Patents Issued in April 18, 2017
  • Patent number: 9625767
    Abstract: Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a system, machine, apparatus, device, manufacture, circuit, composition of matter, and/or user interface adapted for and/or resulting from, and/or a process, method, and/or machine-readable medium comprising machine-implementable instructions for, activities that can comprise and/or relate to, generating a gradient in an index of refraction of a material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignees: e-Vision Smart Optics, Inc., Kent State University
    Inventors: Liwei Li, Anthony Van Heugten, Dwight Duston, Phil Bos, Douglas Bryant
  • Patent number: 9625768
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a pixel structure, a display panel and a display device, wherein the pixel structure includes a first electrode and a second electrode located above the first electrode, at least one of the first electrode and the end electrode is provided with a concave structure in the region at the intersection between the first electrode and the end electrode, so as to increase the distance between the first electrode and the end electrode at the intersection, resulting in that the undesired electric field formed between the end electrode and the first electrode is weakened, namely, the electric field unbeneficial for the pixels to display the white state is weakened, so that the light transmittance of pixels during displaying the white state in an FFS display mode is improved, so as to optimize the display effects of the display panel and the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignees: SHANGHAI AVIC OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kerui Xi, Jianxin Li
  • Patent number: 9625769
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other. The first substrate includes a gate line which defines a gate electrode; a passivation layer on the gate line; a pixel in which are disposed, a pixel electrode and a common electrode which overlap each other with an insulating layer therebetween; and a first auxiliary wire and a second auxiliary wire each disposed between the passivation layer and the insulating layer, the first and second auxiliary wires extended parallel to a direction in which the gate line extends, the extended first and second auxiliary wires spaced apart from each other by a gap. The second substrate includes a column spacer. In a plan view a center point of the column spacer of the second substrate is disposed in the gap between the first auxiliary wire and the second auxiliary wire of the first substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Min-Sik Jung
  • Patent number: 9625770
    Abstract: A display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate and an electrode layer. The first substrate and the second substrate are disposed opposite to each other. The electrode layer is disposed on the first substrate and facing the second substrate, and includes at least a first part and a second part adjacent to the first part. The first part includes a plurality of first branch electrodes disposed along a direction and spaced from each other by a first distance (T). The centers of two adjacent ones of the first branch electrodes are separated by a second distance (P). The first part and the second part have a spacing (S) therebetween. The values of S, T and P satisfy the following equation: 1 2 ? a · ( b + P · m 2 + 1 4 · T 2 P ) - 1.5 ? S ? 1 2 ? a · ( b + P · m 2 + 1 4 · T 2 P ) + 1.5 wherein, a= 1/12, b=¼, m= 1/10, and the units of S, T and P are micrometer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ching-Che Yang, Tsung-Han Tsai, Chao-Hsiang Wang, An-Chang Wang
  • Patent number: 9625771
    Abstract: Pixel electrodes of a display device include plural first pixel electrodes and plural second pixel electrodes which have areas different from each other. Each of plural scanning signal lines is connected with any one of the plural first pixel electrodes and the plural second pixel electrodes through respective transistors. A control circuit applies a first conducting voltage that is a conducting voltage which is applied to the scanning signal lines connected with the first pixel electrodes, and a second conducting voltage that is a conducting voltage which is applied to the scanning signal lines connected with the second pixel electrodes, and different from the first conducting voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Ryo Imai, Gou Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9625772
    Abstract: In an LCD device, the slope angle of a wall surface of a wall structure (wall-surface slope angle) is varied in accordance with the angle formed between the wall structure and an alignment treatment direction (alignment treatment angle). At places where the alignment treatment angle is small, the wall-surface slope angle is made larger; conversely, at places where the alignment treatment angle is large, the wall-surface slope angle is made smaller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Osamu Itou, Takato Hiratsuka, Toshimasa Ishigaki, Daisuke Sonoda
  • Patent number: 9625773
    Abstract: The invention provides a liquid crystal display (LCD), which comprises: back plate; light-guiding plate, disposed on top of back plate; optical film, disposed on top of light-guiding plate; mold frame, connected to back plate to fix optical film and light-guiding plate; LCD panel, disposed on top of mold frame, comprising upper and lower glass substrates disposed oppositely, both glass substrates comprising bottom surface, top surface and side surface connecting top and bottom surfaces; driving chip, flexible circuit board, comprising metal wire and connected to LCD panel; wherein driving chip bonded to flexible circuit board, coupled through metal wire of flexible circuit board to LCD panel; joint of bottom and side surfaces of upper glass substrate disposed with first routing gap, flexible circuit board connected to LCD panel routing through first routing gap. The LCD can effectively hide COF in liquid crystal display to maximize borderless LCD design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Yanxue Zhang
  • Patent number: 9625774
    Abstract: An array substrate, a manufacturing method for the same, and an LCD panel are provided. The array substrate includes a substrate, a first metal layer, a first insulative layer, a semiconductor layer, a second metal layer, a transparent electrode layer, and a second insulative layer. The transparent electrode layer includes a pixel electrode and a reinforcing part. The reinforcing part is disposed on a trace by the transparent electrode layer in the invention, so that the trace located on the second metal layer is more stable and is almost unbreakable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiangyang Xu
  • Patent number: 9625775
    Abstract: A display device includes: a TFT substrate including: a display region including a plurality of pixels; a plurality of source drivers arranged and aligned in a first direction along the display region; and a plurality of gate drivers arranged and aligned in a second direction along the display region; a printed board including a timing controller for controlling the plurality of source drivers and the plurality of gate drivers; and a plurality of flexible boards for connecting the TFT substrate and the printed board to each other, in which the plurality of flexible boards include a plurality of first flexible boards that extend obliquely to one side with respect to the second direction, and a plurality of second flexible boards that extend obliquely to another side with respect to the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yusuke Katagiri, Masaki Tsubokura
  • Patent number: 9625776
    Abstract: The occurrence of a defective orientation of a polymer/liquid crystal composite is suppressed. In addition, the occurrence of defective display of a liquid crystal display device including the polymer/liquid crystal composite is suppressed. In the polymer/liquid crystal composite exhibiting a blue phase, a plurality of domains are included and defective orientations easily occur at boundaries between the domains. Thus, by lowering orientation periodicities at boundaries between the domains, a defect-free orientation to high orientation periodicities at the boundary between adjacent domains can be obtained. Specifically, the polymer/liquid crystal composite exhibiting the blue phase includes the plurality of domains each of which has a size of 3 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Daisuke Kubota
  • Patent number: 9625777
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a substrate, a gate line, a data line, first and second reference voltage lines disposed on the substrate, first and second subpixel electrodes disposed in one pixel area, and first to third switching elements. The first and second reference voltage lines apply first and second reference voltages. The first and second subpixel electrodes include a plate portion and a plurality of branch portions extending from the plate portion. The first and second reference voltage lines include a first portion overlapping the first subpixel electrode and the second subpixel electrode. The first portion overlaps the plate portion of the first and second subpixel electrodes. A voltage difference between the first subpixel electrode and a common voltage is larger than a voltage difference between the second subpixel electrode and the common voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Hee Shin, Youn Hak Jeong, Ho Jun Lee, Yoo Mi Ra, Kee-Bum Park, Hong Min Yoon
  • Patent number: 9625778
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display is provided. A liquid crystal display comprises a first transistor having a gate electrode connected to a scan line, one electrode connected to a data line, and the other electrode connected to a first liquid crystal capacitor, a second transistor having one electrode connected to the data line, and the other electrode connected to a second liquid crystal capacitor through a first node, a third transistor having one electrode connected to the data line, and the other electrode connected to a third liquid crystal capacitor through a second node, a first distribution transistor having one electrode connected to the first node, and the other electrode connected to a sustain line and a second distribution transistor having one electrode connected to the second node, and the other electrode connected to the sustain line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hoon Kim, Su Jeong Kim, Hee Seop Kim, Ki Chul Shin
  • Patent number: 9625779
    Abstract: A display substrate and a method for repairing a lead of a driver integrated circuit. The display substrate comprises: multiple signal leads on the display substrate, at least one driver integrated circuit, at least one repair chip (RC), at least one repair lead, and at least one repair line (13). The RC is connected to the at least one driver integrated circuit, the repair lead is connected to the RC, and the repair line crosses signal lines connected to multiple signal leads, and is insulated from the signal lines. When the signal leads connected to the driver integrated circuit is in poor contact, the repair lead and the repair line (13) are used to replace the signal lead in poor contract, which solves a problem that an existing display substrate cannot repair a signal lead in poor contact in an outer lead region, causing wastes of products, and improving costs of the products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hui Wang, Long Xia
  • Patent number: 9625780
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: a first substrate, a plurality of signal lines positioned on the first substrate, a pixel electrode connected to the signal lines, and a contact hole exposing a portion of the signal line, wherein the pixel electrode includes a cross-shaped stem, a plurality of branch electrodes extending from the cross-shaped stem, and an edge stem connecting the plurality of branch electrodes at an edge of the pixel electrode, and the edge stem of the pixel electrode adjacent to the contact hole being removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kang-Young Lee, Hong Min Yoon, Ho Jun Lee, Youn Hak Jeong, Seung Ki Song, Doo Hwan You, Sung-Jin Lee, Kyung-Suk Jung
  • Patent number: 9625781
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an array substrate, a display panel and a display device. The array substrate includes a display area and a peripheral area surrounding the display area. The peripheral area includes a gate drive circuit which is electrically connected to a plurality of signal lines so as to provide the scanning signals to the display area. The display area includes a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in an array pattern and at least one wiring areas disposed between the sub-pixels, at least one signal line which is electrically connected to the gate drive circuit is provided in the at least one wiring areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignees: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhaokeng Cao, Dandan Qin, Tingting Cui
  • Patent number: 9625782
    Abstract: The composition and method for depositing and processing a solid transparent electrolyte polymerized by ultraviolet (UV) radiation are described. The electrolyte composition includes, at least, an ionic compound, a polymerizable material, a photoinitiator and a polar solvent. The electrolyte is deposited by printing techniques, such as inkjet printing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: YD YNVISIBLE, S.A.
    Inventors: Ana Clara Lopes Marques, Carlos Alberto Pinheiro Baptista, Jorge Araujo
  • Patent number: 9625783
    Abstract: An electrochromic device is structured to selectively heat one or more particular regions of a conductive layer of the electrochromic device. An electrical potential difference can be induced across the conductive layer to heat one or more layer regions. The conductive layer can be one of at least two conductive layers on opposite sides of an electrochromic film stack, and an electrical potential difference can be induced between the conductive layers to cause at least some of the electrochromic film stack to change transmission levels. The conductive layer can include regions with different sheet resistances, so that one or more regions are structured to generate more heat than other regions of the conductive layer when an electrical potential difference is induced across the conductive layer. Separate layer regions can include separate chemical species. The conductive layer can be geometrically structured so that some layer regions have a greater sheet resistance than other regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: SAGE Electrochromics, Inc.
    Inventors: Erik Jon Bjornard, Bryan D. Greer
  • Patent number: 9625784
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of changing color or transmittance of light on a surface part of an object. The surface part of the object includes a solvent and a plurality of particles dispersed in the solvent. When electric field is applied to the solvent and the plurality of particles, the transmittance of color or light on the surface part of the object is changed due to the change of the inter-particle distances or the positions of the particles, according to the magnitude, direction, application time or application frequency of electric field, wherein the magnitude, direction, application time or application frequency of electric field are changed by associating the input signal by the user of the object or the signal acquired by the object or the signal acquired by the sensing unit provided to the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: NANOBRICK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jae Hyun Joo
  • Patent number: 9625785
    Abstract: A photonic device is provided for impressing a modulation pattern on an optical carrier. The device includes a unit in which a photodetector and an optical microresonator are monolithically integrated. The device further includes an optical waveguide evanescently coupled to the optical microresonator and having at least an upstream portion configured to carry at least one optical carrier toward the microresonator. The optical microresonator is tunable so as to resonate with the optical carrier frequency. The optical microresonator and the photodetector are mutually coupled such that in operation, charge carriers photogenerated in the photodetector are injected into the microresonator, where the photocurrent changes the resonant conditions. In some embodiments the device is operable as an optical-to-optical frequency converter. In other embodiments the device is operable as an oscillator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Sandia Corporation
    Inventors: William A. Zortman, Anthony L. Lentine
  • Patent number: 9625786
    Abstract: Surveillance networks are used to observe large areas, like public places, streets, public buildings or private houses, privates premises etc. The surveillance networks often comprise a plurality of surveillance cameras. Such surveillance cameras should be small, robust, trouble-free and have low-maintenance requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Antonius Maria Rijken, Bastiaan Rothengatter
  • Patent number: 9625787
    Abstract: A focus detection apparatus for performing a focus detection on the basis of pixel data of an object obtained from an imaging unit having pupil dividing means of a photographing optical system, Sets a focus detection area divided into division areas and a plurality of different first areas for deciding a focus state in the focus detection area, arithmetically operates first correlation data from the pixel data with respect to the object image of each division area to hold into a memory, adds the first correlation data of the division areas included in each first area read out from the memory, generates second correlation data of each first area, And discriminates focus states of a plurality of first areas in predetermined order on the basis of the second correlation data of each first area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideaki Sambonsugi
  • Patent number: 9625788
    Abstract: A flash illumination device for use with an electronic apparatus is provided and includes a connection unit and at least one organic light-emitting diode unit. The electronic apparatus includes a video shooting component or a display screen. The connection unit electrically connects with the electronic apparatus. The organic light-emitting diode unit is coated on a lateral surface of the connection unit and electrically connected to the electronic apparatus through the connection unit. The organic light-emitting diode unit starts under the control of the electronic apparatus and emits instantaneous light or persistent light, which is conductive to low power consumption and characterized by surface emission, while the video shooting component is capturing an image, so as to provide supplemental lighting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Inventor: Michael Chau-Lun Chang
  • Patent number: 9625789
    Abstract: Provided is an imaging device (1) having: a front optical system (10) that transmits light from an object; a spectral filter array (20) that transmits light from the front optical system (10) via a plurality of spectral filters; a small lens array (30) that transmits the light from the plurality of spectral filters via a plurality of small lenses respectively, and forms a plurality of object images; a picture element (50) that captures the plurality of object images respectively; and an image processor (60) that determines two-dimensional spectral information on the object images based on image signals output from the picture element (50). The front optical system (10) is configured to transmit the light from the focused object to collimate the light into a parallel luminous flux.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Katsunuma, Kenichi Kodama
  • Patent number: 9625790
    Abstract: An essentially flat support base plate for mounting a piece of photographic equipment such as a photographic tripod head (camera mount) or camera. A preferred embodiment includes an aluminum base plate assembly formed with at least one threaded stud which is sized to fit into corresponding holes in selected pieces of photographic equipment. The stud is made of a non-ferrous material, such as titanium, to enable the plate and stud to be black anodized. The threaded stud is preferably welded in place to ensure that the stud is firmly and permanently attached to the base plate and cannot rotate independently of the plate. A base plate so formed has an elegant and aesthetically pleasing appearance and the base plate can be attached to or detached from any selected piece of equipment plate without the use of any tools (i.e., to make it tool free).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Inventor: Larry J. Tiefenbrunn
  • Patent number: 9625791
    Abstract: A swivel camera mount is configured to attach a camera to a mount base which, in turn, may be secured to sport equipment, musical instruments, vehicles, and the like. The swivel camera mount includes an inner rotating component that couples to a camera or camera housing and allows a user to rotate a camera within a horizontal plane. The inner rotating component is securely coupled within an outer sleeve component by a coupling mechanism that allows the swivel camera mount and a coupled camera or camera housing to couple to the mount base. Additionally, the outer sleeve component includes protrusions that allow the swivel mount component to pivot in one or more vertical planes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventor: Ryan Harrison
  • Patent number: 9625792
    Abstract: This application discloses a camera including a holding element and a base assembly. The holding element further includes a camera portion for holding a camera sensor, an extended portion that extends from the camera portion, and a fastener structure coupled to an end of the extended portion. The base assembly further includes a base shaped to rest against a supporting surface, and a joint structure configured to mate with the fastener structure. The fastener structure and the joint structure are configured to provide a first degree of freedom of motion and a second degree of freedom of motion of the holding element with respect to the base. The movement of the receiving element at the first degree of freedom is unlimited in a first direction of travel, and the movement of the receiving element at the second degree of freedom is limited in a second direction of travel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Adam Scott Kilgore, Adam Duckworth Mittleman
  • Patent number: 9625793
    Abstract: A mounting apparatus, able to maintain the relative position of a camera during rotations between portrait and landscape presentations of an electronic device, includes a camera. The mounting apparatus is mounted to an electronic device, which has a display screen. When the electronic device is rotated from a first presentation state to a second presentation state, the camera remains in position above the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignees: HONG FU JIN PRECISION INDUSTRY (ShenZhen) CO., LTD., HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cheng-Yi Lai, Tzu-Hsiu Hung
  • Patent number: 9625794
    Abstract: A portable studio for item photography is developed as a closed container whose base (1), sides (2) with covers (3) and rotating table (4) are immobile and interconnected, and with a movable, rotating housing (5) with a holder (7) for attaching the photographic camera. There is a rotating table (4) inside the housing and light sources (14) in the housing. The housing consists of two coaxial surfaces—outer (5) and inner (6), in a shape approximating a cylinder, between which the light sources (14) are distributed horizontally and in sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: ORBITVU Sp. z o.o.
    Inventor: Tomasz Bochenek
  • Patent number: 9625795
    Abstract: A wavelength conversion element includes a disk, a wavelength conversion layer disposed above a first surface of the disk, and a reflecting layer disposed between the disk and the wavelength conversion layer, and Formula 1 is fulfilled. ?d?w(r0)/dr<d?s(r0)/dr??(Formula 1) where, assuming that a circular polar coordinate system having the rotational center as an origin is set on a plane parallel to the first surface of the disk, r: moving radius in the circular polar coordinate system, r0: radius of the disk, ?s(r): thermal resistance of thermal paths passing through inside and a surface of the disk between a point with the moving radius r on the first surface of the disk and an entire surface of the disk, and ?w(r): thermal resistance of the wavelength conversion layer in a thickness direction of the wavelength conversion layer at the moving radius r.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira Egawa
  • Patent number: 9625796
    Abstract: A dual retention apparatus comprises: a locking pin; a pin retaining device, the pin slidable therein, comprising: a starting pin position; a pin locking mechanism; a partial pin locking mechanism; a pin path from the starting pin position to the pin locking mechanism, the partial pin locking mechanism located on the pin path and configured to prevent the pin from sliding back towards the starting pin position and allowing the pin to slide towards the pin locking mechanism, the pin locking mechanism configured to lock the pin therein; and a pin return path from the pin locking mechanism to the starting position, the pin return path bypassing the partial pin locking mechanism; and, a biasing device configured to relatively bias the pin along at least a portion of the pin path towards the pin locking mechanism, and further bias the pin into the pin locking mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: CHRISTIE DIGITAL SYSTEMS USA, INC.
    Inventors: Lee Priest, Dustin Teschke, David Graff
  • Patent number: 9625797
    Abstract: A projection optical device to project an image on a projection plane, includes a reflection mirror, a plurality of projection lenses, a projection lens supporting member to support the plurality of projection lenses, and a position-arrangement member provided at the projection lens supporting member to arrange the reflection mirror at a predefined position on the projection lens supporting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Tsuchiya, Tetsuya Fujioka, Hideo Kanai, Masamichi Yamada, Yasunari Mikutsu, Naoyuki Ishikawa, Akihisa Mikawa, Yukimi Nishi
  • Patent number: 9625798
    Abstract: There is provided a light source unit including a first light source, a second light source, a first heat sink for the first light source which is disposed to a side of the first light source, a second heat sink for the second light source which is disposed to a side of the second light source, and a first cooling fan which is disposed between the first heat sink and the second heat sink, wherein the first light source and the first heat sink are connected together by a first heat pipe via a bulkhead, and wherein the second light source and the second heat sink are connected together by a second heat pipe via the bulkhead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toshifumi Kase
  • Patent number: 9625799
    Abstract: A projection display system includes: an image projection device projecting an image on a projection surface; an optical detecting device; and an attaching device, wherein the optical detecting device includes an irradiating section emitting an irradiation light toward a detection region which is set along the projection surface, a light receiving section receiving a reflected light generated as a result of the irradiation light being reflected from the object, and a detecting section detecting position information of the object based on the result of the light received by the light receiving section, and the attaching device includes a first attaching section attached to a support supporting the attaching device, a second attaching section attached to the image projection device, and a third attaching section attached to the optical detecting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kanechika Kiyose, Yasunori Onishi
  • Patent number: 9625800
    Abstract: A light source unit includes one or more solid-state light sources and a light collecting optical system. The one or more solid-state light sources are arranged on a rear side of an output portion and each output light in a predetermined wavelength range along the same direction as an optical-axis direction. The output portion includes a light emitter that is excited by the light in the predetermined wavelength range with a predetermined direction as the optical-axis direction to emit visible light in a wavelength range longer than the predetermined wavelength range. The output portion is also capable of outputting light containing the light in the predetermined wavelength range and the visible light from the light emitter along the optical-axis direction. The light collecting optical system collects the light in the predetermined wavelength range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Takamatsu, Yoshihisa Aikoh
  • Patent number: 9625801
    Abstract: A projection-type display apparatus includes a light source unit, a first optical system that rays from the light source unit enter, a second optical system that rays from the first optical system enter, an image display device that rays from the second optical system enter, and a projection lens that magnifies and projects an optical image formed by rays that have been optically modulated by the image display device onto a screen. The second optical system is configured to pass again the rays that have been output from the image display device, and to make the rays enter the projection lens. The first optical system includes at least one reflective optical element, and the second optical element consists essentially of two positive lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Baba
  • Patent number: 9625802
    Abstract: The present invention provides a woven textile projection display screen including a projection display region wherein the projection display region has two or more interwoven yarns and each yarn in the projection display region includes metal. The projection display region is optically transparent in use. The invention further includes a projection apparatus including the woven textile projection display screen and one or more projectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Inventor: Stuart Warren-Hill
  • Patent number: 9625803
    Abstract: A screen is provided with microcapsules and a base material. The microcapsules each contain encapsulated liquid inside a capsule membrane. The microcapsules are planarly arranged on the base material. The encapsulated liquid includes light diffusion particles for scattering light, and a dispersion medium for dispersing the light diffusion particles. In a cross sectional area of the microcapsule projected in the direction perpendicular to the surface of the base material on which the microcapsules are planarly arranged, the ratio of the area of the encapsulated region to the area of the microcapsule ranges from 0.9025 to 0.990.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru Okagaki, Jun Kondo, Kuniko Kojima, Yuzo Nakano, Akihisa Miyata
  • Patent number: 9625804
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a projector clustering method including the steps of: (a) arranging projection areas of a plurality of projectors to be overlapped with each other; (b) setting a reference projector among the plurality of projectors; and (c) calculating relative transformation information between the reference projector and the other projectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: CJ CGV CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hwan Chul Kim, Su Ryeon Kang, Jihyung Kang
  • Patent number: 9625805
    Abstract: The present invention is a reflective mask blank used to fabricate a reflective mask, which has a laminated structure of a multilayer reflective film, an absorber film and an etching mask film in this order on a substrate, wherein the etching mask film comprises a material containing chromium, the absorber film comprises a material containing tantalum, a highly oxidized layer is formed on the surface layer of the absorber film on the opposite side from the substrate, and a Ta 4f narrow spectrum of the highly oxidized layer when analyzed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy has a maximum peak at a binding energy of more than 23 eV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuya Sakai, Ryo Ohkubo, Osamu Nozawa, Toshiyuki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9625806
    Abstract: Provided is a mask blank in which uniformity of the composition and optical characteristics of a phase-shift film in the in-plane direction and direction of film thickness is high, uniformity of the composition and optical characteristics of the phase-shift film between a plurality of substrates is also high, and defectivity is low even if a silicon-based material is applied to the material that forms the phase-shift film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Nozawa, Hiroaki Shishido, Kazuya Sakai
  • Patent number: 9625807
    Abstract: Provided are a mask blank for which worsening of flatness has been inhibited, a transfer mask, a method of manufacturing a mask blank, a method of manufacturing a transfer mask, and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device using this transfer mask. The mask blank is a mask blank provided with a thin film on a main surface of a glass substrate, wherein the glass substrate has a hydrogen content of less than 7.4×1018 molecules/cm3, the thin film is made of a material containing tantalum and being substantially free of hydrogen, and the thin film is formed in contact with the main surface of the glass substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Shishido, Atsushi Kominato, Osamu Nozawa, Toshiharu Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 9625808
    Abstract: Methods and tools for repairing a semiconductor mask are provided. The method includes steps of positioning the semiconductor mask within a repair chamber including a repair tool, supplying a first gas and a second gas into the repair chamber. The first gas includes a repair material for repairing a defect on the mask, and the second gas includes a polar gas and assists deposition of the repair material on the semiconductor mask. The method further includes steps of activating the repair tool such that the repair tool interacts with the first and second gases to deposit the repair material at the site of the defect to repair the semiconductor mask and removing the repaired semiconductor mask from the repair chamber. A dimension of the deposited repair material is less than about 32 nanometers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yen-Kai Huang, Yuan-Chih Chu
  • Patent number: 9625809
    Abstract: A method and system for fracturing or mask data preparation or optical proximity correction or proximity effect correction or mask process correction is disclosed in which a set of shaped beam shots is determined that is capable of forming a pattern on a surface, where the set of shots provides different dosages to different parts of the pattern, and where the dose margin from the set of shots is calculated. A method for forming patterns on a surface is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: D2S, Inc.
    Inventors: Akira Fujimura, Harold Robert Zable
  • Patent number: 9625810
    Abstract: Methods and systems for source multiplexing illumination for mask inspection are disclosed. Such illumination systems enable EUV sources of small brightness to be used for EUV mask defect inspection at nodes below the 22 nm. Utilizing the multiple plane or conic mirrors that are either attached to a continuously rotating base with different angles or individually rotating to position for each pulse, the reflected beams may be directed through a common optical path. The light may then be focused by a condenser to an EUV mask. The reflected and scattered light from the mask may then be imaged by some imaging optics onto some sensors. The mask image may be subsequently processed for defect information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: KLA-Tencor Corporation
    Inventors: Daimian Wang, Daniel Wack, Damon F. Kvamme, Tao-Yi Fu
  • Patent number: 9625811
    Abstract: An object provided with a particular alignment arrangement for use in aligning the object and a further object with respect to each other is disclosed. The alignment arrangement includes a first fine alignment mark in the form of a substantially regular grating, and a second coarse alignment mark located in the same area as the first alignment mark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.
    Inventors: Sander Frederik Wuister, Arie Jeffrey Den Boef, Yvonne Wendela Kruijt-Stegeman
  • Patent number: 9625812
    Abstract: The photosensitive resin composition of the present invention contains a vinyl-based (co)polymer (I) obtained by polymerizing a monomer mixture (?) containing a vinyl-based monomer (a) having a phenolic hydroxyl group, a vinyl-based copolymer (II) having a weight-average molecular weight of 15,000 to 120,000, obtained by polymerizing a monomer mixture (?) containing a vinyl-based monomer (b) represented by CH2?CR1COO(R2O)kR3 (wherein R1=a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, R2=a hydrocarbon group having a carbon number of 1 to 4, R3=a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and k=1 to 90) and a carboxyl group-containing vinyl-based monomer (c), a photosensitive substance (III), and a compound (IV) which is a specific aromatic polyhydroxy compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: MICRO PROCESS INC.
    Inventors: Akifumi Ueda, Hidetaka Nakagawara, Shintaro Okada, Saki Fujita, Kazuo Watanabe, Shigeki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9625813
    Abstract: A chemical amplification resist composition contains: (A) a polymer compound having a structure where a hydrogen atom of a phenolic hydroxyl group is replaced by a group having a non-acid-decomposable polycyclic alicyclic hydrocarbon structure; and (B) a compound capable of generating an acid upon irradiation with an actinic ray or radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Tomotaka Tsuchimura, Tadateru Yatsuo
  • Patent number: 9625814
    Abstract: Provided are a photosensitive resin composition which is excellent in a moisture and heat resistance and provides a cured product thereof with a high elastic modulus at high temperature and which is excellent as well in a hollow structure holding property and a photosensitive film prepared by using the same, a forming method for a rib pattern, a hollow structure and a forming method for the same and an electronic component. In an electronic component having a hollow structure, a photosensitive resin composition is used as a rib material or a cover material for forming the hollow structure described above, and it is characterized by using a photosensitive resin composition containing (A) a photopolymerizable compound having at least one ethylenically unsaturated group and (B) a photopolymerization initiator and a photosensitive film obtained from the above photosensitive resin composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi Chemical Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sadaaki Katou, Junichi Kamei
  • Patent number: 9625815
    Abstract: Self-aligned via and plug patterning for back end of line (BEOL) interconnects are described. In an example, a structure for directed self-assembly includes a substrate and a block co-polymer structure disposed above the substrate. The block co-polymer structure has a polystyrene (PS) component and a polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) component. One of the PS component or the PMMA component is photosensitive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Paul A. Nyhus, Eungnak Han, Swaminathan Sivakumar, Ernisse S. Putna
  • Patent number: 9625816
    Abstract: A photoresist polymer comprising a first repeating unit including a halogen donor group and a second repeating unit including a protecting group connected by a sulfide bond.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Park, Hyun-Woo Kim, Jin-Kyu Han