Structure Of Transistor Patents (Class 349/43)
  • Patent number: 11217549
    Abstract: A driving chip and a display device are provided herein. The driving chip includes a substrate, a plurality of connection bumps and a plurality of buffer bumps on the substrate. Each of the connection bumps and the buffer bumps is disposed on a first substrate of the substrate. The buffer bump includes a first end face with a height a, and the connection bump has a connection bump end face with a height b, a<b. The height is a distance from a corresponding end face of the connection bump or the buffer bump to the first surface. With the buffer bumps on the driving chip, stress buffering can be achieved, which can further improve the bonding effect of the driving chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lianbin Liu, Hengzhen Liang, Chuanyan Lan, Guoqiang Wu
  • Patent number: 11217609
    Abstract: Array substrates, motherboards of array substrates, display panels and method for forming display panels are provided. The array substrate includes sub-pixels, data lines, multiple-channel distribution units, X first switch control lines, test units and N second switch control lines. The first output terminals of the X first switch elements of a same multiple distribution unit are connected to the X data lines of the same data line group. The first control terminals of the X first switch elements of each multiple-channel distribution unit are connected to the X first switch control lines. The second output terminals of the second switch elements in a same test unit are electrically connected to the first input end of the first switch elements in the same multiple-channel distribution unit. The second control terminals of the N second switch elements in each test unit are connected to the N second switch control lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Shanghai Tianma AM-OLED Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhuan Gao, Xinzhao Liu, Mengmeng Zhang, Xingyao Zhou, Yana Gao
  • Patent number: 11205366
    Abstract: This application discloses a drive circuit and a display panel. The drive circuit includes a plurality of pixels, where the pixel includes a first subpixel and a second subpixel; and a switching circuit, where the first subpixel and the second subpixel are respectively connected to ground through the switching circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignees: CHONGQING HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Xiaoyu Huang
  • Patent number: 11199750
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments of the disclosure, an array substrate and a related liquid crystal display device are provided. The array substrate can include a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged on a base substrate, and a conductive opaque line arranged between two neighboring pixel electrodes and overlapping with each of the two neighboring pixel electrodes along a width direction of the conductive opaque line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignees: FUZHOU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xibin Shao, Lifeng Lin, Honglin Zhang, Hongming Zhan, Yu Ma, Kui Zhang, Chao Tian, Zhe Li
  • Patent number: 11201177
    Abstract: An array substrate of the present invention includes: a first metal layer; an insulating layer on the first metal layer; an amorphous silicon layer on a surface of the insulating layer away from the first metal layer; an amorphous silicon doped layer arranged on a surface of the amorphous silicon layer away from the insulating layer; a second metal layer including a first portion and a second portion, the first portion arranged on a surface of the amorphous silicon doped layer away from the amorphous silicon layer, a second portion arranged on the first surface and in contact with the first metal layer; a protective layer arranged on the first metal layer and the second metal layer; a first transparent electrode connected to the first metal layer through the protective layer; and a second transparent electrode connected to the second metal layer through the protective layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Peipei Xu
  • Patent number: 11201249
    Abstract: An object is to provide favorable interface characteristics of a thin film transistor including an oxide semiconductor layer without mixing of an impurity such as moisture. Another object is to provide a semiconductor device including a thin film transistor having excellent electric characteristics and high reliability, and a method by which a semiconductor device can be manufactured with high productivity. A main point is to perform oxygen radical treatment on a surface of a gate insulating layer. Accordingly, there is a peak of the oxygen concentration at an interface between the gate insulating layer and a semiconductor layer, and the oxygen concentration of the gate insulating layer has a concentration gradient. The oxygen concentration is increased toward the interface between the gate insulating layer and the semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Kengo Akimoto
  • Patent number: 11200398
    Abstract: A display device including a display panel having a display area including a plurality of pixels and a non-display area surrounding at least one side of the display area, a light blocking layer at least partially overlapping the display area and including opening portions for selectively passing incident light, and a power supply device configured to supply power to the pixels and the light blocking layer, in which the power supply device is configured to apply control power having a different voltage value in correspondence with a type of an image to be displayed in the display area to the light blocking layer, during a display period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Il Nam Kim, Jae Kyoung Kim, Ji Hun Ryu, Eun Jin Sung, Seong Ryong Lee, Jong Hyun Lee
  • Patent number: 11194207
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing, with high mass productivity, liquid crystal display devices having highly reliable thin film transistors with excellent electric characteristics is provided. In a liquid crystal display device having an inverted staggered thin film transistor, the inverted staggered thin film transistor is formed as follows: a gate insulating film is formed over a gate electrode; a microcrystalline semiconductor film which functions as a channel formation region is formed over the gate insulating film; a buffer layer is formed over the microcrystalline semiconductor film; a pair of source and drain regions are formed over the buffer layer; and a pair of source and drain electrodes are formed in contact with the source and drain regions so as to expose a part of the source and drain regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Yukie Suzuki, Hideaki Kuwabara, Hajime Kimura
  • Patent number: 11187950
    Abstract: An array substrate and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The array substrate includes a substrate, a gate layer, a first insulating layer, a gate tracking layer, and a second insulating layer. The method of manufacturing the array substrate includes a substrate providing step, a gate layer forming step, a first insulating layer forming step, a gate tracking layer forming step, and a second insulating layer forming step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hui Xia
  • Patent number: 11187935
    Abstract: A display panel includes an array substrate in which a plurality of pixel electrodes are arranged, and the counter substrate. A non-display area of the array substrate is provided with the transfer electrode for supplying a potential to the counter substrate. The counter substrate includes: a first film; a counter electrode placed closer to the array substrate in relation to the first film, and supplied with the potential from the transfer electrode; and an alignment film stacked on the counter electrode. The counter substrate includes first grooves provided between a display area and a transfer overlapping area overlapping with the transfer electrode, the first grooves penetrating the counter electrode and at least a portion of the first film. The first grooves extend in a first longitudinal direction, and are formed in broken line in the first longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Noriyuki Ohashi, Yasuhiro Kuroe
  • Patent number: 11189733
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for forming thin-film transistors (TFTs) with low contact resistance. As disclosed in the present application, the low contact resistance can be achieved by intentionally thinning one or both of the source/drain (S/D) regions of the thin-film layer of the TFT device. As the TFT layer may have an initial thickness in the range of 20-65 nm, the techniques for thinning the S/D regions of the TFT layer described herein may reduce the thickness in one or both of those S/D regions to a resulting thickness of 3-10 nm, for example. Intentionally thinning one or both of the S/D regions of the TFT layer induces more electrostatic charges inside the thinned S/D region, thereby increasing the effective dopant in that S/D region. The increase in effective dopant in the thinned S/D region helps lower the related contact resistance, thereby leading to enhanced overall device performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Abhishek A. Sharma, Van H. Le, Li Huey Tan, Tristan A. Tronic, Benjamin Chu-Kung, Jack T. Kavalieros, Tahir Ghani
  • Patent number: 11181790
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is disclosed. The device may include an array substrate including a first substrate, which is placed adjacent to a backlight, and a thin film transistor and a touch electrode, which are provided on the first substrate, and an opposite substrate including a second substrate, which faces the first substrate with a liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween, and a static electricity prevention layer, which is deposited on an outer surface of the second substrate. The static electricity prevention layer is formed of a host material containing at least one of In2O3 and SnO2 and a dopant material containing at least one of SiO2, ZrO2, HfO2, Nb2O5, and Ta2O5 and has sheet resistance of about 106.5 ?/sq to about 109 ?/sq.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang-Eun Kim, Sung-Hee Kim, Su-Jeong Lee
  • Patent number: 11181785
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a first substrate including a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode, a second substrate including a common electrode, and an electro-optical layer disposed between the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode, and the common electrode, the electro-optical layer having optical characteristics varying in accordance with an electric field, wherein the first substrate is provided with a spacer containing an inorganic material, the spacer defining a distance between the first substrate and the second substrate, and the spacer overlaps the first pixel electrode when viewed in a thickness direction of the first substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoshi Ito
  • Patent number: 11175537
    Abstract: A display device includes: a first substrate; a second substrate facing the first substrate; a light amount control layer between the first substrate and the second substrate; a first line disposed on the first substrate and extending in a first direction and a second line disposed on the first substrate and extending in a second direction which intersects the first direction; a light blocking member disposed on the first substrate and overlapping at least one of the first line and the second line; a plurality of color conversion layers on the second substrate in respective pixel areas; and a partition wall among the plurality of color conversion layers, corresponding to the first line and the second line. The partition wall has a width less than a width of the light blocking member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Inventors: Seontae Yoon, Junghyun Kwon, Donguk Kim, Haeil Park, Junhan Lee
  • Patent number: 11158275
    Abstract: A display device includes: a first substrate including a gate driver disposed in a non-display area; and a second substrate including a common electrode disposed apart from the first substrate, the gate driver includes: first and second clock wires configured to supply first and second clock signals, respectively; first and second stages configured to receive the first and second clock signals, respectively; a first connection line connecting the first clock wire and the first stage; a second connection line connecting the second clock wire and the second stage; a first contact portion connecting the first clock wire and the first connection line; and a second contact portion connecting the second clock wire and the second connection line. The common electrode includes: first and second openings corresponding to the first and second contact portions, respectively. The first opening and the second opening have different sizes in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong Hee Shin, Geun Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 11152441
    Abstract: Disclosed are an array substrate, a display panel, a display device and a manufacturing method of an array substrate. The array substrate includes: a driving array layer, a first insulating layer, an auxiliary trace layer, a second insulating layer and a first electrode layer, which are disposed in sequence. The driving array layer includes multiple thin film transistors. The first insulating layer includes first via holes, and the first electrode layer includes multiple first electrodes. The auxiliary trace layer includes multiple auxiliary traces which correspond to the multiple first electrodes one by one. An auxiliary trace is electrically connected to an electrode of a corresponding thin film transistor through a first via hole. The second insulating layer includes second via holes, and an auxiliary trace is electrically connected to a respective first electrode through a second via hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: SHANGHAI TIANMA AM-OLED CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Nana Xiong
  • Patent number: 11150502
    Abstract: A display substrate includes a substrate, a first insulator, a metal film, a second insulator, an alignment film, a line, and film forming area defining recesses. The substrate includes a display area and a non-display area. The metal film is disposed upper than the first insulator. The second insulator is disposed upper than the metal film and has a thickness smaller than a thickness of the first insulator. The alignment film is disposed upper than the second insulator at least in the display area. The line extends to straddle the display area and the non-display area and includes a section of the metal film. The film forming area defining recesses are provided in the non-display area to extend to cross the line and include recesses sections of the second insulator to define a forming area of the alignment film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki Maeda, Yoshihito Hara
  • Patent number: 11143920
    Abstract: A display panel including a first substrate, a second substrate, and a display medium layer, a pixel array structure, and a first spacer that are disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate is provided. The pixel array structure includes a first signal line, and has a first platform region located on the first signal line, a first display region and a first support region located between the first platform region and the first display region. A first platform top surface of the first platform region and the first substrate are spaced by a first distance. A support top surface of the first support region and the first substrate are spaced by a second distance. A display top surface of the first display region and the first substrate are spaced by a third distance. A terminal surface of the first spacer contacts the first platform top surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Chi-Ho Chang, An-Cheng Chou, Yu-Chang Wen
  • Patent number: 11143900
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes a thin film transistor, a pixel electrode, a transparent capacitor portion including the pixel electrode, and when viewed from a direction normal to the substrate, a drain contact region where a drain electrode and a semiconductor layer are in contact with each other in a drain opening portion does not overlap either a first contact region where a connecting electrode and the drain electrode are in contact with each other in the first opening portion or a second contact region where the pixel electrode and the connecting electrode are in contact with each other in the second opening portion, the entirety of the second contact region overlaps the first contact region, and the transparent capacitor portion at least partially overlaps the first contact region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroshi Aichi
  • Patent number: 11138914
    Abstract: A display device is disclosed. In one aspect, the display device includes a substrate, a plurality of pixels formed over the substrate and a plurality of signal lines formed over the substrate and connected to the pixels. The signal lines include a plurality of data lines formed over the substrate and a first crack sensing line connected to a first data line. The first crack sensing line is divided into first and second sections and the first section has a width that is greater than that of the second section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seung-Yeon Cho
  • Patent number: 11127732
    Abstract: To solve a problem in that an antenna or a circuit including a thin film transistor is damaged due to discharge of electric charge accumulated in an insulator (a problem of electrostatic discharge), a semiconductor device includes a first insulator, a circuit including a thin film transistor provided over the first insulator, an antenna which is provided over the circuit and is electrically connected to the circuit, and a second insulator provided over the antenna, a first conductive film provided between the first insulator and the circuit, and a second conductive film provided between the second insulator and the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Oikawa, Shingo Eguchi
  • Patent number: 11121343
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, a plurality of pixels above the substrate, each of the pixels including a light emitting element, a display region including the plurality of pixels, a thin film transistor which each of the plurality of pixels includes, a protective film including a first inorganic insulating material and located between the thin film transistor and the light emitting element, a sealing film including a second inorganic insulating material and covering the light emitting element, and at least one through hole located in the display region and passing through the substrate, the protective film, and the sealing film, wherein the second inorganic insulating material is in direct contact with the protective film in a first region located between the through hole and the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Heisuke Kanaya
  • Patent number: 11121202
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a substrate on which a first indented portion indented inward along one side of the substrate is formed; a first pad unit and a second pad unit spaced apart from each other on the substrate along the one side; a display unit above the substrate and having a shape indented inward between the first pad unit and the second pad unit; an encapsulating unit encapsulating the display unit; and a wiring film bent from a first surface of the substrate to a second surface of the substrate, the wiring film including a third pad unit and a fourth pad unit connected to the first pad unit and the second pad unit, respectively, and a second indented portion indented inward between the third pad unit and the fourth pad unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minjun Jang, Sunghoon Kim
  • Patent number: 11120748
    Abstract: A display device is proposed, the display device including a display panel in which a plurality of unit pixels composed of n sub-pixels (where n is a natural number of 2 or more) connected to a data line and a gate line are arranged; a data driving circuit sequentially outputting n data voltages through a first output channel for one horizontal period; a latch circuit sequentially sampling the n data voltages input through the first output channel and providing the sampled n data voltages simultaneously to n data lines while maintaining the same for one horizontal period including a first time point at which a n-th data voltage is sampled; and a gate driving circuit supplying a scan signal to the gate line in synchronization with the data voltage supplied to the data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dosung Kim
  • Patent number: 11112553
    Abstract: A light source module includes an optical plate, a light source and a dimming liquid crystal panel. The dimming liquid crystal panel includes a first driving substrate, a second driving substrate and a liquid crystal material layer. The first driving substrate includes a first substrate and a common electrode. The second driving substrate includes a second substrate, independent electrodes, first signal pads, first wires, dummy wires and a transparent insulation layer. The first wires and dummy wires are disposed on the second substrate and covered by the transparent insulation layer, the first wires are exposed from the transparent insulation layer, the independent electrodes are insulated from each other, disposed on the transparent insulation layer and overlap the first wires and the dummy wires, and each independent electrode is electrically connected to one first signal pad via one first wire. A display device having the light source module is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Yi-Hsing Peng, Wen-Chun Wang, Chung-Yang Fang, Chih-Jen Tsang
  • Patent number: 11112669
    Abstract: The present invention provides an array substrate and a display panel. The display panel includes the array substrate, a non-display region of the array substrate includes a fan-out region and a bonding pad region, and each fan-out lines of the fan-out region includes a first metal layer, a second metal layer, a third metal layer, and a fourth metal layer, which are arranged in a stack and are different materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junzheng Liu, Kai Hu, Rong Zhao
  • Patent number: 11107416
    Abstract: A display device that includes a first area including a display area, a second area including a non-display area, and a third area connecting the first and second areas. A demultiplexing circuit unit is disposed in the non-display area of the second area and overlaps with the first area in a direction of a thickness of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung Hwan Cho, Jong Hyun Choi, Ju Chan Park, Seung Min Song, Min Seong Yi
  • Patent number: 11099437
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The display panel includes an array substrate which includes a plurality of pixel regions defined by a plurality of gate lines intersected with a plurality of data lines. Each of the pixel regions includes an aperture region, a non-aperture region surrounding the aperture region, and a spacer disposed in the non-aperture region. Each of the pixel regions includes a padding structure provided in the non-aperture region. The padding structure includes a first pad and a second pad located in the non-aperture region. The first pad and the second pad are located at two sides of the spacer, respectively. The first pad and the second pad are located at two sides of the gate line, respectively. The padding structure is configured to prevent the spacer from moving into the aperture region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongfei Cheng, Pan Li
  • Patent number: 11099438
    Abstract: A display portion of a display device includes a gate wiring formed of a first metal layer, a signal line formed of a second metal layer, a metal wiring formed of a third metal layer. A terminal portion of the display device includes a first metal portion formed of the second metal layer, and a second metal portion that is laminated on the first metal portion and formed of the third metal layer. The second metal portion covers an upper surface and a side surface of the first metal portion, and a peripheral portion of the second metal portion is covered by an organic insulating film, and the inside of the peripheral portion of the second metal portion is exposed via a first through hole formed in the organic insulating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Hideki Shiina
  • Patent number: 11092854
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a substrate, and a pixel electrode disposed on the substrate, the pixel electrode including a first stem portion that extends in a first direction, a second stem portion that extends in a second direction crossing the first direction and intersecting with the first stem portion, a plurality of branch portions, the branch portions extending to the first direction and the second direction from the first stem portion or the second stem portion, a first connection portion that connects distal ends of some of the branch electrodes to each other, extends in the first direction and intersects with the second stem portion, and a first edge electrode that is connected to one distal end of the second stem portion and extends in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Se Hyun Lee, Hak Sun Chang, Cheol Shin
  • Patent number: 11094773
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including a substrate including a display area and a non-display area; a thin-film transistor and a display element on the display area; an organic insulating layer between the thin-film transistor and the display element; a first power supply voltage line arranged to correspond to one side of the display area in the non-display area; a second power supply voltage line spaced apart from the first power supply voltage line; and an inorganic protective layer that covers at least a portion of the second power supply voltage line. The second power supply voltage line includes a first region and a second region. The first region has a stack of a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, and the organic insulating layer. The second region has a stack of the first conductive layer and the inorganic protective layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Donghyun Lee, Sanghun Oh, Keunsoo Lee
  • Patent number: 11092836
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an array substrate, including: a first metal layer, a second metal layer and a common electrode layer which are insulated from each other and sequentially formed on a base substrate; the first metal layer includes a gate line, the second metal layer includes a data line, and the common electrode layer includes a touch sensing electrode; the second metal layer includes a touch signal line, the touch signal line is electrically connected to the touch sensing electrode, and the touch signal line and the data line are intersected each other and are disconnected at an intersection location; and the first metal layer includes a bridging connection line, two ends of the bridging connection line are connected to the touch signal line such that the touch signal line disconnected at the intersection location are electrically connected. A manufacturing method and an in-cell touch panel are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pengfei Yu, Jiawei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11094262
    Abstract: A display device may include a pixel, a chip pad spaced apart from the pixel, a film pad spaced apart from the chip pad, a wiring connecting the chip pad and the film pad and including a first wiring layer and a second wiring layer disposed on the first wiring layer, and an organic insulation layer covering the chip pad and the wiring. A first groove may be defined in the second wiring layer, and a second groove corresponding to the first groove may be defined in the organic insulation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Deok-Young Choi, Hagyeong Song, Ki Wook Kim, Jin-Yup Kim
  • Patent number: 11087654
    Abstract: A display panel includes: a display including pixel columns electrically connected to data lines; a non-display area adjacent the display; a test circuit configured to receive a lighting test signal passing through at least a portion of the non-display area and to transfer the lighting test signal to the data lines in response to a test control signal; and a switch configured to receive a data signal from an external component and to transfer the data signal to the data lines in response to a switching signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Won-Kyu Kwak, Hwan-Soo Jang, Seung-Kyu Lee
  • Patent number: 11086173
    Abstract: A display device includes: a first substrate including: a switch unit; and a pixel electrode electrically connecting to the switch unit and including: first and second finger portions; a contacting portion electrically connecting to the switch unit through a contact via; a first bending portion between and connecting the first finger portion and the contacting portion, and having a third inner edge; and a second bending portion between and connecting the second finger portion and the contacting portion, and having a fourth inner edge and a second outer edge, wherein the fourth inner edge is between the third inner edge and the second outer edge, a first acute angle included between the third inner edge and a reference line parallel to a first direction substantially parallel to a gate-line-extending direction is greater than a second acute angle included between the second outer edge and the reference line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shun-Chen Yang, Ying-Tong Lin
  • Patent number: 11069724
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an array substrate, manufacturing method thereof and display device using the same. The method for manufacturing the array substrate includes: forming an amorphous silicon layer and an insulating layer covering the amorphous silicon layer in one deposition process; and processing the amorphous silicon layer to transform the amorphous silicon layer into a polysilicon layer. Through the above-mentioned method, the present disclosure can solve the problem of affecting the concentration of current carriers that caused by the oxidation of the surface of polysilicon, and improve the performance of the array substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lei Yu, Songshan Li
  • Patent number: 11061263
    Abstract: Provided is a touch-panel-equipped display device that can achieve a desired touch detection performance even if it has a large-size high-definition panel. The touch-panel-equipped display device of the present invention includes an active matrix substrate (1). The active matrix substrate (1) includes, on a substrate (40), a plurality of pixel electrodes, a plurality of counter electrodes (21), and an insulating film (46) provided between the pixel electrodes and the counter electrodes (21). The active matrix substrate (1) further includes a plurality of signal lines (22) each of which is connected with any one of the counter electrodes (21), a plurality of switching elements that are connected with the pixel electrodes, respectively, and an organic insulating film (45) that is provided between the pixel electrodes and the signal lines (22) as well as the switching elements. The signal lines (22) are in contact with the substrate (40).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuo Fujita, Yoshimasa Chikama, Yoshihito Hara, Yukinobu Nakata
  • Patent number: 11063070
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a substrate is provided. The method of fabricating the substrate includes forming a first conductive pattern; forming a first insulating layer, and forming a first blind hole in the first insulating layer; forming a conductive film layer, and removing at least a portion of the conductive film layer in the first blind hole; thinning a portion of the first insulating layer at a bottom of the first blind hole to form a second blind hole; forming an intermediate insulating layer, and forming a second via hole in the intermediate insulating layer; removing the portion of the first insulating layer and forming a first via hole in the first insulating pattern layer; and forming a second conductive pattern. The second conductive pattern directly contacts the first conductive pattern through the first via hole and the second via hole and insulates from the intermediate conductive pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhen Zhang, Xudong An, Junjie Zhao, Guangzhou Zhao
  • Patent number: 11056509
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate; a buffer layer disposed on the substrate; a first thin-film transistor comprising a first active layer made of a low-temperature poly-silicon (LTPS), a first gate electrode overlapping with the first active layer with the first gate insulating layer and the second gate insulating layer therebetween, and a first source electrode and a first drain electrode electrically connected to the first active layer; and a second thin-film transistor comprising a second active layer made of an oxide semiconductor, a second gate electrode overlapping with the second active layer with the second gate insulating layer therebetween, and a second source electrode and a second drain electrode electrically connected to the second active layer. The first gate electrode of the first thin-film transistor and the second gate electrode of the second thin-film transistor may be disposed on the second gate insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soyeon Je, KiTae Kim
  • Patent number: 11048369
    Abstract: A touch panel includes a substrate, detection electrodes, and connection electrodes. The substrate includes a planar surface portion and a curved surface portion adjacent to the planar surface portion in a first direction, the curved surface portion including an active region and another region disposed outside the active region. The detection electrodes are disposed on the substrate. The detection electrodes are arranged in the first direction and a second direction crossing the first direction. The connection electrodes electrically connect adjacent detection electrodes arranged in a same direction as one another. A connection electrode of the connection electrodes connecting detection electrodes adjacent to each other of the detection electrodes arranged in the first direction is disposed in the active region of the curved surface portion. The connection electrode includes a portion extending in a different direction than the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Inventors: Innam Lee, Choonhyop Lee
  • Patent number: 11049883
    Abstract: The invention provides a COA type array substrate and a method for measuring via size on color-resist layer. The COA type array substrate is formed by designing a drain of the TFT comprising a drain body corresponding to a first via of the color-resist layer, and a first extending portion, a second extending portion and a third extending portion formed by outwardly protruding from edge of the drain body, able to improve the measurement accuracy of the size of the first via on the color-resist layer, thereby improving the production yield of the COA type array substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Liyang An
  • Patent number: 11043174
    Abstract: A pixel structure includes a switching element, a first electrode, and a second electrode. The first electrode includes two first main portions parallel to an extension direction of the data line, a girder portion coupled between the two first main portions, and two connection portions coupled between the two first main portions. The girder portion and the two connection portions are parallel to an extension direction of the scan line, and the girder portion is disposed between the two connection portions. The second electrode includes a second main portion parallel to the extension direction of the data line, multiple branch portions symmetrically coupled with the second main portion, and two extension portions parallel to the extension direction of the data line. Each of the two extension portions is coupled with two of the multiple branch portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wei-Ming Cheng, Seok-Lyul Lee
  • Patent number: 11037801
    Abstract: A fabrication method of a patterned metal film layer, including: sequentially depositing a first metal layer and a photoresist on a substrate; forming a first patterned photoresist in the photoresist retaining area; etching the first metal layer, and removing a part of the first metal layer having a first thickness and located in an edge area of the photoresist retaining area and in the photoresist removing area, to form a second metal layer; processing the first patterned photoresist to form a second patterned photoresist; etching and removing a part, which is not in contact with the second patterned photoresist, of the second metal layer on the substrate to form a patterned metal film layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jingang Fang, Luke Ding, Jun Liu, Wei Li, Yang Zhang, Leilei Cheng, Dongfang Wang
  • Patent number: 11036075
    Abstract: A color filter substrate and a liquid crystal display panel are provided. The color filter substrate includes photoresist blocks spaced apart, a black matrix disposed between adjacent photoresist blocks, an optically thinner medium film disposed on the photoresist blocks and the black matrix, and an overcoat layer covering the photoresist blocks, the black matrix, and the optically thinner medium film. The optically thinner medium film covers a boundary between the photoresist blocks and the black matrix. A refractive index of the optically thinner medium film is less than that of the overcoat layer. The color filter substrate and a TFT array substrate are formed into the liquid crystal display panel. Light is totally reflected at an interface between the overcoat layer and the optically thinner medium film, thereby solving issues of color shifts at large viewing angles without affecting transmittance of the liquid crystal display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Inventors: Bin Zhao, Fan Lin
  • Patent number: 11036070
    Abstract: A curved display device includes a flat panel display, a curved protective layer, and a photo-alignment layer. The flat panel display has a display surface. The curved protective layer is arranged on one side of the display surface of the flat panel display. The photo-alignment layer is arranged between the flat panel display and the curved protective layer, where the photo-alignment layer includes a plurality of photo-alignment units. The greater distances between the photo-alignment units and a center of the flat panel display, the smaller angles formed between the photo-alignment units and the display surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: PEGATRON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yu-Feng Kuo
  • Patent number: 11036103
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for making a liquid crystal display (LCD) in which a thin film substrate includes a separately formed partition wall to more easily control the sizes of through-holes formed in a color filter of the LCD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jina Seo
  • Patent number: 11035170
    Abstract: A method for producing a smart window and the smart window are provided. The method provides the smart window having product quality and productivity by improving evenness of a seal line, for example, a thickness deviation, a line width deviation and straightness through selection of a suitable sealant and process optimization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Inventors: In Ju Mun, Nam Gyu Kim, Hyo Jin Lee, Kyung Ki Hong
  • Patent number: 11024654
    Abstract: A display panel includes: a display area including: a curved boundary in plan view, and a pixel array including pixel rows, and a non-display area in a periphery of the display area, and including: a curved boundary in plan view, a plurality of gate blocks arranged along the curved boundary of the non-display area, and at least one dummy block among the gate blocks, and a plurality of link lines configured to connect the gate blocks to the pixel rows, at least one of the link lines being multi-segmented to include a plurality of segments oriented in different directions in plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jongmoo Ha, NamKil Park, Daewon Park
  • Patent number: 11024699
    Abstract: A display device may include an insulation layer, a wire directly contacting the insulation layer, a first electrode overlapping the insulation layer, an organic light emitting layer positioned on the first electrode, and a second electrode positioned on the organic light emitting layer. The wire may include an aluminum alloy that includes at least one of copper, vanadium, and silicon. The first electrode may include silver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Inventors: Tae Young Kim, Jongwoo Park, Youn Jae Jung, Hyojung Kim
  • Patent number: 11017714
    Abstract: A scan driver for display device includes: a plurality of stage groups each including a first stage and a second stage spaced apart from the first stage in a first direction; and a first power line extending in the first direction, the first power line being commonly electrically connected to the plurality of stage groups. The first power line includes a first branch line extending in a second direction crossing the first direction between the first stage and the second stage, and the first branch line is electrically connected to the first stage and the second stage. The first stage includes a first transistor including a first electrode connected to a first scan line and a second transistor including a first electrode connected to a first sensing line, and the second stage includes a third transistor including a first electrode connected to a second scan line and a fourth transistor including a first electrode connected to a second sensing line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kyung Ho Park