Patents by Inventor Yong Beom Kim

Yong Beom Kim 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).

  • Publication number: 20170316725
    Abstract: A display apparatus having levitation effect comprises: a panel support portion supported by one of a floor, a side wall, and a ceiling; a display panel vertically spaced apart from the panel support portion so as to display an image; a transmission panel made of a transparent material and connecting the display panel to the panel support portion such that a gap between the panel support portion and the display panel is penetrated and visible in a state in which the display panel is levitated; and a transparent electrode attached to the transmission panel and formed in a film form having electric conductivity and light transmission so as to transmit power and signals for driving the display panel from the panel support portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Applicant: TOVIS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong Beom KIM, Joon Seog KIM
  • Patent number: 9784998
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a curved display by which a display module that has a tap for electrical connection is manufactured into the curved display, the method including: a step of sealing a circumference of the display module excluding a part of the tap which projects outward from the display module with a sealing material having acid resistance; a step of performing masking by using a masking member to surround either a pair of left and right sides or a pair of upper and lower sides facing each other in the sealed display module; a step of etching the display module, excluding the masked part of the masked display module, into a preset thickness such that the thickness of the display module is decreased; a step of removing the masking member from the display module that is etched in the etching step; and a step of bending the display module from which the masking member is removed into the curved surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: TOVIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yong Beom Kim
  • Publication number: 20170210113
    Abstract: A curved display panel manufacturing method is provided. The curved display panel manufacturing method in which a display panel in a desired curved shape is manufactured using a prefabricated flat liquid crystal panel including a lower substrate and an upper substrate formed of glass and opposite each other, each of the lower substrate and an upper substrate being provided with a polarizing plate, and a liquid crystal layer formed between the lower substrate and the upper substrate, includes separating the polarizing plates from the lower substrate and the upper substrate, removing the outer surface of the liquid crystal panel to reduce the lower substrate and the upper substrate from which the polarizing plates are separated to a designated thickness, and bending the liquid crystal panel having the removed outer surface in a desired curved shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: Yong Beom KIM, Woon Yong PARK
  • Publication number: 20170210112
    Abstract: A curved display panel manufacturing method is provided. The curved display panel manufacturing method in which a display panel in a desired curved shape is manufactured using a prefabricated flat liquid crystal panel including a lower substrate and an upper substrate formed of glass and opposite each other, each of the lower substrate and an upper substrate being provided with a polarizing plate, and a liquid crystal layer formed between the lower substrate and the upper substrate, includes separating the polarizing plates from the lower substrate and the upper substrate, removing the outer surface of the liquid crystal panel to reduce the lower substrate and the upper substrate from which the polarizing plates are separated to a designated thickness, and bending the liquid crystal panel having the removed outer surface in a desired curved shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: Yong Beom KIM, Woon Yong PARK
  • Patent number: 9661316
    Abstract: A multi-layered image display device for realizing a multi-layered image with a depth by overlapping a plurality of two-dimensional images includes: a display which can be selectively transparent and produce a first two-dimensional image through a combination of a plurality of pixels, a screen which is disposed behind the display so as to be overlapped in a forward-backward direction with the display; and a projector which is disposed behind the screen so as to project a second two-dimensional image on the screen. By adopting a screen and a projector instead of a rear display and a backlight unit, the cross stripes of the rear display can be removed so as to prevent the occurrence of the interference pattern (Moire phenomenon) due to the interference of different pixel patterns, and an additional diffuse layer can be omitted so that an assembling process of the multi-layer image display device can be simplified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: TOVIS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong Beom Kim, Yang Rae Kim
  • Patent number: 9523875
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a curved-surface display having a desired curved shape using a flat display panel having a first substrate and a second substrate includes: paring partially outer surfaces of the first substrate and the second substrate so as to reduce thicknesses thereof to a predetermined thickness; attaching a polarizer on at least one of the pared outer surfaces of the first substrate and the second substrate; and attaching a reinforcing plate having the same shape with the desired curved shape and light transmitting characteristics to the display panel using an adhesive layer which is formed on at least a portion of edge portions of the display panel in a state that the pared flat display panel to which the polarizer is attached is bent to the desired curved shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: TOVIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yong-Beom Kim
  • Publication number: 20160322007
    Abstract: Disclosed is a double-sided display device which comprises a display panel that has a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form and displays an image; a blank means that blanks out some pixels on one surface of the display panel with an arbitrary pattern to prevent an image which the pixels display from being shown and blanks out other pixels, except for the pixels blanked out with the arbitrary pattern, on the other surface of the display panel; and a conversion unit that makes a conversion such that the left and right sides of the image displayed through the pixels blanked out by the blank means and the image displayed through the pixels which are not blanked out are reversed with respect to the one surface of the display panel, and provides the converted images to the display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: TOVIS CO., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yong Beom KIM
  • Publication number: 20160291715
    Abstract: A curved display apparatus providing an air touch input function including: a curved display including a concavely curved monitor to display a three-dimensional image; a three-dimensional filter unit having the same radius of curvature as the curved monitor and disposed in front of the curved monitor; a position input unit disposed in front of the three-dimensional filter unit and configured to detect a three-dimensional position according to a user's non-touch motion in a predetermined sensing region; and an image control unit configured to control a three-dimensional image displayed on the curved monitor by transmitting position information sensed through position input unit to the curved display, wherein air touch input through a user's non-touch motion is performed in a concave region of the curved display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: TOVIS CO., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Beom KIM, Joon Seog KIM
  • Publication number: 20160253015
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments related to a bonding member that bonds components of an electronic device. An electronic device may include a tape member that include: a first bonding layer and a second bonding layer. One of the first bonding layer and the second bonding layer comprises a material having a bonding force in a selected range in a predetermined temperature range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Inventors: Yong-Beom KIM, Sin-Young PARK, Bo-Won JUNG
  • Publication number: 20150301390
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a curved display by which a display module that has a tap for electrical connection is manufactured into the curved display, the method including: a step of sealing a circumference of the display module excluding a part of the tap which projects outward from the display module with a sealing material having acid resistance; a step of performing masking by using a masking member to surround either a pair of left and right sides or a pair of upper and lower sides facing each other in the sealed display module; a step of etching the display module, excluding the masked part of the masked display module, into a preset thickness such that the thickness of the display module is decreased; a step of removing the masking member from the display module that is etched in the etching step; and a step of bending the display module from which the masking member is removed into the curved surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: TOVIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yong Beom KIM
  • Publication number: 20150247966
    Abstract: A backlight unit for a liquid crystal display device includes: a light source; a first light guiding panel which guides light emitted from the light source; a second light guiding panel which is disposed behind the first light guiding panel and is provided to be movable so as to be selectively disposed at a position of being overlapped with a predetermined area of the first light guiding panel in a back and forth direction and at a position of not being overlapped with the predetermined area in a back and forth direction; and a driving part which provides a driving force for moving the second light guiding panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2013
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: TOVIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yong-Beom Kim
  • Patent number: 8982545
    Abstract: A curved-surface display panel fabrication method for fabricating a curved-surface display panel using a flat display panel having a first substrate and a second substrate includes: paring partially outer surfaces of the first substrate and the second substrate so as to reduce thicknesses thereof to a predetermined thickness; bending the pared flat display panel to a desired curved shape; attaching a first guide member which has a shape corresponding to the desired curved shape to the first substrate with a predetermined gap from the pared outer surface thereof and attaching a second guide member with has a shape corresponding to the desired curved shape to the second substrate with a predetermined gap from the pared outer surface thereof; and forming light transmitting reinforcing layers respectively in a space between the first guide member and the first substrate and a space between the second guide member and the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Tovis Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Beom Kim, Yang Rae Kim
  • Publication number: 20150000823
    Abstract: A curved display panel manufacturing method is provided. The curved display panel manufacturing method in which a display panel in a desired curved shape is manufactured using a prefabricated flat liquid crystal panel including a lower substrate and an upper substrate formed of glass and opposite each other, each of the lower substrate and an upper substrate being provided with a polarizing plate, and a liquid crystal layer formed between the lower substrate and the upper substrate, includes separating the polarizing plates from the lower substrate and the upper substrate, removing the outer surface of the liquid crystal panel to reduce the lower substrate and the upper substrate from which the polarizing plates are separated to a designated thickness, and bending the liquid crystal panel having the removed outer surface in a desired curved shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Yong Beom KIM, Woon Yong PARK
  • Publication number: 20140368782
    Abstract: A curved display panel manufacturing method for manufacturing a curved display panel having a curved shape using a flat display panel having a first substrate and a second substrate facing one another includes: paring partially outer portions of the first substrate and the second substrate so as to reduce thicknesses thereof to predetermined thicknesses; and forming fixing layers at edge areas which are not bent in a state of being bent to the desired curved shape among the edge areas of the first substrate and the second substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicant: TOVIS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong-Beom Kim, Yang-Rae Kim
  • Patent number: 8905807
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for cutting a liquid crystal display panel and a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display panel having a desired size using the same. In a method for cutting a liquid crystal display panel which includes an upper panel to which a color filter is formed and a lower filter on which a thin film transistor is formed, the upper panel and the lower panel are respectively cut in such a way that a cut edge of the upper panel is outwardly protruded from a cut edge of the lower panel so that a step is formed at a cut surface between the upper panel and the lower panel. Since the cut edge of the upper panel is upwardly protruded from the cut edge of the lower panel, electrodes, signal lines, thin film transistors of the lower panel can be prevented from being damaged by the contact with the dispenser or by the pressure of the sprayed sealant while the sealant is formed after the cutting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Tovis Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong beom Kim, Dong hyun Kim
  • Publication number: 20140354938
    Abstract: The present invention provides a curved display manufacturing method which can prevent phenomenon that outer surface edges of substrates are broken or pared unevenly while etchant is being injected, a curved display panel manufacturing using the same, and a curved display panel manufactured by the same. For this, a curved display panel manufacturing apparatus includes: an etching portion for partially paring outer portions of a first substrate and a second substrate such that thicknesses thereof are reduced to predetermined thicknesses; and a bending portion for bending the partially pared flat liquid crystal panel to a desired curved shape. The etching portion includes: at least one edge protection cover which is disposed on outer surface edge of the first substrate and the second substrate; and an injection nozzle which injects etchant to outer surfaces of the first substrate and the second substrate and to the edge protection cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: TOVIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yong-Beom Kim
  • Publication number: 20140329579
    Abstract: A game console includes: a liquid crystal display device comprising a backlight unit and a liquid crystal panel which is disposed in front of the backlight unit; and at least one reel which is disposed behind the backlight unit and where a plurality of symbols are displayed. The backlight unit includes: a light guiding panel; a light source which is disposed in the vicinity of the light guiding panel; and a polymer dispersed liquid crystal layer which is disposed behind the light guiding panel and is formed to be selectively converted to be transparent or non-transparent depending on whether an electricity is applied thereto or not. The polymer dispersed liquid crystal layer is at least partially overlapped with the light guiding panel in a forward/rearward direction and is separately formed to have a predetermined pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: TOVIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yong-Beom Kim
  • Publication number: 20140235323
    Abstract: A display device includes: a first liquid crystal display device; a second liquid crystal display device which is disposed behind the first liquid crystal display device to be overlapped in a forward/rearward direction; and a light diffusion plate which is disposed between the first and second liquid crystal display devices. The first liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal panel; a color filter plate which is disposed in front of the liquid crystal panel, a predetermined region of the color filter plate being removed; a polarizer plate which is disposed at a front and/or a rear of the liquid crystal panel; and a light source which is disposed behind the liquid crystal panel. The light diffusion plate is disposed between the first liquid crystal display device and the second liquid crystal display device to be overlapped with an area including the predetermined region in a forward/rearward direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicants: TOVIS CO., LTD., TOVIS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong-Beom Kim, Yang-Rae Kim
  • Publication number: 20140226112
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a curved-surface display having a desired curved shape using a flat display panel having a first substrate and a second substrate includes: paring partially outer surfaces of the first substrate and the second substrate so as to reduce thicknesses thereof to a predetermined thickness; attaching a polarizer on at least one of the pared outer surfaces of the first substrate and the second substrate; and attaching a reinforcing plate having the same shape with the desired curved shape and light transmitting characteristics to the display panel using an adhesive layer which is formed on at least a portion of edge portions of the display panel in a state that the pared flat display panel to which the polarizer is attached is bent to the desired curved shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: TOVIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yong-Beom Kim
  • Publication number: 20140226111
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a curved-surface display having a desired curved shape using a flat display panel having a first substrate and a second substrate includes: paring partially outer surfaces of the first substrate and the second substrate so as to reduce thicknesses thereof to a predetermined thickness; attaching a polarizer on at least one of the pared outer surfaces of the first substrate and the second substrate; and attaching a reinforcing plate having the same shape with the desired curved shape and light transmitting characteristics to the display panel using an optically clear adhesive layer which is formed on an outer surface of the polarizer so as to fill the pared portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: TOVIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yong-Beom Kim