Patents Issued in April 30, 2024
  • Patent number: 11971622
    Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes a first display area and a second display area. The display device includes: a lamp panel, a diffusion plate, a camera, an optical film group, a light control panel, and a shading layer. A first light source of the lamp panel surrounds the camera. A first reflecting layer surrounding the camera is attached to an outer surface of the camera, so that the first display area simultaneously has a picture display function and an image pickup function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Huizhou China Star Optoelectronics Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dongchen Huang, Yuexia Lin, Yinghui Wu
  • Patent number: 11971623
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a display screen, a display device, and a method for manufacturing the display screen are disclosed. The display screen includes a display panel and a light bar. The light bar includes an array substrate and a plurality of light emitting elements, and a first gap is provided between two adjacent light emitting elements. A reflecting wall is arranged in the first gap between at least two adjacent light emitting elements. By arranging the reflecting wall, the side light of the light emitting elements can be reflected upwards, thereby reducing an emission angle of the light bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: HUIZHOU CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS DISPLAY CO., LTD., TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huajun Lu, Juncheng Xiao, Hongyuan Xu
  • Patent number: 11971624
    Abstract: A display device includes a first display unit emitting a green light having a first output spectrum corresponding to a highest gray level of the display device and a second display unit emitting a blue light having a second output spectrum corresponding to the highest gray level of the display device. The first output spectrum has a main wave with a first peak. The second output spectrum has a main wave with a second peak and a sub wave with a sub peak. The second peak corresponds to a main wavelength, the sub peak corresponds to a sub wavelength, and the main wavelength is less than the sub wavelength. An intensity of the second peak is greater than an intensity of the sub peak and an intensity of the first peak.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Hsiao-Lang Lin, Jia-Yuan Chen, Jui-Jen Yueh, Kuan-Feng Lee, Tsung-Han Tsai
  • Patent number: 11971625
    Abstract: This application discloses diaphragms, backlight modules and display devices. According to an example of the present application, a diaphragm includes a diaphragm body; and diaphragm lugs located on edges of the diaphragm body and each having a diaphragm lug hole. The diaphragm lug hole includes a first wall and a second wall opposite to each other. The first wall includes a first protrusion, and the second wall includes a second protrusion. The first protrusion and the second protrusion are arranged in a staggered manner, and a difference between a distance of a top portion of one of the first protrusion and the second protrusion from a wall opposite to the one of the first protrusion and the second protrusion, and a height of another one of the first protrusion and the second protrusion is less than or equal to 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Inventors: Zuoyan Xi, Lushan Xu
  • Patent number: 11971626
    Abstract: Provided are a barrier film having superior close adhesion to a phosphor layer when used for a wavelength conversion sheet, a wavelength conversion sheet having the barrier film, and a backlight and a display device including the wavelength conversion sheet. A barrier film for a wavelength conversion sheet, comprising: a barrier layer; and a primer layer, wherein the primer layer comprises a cured product of a polyurethane-based resin composition, and when a surface of an opposite side of the primer layer from the barrier layer is subjected to X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy to obtain a C1s spectrum, P2/P1 is 0.55 or more, where P1 is an area of a peak assigned to a C—C bond in the C1s spectrum and P2 is an area of a peak assigned to a C—O bond in the C1s spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuji Nakajima, Shuichi Tamura, Takeshi Sakamoto, Ryutaro Harada
  • Patent number: 11971627
    Abstract: Provided are a display panel and a method for preparing same, and a display apparatus. The display panel includes an array substrate and an opposite substrate, which are oppositely arranged, and a liquid crystal layer, which is arranged between the array substrate and the opposite substrate, wherein a compensation layer is arranged on the array substrate or the opposite substrate, and an included angle between an optical axis direction of the compensation layer and an initial optical axis direction of liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer is less than or equal to 10 degrees; dispersion characteristics of the liquid crystal layer and the compensation layer are the opposite of each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Feifei Wang, Hongming Zhan, Xibin Shao, Lintao Ji
  • Patent number: 11971628
    Abstract: In an optical apparatus, a processor(s) is configured to: generate a primary drive signal to drive a primary LC element including a primary active material to produce a first primary optical power for a first design wavelength, wherein there is also produced a second primary OP for a second design wavelength; and generate a secondary drive signal to drive a secondary LC element(s) with a secondary active material to produce a first secondary OP for the first design wavelength and a second secondary OP for the second design wavelength, based on said primary OPs, and different dispersion properties of secondary active material and primary active material. The first and second secondary OPs compensate for chromatic aberration produced by the primary LC element on polychromatic light for the first design wavelength and the second design wavelength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Pixieray Oy
    Inventor: Mikko Kataja
  • Patent number: 11971629
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel (100) and a display apparatus (200). The liquid crystal display panel (100) includes a color filter substrate (1), an array substrate (2), and a sealant (3). An amorphous silicon layer (4) and a first interlayer dielectric (5) are provided between a shading layer (12) and a first substrate (11), a first through groove (12a) is formed in the shading layer (12) and the amorphous silicon layer (4), and a part of the sealant (3) is filled in the first through groove (12a) and is in direct contact with the first interlayer dielectric (5); and/or a planarization layer (22) is wrapped with a second interlayer dielectric (6), such that the planarization layer (22) is respectively separated from the sealant (3) and a second substrate (21), and the second interlayer dielectric (6) is in direct contact with the sealant (3). The phenomenon of film separation in a liquid crystal display panel is effectively alleviated, and the reliability of the liquid crystal display panel is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: Ordos Yuansheng Optoelectronics Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Long Sun, Wenlong Zhang, Xin Zhao, Yanwei Ren, Yanhao Sun, Huijie Zhang, Jingwei Hou
  • Patent number: 11971630
    Abstract: The present disclosure provide methods of manufacturing a liquid crystal display panel and the liquid crystal display panels. In a process of forming a motherboard of the display panel, a second sealant portion and a third sealant portion with a lower height than that of a first sealant portion are temporarily formed outside the first sealant portion, so that a smooth transitional support surface is formed between the first sealant portion, the second sealant portion, the third sealant portion and a support column inside the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SUZHOU CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lingju Huang, Hongjun Zhu
  • Patent number: 11971631
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a liquid crystal display panel and a display device. The liquid crystal display panel includes an array substrate. A hollow structure is defined in a common electrode layer. The hollow structure includes a first hollow structure corresponding to a display area. An area of the first hollow structure progressively increases along a direction from an array routing area to the display area, so that an area of the common electrode layer corresponding to the display area progressively decreases along the direction from the array routing area to the display area, thereby making RC loadings uniform and keeping charging rates in various areas same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Suping Xi
  • Patent number: 11971632
    Abstract: The present invention provides a dimming panel sequentially including: a first substrate; a liquid crystal layer; and a second substrate, the first substrate sequentially including an insulating substrate, a first electrode, a first insulator layer, and a second electrode, the second electrode including, in a plan view, linear electrodes parallel to each other with slit regions in between, and bridge electrodes each of which is disposed in one of the slit regions and is connecting two adjacent linear electrodes, the bridge electrodes including a first bridge electrode in a first slit region, a second bridge electrode in a second slit region adjacent to the first slit region, and a third bridge electrode in a third slit region adjacent to the second slit region, the first bridge electrode, the second bridge electrode, and the third bridge electrode being discrete from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh, Shigeyuki Yamada, Toshinori Sugihara, Takehisa Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11971633
    Abstract: An electrode structure includes: a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged separately from each other; and a plurality of dielectric layers laminated in a first direction with respect to the plurality of pixel electrodes, in which the plurality of dielectric layers includes: a first dielectric layer that spreads over the plurality of pixel electrodes in a direction intersecting with the first direction; and a second dielectric layer that includes dielectric material having a refractive index higher than that of the first dielectric layer, sandwiches the first dielectric layer together with the plurality of pixel electrodes, and has a slit at a position overlapping space between pixel electrodes adjacent when viewed from the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION, SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Sakairi, Tomoaki Honda, Tsuyoshi Okazaki, Keiichi Maeda, Chiho Araki, Katsunori Dai, Shunsuke Narui, Kunihiko Hikichi, Kouta Fukumoto, Toshiaki Okada, Takuma Matsuno, Yuu Kawaguchi, Yuuji Adachi, Koichi Amari, Hideki Kawaguchi, Seiya Haraguchi, Takayoshi Masaki, Takuya Fujino, Tadayuki Dofuku, Yosuke Takita, Kazuhiro Tamura, Atsushi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11971634
    Abstract: Disclosed is a device for the regulation of light transmission. In particular, switchable windows and methods for their preparation are disclosed. The switchable windows include electrically switchable devices which in one optical switching state are capable of portraying closed patterns or images without the need for providing complex electrical contacting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GmbH
    Inventors: Chuan Nie, Ties De Jong, Johan Osenga
  • Patent number: 11971635
    Abstract: A U-shaped unit and a liquid crystal element with U-shaped coplanar electrode units provided by the invention are capable of increasing a horizontal electric field intensity in a power supply state, so that when the invention is applied to be used as a liquid crystal driving element, a required horizontal electric field intensity can be achieved with a lower driving voltage to reduce a required driving power when the liquid crystal element is used as a display screen, thereby achieving an effect of power saving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Chia-Yi Huang, Wei-Fan Chiang, Yi-Hong Shih
  • Patent number: 11971636
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display panel, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The display panel includes power line layer. The power line layer includes a first power line layer and a second power line layer, and the second power line layer is electrically connected to the first power line layer. The first power line layer extends toward a first side surface of the substrate and is bent along the first side surface to a side of the substrate away from the second power line layer. A first circuit board is disposed on a side of the substrate away from the second power line layer, and the first circuit board is electrically connected to the first power line layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Rong Ma
  • Patent number: 11971637
    Abstract: A display device includes wires that are coupled to driver terminals that are able to be coupled to a driver integrated circuit (IC) and that are provided along a first direction and extending so as to spread toward outsides in the first direction as the wires are directed toward a second direction orthogonal to the first direction; and dummy wires that are provided along the wires on one outside and another outside in the first direction of the wires and that are not coupled to the driver terminals and the wires, wherein a number of the dummy wires on the one outside and a number of the dummy wires on the other outside are respectively three or more, the dummy wires extend in parallel with the wires, and a width of the dummy wire is equal to a width of the wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Yamamoto, Naoyuki Obinata, Kengo Shiragami
  • Patent number: 11971638
    Abstract: A first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a fourth transistor are provided. In the first transistor, a first terminal is electrically connected to a first wiring; a second terminal is electrically connected to a gate terminal of the second transistor; a gate terminal is electrically connected to a fifth wiring. In the second transistor, a first terminal is electrically connected to a third wiring; a second terminal is electrically connected to a sixth wiring. In the third transistor, a first terminal is electrically connected to a second wiring; a second terminal is electrically connected to the gate terminal of the second transistor; a gate terminal is electrically connected to a fourth wiring. In the fourth transistor, a first terminal is electrically connected to the second wiring; a second terminal is electrically connected to the sixth wiring; a gate terminal is connected to the fourth wiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Atsushi Umezaki
  • Patent number: 11971639
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an array substrate, including a display region, and the display region includes driving circuit regions. The array substrate includes a first substrate, a gate driver on array (GOA) circuit and a pixel driving circuit respectively disposed on opposite sides of the first substrate and located in the driving circuit regions. The GOA circuit is connected with the pixel driving circuit through a plurality of via holes, so wiring regions of the GOA circuit and wiring regions of the pixel driving circuit can overlap in space, thereby reducing space occupied by a pixel display region and increasing a pixel aperture ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bangqing Xiao, Sen Xu
  • Patent number: 11971640
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display substrate and a display device, and belongs to the field of display technology. The display substrate includes: a base substrate having a peripheral region, and thin film transistors disposed in the peripheral region of the base substrate. A gate electrode of the thin film transistor includes a plurality of sub-electrodes arranged at intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Feng Li, Yu Ma, Qi Sang, Jiantao Liu, Li Tian, Jing Wang
  • Patent number: 11971641
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes a first TFT disposed in each of pixel regions, a first flattened layer covering the first TFT, and a pixel electrode provided on the first flattened layer. The first TFT includes a lower gate electrode, a lower gate insulating layer, an oxide semiconductor layer, an upper gate insulating layer, and an upper gate electrode. The active matrix substrate further includes a first connection electrode for electrically connecting a drain contact region of the oxide semiconductor layer and the pixel electrode. The first flattened layer includes a pixel contact hole formed so as to expose a part of the first connection electrode. The bottom face of the pixel contact hole at least partially overlaps, of a lower gate metal layer including a lower gate electrode and an upper gate metal layer including an upper gate electrode, at least the lower gate metal layer when viewed from the normal direction of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Hachiya, Hiroaki Furukawa, Yuhichi Saitoh, Kuniaki Okada
  • Patent number: 11971643
    Abstract: A reflective dynamic metasurface of an embodiment comprises a structure enabling phase modulation in each of pixels constituting at least a one-dimensional array. The metasurface includes: a laminated structure body having a transparent conductive layer and a dielectric layer; a first metal film on one surface of the laminated structure body; a second metal film on the other surface of the laminated structure body; and a drive circuit controlling voltage applied between the first and second metal films. The first and second metal films are arranged to sandwich the pixels. The first metal film is arranged to expose a pair of window regions in one pixel, and the second metal film includes partial metal films defining the shape of each pixel and separated from each other. The drive circuit individually controls the potential of each partial metal film, thereby modulating the phase of the input light for each pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Soh Uenoyama, Kazuyoshi Hirose, Yoshitaka Kurosaka, Hiroshi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11971644
    Abstract: Reduction of output power of light with a wavelength converted is suppressed, which is caused by a pyroelectric effect that occurs when a temperature of a wavelength conversion element including a ferroelectric substrate is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Embutsu, Ryoichi Kasahara, Osamu Tadanaga, Takeshi Umeki, Takahiro Kashiwazaki, Takushi Kazama
  • Patent number: 11971645
    Abstract: An information handling system peripheral camera ensures privacy with a cover that minimizes distance of a camera module to a front opening of the camera housing. For instance, opposing cover members rotate about geared ends that engage to translate rotation between the members, where the members meet over a camera opening to block capture of visual images and move to opposing sides to expose the camera module. In an alternative embodiment, a rotating shutter arrangement selectively covers the camera for security and also covers a microphone to provide security against unauthorized audible access through the camera. Selective covering and exposing of a camera module, infrared camera, microphone and user presence detection sensor support adaptive security at a camera based upon end user context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Peng Lip Goh, Suet Chan Law, Deeder M. Aurongzeb
  • Patent number: 11971646
    Abstract: A camera module includes: a housing having at least one light-transmitting region, a lens embedded on the housing, and at least one light-emitting component embedded on the housing. A light-emitting component corresponds to a light-transmitting region, and light emitted by the light-emitting component can be transmitted from the light-transmitting region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Pan Huang
  • Patent number: 11971647
    Abstract: To provide an opening and closing structure for an insertion port in an electronic apparatus and an electronic apparatus that allow a user to easily recognize high quality. An opening and closing structure for an insertion port in an electronic apparatus includes: an opening and closing lid that opens and closes an insertion port; a shaft member that functions as a rotation axis of the opening and closing lid; a support member that rotatably supports the shaft member; and a biasing member that biases the opening and closing lid in an opening direction, in which the shaft member is press-fitted into the opening and closing lid with a first press-fitting margin, and is press-fitted into the support member with a second press-fitting margin different from the first press-fitting margin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yutaro Itadani
  • Patent number: 11971648
    Abstract: A tripod includes: a hub defining a set of leg mounts; a set of legs configured to telescopically extend from the hub and couple to the set of leg mounts; a center column including a spherical end; and a head pivotably coupled to the spherical end. The head further includes: a base section; a camera platform arranged over the base section; a set of flanges extending below the base section and extending around the spherical end; a hat arranged over the spherical end; a pivot control ring arranged about the base section, configured to drive the hat into the spherical end to fix the head on the spherical end responsive to rotation in a first direction about the base section, and configured to retract the hat from the spherical end to unlock the head from the spherical end responsive to rotation in a second direction about the base section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Peak Design
    Inventors: Robb Jankura, Matthew Thomas James, Peter Dering, Peter Lockett, Arthur Viger, Andrew Wheeler Gans, Kiran Malladi
  • Patent number: 11971649
    Abstract: Provided is a light source device, including: a laser generation unit configured to output laser light; a light modification element disposed in a light guide unit or between the light guide unit and a homogenizing unit and configured to cause an angular distribution of the laser light uniform and continuous; the light guide unit, configured to receive the laser light output by the laser generation unit and guide the laser light to the homogenizing unit; and the homogenizing unit, configured to receive the laser light from the light guide unit, and homogenize and output the laser light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: APPOTRONICS CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Haixiong Hou, Mengran Wang, Yi Li
  • Patent number: 11971650
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a prism module, a camera comprising same, and an image display device. A prism module, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises: a prism holder having a prism fixed to a first surface thereof; a yoke coupled to a second surface of the prism holder; a driving magnet seated on the yoke; a sensor magnet disposed on the yoke; a hall sensor disposed to be spaced apart from the sensor magnet; and a sensor magnet support member to which the sensor magnet is attached. Thereby, it is possible to precisely detect a magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jongwoo Jeong, Hyungjoo Kang, Youngman Kwon, Dongryeol Lee, Jayong Lee
  • Patent number: 11971651
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a camera with folded optics. Some embodiments include a voice coil motor (VCM) actuator module to provide autofocus (AF) and/or optical image stabilization (OIS) movement. Some embodiments include suspension arrangements. Some embodiments include flexure arrangements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shashank Sharma, Alfred N. Mireault
  • Patent number: 11971652
    Abstract: An embodiment relates to a camera actuator and a camera module including same. The camera actuator according to the embodiment can includes a base; a lens assembly arranged on the base; a guide pin coupled to the base and guiding the lens assembly; a body coupled to the base; a cover coupled to the body; a base pin coupling part arranged on the base and coupled to one side of the guide pin; a cover pin coupling part arranged on the cover and coupled to the other side of the guide pin; and a pin guide part which is arranged on the lens assembly and which guides the guide pin. In the embodiment, the base pin coupling part can include a first coupling groove, the cover pin coupling part can include a first groove, and the pin guide part can include a first hole and a second hole having a size different from that of the first hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kyung Won Kim
  • Patent number: 11971653
    Abstract: The present invention provides a photomask blank which exhibits high adhesion of a resist film to a film containing chromium, and which is capable of achieving good resolution limit and good CD linearity during the formation of an assist pattern of a line pattern, said assist pattern supplementing the resolution of the main pattern of a photomask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Matsuhashi, Kouhei Sasamoto
  • Patent number: 11971654
    Abstract: A pellicle for a lithographic apparatus, the pellicle including nitridated metal silicide or nitridated silicon as well as a method of manufacturing the same. Also disclosed is the use of a nitridated metal silicide or nitridated silicon pellicle in a lithographic apparatus. Also disclosed is a pellicle for a lithographic apparatus including at least one compensating layer selected and configured to counteract changes in transmissivity of the pellicle upon exposure to EUV radiation as well as a method of controlling the transmissivity of a pellicle and a method of designing a pellicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.
    Inventors: Pieter-Jan Van Zwol, Adrianus Johannes Maria Giesbers, Johan Hendrik Klootwijk, Evgenia Kurganova, Maxim Aleksandrovich Nasalevich, Arnoud Willem Notenboom, Mária Péter, Leonid Aizikovitsj Sjmaenok, Ties Wouter Van Der Woord, David Ferdinand Vles
  • Patent number: 11971655
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a pellicle frame in a frame shape, having an upper end face to arrange a pellicle film thereon and a lower end face to face a photomask, and which is characterized by being provided with a notched part from an outer side face toward an inner side face of the upper end face, and to provide a pellicle characterized by including the pellicle frame as a component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yu Yanase
  • Patent number: 11971656
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a membrane assembly for EUV lithography, the method including: providing a stack having a planar substrate and at least one membrane layer, wherein the planar substrate includes an inner region and a border region around the inner region; and selectively removing the inner region of the planar substrate. The membrane assembly includes: a membrane formed from the at least one membrane layer; and a border holding the membrane, the border formed from the border region of the planar substrate. The stack is provided with a mechanical protection material configured to mechanically protect the border region during the selectively removing the inner region of the planar substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.
    Inventors: Johan Hendrik Klootwijk, Wilhelmus Theodorus Anthonius Johannes Van Den Einden
  • Patent number: 11971657
    Abstract: A photoresist developer includes a solvent having Hansen solubility parameters of 15<?d<25, 10<?p<25, and 6<?p<30; an acid having an acid dissociation constant, pKa, of ?15<pKa<4, or a base having a pKa of 40>pKa>9.5; and a chelate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: An-Ren Zi, Chin-Hsiang Lin, Ching-Yu Chang, Yahru Cheng
  • Patent number: 11971658
    Abstract: An ablation layer for a photosensitive resin for a relief printing plate, the ablation layer containing at least an acid-modified polymer and an infrared-absorbing agent and having a layer acid value as defined below of 2 mg KOH/g or more and 400 mg KOH/g or less, and a neutralized salt ratio as defined below of 0.9 or less, wherein the Layer acid value=(Acid value of the acid-modified polymer)×(Mass ratio of the acid-modified polymer to an entire ablation layer); and wherein the Neutralized salt ratio=(Number of moles of polymer wherein acid in the acid-modified polymer exists in neutralized salt state)/(Total number of moles of the acid-modified polymer).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Norikiyo Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 11971659
    Abstract: A photoresist composition includes a conjugated resist additive, a photoactive compound, and a polymer resin. The conjugated resist additive is one or more selected from the group consisting of a polyacetylene, a polythiophene, a polyphenylenevinylene, a polyfluorene, a polypryrrole, a polyphenylene, and a polyaniline. The polyacetylene, polythiophene, polyphenylenevinylene, polyfluorene, polypryrrole, the polyphenylene, and polyaniline includes a substituent selected from the group consisting of an alkyl group, an ether group, an ester group, an alkene group, an aromatic group, an anthracene group, an alcohol group, an amine group, a carboxylic acid group, and an amide group. Another photoresist composition includes a polymer resin having a conjugated moiety and a photoactive compound. The conjugated moiety is one or more selected from the group consisting of a polyacetylene, a polythiophene, a polyphenylenevinylene, a polyfluorene, a polypryrrole, a polyphenylene, and a polyaniline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chun-Chih Ho, Ching-Yu Chang, Chin-Hsiang Lin
  • Patent number: 11971660
    Abstract: A cross-linked polymer including a structure wherein at least a portion of phenolic hydroxyl groups in the polymer is protected by a group represented by the following formula (1): wherein R1 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbons and n represents an integer from 1 to 5; and * represents a bond part of the phenolic hydroxyl group to a residue other than a hydrogen atom, and a structure wherein at least a portion of phenolic hydroxyl groups in the polymer is protected by a group represented by the following formula (2): wherein R2 represents a divalent saturated hydrocarbon group having 2 to 17 carbons, containing an aromatic ring; and * represents a bond part of the phenolic hydroxyl group to a residue other than a hydrogen atom, and the polymers are cross-linked to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Maruzen Petrochemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Masukawa, Masataka Nojima
  • Patent number: 11971661
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a first unit block including a first substrate transfer region, a first and a second processing modules provided to face a first and a second sides of the first substrate transfer region in a left-right direction, and a first and a second transfer mechanisms provided at the first and the second sides and configured to deliver a substrate to the first and the second processing modules; a second unit block, stacked on the first unit block, including a second substrate transfer region and a third transfer mechanism; a substrate carry-in/out block provided at a first side of a stack of the unit blocks and configured to deliver the substrate to the first and the third transfer mechanisms; a relay block provided at a second side of the stack and configured to deliver the substrate to the second and the third transfer mechanisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoji Sakata, Masashi Tsuchiyama, Tsuyoshi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11971662
    Abstract: A digital exposure machine and an exposure control method thereof are disclosed. The exposure control method of the digital exposure machine includes: determining a scanning direction of the digital exposure machine, wherein a plurality of sub-pixels in an array include multiple rows of sub-pixels arranged in the scanning direction, the multiple rows of sub-pixels including a first row of sub-pixels in the scanning direction; determining a starting scanning position, the starting scanning position being located on an outer side of the first row of sub-pixels in the scanning direction; and performing a plurality of scannings to expose a display region of the first display substrate to be exposed, wherein a scanning pitch for each of the plurality of scannings is integer times of a pitch of two adjacent rows of sub-pixels of the first display substrate in the scanning direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhichong Wang, Fuqiang Li, Peng Liu, Jing Feng, Xinglong Luan, Guangcai Yuan, Xue Dong
  • Patent number: 11971663
    Abstract: Provided are light sources and methods of controlling them, and devices and methods for use in measurement applications, particularly in metrology, for example in a lithographic apparatus. The methods and devices provide mechanisms for detection and/or correction of variations in the light source, in particular stochastic variations. Feedback or feedforward approaches can be used for the correction of the source and/or the metrology outputs. An exemplary method of controlling the spectral output of a light source which emits a time-varying spectrum of light includes the steps of: determining at least one characteristic of the spectrum of light emitted from the light source; and using said determined characteristic to control the spectral output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Marinus Petrus Reijnders, Hendrik Sabert, Patrick Sebastian Uebel
  • Patent number: 11971664
    Abstract: Process control methods, metrology targets and production systems are provided for reducing or eliminating process overlay errors. Metrology targets have pair(s) of periodic structures with different segmentations, e.g., no segmentation in one periodic structure and device-like segmentation in the other periodic structure of the pair. Process control methods derive metrology measurements from the periodic structures at the previous layer directly following the production thereof, and prior to production of the periodic structures at the current layer, and use the derived measurements to adjust lithography stage(s) that is part of production of the current layer. Production system integrate lithography tool(s) and metrology tool(s) into a production feedback loop that enables layer-by-layer process adjustments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: KLA-TENCOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Liran Yerushalmi, Roie Volkovich
  • Patent number: 11971665
    Abstract: An alignment method includes directing an illumination beam with a first polarization state to form a diffracted beam with a second polarization state from an alignment target, and passing the diffracted beam through a polarization analyzer. The alignment method further includes measuring a polarization state of the diffracted beam and determining a location of the alignment target from the measured polarization state relative to its initial polarization state. The alignment target includes a plurality of diffraction gratings with a single pitch and two or more duty cycles, wherein the pitch is smaller than a wavelength of the illumination beam, and the location of the alignment target corresponds to the duty cycle of the diffraction grating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: ASML Holding N.V.
    Inventors: Joshua Adams, Yuxiang Lin, Krishanu Shome, Gerrit Johannes Nijmeijer, Igor Matheus Petronella Aarts
  • Patent number: 11971666
    Abstract: An image forming operation forms an image on a transfer target in a state in which a developing member is located at a first position where a developer is supplied to an image bearing member and a first charging voltage is applied to a charging unit. The image forming operation is followed by: a first rotating operation of rotating the image bearing member in a state in which the developing member is located at the first position and a second charging voltage smaller in absolute value than the first charging voltage is applied; and a second rotating operation of rotating the image bearing member in a state in which the developing member is located at a second position where the developer is not supplied to the image bearing member and a third charging voltage smaller in absolute value than the second charging voltage is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroko Katagiri, Shinji Katagiri, Koji An, Takashi Mukai
  • Patent number: 11971667
    Abstract: A light guide device includes: a housing main body; a side member attached to a side portion in the housing main body; a light guide body supported by the housing main body and including a light incident surface to which light enters; a light source substrate held by the side member and including a light element that emits the light toward the light incident surface; and a positioning portion configured to position the light element to a reference position with respect to the light incident surface. The positioning portion includes: an abutting member provided in the housing main body and configured to abut on a mounting surface in the light source substrate on which the light element is mounted; and an elastic member held by the side member and configured to press the light source substrate toward the light guide body to position the light element to the reference position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Masahiro Ueno
  • Patent number: 11971668
    Abstract: An electrophotographic roller comprising a substrate and a foam layer on an outer peripheral surface of the substrate, the foam layer constituting an outer surface of the electrophotographic roller, the foam layer comprising cells each of which opens on the outer surface, and the foam layer having a zero-point charge measured using a standard carrier of 40 ?C/g or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryosuke Takayama, Hiroaki Komatsu, Koji Yatsu, Seiji Tsuru
  • Patent number: 11971669
    Abstract: Provided is an electrophotographic belt having a cylindrical film as a base layer. The cylindrical film contains crystalline polyester and carbon black, and a content of the carbon black in the cylindrical film is 2.0% by mass or more. Fc1 is 0.30 or more, and ?c1 being ?10° to +10°, where Fc1 denotes an average degree of arrangement of the carbon black in the circumferential direction observed in a cross section in a direction along a circumferential direction of the cylindrical film, and ?c1 denotes an average arrangement angle of the carbon black in the circumferential direction observed in a cross section in a direction along a circumferential direction of the cylindrical film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroomi Kojima
  • Patent number: 11971670
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an intermediate transfer belt, an outer roller, a power source, and a regulation member. The outer roller transfers a toner image onto a recording material. The power source applies a voltage to the outer roller. The regulation member regulates orientation of the recording material. Information is acquired regarding a timing at which orientation of a recording material first portion, passing through the transfer portion that is located between the outer roller and the regulation member, can change to move closer to the intermediate transfer belt. Based on the acquired information, a transfer voltage target value for transfer onto the recording material is changed between a first target value of a period anterior to the timing and a second target value of a period posterior to the timing that is larger in absolute value than the first target value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koji An, Shinji Katagiri, Shuichi Tetsuno
  • Patent number: 11971671
    Abstract: A fusing apparatus includes: a pressing roller to be axially rotated; a fusing belt to rotate by receiving a rotational force from the pressing roller; a pressing member to press toward the pressing roller from the inside of the fusing belt to form a nip in which the printing paper is nipped between the fusing belt and the pressing roller; on the fusing belt or the pressing member, a sliding layer to reduce friction between the fusing belt and the pressing member; and an adhesive layer to adhere the sliding layer to the fusing belt or the pressing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Sun Hyung Lee, Sea Chul Bae, Jae Hyeok Jang, Jin Gyu Ko
  • Patent number: 11971672
    Abstract: Provided is a sheet conveying device including: a conveying portion; and a first conveying guide, the first conveying guide forming a conveying path above a heating portion and having a curved portion for forming a curved path in the conveying path and a plurality of ribs provided on a surface of the curved portion, the plurality of ribs extending along a conveying direction and including a first rib and a second rib adjacent to the first rib, wherein the second rib is arranged to be deviated from the first rib in a width direction and the conveying direction, and wherein in the conveying direction, a second upstream end of the second rib being positioned between a first upstream end and a first downstream end of the first rib, the first downstream end being positioned between the second upstream end and a second downstream end of the second rib.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akinori Yokota, Osamu Sasaoka, Toshiyuki Watanabe