Displaying Color Change Patents (Class 252/586)
  • Patent number: 11467492
    Abstract: Provided is a composition with which a pattern having excellent adhesiveness can be formed. In addition, provided are a film, an infrared transmitting filter, a solid image pickup element, an image display device, and an infrared sensor. This composition includes a coloring material, a resin, a polymerizable compound, and a photopolymerization initiator. The polymerizable compound includes a compound A having an alkyleneoxy group and three ethylenically unsaturated groups, and a ratio A/B of a minimum value A of an absorbance of the composition in a wavelength range of 400 to 750 nm to a maximum value B of an absorbance of the composition in a wavelength range of 1100 to 1300 nm is 4.5 or higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Mori
  • Patent number: 11459425
    Abstract: A composition for preparing a hybrid resin includes: a polymer including a repeating unit derived from allyl glycidyl ether; a thiol-based compound; and a photoinitiator, wherein the thiol-based compound is selected from a first thiol-based compound including a silyl group, a second thiol-based compound including a moiety derived from a photochromic compound, and a combination thereof. A hybrid resin, and a hybrid resin film prepared from the composition are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignees: Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Sogang University Research Foundation
    Inventors: Inseo Kee, Bongjin Moon, Hyoungwook Lee, Nana Kang, Hyunseo Shin
  • Patent number: 11339281
    Abstract: Photo-responsive shape changing polymer compositions including photoinitiators that absorb light in the range about 400 nm to about 700 nm, a cross-linked polymer matrix and a polymerizable composition. Photopolymerization of the polymerizable composition sorbed in the cross-linked polymer matrix results in the shape change which manifests in the change in the refractive properties of the composition. The light dose required to effect the shape change; lock-in dose and the photobleaching dose are determined by the choice of the photoinitiator, electron donor and the hydrogen donor. These compositions are useful in the fabrication of coloured lenses, especially intraocular lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: NAYAM INNOVATIONS PVT LTD
    Inventors: Tanuj Gigras, Surendra Ponrathnam, Gahininath Bharate, Julia Ann Kornfield, Mandar Gadre, Sunil Kumar Chaubey
  • Patent number: 11326009
    Abstract: The present invention provides a dispersion composition from which a curable composition having excellent developability can be obtained and in which generation of precipitates under a low temperature environment is suppressed. In addition, the present invention provides a curable composition, a light-shielding film obtained by curing the curable composition, a color filter containing a cured film obtained by curing the curable composition, a solid-state imaging device and an image display device, a resin, and a method for manufacturing a cured film. The dispersion composition of the present invention contains a colorant and a resin, in which the resin contains a structural unit A having a polymer chain and a structural unit B having an acid group, and the polymer chain contains 2 or more structural units GF, and the structural unit GF is selected from the group consisting of a structural unit composed of an oxyalkylene group and a structural unit composed of an oxyalkylene carbonyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Michihiro Ogawa, Yutaro Fukami
  • Patent number: 11269255
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a photosensitive composition, and a color conversion film. The present invention further relates to a use of the photosensitive composition in a color conversion film fabrication process, and to a use of the color conversion film in an optical device. The invention further more relates to an optical device comprising the color conversion film and method for preparing the color conversion film and the optical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignees: Merck Patent GmbH, AZ Electronic Materials (Luxembourg) S.A.R.L.
    Inventors: Yuki Hirayama, Tadashi Kishimoto, Masayoshi Suzuki, Daishi Yokoyama, Katsuto Taniguchi, Toshiaki Nonaka
  • Patent number: 11248077
    Abstract: A polymerizable composition for an optical material of the present invention includes (A) an allyl carbonate compound represented by General Formula (1) and including two or more allyloxycarbonyl groups; (B) a (meth)acrylate compound represented by General Formula (2) and including two or more (meth)acryl groups; and (C) a photochromic compound, in which, in 100% by weight in a total of the compound (A) and the compound (B), the compound (A) is included in an amount of more than 0% by weight and 30% by weight or less and the compound (B) is included in an amount of 70% by weight or more and less than 100% by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Shinichiro Kadowaki, Nobuo Kawato, Masaru Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 11187828
    Abstract: Provided is a plastic lens obtained by curing a curable composition including a curable compound, wherein the curable composition includes 50 parts by mass or more of a (meth)acrylic curable compound relative to 100 parts by mass of the total amount of the curable compound, and in the plastic lens, the absorbance ratio of the maximum absorbance Abs1 at a wave number of 1680 to 1620 cm?1 relative to the maximum absorbance Abs2 at a wave number of 1800 to 1690 cm?1 in an infrared spectrum obtained by measurement with a Fourier transform infrared spectrophotometer is 7.0% or less, as calculated by using the following Formula 1: Absorbance ratio (%)=(Abs1/Abs2)×100.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventor: Yuji Hoshi
  • Patent number: 11118077
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an ultraviolet curable and infrared permeable ink composition for an inkjet, having enhanced high temperature resistance, which exhibits constant infrared transmissivity, surface hardness, and the like by preventing the discoloration and the deformation thereof even if a high temperature-heat treatment is performed during curing, drying, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Jae-Hyun Yoo, Joon-Hyung Kim, Yong-Sung Goo
  • Patent number: 11086219
    Abstract: To provide a negative-type photosensitive resin composition that is highly sensitive and capable of formation of a low-taper pattern shape and that is capable of providing a cured film that is excellent in heat resistance. A negative-type photosensitive resin composition contains an (A) alkali-soluble resin, a (B) radical polymerizable compound, and a (C) photo initiator, the negative-type photosensitive resin composition being characterized in that the (A) alkali-soluble resin contains one or more species of resins selected from a (A-1) polyimide, a (A-2) polybenzoxazole, a (A-3) polyimide precursor, a (A-4) polybenzoxazole precursor, a (A-5) polysiloxane, and a (A-6) cardo based resin, and that the (B) radical polymerizable compound contains a compound having five ethylenic unsaturated bond groups in a (B-1) molecule, in an amount within the range of 51 to 99 mass %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Yugo Tanigaki, Daisuke Sakii, Satoshi Kamemoto
  • Patent number: 11084236
    Abstract: A method for preparing an optical element which colors in a non-uniform linear pattern is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Transitions Optical, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph D. Turpen, Jennine M. Frease, William D. Carpenter, Kevin J. Stewart
  • Patent number: 11052367
    Abstract: Each of monodisperse spherical microcapsules for seeding a transparent fluid to track movements of the fluid both in translational and rotational directions comprises a core; a shell; and 1 to 5 light reflecting solid integral particles. Each of the particles reflects incoming light in a defined direction; and each of the particles is embedded in the core and fixed in its orientation with regard to the shell. The shell and the core are transparent for the incoming light to be reflected by the particles entering and exiting the microcapsule. The shell has a thickness of not more than ?, ? being a wavelength of the incoming light, so that the shell does essentially not deflect the incoming light entering and exiting the microcapsule. The core includes a main component of the fluid such that a refraction index of the core essentially matches a refraction index of the fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V
    Inventors: Ingmar Polenz, Huixuan Wu, Jean-Christophe Baret, Eberhard Bodenschatz
  • Patent number: 10802401
    Abstract: To provide an alkaline developable negative-type photosensitive resin composition from which a cured film that has a high-resolution and low-taper pattern shape and that are excellent in heat resistance and light blocking property can be obtained. A negative-type photosensitive resin composition is characterized by containing an (A1) first resin, a (A2) second resin, a (C) photopolymerization initiator, and a (D) coloring agent, wherein the (A1) first resin is an (A1-1) polyimide and/or an (A1-2) polybenzo-oxazole, and wherein the (A2) second resin is one or more species selected from a (A2-1) polyimide precursor, a (A2-2) polybenzo-oxazole precursor, a (A2-3) polysiloxane, a (A2-4) cardo based resin, and an (A2-5) acrylic resin, and wherein a content ratio of the (A1) first resin in a total of 100 mass % of the (A1) first resin and the (A2) second resin is within the range of 25 to 90 mass %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Yugo Tanigaki, Satoshi Kamemoto, Kazuto Miyoshi
  • Patent number: 10793717
    Abstract: Provided are a thermosetting resin composition containing polyester amide acid (A), epoxy compound (B) having a fluorene skeleton, epoxy curing agent (C) and colorant (D), and the thermosetting resin composition capable of forming a cured film having an excellent balance of satisfactory hardness and adhesion to glass under high-temperature conditions, and also an application of the thermosetting resin composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: JNC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Murotani, Takayuki Hirota, Katsuyuki Sugihara, Yoshihiro Deyama, Shinta Morokoshi, Setsuo Itami, Toshiyuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10747110
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a colored photosensitive resin composition that prevents the generation of uneven wrinkles when a cured film is formed, to thereby prevent spots that may be generated on the edges of a display upon the formation thereof, and has a short development time. Accordingly, the colored photosensitive resin composition can be advantageously used as a material for forming a protective film, an interlayer insulating film, a light shielding spacer such as a black column spacer, and the like to be employed in various electronic parts inclusive of a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel and an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials Korea Ltd
    Inventors: Ji Ung Kim, Hyung-Tak Jeon, Kyung-Jae Park, Jong-Ho Na, Hyung Gu Kim
  • Patent number: 10747109
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a colored photosensitive resin composition capable of forming a cured film that does not generate uneven wrinkles on its surface, to thereby minimize spots on the display screen that may be generated by a defect in the gap between the upper and lower plates during their assembly, with the formation of an excellent step difference and a pattern in a high resolution; and to a light shielding spacer produced therefrom and used for a liquid crystal display, an organic EL display, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials Korea Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyung-Tak Jeon, Ji Ung Kim, Kyung-Jae Park, Jong-Ho Na, Hyung Gu Kim
  • Patent number: 10712483
    Abstract: A photosensitive composition including: a plurality of quantum dots, wherein the quantum dot includes an organic ligand with a hydrophobic moiety bound to a surface of the quantum dot; a binder; a photopolymerizable monomer having a carbon-carbon double bond; a photoinitiator; and a solvent, wherein the binder includes a multiple aromatic ring-containing polymer including a main chain including a carboxylic acid group and a backbone structure incorporated in the main chain, wherein the backbone structure includes a quaternary carbon atom, which is a part of a cyclic group, and two aromatic rings bound to the quaternary carbon atom, and wherein the plurality of quantum dots are dispersed in the binder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hojeong Paek, Shang Hyeun Park, Shin Ae Jun, Jonggi Kim
  • Patent number: 10678134
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a photosensitive composition, and a color conversion film. The present invention further relates to a use of the photosensitive composition in a color conversion film fabrication process, and to a use of the color conversion film in an optical device. The invention further more relates to an optical device comprising the color conversion film and method for preparing the color conversion film and the optical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignees: MERCK PATENT GMBH, AZ ELECTRONIC MATERIALS (LUXEMBOURG) S.A.R.L.
    Inventors: Yuki Hirayama, Tadashi Kishimoto, Masayoshi Suzuki, Daishi Yokoyama, Katsuto Taniguchi, Toshiaki Nonaka
  • Patent number: 10534261
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a colored photosensitive resin composition capable of forming a cured film that does not generate uneven wrinkles on its surface at the time of its formation, and a light shielding spacer produced therefrom and used for a liquid crystal display, an organic EL display, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials Korea Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyung-Tak Jeon, Ji Ung Kim, Kyung-Jae Park, Jong-Ho Na, Hyung Gu Kim, Seok-Bong Park
  • Patent number: 10501477
    Abstract: The present invention relates to photochromic compounds, such as thienochromene compounds represented by the following Formulas (1a) and/or (1b). The present invention also relates to photochromic compositions and articles containing one or more such photochromic thienochromene compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Transitions Optical, Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Deng, Brian R. Stepp, Eric Spitler, Wenjing Xiao, Massimiliano Tomasulo, Robert W. Walters
  • Patent number: 10444537
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical article that includes, a mark that is positioned on and/or within the first surface of an optical substrate thereof, and a photochromic layer that includes at least one photochromic compound and which resides over at least a portion of the first surface. The mark includes a photoluminescent material. The first surface of the optical substrate is exposed to a source of actinic radiation, the photochromic compound has an activation time after exposure to the source of actinic radiation, and the mark luminesces and is visually observable during at least a portion of the activation time. The present invention also relates to: an optical article that includes, a mark that is positioned within the first surface of an optical substrate thereof, and at least one photochromic compound that is also positioned within the first surface; and methods of making such optical articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Transitions Optical, Inc.
    Inventors: Anil Kumar, Chenguang Li, William D. Carpenter, Jennine M. Frease
  • Patent number: 10416560
    Abstract: A coloring agent dispersion which contains a satisfactorily dispersed pigment, and results in a photosensitive resin composition capable of forming a cured film when mixed in the photosensitive resin composition; a photosensitive resin composition containing the coloring agent dispersion; a cured product of the composition; an organic EL element provided with the cured product; a method for forming a pattern using the composition; and a method for producing a photosensitive resin composition using the dispersion. In a coloring agent dispersion including a coloring agent which contains a pigment and a dispersant, a dispersant containing a silsesquioxane compound of a specific structure is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: TOKYO OHKA KOGYO CO, LTD.
    Inventors: Naozumi Matsumoto, Yasuhide Ohuchi, Tatsuro Ishikawa, Mayumi Kuroko, Dai Shiota
  • Patent number: 10236467
    Abstract: Disclosed is an OLED device capable of reducing the number of manufacturing processes to apply a micro-cavity structure, and a method for manufacturing the same, wherein the OLED device may include a pixel having first to third subpixels, wherein each of the first to third subpixels includes a first electrode including a reflective metal material, an organic light emitting layer on the first electrode, a second electrode disposed on the organic light emitting layer and formed of a transparent metal material, and a semi-transmissive electrode on the second electrode, wherein a distance between the first electrode and the semi-transmissive electrode in the first subpixel, a distance between the first electrode and the semi-transmissive electrode in the second subpixel, and a distance between the first electrode and the semi-transmissive electrode in the third subpixel are different from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: TaeHan Park, KyungHoon Lee, DongHee Yoo, Hyeongjun Lim
  • Patent number: 10197707
    Abstract: Various non-limiting embodiments of the present disclosure relate to ophthalmic devices comprising photochromic materials comprising a reactive substituent. For example, the present disclosure contemplates ophthalmic devices comprising photochromic materials, such as photochromic naphthopyrans and indeno-fused naphthopyrans having a reactive substituent comprising a reactive moiety linked to the photochromic naphthopyran by one or more linking groups. In certain non-limiting embodiments, the reactive moiety comprises a polymerizable moiety. In other non-limiting embodiments, the reactive moiety comprises a nucleophilic moiety. Other non-limiting embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods of making the photochromic ophthalmic device, wherein the photochromic ophthalmic devices comprise the photochromic naphthopyrans described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Wenjing Xiao, Barry Van Gemert, Shivkumar Mahadevan, Frank Molock
  • Patent number: 10178286
    Abstract: A method for forming a color filter array includes a step of exposing a photosensitive color filter film, a step of forming a color filter array from the color filter film by developing the color filter film using a developer, and a step of cleaning the color filter array while rotating the color filter array and moving a nozzle for spraying fluid containing liquid and gas above the color filter array in a direction intersecting with an axis of the rotation. The method reduces variation in thickness of a color filter that is generated in the cleaning step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masao Ishioka, Daisuke Shimoyama, Takayuki Sumida, Kei Aoki, Yasuhiro Kawabata, Naoki Inatani, Tomoyuki Tezuka, Jun Iwata, Masaki Kurihara
  • Patent number: 10095107
    Abstract: A composition, a method fabricating the infrared ray transmitting filter, and an infrared ray sensor are provided. When the composition forms a film with a thickness of 1 ?m, transmittance of the film in a wavelength in a range from 400 nm to 700 nm is less than 4%, and transmittance of the film in a wavelength in a range from 900 nm to 1300 nm is more than 90%. The composition comprises an alkali-soluble resin at least containing an acrylic group, a carboxyl group, and a fluorene ring, a photoinitiator, an unsaturated monomer, a pigment mixture, and a solvent. The pigment mixture is formed by mixing a colorant dispersion and a pigment in a weight ratio from 60:40 to 70:30.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: eChem Solutions Corp.
    Inventors: Chen Wen Chiu, Chia Hao Lou, Ya Ting Chen
  • Patent number: 10077274
    Abstract: The present invention relates to UV-curing-compatible photochromic single- or double-fused naphthopyrans of the general formulae (I) or (II) and the use thereof in plastics of all kinds, particularly for ophthalmic purposes. The photochromic compounds according to the invention are characterized by their excellent UV-curing compatibility, i.e. they remain undamaged—incorporated, for example, in an acrylate monomer matrix with UV initiator—by a free-radical polymerization of the matrix initiated by strong UV light. The photochromic dyes according to the invention, by means of suitable choice of substituents, are in addition characterized by two distinct absorption bands of the open form in the visible wavelength range, i.e. two conventional photochromic dyes, each having one discrete absorption band, can be replaced with a molecule of this type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: RODENSTOCK GMBH
    Inventors: Udo Weigand, Herbert Zinner, Yven Rohlfing
  • Patent number: 10042087
    Abstract: Disclosed are a photosensitive resin composition for a color filter including (A) a colorant including a dye; (B) a photocurable dispersing agent; (C) an acrylic-based binder resin; (D) a photopolymerizable monomer; (E) a photopolymerization initiator; and (F) a solvent, and a color filter using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ju-Ho Jung, Ji-Hye Kwon, Jee-Hyun Ryu, In-Jae Lee, Min-Kyeol Chung, Sang-Won Cho, Mi-Jin Choi, Seung-Jib Choi, Soo-Young Heo
  • Patent number: 10023664
    Abstract: The present application relates to a polymer and a use thereof. The present application may provide a functional polymer which expresses a low solubility to a polar solvent and a non-polar solvent. If applied to the use of cosmetics such as mascara or to medical uses, the polymer in the present application may express a tolerance to diverse solvents such as sebum, sweat, tears and the like, and thus enables makeup to last, etc. Accordingly, the polymer may be applied to diverse uses and used in film forming agents, cosmetic compositions, or cosmetics, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Su Jeong Kim, Jeong Ae Yoon, Sung Soo Yoon, Kyong Seob Kim, Khee Hwan Choi, Hae Seok Chae
  • Patent number: 10007166
    Abstract: Electronic inks are disclosed herein. An example of the electronic ink includes a non-polar carrier fluid, a colorant particle dispersion, and a charge director. The colorant particle dispersion includes another non-polar carrier fluid (which may be the same as, or different from the non-polar carrier fluid), colorant particles, and chargeable dispersant molecules bonded to the colorant particles. The charge director is to charge the chargeable dispersant molecules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Qin Liu, Yaron Grinwald, Gregg Combs
  • Patent number: 10005763
    Abstract: A photochromic compound is provided, which may be a pyran, an oxazine, or a fulgide. The photochromic compound has at least one substituent Q attached thereto, each Q independently being —N3, —CN, —COOR?, —CCR?, —C(R?)C(R?)R?, —OCOR?, —OCOOR?,—SR?, —OSO2R??, and/or —CON(R?)R?, wherein each R? is hydrogen, an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl group having from 1 to 18 carbon atoms; an unsubstituted or substituted aryl group, an unsubstituted or substituted alkene or alkyne group having from 2 to 18 carbon atoms, wherein the substituents are halo or hydroxyl and R?? is —CF3 or a perfluorinated alkyl group having from 2 to 18 carbon atoms The number, locations and nature of the constituents Q are dependent upon the structure of the photochromic compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Transitions Optical, Inc.
    Inventors: Meng He, Darrin R. Dabideen, Terry A. Kellar, II, Anil Kumar
  • Patent number: 10000472
    Abstract: A photochromic compound is provided, which may be a pyran, an oxazine, or a fulgide. The photochromic compound has at least one substituent Q attached thereto, each Q independently being —N3, —CN, —COOR?, —CCR?, —C(R?)C(R?)R?, —OCOR?, —OCOOR?, —SR?, —OSO2R??, and/or —CON(R?)R?, wherein each R? is hydrogen, an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl group having from 1 to 18 carbon atoms; an unsubstituted or substituted aryl group, an unsubstituted or substituted alkene or alkyne group having from 2 to 18 carbon atoms, wherein the substituents are halo or hydroxyl and R?? is —CF3 or a perfluorinated alkyl group having from 2 to 18 carbon atoms The number, locations and nature of the constituents Q are dependent upon the structure of the photochromic compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: Transitions Optical, Inc.
    Inventors: Meng He, Darrin R. Dabideen, Terry A. Kellar, II, Anil Kumar
  • Patent number: 9915765
    Abstract: By a composition for color filter containing a near-infrared transmitting black coloring agent, a composition for color filter capable of forming an infrared transmission filter which is able to transmit an infrared ray (particularly, a near infrared ray) in the state of low noise derived from the visible light component even when it has a very thin thickness (for example, thickness of 0.5 ?m), and an infrared transmission filter and a production method of an infrared transmission filter using the same, and an infrared sensor can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotaka Takishita, Yoshinori Taguchi, Hiroshi Taguchi
  • Patent number: 9910301
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising a switchable optical filter comprising a layer of switchable material, the switchable material comprising a photochromic/thermochromic, a photochromic/photochromic, or a photochromic/electrochromic compound; a first light source providing light of a wavelength that causes the switchable material to transition from a faded state to a dark state, or a dark state to a faded state; and a switch for controlling activation of the first light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: SWITCH MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Neil Robin Branda, Jeremy Graham Finden, Duhane Lam, Jonathan Ross Sargent, Cynthia Elizabeth Shippam, Douglas Malcolm Wiggin
  • Patent number: 9904074
    Abstract: A method for making a hydrogel, photochromic contact lens including supplying a first lens composition comprising a contact lens monomer and a photochromic material to a front contact lens mold and supplying a second lens composition to said contact lens mold wherein the viscosity of said first composition is at least about 1000 cp greater than the viscosity of said second contact lens composition, and the makeup of said second composition matches the of said first composition to reduce strain between said compositions of the resulting lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Donnie J. Duis, Yongcheng Li, Leilani K. Sonoda, Holly L. Grammer
  • Patent number: 9880323
    Abstract: Method of production of a photochromic composite material, in which, starting from a photochromic ruthenium complex with nitrosyl ligand, with a silica matrix by a sol-gel process or with a biodegradable matrix, in particular of starch or of agar-agar, so that the photochromic ruthenium complex with nitrosyl ligand, in the crystalline state and in the form of nanoparticles, is inserted into the nanopores of the matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE—CNRS
    Inventors: Benoit Cormary, Isabelle Malfant
  • Patent number: 9856342
    Abstract: A copolymer comprising a structural unit (I) derived from a phosphonate monomer (1) such as diethyl methacryloyloxymethyl phosphonate, diethyl 2-methacryloyloxyethyl phosphonate and the like, and a structural unit (II) derived from a radical polymerizable monomer (2) such as methacrylic acid, acrylic acid, 8-tricyclo[5.2.1.02,6]decanyl methacrylate, t-butyl methacrylate and the like, wherein the content of phosphorus atoms from the phosphonate monomer (1) is 2.0 to 6.0% by mass relative to the mass of the copolymer. A formed article comprising the copolymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: KURARAY Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Abe, Atsuhiro Nakahara, Hiroyuki Konishi, Hiroshi Ozawa
  • Patent number: 9857882
    Abstract: This invention relates to a pointing display device comprising a UV reaction material layer comprising UV reaction material which generates change of color by UV, UV reaction part comprising a substrate part for which a coating layer is the UV reaction material layer, and UV light source which may emit UV laser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: DONGWOO FINE-CHEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung-Ho Baek, Ji-Yeon Won
  • Patent number: 9834723
    Abstract: In order to address the problems of conventional photochromic compounds, which are the insufficient coloring/discoloring speed and durability exhibited thereby and the large number of production steps, the present invention provides a photochromic compound that exhibits a high speed coloring/discoloring reaction and high durability while it is able to be synthesized in low cost, and that has industrial applicability. The compound of the present invention is characterized by the insertion of a diarylimidazolyl radical into the ortho position of an aryl group. The compound exhibits photochromic properties, and achieves a photochromic compound having both a high speed color switching reaction and high durability. Furthermore low cost synthesis is possible, and the photochromic compound has industrial applicability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: KANTO KAGAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Jiro Abe, Hiroaki Tamashita, Kazuhiko Tsutiya, Takayoshi Suga
  • Patent number: 9815843
    Abstract: A compound represented by Chemical Formula 1 wherein each substituent is the same as defined in the specification, a photosensitive resin composition including the same, and a color filter manufactured using the photosensitive resin composition are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chae Won Pak, Hye Won Seo, Myoung Youp Shin, Eui Soo Jeong, Seung Jib Choi
  • Patent number: 9765015
    Abstract: Additives for electrophoretic media comprising esters of branched polyols and fatty acids, such as esters of pentaerythritol propoxylate (5/4 PO/OH) and stearic acid. The fatty acids may be saturated or unsaturated, branched or unbranched. In some embodiments, the fatty acids are perfluorinated, or partially fluorinated. In some embodiments, the branched polyol will include oligomers of polypropylene oxide or polyethylene oxide. When the additives are included in an electrophoretic medium in a display, the resulting display has an improved contrast ratio and reducing ghosting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: E INK CALIFORNIA, LLC
    Inventors: Lin Shao, Haiyan Gu, Vladimir Sofiyev, Ming Wang
  • Patent number: 9753368
    Abstract: A photosensitive resin composition, a photosensitive resin film, and a color filter, the composition including a binder resin; a dye consisting of a cation and an anion; a photopolymerizable compound; a photopolymerization initiator, and a solvent, wherein the dye is included in an amount of about 15 wt % to about 40 wt % based on a total weight of a photosensitive resin composition, and wherein the cation is represented by Chemical Formula 1:
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sohyun Kim, Jaeyoung Kwon, Sundae Kim, Jieun Kim, Kwangwon Seo, Seungjib Choi, Eunjeong Choi, Gyuseok Han
  • Patent number: 9732230
    Abstract: A composite oxide black pigment has characteristics to absorb visible rays and near infrared rays, and is composed of an oxide of main constituent metals including copper, manganese and iron. In a wavelength region of 400 to 1,000 nm, the composite oxide black pigment has a minimum wavelength, at which a transmittance becomes minimum, in a wavelength region of 600 to 800 nm, a molar ratio of manganese/iron is 3/1 to 30/1, and a molar ratio of copper/(manganese+iron) is 1/2 to 1.2/2. Its sole use makes it possible to obtain a transparent vivid bluish, neutral gray color, and also to maximize an absorption in a near infrared region. It is, therefore, excellent in near infrared absorption characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: DAINICHISEIKA COLOR & CHEMICALS MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Nishio, Toru Kawakami, Kenichi Yamane
  • Patent number: 9720319
    Abstract: Provided are a colored composition having excellent heat resistance, excellent solvent resistance, and an excellent voltage holding ratio; a cured film; a color filter; a method for manufacturing a color filter; a solid-state imaging element; an image display device; and a compound. The colored composition includes a colorant comprising a repeating unit having a triarylmethane structure containing a cation, and a counter anion, and a polymerizable compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Akinori Fujita, Satoshi Higuchi, Takashi Katoh, Yasuhiro Ishiwata, Koutaro Okabe
  • Patent number: 9663398
    Abstract: Provided is a photochromic substance that has lower toxicity, exhibits good sensitivity in a visible light region, changes color deeply, has slow speed of color fading, has chemical and thermal stability, and has good durability. The photochromic substance has a composition represented by the formula: Ba(a-b)CabMgcSidOe:FefMgM?h where 1.8?a?2.2, 0?b?0.1, 1.4?c?3.5, 1.8?d?2.2, e=(a+c+2d), 0.0001?f, 0.0001?g, 0?h, M is at least one of Al and Eu, and M? is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Na, K, Nd, Li, S, C, Ti, V, Mn, Cr, Cu, Ni, Co, Ge, Zn, Ga, Zr, Y, Nb, In, Ag, Mo, Sn, Sb, Bi, Ta, W, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Gd, Er, Ho, Tb, Tm, Yb, Lu, P, Cd, and Pb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE
    Inventor: Morito Akiyama
  • Patent number: 9546911
    Abstract: A temperature-activatable time-temperature indicator that can be used to monitor the historical exposure of a host product to ambient temperatures includes an optically readable, thermally sensitive indicator element. The indicator element can be inactive below a base temperature and is intrinsically thermally responsive at or above an activation temperature which is equal to or greater than the base temperature. The indicator can record cumulative ambient temperature exposure above the activation temperature irreversibly with respect to time. The indicator element can include a synthetic polymeric material, and optionally, a dye. A side-chain crystallizable polymer such as poly(hexadecylmethacrylate), that is solid below the base temperature and is a viscous liquid above the activation temperature can be employed. Intense indicator element colors can be obtained using an appropriate dye or dyes. Various structural configurations of indicator are described and illustrated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: TEMPTIME CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brian S. Huffman, Dawn E. Smith, Carl M. Lentz
  • Patent number: 9529118
    Abstract: A composition for optical materials of the present invention includes a polyolefin (A) obtained by (co)polymerizing at least one kind of olefin selected from ?-olefins having 3 to 20 carbon atoms and a photochromic compound (B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Akinori Ryu, Ryouichi Seki, Kazuki Fujii
  • Patent number: 9529116
    Abstract: A photosensitive resin composition and application of the same are provided. The photosensitive resin composition comprises an alkali-soluble resin (A), a compound (B) containing vinyl unsaturated group(s), a photo initiator (C), an organic solvent (D), a pigment (E) and a metal chelating agent (F). During a pixel process with an omission of a prebake step, the photosensitive resin composition, which is added with the metal chelating agent (F), can be formed to pixels that is adhered tightly to a substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: CHI MEI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bo-Hsuan Lin, Jung-Pin Hsu, Duan-Chih Wang
  • Patent number: 9522921
    Abstract: A photochromic dye comprising at least one compound characterized by Formula I:
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Sabic Global Technologies, B.V.
    Inventors: Girish Koripelly, Mohamed Ashraf Moideen, Pradeep Jeevaji Nadkarni, Meghna Markanday
  • Patent number: 9482859
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a dye composition for electrowetting display, the method including a processing step of processing a mixture liquid containing a nonpolar solvent and a dye, using an ion exchange resin, to obtain a dye composition for electrowetting display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Kato, Satoshi Higuchi
  • Patent number: 9482924
    Abstract: A colored composition includes: an azomethine pigment represented by the following Formula (1) and having a solubility in n-hexane of 1% by mass or more at 25° C. and 0.1 MPa; and a non-polar solvent: wherein, in Formula (1), Het1 represents a ring having no dissociable group and Ar represents an aromatic ring having no dissociable group or a saturated heterocycle having no dissociable group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Kato, Yasuhiro Ishiwata, Hiroyuki Naito