Patents Issued in December 29, 2016
  • Publication number: 20160377909
    Abstract: Provided is a display device, comprising: a display panel; a frame that holds the display panel; and an adhesive member to adhesively fix the display panel and the frame to each other. The adhesive member includes a base material, a first adhesive layer disposed on a surface on the display panel side of the base material, and a second adhesive layer disposed on a surface on a frame side of the base material. In planar view, the first adhesive layer and the second adhesive layer are disposed in at least a part of the adhesive member so as not to overlap each other, and a clearance is formed between the first adhesive layer and the second adhesive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroki KONDOH, Tsutomu ABE, Masaki TSUBOKURA, Mamoru KURAMOTO, Naotoshi SUMIYA
  • Publication number: 20160377910
    Abstract: In an electro-optical device, a relay electrode (first electrode) includes a conduction section that overlaps the projection portion of an inter-layer insulation film, and the conduction section is exposed from the surface (flat surface) of the inter-layer insulation film. An insulation film which has a film thickness thinner than the height of the projection portion is formed on the surface (flat surface) of the inter-layer insulation film, and a pixel electrode is electrically conducted to the conduction section through the opening of the insulation film. In this case, since the opening is shallow, a large uneven part is hardly generated on the surface of the pixel electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventor: Satoshi Ito
  • Publication number: 20160377911
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel comprises an upper substrate (10) and a lower substrate (20) cell-assembled, the lower substrate (20) including a base substrate (200), the base substrate (200) including an upper surface (202) close to the upper substrate (10) and a lower surface (203) opposite to the upper surface (202), scattering microstructures (205) being arranged on the lower surface (203) of the base substrate, and a display functional layer being arranged on the upper surface (202) of the base substrate. The display panel can solve a problem that a display device in the prior art cannot meet requirements of ultra-thinning and low cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yanbing WU
  • Publication number: 20160377912
    Abstract: An LCD panel includes a display having a right edge, a left edge, and a center line. The display includes first substrate comprising a set of data lines extending in first direction and aligned in second direction, each of the data lines having a center. The display further includes second substrate aligned with the first substrate comprising a light blocking film overlapping the set of data lines and having a set of light blocking portions extending in the first direction and aligned in the second direction, each of the light blocking portions having a center and overlapping with an associated one of the data lines. The display has a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and relative distance between the center of a data line and the center of an associated light blocking portion is determined based on a location of the data line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventor: Naotoshi SUMIYA
  • Publication number: 20160377913
    Abstract: An LCD panel includes first and second substrates, signal lines, pixel structures, first, second, and third color filter pattern layers, a light-shielding pattern layer, and a liquid crystal medium. The second substrate has first and second light-shielding regions and first, second and third light-transmissive regions. The first and second light-shielding regions define the first, second and third light-transmissive regions. The first color filter pattern layer is correspondingly located in the first light-transmissive regions and the first light-shielding regions. The second color filter pattern layer is correspondingly located in the second light-transmissive regions and the first light-shielding regions. The first and second color filter pattern layers are stacked together in the first light-shielding regions. The third color filter pattern layer is correspondingly located in the third light-transmissive regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Pi-Chun Yeh, Ching-Sheng Cheng
  • Publication number: 20160377914
    Abstract: A display device according to an aspect of the present invention includes a cover member and a display panel. The cover member includes a base material and a light-shielding layer provided in a frame-like manner. A double-faced adhesive sheet is provided so as to cover the surface of the base material and an edge portion on an inner circumferential side of the light-shielding layer. A plurality of grooves not deep enough to penetrate the light-shielding layer are provided on the edge portion on the inner circumferential side of the light-shielding layer to which the double-faced adhesive sheet is bonded. The grooves extend from the inner circumference toward an outer circumference of the light-shielding layer. The grooves are arranged side by side along the inner circumference of the light-shielding layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Kiyoshi MIYASHITA, Kimio ANAI, Hiroshi AZUMA
  • Publication number: 20160377915
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device. The liquid crystal display device includes a first sub-pixel configured to represent any one of red, green, and blue; a second sub-pixel adjacent to the first sub-pixel and configured to represent a different color from the first sub-pixel; and a black matrix disposed underneath along a boundary between the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel and configured to have a particular width that suppresses color mixture between the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventor: Jin Kim
  • Publication number: 20160377916
    Abstract: A color filter substrate includes a color material layer that transmits light to generate colors of an image, and a change layer that is formed on a surface of the color material layer on which light is incident or on a surface of the color material layer from which light is emitted, and that has a characteristic in which a portion irradiated with laser light changes into black.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Kenichi MINOWA
  • Publication number: 20160377917
    Abstract: A display panel and the manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. The display panel includes a top substrate, a down substrate, a photoresist layer between the top substrate and the down substrate. The display panel includes a transmission area and a reflective area having a reflective layer within the photoresist layer. The reflective layer divides the photoresist layer into a first sub-photoresist layer and a second sub-photoresist layer. The first sub-photoresist layer is arranged between the reflective layer and the down substrate. The second sub-photoresist layer is arranged between the reflective layer and the top substrate. The light beams within the transmission area pass through the photoresist layer, the light beams within the reflective area pass through the first sub-photoresist layer or the second sub-photoresist layer twice. In this way, the saturation of the transmission area and the reflective area are compatible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventor: Yuejun Tang
  • Publication number: 20160377918
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a display having high visibility and a transflective type liquid crystal display device having a reflection electrode having a concavo-convex structure formed without especially increasing the process. During manufacturing a transflective liquid crystal display device, a reflection electrode of a plurality of irregularly arranged island-like patterns and a transparent electrode of a transparent conductive film are layered in forming an electrode having transparent and reflection electrodes thereby having a concavo-convex form to enhance the scattering ability of light and hence the visibility of display. Furthermore, because the plurality of irregularly arranged island-like patterns can be formed simultaneous with an interconnection, a concavo-convex structure can be formed during the manufacturing process without especially increasing the patterning process only for forming a concavo-convex structure. It is accordingly possible to greatly reduce cost and improve productivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Shingo Eguchi, Yutaka Shionoiri, Etsuko Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20160377919
    Abstract: A light source module comprises a substrate, light emitting components arranged in an array on the substrate, an internal wiring portion formed on the substrate and connected to the light emitting components, an external wiring portion formed on the substrate and isolated from the internal wiring portion, a first connecting unit formed on a first side of the substrate and connected to the external wiring portion and a second connection unit formed on a second side of the substrate and connected to the internal and the external wiring portion. The disclosure reduces the number of the leads required for the light source module when installing the light source module into the backlight module. The disclosure simplifies the assembly process, and reduces production costs. Further, the occupied areas of the leads in the backlight module are reduced to improve space utilization in the backlight module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chao NING, Chih-tsung KANG, Zuwei ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20160377920
    Abstract: A display device includes: a first polarizer, a second polarizer, a liquid crystal layer, a color conversion member, an emission layer, and a first substrate. The second polarizer is disposed on the first polarizer. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first polarizer and the second polarizer. The color conversion member is disposed between the liquid crystal layer and the second polarizer. The emission layer is disposed on the second polarizer. The emission layer is configured to absorb at least a portion of light passed through the color conversion member and the second polarizer, and to emit light corresponding to at least a blue wavelength. The first substrate is disposed on the emission layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Haeil PARK, Kisoo Park, Junghyun Kwon, Youngmin Kim, Kwangkeun Lee, Junhan Lee
  • Publication number: 20160377921
    Abstract: A dual-mode liquid crystal display device, a color filter substrate and an array substrate are provided. The display device comprises: a color filter substrate, an array substrate assembled with the color filter substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the color filter substrate and the array substrate. The pixel area of the array substrate comprises red, green, blue and white sub-pixels; and the color filter substrate or the array substrate is provided with a fluorescent layer at the position corresponding to the white sub-pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lu WANG, Shiming SHI, Yanliu SUN
  • Publication number: 20160377922
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate, a first electrode which is disposed on the first substrate, and which includes a stem part for dividing a pixel into a plurality of domains, a plurality of micro branch parts extending in one direction from at least one stem of the stem part, and a peripheral bundle electrode connected to an end of at least one of the micro branch parts and disposed along an edge of the pixel, a first panel including protrusions arranged along an outer circumference of the peripheral bundle electrode and projected in the direction vertical to the first substrate, a second substrate, a second panel including a second electrode which is disposed on the second substrate and which faces the first electrode, and a liquid crystal layer which is interposed between the first panel and the second panel and which includes liquid crystals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Ik Han OH, Se Hyun LEE, Wan NAMGUNG, Ho Jun LEE, Youn Hak JEONG, Ki Pyo HONG
  • Publication number: 20160377923
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first panel which includes a first electrode including a first protrusion and a first alignment layer disposed on the first electrode, a second panel which is disposed to face the first panel, and which includes a second electrode including a second protrusion disposed in a region corresponding to the first protrusion and a second alignment layer disposed on the second electrode, and a liquid crystal layer which is disposed between the first panel and the second panel, where the first protrusion and the second protrusion vertically face each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Jeong Man SON, Min Wook PARK, Deok Ho KANG, Dong Hee YE, Jin Young LEE
  • Publication number: 20160377924
    Abstract: Disclosed are a liquid crystal panel, a display apparatus and a manufacturing method of the liquid crystal panel. The manufacturing method of the liquid crystal panel includes: forming a first alignment layer covering a substrate surface and having an alignment direction along a first direction on a first substrate; the first substrate includes multiple column pixel areas; forming a second alignment layer having an alignment direction along a second direction on the first alignment layer, the first direction and the second direction are different directions, in correspondence with each of the column pixel areas, the second alignment layer has at least one aligning unit that penetrates the column pixel areas, and a width of each of the aligning unit is smaller than a width of the column pixel area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicants: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd, Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Xiaojuan Wu, Jian Wang
  • Publication number: 20160377925
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display is provided which is capable of reducing the occurrence of defective display due to variations in the initial alignment direction of a liquid crystal alignment control film in a liquid crystal display of an IPS scheme, realizing the stable liquid crystal alignment, providing excellent mass productivity, and having high image quality with a higher contrast ratio. The liquid crystal display has a liquid crystal layer disposed between a pair of substrates, at least one of the substrates being transparent, and an alignment control film formed between the liquid crystal layer and the substrate. At least one of the alignment control films 109 comprises photoreactive polyimide and/or polyamic acid provided with an alignment control ability by irradiation of substantially linearly polarized light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Yasushi TOMIOKA, Hidetoshi ABE, Katsumi KONDO
  • Publication number: 20160377926
    Abstract: Various layer separation states are generated by the combination of a polyamide acid ester and a polyamide acid and a long residual image characteristic cannot be further improved merely by combining them. A liquid crystal display device comprises a substrate, a liquid crystal layer, and an orientation film placed between the substrate and the liquid crystal layer. The orientation film comprises a polyimide precursor having two or more components. In the polyimide precursor, an octanol-water partition coefficient is defined as log P and the difference in log P (? log P) between the two components having most distant log Ps is set so as to fall within a prescribed range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Masaki MATSUMORI, Shuji IMAZEKI, Yasushi TOMIOKA, Noboru KUNIMATSU
  • Publication number: 20160377927
    Abstract: A display panel and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The display panel includes a color filter substrate, a liquid crystal layer, and a thin film transistor array substrate. Each of pixel units of the thin film transistor array substrate includes a first, second, third, and fourth domains. Liquid crystal molecules corresponding to the first, second, third, and fourth domains respectively have a first, second, third, and fourth pretilt angles. The present invention can increase the display quality of the display panel at the observation viewing angles with the large viewing angles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanxi YE, Yang ZHAO, Chung Yi CHIU
  • Publication number: 20160377928
    Abstract: A mask includes a base substrate, and a light shielding pattern including a light transmitting portion and a light shielding portion on the base substrate, wherein the light shielding portion includes a third source electrode portion, a third drain electrode portion spaced apart from the third source electrode portion and including at least a portion parallel to the third source electrode portion, a first auxiliary light shielding portion at an end portion of the third source electrode portion facing the third drain electrode portion, and a second auxiliary light shielding portion at an end portion of the third drain electrode portion facing the third source electrode portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Inho PARK, Sehwan YU, Kyoungjun KIM, Jihyeon SON
  • Publication number: 20160377929
    Abstract: An array substrate includes: a base substrate on which a pixel area is defined, where the pixel area includes a first area and a second area, which surrounds the first area; and a pixel electrode disposed in the pixel area. The pixel electrode includes a stem, a center of which is located in the first area, and a plurality of branches, each of which includes a first portion extending from the stem and disposed in the first area and a second portion extending from the first portion and disposed in the second area, and a width of the first portion is different from a width of the second portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventor: Yong-Woon LIM
  • Publication number: 20160377930
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes a first gate line and a second gate line extending in a first direction, a first data line and a second data line extending in a second direction, a pixel region surrounded by the first and second gate lines and the first and second data lines, and a first sub pixel electrode and a second sub pixel electrode disposed in the pixel region, wherein the first sub pixel electrode includes a first pattern section and a second pattern section symmetrical with each other about the second direction serving as an axis, wherein the second sub pixel electrode includes a third pattern section having a same shape as that of either the first pattern section or the second pattern section, and a fourth pattern section having a shape different from those of both the first pattern section and the second pattern section, wherein the first sub pixel electrode and the second sub pixel electrode are electrically interconnected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Hyung Jun PARK, Seong Young LEE, Youn Hak JEONG, Ki Pyo HONG, Byoung Sun NA, Kye Uk LEE
  • Publication number: 20160377931
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate including an electrode structure layer defining a pixel and a switching device configured to switch the pixel, an opposite second substrate facing the first substrate and including a common electrode, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first and second substrates. The electrode structure layer includes a coupling electrode, a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode, and an insulating layer disposed between the coupling electrode and the second pixel electrode. An absolute value difference between a first product RpCp of a resistance Rp and a capacitance Cp defined by the coupling electrode, the insulating layer, and the second pixel electrode, and a second product R2C2 of a resistance R2 and a capacitance C2 defined by the second pixel electrode, the liquid crystal layer, and the common electrode is less than or equal to 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Nakcho CHOI, Seiyong PARK, Joonggun CHONG, Changok KIM, Injae HWANG
  • Publication number: 20160377932
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes, a first insulation substrate, a first subpixel electrode disposed on the first insulation substrate, an insulation layer disposed on the first subpixel electrode, a second subpixel electrode disposed on the insulation layer, a liquid crystal layer disposed on the second subpixel electrode, a common electrode disposed on the liquid crystal layer, and a second insulation substrate disposed on the common electrode. In the liquid crystal display device, the second subpixel electrode and the common electrode are spaced apart by a second distance in a second region in which the second subpixel electrode is disposed, the first subpixel electrode and the common electrode are spaced apart by a first distance in a first region in which the first subpixel electrode is disposed, excluding the second region, and the first distance and the second distance are different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Hoon KIM, Kyeong Jong KIM, Ki Chul SHIN
  • Publication number: 20160377933
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first panel including a first electrode which includes a central electrode disposed in a central region of a pixel, a micro-branch part extending in a direction from at least one side of the central electrode, a peripheral electrode connected to an end of part of the micro-branch part, and a corner pattern provided in a corner region of the pixel, a second panel including horizontal and vertical incision parts which divide the micro-branch part, the central electrode and the peripheral electrode of the first electrode into a plurality of domains and a second electrode which is divided corresponding to plurality of domain regions, and where in the first panel, the peripheral electrode adjacent to the corner pattern is disposed on at least one of an edge region of the pixel in a direction parallel to the horizontal or vertical incision part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Ik Han Oh, Seong Young Lee, Se Hyun Lee, Hyung Jun Park, Youn Hak Jeong
  • Publication number: 20160377934
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first display substrate including a plurality of pixel electrodes corresponding to a plurality of pixels, respectively, a second display substrate disposed opposite to the first display substrate; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first and second display substrates, where each of the pixel electrodes includes first and second subpixel electrodes, which are disposed near each other in a first direction and each include a plurality of minute branches, the first subpixel electrode is divided into a plurality of first-subpixel areas including a first first-subpixel area, in which the minute branches extend in a first diagonal direction, and the second subpixel electrode includes a plurality of second-subpixel areas including a first second-subpixel area, which is disposed near the first first-subpixel area in the first direction and in which the minute branches extend in the first diagonal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Kee Bum PARK, Yoo Mi RA, Hyung Jin SONG, Kye Uk LEE
  • Publication number: 20160377935
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure provides a liquid crystal display device, which may comprise: a first substrate including a display area with a pixel area and a non-display area disposed to be adjacent to the display area, a pixel electrode disposed in the display area, a liquid crystal control electrode disposed in the non-display area; a second substrate including a common electrode on a surface facing the first substrate; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Hui Gyeong YUN, Kyung Won PARK, Kon Haeng LEE, Kook Hyun CHOI
  • Publication number: 20160377936
    Abstract: Liquid crystal display includes a first substrate which includes a pixel electrode disposed in each pixel, a second substrate which faces the first substrate and includes a common electrode and an insulating layer, and a liquid crystal layer which is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, where the common electrode includes a first common electrode which is disposed on the whole surface defining the second substrate and a second common electrode which is disposed on the first common electrode with the insulating layer interposed therebetween and includes an opening defined in each pixel, and each pixel includes a first region in which the pixel electrode and the first common electrode face each other through the opening and a second region in which the pixel electrode and the second common electrode face each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Kyeong Jong KIM, Hoon KIM, Heung Shik PARK, Ki Chul SHIN
  • Publication number: 20160377937
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure provides a liquid crystal display including: a first substrate; a first polarizer disposed above or below the first substrate and having a first polarization axis; a passivation layer disposed on a data line; a unit pixel electrode that is disposed on the data line and includes a horizontal stem and a vertical stem crossing each other and a plurality of minute branch electrodes extending from the stems; a protrusion portion disposed on the passivation layer, surrounding an edge of the unit pixel electrode, and extending in a direction that forms an acute angle with the first polarization axis; and a liquid crystal layer formed on the first substrate and including liquid crystal molecules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Sang-Je LEE, Deok Ho KANG, Jeong Man SON, Dong Hee YE, Jin Young LEE
  • Publication number: 20160377938
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a curved first substrate and a curved second substrate. A liquid crystal layer is between the first curved substrate and the second curved substrate. A pixel electrode is on the first substrate. The pixel electrode includes a plurality of unit sub-pixel electrodes. A common electrode is on the second substrate. The common electrode has a planar shape. A connecting portion connects at least two of the plurality of unit sub-pixel electrodes to each other. A protrusion is disposed on the connecting portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: KIPYO HONG, IKHAN OH, YOUNHAK JEONG, WAN NAMGUNG, HOJUN LEE, SEHYUN LEE
  • Publication number: 20160377939
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a liquid crystal grating and a control method thereof, and a 3D touch display panel. The liquid crystal grating, comprises: upper and lower substrates; a liquid crystal layer, arranged between the two substrates; a plurality of strip-shaped electrode groups, parallel to each other and arranged side by side, and formed on a surface of the upper substrate facing the liquid crystal layer, each of the electrode groups including first and second comb-shaped touch electrodes separated by a strip-shaped region, comb teeth of the first and second touch electrodes being opposite to each other, and an included angle between extending directions of the strip-shaped region and the electrode group being an acute angle; first and second comb-shaped grating electrodes, formed on a surface of the lower substrate facing the liquid crystal layer, the first and second grating electrodes being arranged in an interdigital shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicants: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shengji YANG, Xue DONG, Haisheng WANG, Lu TIAN, Jinming YAO, Kai YUAN
  • Publication number: 20160377940
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first panel including a first substrate, a first electrode which is disposed on the first substrate and which includes a stem unit including a horizontal stem and a vertical stem dividing a pixel into domains, a branch unit including branch electrodes and extending from at least one stem of the stem unit in one direction, and an external bundling electrode unit connected to an end of at least one of the branch electrodes and disposed along an edge of the pixel, a first slit pattern which is defined in the branch unit, a second slit pattern which contacts the vertical stem and is disposed parallel to the horizontal stem, a third slit pattern which contacts the horizontal stem and is disposed parallel to the vertical stem, and a protrusion unit which is disposed on an outer circumference of the external bundling electrode unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Se Hyun LEE, Ik Han OH, Wan NAMGUNG, Ho Jun LEE, Youn Hak JEONG, Ki Pyo HONG
  • Publication number: 20160377941
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a substrate, and a pixel electrode disposed on the substrate. The pixel electrode includes a plurality of micro-branches which are spaced apart from each other and extend side by side with each other, where a micro-slit is defined between the micro-branches, and a stem part which is connected to each of the micro-branches, where an indentation pattern is defined by a cutout portion extending into the stem part, and at least one of two points connecting the indentation pattern and the micro-slit is located on a slit boundary line at which the micro-slit and the stem part meet each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Se Hyun LEE, Cheol SHIN, Hak Sun CHANG
  • Publication number: 20160377942
    Abstract: A liquid crystal screen and a display device that prevents light leakage caused by non-uniformity of the electric field of the sub-pixel electrode. The liquid crystal screen comprises a first substrate comprised of first leads and second leads that cross each other, and a liquid crystal screen comprised of a plurality of display areas. Each display area corresponds to an area between two adjacent first leads and two adjacent second leads, and each display area is comprised of two sub-pixels. The liquid crystal screen further comprises a black matrix, which has a plurality of openings, each at a position corresponding to each display area, and comprised of protrusions extending into each opening. The liquid crystal screen of the present invention can effectively prevent light leakage caused by non-uniformity of the electric field of the sub-pixel electrode, and can increase contrast of the liquid crystal screen, thereby improving display effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: Boe Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hongfei Cheng
  • Publication number: 20160377943
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display substrate includes a gate line, a data line a switching element and a pixel electrode each provided in plural. The pixel electrodes include first to fourth pixel electrodes. The first pixel electrode is connected to a first gate line and a first data line. The second pixel electrode is connected to the first gate line and a second data line adjacent to the first data line. The third pixel electrode is connected to a second gate line adjacent to the first gate line and the first data line. The fourth pixel electrode is connected to the second gate line and the second data line. The first gate line overlaps the first and second pixel electrodes and the second gate line overlaps the third and fourth pixel electrodes. Sizes of the first to fourth pixel electrodes are different from one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Yun-Hee Kwak, Yu-Jin Jeon, Sung-Chul Hong
  • Publication number: 20160377944
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid-crystal display (LCD) device which can include a thin-film transistor (TFT) array substrate, a color filter substrate, and a sealant for attaching the TFT array substrate and the color filter substrate together. The TFT array substrate may include a plurality of conductive lines extended below the sealant, and the conductive lines may have transmissive portions through which UV light irradiated to cure the sealant is allowed to pass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: JeongHwan PARK, Jongha KIM, HongYun KANG
  • Publication number: 20160377945
    Abstract: An array substrate, a manufacture method thereof and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes: gate lines and data lines which are crossed to define a plurality of pixel units; and common electrode lines intersected with the data lines, the pixel units being provided with pixel electrodes; wherein, the common electrode lines are provided with first protrusions electrically connected to the common electrode lines; the gate lines are provided with first grooves; the first protrusions are disposed in the first grooves; and the pixel electrodes are overlapped with corresponding first protrusions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventor: Zhenfei Cai
  • Publication number: 20160377946
    Abstract: An electrochromic thermoplastic composition includes about 10 wt % to about 60 wt % a poly(vinyl alcohol), a poly(acrylic acid), a poly(acrylic acid) salt, a polyaniline salt, a poly(diallyl dimethyl ammonium chloride), a poly(ethylene-co-acrylic acid), a co-polymer of any two or more thereof, or a mixture of any two or more thereof; about 40 wt % to about 90 wt % of a protic solvent; and at least one electroactive material; wherein the composition does not include lithium chloride, tetrabutylammonium bromide, lithium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide, lithium triflate, and lithium hexafluorophosphate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventor: Kelvin L. BAUMANN
  • Publication number: 20160377947
    Abstract: A mobile device lens assembly having an electrically activated lens component with an electro-optic portion is disclosed. More particularly, embodiments of the mobile device lens assembly include the electro-optic portion and an interlock feature to engage a second lens element. The second lens element may have an interlock surface, which when engaged or mated with the interlock feature of the electrically activated lens component, may maintain alignment of the lens components along an optical axis. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Miodrag SCEPANOVIC, Yoshikazu SHINOHARA, Iain Alexander McALLISTER, Jun YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20160377948
    Abstract: Embodiments described include bus bars for electrochromic or other optical state changing devices. The bus bars are configured to color match and/or provide minimal optical contrast with their surrounding environment in the optical device. Such bus bars may be transparent bus bars.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Robert T. Rozbicki, Gordon Jack, Disha Mehtani
  • Publication number: 20160377949
    Abstract: Aspects of this disclosure concern controllers and control methods for applying a drive voltage to bus bars of optically switchable devices such as electrochromic devices. Such devices are often provided on windows such as architectural glass. In certain embodiments, the applied drive voltage is controlled in a manner that efficiently drives an optical transition over the entire surface of the electrochromic device. The drive voltage is controlled to account for differences in effective voltage experienced in regions between the bus bars and regions proximate the bus bars. Regions near the bus bars experience the highest effective voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Gordon Jack, Anshu Pradhan
  • Publication number: 20160377950
    Abstract: A total internal reflection image display comprised of dry electrostatically mobile particles composed of a solid material stably floating as a dispersant in a gas and exhibiting a high fluidity in an aerosol state may be sealed between the transparent sheet capable of total internal reflection such as comprising a plurality of transparent convex or hemi-spherical protrusions and the rear support, partition walls and the dry particles may be moved by application of a voltage bias. A method of manufacture is described comprising of the steps of forming partition walls, filling with dry particles, sealing the particles into cells or compartments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventor: Xiaojia ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20160377951
    Abstract: An electro-optic display may comprise a front electrode having a first opening defined therein, a rear electrode having a second opening defined therein, an electro-optic layer between the front and rear electrodes and a rigid conductive component passing through the first and second openings and electrically contacting the front electrode but not the rear electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventor: George G. Harris
  • Publication number: 20160377952
    Abstract: An electro-optic assembly comprises an adhesive layer and a layer of electro-optic material. The adhesive layer comprises a polymeric adhesive material and an ionic material having either its cation or its anion fixed to the polymeric adhesive material. The ionic material reduces the volume resistivity of the polymeric adhesive material and is not removed upon heating to 50° C. In a similar electro-optic assembly comprising an adhesive layer and a layer of electro-optic material, the adhesive layer comprises a polymeric adhesive material which has been subjected to dialysis or diafiltration to remove organic species having a molecular weight less than about 3,500, so that the adhesive material has a content of N-methylpyrrolidone not exceeding 500 ppm based upon the total weight of the adhesive layer and layer of electro-optic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Thomas H. Whitesides, Lan Cao
  • Publication number: 20160377953
    Abstract: The optical device includes an optical modulator positioned on a base. The modulator includes a ridge extending upward from the base. The ridge includes an electro-absorption medium through which light signals are guided. A thermal conductor is positioned so as to conduct thermal energy away from the ridge. The distance between the thermal conductor and the ridge changes along a length of at least a portion of the ridge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Dazeng Feng, Jacob Levy, Chatchai Bushyakanist, Mohammad Esmaeili Rad
  • Publication number: 20160377954
    Abstract: An acousto-optic device capable of increasing a range of a diffraction angle of output light by using a nanostructured acousto-optic medium, and an optical scanner, an optical modulator, a two-dimensional/three-dimensional (2D/3D) conversion stereoscopic image display apparatus, and a holographic display apparatus using the acousto-optic device. The acousto-optic device may include a nanostructured acousto-optic medium formed by at least two different mediums repeatedly alternating with each other, wherein at least one of the at least two different mediums includes an acousto-optic medium. The acousto-optic device having the aforementioned structure may increase the range of a diffraction angle of output light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung-hoon HAN, In-kyeong YOO, Sang-yoon LEE, Hong-seok LEE, Moon-gyu HAN, Sun-kook KIM
  • Publication number: 20160377955
    Abstract: [Object] To propose a new and improved control device, a control method, and a program, which are capable of controlling a light path length of a resonator to allow resonance in a mode capable of obtaining a laser light of higher strength.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2014
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Goro Fujita, Kenji Tanaka, Kunihiko Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20160377956
    Abstract: A nonlinear nanocomposite optical-element comprising a nanocomposite comprising one or more optically nonlinear (NLO) nanofillers dispersed in a cured organic-matrix. The NLO nanofillers have a high ?(3) susceptibility relative to a linear nanofiller. The distribution of the NLO nanofiller has a nanofiller gradient that changes based on optical radiation intensity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: Vadient Optics, LLC.
    Inventor: George Williams
  • Publication number: 20160377957
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a second harmonic generator and an optical parametric oscillator, the second harmonic generator and the optical parametric oscillator comprise one or more nonlinear optical frequency conversion crystal and a pump laser source, the nonlinear optical frequency conversion crystal is a monoclinic Ga2S3 crystal, the space group of the monoclinic Ga2S3 crystal is Cc, and the unit cell parameters are a=11.1 ?, b=6.4 ?, c=7.0 ?, ?=90°,?=121°, ?=90°, and Z=4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Mingjian ZHANG, Goucong GUO, Huiyi ZENG, Xiaoming JIANG, Yuhang FAN, Binwen LIU
  • Publication number: 20160377958
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a terahertz wave generating apparatus including a terahertz wave generating element including a nonlinear optical crystal that generates a terahertz wave in response to light incident on the nonlinear optical crystal, a coupling member to extract the terahertz wave generated from the nonlinear optical crystal, a photodetector to detect light emitted from the nonlinear optical crystal, and an adjusting unit to adjust the light incident on the nonlinear optical crystal based on a result of detection by the photodetector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventor: Toshihiko Ouchi