Patents Issued in December 30, 2010
  • Publication number: 20100328566
    Abstract: A display unit comprises a first polarizer; a first transparent substrate is formed over the first polarizer; a first transparent electrode is successively formed over the first transparent substrate, the first transparent electrode is selected from a group consisting of conductive carbon, conductive polymer and the combination thereof. A TFT (thin film transistor) is next formed over the first transparent electrode; liquid crystals are formed over the TFT and a second transparent electrode is formed over the liquid crystals, the second transparent electrode is selected from a group consisting of the conductive carbon, conductive polymer and the combination thereof. A second transparent substrate formed over the second transparent electrode and a color filter is formed over the second transparent substrate. A second polarizer is successively formed over the color filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventor: Kuo-Ching CHIANG
  • Publication number: 20100328567
    Abstract: A method of fabricating an LCD device includes forming a gate line, a gate electrode, a gate pad electrode at an end of the gate line, and a common line on a substrate; forming a gate insulating layer on the gate electrode; forming an active layer on the gate insulating layer; forming an etch stopper on the active layer; forming first and second ohmic contact layers spaced apart from each other on the active layer and an impurity-doped amorphous silicon pattern contacting the gate insulating layer therebelow, outer sides of the first and second ohmic contact layers being outside the active layer; forming a data line crossing the gate line to define a pixel region, a data pad electrode at an end of the data line, and source and drain electrodes on the first and second ohmic contact layers, respectively; forming a pixel electrode and a common electrode in the pixel region to induce an in-plane electric field; and forming a gate pad terminal electrode on the gate pad electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventor: Hee-Young Kwack
  • Publication number: 20100328568
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display is provided to improve workability for fastening and reduce production costs. The liquid crystal display includes: a liquid crystal panel; a film member having a source IC for driving the liquid crystal panel mounted therein; a source PCB electrically connected to the liquid crystal panel through the film member; lamps for generating light; a panel guide having a guide space where the source PCB is positioned provided on an upper outer surface thereof; a bottom cover; and a top case having a first frame member surrounding both of the film member and the source PCB and fixing the liquid crystal panel at a portion of the upper side of the liquid crystal panel and a plurality of frame members physically separated from the first frame member and fixing the liquid crystal panel at a portion of the lower side of the liquid crystal panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventors: Kyuheon LEE, Jongki Ahn, Woojin Kim, Daesung Park
  • Publication number: 20100328569
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display device. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal module having a top case, a bottom plate, a liquid crystal display panel in the top case and the bottom plate for displaying a picture, and a drive unit. The liquid crystal display device also includes a drive control unit for generating a control signal for controlling the drive unit and supplying the control signal to the drive unit of the liquid crystal module through at least one connector and cable. The top case of the liquid crystal module includes at least one first and second fastening bent portion for fastening at least one source printed circuit board in horizontal and vertical directions, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventors: Nam-Chul Cho, Seung-Hwan Lee
  • Publication number: 20100328570
    Abstract: Provided is a display device. The display device comprises a receiving unit, a liquid crystal panel, and a backlight assembly. The receiving unit comprises a sidewall, a first support bent or curved to extend from the sidewall, a second support bent or curved to extend from the first support. The second support faces the sidewall. At least one of the liquid crystal panel and the backlight assembly is received in the receiving unit. The liquid crystal panel and the backlight assembly can be doubly protected by the sidewall and the second support, and a display device with improved mechanical strength can be realized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2008
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Han Young Kim, Hyun Ho Choi, Dae Kyu Yi
  • Publication number: 20100328571
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel, a backlight, a frame having flexibility which includes a base portion and a side portion, and a case which is attached on a side opposite to the display surface side of the frame and engages with the frame, wherein a claw portion which is provided on an inner surface of the side portion of the frame and projected toward a liquid crystal panel and, a protruding portion which pushes the claw portion toward the liquid crystal panel is provided on at least one of the inner surface of the side portion of the case and an outer surface of the side portion of the frame, and the claw portion which is contact with the display surface of the liquid crystal panel in a state in which the claw portion is pressed by the protruding portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: NEC LCD TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Hideki ITAYA
  • Publication number: 20100328572
    Abstract: Light source lamps can be held at different intervals by a single kind of lamp clip. A straight tube light source lamp (3) arranged on the surface of a backlight chassis (1) is held by a lamp clip (20) fixed to the backlight chassis (1). The lamp clip (20) comprises a base (21) placed on the surface of the backlight chassis (1), lamp grippers (22) formed on the opposite sides of the base (21), and a fixing piece (23). A plurality of lamp grippers (22) are formed on both sides of the base (21) at respective intervals different from each other. A fixing hole (10) engaging with the fixing piece (23) on the surface of the lamp clip (20) not pertaining to lamp holding, and an escape hole (11) for passing the lamp gripper (22) on that surface are formed in the backlight chassis (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2008
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Takeba
  • Publication number: 20100328573
    Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display (LCD) device capable of minimizing the occurrence of light leakage at peripheral regions of protrusions by maximizing a distance between an image display region and the protrusions, by forming the protrusions at one or more corners of the light guide plate. The LCD device comprises: a light guide plate having protrusions at one or more corners thereof; a main support having fixing grooves formed at one or more corners thereof corresponding to the corners of the light guide plate, the locking grooves for coupling the protrusions of the light guide plate; an LC panel for displaying an image by using light emitted from the light guide plate; an optical source having one or more light emitting diodes (LEDs) for irradiating light to the light guide plate; a reflection sheet for reflecting light emitted from a rear surface of the light guide plate to the light guide plate; and one or more optical sheets disposed between the light guide plate and the LC panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ki Won Kim
  • Publication number: 20100328574
    Abstract: This invention relates to a light guide device and methods of manufacture. The light guide device is suitable for use in a range of applications, particularly in connection with the backlighting of displays, for example, liquid crystal displays. The light guide device comprises a combination of guide layers and one or more scattering structures in order to mask the appearance of one or more light sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventor: James Gourlay
  • Publication number: 20100328575
    Abstract: A diffusion plate includes a base body including a plurality of convex portions formed on a principal surface of the base body. An angle of inclination of the convex portions at a base of the convex portions ranges from 38° to 42°. Also, a ratio R/Cp between a curvature R of a summit of the convex portions and a pitch Cp between adjacent convex portions is 0.0014<R/Cp<0.43.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shogo Shinkai, Eiji Ohta, Yasuyuki Kudo, Tatsuya Harima, Saori Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20100328576
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a surface light source element configured to enhance projection light from an opening boundary of a supporting frame (12), wherein the projection light is required as a surface light source element, so that the surface light source element makes it possible to clearly illuminate an observation direction even in the case where the surface light source element is made large in size or thin in thickness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seiji Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20100328577
    Abstract: A backlight module includes a reflection sheet and a film structure disposed above the reflection sheet with a gap therebetween. A light source is disposed in the gap between the reflection sheet and the film structure so as to provide light. The film structure includes a first region for reflecting light incident thereupon from the light source and the reflection sheet, and a plurality of second regions for transmitting at least partially light incident thereupon from the light source and the reflection sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: CHI MEI OPTOELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventor: Chen-Pin HUNG
  • Publication number: 20100328578
    Abstract: A passive daylight-coupled display having an LCD panel, a diffuser, and a curved reflector behind the LCD panel. For passive backlighting, the diffuser transmits daylight to the reflector, which reflects the daylight to the LCD panel and provides for substantially uniform distribution of the daylight on the LCD panel for backlighting it. An N-stack daylight-coupled display includes a plurality of passive backlights cascaded in a stack for backlighting of LCD panels or static display panels. One N-stack display can include an active light source to provide light to the reflectors, and a secondary light source to provide light to at least one of the reflectors to provide backlighting of the display in low lighting conditions. A collapsible daylight-coupled display includes a daylight-coupled backlight that is collapsible when not in use for hand-held or portable display devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventors: Rolf W. Biernath, Jennifer R. Yi, Keith M. Kotchick
  • Publication number: 20100328579
    Abstract: An optical element capable of improving a light diffusion effect while minimizing a damage of other members in the LCD due to an impact and so on, and a backlight unit and an LCD including the same. The optical element includes an optically-transparent base member; and a light-diffusing resin layer formed on one side of the base member. The light-diffusing resin layer has a plurality of concave recesses formed in a surface thereof to diffuse light. The optical element further includes an optical micro-structural layer formed on the opposite side of the base member. The second light-diffusing resin layer has a plurality of concave recesses formed in a surface thereof to diffuse light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2008
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: LMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong-Shig Shim, Young-Il Kim, Sung-Sik Choi, Byung-Doo Choi
  • Publication number: 20100328580
    Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display (LCD) device capable of enhancing brightness uniformity by preventing light leakage. The LCD device comprises an LC panel; an optical source for providing light to the LC panel; a light guide plate coupled to a light emission surface of the optical source; a light emitting diode (LED) printed circuit board (PCB) disposed on the light guide plate and the optical source; an optical sheet disposed on the light guide plate, and having a diffusion plate and a prism sheet on an upper surface of one side corresponding to the LED PCB, the diffusion plate having a light shielding member attached thereto; and a mold frame for accommodating therein the optical source, the light guide plate, and the optical sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventor: Ki-Won KIM
  • Publication number: 20100328581
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a display panel, a backlight which radiates light to the display panel, a light emitting element which is mounted on the backlight, and a light guide plate on which light from the light emitting element is incident. The light guide plate has an upper surface and a bottom surface. The bottom surface has grooves formed therein delimited by at least one surface which extends at a slant with respect to the bottom surface. A reflection sheet is provided which reflects the light radiated from the bottom surface. The grooves are formed to produce a first light which is reflected on the grooves and a second light which is radiated from the grooves and is reflected on the reflection sheet, and an asymmetric prism sheet is arranged on the light guide plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventors: Yasuhisa SHIRAISHI, Akiyoshi TOBE, Nobuyuki KOGANEZAWA
  • Publication number: 20100328582
    Abstract: A planar light source device includes a lower substrate, a cathode electrode a carbon nanotube, an upper substrate, a fluorescent layer, and an anode electrode. The cathode electrode is on the lower substrate. The carbon nanotube is electrically connected to the cathode electrode. The upper substrate faces the lower substrate. The fluorescent layer and the anode electrode are formed on the upper substrate. Therefore, the planar light source device generates light without using mercury.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventors: Hyeong-Suk YOO, Seung-Ki Joo, Myong-Hi Rhee, In-Sun Hwang, Hae-II Park, Sung-Lak Choi
  • Publication number: 20100328583
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display polarizing plate that can reliably exhibit optical properties and be bonded to a liquid crystal cell without causing degradation of the optical properties. The liquid crystal display polarizing plate includes: a retardation film which has a substrate including a cellulose derivative and a retardation layer formed directly on the substrate and containing the cellulose derivative and a rod-like compound having refractive index anisotropy; a polarizer bonded to the retardation layer of the retardation film and including polyvinyl alcohol; and a polarizing plate protection film bonded to the polarizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Hiruma, Shoji Takeshige, Keiji Kashima
  • Publication number: 20100328584
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is provided and includes: a liquid crystal cell including a pair of transparent glass substrates each having a transparent electrode, and a nematic liquid crystal between the pair of the transparent glass substrates; and a pair of polarizing plates sandwiching the liquid crystal cell. At least one of the pair of polarizing plates includes a protective film; a polarizer; and an optical compensation film. One of the pair of transparent glass substrates, an, adhesive; the optical compensation film; the polarizer; and the protective film are stacked in this order, and they satisfy the following equations (1) to (3): |n1?n2|?0.03??(1) |n2?n3|?0.03??(2) |n1?n3|?0.03??(3) where n1, n2, and n3 indicate average refractive indices at 589 nm of the one of the pair of the transparent glass electrodes, the adhesive; and the optical compensation film, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hirofumi Toyama, Yoji Ito, Junichi Hirakata, Shinji Ueda
  • Publication number: 20100328585
    Abstract: A substrate unit, which can be disposed opposite to a display panel, includes a substrate and a color filter layer. The substrate has a front surface and a rear surface. The rear surface is disposed adjacent to the display panel. The color filter layer is disposed on the rear surface or between the front surface and the rear surface. A display module and a display apparatus including the substrate unit are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: CHIMEI INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventor: Chen-Pin Hung
  • Publication number: 20100328586
    Abstract: A display panel having a display region and a non-display region is provided. The display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a display medium between the first substrate and the second substrate. The substrate has a pixel array, a plurality of lead lines, an organic layer and a conductive pattern thereon. The pixel array is disposed within the display region. The lead lines are disposed within the non-display region and electrically connected to the pixel array. The organic layer covers the pixel array and the lead lines. The conductive pattern is disposed on the organic layer in the lead lines. The second substrate has an electrode layer thereon, and the electrode layer is disposed within the display region and the non-display region. In particular, the electrode layer and the conductive pattern are electrically connected to a common voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yen-Heng Huang, Chung-Kai Chen, Chia-Hui Pai, Wei-Yuan Cheng, Wen-Hsien Tseng, Ting-Yi Cho, Chin-An Tseng
  • Publication number: 20100328587
    Abstract: An optical filter includes a substrate, and a periodic structure in which a plurality of members formed of silicon are periodically arranged on a surface of the substrate. The filter selectively transmits light of a first wavelength included in light incident on the periodic structure in the direction of the substrate. The members are two-dimensionally arranged with a period of 400 nm to 500 nm. The dimension of the members in the direction parallel to the surface is of 120 nm to 160 nm. A local maximum value of the transmission spectrum of the first wavelength is within the range of 400 nm to 500 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohiro Yamada, Ryo Kuroda
  • Publication number: 20100328588
    Abstract: A panel for a liquid crystal display device includes: a first mother substrate for cutting out color filter substrates including a first cell area corresponding to a first cell and a second cell area corresponding to a second cell therefrom; a first colored layer arranged in the first cell area of the first mother substrate; a second colored layer arranged in the second cell area of the first mother substrate; a second mother substrate for cutting out array substrates therefrom; and liquid crystal sandwiched between the first mother substrate and the second mother substrate. The first colored layer and the second colored layer are made of the same material and have portions which have the same thickness. A hole is formed in the second colored layer so as to make color reproducibility of the second colored layer lower than color reproducibility of the first colored layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventors: Shinpei SEGAWA, Hiroaki IWATO, Yoshiki WATANABE, Kazumi KANESAKA
  • Publication number: 20100328589
    Abstract: A black matrix (10) is formed on a transparent substrate (3), and micro color filters (12) are formed to partially overlap on the black matrix (10). The thickness of the black matrix (10) is gradually increased from an opening rim (10a) thereof to a plane portion (10b) thereof. The plane portion (10b) has substantially uniform thickness. A cross-sectional line of the thickness increasing portion of the black matrix (10) has convex curve portions P1 and P3, and a concave curve portion P2. The thickness of the black matrix (10) is controlled such that the cross-sectional line of the thickness increasing portion is kept under a tangent line contacting with both the convex curve portions P1 and P3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2008
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Wakahiko Kaneko, Koreshige Ito
  • Publication number: 20100328590
    Abstract: A back substrate and a reflective liquid crystal display are disclosed. The back substrate comprises: a first substrate; a reflective electrode layer, formed on the first substrate, at least comprising a first reflective electrode, a second reflective electrode and a third reflective electrode which are electrically isolated; wherein the first reflective electrode is an electrode of reflecting light of a first spectrum band of incident light, the second reflective electrode is an electrode of reflecting light of a second spectrum band of the incident light, and the third reflective electrode is an electrode of reflecting light of a third spectrum band of the incident light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: JIANGSU LEXVU ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: HERB HE HUANG
  • Publication number: 20100328591
    Abstract: A display substrate includes a base substrate, a reflective layer, a common electrode and a pixel electrode. The base substrate includes a pixel area having a transmissive area and a reflective area. The reflective layer is disposed in the reflective area of the base substrate. The common electrode includes a first sub-common electrode formed in the reflective area and a second sub-common electrode formed in the transmissive area. The pixel electrode includes a first sub-pixel electrode spaced apart from the first sub-common electrode by a first distance in the reflective area, and a second sub-pixel electrode spaced apart from the second sub-common electrode by a second distance less than the first distance in the transmissive area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keun-Chan Oh, Joo-Seok Yeom, Youn-Hak Jeong, Hee-Hwan Lee, Jae-Jin Lyu
  • Publication number: 20100328592
    Abstract: A LCD device has a LC layer sandwiched between a TFT substrate and a counter substrate, first and second polarizing films, a first ?/2 film between the first polarizing film and the counter substrate, and a second ?/2 film between the second polarizing film and the TFT substrate. Angle ?1 between the direction of the optical axis of the LC layer and the polarized direction of the light entering the LC layer satisfies the relationship: 0 degree<?1<45 degrees. The resultant LCD device has lower leakage light and coloring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nagai, Michiaki Sakamoto, Kenichi Mori, Kenichirou Naka, Hidenori Ikeno
  • Publication number: 20100328593
    Abstract: An optical film assembly includes a first polarization plate disposed below a liquid crystal layer and having a first absorption axis, a second polarization plate disposed above the liquid crystal layer and having a second absorption axis, an A-plate disposed between the first polarization plate and the second polarization plate, and a negative C-plate disposed between the first polarization plate and the second polarization plate. A thickness-direction phase retardation value of the negative C-plate is equal to or less than a value acquired by subtracting about 75 nanometers from a thickness-direction phase retardation value of the liquid crystal layer and the thickness-direction phase retardation value of the negative C-plate is equal to or greater than a value acquired by subtracting about 275 nanometers from the thickness-direction phase retardation value of the liquid crystal layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hwa-Sung WOO, Seung-Ju LEE, Hee-Wook DO, Jeong-Soo CHOI, Hee-Seop KIM, Joo-Seok YEOM, Hyang-Yul KIM, Joo-Nyung JANG, Sung-Woon KIM, Cheol SHIN, Dong-Chul SHIN
  • Publication number: 20100328594
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display element includes a liquid crystal composition sandwiched between substrates, wherein at least two types of liquid crystal compositions which exhibit liquid crystal phase in different temperature ranges are contained within each one pixel, and each of the at least two types of liquid crystal compositions is sealed and isolated within each pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: NEC LCD TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuko ISHII, Ken SUMIYOSHI, Kenichi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20100328595
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a display device includes the step of forming a preset basic pattern in a plurality of places on an insulation substrate by exposing and developing a photosensitive material film which is formed on the insulation substrate, wherein the exposure is performed using a direct writing exposure device. The exposure is performed using the direct writing exposure device in which the light quantity distribution of the pattern of light formed by the spatial optical modulating element is corrected such that a fluctuation quantity of a size of the basic pattern formed in the plurality of places becomes not more than 0.2 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventors: Toshio Tojo, Nobuyasu Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20100328596
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a pair of transparent substrates opposed to each other with liquid crystal therebetween. One of the pair of transparent substrates has a plurality of drain signal lines and a plurality of gate signal lines, and a plurality of pixel regions defined by the drain signal lines and the gate signal lines. The pixel regions have a TFT element, a pixel electrode formed of a transparent electrode having a plurality of slits, and a counter electrode formed of a transparent electrode. The counter electrode is disposed between the pixel electrode and the one of the pair of transparent substrates in overlapping relationship with the transparent electrode of the pixel electrode and the gate signal line, and the counter electrode is connected with the counter electrode of an adjacent pixel region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventors: Kikuo Ono, Makoto Yoneya, Tsunenori Yamamoto, Junichi Hirakata, Yoshiaki Nakayoshi
  • Publication number: 20100328597
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display is provided with several drive segments, between which at least one intermediate surface without drive segments is situated. Such liquid crystal displays are used, in particular, for displaying information contents of low information density, for example, as numerical display elements. This realizes, among other things, a simple and cost-efficient improvement of the electrostatic properties and the legibility, namely also under unfavorable light conditions. For this purpose, the intermediate surface is largely provided with at least one conductive auxiliary layer and a high-frequency connection between the auxiliary layer and a shielding potential is produced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Peter Brandt, Heiko Charle, Wilfried Schulz
  • Publication number: 20100328598
    Abstract: A sealant for a display device includes a photoinitiator having an oxime ester compound or a 2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyl-diphenyl-phosphineoxide compound, and a curing resin. The sealant may further include a curing agent, a coupling agent, and a filler. A display device includes a first substrate having a display area, a second substrate opposite to the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a sealing pattern contacting the first substrate and the second substrate so as substrate to combine the first substrate and the second substrate with each other. The sealing pattern may include a photoinitiator having an oxime ester compound or a 2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyl-diphenyl-phosphineoxide compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventors: Jun-Hyup LEE, Ji-Yoon Jung, Jung-Hun Lee, Jae-Jin Lyu, Jeong-Uk Heo
  • Publication number: 20100328599
    Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide a liquid crystal spacer-forming ink that can sufficiently reduce the dot diameter of liquid crystal spacers formed by ink jet printing, and specifically it provides a liquid crystal spacer-forming ink with a surface tension of at least 28 mN/m at 25° C. and a viscosity of no greater than 50 mPa·s at 25° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2007
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventors: Yasushi Kumashiro, Naoki Maruyama, Kazunori Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20100328600
    Abstract: The invention provides a liquid crystal compound having stability to heat, light and so forth, a wide temperature range of a nematic phase, a small viscosity, a suitable optical anisotropy, a suitable elastic constant K33, a suitable and negative dielectric anisotropy, and an excellent compatibility with other liquid crystal compounds. The invention provides a liquid crystal composition containing the compound described above and having stability to heat, light and so forth, a small viscosity, a suitable optical anisotropy, a suitable and negative dielectric anisotropy, a suitable elastic constant K33, a low threshold voltage, a high maximum temperature of a nematic phase, and a low minimum temperature of the nematic phase. The invention also provides a liquid crystal display device having a short response time, a small power consumption, a low driving voltage, and a large contrast, and containing the composition described above which can be used in a large temperature range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2008
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicants: CHISSO CORPORATION, CHISSO PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Teru Shimada, Masahide Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20100328601
    Abstract: A liquid crystal composition includes 100 parts by mass of a nematic liquid crystal composition having negative dielectric anisotropy and 0.01 to 3 parts by mass of a polymerizable compound of general formula (I). On being irradiated with an energy ray, such as UV rays, the liquid crystal composition provides an LCD capable of high-speed response without undergoing reduction in reliability (voltage holding ratio). In formula (I), rings C1-3 are benzene, cyclohexane or naphthalene; M1-2 are hydrogen or methyl; Z1 is a direct bond, -L1-, -L1O—, etc.; Z4 is a direct bond, -L2-, —OL2-, etc.; at least one of Z1 and Z4 is not a direct bond; L1,2 are C1-C10 alkylene; when Z1?Z4, one or more hydrogen atoms of the rings C1, C2, and C3 are substituted; Z2 and Z3 are each a direct bond, an ester bond, etc.; p and q are each 0 or 1, provided that p+q?1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: ADEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ken Matsumoto, Masatomi Irisawa
  • Publication number: 20100328602
    Abstract: The liquid crystal display device comprising a pair of substrates with alignment layers formed thereon, and a liquid crystal filled between the substrates. Each pixel has pixel display portions CA, CB and non-display portions DA, EA, DB, EB. The pixel display portions are treated for realizing alignment in a different manner from the non-display portions and the alignment of the pixel display portions is controlled by the alignment of the non-display portions. Moreover, the alignment treatment is executed by the irradiation with ultraviolet rays in an inclined direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hidefumi Yoshida, Tsutomu Seino, Yasutoshi Tasaka
  • Publication number: 20100328603
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of manufacturing spectacle lens eyewear using a block mold, front and back optical inserts, front and back optical insert gaskets, a protractor insert, a closing mechanism and a preformed frame, the method comprising the steps of: selecting a front optical insert from a look up table or computer program product and assembling the insert into the block mold; selecting a front optical insert gasket and assembling the gasket onto the front optical insert; assembling the frame front onto the front optical insert gasket; selecting a back optical insert gasket and assembling the gasket onto the back side of the frame front; selecting a back optical insert from a look up table or computer program product and assembling the insert onto the back optical insert gasket; assembling the protractor insert and adjusting the position of the back optical insert to the axis indicated on a look up table or computer program product; assembling the mold closing mechanism and securing
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventors: DANIEL LIGUORI, Saul Heiman, Thomas Liguori, Jerome Legerton
  • Publication number: 20100328604
    Abstract: Lenses are designed using the corneal topography or wavefront measurements of the eye derived by subtracting the optical power of the eye after orthokeratology treatment from the optical power before orthokeratology treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventors: Michael J. Collins, Brett A. Davis, Khaled A. Chehab, Xu Cheng, D. Robert Iskander
  • Publication number: 20100328605
    Abstract: An optical article including a layer that has SiOx as a main component and is formed on an optical substrate, directly or with at least one different layer interposed between the layer and the optical substrate, a surface of the layer, which is in the opposite side to the optical substrate, being nitrided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2007
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keiichi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20100328606
    Abstract: A system for imaging of the central and peripheral retina, includes one of a concave mirror and an elliptical mirror having an axis and being configured to rotate around the axis and a scanner configured to using a spectral domain optical coherence tomography system to obtain a non-contact wide angle OCT-image of a large portion of the central and peripheral retina.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventor: Gholam A. Peyman
  • Publication number: 20100328607
    Abstract: An ophthalmological measuring system for obtaining biometric data of an eye with a view to the pre-operative determination of a replacement lens or supplementary lens or refractive operations. The invention includes a combination of a measuring instrument based on ultrasound, an optical measuring instrument, and an evaluation unit, measuring values of the optical measuring instrument and/or of the measuring instrument based on ultrasound being used by the evaluation unit for determining the biometric data of an eye. Furthermore, keratometric and/or pachymetric measurements can also be carried out. The combination of different measuring systems enables a complete examination or diagnosis of a patient on a measuring table, so that the patient does not need to be moved, or have to come back at a later date for more measurements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AG
    Inventors: Roland BERGNER, Ingo KOSCHMIEDER, Wilfried BISSMAN
  • Publication number: 20100328608
    Abstract: In intraocular observation of the eye, the slit lamp microscope 1 causes the illumination light emitted by the illumination system 8 to enter the inside of the eye via the head lens 20 and causes an intraocularly reflected light of this illumination light to enter the observation system 6 via the head lens 20 in a state that an illumination optical axis O2 and an observation axis O1 are arranged so as to be nonparallel and a head lens optical axis OF and the observation optical axis O1 are arranged so as to be separate right and left.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon
    Inventors: Kouta Fujii, Takefumi Hayashi, Nobuaki Kitajima
  • Publication number: 20100328609
    Abstract: In a light projection system, potentially hierarchical levels of light intensity control ensure proper laser-light output intensity, color channel intensity, white point, left/right image intensity balancing, or combinations thereof. The light projection system can include a light intensity sensor in an image path, in a light-source subsystem light-dump path, in a light-modulation subsystem light-dump path, in a position to measure light leaked from optical components, or combinations thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventors: Barry D. Silverstein, Richard P. Corey
  • Publication number: 20100328610
    Abstract: In a light projection system, potentially hierarchical levels of light intensity control ensure proper laser-light output intensity, color channel intensity, white point, left/right image intensity balancing, or combinations thereof. The light projection system can include a light intensity sensor in an image path, in a light-source subsystem light-dump path, in a light-modulation subsystem light-dump path, in a position to measure light leaked from optical components, or combinations thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventors: Barry D. Silverstein, Richard P. Corey
  • Publication number: 20100328611
    Abstract: In a light projection system, potentially hierarchical levels of light intensity control ensure proper laser-light output intensity, color channel intensity, white point, left/right image intensity balancing, or combinations thereof The light projection system can include a light intensity sensor in an image path, in a light-source subsystem light-dump path, in a light-modulation subsystem light-dump path, in a position to measure light leaked from optical components, or combinations thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventors: Barry D. Silverstein, Richard P. Corey, Allen D. Bellinger, Gary E. Nothhard, David R. Dowe
  • Publication number: 20100328612
    Abstract: A system and method for use in projecting stereoscopic images for three-dimensional presentation are disclosed. The system includes a dual-lens configuration for imparting different circular polarizations to two sets of images such that one set of images has a polarization orientation orthogonal to that of the other set of images. The dual-lens system includes at least one component for enhancing heat transfer among various elements in the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventors: Mark J. Huber, William Gibbens Redmann, Jed Harmsen
  • Publication number: 20100328613
    Abstract: Projection screens for projection of binocular stereoscopic images include a metallic projection surface that includes a plurality of depressions configured to produce left and right viewable light fluxes in response to received left and right modulated light fluxes. The metallic projection surface can be formed by beadblasting, and multiple panels can be secured together by welding or other process. Projection surfaces can also be formed by molding or otherwise forming a conductive surface on a dielectric or other substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventors: Thomas M. Bartol, Paul O. Dunn, JR., Terrence J. Sejnowski, Dejan Vucinic
  • Publication number: 20100328614
    Abstract: An illumination apparatus includes: a polarization conversion element configured to align polarization directions of light emitted from a light source in one polarization direction; a color separation unit configured to separate the light whose polarization directions are aligned in the one polarization direction by the polarization conversion element; and a polarization adjustment element configured to adjust a polarization state of light in a predetermined wavelength band within a wavelength range of the light emitted from the light source. The polarization adjustment element is provided between the polarization conversion element and the color separation unit on an optical path of the light emitted from the light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Takashi Ikeda, Makoto Maeda
  • Publication number: 20100328615
    Abstract: Transmission-type screens are placed corresponding to a display board at a front area of the display board, on which an article is placed. Each of the screens transmits and projects a projector image luminous flux projected from a backside of the screens to a front side of the screens. When the projector image luminous flux is projected from the backside of the screens, each of inner circumferences which defines a space including an image projecting space for leading the projector image luminous flux to the backside of the screens without obstruction. A display shelf might have a projector and a computer. The projector projects the projector image luminous flux. The display shelf might have a reflecting mirror which lead the projector image flux to the screens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Ikeda, Hiroki Mochizuki, Masanori Takeuchi, Makoto Nozawa, Yun Wang