Patents Issued in August 21, 2018
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Patent number: 10054778Abstract: A microscopy system that includes a first laser emitting a first laser pulse along a first beam line, the first laser pulse being a Gaussian pump beam; and a second laser emitting a second laser pulse along a second beam line, the second laser pulse being a probe beam, the Gaussian pump beam and the probe beam being delivered to a sample at right angles to each other allowing the Gaussian pump beam to shrink a focal axial diameter of the second beam line thereby enabling dipole-like backscatter stimulated emission along the second beam line.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2017Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Inventor: Robert David Frankel
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Patent number: 10054779Abstract: An apochromatic microscope objective, including three optical sub-systems, wherein starting from the object plane, the first sub-system includes a meniscus and a convergent lens, wherein the meniscus is curved towards the object plane, the second sub-system is made up of three elements, wherein a first element includes a meniscus or a cemented element, a second element is configured as a collecting cemented element and a third element is a cemented element, and wherein either the first element or the third element is strongly scattering and the third sub-system has at least one cemented element with a collecting lens.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2015Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbHInventor: Rolf Wartmann
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Patent number: 10054780Abstract: A microscope including an imaging objective for imaging a sample on a detector and means for illuminating the sample with a light sheet in the focus plane of the imaging objective. The illumination means includes an illumination source which emits coherent light, and Bessel optics which generate at least two plane waves from the light beam and give propagation directions for the plane waves. The propagation direction of each of the plane waves encloses an acute angle with the focus plane in each instance, the magnitude of the acute angle being identical for each of the plane waves, so that the plane waves undergo constructive interference in the focus plane so that a light sheet is generated. Similarly, the illumination means can also include an optical element by which a rotationally symmetric Bessel beam is generated from the light beam for dynamic generation of a light sheet.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2014Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbHInventors: Helmut Lippert, Ralf Wolleschensky, Alexander Rohrbach, Florian Fahrbach
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Patent number: 10054781Abstract: A microscope apparatus includes a detection optical system that detects fluorescence produced in a specimen immersed in a medium having a different refractive index from air and accommodated in a container and acquires a fluorescence image. An illumination device focuses excitation light emitted from an excitation-light source, in the form of a plane along a plane intersecting an optical axis of the detection optical system and makes the planar excitation light incident on the specimen in the container. A driving unit moves the specimen in a direction of an optical axis of a cylindrical lens. An illumination control unit adjusts a focal position of the illumination device based on a movement amount of the specimen moved by the driving unit such that an air-equivalent length along an optical path of the excitation light from the illumination device to the optical axis of the detection optical system remains constant.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Go Ryu
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Patent number: 10054782Abstract: An imaging microscope for spectrally analyzing a sample includes (i) a laser source that generates an interrogation beam; (ii) an attenuated total reflection assembly that includes an ATR crystal and a sample holder that holds the sample in intimate contact with the ATR crystal; (iii) an objective lens assembly that collects a reflected beam and focuses the reflected beam; and (iv) a two dimensional image sensor that receives the focused, reflected beam and captures two dimensional image information that is used to generate an image of the sample, the image sensor being operable in the mid-infrared range.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: DAYLIGHT SOLUTIONS, INCInventors: Jeremy Rowlette, Eric Kim
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Patent number: 10054783Abstract: An endoscope objective optical system includes an optical-path deflecting prism group and a lens group. A visual-field direction of the endoscope objective optical system is variable by moving a prism in the optical-path deflecting prism group. The optical-path deflecting prism group includes, in order from an object side, a first prism, a second prism, and a third prism, which are disposed to be in mutual proximity. The visual-field direction is variable to a first direction by the first prism undergoing a rotational movement with respect to the second prism, and the visual-field direction is variable to a second direction which differs from the first direction, by the first prism and the second prism undergoing rotational movement integrally with respect to the third prism.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2017Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Kazuo Morita
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Patent number: 10054784Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electrowetting device. An emulsion is dispensed on a surface of a first support plate comprising an electrode. The emulsion comprises a first fluid dispersed in a second fluid immiscible with the first fluid, and, dispersed within the first fluid, a third fluid immiscible with the first fluid. The method includes coalescing the first fluid to form a layer of the first fluid on the surface of the first support plate.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2015Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Lucia Marra
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Patent number: 10054785Abstract: An electrowetting element comprises a first fluid and a second fluid immiscible with the first fluid. A first support plate comprises a first substrate; an electrode; and a layer in contact with at least one of the first fluid or the second fluid. A second support plate comprises a second substrate. One of the first support plate or the second support plate comprises a resist structure protruding in a direction towards the other one of the first support plate or the second support plate. The resist structure comprises a polymer nanocomposite material.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2015Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Iren Fischer, Romaric Mathieu Massard, Gerben Boon, Bokke Johannes Feenstra
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Patent number: 10054786Abstract: The disclosure relates to a correction light device for the irradiation of optical elements of an optical arrangement, in particular a lens, such a microlithography lens having a correction light, which include at least one correction light source and at least one mirror arrangement that deflects the light from the correction light source in the beam path to the optical element such that at least part of at least one surface of at least one optical element of the optical arrangement are irradiated in a locally and/or temporally variable fashion. The correction light strikes the surface of the optical element at a flat angle such that the obtuse angle between the optical axis of the optical arrangement at the location of the optical element and the correction light beam is less than or equal to 105°.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbHInventors: Sascha Bleidistel, Manfred Maul
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Patent number: 10054787Abstract: In an electro-optical device, a mirror and the like which is formed on an element substrate is sealed using a sealing member. The sealing member is provided with a frame section and a cover section. In addition, the sealing member is provided on one face of the element substrate so that the mirror is surrounded by the element substrate and the sealing member and such that the mirror is positioned between a portion of the cover section and the element substrate. The sealing member is formed of a light-transmitting member having a frame section and a cover section which are integrally formed, and there is no interface between the frame section and the cover section.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2017Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Suguru Uchiyama, Terunao Hanaoka
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Patent number: 10054788Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for transparent displays that are well-suited for use in wearable heads-up displays are described. Such transparent displays include a light source that sequentially generates pixels or other discrete portions of an image. Respective modulated light signals corresponding to the respective pixels/portions are sequentially directed towards at least one dynamic reflector positioned on a lens of the transparent display within the user's field of view. The dynamic reflector (such as a MEMS-based digital micromirror) scans the modulated light signals directly over the user's eye and into the user's field of view. Successive portions of the image are generated in rapid succession until the entire image is displayed to the user.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2017Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Thalmic Labs Inc.Inventors: Matthew Bailey, Stefan Alexander
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Patent number: 10054789Abstract: An optical lens module includes a lens assembly and a plastic barrel. The lens assembly includes a plurality of lens elements and is disposed in the plastic barrel. The plastic barrel includes an object-end portion, an image-end portion, an outer tube portion, an inner tube portion and at least one reflection reduction area. The image-end portion includes an image-end opening. The inner tube portion includes a plurality of parallel inner surfaces and a plurality of inclined inner surfaces, wherein the parallel inner surfaces are parallel to the central axis, and each of the inclined inner surfaces has an angle with the central axis. The reflection reduction area is disposed on one of the inclined inner surfaces closest to the image-end opening, wherein the reflection reduction area and the plastic barrel are integrally formed by an injection molding method.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2017Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.Inventors: Ming-Ta Chou, Cheng-Feng Lin
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Patent number: 10054790Abstract: Provided is imaging optical system, including: a first lens array including a plurality of lens rows each having a plurality of lenses arrayed in main array direction, the plurality of lens rows arranged in sub-array direction; and a second lens array including a plurality of lens rows each having a plurality of lenses arrayed in main array direction, the plurality of lens rows being arranged in sub-array direction. The imaging optical system forms an erect image of object in main array cross section, and forms an inverted image of object in sub-array cross section. At least one of first and second lens arrays includes at least one of a scattering and light-shielding portions arranged between adjacent lens rows. D/Rs?0.2 is satisfied, where D represents length of at least one of scattering and light-shielding portions in sub-array direction, and Rs represents an effective diameter of imaging optical system in sub-array direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2017Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Noa Sumida, Yu Miyajima
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Patent number: 10054791Abstract: An imaging lens is constituted by, in order from the object side to the image side: a negative first lens having a concave surface toward the image side; a positive second lens having a convex surface toward the image side; a negative third lens having a concave surface toward the image side; a positive biconvex fourth lens; a positive biconvex fifth lens; and a negative sixth lens having a concave surface toward the object side. Conditional Formula (1) related to the radius of curvature R3 of the surface of the second lens toward the object side and the focal length f of the entire lens system is satisfied: R3/f<0??(1).Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Masao Mori
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Patent number: 10054792Abstract: A windshield for a motor vehicle with a display unit is disclosed. The windshield is realized in the form of a laminated glass pane with at least an outer pane, an inner pane and an intermediate compound foil. The display unit is arranged between the outer pane and the inner pane, wherein the display unit features a flexible printed circuit and at least one display element arranged on the flexible printed circuit, as well as a secondary coil. The secondary coil is designed for making available electrical energy, which is inductively coupled into the secondary coil, in order to supply the display unit with energy. The present disclosure furthermore relates to a system, as well as a motor vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Peter Brandt, Heiko Charle, Georg Bauer, Rolf Mitschke, Peter Kahler
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Patent number: 10054793Abstract: A holographic display apparatus includes a spatial light modulator configured to generate hologram patterns to modulate light; an illuminator configured to emit the light to the spatial light modulator; and a controller configured to control operations of the spatial light modulator and the illuminator, the spatial light modulator being configured to generate, from among the hologram patterns, a first hologram pattern and a second hologram pattern according to the control operations of the controller, the first hologram pattern and the second hologram pattern being configured to form a first hologram image and a second hologram image having different viewpoints, and the controller being configured to set a first phase modulation value of the first hologram pattern and a second phase modulation value of the second hologram pattern to be different from each other such that hologram images having different viewpoints are formed.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2015Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jungkwuen An, Geeyoung Sung, Sunil Kim, Hongseok Lee, Chilsung Choi
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Patent number: 10054794Abstract: Provided is an optical scanner including a movable portion, a frame body portion, a first axis portion that connects the movable portion and the frame body portion and oscillatably supports the movable portion around a first oscillation axis, a support portion, and a second axis portion that connects the frame body portion and the support portion and oscillatably supports the frame body portion around a second oscillation axis, in which, when a distance between an end portion of the movable portion in a direction following the second oscillation axis and the frame body portion is defined as L1, and a distance between an end portion of the frame body portion in a direction following the first oscillation axis and the support portion is defined as L3, a relationship corresponding to 1<L1/L3<5 is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2017Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Makiko Hino, Yasushi Mizoguchi
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Patent number: 10054795Abstract: An image display apparatus includes: an image forming device; an optical system converting light emitted from the image forming device into parallel light; and an optical device to which the light beams converted into the parallel light by the optical system enter, in which the light beams are guided, and from which the light beams are emitted, wherein a central light beam emitted from the center of the image forming device, passing through the nodal point of the optical system and entering the optical device at an optical device center point intersects an XY plane defined by an X axis that passes through the optical device center point, and is parallel to the axis direction of the optical device and a Y axis that passes through the optical device center point, and coincides with the normal axis of the optical device at angles other than 0 degree.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Hiroshi Mukawa
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Patent number: 10054796Abstract: A display method is provided using a display that is operable to display an image to a viewer. The display method includes detecting one or both of an initial position and/or orientation of the viewer's head, and generating an image for display according to the detected position and/or orientation. A current position and/or orientation of the viewer's head are detected at a time at which the image is to be displayed. The method also includes re-projecting the generated image according to any differences between the initial position and/or orientation and the current position and/or orientation of the viewer's head, and displaying the re-projected image using the display.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2014Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe LimitedInventors: Ian Henry Bickerstaff, Simon Mark Benson, Oliver Mark Wright, Sharwin Winesh Raghoebardajal
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Patent number: 10054797Abstract: A head mounted display (HMD) includes a first display portion included in the HMD, the first display portion having a first pixel density, a second display portion included in the HMD, the second display portion having the first pixel density, a third display portion attached to the HMD, the third display portion having a second pixel density, and at least one image combiner configured to combine two images by reflecting an image projected by the first display portion and the second display portion and allowing an image projected by the third display portion to pass through the at least one image combiner.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Google LLCInventor: Mark Bradley Spitzer
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Patent number: 10054798Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a light-emitting portion that emits fluorescence in response to excitation light incident on a surface of the light-emitting portion, and a reflector that defines a light-emitting region on the surface of the light-emitting portion, the fluorescence being emitted from the light-emitting region. The excitation light has a top-hat energy intensity distribution on the surface of the light-emitting portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomohiro Sakaue, Koji Takahashi, Yoshiyuki Takahira, Yosuke Maemura
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Patent number: 10054799Abstract: A lens driving device including a first lens driving unit for auto focusing, and a second lens driving unit for handshake correction is proposed, the lens driving device including a base, a holder member mounted with a magnet and positioned at an upper side of the base by being spaced apart from the base at a predetermined distance, a plurality of support members configured to elastically support the holder member relative to the base, an upper stopper protrusively formed at an upper surface of the holder member, and a bottom stopper protrusively formed at a bottom surface of the holder member to form a shock point between the base and the holder member when there is generated a shock.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Sang Ok Park, Sang Jun Min, Kyoung Ho Yoo
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Patent number: 10054800Abstract: A lens drive apparatus includes a damper compound that is disposed between at least one protrusion and a fixed member and that suppresses undesired resonance of an auto-focusing lens driving section in a direction of an optical axis. The at least one protrusion protrudes from a magnet holder in the direction of the optical axis toward the fixed member and is inserted into at least one hole of a leaf spring provided to the auto-focusing lens driving section.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2017Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Keiichi Sato, Makoto Ariji, Masayoshi Sugawara, Akihiro Moriya
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Patent number: 10054801Abstract: Process for mounting an elastic hinge on an eyeglass frame, which provides for fixing a first pivot element to a first component of an eyeglass frame, for fixing a second pivot element to a second component of the eyeglass frame, and for engaging a hinge pin within first holes of the first pivot element and within second holes of the second pivot element, wherein a thinned portion of the hinge pin interferes with two head portions of the first pivot element in order to align the first holes of the first pivot element with the second holes of the second pivot element.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: VISOTTICA INDUSTRIE S.P.A.Inventor: Rinaldo Montalban
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Patent number: 10054802Abstract: A method and system for generating a three-dimensional model of a contact lens with a front and a back surface, in which the entire back surface consists of an array of independent data points shaped to conform to three-dimensional data provided by an ocular topographer. The sampling density is sufficiently high to characterize anomalies or injuries anywhere in the eye to optimize comfort and fit. The methods and systems also include modeling a scleral lens which rests either solely on the sclera, or straddles the limbus extending partially into the cornea is described. The resting surface conforms to the topology of the underlying ocular surface with topology guiding the design. Additional methods and systems model scleral lens optics without the use of trial lenses. The lens models can be used to machine or 3D print a lens that fits the patient. Such lenses benefit patients that suffer from dry eyes or whose eyes are not normally dry, but feel dry after wearing conventional contact lenses.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2017Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Eydeal Scanning, LLCInventors: Robert P. Bishop, Michael T. Sullivan, Steve Auger
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Patent number: 10054803Abstract: Certain filters have been found to enhance color discrimination for individuals with color vision deficiency (CVD), aka color-blind individuals. The filters generally include a multilayer optical film with a strong, narrow reflection band in part of the green region of the visible spectrum. The film has an average internal transmission from 420-680 nm of at least 50%, 60%, or 70%, and an average internal transmission?10%, 5%, 2%, or 1% over a 10 nm wide range that includes 550 nm associated with a reflection band having a width (FWHM) of 60 nm or 50 nm or less. The filter may include a magenta layer disposed on a viewer side of the multilayer optical film to reduce glare, the magenta layer selectively absorbing green light. The magenta layer combined with the multilayer optical film may provide a rejection band whose width (FWHM) is 60 nm or less.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2014Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANYInventors: Chad R. Wold, Michael F. Weber
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Patent number: 10054804Abstract: A tether which passes through a hole in the eyeglass frame front or a hole affixed to the eyeglass frame front above either of the two lenses near the frame extension hinge. One end of the tether is held to the eyeglasses by a knot, bead, or protrusion which keeps it from passing through the hole in the eyeglass frame. The other end of the tether is attached to the clothing of the wearer. A gentle and secure removable, reusable, tension actuated tether coupling device for frame front of eyeglasses.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2014Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Inventor: Roy Howard Langford
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Patent number: 10054805Abstract: The invention provides flash imaging devices that include an optical change component that undergoes a change in response to an applied stimulus, a substrate and a stimulus element. Also provided are articles that include the subject devices, as well as methods of making and using the same.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: SEGAN INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventor: Hans O. Ribi
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Patent number: 10054806Abstract: Systems and methods therefor relating generally to electro-absorption modulation are disclosed. In a system thereof, a waveguide is for propagating an optical signal. A segmented electro-absorption modulator (“SEAM”) includes: a segmented anode having at least two anode segments spaced apart from one another alongside a first side of the waveguide; and a segmented cathode having at least two cathode segments spaced apart from one another alongside a second side of the waveguide corresponding to the at least two anode segments.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: XILINX, INC.Inventors: Sen Lin, Kun-Yung Chang, Austin H. Lesea
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Patent number: 10054807Abstract: In an electro-optical module, a first transparent plate is provided on a second surface of a first substrate of an electro-optical panel. A size of the first transparent plate is smaller than that of the first substrate, and the first substrate includes a protrusion surface protruding from the first transparent plate. In the frame made of metal that accommodates the electro-optical panel and the first transparent plate therein, corner portions bent along the protrusion surface of the first substrate and the side surfaces of the first transparent plate is provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2014Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Hidekazu Hirabayashi
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Patent number: 10054808Abstract: A display chassis including a bottom part having a curved surface, a first sidewall and a second sidewall extending from opposite ends of the bottom part and facing each other, and shape maintaining parts configured to maintain shapes of the first sidewall and the second sidewall and contacting the first sidewall and the second sidewall, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2015Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yong Il Kim
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Patent number: 10054809Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is provided. The liquid crystal display device includes a plastic frame, used to install a liquid crystal display panel. A color of the plastic frame changes from white to black, from a side close to the liquid crystal layer to a side far from the liquid crystal layer, to prevent light leaking. The color of the plastic frame changes gradually from white to black from inside to outside, so as to reduce a thickness of the plastic frame while preventing light leaking.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shihhsiang Chen, Pengbo Xu
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Patent number: 10054810Abstract: A display apparatus includes at least one pixel structure, which includes an active device, an electric insulation layer and a pixel electrode. The electric insulation layer is disposed on the active device. The electric insulation layer has a trench and a via. The via is located on a bottom surface of the trench. A portion of the electric insulation layer surrounding the trench is monolithically connected to another portion of the electric insulation layer surrounding the via. A pixel electrode has a first electrode portion and a second electrode portion connected to each other. The first electrode portion is located in the trench. A thickness of the first electrode portion is less than a depth of the trench. The second electrode portion is located in the via and is electrically connected to the active device through the via.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2017Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.Inventors: Xue-Hung Tsai, Wei-Tsung Chen, Henry Wang, Po-Hsin Lin
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Patent number: 10054811Abstract: A liquid crystal display device having a touch screen and a test method of a touch panel are provided that can prevent a block dim that may occur in a lighting test. The liquid crystal display device includes common voltage probe pads, which are connected to common voltage output pads and are larger than the common voltage output pads, in a non-display area of the touch panel.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2015Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jong Hyun Park, Je Hyung Park
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Patent number: 10054812Abstract: A first substrate includes a plurality of pixel electrodes, a plurality of common electrodes on which slits are disposed at predetermined intervals in a first direction and which extend in a second direction, and a plurality of auxiliary wirings that are in contact with and overlap the common electrodes. A second substrate includes a plurality of spacers, a plurality of wall-like sub-spacers, and a color filter layer in which adjacent pixels have different colors from each other. The wall-like sub-spacers are disposed at positions that overlap the slits.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2017Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Kanae Kobayashi, Shigeo Nakagawa
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Patent number: 10054813Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a liquid crystal capsule layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a first field-generating electrode disposed on a first surface of the first substrate facing the second substrate, a second field-generating electrode disposed on a first surface of the second substrate facing the first substrate, and a first insulating layer disposed between the first field-generating electrode and the liquid crystal capsule layer or between the second field-generating electrode and the liquid crystal capsule layer, wherein the liquid crystal capsule layer includes a conductive buffer layer and a plurality of liquid crystal capsules, which are distributed in the conductive buffer layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO. LTD.Inventors: Hoon Kim, Gee Bum Kim, Ki Chul Shin
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Patent number: 10054814Abstract: The present invention discloses an array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display apparatus. The array substrate comprises a base substrate, and a thin film transistor, a color filter layer and a first passivation layer provided on the base substrate. The surface of the first electrode provided by the present invention is provided with a concave-convex structure that can scatter external incident light, so that incident light from outside is diffusely reflected, thereby avoiding excessive concentration of light and improving external visibility and recognizability of the displayed pictures.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Seungjin Choi
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Patent number: 10054815Abstract: A display device according to an aspect of the present invention includes a first substrate, a second substrate faces the first substrate, and a light shielding layer provided on the second substrate. The second substrate has a slit that splits the light shielding layer into a first frame pattern close to the center of the second substrate and a second frame pattern away from the center. The first substrate includes a light shielding body superimposed on the slit in a region between a display area and a terminal area of the first substrate. The light shielding body includes a plurality of light shielding pieces arranged in an extending direction of the slit. The light shielding pieces adjacent to each other are arranged on different layers via an insulating layer, and are electrically insulated from each other.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Masato Kesho
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Patent number: 10054816Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display method capable of, when a screen thereof is observed through a polarizer such as sunglasses, ensuring an excellent visibility regardless of the angle of observation. In a liquid crystal display device at least having a backlight light source, a liquid crystal cell, and a polarizer disposed on a viewing side of the liquid crystal cell, a white light-emitting diode is used as the backlight light source; and a polymer film having a retardation of from 3,000 nm to 30,000 nm is used so as to be disposed on the viewing side of the polarizer so that an angle between an absorption axis of the polarizer and a slow axis of the polymer film becomes about 45 degrees.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2010Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignees: TOYO BOSEKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KEIO UNIVERSITYInventors: Yasuhiro Koike, Akihiro Tagaya
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Patent number: 10054817Abstract: A reflective display device includes: first and second substrates opposing one another; a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates; a gate line on the first substrate; a gate insulating layer on the gate line; a data line on the gate insulating layer and intersecting the gate line; a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line; a first passivation layer on the data line and the thin film transistor; a reflective electrode on the first passivation layer; a second passivation layer on the reflective electrode; a pixel electrode on the second passivation layer; a common electrode on the second substrate; and a matrix electrode on at least one of the first and second substrates. The matrix electrode defines a pixel area.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Sungin Ro, Sungjin Kim, Seunghyun Park, Ocksoo Son, Jaehak Lee
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Patent number: 10054818Abstract: The present invention provides a mirror plate capable of suppressing the occurrence of orange peel-like unevenness. The mirror plate includes a mirror film including a mirror layer and an adhesive layer; and a substrate. The adhesive layer is attached to one surface of the substrate. The one surface of the substrate has an arithmetic average roughness of less than 0.03 ?m. The mirror film includes no hard coat layer containing cured resin. The thicknesses of the mirror layer and the adhesive layer have a relation satisfying: tA/tM?0.18, where tM represents the thickness of the mirror layer and to represents the thickness of the adhesive layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2015Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akira Sakai, Masahiro Hasegawa, Hiroyuki Hakoi, Kiyoshi Minoura
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Patent number: 10054819Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes an insulating substrate, a wavelength conversion element, a light propagation layer including a light-path portion formed between the insulating substrate and the wavelength conversion element, wherein an area of a surface on the insulating substrate side is greater than an area of a surface on the wavelength conversion element side, and a non-light-path portion formed of a material having a refractive index less than the light-path portion, the light-path portion being sandwiched between the non-light-path portions, and a reflective film formed between the non-light-path portion and the wavelength conversion element.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Hirohisa Miki, Shigesumi Araki
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Patent number: 10054820Abstract: A photoalignment agent includes: a copolymer obtained from at least one of cyclobutane dianhydride (CBDA) and a cyclobutane dianhydride derivative, and a diamine; and a cross-linking agent including an alkylene group —CnH2n—, n being a natural number.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2015Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Suk Hoon Kang, Jun Woo Lee, Jin-Soo Jung, Jong Hwan Jeon, Baek Kyun Jeon
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Patent number: 10054821Abstract: A rubbing mura detection device is provided, including an infrared imaging unit used to acquire an infrared thermogram of a surface of the substrate, on which the alignment film is provided; and a rubbing mura detection unit used to detect whether or not the alignment film has the rubbing mura in accordance with an infrared radiation brightness temperature distribution in the infrared thermogram.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yangkun Jing, Guofang Sun, Chuanhui Chen
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Patent number: 10054822Abstract: A frame sealant composition, a display panel and a display device are provided, and the frame sealant composition includes a frame sealant (1) and an elastomer (2), wherein upon the frame sealant composition being used for cell-assembling of two substrates (100, 200), the elastomer (2) is pressed by the two substrates (100, 200) to form a barrier structure. With the frame sealant composition provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure, an impact of the liquid crystal layer (400) to the frame sealant in the process of cell-assembling the two substrates is effectively reduced, and a puncture resistance of the frame sealant is improved, thereby a product yield is increased.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2015Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuguang Fan, Jian Li, Hongpeng Li, Weixin Meng, Shichao Wang, Jingpeng Li, Sung Hun Song, Minqiang Yang, Hong Zhang, Yan Yang
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Patent number: 10054823Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate and a second substrate bonded to each other at their periphery by a sealant, with liquid crystal sealed between the first substrate and a second substrate, and has a display region. The first substrate is formed, between the sealant and an end portion of the display region, with a wall that partitions the liquid crystal into a portion on the display region side and a portion on the sealant side. A gap exists between the tip of the wall and the second substrate side. In the liquid crystal display device, a liquid crystal portion that has been contaminated is restrained from moving into the display region.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Nobuko Fukuoka, Yusuke Morita, Kazuya Daishi
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Patent number: 10054824Abstract: A display device includes a display panel having a display region and a peripheral region, the display panel including a TFT substrate, a counter substrate fixed to the TFT substrate by seal material formed at the peripheral region, and liquid crystal interposed between the TFT substrate and the counter substrate. The TFT substrate includes an inorganic film and an organic film, with first column spacers being formed on the counter substrate. The organic film includes a first part which has an island-like shape formed at the peripheral region and a second part formed at the display region, and the seal material covers at least one of the first column spacers and the first part of the organic film, and is in contact with the inorganic film. The first part of the organic film is separated from the second part of the organic film of the organic film.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2017Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takahiro Nagami
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Patent number: 10054825Abstract: A light control device and a transparent display device including the same are discussed. In the light control device, a sealant uniformly spreads in a bonding process. The light control device includes a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other, a first electrode over one surface of the first substrate facing the second substrate, a second electrode over one surface of the second substrate facing the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, a sealant sealing a plurality of liquid crystal cells between the first substrate and the second substrate, a first dam structure in a boundary between the sealant and the liquid crystal, and a second dam structure surrounding an outer side of the sealant. The liquid crystal layer transmits or blocks light, and the first dam structure surrounds an inner side of the sealant contacting the liquid crystal cells.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Sunyoung Park, JiYoung Ahn, Moonsun Lee, Pureum Kim
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Patent number: 10054826Abstract: A liquid crystal display device with a pair of substrates which are arranged to face each other with liquid crystal therebetween, columnar spacers having the substantially equal height formed on a liquid-crystal-side surface of one substrate, and the columnar spacers include the columnar spacer which is contact with a liquid-crystal-side surface of another substrate and the columnar spacer which is not contact with the liquid-crystal-side surface of another substrate.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Pansonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Keiichiro Ashizawa, Mitsuo Nakatani, Hiroaki Miwa, Takao Tanaka, Sadafumi Hirai, Shinichi Kawabe, Makoto Sasaki, Kazuyuki Ito, Masahiro Ieda
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Patent number: 10054827Abstract: The present invention provides a COA type liquid crystal display panel. In each pixel unit of the lower substrate, borders of the color resist layer in respective directions are all located at inner sides of the frame electrode and the common electrode line, then no color resist layer is arranged between the frame electrode and the common electrode line to reduce a vertical distance between the frame electrode and the common electrode line and provide a larger storage capacitor. Accordingly, the display quality of the COA type liquid crystal display panel is promoted.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2015Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Yanxi Ye