Patents Issued in December 8, 2016
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Publication number: 20160357051Abstract: A twin-LCD structure capable of preventing its two LCDs from interfering with each other includes a frame; a flexible liquid crystal unit disposed in the frame; a planar liquid crystal unit disposed beside the frame, having a transparent observation portion, and corresponding in position to the flexible liquid crystal unit; and an interference-preventing unit affixed to a surface of the flexible liquid crystal unit and disposed between the flexible liquid crystal unit and the planar liquid crystal unit, wherein the flexible liquid crystal unit and the planar liquid crystal unit are separated by a distance of less than 0.5 cm. The interference-preventing unit enables the flexible liquid crystal unit and the planar liquid crystal unit to be so close to each other that the twin-LCD structure is not only downsized but is also unlikely to produce interference.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventor: KUO-YOU CHEN
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Publication number: 20160357052Abstract: A foldable display device comprises a display panel; and a backplate on a surface of the display panel, the backplate including a folding region and unfolding regions at both sides of the folding region, the backplate including at least two opening patterns in the folding region that are different from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Tae-Woo Kim, Gee-Sung Chae, Joo-Hye Park, Noh-Jin Myung, Seung-Hee Lee, Sang-Hak Shin, Tae-Hyeong Kwak
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Publication number: 20160357053Abstract: A liquid display device comprises a backlight unit, a display panel and a first bezel containing the backlight unit and the display panel. At least one sidewall of the first bezel is formed with an extension portion in an arc shape extending toward a middle portion of the first bezel. A free end of the extension portion is disposed opposite to a sidewall of the display panel. The display panel is disposed in the first bezel. The extension portion helps to form the smooth transition between the display panel and the first bezel. The cover glass disposed on the liquid display device is not required. The complex cover glass polishing process is eliminated. The limitation of the 2.5D display screen only applied in the application of the small-size display screen is also eliminated. The disclosure reduces the production cost and increases the application range of the display screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Applicant: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shihhsiang CHEN, Chengwen QUE
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Publication number: 20160357054Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display module and a display device. The display module includes a backlight module and a display screen arranged in front of the backlight module. The display module further includes a front frame that is shared with the display device. The backlight module and the display screen in the display module are directly fixed together by the front frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Applicants: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Mancang FU
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Publication number: 20160357055Abstract: A display device includes a frame, a substrate positioned on the frame, and a plurality of light sources mounted on the substrate, and a display panel positioned on the substrate, wherein the frame is divided into a plurality of parts, and wherein the substrate is provided in at least one part, and the at least one part of the substrate is positioned on the at least one part of the frame. Since the frame is divided into a plurality of frames, the display device has excellent heat dissipation effect and a less amount of foreign objects such as dust, or the like, may collect due to ventilation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventor: Simdong YEO
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Publication number: 20160357056Abstract: An array substrate and a method for fabricating the same and a display device are disclosed. The array substrate includes a protection layer, wherein the protection layer overlays a display region and a non-display region of the array substrate. The non-display region includes a cutting region, and a thickness of a part of the protection layer overlaying the cutting region is larger than that of a part of the protection layer overlaying the display region.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventor: Sanghun Kang
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Publication number: 20160357057Abstract: A display panel motherboard, a display panel, a manufacturing method thereof and a display device are provided. The display panel motherboard includes an array substrate provided with a metal lead layer and an protection layer and an opposing substrate provided with a black matrix layer; alignment rulers are respectively disposed in portions of the metal lead layer and the black matrix layer, corresponding to a sealant region; a protrusion is formed in a portion of the protection layer corresponding to the alignment ruler in the metal lead layer, in a thickness direction; and/or the opposing substrate further comprises a spacer layer, and a protrusion is formed in a portion of the spacer layer corresponding to the alignment ruler in the black matrix layer in the thickness direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Ni JIANG, Kun LI, Xi XIANG, Yuanming FENG
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Publication number: 20160357058Abstract: A first integrated circuit disposed in a region, in which a length of a first space in a device depth direction is largest, among two regions dividing an entire region of a first main surface of a signal processing circuit board into two in a device width direction. The first space is a space between the signal processing circuit board and a metal chassis, which is a member of the metal chassis and a back cover that opposes the first main surface on which the first integrated circuit is mounted. A first heat sink is disposed between the metal chassis and the back cover and has a plurality of fins. A length of each of the plurality of fins in the device depth direction is set according to a length of the first space in the device depth direction at a position of the fin in the device width direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventor: Tomohiro SEKIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20160357059Abstract: A display panel and a display device are disclosed. The display panel comprises: a first substrate and a second substrate that are cell-assembled together; a first polarizer that is disposed on a lower side of the first substrate. The first substrate and the second substrate are sealed by a sealing material disposed in a periphery region of both the first substrate and the second substrate. A display area is an area on the first substrate inside the sealing material and a first non-display area is an area that is aligned with the second substrate on the first substrate and outside of the sealing material. The first substrate extends outward on a side of the first non-display area to protrude out of the second substrate; the first polarizer extends outward on the side of the first non-display area to protrude out of the second substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Applicant: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jian Xu, Wenbo Li, Jianbo Xian
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Publication number: 20160357060Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of display technology, and discloses a display device, which comprises a display panel and a backlight module, a shading tape being provided between the backlight module and the display panel along the edges of the display panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventor: Yun Qin
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Publication number: 20160357061Abstract: A color filter substrate includes: a first substrate including a first sub-pixel region corresponding to a non-white color region and a second sub-pixel region corresponding to a white color region and adjacent to the first sub-pixel region; a light-blocking pattern disposed on the first substrate, the light-blocking pattern including a first opening corresponding to the first sub-pixel region and a second opening corresponding to the second sub-pixel region; a first color filter having a first color and disposed in the first sub-pixel region; and a transparent layer disposed in the second sub-pixel region and on the first color filter. The light-blocking pattern further includes a disconnected portion between the first sub-pixel region and the second sub-pixel region, and the first and second openings are coupled to each other via the disconnected portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Jungsuk BANG, Sunhwa LEE, Sanguk LIM
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Publication number: 20160357062Abstract: A display device being switchable between a normal display mode and an anti-peeping display mode and a display system comprising the display device are disclosed. The display device comprises: a housing; a display panel mounted within the housing and provided with a polarizer only on a light incidence side thereof, the polarizer being configured to polarize light to be incident into the display panel; and a polarization analyzing structure fitted onto the housing, and configured to selectively analyze light emitted out from an active display area of the display panel so as to achieve a normal display mode, in which a user is able to directly view an image displayed in the display device, and anti-peeping display mode, in which the user is able to view the image displayed in the display device only by means of an additional polarization analyzer, of the display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventor: Wenbo Li
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Publication number: 20160357063Abstract: The invention relates to the display technology field, and particularly to a wire grid polarizer, a manufacturing method thereof, a display panel and a display device. The wire grid polarizer comprises a substrate, in which wire grid structures are arranged at intervals in an array, to allow light to penetrate from the grid pitches thereof, with the other area except the wire grid structures of the substrate being a continuous opaque area. Due to the wire grid polarizer being provided with the wire grid structures arranged at intervals in a array, local light transmitting areas can be formed, and light emergence can be controlled more flexibly. A display panel using the wire grid polarizer can effectively lower the light absorption rate, also avoid peripheral light leakage in a non-subpixel area, and prevent the light leakage of the pixels themselves; correspondingly, a display device using the display panel can improve the light utilization rate, and achieve a good display effect.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Kairan LIU, Yanbing WU, Wenbo LI, Xiangyan ZHANG
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Publication number: 20160357064Abstract: A selectively-absorptive wire grid polarizer comprising an array of parallel, elongated rods disposed over a surface of a transparent substrate with gaps between adjacent rods, each of the rods including a reflective wire sandwiched between two absorptive ribs. A method of making this wire grid polarizer. A use of this wire grid polarizer in an image projection system.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: R. Stewart Nielson, Bradley R. Williams, Benjamin Downard, D. Brent Willamson
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Publication number: 20160357065Abstract: A backlight unit is provided. The backlight unit includes: a first surface light source array; a second surface light source array disposed on an upper portion of the first surface light source array and arranged such that a light emitting surface of the second surface light source array is parallel with a light emitting surface of the first surface light source array; and a reflection plate disposed on a lower portion of the first surface light source array and arranged such that a reflective surface of the reflection plate is parallel with the light emitting surface of the first surface light source array, wherein the second surface light source array is stacked on the first surface light source array such that the first and second surface light source arrays are offset from each other in a plane parallel to the light emitting surfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Kyung-hoon CHA, Seung-jun JEONG, Jong-hoon JUNG
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Publication number: 20160357066Abstract: The present invention relates to a display device, and particularly to a backlight for a curved-surface liquid crystal display device and a curved-surface liquid crystal display device. The backlight comprises: a backplane which matches a curved-surface LCD display screen of the curved-surface liquid crystal display device; a supporting member which comprises a plurality of stepped surfaces parallel with a base plate of the backplane; and light sources which are arranged on each of the stepped surfaces, wherein the plurality of light sources form a curved surface projecting to one direction, and the projecting direction of the curved surface is the same as that of the curved-surface LCD display screen. In the above technical solution, due to the stepped structure, the optical distribution of light sources along the curved surface is realized without bending mechanical structures and optical components of the backlight, and the fabrication difficulty of the backlight is reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: QING LIU, Zhongbao Wu
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Publication number: 20160357067Abstract: The present application discloses a liquid crystal display device and a backlight module thereof. The backlight module comprises a backboard, a separating plate, and a light source component; wherein the backboard has a base plate and a plurality of side plates, and the backboard is an injection moulding board; the separating plate is mounted in an accommodating groove, a heat dissipation chamber is formed between the separating plate and the base plate, in the heat dissipation chamber, the backboard is provided with convection holes; the light source component comprises a plurality of lamp substrates and a plurality of LED lamps mounted on the lamp substrates, the lamp substrates are located within the heat dissipation chamber, and the separating plate is provided with transparent holes enabling light emitted by each of the LED lamps to penetrate the separating plate in a thickness direction of the separating plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Yongda Ma, Jingxia Gu
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Publication number: 20160357068Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a display panel and a display apparatus so as to increase the optical conversion efficiency of the display panel. The display panel comprises: an array substrate and a color filter substrate which are arranged oppositely; a liquid crystal layer arranged between the array substrate and the color filter substrate; an upper polarizing layer provided between the color filter substrate and the liquid crystal layer; and a quantum dot excitation layer provided on the color substrate, wherein the upper polarizing layer is configured such that a first linearly polarized light transmitted through the upper polarizing layer irradiates on the quantum dot excitation layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Applicant: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yafeng Yang, Jing Lv, Ming Zhu
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Publication number: 20160357069Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate, pixel electrodes disposed on the first substrate and including a first sub-pixel electrode and a second sub-pixel electrode separated from each other and positioned in one pixel area, gate lines connected to the pixel electrodes, data lines connected to the pixel electrodes, reference voltage lines connected to the second sub-pixel electrode of the pixel electrodes, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a common electrode disposed on the second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer positioned between the first substrate and the second substrate and including liquid crystal molecules, a first initial pretilt angle of the liquid crystal molecules corresponding to the first sub-pixel electrode for the second substrate surface is larger than a second initial pretilt angle of the liquid crystal molecules corresponding to the second sub-pixel electrode for the second substrate surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Heung Shik PARK, Jae Hoon JUNG, Dan Bi YANG, Min-Joo HAN, Ji Phyo HONG, Ki Chul SHIN
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Publication number: 20160357070Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display substrate and a display device, which display substrate including a base substrate a plurality rows of subpixel units formed on the base substrate. Each of the subpixel units is of a parallelogram shape including first sides parallel to the row direction and second sides inclined with respect to vertical direction, wherein the vertical direction is perpendicular to the row direction, second sides of subpixel units in the same row have consistent incline direction, and second sides of subpixel units in adjacent two rows have opposite incline directions.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Applicants: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Ming YANG, Xue DONG, Renwei GUO, Lei MA, Wenqing ZHAO
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Publication number: 20160357071Abstract: A motherboard, a motherboard of a display panel, a liquid crystal display panel and a display device are provided. The motherboard includes: a base substrate (101, 201), and a plurality of substrate units (102, 202) arranged in a matrix on the base substrate (101, 201); and a line layer (103, 203) insulated from the substrate units (102, 202) and arranged along a preset extending direction (AA?, BB?), which is disposed within a peripheral region of the substrate units (102, 202). Because the line layer arranged along the preset extending direction is disposed within the peripheral space region of the substrate unit, when the alignment film on the substrate unit is aligned by a rubbing process, it can play a role in carding the rubbing cloth used in the rubbing process, to achieve an even rubbing effect, avoid an uneven rubbing phenomenon, and further facilitate improving a picture quality of the display panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Applicants: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Tingze Dong, Dongsheng Huang, Jun Mo, Xing Qin, Xuejiao Huang
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Publication number: 20160357072Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a first substrate and a second substrate opposite to the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate; a gate line extending in a first direction on the first substrate; a data line extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction on the first substrate; a first electric field generating electrode on the first substrate; and a second electric field generating electrode on the first substrate, wherein the second electric field generating electrode includes a stem electrode extending in parallel to the data line and branch electrodes extending from the stem electrode forming a predetermined angle with respect to the gate line, and an interval between the stem electrode and a data line adjacent thereto differs from an interval between the branch electrodes and a data line adjacent thereto.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Wonho KIM, Sungman KIM, Yeonmun JEON, Youngje CHO, Taehyung HWANG
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Publication number: 20160357073Abstract: A pixel structure according to embodiments of the present disclosure may include a plurality of sub-pixel units driven by a same gate line and a same data line. Each of the sub-pixel units may consist of two or more sub-pixels, and be divided into N display regions. In a power-on state, an N-domain display may be implemented by the sub-pixel unit due to different electric fields generated by different display regions respectively. Technical solutions of the present disclosure can improve chromatic aberration phenomenon of a LCD device with transmittance of the LCD device being guaranteed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Applicants: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Xinxia ZHANG, Fengzhen LV, Xiao GUO, Kang XIANG, Chen WANG, Kui LV
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Publication number: 20160357074Abstract: In one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate. In the first substrate, gate lines extend in a first direction, and a first source line and a second source line extend in a second direction orthogonally crossing the first direction. A pixel electrode having a first belt-like main electrode is arranged approximately in a central portion between the first source line and the second source line and extending in the second direction. A first belt-like sub-electrode covers the gate line between the first source line and the second source line and extending in the first direction. The second substrate includes a counter electrode having a second main electrode arranged on the first and second source lines and extending in the second direction. A liquid crystal layer is held between the first substrate and the second substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Jin HIROSAWA, Arihiro TAKEDA, Nobuko FUKUOKA, Yusuke MORITA, Kazuya DAISHI
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Publication number: 20160357075Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention provide an array substrate and a display device, which can reduce the phenomenon of point discharge for the pixel electrode. The array substrate comprises a plurality of pixel units; a pixel electrode is provided in each pixel unit; wherein at least one corner of at least one pixel electrode is provided with a notch.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Jianbo Xian, Yong Qiao, Hongfei Cheng
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Publication number: 20160357076Abstract: The present disclosure provides a pixel arrangement structure, a display panel and a display device. The pixel arrangement structure includes a plurality of first sub-pixels, a plurality of second sub-pixels and a plurality of third sub-pixels. Each pixel includes one first sub-pixel, each second sub-pixel is shared by at least two adjacent pixels and each third sub-pixel is shared by at least two adjacent pixels. A density of the sub-pixels is 1.5 times larger than a density of the pixels in a first direction of a pixel array, and a density of the sub-pixels is 1.5 times larger than a density of the pixels in a second direction of the pixel array. The first direction is different from the second direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Applicant: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Lujiang HUANGFU, Xiaodan JIN, Yinan LIANG, Kelvin CHIANG
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Publication number: 20160357077Abstract: To provide a liquid crystal optical device which has high quality even when it is large-sized, and which can operate at low power consumption. A liquid crystal optical device 100 comprising a pair of substrates 10, 20 facing each other, at least one of which having transparency to light, an electrooptical functional layer sandwiched between the substrates, and an electric field applying means to generate an electric field in the electrooptical functional layer, wherein the electrooptical functional layer contains a liquid crystal compound having a positive dielectric anisotropy and showing liquid crystallinity, and an alignment-controlling material for controlling the alignment of the liquid crystal compound, and the electric field applying means is so constituted as to generate an electric field containing lines of electric force substantially in parallel with the substrate surface of at least one of the substrates.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Satoshi NIIYAMA, Remi KAWAKAMI
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Publication number: 20160357078Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a TFT substrate, a CF substrate, and a liquid crystal interposed between the TFT substrate and the CF substrate, and drives the liquid crystal in a horizontal electric field. The TFT substrate includes a recess, and the CF substrate includes a columnar protrusion. The protrusion of the CF substrate is fitted to the recess of the TFT substrate so as to function as a stopper for preventing a positional gap between the TFT substrate and the CF substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Yasushi TOMIOKA, Takato HIRATSUKA, Osamu ITOU
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Publication number: 20160357079Abstract: The present disclosure provides a touch display panel, comprising: a first substrate; a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate; a display medium layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; a sensing electrode layer disposed on the first substrate; and an electrostatic releasing layer disposed on the second substrate, and a sheet resistance of the electrostatic releasing layer is 109-1012?/?. The present disclosure also discloses a touch display device using the said touch display panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Miao-Ting CHEN, Hsi-Chien CHEN, Huei-Ying CHEN, Hsing-Yuan HSU, I-An YAO, Po-Yang CHEN, Kuo-Jung WU, Chen-Wei CHI
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Publication number: 20160357080Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates facing each other; a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates; a thin-film transistor (“TFT”) on the first substrate and including a semiconductor layer and a gate, source and drain electrodes; an organic layer on the TFT and defining a contact hole therein which exposes a portion of the drain electrode; a conductive layer on the organic layer and contacting the exposed portion of the drain electrode at the contact hole; a common electrode which is on the organic layer and isolated from the conductive layer; a passivation layer on the conductive layer and the common electrode and defining an opening therein which exposes a portion of the conductive layer; and a pixel electrode on the passivation layer and the conductive layer and contacting the exposed portion of the conductive layer at the opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Ock Soo SON, Dong Wook KIM, Jean Ho SONG, Eun Je JANG, Do Hyun JUNG
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Publication number: 20160357081Abstract: A display substrate and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes: a base substrate; a first insulating layer arranged on the base substrate, at least one wire containing groove being provided on the first insulating layer; and at least one signal line, at least one of the signal lines being arranged in the wire containing groove, and one wire containing groove being configured to contain one signal line; and a second insulating layer, covering the first insulating layer and the signal line. The display device comprises the display substrate provided by the technical solution described above.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventor: Qingshuo LI
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Publication number: 20160357082Abstract: Provided is an electrochromic element, including: a first electrode and a second electrode, at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode being transparent; a third electrode; and an electrolyte, an anodic organic electrochromic material, and a cathodic organic electrochromic material that are arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode, in which the third electrode is electrically connectable to at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode via the electrolyte, and in which the third electrode has an effective area that is larger than an effective area of the first electrode and an effective area of the second electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Wataru Kubo, Kazuya Miyazaki
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Publication number: 20160357083Abstract: This disclosure provides connectors for smart windows. A smart window may incorporate an optically switchable pane. In one aspect, a window unit includes an insulated glass unit including an optically switchable pane. A wire assembly may be attached to the edge of the insulated glass unit and may include wires in electrical communication with electrodes of the optically switchable pane. A floating connector may be attached to a distal end of the wire assembly. The floating connector may include a flange and a nose, with two holes in the flange for affixing the floating connector to a first frame. The nose may include a terminal face that present two exposed contacts of opposite polarity.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Stephen C. Brown, Alexander Rumer, Dennis Mullins
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Publication number: 20160357084Abstract: The present invention is directed to a panel comprising a plurality of microcells wherein each of the microcells has a bottom, the panel has a first area and a second area, and the microcells in the first area have substantially the same bottom thickness and the microcells in the second area have added bottom thicknesses. Such a panel is useful for many applications, such drug administrations.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Yih-Ming KANG, Donald A. SCHULTZ
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Publication number: 20160357085Abstract: A planar optical waveguide circuit includes an optical modulator, such as that based on a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, that is followed by an in-line optical tap in the form of a 2×2 multi-mode interference coupler that is characterized a reduced tracking error as compared to Y-junction couplers.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Charles M. JEWART, Karl Kissa
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Publication number: 20160357086Abstract: An optical modulator is disclosed, in which a MMI couplers are used for input signal splitting for branching into individual Mach-Zehnder interferometers, as well as for branching and combining from individual Mach-Zehnder waveguides. MMI couplers, splitters, and combiners may be cascaded and combined with single-mode Y-splitters and combiners to provide modulators of various types, including dual polarization, quadrature phase Mach-Zehnder interferometer base optical modulators.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Charles M. JEWART, Yannick Lize
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Publication number: 20160357087Abstract: A tunable acoustic gradient index of refraction (TAG) lens and system are provided that permit, in one aspect, dynamic selection of the lens output, including dynamic focusing and imaging. The system may include a TAG lens and at least one of a source and a detector of electromagnetic radiation. A controller may be provided in electrical communication with the lens and at least one of the source and detector and may be configured to provide a driving signal to control the index of refraction and to provide a synchronizing signal to time at least one of the source and the detector relative to the driving signal. Thus, the controller is able to specify that the source irradiates the lens (or detector detects the lens output) when a desired refractive index distribution is present within the lens, e.g. when a desired lens output is present.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Craig B. Arnold, Euan McLeod, Alexandre Mermillod-Blondin
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Publication number: 20160357088Abstract: A system and method for separating signal quadratures includes obtaining, by a parametric amplifier, an input signal, amplifying, by the parametric amplifier, the input signal to create an amplified signal and generating an idler. The idler is a conjugate image of the input signal. The system and method also include obtaining, by a frequency converter, the amplified signal and the conjugate image and converting the amplified signal and the conjugate image into a first output and a second output, where the first output includes a first signal quadrature and the second output includes a second output quadrature.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Colin McKinstrie, Anjali Agarwal
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Publication number: 20160357089Abstract: A light adjusting apparatus includes a substrate, a rotating shaft member made of an axial magnet, a light adjusting section rotatably integrated with the rotating shaft member and an electromagnetic drive source rotating the rotating shaft member using a coil core member made of a coil and a magnetic body, the light adjusting apparatus being configured to adjust light by displacing the light adjusting section to a retracted position and an inserted position, and a rotatable range ?a is set to have a portion overlapping at least one of a range ?n in which a direction of torque acting on the rotating shaft member when no current is flowing through the coil becomes a negative direction and a range ?p in which the direction of torque becomes a positive direction, and a range ?1 where ?a overlaps ?n and a range ?2 where ?a overlaps ?p have different widths.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Masaya TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20160357090Abstract: A lighting device capable of changing the light irradiation range includes a light emitting portion, and an optical member disposed in front of the light emitting portion. The optical member has a plurality of shapes such that two types of cylindrical concave surface having axial directions substantially perpendicular to each other are crossed each other. The plurality of shapes are formed in a central region of an entry surface through which light from the light emitting portion enters or a central region of an exit surface through which the light entering through the entry surface exits.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventor: Yoshinobu Okano
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Publication number: 20160357091Abstract: A mounting arrangement for mounting a device in an opening in a structure comprising a socket configured to receive the device, an anchoring element, and a fastening element configured for adjustable engagement with the anchoring element is disclosed. The socket has a plate portion and a body portion to be insertable in the opening, and an abutment flange extending from the body portion and dimensioned to abut a first side of the structure, and an aperture for receiving the fastening element. The anchoring element is insertable through the opening and has abutment portions for abutting a second side of the structure, the anchoring element comprising an opening for receiving and holding the fastening element. The fastening element has a distal end configured to adjustably engage with the opening of the anchoring element, and a proximal end configured to engage with the aperture of the socket and to hold the socket.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Applicant: Axis ABInventors: Caroline Jacobsson, Linnéa Karlsson
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Publication number: 20160357092Abstract: An omnidirectional user configurable multi-camera housing includes a top plate including one or more electronic circuit boards thereon; a track plate secured to the top plate by a plurality of first fasteners, wherein the track plate is rotationally movable with respect to the top plate via a respective curve-shaped opening that accommodates movement of a respective first fastener within the respective curve-shaped opening; a plurality of camera assemblies secured to the track plate by a plurality of magnetic devices, each of the camera assemblies including a camera and a bracket, movably installed on the track, wherein each of the camera is rotatable on a respective bracket in a plane perpendicular to the track plate, and wherein each of the bracket are rotatable in a plane including the track plate; and a transparent cover for covering the plurality of camera assemblies installed on the track plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventor: Brad J. Donaldson
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Publication number: 20160357093Abstract: A tripod head, in particular to hold a film or television camera, includes a first body and a second body, wherein the first body can be pivoted about at least one pivot axis relative to the second body, and a damping device to damp the pivoting movement of the first body relative to the second body, with a first damping element fixed to the first body and a second damping element, wherein the damping elements each have a plurality of concentrically arranged annular ribs which engage in cavities formed between the ribs of the respective other damping element and a damping medium is provided between the ribs of the damping element, wherein the second damping element is formed of at least two separate parts which are fixable independently of each other to the second body.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: LEONHARD JAUMANN, THOMAS WEHRMANN
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Publication number: 20160357094Abstract: A projection display system is disclosed including a laser light source, projection lens or mirror, and screen. This invention enables a decorative screen which hides a display and matches near-by furniture. This invention also discloses a tiny cost-effective laser light source for projection displays.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventor: Fusao Ishii
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Publication number: 20160357095Abstract: A display apparatus includes a light guide, an optical system that introduces image light into the light guide, a light beam extractor that emits the image light propagating in the light guide from a surface of the light guide along an extent of propagation of the image light, and a positioning member that positions a portion of the optical system by being in contact with the surface of the light guide.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Kanto MIYAZAKI, Satoshi WATANABE
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Publication number: 20160357096Abstract: The present invention provides a reflection member including a selective reflection layer; and two ¼ wavelength phase difference plates, in which the selective reflection layer is disposed between the two ¼ wavelength phase difference plates, the selective reflection layer includes a layer of a fixed cholesteric liquid crystal phase having a central wavelength of selective reflection at a visible light range wavelength ?i, and the selective reflection layer includes a layer in which a twisted direction of a helix of a cholesteric liquid crystal is only one of right or left as the layer of a fixed cholesteric liquid crystal phase having selective reflection at the wavelength ?i. The reflection member of the present invention can be used particularly as a heat shielding member, which can reduce damage to the optical systems due to external light including visible light while efficiently extracting projected light.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Mitsuyoshi ICHIHASHI, Yuki SAIKI, Kazuhiro OKI, Takao TAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20160357097Abstract: A fluorescent element includes a fluorescent light layer that converts a light flux from an LD light source into light having a different wavelength, a scattering layer, and a reflective element. The fluorescent light layer is provided between the scattering layer and the reflective element.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventor: Ryota KADOWAKI
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Publication number: 20160357098Abstract: An optical engine for a projector according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a first light source unit; a second light source unit which outputs a light with a color which is different from that of the first light source unit; a third light source unit which outputs a light with a color which is different from those of the first and second light source units; a micro display panel which outputs a predetermined image; a fly-eye lens which equalizes lights and includes a plurality of cells, each of which is configured by a convex lens; and a projection lens which projects a generated projection image to the outside on the basis of an output light of the first to third light source units and an output image, wherein two or more cells among a plurality of cells have shapes different from shapes of other cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2013Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Shin Gyu KANG, Eun Jin Kim
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Publication number: 20160357099Abstract: A mask for an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography process is provided. The mask includes a substrate, a reflection layer including first material layers and second material layers which are alternately and repeatedly stacked on the substrate, a capping layer on the reflection layer, and a phase shift layer and an absorber layer sequentially stacked on the capping layer. Sidewalls of the phase shift layer and the absorber layer may be oblique to a top surface of the capping layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Jung Sik KIM, Jinho AHN, Seongchul HONG
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Publication number: 20160357100Abstract: To provide a reflective mask blank for EUV lithography which is excellent in flatness, whereby the deterioration of the overlay accuracy at the time of pattern transfer can be relatively easily corrected, and the deterioration of the overlay accuracy due to the flatness is small.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, LimitedInventor: Yoshiaki IKUTA