Having Connection Detail To External Circuit Patents (Class 349/149)
  • Patent number: 9904425
    Abstract: An apparatus including a first plurality of first conductive lines; and a first meandering interconnect supported in a spaced relationship from a deformable substrate, wherein the first meandering interconnect includes a first multiplicity of meandering conductive lines each of which is electrically connected to one of the first plurality of first conductive lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Darryl Cotton, Mark Allen, Piers Andrew
  • Patent number: 9904391
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device with a touch detection function includes: a touch detection electrode that detects proximity or contact of an object; a drive electrode to which the excitation signal is applied; a first substrate on which the drive elements are provided; a second substrate on which at least one of the touch detection electrode and the drive electrode is provided, the second substrate being bonded to the first substrate to face each other via a sealing member; a conductor that electrically is coupled to at least one of the touch detection electrode and the drive electrode; and a conductor support member that fills a space between the first substrate and the second substrate and on the surface of which the conductor is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Ishizaki, Hayato Kurasawa
  • Patent number: 9897870
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display is provided which can avoid degradation of picture quality by preventing deviations in parasitic capacitance between a data line and a pixel electrode. The liquid crystal display includes data lines and gate lines, compensation patterns covering the data lines, thin film transistors disposed at regions neighbored to crossings of the data and gate lines, pixel electrodes disposed in pixel regions defined by the crossings and respectively connected to the thin film transistors; and a common electrode disposed to overlap the pixel electrodes, One edge of each of the compensation patterns is spaced apart from the pixel electrodes by a predetermined distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yangsik Lee, Jihyun Jung, Jaegyun Lee, Ruda Rhe, Hyangmyoung Gwon
  • Patent number: 9887254
    Abstract: A double-side OLED display is disclosed. The double-side OLED display includes a base layer and an OLED layer disposed on the base layer. The OLED layer includes a first display region and a second display region. The base layer and the OLED layer are folded such that the first display region and the second display region respectively face toward opposite directions; the base layer is located at an outside. The present invention can simplify the production process, increase the production capacity, decrease the thickness of the product, and sufficiently utilizing the base layer such that the base layer can protect the OLED layer. Besides, because the displaying at both sides is emitting at a bottom, the base layer located at outside can provide a flat display surface to improve the display quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuejun Tang
  • Patent number: 9874793
    Abstract: A narrow frame liquid crystal display, comprising: an array substrate comprising a first mounting area and a second mounting area; a color film substrate mounted on the first mounting area; a first chip bonded onto the second mounting area of the array substrate; a first flexible circuit board bonded onto the second mounting area of the array substrate; a first lead configured to electrically connect the first chip and the first flexible circuit board; and a second lead configured to electrically connect a display region of the array substrate and the first chip. The first chip, the first lead and the first flexible circuit board are sequentially arranged on the second mounting area in a first direction away from the color film substrate. A distance between the first chip and the first flexible circuit board is set to be less than 10 mm. The size of the area for mounting the chip can be reduced, and the frame of the liquid crystal display can become narrower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chao Xu, Wei Qin
  • Patent number: 9876036
    Abstract: The present invention provides a TFT arrangement structure, comprising a first thin film transistor (T1) and a second thin film transistor (T2) controlled by the same control signal line; the first active layer (SC1) of the first thin film transistor (T1) and the second active layer (SC2) of the second thin film transistor (T2) are at different layers, and positioned to stack up in space, and the first source (S1) and the first drain (D1) of the first thin film transistor (T1) are formed on the first active layer (SC1), and the second source (S2) and the second drain (D2) of the second thin film transistor (T2) are formed on the second active layer (SC2); the gate layer (Gate) is electrically coupled to the control signal line to control on and off of the first, the second thin film transistors (T1, T2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Baixiang Han, Longqiang Shi
  • Patent number: 9877382
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including: a display panel; a chip on film (COF) coupled to the display panel; a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) coupled to the chip on film, the flexible printed circuit board including a plurality of conductive layers and a plurality of insulating layers, the insulating layers being interposed between the conductive layers or being located at opposite sides of the flexible printed circuit board; and a protecting sheet at one side of the display panel and including a conductive region. One of the insulating layers at one side of the flexible printed circuit board is an opening region of the one of the insulating layers and exposes a corresponding one of the conductive layers to at least partially contact the conductive region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hee-Kwon Lee
  • Patent number: 9864445
    Abstract: Touch screens with more compact border regions can include an active area that includes touch sensing circuitry including drive lines, and a border region around the active area. The border region can include an area of sealant deposited on conductive lines, and transistor circuitry, such as gate drivers, between the active area and the sealant. The conductive lines can extend from the sealant to the active area without electrically connecting to the transistor circuitry. The conductive lines can have equal impedances and can connect the drive lines to a touch controller off of the touch screen. A set of drive signal characteristics for the drive lines can be obtained by determining a transfer function associated with each drive line, obtaining an inverse of each transfer function, and applying a set of individual sense signal characteristics to the inverse transfer functions to obtain the corresponding set of drive signal characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marduke Yousefpor, Steven P. Hotelling, Kevin J. White, Shih Chang Chang
  • Patent number: 9864403
    Abstract: Electronic devices may be provided having internal components mounted to a structural glass support member. The structural glass support member may have a planar front surface that forms a front surface of the device. The structural glass support member may have bent portions that form sidewall surfaces of the device. Portions of the structural glass support member may form a transparent display cover layer. A rigid or flexible display may be mounted to the structural glass support member. Additional internal device components may be mounted to the display. A thin enclosure for enclosing the internal components in the device may be mounted to the structural glass support member. The thin enclosure may be mounted to the structural glass support member using a peripheral member. The thin enclosure may be free from attachments to internal components or may be adhesively bonded to one or more internal components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jeremy C. Franklin, Fletcher R. Rothkopf, John P. Ternus, Kevin D. Gibbs
  • Patent number: 9857510
    Abstract: A display device includes a window panel including a display area and a non-display area including a first non-display area and a second non-display area and a display panel including a pixel area generating an image to be displayed in the display area and a non-pixel area surrounding the pixel area. The window panel includes a window glass, decoration printed layers disposed on the window glass in the first and second non-display areas, and a light-blocking printed layer disposed on the window glass and the decoration printed layers to cover the decoration printed layers in the first non-display area and having a black color. A boundary line corresponding to a boundary between the display area and the non-display area is an inner surface of the light-blocking printed layer and the display area corresponds to the pixel area at the boundary line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tong Su Yi
  • Patent number: 9857646
    Abstract: The invention discloses a liquid crystal display device and its display panel. The display panel includes: a display region; a fan-out region, which is connected to at least one side of the display region; the fan-out region includes at least one group of fan-out wires, each group of the fan-out wires includes a plurality of wires, the wires include a first layer of metal wires and a second layer of metal wires that are disposed alternately, a part of the first layer of metal wires and the second layer of metal wires that are adjacent is overlapped. By the method above, the invention can reduce RC delay between the wires of each group of fan-out wires and improve display quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Cong Wang, Peng Du
  • Patent number: 9853377
    Abstract: A connecting member for electrically connecting a circuit board and a component in an electronic device is provided. The connecting member includes at least one bending part configured to comprise elasticity, a pad part connected to the bending part and configured to be attached to one surface of the circuit board, and a fixing part extending from the pad part and configured to fix the connecting member to the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yeon Woo Kim, Kyung Gu Kim, Gyu Sub Kim, Se Hyun Park, Jin Woo Jung, Jae Bong Chun
  • Patent number: 9839122
    Abstract: The disclosure is related to a flexible printed circuit board. The flexible printed circuit board comprises a connecting area and a plurality of gold fingers disposed inside the connecting area, wherein the distances of the gold fingers are different. The disclosure is further related to a liquid crystal display. By the above manner, the disclosure is able to change the distances between the adjacent gold fingers to increase the number of the gold fingers without changing the size of the flexible printed circuit board so as to solve the impedance matching problem of the gold fingers of the flexible printed circuit board, and in the meanwhile to increase the assembling yield rate of the flexible printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongrui Cao, Xiaoping Tan
  • Patent number: 9835888
    Abstract: The instant application describes a liquid crystal display device comprising: a liquid crystal display; a circuit board including a top surface, a bottom surface, and a drive circuit for driving the liquid crystal display; and a flexible circuit board for connecting the liquid crystal display and the circuit board to each other. The flexible circuit board includes a first end connected to the liquid crystal display and a second end connected to the bottom surface of the circuit board. The flexible circuit board is configured to wrap around the circuit board, covering the top surface and the bottom surface of the circuit board. The top surface of the circuit board is fixed to the flexible circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeki Sato, Masaki Tsubokura
  • Patent number: 9823800
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes an integrated touch display panel and a manufacturing method thereof. The integrated touch display panel comprises a gate drive circuit positioned at an edges of two opposite sides of a first substrate, multiple scanning lines are alternately connected to the gate drive circuit positioned at the edges of two sides, and each scanning line is connected with one of the shift register units. There exists at least one scanning line. The pull up/pull down characteristics of a pull up transistor/pull down transistor of the shift register unit connected with the at least one scanning line are different from the pull up/pull down characteristics of a pull up transistor/pull down transistor of the shift register unit connected with a scanning line adjacent to the at least one scanning line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignees: SHANGHAI AVIC OPTO ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Huijun Jin
  • Patent number: 9824660
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a timing controller which receives a first image signal and a first control signal from an external device and outputs a second image signal and a second control signal, and a data driving part including a plurality of source integrated circuits (“IC”s) having different channel numbers based on a distance thereof from the timing controller, in which the data driving part receives the second image signal and the second control signal and outputs a third image signal and a third control signal to the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong-Won Park, Bong-Hyun You
  • Patent number: 9826624
    Abstract: A display device includes: a panel substrate configured to display an image; a control printed circuit board to receive an image signal from an external source, to generate data and a control signal based on the image signal, and to provide the data and the control signal to the panel substrate; and a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) electrically connected to the panel substrate and electrically connected to the control printed circuit board. A first align mark is disposed on the FPCB and a second align mark is disposed on the control printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun Seop Song, Hyun Jung Son, Kwang Hyun Baek
  • Patent number: 9823502
    Abstract: In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a display section and a touch panel section. The touch panel section is adjacent the display section. The touch panel section includes a first layer, a second layer and a third layer. The first layer includes a conductive material. The second layer includes a bottom guard layer. The third layer includes a top guard layer. The first layer is between the second and third layers. The conductive material includes a color filter and a black matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Vicente Calvo Alonso, Juha H-P Nurmi
  • Patent number: 9826627
    Abstract: A flexible circuit board and a display apparatus are provided. The flexible circuit board comprises a substrate and a driver integrated circuit provided on the substrate. The flexible circuit board further comprises a support pad, the support pad is provided on at least one side of the driver integrated circuit in a first direction, and a height of the support pad is greater than a height of the driver integrated circuit. A distance between the support pad and the driver integrated circuit in the second direction is smaller than or equal to a width of the driver integrated circuit in a second direction. Directions in which two adjacent side edges of the driver integrated circuit are provided are respectively the first direction and the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhiyuan Chen, Zhengyuan Zhang, Chao Lv, Baoyong Nie
  • Patent number: 9817527
    Abstract: A touch sensing device includes an external interconnection region, patch electrodes, and internal interconnections. External interconnections are disposed in the external interconnection region. The patch electrodes are arranged in a first direction away from the external interconnection region. The patch electrodes include a first patch electrode and a second patch electrode. The internal interconnections have first ends connected to the patch electrodes, respectively, and second ends connected to one of the external interconnections. Each of the internal interconnections includes a detour portion, at least one of which at least partially extends away from the external interconnection region, and a main portion, which extends toward the external interconnection region. The detour portion of a first internal interconnection connected to the first patch electrode is longer than the detour portion of a second internal interconnection connected to the second patch electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seung Lyong Bok
  • Patent number: 9817516
    Abstract: The present invention provides a Gate driver on Array circuit, a display panel and a display device. The Gate driver on Array circuit comprises: shift register SR circuits of multiple stages and a signal connection circuit of the shift register SR circuits of multiple stages, and the shift register SR circuit of each stage comprises: a pre-charge controller, three thin film transistors and a capacitor; and the SR circuit of each stage further comprises: at least one switch, and a G electrode of the switch is inputted with a touch panel scan signal, and a S electrode of the switch is coupled to a K output end, and a D electrode of the switch is coupled to a scan line gate electrode signal of the SR circuit; the K output end inputs a K signal, and the K signal is synchronized with a touch panel signal TP signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignees: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd, Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Jian-Hong Lin, Yucheng Tsai, Yaoli Huang
  • Patent number: 9818974
    Abstract: A flexible display device comprises a back plate coupled to a rear surface of a flexible display panel with a bending portion, having an opening portion overlapped with the bending portion; and a buffer member covering inner sides of the back plate, which are provided by the opening portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: SeYeoul Kwon, Dojin Kim, YounYeol Yu
  • Patent number: 9810936
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display panel includes an array substrate and a counter substrate. The array substrate includes an inorganic insulating film, a first wiring line, a second wiring line, an organic insulating film, a slit and a moisture-proof member. The slit is formed to extend through the organic insulating film between the first wiring line and the second wiring line. The moisture-proof member is filled in the slit and is in contact with the inorganic insulating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuya Daishi, Tetsuya Iizuka
  • Patent number: 9809690
    Abstract: Disclosed is a circuit material, including dielectric substrate or a circuit subassembly further comprising a conductive layer, that is formed from a precursor composition, wherein the precursor composition comprises, based on the total weight of the precursor composition, thermosetting resin or thermoplastic polymer, optionally monomeric triallyl isocyanurate or triallyl cyanurate, dispersed particles of poly(triallyl isocyanurate) or poly(triallyl cyanurate), and optionally inorganic filler, wherein the circuit material has a Df of less than 0.0060 at 10 GHz. Also disclosed is a method of manufacturing such a circuit material in which emulsion polymerized particles of poly(triallyl isocyanurate) or poly(triallyl cyanurate) are dispersed in a thermosetting or thermoplastic resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: ROGERS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Thomas A. Koes
  • Patent number: 9804457
    Abstract: The disclosure is related to a flexible printed circuit board. The flexible printed circuit board comprises a connecting area and a plurality of gold fingers disposed inside the connecting area, wherein the widths of the gold fingers are different. By the above manner, the disclosure is able to increase the number of the gold fingers without changing the size of the flexible printed circuit board so as to solve the impedance matching problem of the gold fingers of the flexible printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Hongrui Cao
  • Patent number: 9807879
    Abstract: A connection apparatus for electrically conductive pads includes a first substrate and a second substrate arranged in opposition, wherein a plurality of first electrically conductive pads are arranged on the inside of the first substrate, and a plurality of second electrically conductive pads are arranged on the inside of the second substrate. An electrically conductive glue is arranged between the first electrically conductive pads and the second electrically conductive pads, and the first electrically conductive pads each include a first body, the second electrically conductive pads each include a second body, and the first body and/or the second body includes a hollow portion or portions. The electrically conductive pads with a hollow portion(s) allowing light rays to illuminate and solidify the electrically conductive for bonding and interconnecting the upper and lower electrically conductive pads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhongshou Huang, Jialing Li, Jun Ma
  • Patent number: 9804639
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a housing with a lid that rotates relative to a base. A display in the lid may have a thin-film transistor layer. Display driver circuitry may be mounted to the thin-film transistor layer. A display timing controller integrated circuit may be mounted in the base. A rigid flex printed circuit may have a rigid portion in the base to which the display timing controller integrated circuit is mounted and may have a rigid portion in the lid. A flexible printed circuit portion of the rigid flex printed circuit may be used to couple the rigid printed circuit portion in the lid to the thin-film transistor layer. A flexible printed circuit portion of the rigid flex printed circuit that extends between the lid and the base may be formed from a double-shield-layer single-signal-line-layer flexible printed circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bryan W. Posner, Dinesh C. Mathew, Eric L. Benson, Jason N. Gomez, Jun Qi, Robert Y. Cao, Victor H. Yin, Christiaan A. Ligtenberg, Wey-Jiun Lin
  • Patent number: 9797944
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of display technology, in particular to a test fixture, comprising a pressing connection mechanism (1), an eccentric mechanism (2), and a working carrier (3), the pressing connection mechanism (1) and the working carrier (3) being arranged correspondingly, and the rotation of the eccentric mechanism (2) driving the pressing connection mechanism (1) to move up and down in a Y direction so as to conduct a signal pressing connection test for a tested product on the working carrier (3). The test fixture has a simple structure and steady properties, easy to be operated and maintained conveniently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BOE (HEBEI) MOBILE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jian Li, Yongjun Liao, Yu Tan, Jianchao Zhang, Chunhua Zhang
  • Patent number: 9798170
    Abstract: A display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a display layer, and a driving unit. The first substrate has a display area, an extended area, and an edge area located between the display area and the extended area. The display layer is positioned between the first and second substrates. The length of a boundary line of the edge area and the extended area is greater than the length of a bottom edge of the extended area that away from the edge area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu-Hsiang Chiu, Chien-Feng Shih, Huan-Kuang Peng
  • Patent number: 9801278
    Abstract: A curved display device and method for manufacturing the same is provided. The method for manufacturing a curved display device may include providing a display panel, a plurality of signal transfer elements, and a plurality of printed circuit boards, connecting one end of each of the signal transfer elements to the display panel and connecting the other end of each of the signal transfer elements to one of the printed circuit boards, on which one or more division guide portions are formed, dividing each of the printed circuit board into a plurality of sub printed circuit boards through cutting of the division guide portions; and bending the display panel connected to the sub printed circuit boards so that the display panel has a curvature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Sok Lee, Seung Chang Woo
  • Patent number: 9793330
    Abstract: The present invention provides a slim-bezel flexible display device and a manufacturing method thereof. A through hole is formed in a first base plate of a lower substrate in an area adjacent to an edge thereof. A conductive connection body is mounted in the through hole. The conductive connection body is connected to a circuit layout layer and a flexible connection circuit that is connected to a drive circuit board so as to have the drive circuit board and the circuit layout layer connected. Compared to the prior art, the present invention provides an arrangement that makes it not necessary for the side of the lower substrate associated with the circuit layout layer to provide an additional connection zone for connection with the flexible connection circuit so that an effective display zone of a flexible display device can be enlarged and a bezel area can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wenhui Li
  • Patent number: 9791987
    Abstract: A touch screen panel includes a substrate, a plurality of touch electrodes in a touch area of the substrate, the touch electrodes sensing a touch, a connection line connected to a touch electrode of the plurality of touch electrodes, and a pad connected to one end of the connection line. The pad includes a first pad, a second pad on the first pad within a boundary line of the first pad, and a third pad covering a top surface and a side surface of the second pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: So Young Koo, Jong Chan Lee, Yoon Ho Khang, Sun Haeng Cho
  • Patent number: 9780005
    Abstract: Provided is a method for reliably and simply evaluating the quality of an oxide semiconductor thin film and a laminated body having a protective film on the surface of this oxide semiconductor thin film. Also provided is a method for reliably and simply managing the quality of an oxide semiconductor thin film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Kawakami, Kazushi Hayashi, Toshihiro Kugimiya, Mototaka Ochi
  • Patent number: 9780123
    Abstract: A display panel includes a substrate, a plurality of first signal lines, a plurality of second signal lines, a plurality of pixel units, a plurality of transmitting lines, and a driving chip. The transmitting lines are disposed on the substrate and electrically connected to the second signal lines. The driving chip includes a plurality of first pins, a plurality of second pins, and a driving circuit. The first pins are electrically connected to the first signal lines, and the second pins are electrically connected to the transmitting lines. The first pins and the second pins are disposed alternately and evenly, such that the first signal lines and the transmitting lines do not intersect each other. The transmitting lines are disposed on the substrate evenly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Shu-Hao Chang, Chi-Ming Wu, Ian French
  • Patent number: 9773771
    Abstract: A display panel including a substrate, a first and second driving chips, a circuit board and multiple second signal traces are provided. The first and second driving chips are disposed in a non-display region and located adjacent to each other. The first driving chip has multiple first pins disposed on a first short side and a first long side of the first driving chip. The second driving chip has multiple second pins disposed on a second short side and a second long side of the second driving chip. In the non-display region, a width of the circuit board is smaller than a total width of the first driving chip, the second driving chip and a distance between the first driving chip and the second driving chip, and the circuit board has a plurality of first signal traces. The display panel of the invention decreases an amount of required circuit boards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shen-Yu Wu, Yun-Chih Chen, Hung-Hsiang Chen
  • Patent number: 9753340
    Abstract: In a display device that a terminal of a display panel is connected to bumps of the driver IC via an ACF, the driver IC includes input-side and output-side bump arrays arranged along mutually facing long sides. In configurations of the driver IC, a width A of a short side thereof ?1.45 mm, a thickness thereof B ?0.20 mm, a dimension C between input-side and output-side bumps ?1.10 mm, a length D of each bump ?98 ?m, a minimum dimension F between the bumps ?15 ?m, a number of arrays G of the output-side bump ?2 (two arrays) and a particle size E of a conductive particle contained in the anisotropic conductive film ?3.5 ?m, not more than six configurations are included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Tomokazu Saitou
  • Patent number: 9749530
    Abstract: The interchangeable lens is detachably attachable to an image capturing apparatus. The lens includes an electronic display to display information, and a lens controller to control an operation of the lens. The lens controller is capable of setting an operation state of the lens to a normal operation state where the interchangeable lens communicates with the image capturing apparatus and displays the information on the electronic display and to a first low power consumption state in which the interchangeable lens displays the information on the electronic display with a power consumption of the interchangeable lens lower than that in the normal operation state. The lens controller transfers the operation state from the normal operation state to the first low power consumption state, in response to receipt of a power lowering instruction for lowering the power consumption of the interchangeable lens from the image capturing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Naoki Saito
  • Patent number: 9733538
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides a TFT array substrate, in which TFT elements and pixel electrodes being correspondingly connected with the TFT elements are arrayed in matrix on an insulating substrate, the TFT array substrate including: gate bus lines made from a first metal material; source bus lines made from a second metal material; pixel electrodes made from a third metal material; a clock wiring made from the first metal material; a branch wiring made from the second metal material; and a connection conductor made from the third metal material, the connection conductor connecting the clock wiring and the branch wiring at a connection part in a periphery area, the connection part having a branch-wiring via hole, which exposes the branch wiring which is covered with the connection conductor, and overlaps the clock wiring at least partly in a plane view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Isao Ogasawara, Takaharu Yamada, Masahiro Yoshida, Satoshi Horiuchi, Shinya Tanaka, Tetsuo Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 9736931
    Abstract: A flexible display device includes a flexible display panel, a flexible printed circuit board extending from the display panel, an integrated circuit chip that is mounted on at least one surface of the flexible printed circuit board and is configured to drive the display panel, and a protection member attached to a rear surface of the display panel. When the flexible printed circuit board is flexed to be partially positioned on the rear surface of the display panel, the protection member is positioned between the display panel and the integrated circuit chip. The flexible display device prevents the integrated circuit chip stacked with the display panel from making direct contact with the display panel using the protection member. Thus, even if the display device is deformed into, for example, a flexed or rolled state, it is possible to prevent the display panel from being damaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-Yong Eom, Dong-Sub Kim, Dong-Hui Kim, Mi-Sun Lee, Joon-Gyu Lee
  • Patent number: 9727196
    Abstract: A wiring board includes a plurality of first terminal parts for electrically connecting with a control circuit and disposed corresponding to a plurality of first electrode parts, and first terminal wiring parts for electrically connecting the plurality of first electrode parts and the corresponding first terminal parts. Each of the first terminal wiring parts has, in at least a portion thereof falling in a circle with a radius of 10 mm centering around a boundary part between the first terminal wiring parts and the corresponding first terminal parts, a portion having a line width of 5 ?m to 100 ?m inclusive, the wiring resistance value of the first terminal wiring parts connected to the first terminal parts being 100 ohms to 10 kohms inclusive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Tada, Yasushi Endo, Akihiro Hashimoto, Tadashi Kuriki
  • Patent number: 9711460
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor chip including an electronic part; and a package sealing the semiconductor chip, wherein the package includes a transparent section which is opaque to visible light and transparent to near-infrared light or near-ultraviolet light, and the transparent section is disposed in such a way that the electronic part is observed from outside under the near-infrared light or the near-ultraviolet light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Takeshi Hosomi
  • Patent number: 9691793
    Abstract: An array substrate and a display panel. The array substrate includes an active region and a peripheral circuitry region surrounding the active region; a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines intersected with and insulated from the scan lines; a plurality of pixel driving circuit units disposed at intersection areas between the scan lines and the data lines; a plurality of first electrodes respectively electrically connected to the plurality of pixel driving circuit units and disposed in the active region and the peripheral circuitry region of the array substrate; and a plurality of first connection lines configured to electrically connect the pixel driving circuit units to the corresponding first electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignees: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junchao Ma, Junhui Lou, Xu Qian, Yong Wu
  • Patent number: 9690151
    Abstract: A liquid crystal panel includes an array substrate and a counter substrate facing the array substrate that are bonded to each other through a seal located along a peripheral edge. Vcom wiring and GND wiring are provided in a peripheral region of the array substrate. The Vcom wiring is provided between a display region and the GND wiring. The GND wiring extends beyond an edge of the seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takafumi Hashiguchi, Takeshi Shimamura, Naruhito Hoka, Hirofumi Iwanaga
  • Patent number: 9690040
    Abstract: A display device and a backlight module thereof are provided. The display device comprises a backlight module and a panel. The backlight module includes a bottom frame, a light guide, an optical film structure and a top frame. The light guide is disposed above the bottom frame. The optical film structure is disposed above the light guide. The top frame covers a periphery of the optical film structure and covers a lateral side of the bottom frame. The panel is disposed above the top frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Adjo Poorter, Jozef Martha Johanna Notermans
  • Patent number: 9690125
    Abstract: A display device includes a display area and a terminal area formed outside the display area. The display area has a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of video signal lines that cross the scanning lines. The terminal area has a first terminal having a semiconductor chip connected thereto, a first line, a second line, and an inspection thin-film transistor. The inspection thin-film transistor has a gate electrode connected to the first line, a source electrode connected to the second line, and a drain electrode. The first terminal is connected to any of the plurality of scanning lines and the plurality of video signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Syou Yanagisawa, Nobuyuki Ishige, Tomonori Nishino, Kentaro Agata
  • Patent number: 9690157
    Abstract: A display surface where a plurality of source lines are arrayed thereon and each receives a video signal; and an inspection wiring portion that transmits an inspection signal to the source lines. The inspection wiring portion includes a first conductive layer connected to a part of the source lines, a second conductive layer connected to another part of the source lines, and an insulating portion that insulates the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer, and the second conductive layer is laminated on the first conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tetsuya Kawamura
  • Patent number: 9691814
    Abstract: A chip-on-film (COF) package includes a base film, an integrated circuit chip, and a plurality of signal interconnections. The base film includes a bonding region and a non-bonding region. The integrated circuit chip is at the non-bonding region. Each of the plurality of signal interconnections is coupled to the integrated circuit chip and extend to the bonding region along a first direction. The plurality of signal interconnections are spaced from each other along a second direction substantially crossing the first direction. The plurality of signal interconnections alternate on a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface of the base film along the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dong-Ho Kim
  • Patent number: 9685494
    Abstract: A terminal is formed on a substrate. An anisotropic conductive film is disposed on the terminal. A flexible printed board is connected to the terminal via the anisotropic conductive film. At least one opening is formed in the terminal. An adhesion reinforcing portion as a projection is formed inside the opening. The adhesion reinforcing portion is formed of a material having higher adhesion to the anisotropic conductive film than a material constituting the surface of the terminal, and is adhered to the anisotropic conductive film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Odaka, Jun Hanari, Toshihiro Sato
  • Patent number: 9678588
    Abstract: An LCD module may include a color filter (CF) layer with pixels for modifying light energy to form a display image. A transistor layer below the CF layer may include a glass panel, conductive pathways, and transistors coupled to the conductive pathways and for controlling the pixels. A control layer is located below the transistor layer and may include a display controller for generating signals to control the transistor. First wire bondings carry the signals between the display controller and the conductive pathways included in the transistor layer. The LCD module may be used in a substantially round device, such as a watch, to provide a substantially borderless display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Stjepan Begic, Olof Simonsson, Magnus Steijner
  • Patent number: 9673225
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an array substrate, a fabrication method thereof and a display device. The array substrate comprises a driver IC and pixel units, wherein each port of the driver IC is connected to a plurality of pixel units through a connecting structure, each connecting structure comprises a connecting line connected between a port of the driver IC and a plurality of pixel units, at least some of the connecting structures also comprise resistance regulating units for changing the total resistance values of the connecting structures, and the resistance regulating units are connected in series with the respective connecting lines; and/or the resistance regulating units are connected in parallel with parts of the respective connecting lines, so that the differences among resistance values of connecting structures can be reduced, and in turn the display effect of a display panel is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yu Ma