection of a data line and a scan line; a pixel electrode electrically connected to the switch element; and a common electrode located on the first substrate. The common electrode comprises first common electrodes superposing data lines or scan lines and having the same first width; and second common electrodes overlapping with respective pixel areas and having the same second width, the first width is the same as the second width. Alternatively, the common electrode comprises first slits, which have the same first slit width, located above data lines and scan lines, and second slits, which have the same second slit width and are located in respective pixel areas. The first slit width is the same as the second slit width.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Lei NIU, Zhihua LING, Lingxiao DU, Jun MA, Sitao HUO, Tianyi WU
  • Patent number: 9787976
    Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device comprises a display panel including a plurality of display units, and a microlens array including a plurality of microlens elements disposed on top of a light emitting surface of the display panel. The plurality of microlens elements are one-to-one corresponding to the plurality of display units. In at least one direction of the display unit arrangement, a distance between a center of a microlens element and a center of the corresponding display unit gradually increases from a center of the display panel to an edge of the display panel. N number of adjacent display units together display an image and form a display unit group, wherein N is a positive integer larger than 1. Each display unit group displays a same image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignees: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jialing Li, Zhongshou Huang, Lei Niu, Jun Ma, Zhihua Ling
  • Publication number: 20170272736
    Abstract: A 3D display screen and a 3D display device are provided. The 3D display screen comprises a pixel array comprising m laterally displaced groups. The laterally displaced group includes n rows of sub-pixel units, the sub-pixel units in a same sub-pixel unit row are arranged in a first lateral direction, m is a positive integer larger than or equal to 1, and n is a positive integer larger than or equal to 2. The sub-pixel unit includes a plurality of light-shielding stripes, and two adjacent light-shielding stripes have a gap of P in the first lateral direction. Along the first lateral direction, the nth sub-pixel unit row has a lateral displacement of P with respect to the 1st sub-pixel unit row, the ith sub-pixel unit row has a lateral displacement of P/n with respect to the (i-1)th sub-pixel unit row, where i is a positive integer and 1<i?n.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventors: Jialing LI, Lei NIU, Zhihua LING
  • Patent number: 9746685
    Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes a display panel including a plurality of display units displaying a same image, and a microlens array including a plurality of microlens elements disposed on top of a light emitting surface of the display panel. The plurality of microlens elements are one-to-one corresponding to the plurality of display units, and a distance between a center of the microlens element and a center of the corresponding display unit gradually increases from a center of the display panel to an edge of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignees: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD, TIANMA MICRO ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jialing Li, Lei Niu, Jun Ma
  • Patent number: 9733539
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device are disclosed. Each of pixels in the display panel includes a pixel area; a switch element located near an intersection of a data line and a scan line; a pixel electrode electrically connected to the switch element; and a common electrode located on the first substrate. The common electrode comprises first common electrodes superposing data lines or scan lines and having the same first width; and second common electrodes overlapping with respective pixel areas and having the same second width, the first width is the same as the second width. Alternatively, the common electrode comprises first slits, which have the same first slit width, located above data lines and scan lines, and second slits, which have the same second slit width and are located in respective pixel areas. The first slit width is the same as the second slit width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignees: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Niu, Zhihua Ling, Lingxiao Du, Jun Ma, Sitao Huo, Tianyi Wu
  • Patent number: 9721496
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device, where, the display panel includes a trigger signal controller, and the trigger signal controller is configured to convert N primary trigger signals generated by a first driving unit into 2N secondary trigger signals according to a display control signal generated by a second driving unit, and sequentially outputting the 2N secondary trigger signals to 2N gate controlling circuits, each of the 2N gate controlling circuits is configured to drive a group of pixels in a display region, where, rows of pixels respectively from different groups of pixels are alternately arranged, the secondary trigger signals are configured to control gate controlling circuits to simultaneously drive two paired groups of pixels under a first display mode, and alternately drive two paired groups of pixels under a second display mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignees: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Niu, Conghua Ma, Zhihua Ling, Jun Ma, Tianyi Wu, Sitao Huo
  • Patent number: 9711773
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a separator and a lithium-ion secondary battery. The separator comprises: a microporous membrane having micropores; and a coating provided on a surface of the microporous membrane. The coating comprises polymer particles and binder particles. The polymer particle is a hollow shell structure which comprises a shell and a cavity positioned in the shell, an outer surface of the shell is distributed with nanopores which are communicated with the cavity, a particle diameter of the polymer particle is larger than a pore size of the micropore of the microporous membrane; a particle diameter of the binder particle is larger than the pore size of the micropore of the microporous membrane. The lithium-ion secondary battery comprises: a positive electrode plate; a negative electrode plate; the aforementioned separator interposed between the positive electrode plate and the negative electrode plate; and an electrolyte.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: DONGGUAN AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Xulun Lai, Hui Jiang, Jianrui Yang, Kejun Zhan, Lei Niu
  • Publication number: 20170195657
    Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) display and an electronic device are provided. The 3D display comprises a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in a plurality of sub-pixel repeating groups, and a cylindrical lens grating including a plurality of cylindrical lenses arranged in parallel disposed on top of the display panel and covering all the sub-pixels in the display panel. The sub-pixels have M number of different colors capable of being mixed to generate a white color. M is a positive integer greater than 2, and M number of successive sub-pixels along a first direction have different colors. Two adjacent sub-pixels form a main pixel, any two adjacent main pixels are different, and each sub-pixel repeating group includes one or more main pixels. The cylindrical lens grating divides all the sub-pixels into a plurality of 3D viewpoints of a 3D image, the 3D viewpoint has same sub-pixel arrangement sequences as the sub-pixel repeating groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: JIALING LI, LEI NIU, KANG YANG
  • Patent number: 9699443
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a stereoscopic image display device, including: multiple display units, the multiple display units being arranged in rows and columns, a first black matrix being disposed between adjacent rows of display units, and a second black matrix being disposed between adjacent columns of display units. The stereoscopic image display device also includes a lens sheet disposed corresponding to the multiple display units, the lens sheet being formed by multiple lined up half-cylinder lenses, and, in an X-direction, a cycle length of the half-cylinder lenses in the lens sheet being a positive even multiple of a cycle length of the display units. In the display device, X coordinate values of the multiple display units do not repeat periodically within one cycle of the lens sheet. The stereoscopic image display device according to the disclosure can solve a problem of black and white stripes, thereby improving the display effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignees: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Niu, Yuhong Tao, Zhangben Wu, Zhihua Ling