Nominal Manufacturing Methods Or Post Manufacturing Processing Of Liquid Crystal Cell Patents (Class 349/187)
  • Patent number: 10754203
    Abstract: A liquid crystal panel includes a pair of substrates, a seal part between the pair of substrates and in a non-display region to surround and seal the liquid crystal layer, a planarizing film and a second interlayer insulating film being insulating films on the array substrate across a display region and the non-display region, an alignment film on the array substrate closer to the liquid crystal layer than the planarizing film and the second interlayer insulating film are, the alignment film being disposed across the display region and the non-display region, and a defining part formed of the planarizing film and the second interlayer insulating film, which are insulating films, the defining part being disposed at a position overlapping with the seal part in the non-display region, to define an alignment film non-disposed region where the alignment film is not disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shigeki Tanaka, Ryoh Ueda, Yukio Kurozumi, Seiji Hamada, Ryosuke Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10741134
    Abstract: A method for driving a display panel includes: dividing pixels on the display panel into a plurality of pixel groups; each of the pixel groups includes an even number of pixels arranged in arrays; calculating an average gray scale value of blue sub-pixels in each of the sub-pixel groups according to an image input signal; obtaining two groups of target gray scale value pairs according to the average gray scale value; each group of the target gray scale value pair includes a high gray scale value and a low gray scale value; a brightness of the high gray scale value and the low gray scale value in the front view is the same as a brightness of the average gray scale value in the front view; obtaining corresponding two groups of driving voltage pairs according to the two groups of the target gray scale value pairs in each of the pixel groups; driving the blue sub-pixels on the corresponding pixel group according to the two groups of the driving voltage pairs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignees: HKC Corporation Limited, Chongqing HKC Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yu-Jen Chen
  • Patent number: 10732466
    Abstract: A liquid-crystal display device includes: a first substrate comprising a plurality of pixels; a pixel electrode disposed on the first substrate in each of the pixels; a second substrate including a surface facing the first substrate; a wavelength conversion layer and a transmissive layer disposed on the surface of the second substrate facing the first substrate; and a liquid-crystal layer disposed between the pixel electrode and the wavelength conversion layer and between the pixel electrode and the transmissive layer, wherein the pixel electrode includes a stem electrode and a plurality of branch electrodes extending from the stem electrode, and wherein all of the plurality of branch electrodes extending from the stem electrode extend in a same direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Heung Shik Park, Ho Kil Oh, Jae Soo Jang, Ki Chul Shin
  • Patent number: 10732482
    Abstract: A liquid crystal lens and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The liquid crystal lens includes: an upper substrate, a lower substrate, a liquid crystal layer arranged between the upper substrate and the lower substrate; at least one first electrode arranged at a side, close to the liquid crystal layer, of the upper substrate; and at least one second electrode and at least one third electrode which are arranged at a side, close to the liquid crystal layer, of the lower substrate. The liquid crystal layer includes a first region over the second electrode and a second region over the third electrode. Liquid crystals in both the first region and the second region have a tilted angle, and alignment directions of the liquid crystals in the first region and the second region are opposite to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chia Chiang Lin
  • Patent number: 10698240
    Abstract: A flexible display device includes a flexible display panel, a flexible outer member disposed on the flexible display panel, and an adhesive member disposed between the flexible display panel and the flexible outer member. An elastic modulus of the adhesive member is from about 1/1000000 to about 1/1000 of an elastic modulus of each of the flexible display panel and the flexible outer member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: In Seo Kee, Soyoun Jung, Hoonsik Kim, Dongwoo Seo
  • Patent number: 10678099
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display device adopting the liquid crystal display panel are provided. The liquid crystal display panel includes: a first substrate having an active area and a peripheral area, a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate, a pixel array circuit disposed on the first substrate and located in the active area, a driving circuit disposed on the first substrate and located in the peripheral area, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a spacing structure disposed on the second substrate and facing towards the driving circuit. The driving circuit is connected to the pixel array circuit and configured to drive the pixel array circuit; the liquid crystal layer includes a number of liquid crystal molecules. The pixel array circuit is configured to control a motion of the liquid crystal molecules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Huailiang He
  • Patent number: 10656487
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of display technologies, and provides an array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and a corresponding display panel and display device. The array substrate includes a display area and a non-display area, wherein the display area includes a plurality of pixel regions and a pixel definition region between various pixel regions. Furthermore, the array substrate further includes a base substrate, as well as a patterned metal layer and a patterned light-blocking layer superimposed in the pixel definition region on the base substrate, wherein the patterned light-blocking layer is closer to a light incident side of the array substrate than the patterned metal layer is, and the patterned light-blocking layer is made of a non-metallic material. Besides, an orthogonal projection of the patterned light-blocking layer on the pixel definition region at least partially overlaps that of the patterned metal layer on the pixel definition region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liangliang Jiang, Quan Gan, Lei Guo, Ke Dai, Yongjun Yoon
  • Patent number: 10620484
    Abstract: At least one columnar spacer is formed on a first substrate. A height of the columnar spacer is measured. In order to provide a liquid crystal layer, liquid crystal is dropped onto any one of the first substrate and a second substrate with an amount of the liquid crystal determined based on a determination function dependent upon the height of the columnar spacer. The determination function is provided in advance in consideration of prevention of maldistribution the liquid crystal layer caused by temperature increase, prevention of generation of air bubbles inside a gap caused by temperature decrease, and satisfaction of an upper limit condition and a lower limit condition for a dimension of the gap required by optical properties of a liquid crystal panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Akira Tamatani
  • Patent number: 10606129
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a first display substrate, a second display substrate, a coupling member interposed between the first display substrate and the second display substrate in a seal line area to couple the first display substrate and the second display substrate, a contact structure interposed between the coupling member and at least one of the display substrates in the seal line area, the contact structure having a concavo-convex shaped surface in contact with the coupling member, and the contact structure includes a moisture trap area and a moisture barrier area, and an electrode layer disposed on the moisture trap area but not on the moisture barrier area, and configured to contact portions of the coupling member in the seal line area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eung-Gyu Lee, JinSuek Kim, Hyeran Mun
  • Patent number: 10598991
    Abstract: A display panel, a display panel cutting method, and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes at least two sub display regions and at least one blocking unit. Each of the at least one blocking unit includes two strip-like blocking patterns that are arranged at two sides of an adhesive cutting line on the display substrate respectively, and arranged in periphery regions of two adjacent sub display regions respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shiqiang Huang
  • Patent number: 10534233
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an array substrate, a method for manufacturing the same, and a display device, which belongs to the field of display technology. The array substrate includes a metal electrode layer, a pad layer, a first insulating layer and a first transparent conductive layer, wherein: the pad layer includes a transparent conductive material, the metal electrode layer includes a conductive layer and protection layers formed on both surfaces of the conductive layer, and the pad layer is connected to the metal electrode layer; the first insulating layer is covered on the metal electrode layer and the pad layer, and the first transparent conductive layer is disposed on the first insulating layer; and a via hole is provided in the first insulating layer, and the first transparent conductive layer is connected to the pad layer through the via hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHONGQING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Maokun Tian, Zhonghao Huang, Xu Wu
  • Patent number: 10509287
    Abstract: A COA substrate manufacturing method including: forming a TFT on a base substrate; forming a second insulation layer on the TFT; forming a color resist layer on the second insulation layer; forming a third insulation layer on the color resist layer; forming a through hole which exposes the drain electrode of the TFT; forming an ITO film layer on the third insulation layer; forming a photoresist layer on the ITO film layer; performing a light-shielding process to the photoresist layer on the vias-region ITO film layer and an exposure process to the photoresist layer on the non vias-region ITO film layer; developing the photoresist layer on the vias-region ITO and the non vias-region ITO film layers to obtain a photoresist layer plug covered on the vias-region ITO film layer. The photoresist is provided to fill the through hole so as to improve the quality of a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Yue Wu
  • Patent number: 10488563
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a display substrate and a display panel, a method for manufacturing the same and a display device. The method for manufacturing the display substrate includes a step of form an optical grating. The step of forming the optical grating includes: forming an intermediate layer on an outer surface of a transparent base substrate in such a manner that the intermediate layer includes stripe patterns arranged at intervals; forming a display film layer on an inner surface of the transparent base substrate where the intermediate layer is formed; and applying an opaque material onto a surface of the intermediate layer or between the stripe patterns of the intermediate layer on the transparent base substrate, to form light-shielding stripes and light-transmitting stripes which are arranged alternately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yanbing Wu
  • Patent number: 10443941
    Abstract: One embodiment is directed to an apparatus comprising a firing furnace comprising a heating chamber configured to fire a metallization layer of photovoltaic devices and a cooling chamber configured to cool the photovoltaic devices that have been heated by the heating chamber. The cooling chamber comprises lights to light anneal the photovoltaic devices to reduce light induced degradation as the photovoltaic devices are cooled in the cooling chamber. The cooling chamber of the firing furnace is configured to use residual heat from heating performed in the heating chamber of the firing furnace as heat for the light annealing of the photovoltaic devices. Light annealing is not performed in the heating chamber of the firing furnace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel M. Ruf, Brandon Oakes Long, Prathna Ung, Erik Richard Anderson
  • Patent number: 10436960
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a polarizing element including locally bleached areas including steps of providing a polarizing element including a polyvinyl alcohol-based polarizer in which at least one or more of iodine and dichroic dye is oriented in a certain direction; partially bleaching the polyvinyl alcohol-based polarizer by bringing a bleaching solution into contact with one surface of the polyvinyl alcohol-based polarizer through a printing method; and correcting an appearance of the partially bleached polarizing element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Beom Seok Lee, Eung Jin Jang, Kyun Il Rah, Hyung Koo Kang, Byung Sun Lee, Du Jin Choi, Ho Jeong Yun
  • Patent number: 10434809
    Abstract: The present specification relates to an apparatus for manufacturing a blanket. The apparatus includes a surface plate on which a substrate film is supplied; a coating unit coating a blanket composition on the substrate film; and a comma blade horizontally moving on the surface plate coated with the blanket composition. Of the whole surface of the comma blade, the surface contacting the blanket composition is an angular surface. This application also relates to a method for manufacturing a blanket, a blanket manufactured using the same, a reverse offset printing roll provided with the blanket, and a reverse offset printing apparatus including the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Beom Mo Koo, Seung Heon Lee, Ji Young Hwang, Yong Goo Son, Jooyeon Kim, Jeseob Park, Kun Seok Lee
  • Patent number: 10338424
    Abstract: There is provided a curved display apparatus. The curved display apparatus with transistors of respective pixels arranged in a matrix form on a bendable display screen comprises a gate drive circuit to sequentially provide a gate signal for simultaneously turning on each of a plurality of transistors aligned in the column direction of the matrix to a plurality of gate lines and a source drive circuit to provide a pixel data signal to each of a plurality of source lines, the each pixel data signal representing a gradation of a pixel for each of a plurality of transistors aligned in the row direction of the matrix. The source drive circuit is provided on a first bendable edge of the display screen, the first bendable edge having a first curvature, and the gate drive circuit is provided on a second bendable edge of the display screen, the second bendable edge having a second curvature larger than the first curvature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Sakai Display Products Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshihisa Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10319309
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display device that comprises a display panel displaying an image, M reference voltage generators (M is an integer of 2 or greater) that respectively supply reference voltages to N display areas (N is an integer of 2 or greater) defined on the display panel, and a voltage variation corrector that corrects for voltage variations between the M reference voltages (M is an integer of 2 or greater).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junghyeon Kim, Jinhan Yoon, Hanjin Bae
  • Patent number: 10311779
    Abstract: An array substrate, a liquid crystal display panel and an organic light emitting display panel are disclosed. The array substrate includes: a plurality of pixel units arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns and divided into a plurality of pixel unit groups each including n rows of pixel units, where n is equal to or larger than 1; and at least one driving circuit each disposed on a side of the pixel unit group in a row direction, where the at least one driving circuit interleaves with neighboring preceding and succeeding pixel unit groups in a column direction of the plurality of pixel units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignees: XIAMEN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Lei Zhang
  • Patent number: 10293508
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a cutting method of a liquid crystal panel, comprising: providing a control device, an image identification device and a knife, and the substrate has respective cutting positions of the knife in a first cutting direction, and the control device is preset with cutting position information of the respective cutting positions; setting a reference alignment mark on the substrate, and the reference alignment mark is positioned between two adjacent cutting positions; capturing the reference alignment mark with the image identification device, and generating reference position information indicating the reference alignment mark; controlling the knife to move to the respective cutting positions in sequence and to cut with the control device according to the reference position information and the cutting position information. The cutting method provided by the present invention can simplify the cutting process and raise the cutting efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Song Ban
  • Patent number: 10274770
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention provide a display mother panel to be divided into a plurality of display panels. A sealing agent is provided around a display region of each display panel, the sealing agents provided between adjacent longitudinal edges of the display regions of two adjacent display panels in a same row are formed integrally, and a first black matrix is provided on the sealing agents provided between the adjacent longitudinal edges of the display regions of the two adjacent display panels. The embodiments of the present invention also provide a method of cutting the display mother panel. The display mother panel may be easily cut into the plurality of display panels by cutting the display mother panel using the method according to the embodiments of the present invention, and each display panel has a relatively large display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhuo Wang, Jinhwan Hwang, Xiangnan Wang, Jinhao Huang, Yinhua Piao, Wenqiang Chen
  • Patent number: 10254591
    Abstract: A display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate, a first alignment key disposed on the first substrate; and a second alignment key disposed on the second substrate to overlap the first alignment key, where the second alignment key includes a border portion and a groove pattern disposed in a region defined by the border portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Jae Yun, Jin Won Kim, Tae Min Kim, Taek Joon Lee
  • Patent number: 10234710
    Abstract: An electro-optic device having at least one liquid crystal cell for providing spatially variable control of light includes: a pair of opposed substrates sandwiching a liquid crystal layer therebetween; a pair of electrodes for applying an electric field therebetween, each electrode being deposited on a corresponding substrate; and a liquid crystal reservoir wall defining a lateral extent of the liquid crystal layer between the substrates. The reservoir wall includes: a first bottom barrier deposited on a bottom one of the pair of substrates; and a second curable top barrier deposited on the top substrate outside the first barrier. The first barrier and second uncured barrier are configured to merge on contact to retain liquid crystal material inside the reservoir wall prior to curing the second barrier. Also, a method of wafer level manufacturing and assembly of a liquid crystal optical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: LENSVECTOR INC.
    Inventors: Tigran Galstian, Aram Bagramyan, Amir Tork, David Yoon, Sergei Yakovenko
  • Patent number: 10234708
    Abstract: A display device including a display panel; an optical sheet positioned at a rear of the display panel; a guide panel positioned at a lateral side of at least one of the display panel and the optical sheet; and a back cover positioned at a rear of the guide panel. The guide panel includes a guide latch assembly facing the back cover, and the back cover includes a back cover latch assembly coupled to the guide latch assembly to couple the back cover to the guide panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyunho Kim, Seunggyu Kang, Jein Lee, Injung Kang
  • Patent number: 10204930
    Abstract: A display device is described that has reduced resistance in one or more of the gate, common, data electrical lines that control the operation of the pixels of the display device. Reduced resistance is achieved by forming additional metal and/or metal-alloy layers on the gate, common, and/or data lines in such a manner so that the cross-sectional area of those lines is increased. As a consequence, each such line is formed so as to be thicker than could otherwise be achieving without causing defects in the rubbing process of an alignment layer. Additionally, no widening of these lines is needed, thus preserving the aspect ratio of the device. The gate insulating and semiconducting layers that in part make up the thin film transistors that help control the operation of the pixels of the device may also be designed to take into account the increased thickness of the lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youngmin Jeong, Seunghwan Shin, Daeyoung Seo, Soyoung Lee
  • Patent number: 10199402
    Abstract: A display device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided, and the display device includes a color filter substrate and an array substrate which are cell-assembled, the array substrate includes a first base substrate, an organic insulating layer is formed on the first base substrate, and a via hole is formed in the organic insulating layer; the color filter substrate includes a second base substrate, a main spacer and a secondary spacer is formed on the second base substrate, an orthogonal projection of the secondary spacer is located in an orthogonal projection area of the via hole on the first base substrate, and an orthogonal projection of the main spacer is located outside of the orthogonal projection area of the via hole on the first base substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenming Ren, Kai Wang, Yinhu Huang, Jong Won Moon
  • Patent number: 10197873
    Abstract: A display device including a first substrate having a display area and a peripheral area surrounding the display area, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a common voltage line disposed on the peripheral area of the first substrate, a color filter disposed on the common voltage line overlapping the common voltage line, a common electrode disposed below the second substrate and having an opening overlapping the common voltage line and the color filter, and a sealant disposed between the color filter and the common electrode overlapping the common voltage line, the color filter, and the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chan Wook Shim, Ju Hyun Woo, Kook Hyun Choi, Jun Seok Lee
  • Patent number: 10175541
    Abstract: It is possible to separate each liquid crystal display panel from a mother board in which multiple liquid crystal display panels are formed even with a thin glass substrate, by forming a columnar spacer in the boundary between liquid crystal display panels, forming a scribe line corresponding to the columnar spacer on both sides of the counter substrate and the TFT substrate in the mother board, and forming a separation line between the scribe lines by applying a bending stress to the mother board. Since the columnar spacer is formed in a portion corresponding to the scribe line, the strength in this portion increases, so that the proper scribe lines and break lines can be formed when the thickness of the glass substrate is reduced to about 0.15 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Eisuke Hatakeyama
  • Patent number: 10146073
    Abstract: A measurement method for a liquid crystal azimuthal angle of a liquid crystal panel and a measurement device are disclosed. The liquid crystal panel includes an upper polarization film, a lower polarization film disposed oppositely and liquid crystal molecules disposed there between. The method includes: when absorption axes of the upper and the lower polarization films are disposed as 0 degree and 90 degrees with respect to a horizontal direction, and are perpendicular to each other, measuring a first transmittance; when absorption axes of the upper and the lower polarization films are disposed as 45 degrees and 135 degrees with respect to the horizontal direction, and are perpendicular to each other, measuring a second transmittance; calculating to obtain the liquid crystal azimuthal angle of the liquid crystal panel according to the first transmittance and second transmittance. The present invention can measure the liquid crystal azimuthal angle quickly, simply, and effectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Bo Hai
  • Patent number: 10114242
    Abstract: An automatic-darkening filter 10, 10? that comprises a first polarizer 14, a second polarizer 18, a first liquid-crystal cell 16, and a sensor 64. The first polarizer 14 has a first polarization direction, and the second polarizer 18 has a second polarization direction. The liquid crystal cell 16 is disposed between the first and second polarizers 14, 18 and contains first and second optically-transparent, flexible, glass layers 40 and 42 with the liquid crystal layer 48 being located between these layers. The sensor 64 detects incident light and causes a signal to be sent, which causes molecular rotation within the liquid crystal layer. The inventive automatic-darkening filter is beneficial in that overall product weight can be reduced and the view field can be increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Kristina M. Magnusson, Britton G. Billingsley, Kenneth Jarefors, Larissa Zuravskaja, Joy L. Manske
  • Patent number: 10091879
    Abstract: A conductor connecting structure includes a mounting board, a target board, and an anisotropic conductive material. The mounting board includes a base material including a first surface, a second surface, and an end surface. The mounting board also includes a first conductor layer and a second conductor layer. The target board includes a mounting surface and a third conductor layer formed on the mounting surface. The anisotropic conductive material includes a polymeric material and electrically conductive particles dispersed in the polymeric material. The electrically conductive particles, when heated, aggregate to connect an end portion of the first or second conductor layer to the third conductor layer. One of the end portions not subjected to connection established with the anisotropic conductive material is separated further from the end surface of the base material than another end portion which is connected to the third conductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shigemi Ohtsu
  • Patent number: 10088933
    Abstract: A mobile phone is provided which includes a liquid crystal display device in which a front window and a touch panel are bonded together with an adhesive sheet, wherein a logo having plural layers is formed on a back side of the front window. A touch-panel flexible wiring substrate is mounted to the touch panel. A plane distance between an end portion of the plural layers of the logo and an end portion of the touch panel is set to greater than zero. With this configuration, it is possible to prevent a peeling stress on the adhesive sheet, even if a thickness of the adhesive sheet is smaller than the sum of a thickness of the touch-panel flexible wiring substrate and a thickness of the logo.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Eiji Oohira
  • Patent number: 10025127
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a display device. A display device according to the present invention comprises a display panel including a front substrate and a rear substrate; guide panel being attached to the rear surface of the display panel and including a protruding part extending in a vertical direction; a rear cabinet being disposed in the rear of the display panel and including at least one groove into which the protruding part is inserted; and a back cover being disposed between the display panel and the rear cabinet and including an opening through which at least one of the protruding part and the groove passes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seunggyu Kang, Jein Lee, Kwangho Choi, Jonggil Pyo, Hyunho Kim
  • Patent number: 10012377
    Abstract: A display device is disclosed. The display device includes a display panel, a rear case positioned in a rear of the display panel, and of which a back surface is exposed to the outside, a backlight unit positioned between the display panel and the rear case and providing the display panel with light, a plurality of ribs extended from a front surface of the rear case and contacting at least a portion of the backlight unit, a boss forwardly extended from the front surface of the rear case, and a controller positioned between the backlight unit and the rear case and coupled with the boss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Jinun Coo
  • Patent number: 9954008
    Abstract: A liquid crystal cell panel includes a first substrate from which is formed a thin film transistor array substrate, the first substrate including a plurality of unit cells and test terminals which respectively correspond to the unit cells, and a second substrate which faces the first substrate and from which is formed a color filter substrate. The first substrate further includes a first cutting pattern at each of a plurality of corners thereof, and the second substrate includes a second cutting pattern at each of a plurality of corners thereof, the second cutting patterns corresponding one-to-one with the first cutting patterns. Corresponding first and second cutting patterns cross each other in a plan view, and the crossing first and second cutting patterns expose a test terminal adjacent to the crossing first and second cutting patterns to outside the liquid crystal cell panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun-hee Lee, Eoksu Kim, Wonjin Kim, Juyong Park, Jungchul Woo, Hyunwook Lee
  • Patent number: 9935149
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device according to the present disclosure includes: a charge storage region that stores a signal charge obtained through photoelectric conversion in a photoelectric conversion film; an amplification transistor that amplifies the signal charge stored in the charge storage region in a corresponding pixel; a contact plug that is electrically connected to the charge storage region and contains a semiconductor material; and a line that is disposed above the contact plug and contains a semiconductor material. The contact plug and the charge storage region are electrically connected, and the contact plug and a gate electrode of the amplification transistor are electrically connected via the line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuyoshi Mori, Ryohei Miyagawa, Yoshiyuki Ohmori, Yoshihiro Sato, Yutaka Hirose, Yusuke Sakata, Toru Okino
  • Patent number: 9907168
    Abstract: A method of making a filled large-format imprinted structure includes providing a substrate, locating a curable layer over the substrate, imprinting the curable layer, and curing the curable layer to form a cured layer including a layer surface and one or more imprinted micro-cavities. Each micro-cavity has a micro-cavity depth and a micro-cavity width and one or more ribs extending from the bottom of the micro-cavity toward the top of the micro-cavity. Each rib has a rib width that is less than one half of the micro-cavity width, a rib height that is less than the micro-cavity depth, and each rib separates the micro-cavity into portions, each portion having a portion width less than or equal to 20 microns. A curable material is located in each micro-cavity and cured to form cured material located in each micro-cavity, thereby defining a filled large-format imprinted structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
    Inventor: Ronald Steven Cok
  • Patent number: 9905172
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a display panel, a multiplexer, an alignment circuit and a short bar circuit. The multiplexer is configured to provide a plurality of output data signals according to a plurality of switch control signals and an input data signal. During the alignment period, the alignment circuit is configured to provide a curing voltage to the display panel, and the short bar circuit is configured to couple the multiplexer to a predetermined voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Hsuan-Ming Tsai, An-Hsu Lu
  • Patent number: 9899422
    Abstract: A thin film transistor substrate includes a base substrate, a first metallic layer including a gate electrode of a thin film transistor and an island electrode spaced apart from the gate electrode on the base substrate, a semiconductor layer of which a portion thereof overlaps the gate electrode of the first metallic layer, and a second metallic layer including a source electrode and a drain electrode of the thin film transistor which are spaced apart from each other on the portion of the semiconductor layer. The source electrode of the thin film transistor overlaps the island electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jaehak Lee, Sungin Ro, Eunje Jang
  • Patent number: 9875998
    Abstract: Fabricating an optics wafer includes providing a wafer comprising a core region composed of a glass-reinforced epoxy, the wafer further comprising a first resin layer on a top surface of the core region and a second resin layer on a bottom surface of the core region. The wafer further includes vertical transparent regions that's extend through the core region and the first and second resin layers. The wafer is thinned from its top surface and its bottom surface so that a resulting thickness is within a predetermined range without causing glass fibers of the core region to become exposed. Optical structures ate provided on one or more exposed surfaces of at least some of the transparent regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Heptagon Micro Optics Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Hartmut Rudmann
  • Patent number: 9867289
    Abstract: A method of making a filled large-format imprinted structure includes providing a substrate, locating a curable layer over the substrate, imprinting the curable layer, and curing the curable layer to form a cured layer including a layer surface having one or more areas. Each area has a plurality of imprinted micro-cavities, wherein each micro-cavity has a micro-cavity width less than or equal to 20 microns. A rib separates each micro-cavity from an adjacent micro-cavity by a rib width that is less than the micro-cavity width, the rib extending from a bottom of the micro-cavity to the layer surface. A common curable material is located in each micro-cavity and cured to form common cured material in each micro-cavity, thereby defining a filled large-format imprinted structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
    Inventor: Ronald Steven Cok
  • Patent number: 9860479
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display unit; a front cabinet including a frame portion in the form of a frame surrounding an outer edge of the display unit, a tab including a base portion connected to the frame portion and extending in a depth direction from the base portion, and a fixing portion provided in the tab; and a rear frame, and the fixing portion is fixed to the rear frame with a fastener in a direction crossing the depth direction. The fixing portion may be located deeper in the depth direction than the display unit or may be closer to the display unit than the base position is in the direction crossing the depth direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Fujikawa, Shinji Morita, Shinichi Kameoka, Masayoshi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9829748
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of unit level liquid crystal display device assembly process for liquid crystal on silicon. It starts with sawing silicon wafer and ITO glass substrate. Then good silicon dies and ITO glass dies will be picked and transferred to separate carriers. Alignment layers will respectively be coated on each silicon die and ITO glass die after cleaning. Then there are two options for the following steps. In method one, silicon die and ITO glass die lamination comes after coating frame adhesive. Then frame adhesive is cured. The liquid crystal will fill the cell and then seal the fill port. Die mounting, wire bonding and encapsulation will come along with external ITO connection to call it an end. In method two, frame adhesive precedes internal connection and LC one drop fill. Then silicon die and ITO glass die are laminated before frame adhesive cure. Afterwards die mount, wire bonding and encapsulation come last.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: SYNDIANT INC.
    Inventors: Chun Chiu Daniel Wong, Hiap Liew Ong
  • Patent number: 9799854
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a multilayer barrier film capable of encapsulating a moisture and/or oxygen sensitive electronic or optoelectronic device, the barrier film including at least one nanostructured layer including reactive nanoparticles capable of interacting with moisture and/or oxygen, the reactive nanoparticles being distributed within a polymeric binder, and at least one ultraviolet light neutralizing layer comprising a material capable of absorbing ultraviolet light, thereby limiting the transmission of ultraviolet light through the barrier film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: AGENCY FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH
    Inventors: Senthil Kumar Ramadas, Soo Jin Chua, Lin Karen Ke
  • Patent number: 9785029
    Abstract: A display device includes a liquid crystal display device that has a display area and a hidden area surrounding the display area; a liquid crystal shutter that is layered on the liquid crystal display device and has a first area corresponding to the display area and a second area corresponding to the hidden area; and a control unit that sets the first and second areas to a transparent state and an opaque state, respectively, when the display area is active, and sets the first and second areas to the opaque state when the display area is not active.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: ALPINE ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventor: Takashi Yasumoto
  • Patent number: 9784907
    Abstract: A display device that may include a bottom chassis including a base portion and one or more side portions extending at a predetermined angle from the base portion, a light guide plate on an upper surface of the bottom chassis, an optical sheet on the light guide plate, and a display panel on the optical sheet. At least one of the side portions may have a different width from the other side portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung Hwa Ha, Myoung Seok Son
  • Patent number: 9773461
    Abstract: It is an object to achieve downsizing and a thin shape of a display module and an electronic device provided with the display module. The display module includes a first display panel in which a first display screen is formed on one main side; and a second display panel that is smaller than and overlapped with the first display panel, in which a second display screen is formed on an opposite side of the one main side. The display module includes, over a sealing substrate of the first display panel and/or the second display panel, at least one integrated circuit, which is connected to input terminals of the first display panel and the second display panel and controls operation of the both panels, arranged in a peripheral portion of the second display panel, which is a surface on an opposite side of a display surface of the first display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Hajime Kimura, Atsushi Umezaki, Yasuyuki Arai
  • Patent number: 9766653
    Abstract: There are provided a display in which a sealing section is prevented from being spread and the sealing section is allowed to be provided in a desired region, and an electronic unit including the display. The display includes: a substrate including a sealing region and a step section, the sealing region surrounding a display region, and the step section surrounding the sealing region from outside; a display layer provided in the display region; and a sealing section provided in the sealing region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi Nakamura, Nobuhide Yoneya, Toru Tanikawa, Shota Nishi, Shin Akasaka, Satoshi Kumon
  • Patent number: 9766537
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of photolithography technologies. Disclosed is a mask comprising a transparent substrate, the transparent substrate being provided thereon with a semi-transmitting film layer and a light barrier layer to form a non-transmitting region, a semi-transmitting region, and a full transmitting region, the transparent substrate being further provided with a light extinction film layer located at a vicinity of the full transmitting region to weaken an intensity of ultraviolet light transmitting through the vicinity of the full transmitting region. The size of the via formed after an exposure process with the mask is less affected by a change in the thickness of the photoresist surrounding the via.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Deshuai Wang, Liang Wang
  • Patent number: 9766508
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a curved liquid crystal panel, which includes Step 1: pre-setting radii of curvature of a CF substrate and an array substrate of a curved liquid crystal panel; Step 2: preparing the CF substrate (1) and the array substrate (2), the CF substrate (1) and the array substrate (2) being both in the form of a flat panel, where in step (2), a spacing distance L2 between two adjacent data lines (21) and a spacing distance L1 of black matrixes (11) in a direction in which the data lines (21) is lined up are set to be different; Step 3: individually curving the CF substrate (1) and the array substrate (2) to reach the pre-set radii of curvature of Step 1; and Step 4: subjecting the curved CF substrate (1) and array substrate (2) to vacuum lamination through curved surface lamination to be laminated together to form a curved liquid crystal panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Chao Ma, Yungjui Lee