Injecting Liquid Crystal Patents (Class 349/189)
  • Patent number: 11874370
    Abstract: A method for acquiring information in the spatial environment of a vehicle, comprising: providing at least two radar sensors arranged at different positions at the vehicle; transmitting radar signals by the radar sensors, the radar signals being assigned to the radar sensors; receiving reflected components of the radar signals assigned to the radar sensors at the respective radar sensors and further processing these reflected components of the radar signals as reception information; assigning time information to the reception information obtained from the respective radar sensors, the time information forming a time reference for the reception information; assigning location information to the reception information obtained from the respective radar sensors, the location information forming a location reference for the reception information; and processing the reception information obtained from the at least two radar sensors into common environment information by taking into account the time information and
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignees: CONTINENTAL AUTONOMOUS MOBILITY GERMANY GMBH, VOLKSWAGEN AG
    Inventors: Andreas Löffler, Fabian Harrer, Thomas Gisder, Marc-Michael Meinecke, Thorsten Bagdonat
  • Patent number: 11852912
    Abstract: A color filter substrate is disclosed, including a substrate, a black matrix layer, a first groove, and a reflective layer. The substrate includes a display area and a non-display area disposed surrounding the display area. The black matrix layer is arranged on the substrate, and includes a first black matrix layer arranged in the display area and a second black matrix layer formed in the non-display area. The first groove is defined in the second black matrix layer, and the reflective layer covers the first groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Jie Wang, Fulin Deng, Rong Tang, Jianying Zhang, Haoxuan Zheng
  • Patent number: 11513404
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first display portion including a first pixel, a second display portion including a second pixel, a first light shield surrounding the first display portion and the second display portion, a second light shield disposed between the first display portion and the second display portion, a liquid crystal layer disposed in the first display portion and the second display portion, a first sealant overlapping the first light shield and sealing the liquid crystal layer in the first display portion and the second display portion, and a second sealant overlapping the second light shield. The second sealant has at least one opening through which the first display portion and the second display portion communicate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Koichiro Adachi, Kenji Tanase
  • Patent number: 11448931
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of display technology, and provides a method for repairing broken line, an array substrate, and an active matrix display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Everdisplay Optronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Keitaro Yamashita, Shanglong Wang, Ruili Wang, Chihkang Chen
  • Patent number: 10903447
    Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes a display panel including first and second display substrates that face each other, having an overlap area in which the first and second display substrates overlap with each other, and having a protruding area on one side of the overlap area, a sealing member between the first and second display substrates along edges of the overlap area, and at least one chamfered portion including a first chamfered portion, which is formed on at least one side of the protruding area, and a second chamfered portion, which is formed on the overlap area and adjacent to the first chamfered portion, wherein in the second chamfered portion, an end of the first display substrate is positioned beyond an end of the second display substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun Min Hwang, Yong Kyu Jang, Jae Kyung Go, Dong Jo Kim, Young Min Kim, Chan Young Park, Dong Won Han
  • Patent number: 10663809
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a liquid crystal (LC) dropping and distributing method for a display panel. The LC dropping and distributing method includes forming a first LC region, the first LC region being an equilateral polygon symmetric about its center and having a first symmetric axis and a second symmetric axis perpendicular to each other; and forming two second LC regions, the two second LC regions being located at two sides of the first LC region respectively and being symmetric about the first symmetric axis, and the two second LC regions being both disposed to be spaced apart from the first LC region, each of the two second LC regions including a plurality of LC sub-regions arranged at intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kai Wang, Moonjong Won
  • Patent number: 10295868
    Abstract: A display substrate, a method for manufacturing thereof, a display panel and a method for manufacturing thereof are disclosed. The display substrate includes a display region and a sealing region surrounding the display region. A plurality of through holes are formed within the sealing region of the display substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xuefei Bai
  • Patent number: 9995874
    Abstract: Small-radius coated optical fibers having large mode field diameter and low bending losses. The coated fiber may have an outer radius of 110 ?m or less, while providing a mode field diameter of 9.0 ?m or greater and a bending loss when wrapped about a 15 mm mandrel of 0.5 dB/km or less at wavelength of 1550 nm. The coated fiber may have a mode field diameter of 9.2 ?m or greater and may have a bending loss at 1550 nm of 0.25 dB/km or less when wrapped about a 20 mm mandrel or a bending loss at 1550 nm of 0.02 dB/km or less when wrapped about a 30 mm mandrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Dana Craig Bookbinder, Steven Bruce Dawes, Inna Igorevna Kouzmina, Ming-Jun Li, Manuela Ocampo, Pushkar Tandon
  • Patent number: 9671650
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device capable of suppressing display unevenness around a seal in the case of performing PS treatment on a horizontal alignment film formed from a photoactive material. The method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes the steps of: forming a horizontal alignment film containing a photoactive material on at least one substrate of a pair of substrates; dropping a liquid crystal composition containing a liquid crystal material and a monomer on one of the pair of substrates, the monomer being contained in an amount of 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Isamu Miyake, Koichi Miyachi, Yuko Teraoka
  • Patent number: 9081244
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device may include a substrate. The liquid crystal display device may further include a pixel electrode disposed on the substrate. The liquid crystal display device may further include a common electrode overlapping the pixel electrode, wherein a liquid crystal injection hole is formed through at least the common electrode. The liquid crystal display device may further include a liquid crystal layer disposed between the pixel electrode and the common electrode. The liquid crystal display device may further include a light-blocking element disposed inside the liquid crystal injection hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ki Pyo Hong, Swae-Hyun Kim, Jae Hwa Park, Je Hyeong Park, Young Goo Song
  • Publication number: 20150146153
    Abstract: Provided are a display device and a method of manufacturing the same. The display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate and separated from the first substrate, a plurality of liquid crystal parts disposed between the first and second substrates, and separated in a horizontal direction from each other, spacers for separating the liquid crystal parts between the first and the second substrates, and immobilization patterns disposed in each of the liquid crystal parts, and including an optically active material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Gi Heon KIM, Hojun RYU, Won Jae LEE, Yong Hae KIM, Chul Am KIM
  • Patent number: 9036118
    Abstract: A method for preparing a negative optical compensation assembly includes: first providing an alignment chamber composed of a vertical alignment substrate and a horizontal alignment substrate and filling into the alignment chamber a liquid crystal mixture comprising a polymerizable discotic liquid crystal, an adjunct alignment agent, and an ultraviolet absorption pigment, and subjecting the vertical alignment substrate to ultraviolet radiation so as to polymerize the polymerizable discotic liquid crystal within the alignment chamber, thereby obtain the negative optical compensation assembly. This method can obtain hybrid alignment of discotic liquid crystal via a simple process, and therefore reduce the complexity for manufacturing the negative optical compensation assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiaopeng Cui
  • Patent number: 9019458
    Abstract: A display device includes: a substrate, on which pixel areas arranged substantially in a matrix form having pixel rows and pixel columns are defined; a thin film transistor disposed on the substrate; a pixel electrode disposed in the pixel areas and connected to the thin film transistor; common electrodes disposed on the pixel electrode and spaced apart from the pixel electrode, where a microcavity is defined between the pixel electrode and the common electrodes; a roof layer disposed on the common electrodes, where a liquid crystal injection hole is defined through the common electrodes and the roof layer and exposes the microcavity; a liquid crystal layer disposed in the microcavity; and an encapsulation layer disposed on the roof layer, where the encapsulation layer covers the liquid crystal injection hole and seals the microcavity, where the common electrodes in the pixel rows are connected to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Won Tae Kim, Yong Seok Kim, Sung Hwan Won, Seon Uk Lee, Kyung Tae Chae, Pil Sook Kwon, Dae Ho Lee, Woo Jae Lee, Tae Woo Lim
  • Publication number: 20150070609
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal (LC) medium comprising a polymerizable compound, to a process for its preparation, to its use for optical, electro-optical and electronic purposes, in particular in an LC display, especially in an LC display of the PSA (“polymer sustained alignment”) type, and to an LC display comprising the LC medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Eveline BARON, Julian VOGT, Qiong TONG, Stephan DEROW
  • Publication number: 20140375943
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polymerizable compounds, to processes and intermediates for the preparation thereof, to liquid-crystal (LC) media comprising them, and to the use of the polymerizable compounds and LC media for optical, electro-optical and electronic purposes, in particular in LC displays, especially in LC displays of the PSA (“polymer sustained alignment”) type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Martin ENGEL, Eveline BARON, Constanze BROCKE, Helga HAAS, Stephan DEROW, Christoph MARTEN, Qiong TONG
  • Publication number: 20140368781
    Abstract: In an aspect, a liquid crystal display is provided. The liquid crystal display may include a substrate, a thin film transistor disposed on the substrate, a pixel electrode connected to one terminal of the thin film transistor, a roof layer disposed to face the pixel electrode, and a capping layer disposed on the roof layer, in which a microcavity having a liquid crystal injection hole is formed between the pixel electrode and the roof layer, the microcavity forms a liquid crystal layer including a liquid crystal molecule, and the capping layer covers the liquid crystal injection hole and includes a water-soluble polymer material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dae Ho Song, Jae Cheol Park, Min-Woo Lee, Gyeong Eun Eoh, Min Jeong Oh
  • Patent number: 8913215
    Abstract: A bistable switchable liquid crystal device is provided in which the device can be switched between a transparent and an opaque state by a predetermined voltage pulse. The device is based on polymer stabilized cholesteric materials. No additional amount of voltage has to be applied to the device in order to sustain the optical states. Therefore, the device is energy-saving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Kent State University
    Inventors: Deng-Ke Yang, Lei Shi, Rui Bao
  • Patent number: 8896803
    Abstract: In accordance with a method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device including, in a picture element, a first sub-picture-element region where a threshold voltage of the transmittance-applied voltage characteristic is Vth1 and a second sub-picture-element region where a threshold voltage of the transmittance-applied voltage characteristic is Vth2, liquid crystal, which polymerizable components are added to, is filled into the space between a first and a second substrates; thereafter, a voltage V1 slightly higher than the threshold voltage Vth1 is applied to a liquid crystal layer, and is held for a certain length of time; subsequently, a voltage V2 slightly higher than the threshold voltage Vth2 is applied to the liquid crystal layer, and is held for a certain length of time; additionally, a voltage V3 higher than a white-displaying voltage which is applied while the liquid crystal display device is in actual use is applied to the liquid crystal layer, and is held for a certain length of time; then, t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazutaka Hanaoka, Yohei Nakanishi, Katsufumi Ohmuro, Kunihiro Tashiro, Norio Sugiura, Kengo Kanii
  • Patent number: 8848351
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of LCDs, and more particularly to a frame for an LCD device and an LCD device including the frame. The frame includes side frames. A pair of parallel side frames of the side frames are correspondingly provided with folding points, and the frame is folded and superposed along the folding points. The frame for an LCD device of the invention is of a rectangle structure in general, and includes four side frames; a pair of parallel side frames are correspondingly provided with folding points, and the frame is folded and superposed along the folding points; because the frame is folded and superposed along the folding points, the area of the frame is significantly reduced during packaging and transportation, thereby facilitating transportation, saving packaging material, and increasing packaging efficiency. When assembling the LCD device, the frame can be conveniently expanded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shihhsiang Chen, Chengwen Que
  • Patent number: 8836905
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device and a liquid crystal display device. The method includes (1) preparing a TFT substrate and a CF substrate; (2) applying sealant resin to the TFT substrate or CF substrate to form an enclosing resin frame body that forms an entry opening on the CF substrate or the TFT substrate; (3) applying sealant resin to the entry opening of the enclosing resin frame body to form a closing section; (4) filling liquid crystal inside the enclosing resin frame body; (5) bonding the TFT substrate and the CF substrate together; and (6) subjecting the bonded TFT substrate and the CF substrate to curing at high temperature in order to cure the enclosing resin frame body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuancheng Lee, Chihhsien Li
  • Publication number: 20140198290
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a display device and a method of manufacturing the display device. The display device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a substrate. A pixel electrode is formed on the substrate. A roof layer is formed on the pixel electrode. A first micro-cavity and a second micro-cavity are disposed between the pixel electrode and the roof layer. A liquid crystal fills the first and second micro-cavities. The first and second micro-cavities are connected to each other by a path. The path penetrates the roof layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tae Woo Lim, Hee-Keun Lee, Hoon Kang, Sung Ju Kim, Yeun Tae Kim, Yu Deok Seo, Koichi Sugitani, Cha-Dong Kim
  • Patent number: 8780317
    Abstract: A film forming device forms a coated film on a substrate by discharging a liquid material in the form of liquid droplets, and causing the liquid droplets to impact on the substrate at a predetermined pitch. The predetermined pitch is determined based on the diameter of the liquid droplets after impact of the liquid droplets on the substrate. Drop marks are reduced and a uniform coated film is formed on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kei Hiruma
  • Patent number: 8736803
    Abstract: A mother TFT substrate having plural TFT substrates, and a mother counter substrate having plural counter substrates are bonded together to form a mother panel. At this time, the interior of the mother panel is sealed only with a sealing material, without forming a sealant separately in seal portions. The mother counter substrate has plural counter substrates of liquid crystal cells. A sealing material is arranged in two rows surrounding the counter substrates in the periphery of the mother counter substrate, except for the seal portions in which seal portion sealing materials are arranged in two rows in a staggered manner on the short sides. When the mother counter substrate and the mother TFT substrate are overlapped and the inside air is let out, the sealing materials are heated. Then, the seal portion sealing materials are bridged together to seal the interior of the mother panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiro Iwata, Takahiro Nagami
  • Patent number: 8721389
    Abstract: A grinder including a grinding unit including a grinding surface and a shaft connected to the grinding unit for rotating the grinding unit. The grinding unit includes polyurethane and a mixture of a repairer and an abrasive, and an angle ? between a plane perpendicular to a rotational axis of the shaft and the grinding surface satisfies 1°???7°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong-Sub Jung, Weon-Woo Choi, Dong-Wok Seo, Kwan-Su Kim
  • Patent number: 8724073
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes preparing first and second substrates, at least one of the first and second substrates being a transparent substrate; forming a plurality of the column spacers on the first substrate for maintaining a cell gap between the first and second substrates and a sidewall on the first substrate for sealing the periphery of the substrates; applying an adhesive solution including an adhesive diluted with an organic solvent onto the first substrate having the column spacers and the sidewall thereon; positioning the second substrate on the first substrate so that the first and second substrates face each other; adhering the column spacers to the second substrate by drying the organic solvent from the adhesive solution; and providing a liquid crystal material between the first and second substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joung Won Woo, Yuichi Momoi, Dong Cheon Shin
  • Publication number: 20140111754
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device capable of reducing image sticking phenomena and of maintaining the voltage holding ratio, the liquid crystal display device being produced using photo-alignment technology and PSA technology in combination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshiro Matsumoto, Masanobu Mizusaki, Masayuki Kanehiro, Yuichi Kawahira
  • Publication number: 20140104551
    Abstract: A method for preparing a negative optical compensation assembly includes: first providing an alignment chamber composed of a vertical alignment substrate and a horizontal alignment substrate and filling into the alignment chamber a liquid crystal mixture comprising a polymerizable discotic liquid crystal, an adjunct alignment agent, and an ultraviolet absorption pigment, and subjecting the vertical alignment substrate to ultraviolet radiation so as to polymerize the polymerizable discotic liquid crystal within the alignment chamber, thereby obtain the negative optical compensation assembly. This method can obtain hybrid alignment of discotic liquid crystal via a simple process, and therefore reduce the complexity for manufacturing the negative optical compensation assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicants: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiaopeng CUI
  • Patent number: 8665414
    Abstract: Thermochromic liquid crystal filters are fabricated by providing two polarizers oriented at offset polarity with respect to each other; providing alignment structures adjacent the inner surfaces of the polarizers; placing a plurality of spacers between the polarizers; and filling a space created by the spacers with a thermotropic liquid crystal that acts as a depolarizer in a nematic state. The filter acts as a wave block when the liquid crystal is in an isotropic state. Alternatively, the filters can be created by encapsulating a thermochromic liquid crystal with a polymer material to form a flexible film and orienting the thermochromic liquid crystal in the polymer material to create a structure that functions as a thermochromic optical filter. Such filters can control the flow of light and radiant heat through selective reflection, transmission, absorption, and/or re-emission. The filters have particular application in passive or active light-regulating and temperature-regulating films and materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: RavenBrick LLC
    Inventors: Richard M. Powers, Wil McCarthy, Matthew Bryant Kish
  • Patent number: 8648995
    Abstract: Relating to a method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device, minimizing liquid crystal material loss and use of cleaning solvent, and providing a liquid crystal display device in which a seal pattern having few gap inconsistencies are taken as a objective. Liquid crystal material wraparound can be prevented by forming a seal stopper portion outside a peripheral seal portion, and in addition, by increasing the degree of symmetry of the seal pattern and by forming a damming portion between injection ports, gap inconsistencies within the liquid crystal display device can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideki Katsura
  • Patent number: 8647529
    Abstract: A liquid crystal drop apparatus for dropping liquid crystal on a substrate includes a liquid crystal container filled with liquid crystal, a nozzle formed at an lower end of the liquid crystal container for dropping the liquid crystal of the liquid crystal container, and a control unit for controlling the nozzle when the nozzle drops the liquid crystal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Young Suk Kim
  • Publication number: 20140022502
    Abstract: A liquid crystalline polyester composition contains 100 parts by weight of a liquid crystalline polyester (A) and 10 to 100 parts by weight of a mica (B), wherein a rate in number of mica with a ratio (d1/d2) of a long diameter (d1) to a short diameter (d2) that is greater than 2.0, to an entire content of the mica (B) contained in the liquid crystalline polyester composition is not higher than 20%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi Matsubara, Hideyuki Umetsu, Takayuki Hase
  • Publication number: 20140016078
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel including a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal molecule layer, a first liquid crystal cell layer and a second liquid crystal cell layer is provided. The second substrate is disposed opposite to the first substrate. The liquid crystal molecule layer has a plurality of liquid crystal molecules and disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first liquid crystal cell layer has a plurality of first liquid crystal cells and disposed between the first substrate and the liquid crystal molecule layer. The second liquid crystal cell layer has a plurality of second liquid crystal cells and disposed between the second substrate and the liquid crystal molecule layer. Moreover, a liquid crystal composition used to make the liquid crystal display panel and a fabricating method of liquid crystal panel are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: CHUNGHWA PICTURE TUBES, LTD.
    Inventors: Chun-Wei Su, Kai-Hsien Yang, Jan-Tien Lien
  • Patent number: 8599343
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The liquid crystal display device is manufactured by placing a half tone mask on the assembled first and second substrates in a polymerization process of liquid crystal composition disposed between the first and second substrates. The liquid crystal composition includes liquid crystal molecules and reactive mesogens. The half tone mask has a first transmission part and a second transmission part. The light transmittance of the first transmission part is higher than the light transmittance of the second transmission part. The first transmission part is disposed in the pixel region, while the second transmission part is disposed in the non-pixel region. The non-pixel region is covered by a black matrix that is formed on the second substrate. Through this manufacturing method, the generation of spots around a black matrix is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gyung-Soon Park, Kyung-Min Park
  • Publication number: 20130314655
    Abstract: The present invention relates to liquid-crystalline media (LC media) comprising self-aligning additives which effect homeotropic (vertical) alignment of the LC media at a surface or the cell walls of a liquid-crystal display (LC display). The invention therefore also encompasses LC displays having homeotropic alignment of the liquid-crystalline medium (LC medium) without conventional imide alignment layers. The LC media are optionally supplemented by a polymerisable or polymerised component, which serves for stabilisation of the alignment, for adjustment of the tilt angle and/or as passivation layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2012
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Graziano Archetti, Andreas Taugerbeck
  • Publication number: 20130314659
    Abstract: A liquid crystal panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a sealant layer, and a liquid crystal layer. The second substrate is disposed opposite to the first substrate. The sealant layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate for combining the first substrate and the second substrate. A plurality of openings is defined by the first substrate, the second substrate, and the sealant layer. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The openings are configured to inject a liquid crystal material into space between the first substrate and the second substrate to form the liquid crystal layer by capillarity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: Silicon Touch Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Cheng-Chieh Yang, Anh Phuong Le
  • Publication number: 20130278880
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a liquid crystal panel includes the following steps: adding polymer monomers to liquid crystals and then injecting the liquid crystals into space between a thin film transistor array substrate and a color filter substrate vacuum bonded to the thin film transistor array substrate to form the liquid crystal panel; exposing the liquid crystal panel to light of a spectrum ranging from 300 nm to 450 nm and of an illuminance ranging from 10 mW/cm2 to 30 mW/cm2 when the wavelength ranges from 300 nm to 400 nm, and exposing the liquid crystal panel for an exposure time period lasting for 30 to 50 seconds; and curing the exposed liquid crystal panel and simultaneously applying a curing voltage to the liquid crystal panel. The liquid crystal panel manufactured according to the manufacturing method has an improved contrast and liquid crystal response speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Chih-tsung Kang
  • Patent number: 8558972
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate disposed to face each other, a polymer-dispersed liquid crystal layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a black matrix provided on the first substrate, where a display region for displaying an image and a frame region around the display region are defined, and in the frame region, the black matrix includes a plurality of light-blocking regions spaced apart from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasushi Asaoka, Eiji Satoh, Kazuhiro Deguchi, Sayuri Fujiwara, Takafumi Matsuda, Katsuhiro Mikumo, Kazunori Tanimoto
  • Patent number: 8502952
    Abstract: Color cholesteric liquid crystal display devices and fabrication methods thereof are provided. The color cholesteric liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a gap interposed therebetween. A patterned enclosed structure, formed by adhering a first patterned enclosed structure on the first substrate and a second patterned enclosed structure on the second substrate, is interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, dividing a plurality of color sub-pixel channels. A plurality of the color cholesteric liquid crystals are respectively filled into each of the color sub-pixel channel, wherein the first patterned enclosed structure is tightly adhered to the second patterned enclosed structure so as to prevent mixing of the color cholesteric liquid crystals between adjacent color sub-pixel channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Yuan-Chang Liao, Yu-Cheng Lai, Yi-Shou Tsai, Kuan-Wei Wu
  • Patent number: 8451392
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) includes: a first substrate; a second substrate facing the first substrate; an electrode portion formed on at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate, and configured to generate an electric field between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a liquid crystal film positioned between the first substrate and the second substrate, and at least one liquid crystal and an associated liquid crystal space in the liquid crystal film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong-In Baek, Won-Sang Park, Jae-Hyun Kim, Jae-Ik Lim
  • Patent number: 8411216
    Abstract: Each pixel region includes first and second pixel electrodes (17a, 17b) and first and second capacitor electrodes (67x, 67y) positioned on a layer where a data signal line (15) exists. The first and second capacitor electrodes are aligned in a row direction in such a manner as to overlap a retention capacitor line (18) via a first insulating film and to overlap the second pixel electrode (17b) via a second insulating film. A drain electrode (9) of a transistor (12), the first pixel electrode (17a), a first connection line (38) connected with the first capacitor electrode (67x), and the second connection line connected with the second capacitor electrode (67y) are electrically connected with one another. A part of the first connection line (38) and a part of the second connection line (39) do not overlap the retention capacitor line (18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshihide Tsubata
  • Patent number: 8405814
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device and fabricating method thereof are disclosed, by which insufficient or excessive filling of liquid crystals can be cured by adjusting a liquid crystal quantity in a liquid crystal display device having the insufficient or excessive filling of liquid crystals generated thereon. The present invention includes the steps of preparing a liquid crystal cell including a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates, checking a liquid crystal quantity within the liquid crystal cell, forming a hole in the liquid crystal cell, adjusting the liquid crystal quantity through the hole, and blocking the hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chong Chan Eun, Tae Man Kim
  • Patent number: 8368867
    Abstract: A liquid crystal spraying apparatus is provided. In the apparatus, a liquid crystal vessel stores liquid crystal. A liquid crystal nozzle sprays the stored liquid crystal in the form of fine particles. A liquid crystal supplier supplies the stored liquid crystal to the liquid crystal nozzle. A gas supplier supplies gas causing the supplied liquid crystal to be sprayed in the form of fine particles. A gas tank supplies the gas to the gas supplier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kang Suk Kim, Tae Joon Song
  • Publication number: 20130027640
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a substrate for alignment of a liquid crystal may include: forming a vertical alignment layer on a substrate; performing an alignment process on the vertical alignment layer in a first direction; forming a protective layer at a partial region of the vertical alignment layer; performing an alignment process on other regions of the vertical alignment layer in a second direction; and removing the protective layer. A liquid crystal display device manufactured using the substrate for alignment of a liquid crystal ensures wide viewing angle and alignment stability with relatively simple processes as compared with the conventional vertically aligned (VA) mode liquid crystal display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2010
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: SNU R&DB FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Sin-Doo Lee, Deog-Kyoon Jeong, Jun-Hee Na
  • Patent number: 8363200
    Abstract: A display element comprises: a pair of substrates disposed opposite to each other; a liquid crystal enclosed between the pair of substrates; a wall structure which is formed to surround a pixel region and which is in contact with both of the pair of substrates; and an opening section which is an opening provided in a part of the wall structure to allow the liquid crustal to flow out of the pixel region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Masaki Nose, Junji Tomita, Tsuneo Watanuki, Toshiaki Yoshihara
  • Publication number: 20120327357
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polymerisable compounds, to processes and intermediates for the preparation thereof, to the use thereof for optical, electro-optical and electronic purposes, in particular in liquid-crystal (LC) media and LC displays having a polymer-stabilised blue phase, and in LC media for LC displays of the PS or PSA type (“polymer sustained” or “polymer sustained alignment”), and to LC media and LC displays comprising these compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: Merck Patent Gesellschaft Mit Beschrankter Haftung
    Inventors: Axel Jansen, Thorsten Kodek, Helmut Haensel, Erdal Durmaz
  • Patent number: 8325320
    Abstract: A method for repairing a liquid crystal display (LCD) device is provided for an LCD device whose LCD panel has a gravity defect. The method includes the steps of cutting an edge of the LCD panel, applying pressure to a surface of the LCD panel to exhaust excess liquid crystal material through the cut edge, and sealing the cut edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Kyun Lee, Dong Su Shin
  • Patent number: 8319934
    Abstract: A display motherboard includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a plurality of cutting lines, and at least one photo supporting member. The second substrate is opposite the first substrate. The cutting lines are disposed on the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the cutting lines separate the first substrate and the second substrate into at least one display panel. The photo supporting member is located between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the photo supporting member overlaps the cutting lines, and the photo supporting member has a bar shape surrounding the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Shu-Chih Wang, Che-Yao Wu
  • Patent number: 8310650
    Abstract: It is an object to prevent disordered orientation of liquid crystal molecules which is due to division of substrates even when a liquid crystal dripping method is used, and to provide a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device in which liquid crystal is not adversely affected even when a sealant not cured and liquid crystal are in contact. In a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device using a liquid crystal dripping method, a scribe groove is provided for at least one of a pair of substrates with a diamond cutter or the like before the pair of substrates are attached under reduced pressure. After the scribing, the pair of substrates are attached under reduced pressure, heat treatment for curing the sealant and aligning the liquid crystal molecules is performed, and the substrates are divided by applying impact using a breaking apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahide Kanai, Takeshi Nishi
  • Patent number: 8305543
    Abstract: An assembled panel is provided in the present invention, the panel comprises substrate for liquid crystal display. The substrate comprises a base substrate comprising at least one individual panel region, a subsidiary sealant member provided on the periphery of the individual panel region, at least one opening region provided on the subsidiary sealant member, and a buffer provided on the base substrate between the opening region and the individual panel region and corresponding to the opening region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Beijing Boe Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dongsheng Huang
  • Publication number: 20120242927
    Abstract: An active optical device and a display apparatus are provided. The active optical device includes a graphene layer; a plurality of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) disposed on the graphene layer; a transparent electrode layer spaced apart from the plurality of CNTs; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the graphene layer and the transparent electrode layer. The display apparatus includes a display unit for displaying at least one of two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) images; and the active optical device disposed on the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2011
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Un-jeong Kim, Sun-il Kim, Sang-jin Lee