Electrode Or Bus Detail (i.e., Excluding Supplemental Capacitor And Transistor Electrodes) Patents (Class 349/139)
  • Patent number: 9997586
    Abstract: Described herein is an electroluminescence display apparatus comprising: at least one quad-type pixel circuit unit comprising a plurality of sub-pixel circuit units; at least one gate line disposed between the plurality of sub-pixel circuit units and extending along a first direction; at least one first data line group comprising a first pair of data lines disposed at both sides of the at least one pixel circuit unit and extending along a second direction; at least one second data line group comprising a second pair of data lines disposed between the sub-pixel circuit units and extending along the second direction; and at least one common line and at least one anode line disposed between the first pair of data lines of the first data line group and disposed along the first direction, the at least one gate line crosses with the at least one first data line group and the at least one second data line group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: JungMook Kim
  • Patent number: 9989810
    Abstract: An electro-optical device comprises an element substrate, a counter substrate, and an inorganic film. The counter substrate is arranged so as to face the element substrate. The seal material is arranged between the element substrate and the counter substrate so as to join the element substrate and the counter substrate. The inorganic film covers a side face of the seal material, a peripheral region of the element substrate between the side face of the seal material and a side of the element substrate, and a peripheral region of the counter substrate between the side face of the seal material and a side of the counter substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Shinohara, Yuichi Shimizu, Shigeki Kobayashi, Takuya Miyakawa
  • Patent number: 9989797
    Abstract: A touch recognition enabled display panel includes a plurality of common electrode blocks serving as touch-sensing regions and/or touch-driving regions. Conductive lines connected to the common electrode blocks are placed under the common electrode blocks and the pixel electrodes of the pixels, and they are routed across the active area, directly toward an inactive area where drive-integrated circuits are located. The conductive lines are positioned under one or more planarization layers, and are connected to the corresponding common electrode blocks via one or more contact holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seongsu Kim, Taesang Kim, Mingyeong Kim
  • Patent number: 9983458
    Abstract: A liquid crystal lens device includes a first electrode unit, a counter electrode and a liquid crystal layer. The first electrode unit includes a first and a second electrode. The liquid crystal layer is provided between the first electrode unit and the counter electrode. A threshold voltage Vth of the liquid crystal layer, an absolute value V1 of a potential difference between the first electrode and the counter electrode, a distance P1 between a center of the first electrode and a center of the second electrode, a thickness d1 of the liquid crystal layer, an effective elastic constant keff of the liquid crystal layer, a dielectric anisotropy ?? of the liquid crystal layer, and a dielectric constant ?0 of a vacuum satisfy V1>Vth×(P1/2)/d1, V1<Vth×(P1/d1), and (P1/2)/d1<?0×(??/keff).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masako Kashiwagi, Shinichi Uehara, Ayako Takagi
  • Patent number: 9978301
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes pixels connected to gate lines and data lines. Among the pixels arranged in k-th and (k+1)th columns between j-th and (j+1)th data lines, the pixels arranged in the k-th column are connected to one data line of the j-th and (j+1)th data lines, the pixels arranged in the (k+1)th column are connected to the other data line of the j-th and (j+1)th data lines, and the pixels arranged in the k-th and (k+1)th columns are alternately connected to the j-th and (j+1)th data lines in a unit of two pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyunsik Hwang, Bongim Park, Ikhyun Ahn, Yoongu Kim
  • Patent number: 9972549
    Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of pixel repairing blocks and each pixel repairing block includes a first sub-pixel unit and a second sub-pixel unit. The first sub-pixel unit has a first power supply terminal and a second power supply terminal. The first power supply terminal of the first sub-pixel unit is electrically coupled to a first power line and the second power supply terminal of the first sub-pixel unit is electrically coupled to a second power line. The second sub-pixel unit has a first power supply terminal and a second power supply terminal. The first power supply terminal of the second sub-pixel unit is electrically coupled to the first power line and the second power supply terminal of the second sub-pixel units electrically coupled to a third power line. The second sub-pixel unit is adjacent to the first sub-pixel unit, and both the second sub-pixel unit and the first sub-pixel unit are configured to generate a first colored light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsung-Tien Wu, Wen-Wei Yang
  • Patent number: 9972271
    Abstract: A display panel including a plurality of pixel units, a plurality of source lines, a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of common electrode lines is provided. The pixels units are arranged in array. The array includes a plurality of columns and a plurality of rows. The source lines are respectively coupled with the pixel units disposed in a same column of the columns. The gate lines are respectively coupled with the pixel units disposed in a same row of the rows. The common electrode lines and gate lines extend parallelly with each other. At least one of the source date lines, the gate lines and the common electrode lines has the line widths varied along the extension direction thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Ju-Lin Huang, Jhih-Siou Cheng
  • Patent number: 9964795
    Abstract: A curved display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a first color pixel area, a second color pixel area, a third color pixel area, and a fourth color pixel area disposed on the first substrate or the second substrate, in which the first substrate and the second substrate each includes a center portion and an edge portion surrounding the center portion, the first, second, and third color pixel areas include a red filter, a green filter, and a blue filter, respectively, the fourth color pixel area include a white filter, and the fourth color pixel area is disposed at the edge portion of the first or second substrate, and is smaller than each of the first, second, and third color pixel areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wan-Soon Im, Joong Gun Chong, Jong Hak Hwang
  • Patent number: 9965087
    Abstract: A touch array substrate, a liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display device. The touch array substrate includes: a substrate; a touch sensing electrode layer including a plurality of touch sensing electrodes insulated from each other, each of which is electrically connected with one touch sensing electrode line; where, the touch sensing electrode includes a first slot, and a first region, which represents a projection of the first slot onto the substrate in a direction perpendicular to the substrate and is at least partially overlapped with a second region which represents a projection of the touch sensing electrode line onto the substrate in the direction perpendicular to the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignees: XIAMEN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huimin Xie, Xiufeng Zhou, Tao Peng, Zhaodong Zhang
  • Patent number: 9959790
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display apparatus including: a first pixel including three sub-pixels for displaying three primary colors respectively; and a second pixel including three sub-pixels for displaying two colors selected among the three primary colors and a predetermined color other than the three primary colors, wherein, in the first pixel, the size of the display surface of a sub-pixel for displaying a specific color included in the three primary colors as a specific color missing from the second pixel is larger than each of the sizes of the display surfaces of the two other sub-pixels for displaying the two other primary colors respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Dispaly Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Matsui, Akira Sakaigawa, Masaaki Kabe, Kenta Seki
  • Patent number: 9952700
    Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of pixel electrodes each of which is provided in each of a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in a display region; a driving electrode provided so as to overlap the plurality of pixel electrodes when seen in a plan view; a plurality of detecting electrodes provided so as to overlap the driving electrode when seen in a plan view; and a dummy electrode provided apart from the detecting electrodes. The detecting electrodes and the dummy electrode include a metal layer or an alloy layer. A ratio of total sum of areas of portions of the plurality sub-pixels which overlap any of the detecting electrodes and the dummy electrode when seen in a plan view to total sum of areas of the plurality of sub-pixels is 1 to 22%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hayato Kurasawa, Koji Ishizaki, Takeo Koito
  • Patent number: 9946105
    Abstract: An array substrate and a method for fabricating the same and a display device are disclosed. The array substrate includes a protection layer, wherein the protection layer overlays a display region and a non-display region of the array substrate. The non-display region includes a cutting region, and a thickness of a part of the protection layer overlaying the cutting region is larger than that of a part of the protection layer overlaying the display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sanghun Kang
  • Patent number: 9939694
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes an arrangement of pixels, wherein each of the pixels includes at least three subpixels, wherein the second subpixel is a Red subpixel, in contrast to the traditional Red-Green-Blue subpixel configuration. Further, a signal line is disposed next to each of the subpixels, but a common line is disposed next to a subpixel which is not a Red subpixel. Thus, the second subpixel, which is a Red subpixel, has on both sides thereof signal lines, but lacks a common line next thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kajita, Tsuyoshi Uchida, Teruhisa Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 9940086
    Abstract: Provided is a display device or a display system capable of displaying images along a curved surface, a display device or a display system capable of displaying images seamlessly in the form of a ring, or a display device or a display system that is suitable for increasing in size. The display device includes a display panel. The display panel includes a first part and a second part and is flexible. The first part can display images. The second part can transmit visible light. The display panel is curved so that the second part and the first part overlap with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kensuke Yoshizumi, Yuichi Yanagisawa, Kei Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9935130
    Abstract: A pixel structure includes pixel electrodes, data lines, and gate lines. Each of the pixel electrodes has two opposite ends that are each provided with one of the gate lines. The data lines and the gate lines re perpendicular to each other. Each of the pixel electrodes includes at least two sub-pixel domains. The data lines are located beneath the pixel electrode at interfacing between every two adjacent ones of the sub-pixel domains. The pixel electrodes each include slits located in the interfacing of the two adjacent sub-pixel domains. The slits are in alignment with the data line and located above the data line. Also provided is a liquid crystal display. The pixel structure and a liquid crystal display including the pixel structure have a reduced overlapping area between the data line and the pixel electrode above the data line so as to reduce parasitic capacitance and improve V-crosstalk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Cheng-Hung Chen, Tien-Hao Chang, Jinbo Guo
  • Patent number: 9927670
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid crystal display including: a first substrate including a display area displaying an image and a peripheral area surrounding the display area; a data line disposed on the first substrate in the display area and including a source electrode; a first gate insulating layer disposed at a portion except for the portion where the data line is disposed on the first substrate; a semiconductor layer disposed on the source electrode; a drain electrode disposed on the semiconductor layer; a gate line disposed on the first gate insulating layer in the display area and including a gate electrode; and a second gate insulating layer disposed between the gate electrode on the first gate insulating layer and the semiconductor layer, in which the gate line and the data line extend in the same direction to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong Hwan Park, Jae Hak Lee, Eun Je Jang
  • Patent number: 9927659
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a plurality of pixels, a lower substrate and an upper substrate facing each other, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the lower substrate and the upper substrate, a pixel electrode disposed on the lower substrate and including a plurality of sub-regions which differently controls an inclination direction of liquid crystal molecules included in the liquid crystal layer for a pixel of the plurality of pixels, and a gate line disposed on the lower substrate and including a portion which overlaps a boundary between adjacent sub-regions of the plurality of sub-regions of the pixel electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eun-Kil Park, Wan-Soon Im, Yong Woo Hyung
  • Patent number: 9927663
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate including a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode, and a third pixel electrode, a second substrate including a first color filter opposed to the first pixel electrode, a second color filter opposed to the second pixel electrode, and a third color filter opposed to the third pixel electrode, and a liquid crystal layer held between the first substrate and the second substrate, a first interval along the first direction between the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode being smaller than a second interval along the first direction between the second pixel electrode and the third pixel electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kayoko Miyazaki, Keiji Tago
  • Patent number: 9920907
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a base having a light reflecting surface and having a first side on which the light reflecting surface is provided, light sources mounted on the first side, and a half mirror disposed opposite to the base to reflect a part of incident light and to transmit another part of the incident light. Each of the light sources includes a reflecting layer on an upper surface of each of the light sources. The half mirror has an oblique reflectance with respect to wavelengths of light emitted from the light sources in a case where the light travels obliquely toward the half mirror. The half mirror has a perpendicular reflectance with respect to the wavelengths in a case where the light travels perpendicularly toward the half mirror. The oblique reflectance is smaller than the perpendicular reflectance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Motokazu Yamada
  • Patent number: 9911762
    Abstract: A display device is provided, which includes a substrate structure containing a substrate with a pixel region, and the pixel region includes an aperture region. A metal oxide semiconductor transistor is disposed over the substrate and includes a metal oxide semiconductor layer with a first channel region, a first gate electrode corresponding to the first channel region, and a silicon oxide insulating layer on the metal oxide semiconductor layer. The silicon oxide insulating layer includes an opening corresponding to the aperture region. A polysilicon transistor is disposed over the substrate. The display device also includes an opposite substrate structure, and a display medium between the substrate structure and the opposite substrate structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tzu-Min Yan, Ming-Chang Lin, Kuan-Feng Lee
  • Patent number: 9904422
    Abstract: A mother substrate for touch screen panel includes a plurality of sensing patterns disposed in an active area, a plurality of first pads disposed in an non-active area surrounding the active area, a plurality of position detecting lines disposed in an non-active area and connecting the sensing patterns and the first pads and a plurality of second pads connected to the first pads. The first pads are spaced apart from each other by a first width. The second pads are spaced apart from each other by a second width more than the first width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byoung-Won Choi, Seong-Mo Hwang, Seung-Ho Nam, Soo-Guy Rho, Jong-Won Lee
  • Patent number: 9898980
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels arranged in columns and rows in a display area, a data line extending in a first direction and connected with pixels of a k-th column (‘k’ is a natural number) and a (k+1)-th column, a gate line extending in a second direction crossing the first direction and connected with ones of the pixels, a gate signal line extending in the first direction and connected with the gate line, and a gate driver in a first peripheral area adjacent to a first longer side of the display area and having a first width, and configured to apply a gate signal to the gate line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ho-Kyoon Kwon, Myoung-Soo Kim, Sang-Ik Lee, Kyoung-Ho Lim, Kwang-Chul Jung, Jun-Ki Jeong, Ki-Seok Cha, Joon-Chul Goh, Bong-Hyun You
  • Patent number: 9897865
    Abstract: An array substrate, a method of manufacturing the same and a liquid crystal display panel are disclosed. In the array substrate, a connection part for connecting two adjacent pixel electrodes is configured to enclose the spacer from three sides and a corresponding thin film transistor is arranged to enclose the spacer from a side other than the three sides. A distance between an upper surface of the connection part and an upper surface of the base substrate is larger than a distance between a lower surface of the spacer and the upper surface of the base substrate. With this configuration, the spacer is limited within a position limiting structure formed by the connection part and the thin film transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Peng Jiang, Haipeng Yang, Ke Dai, Yong Jun Yoon, Zhangtao Wang, Bingbing Yan
  • Patent number: 9897883
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate that includes a first switching element and first electric field forming electrodes that form a first electric field based on on/off signals received from the first switching element, a second substrate which faces the first substrate and that includes a second switching element and second electric field forming electrodes that form a second electric field b on/off signals received from the second switching element, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the liquid crystal layer includes a first electric field area controlled by the first substrate in which the first electric field is formed, and a second electric field area controlled by the second substrate in which the second electric field is formed, and wherein the first electric field area and the second electric field area are arranged side by side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Wook Kim, Yang Hee Kim, Jong Hwan Park, Yeon Ju Seo, Do Hyun Jung, Sung Jin Hong
  • Patent number: 9891478
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an array substrate and liquid crystal display, and the array substrate comprises: a first substrate, which is transparent and a first electrode, located on the first substrate and employed to form a liquid crystal layer electrical field; wherein the first electrode comprises at least two non-parallel electrodes, a first strip electrode and a second strip electrode, and one end of the first strip electrode adjacent to the second strip electrode is bent/bent and extended to a tilt direction of the first strip electrode, and the one end of the first strip electrode adjacent to the second strip electrode is disconnected with the second strip electrode. With the aforesaid arrangement, the present invention can rapidly recover the liquid crystal molecules to the normal twisted directions as the liquid crystal display is acted upon by an external force, and is propitious to raise the image quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Yu-chih Wu
  • Patent number: 9885903
    Abstract: A display device comprising a Spatial Light Modulator assembly including active display elements for displaying an image, a patterned color layer including at least one color pixel array, a reflector for reflecting ambient incident light, and a light absorbing layer, wherein the color pixel array comprises a first pixel group including at least three contiguously arranged pixels capable of transmitting a first color, and a second pixel group including at least three contiguously arranged pixels capable of transmitting a second color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Andrew J. Ouderkirk, Kelly Reed Ingham
  • Patent number: 9885905
    Abstract: An array substrate is provided, and comprises: a first metal layer, a first insulation layer, a second metal layer, a second insulation layer, a pixel electrode layer, and a color filter layer. The first metal layer comprises light-shading lines. The second metal layer comprises data lines. In interfaces of color resists, lights are shaded by crossing the light-shading lines and the data lines, and by stacking color resists. This can achieve an entire lightproof effect, but is unnecessary to be provided with black matrices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanxi Ye, Yung-Lun Lin, Zhuming Deng, ChunKai Chang
  • Patent number: 9885914
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a first insulation substrate and a pixel electrode disposed on the first insulation substrate. A first alignment layer is disposed on the pixel electrode. A second insulation substrate faces the first insulation substrate. A common electrode is disposed on a surface of the second insulation substrate facing the first insulation substrate. A second alignment layer is disposed on a surface of the common electrode facing the first insulation substrate. A liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first alignment layer and the second alignment layer. The liquid crystal layer includes liquid crystal molecules. One of the first alignment layer and the second alignment layer has an electron-rich group and the other has an electron-deficient group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyeok Jin Lee, Oh Jeong Kwon, Dong Han Song, Sung-Jae Yun, Su Jin Kim, Jin Won Kim, Ki Chul Shin, Dong-Chul Shin
  • Patent number: 9885926
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a slit electrode for solving the problem that the process margin of the existing slit electrode is relatively low. The slit electrode provided by the present invention comprises: at least one slit electrode unit, the slit electrode unit comprising a plurality of strip electrodes, a slit being provided between two adjacent strip electrodes; wherein each strip electrode has a given average width, the average widths of at least two strip electrodes in the slit electrode unit are not equal. The present invention further discloses an array substrate comprising the slit electrode and a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qiangtao Wang, Hyunsic Choi, Zheng Fang, Yunyun Tian
  • Patent number: 9885931
    Abstract: A sub-pixel unit, an array substrate and a display device are provided. The sub-pixel unit (1) includes a first sub-pixel electrode (10), a second sub-pixel electrode (11) and a common electrode line (12). The common electrode line (12) includes a first common electrode sub-line (120) and a second common electrode sub-line (121); an overlapped area between the first common electrode sub-line (120) and the first sub-pixel electrode (10) is larger than an overlapped area between the second common electrode sub-line (121) and the second sub-pixel electrode (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yingyi Li, Jianbo Xian
  • Patent number: 9865622
    Abstract: An array substrate is disclosed. The array substrate comprises a base substrate (4) and signal lines on the base substrate (4). The signal lines comprises a plurality of conductive layers (11, 12) in different layers, and the plurality of conductive layers (11, 12) are provided with insulation layers (21) therebetween, and are connected in parallel through one or more vias (3). Embodiments of the present disclosure further disclose a method for manufacturing the array substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ming Zhang, Zhaohui Hao, Woong Sun Yoon
  • Patent number: 9857626
    Abstract: A substrate of liquid crystal panels includes a glass substrate, and a wire grid layer including a dielectric layer arranged on one side of the glass substrate, and a metal layer on the dielectric layer. The metal layer includes a number of first metal bars and a number of second metal bars. The second metal bars are configured to divide the metal layer into a first area, a second area, and a third area cyclically arranged. The first metal bars are arranged within the first area, the second area, and the third area in sequence, and the first metal bars are parallel to and are spaced apart from each other. The first metal bars within the different areas respectively include a first period, a second period, and a third period different from each other. In addition, the present disclosure also relates to a liquid crystal panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Guowei Zha
  • Patent number: 9858877
    Abstract: An active device array substrate is provided. The active device array substrate includes multiple pixel structures, a drive circuit, multiple signal lines and a control line. The pixel structures are disposed in a display area. The drive circuit is disposed outside the display area. The signal lines are electrically connected to the drive circuit and the pixel structures corresponded to the signal lines. The control lines are intersected with the signal lines. A method adapted for inspecting defects on the active device array substrate is also provided. First, a tested signal line is selected from the signal lines, and the control line and the tested-signal line are conducted. Second, a test signal is input from the control line to the tested-signal line to determine a location of a defect. Finally, the control line and the tested signal line are isolated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventor: Ying-Hao Pan
  • Patent number: 9853058
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a thin film transistor array panel and a display device including the same. An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a thin film transistor array panel and a display device including the same, including: an insulation substrate including an upper surface and a lower surface; a light blocking member disposed on or facing the upper surface of the insulation substrate and defining a plurality of openings; and a thin film transistor disposed on the upper surface of the insulation substrate. The insulation substrate may include a plurality of recesses formed in the opening in the lower surface of the insulation substrate, each recess positioned to correspond to one of the openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yukinori Asakawa
  • Patent number: 9851858
    Abstract: A touch window includes a cover substrate, a reflective layer provided on the cover substrate and including a sensing electrode, a wire electrode connected with the sensing electrode, and a printed circuit board electrically connected with the sensing electrode through the wire electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD
    Inventor: Gyu Rin Lee
  • Patent number: 9846333
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a liquid crystal panel is provided with steps of: providing an array substrate having a first electrode with a plurality of slots and a second electrode thereon, and a color filter substrate; applying a first photo alignment film to the array substrate, and performing a first irradiation treatment on the first photo alignment film to have a first pretilt angle; applying a second photo alignment film to the color filter substrate, and performing a second irradiation treatment on the second photo alignment film to have a second pretilt angle antiparallel to the first pretilt angle; sealing a liquid crystal molecule and a photopolymerizable monomer within a space between the first photo alignment film and the second photo alignment film to form a liquid crystal panel; and performing a third irradiation treatment on the liquid crystal panel to carry out a polymerization of the photopolymerizable monomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star OptoElectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yanjun Song, Chungching Hsieh, Yongchao Zhao, Xiang Li
  • Patent number: 9835922
    Abstract: An array substrate and a liquid crystal display device are provided. The array substrate comprises a plurality of columns of pixel units defined by adjacent data lines; each column of pixel units includes a plurality of pixel units, each pixel unit includes a first subpixel electrode, a second subpixel electrode, a first thin film transistor, a second thin film transistor and a third thin film transistor; each pixel unit further includes: a gate line arranged between the first subpixel electrode and the second subpixel electrode; the gate line being electrically connected with a gate electrode of the first thin film transistor, a gate electrode of the second thin film transistor and a gate electrode of the third thin film transistor respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongfei Cheng, Jianbo Xian, Yong Qiao, Yongchun Lu, Yongda Ma, Jian Xu, Wenbo Li, Pan Li
  • Patent number: 9829755
    Abstract: A display device includes a first substrate, a first pixel and a second pixel disposed adjacent to each other on the first substrate, and a pixel electrode disposed in each of the first and second pixels, each pixel electrode including a first stem extending in a first direction between two first end portions, a second stem intersecting the first stem and extending between two second end portions, and an intersection disposed where the first stem and the second stem meet, in which the first and second end portions define at least a portion of an outer extent of a pixel area in each pixel, and a first distance from a center of the pixel area of the first pixel to the intersection of the first pixel is different from a second distance from a center of the pixel area of the second pixel to the intersection of the second pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang Il Tae, Seung Jun Yu, Joo Lark Son, Young Goo Song
  • Patent number: 9829761
    Abstract: To provide a semiconductor device, a liquid crystal display device, and an electronic device which have a wide viewing angle and in which the number of manufacturing steps, the number of masks, and manufacturing cost are reduced compared with a conventional one. The liquid crystal display device includes a first electrode formed over an entire surface of one side of a substrate; a first insulating film formed over the first electrode; a thin film transistor formed over the first insulating film; a second insulating film formed over the thin film transistor; a second electrode formed over the second insulating film and having a plurality of openings; and a liquid crystal over the second electrode. The liquid crystal is controlled by an electric field between the first electrode and the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hajime Kimura
  • Patent number: 9825177
    Abstract: A semiconductor device which includes a transistor having a miniaturized structure is provided. A first insulator is provided over a stack in which a semiconductor, a first conductor, and a second conductor are stacked in this order. Over the first insulator, an etching mask is formed. Using the etching mask, the first insulator and the second conductor are etched until the first conductor is exposed. After etching the first conductor until the semiconductor is exposed so as to form a groove having a smaller width than the second conductor, a second insulator and a third conductor are formed sequentially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Shinya Sasagawa, Satoru Okamoto, Motomu Kurata, Yuta Endo
  • Patent number: 9823533
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a plurality of scan lines and signal lines on one of a pair of substrates arranged to be opposed to each other with a liquid crystal layer sandwiched therebetween, the scan lines and signal lines extending in different directions; and an orientation film, pixel electrode, insulating layer and common electrode, the orientation film being rubbed in a rubbing direction having a given inclination with respect to a pixel arrangement direction. The pixel electrode is partitioned by the scan lines and signal lines and has subpixels made up of first and second regions. The first region has a plurality of slit-shaped openings having a given inclination in a first direction with respect to the rubbing direction. The second region has a plurality of slit-shaped openings having a given inclination in a second direction with respect to the rubbing direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Daisuke Ito, Hideyuki Omori
  • Patent number: 9817291
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, provide is a liquid crystal display device that suppresses potential change of a common electrode caused by potential change of a signal line. An electrode part is provided on an array substrate so as to surround a display region. A signal line is provided on the array substrate so as to be located in the display region. A passivation film is provided on the array substrate so as to cover at least the signal line and the electrode part. A one-side opening part is provided continuously along an edge part of the display region on the passivation film so that the electrode part is disposed. The common electrode is provided on the array substrate so that a part of the common electrode is located at the one-side opening part and another part of the common electrode is located facing the signal line on the passivation film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Yamamoto, Akihiko Saitoh, Seiichi Sato, Nobuko Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 9817285
    Abstract: A liquid crystal panel includes: first and second substrates arranged to be opposite each other at a predetermined gap; a liquid crystal layer filled between the first and second substrates; alignment films; a counter electrode pattern formed on the first substrate; and a pixel electrode pattern formed on the first substrate so as to have a plurality of electrode branches, wherein the extension direction of at least one of slits formed at both ends from among slits formed between the plurality of electrode branches crosses the alignment direction of the liquid crystal layer at an angle of 7° or larger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Sakurai, Hironao Tanaka, Hidemasa Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 9809748
    Abstract: The present invention relates to liquid-crystalline media (LC media) having negative or positive dielectric anisotropy, comprising a low-molecular-weight component and a polymerizable component. The polymerizable component comprises self-aligning, polymerizable mesogens (polymerizable self-alignment additives) which effect homeotropic (vertical) alignment of the LC media at a surface or the cell walls of a liquid-crystal display (LC display). The invention therefore also encompasses LC displays having homeotropic alignment of the LC medium without alignment layers. The invention discloses novel structures for self-alignment additives which have a certain position of the functional groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Graziano Archetti, Izumi Saito, Rocco Fortte, Thorsten Kodek
  • Patent number: 9811191
    Abstract: An array substrate, a manufacture method thereof and a touch display panel. The array substrate includes a base; a plurality of thin film transistors arranged in a matrix form, each of which including a gate electrode, a source electrode and a drain electrode; a first insulation layer located on the thin film transistor; a touch wiring layer which is disposed on the first insulation layer and includes a plurality of touch wirings; and a planarization layer covering the touch wiring layer. In some embodiments of the disclosure, the planarization layer covers the touch wiring layer, making the flatness over the touch wirings better, thus alleviating the light leakage at both sides of the touch wiring after the rubbing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignees: XIAMEN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tao Peng
  • Patent number: 9806102
    Abstract: A display substrate, a method for fabricating the same, and a display device are disclosed. The display substrate comprises a plurality of pixels; and a plurality of slit patterns, which are arranged between at least two of the plurality of pixels, and comprise a plurality of slits arranged in a rubbing direction. Slit patterns are provided, and each of slit patterns comprises slits in the rubbing direction. Thus, during a rubbing alignment process, the slit patterns can guide a rubbing cloth to move in the rubbing direction. Accordingly, the alignment of the rubbing cloth is prevented from changing in the rubbing process, a good alignment layer is formed, rubbing Mura is avoided, and the lifetime of the rubbing cloth is extended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qian Zhang, Tingze Dong, Xiuliang Wang, Xuejiao Huang, Zhao Chen
  • Patent number: 9806101
    Abstract: The present invention provides a pixel array, a display panel and a display device, and the pixel array includes a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines intersecting and insulated from each other, and a plurality of pixel units defined by the plurality of gate lines and the plurality of data lines intersecting each other. Each of the plurality of pixel units includes a thin-film transistor and a strip-shaped electrode, the strip-shaped electrodes of two adjacent pixel units in a same column have different inclination directions, the thin-film transistors of the two adjacent pixel units are in inclination angle regions of the two adjacent pixel units, respectively, and the inclination angle region is a region corresponding to a position at which extending directions of the strip-shaped electrode and the gate line intersect to form an acute angle in a pixel unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaojuan Wu, Li Ma
  • Patent number: 9798195
    Abstract: A display device that includes a first substrate, a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of pixel structures, a passivation layer, a bump, a second substrate, and a spacer is provided. The scan lines, the data lines, the pixel structures, and the passivation layer are all located on the first substrate. The bump is arranged on the first substrate. The second substrate is arranged opposite to the first substrate. The spacer is arranged on the second substrate and at least partially overlapped with the bump. One of the bump and the spacer has a first shape and the other has a second shape. Each of lengths of two end sections of the first shape in a first direction is larger than a length of a middle section of the first shape in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventor: Yan-Liang Chen
  • Patent number: 9799679
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a thin film transistor (TFT) array substrate, its manufacturing method and a display device. The method includes steps of: forming patterns of a common electrode, a common electrode line, a gate line and a data line on a substrate by a single patterning process; forming an insulating layer; forming a pattern of an active layer by a single patterning process; forming a gate insulating layer and forming via-holes corresponding to the gate line, the data line and the active layer in the gate insulating layer by a single patterning process; and forming patterns of a pixel electrode, a gate electrode, a source electrode and a drain electrode by a single patterning process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ce Ning
  • Patent number: 9799688
    Abstract: An array substrate includes a display area and a peripheral area adjacent to the display area; the display area includes a plurality of pixel units; each pixel unit includes a thin-film transistor (TFT) and a pixel electrode; and a drain electrode of the TFT directly contacts with the pixel electrode. In the array substrate, the drain electrode of the TFT directly contacts with the pixel electrode, and hence a uniformly distributed electric field will be generated between common electrodes and the pixel electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiangyang Xu, Zhuhua Nie, Liyun Deng, Minsu Kim, Kai Wang