Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of production of liquid crystal displays, in particular to a light guide plate assembly, comprising: a light guide plate which includes a first side edge for introducing light and a second side edge through which no light can be introduced, and a frame for fixing the light guide plate, the frame at least partially surrounding the second side edge of the light guide plate, wherein a buffer member that is at least partially deformable in an elastic manner is disposed between the frame and the second side edge of the light guide plate.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for storing and retrieving user data from magnetic recording tracks in a data storage device. In some embodiments, a rotatable data recording medium has a circumferentially extending data track formed from spaced apart embedded servo wedges that extend radially across a recording surface of the medium to define intervening data wedges between each adjacent pair of the servo wedges. Each data wedge along the data track has only a single timing field at a beginning portion of the data wedge immediately adjacent a first servo wedge, followed by a plurality of data sectors that extend across the data wedge to an end portion of the data wedge immediately adjacent a second servo wedge. No inter-sector gaps are provided between the respective data sectors and no additional timing fields are provided between the first and second servo wedges.

Abstract: This invention discloses a backlight module comprises a light guide plate, a middle frame, a quantum strip, and a light source disposed approximate to a light input surface of the light guide plate. The middle frame comprises a supporting portion and a containing portion connecting to the supporting portion, the supporting portion is disposed on a light output surface of the light guide plate, and the containing portion is disposed between the light source and the light input surface. The containing portion comprises a containing space, the quantum strip is disposed in the containing space, the a light transmitting hole is disposed on a first sidewall and a second sidewall of the containing portion for transmitting light from the light source via the quantum strip to radiate the light input surface of the light guide plate. This invention also discloses a liquid crystal display device comprises the above mentioned backlight module.

Abstract: A liquid crystal module includes a back bezel (1), a side-in backlight source (3), a light guide plate (2) having a light-in side opposite to the side-in backlight source (3), a quantum bar (5) between the side-in backlight source (3) and the light guide plate (2), a first support (6) having first windows (60) on top, and a second support (7) having second windows (70) on top. The quantum bar (5) is placed in a room formed by the first support (6) and the second support (7). The present invention also proposes a liquid crystal display. The liquid crystal module is assembled easily and reduces breakage risk for the quantum bar glass tubes.

Abstract: A disk array flushing method and a disk array flushing apparatus. The method includes acquiring a sequence, which is according to physical addresses of logical units, of the logical units in a same redundant array of independent disks (RAID) group in a disk array, and sequentially flushing, according to the sequence of the logical units, concurrent flushing input-outputs (IOs) of the RAID group to the logical units in the RAID group. According to the disk array flushing method and the disk array flushing apparatus, by uniformly scheduling logical units in a single RAID group and performing flushing according to a sequence of physical addresses, it takes less time for a magnetic arm to jump back and forth for addressing, and influences between RAID groups are prevented by means of independent control over the RAID groups, thereby improving flushing efficiency of a disk array, and increasing throughput of the disk array.

Abstract: An inverter comprises a first boost apparatus having an input coupled to a positive dc bus, a second boost apparatus having an input coupled to a negative dc bus, a first switch coupled to an input of an L-C filter and the first boost apparatus, a second switch coupled to the input of the L-C filter and the second boost apparatus, a third switch coupled between the positive dc bus and the first switch, wherein a common node of the first switch and the third switch is directly connected to an output of the first boost apparatus, a fourth switch coupled between the negative dc bus and the second switch, wherein a common node of the fourth switch and the second switch is directly connected to an output of the second boost apparatus and an isolation switch coupled between the input of the L-C filter and ground.

Abstract: A method includes determining, at a server, channel change (cc) bias factors associated with a time slot. The method includes sending a request for cc server data to a network device. The request includes the time slot and data corresponding to the cc bias factors. The method includes receiving the cc server data, where the cc server data identifies a set of times during the time slot and an estimated number of active cc servers of a plurality of cc servers for each time of set of times. The method also includes, before a particular time indicated in the set of times and in response to a current number of active cc servers being different than the estimated number of active cc servers for the particular time, adjusting a number of active cc servers of the plurality of cc servers to the estimated number of active cc servers.

Abstract: A transparent liquid crystal display device including a transparent liquid crystal cell disposed on a transparent luminous plate is provided. The transparent luminous plate includes a first transparent electrode plate, a fluorescent powder layer, and a cavity layer, which are sequentially disposed on a second transparent electrode plate. An electron generator is disposed on a lateral side of the cavity layer. A viewer is able to see not only an image to be displayed by a screen of the display panel, but also an object or a scene behind the display panel through the screen.

Abstract: A liquid crystal panel fixing assembly and a display device are disclosed. The assembly includes a frame structure having a rectangular shape and multiple position-limiting blocks. The frame structure is used for supporting a liquid crystal panel. Two adjacent edges of the frame structure respectively provide with multiple fixing portions having different distances relative to an inner side surface of the frame structure. The multiple position-limiting blocks are selectively fixed at a group of the fixing portions in order to form a placement region for different display panels. Using the frame structure to support the liquid crystal panel, and through adjusting locations of the position-limiting blocks in order to fix liquid crystal panels having different sizes, the cost for developing different backlight modules for different liquid crystal panels is reduced, and the compatibility of a backlight module is increased.

Abstract: A driving circuit board fixing structure is disclosed. The structure includes a main body portion having a plate shape and multiple protrusion portions disposed on a surface of the main body portion. The multiple protrusion portions are disposed at intervals at the main body portion, and protrusion heights of the protrusion portions are gradually increased one by one from a first terminal of the main body portion to a second terminal of the main body portion. A liquid crystal display device is also provided. The driving circuit board fixing structure can fix COF substrates having different lengths with driving circuit boards having different sizes such that different backlight modules can be compatible with different liquid crystal panels in order to reduce the development cost of the backlight module.

Abstract: An electro-wetting display panel is provided. The electro-wetting display panel comprises a first transparent substrate, a second transparent substrate, and pixel units. The pixel units comprise first electrodes, a first hydrophobic layer, a plurality of first barriers, a second electrode, a polarized liquid and a plurality of first non-polarized liquids. The hysteresis phenomenon of the non-polarized liquids can be prevented by using the recess areas on the hydrophobic layer.

Abstract: The backlight module includes a front frame, a backboard, a heat sink, a light source and a light guide plate. A quantum dot unit is arranged between the light guide plate and the light source. The heat sink, light source and light guide plate are arranged on the backboard, with the heat sink fixing the quantum dot unit to the backboard. The backlight module further includes a middle frame arranged between the backboard and the front frame, and coupled to the heat sink.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for detecting shingled overwrite errors. When a read error is encountered when reading from shingled recording tracks, a processor may determine whether the read error is an error caused by shingled overwriting. The processor may determine whether the read error is caused by shingled overwriting by determining read signal quality of one or more sectors preceding the read error, such as based on a bit error count or bit error ratio (BER), and comparing the read signal quality to a threshold value. The processor may determine that the read error is caused by shingled overwriting when the read signal quality value is lower than the threshold.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an LLC resonant converter and a method for suppressing ripples in output voltage of the LLC resonant converter. The LLC resonant converter comprises: a half-bridge or full-bridge chopper having a driving circuit, an inductance-capacitance series resonant network coupled to the chopper, an isolation transformer coupled to the resonant network, and a rectification and filtering circuit coupled to the isolation transformer; a feedforward controller coupled to generate a feedforward signal based on an input voltage; and a controlled oscillator coupled to receive the feedforward signal from the feedforward controller and to control an operating frequency of the chopper via the driving circuit based on the feedforward signal. Thus, a feedforward correction is provided for the LLC resonant converter, so that ripples in a DC output voltage of the LLC resonant converter are reduced.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a curvature-adjustable curved display device including: a base, a curved display device and an adjusting assembly. The curved display device is disposed on the base. The adjusting assembly is disposed between the curved display device and the base to connect the curved display device with the base. The adjusting assembly is slidable with respect to the base to thereby adjust the curvature of the curved display device. Accordingly, by disposing the adjusting assembly between the curved display device and the base, the curvature of the curved display device can be adjusted in a preset range of curvature by sliding the adjusting assembly with respect to the base.

Abstract: A transparent display device is provided herein, which comprises a display module and a backlight module. The display module includes a liquid crystal display panel, polarizers and an optical film. The backlight module includes a light source and a light guide plate, wherein the light guide plate includes a first light incident plane, a second light incident plane and a light emitting plane. The first light incident plane is disposed opposite to a light emitting plane of the light source. A plurality of caves are disposed on the second light incident plane to enhance the environmental light. The present invention raises an incident amount of the environmental light.

Abstract: The present invention provides a mold frame for curved displaying and a curved liquid crystal display device using the mold frame. The mold frame for curved displaying includes two opposite first side frame members (11) and two opposite second side frame members (13) respectively mounted to two ends of the two first side frame members (11). Each of the first side frame members (11) includes a plurality of first engagement slots (115) and open notches (117) between two adjacent ones of the first engagement slots (115) formed therein. The first engagement slots (115) receive and are coupled to the first projection blocks (211) of the curved backplane the first side plates (21). The first side frame members (11) are made of an elastic plastic material. The first side frame members (11) show a flat and straight configuration before being assembled to a curved backplane and show a curved configuration after being assembled to the curved backplane.

Abstract: A data sector is read using two or more passes of a read head over a recording medium. Each of the passes corresponds to a different cross-track offset, each of the data sectors being divided into two or more blocks. For each of the blocks, data is selected from one of the passes that read the block with a higher quality than other passes that read the block. The selected data from each of the blocks to is combined to form recovered data of the data sector.

Abstract: An electro-wetting display panel is provided. The electro-wetting display panel comprises a first transparent substrate, a second transparent substrate, and pixel units. The pixel units comprise first electrodes, a first hydrophobic layer, a plurality of first barriers, a second electrode, a polarized liquid and a plurality of first non-polarized liquids. The hysteresis phenomenon of the non-polarized liquids can be prevented by using the recess areas on the hydrophobic layer.

Abstract: A display device and a backlight module are provided. The display device includes a display panel and a backlight module. The display panel is configured to display images and illuminated by a first light and a second light. A light source providing plane of the backlight module is configured to receive the first light and is illuminated by the second light. Thus, viewers can see objects in back of a display panel through the display panel.