Structure Of Transistor Patents (Class 349/43)
  • Patent number: 10763381
    Abstract: Disclosed is an opto-electronic device including a semiconducting substrate, a layered interface including at least one layer, the layered interface having a first surface in contact with a surface of the semiconducting substrate and the layered interface being adapted for passivating the surface of the semiconducting substrate, the layered interface having a second surface and the layered interface being adapted for electrically insulating the first surface from the second surface, and a textured surface structure including a plurality of nanowires and a transparent dielectric coating, the textured surface structure being in contact with the second surface of the layered interface, the plurality of nanowires protruding from the second surface and the plurality of nanowires being embedded between the second surface and the transparent dielectric coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignees: TOTAL S.A., ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
    Inventors: Pere Roca I Cabarrocas, Wanghua Chen, Martin Foldyna, Gilles Poulain
  • Patent number: 10761627
    Abstract: An electronic device for widening an active area of a display is provided. The electronic device includes a housing including a first plate and a second plate facing away from the first plate, a touch screen display including a first glass plate, a second glass plate, and an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) layer interposed between the first plate and the second plate, a flexible layer including a first portion connected to the first surface of the second glass plate and bent around an edge of the second glass plate toward the second plate of the housing, and a second portion extending from the first portion and interposed between the second glass plate and the second plate of the housing, a display driver integrated circuit (DDIC) mounted on a first surface of the second portion of the flexible layer, and a printed circuit board (PCB) including a portion mounted on a second surface of the second portion of the flexible layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seong Hoon Kim, Jaewan Kim, Min-Sung Lee, Min-Su Jung, Dohyung Ha, Sung-Won Hong, Kwang-Tai Kim, Hyungsup Byeon, Donghyun Yeom, Seung Ah Oh, Min-Woo Yoo, Jungwon Lee, Jong-Chul Choi, Hyun-Ju Hong
  • Patent number: 10761361
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a substrate having first, second and third sub-pixels; a thin film transistor in each of the first, second and third sub-pixels on a front surface of the substrate; a pixel electrode and a common electrode in each of the first, second and third sub-pixels on the substrate, the pixel electrode and the common electrode spaced apart from each other; a liquid crystal layer on the pixel electrode and the common electrode, the liquid crystal layer including a liquid crystal capsule and a binder; an auxiliary adhesive layer on the liquid crystal layer; an optical film on the auxiliary adhesive layer; a first adhesive layer and a first polarizing plate sequentially on a rear surface of the substrate; and a second adhesive layer and a second polarizing plate sequentially on the optical film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eun-Woo Lee, Min-Geun Choi, Jung-Im Hwang
  • Patent number: 10763282
    Abstract: A semiconductor device including an oxide semiconductor in which on-state current is high is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first transistor provided in a driver circuit portion and a second transistor provided in a pixel portion; the first transistor and the second transistor have different structures. Furthermore, the first transistor and the second transistor are transistors having a top-gate structure. In an oxide semiconductor film of each of the transistors, an impurity element is contained in regions which do not overlap with a gate electrode. The regions of the oxide semiconductor film which contain the impurity element function as low-resistance regions. Furthermore, the regions of the oxide semiconductor film which contain the impurity element are in contact with a film containing hydrogen. The first transistor provided in the driver circuit portion includes two gate electrodes between which the oxide semiconductor film is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Koezuka, Masami Jintyou, Yukinori Shima, Daisuke Kurosaki, Masataka Nakada, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 10761382
    Abstract: A pixel structure including a substrate, a signal line, a plurality of pixel units and a light blocking pattern layer is provided. The signal line is disposed on the substrate and has opposing first and second sides. Two adjacent pixel units are disposed respectively on the first side and the second side of the signal line. Each pixel units includes an active device, a common electrode, an insulating layer, and a pixel electrode. The insulating layer is located on the common electrode. The pixel electrode is located on the insulating layer and is electrically connected to the active device. The pixel electrode includes an edge strip electrode and a plurality of extension electrodes. The extension electrodes respectively extend from the edge strip electrode toward the signal line. The light blocking pattern layer is located between two adjacent pixel units, and the light blocking pattern layer and the signal line overlap with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Chan-Yuen Chang, Chun-Ru Huang, Chao-Wei Yeh
  • Patent number: 10745808
    Abstract: Described herein are methods for forming a Group 13 metal or metalloid nitride film. In one aspect, there is provided a method of forming an aluminum nitride film comprising the steps of: providing a substrate in a reactor; introducing into the reactor an at least one aluminum precursor which reacts on at least a portion of the surface of the substrate to provide a chemisorbed layer; purging the reactor with a purge gas; introducing a plasma comprising non-hydrogen containing nitrogen plasma into the reactor to react with at least a portion of the chemisorbed layer and provide at least one reactive site wherein the plasma is generated at a power density ranging from about 0.01 to about 1.5 W/cm2; and optionally purge the reactor with an inert gas; and wherein the steps are repeated until a desired thickness of the aluminum nitride film is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Versum Materials US, LLC
    Inventors: Xinjian Lei, Moo-Sung Kim, Sergei Vladimirovich Ivanov
  • Patent number: 10739648
    Abstract: A display device is disclosed, which includes: a first substrate including; a switch unit; and a pixel electrode electrically connecting to the switch unit and comprising: a first finger portion with a first inner edge; a second finger portion with a second inner edge and a first outer edge; a contacting portion electrically connecting to the switch unit; a first bending portion connecting the first finger portion and the contacting portion and having a third inner edge; and a second bending portion connecting the second finger portion and the contacting portion and having a fourth inner edge and a second outer edge. The first finger portion has a first width along a first direction, the first bending portion has a second width along the first direction, the first direction is substantially parallel to a gate-line-extending direction, and the first width is greater than the second width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shun-Chen Yang, Ying-Tong Lin
  • Patent number: 10732468
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a pixel electrode which is disposed on the first substrate and comprises a first sub-pixel electrode and a second sub-pixel electrode adjacent to the first sub-pixel electrode along a first direction, and a shielding electrode which is disposed on the same layer as the pixel electrode and comprises a first area having a first width and a second area having a second width which is smaller than the first width along a second direction which crosses the first direction, and the first sub-pixel electrode may be adjacent to the first area along the second direction, and the second sub-pixel electrode may be adjacent to the second area along the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ho Kil Oh, Hoon Kim, Ki Chul Shin
  • Patent number: 10732451
    Abstract: The color filter substrate includes a substrate, a plurality of spaced color filter films disposed on the substrate, a black matrix disposed between adjacent color filter films, and a high refractive transparent layer disposed on a side of the black matrix between the color filter films having different colors away from the substrate, the high refractive transparent layer having a refractive index higher than that of a intermediate medium, and the intermediate medium is a medium filled in a display panel comprising va color filter substrate and a counter substrate. The present disclosure is capable of at least partially solving a problem that the color film substrate cannot simultaneously satisfy the requirements of avoiding cross color and increasing transmittance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignees: HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xinya Zhang, Qianqian Zhang, Chun Wang, Kun Wang, Yuqi Liu
  • Patent number: 10725352
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes a peripheral circuit including a first TFT disposed in a non-display region and a capacitance portion, and a lower transparent electrode and an upper transparent electrode disposed in each pixel. The active matrix substrate includes a gate metal layer including a gate electrode of the first TFT, a source metal layer including a source electrode of the first TFT, a lower transparent conductive layer positioned above the gate metal layer and the source metal layer and including the lower transparent electrode, and an upper transparent conductive layer including the upper transparent electrode. The capacitance portion includes a first capacitor including a first lower capacitance electrode formed in the lower transparent conductive layer, a first upper capacitance electrode formed in the upper transparent conductive layer, and a portion positioned between these capacitance electrodes in a dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshifumi Yagi, Meng-Yi Hung
  • Patent number: 10729005
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an array substrate and a display device and belongs to the field of display technology. The array substrate of the present disclosure includes a driving chip and a signal connection line, wherein a first end of the signal connection line is disposed over a first pad corresponding to a peripheral circuit board and has a first through hole at a position corresponding to the first pad; a second end of the signal connection line is disposed over a second pad corresponding to the driving chip and has a second through hole at a position corresponding to the second pad; the array substrate further includes a static electricity discharge structure connected to the second end of the signal connection line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OTPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhengxin Zhang, Shuai Xu, Zhiyong Wang, Haifei Su
  • Patent number: 10720701
    Abstract: A scanning antenna is a scanning antenna in which antenna units U are arranged, and includes a TFT substrate including a first dielectric substrate, TFTs, a plurality of gate bus lines, source bus lines, and patch electrodes; a slot substrate including a second dielectric substrate, and a slot electrode formed on a first main surface of the second dielectric substrate; a liquid crystal layer LC provided between the TFT substrate and the slot substrate; and a reflective conductive plate provided opposing a second main surface of the second dielectric substrate opposite to the first main surface via a dielectric layer. The slot electrode includes slots arranged in correspondence with the plurality of patch electrodes, and each of the patch electrodes is connected to a drain of a corresponding TFT and is supplied with a data signal from a corresponding source bus line while selected by a scanning signal supplied from the gate bus line of the corresponding TFT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Fumiki Nakano, Kiyoshi Minoura, Shigeyasu Mori, Makoto Nakazawa, Takatoshi Orui
  • Patent number: 10714514
    Abstract: A BCE TFT substrate includes a base substrate. A gate and a gate insulation layer are sequentially formed on the base substrate. An IGZO semiconductor layer is formed on the gate insulation layer to serve as an active layer. A source and a drain are disposed on the active layer and spaced from each other. Each of the source and drain is formed of a Mo layer, a Cu layer, and a conductorized IGZO film that are sequentially stacked on the active layer. A passivation layer is disposed on the source, the drain, and the active layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chunsheng Jiang
  • Patent number: 10699661
    Abstract: A display panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate includes a plurality of pixel electrodes to which pixel voltages are applied and a shield electrode disposed between the pixel electrodes. A shield voltage is applied to the shield electrode. The second substrate faces the first substrate. The second substrate includes a common electrode to which a common voltage is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daecheol Kim, Jin-Ho Oh, Kyungwon Park, Hyosuk Park
  • Patent number: 10692452
    Abstract: A display device with favorable display quality is provided. A display portion where a plurality of pixels is arranged in a matrix is divided into Region A and Region B, i.e., regions on the upstream side and the downstream side of a scanning direction. A signal line for supplying an image signal is provided in each of Region A and Region B. Region A and Region B adjoin each other such that a boundary line showing the boundary between the regions is bent. Bending the boundary line suppresses formation of a stripe in a boundary portion. For example, in a given column, the total number of pixels electrically connected to a signal line in Region A is made different from the total number of pixels electrically connected to a signal line in Region B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetomo Kobayashi, Kei Takahashi, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 10684516
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate, a first subpixel electrode, a connecting electrode, and a second subpixel electrode. The first subpixel electrode is on the first substrate and includes a first stem extending in a first direction and a plurality of branches extending from the first stem. The connecting electrode is electrically connected to the first subpixel electrode. The second subpixel electrode is on the same layer as the first subpixel electrode and includes a plurality of separation electrodes that do not overlap the connecting electrode. At least one of the separation electrodes is between a first sub branch and a second sub branch, which neighbor each other from among the branches. The second subpixel electrode is a floating electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hoon Kim, Kyeong Jong Kim, Ki Chul Shin
  • Patent number: 10684515
    Abstract: A light-modulating cell includes: a pair of polarizing plates (a first polarizing plate and a second polarizing plate); a pair of electrodes (a first transparent electrode and a second transparent electrode) arranged between the pair of polarizing plates (the first polarizing plate and the second polarizing plate); and a pair of alignment films (a first alignment film and a second alignment film) arranged between the pair of electrodes (the first transparent electrode and the second transparent electrode). A plurality of spacers, which support at least any one of the pair of alignment films and are in two-dimensional contact with at least any one of the pair of alignment films, is provided. At least some of the plurality of spacers have an inconstant distance to another spacer positioned at a closest distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Nakamura, Tomoya Kawashima, Kumiko Kambara, Norio Ishii
  • Patent number: 10685992
    Abstract: An object is to provide a pixel structure of a display device including a photosensor which prevents changes in an output of the photosensor and a decrease in imaging quality. The display device has a pixel layout structure in which a shielding wire is disposed between an FD and an imaging signal line (a PR line, a TX line, or an SE line) or between the FD and an image-display signal line in order to reduce or eliminate parasitic capacitance between the FD and a signal line for the purpose of suppressing changes in the potential of the FD. An imaging power supply line, image-display power supply line, a GND line, a common line, or the like whose potential is fixed, such as a common potential line, is used as a shielding wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Aoki, Yoshiyuki Kurokawa, Takayuki Ikeda, Hikaru Tamura
  • Patent number: 10679561
    Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device may include a substrate, a plurality of pixels, a first data line, a second data line, a defect sensing line, a first input pad, and a static electricity discharge element. The substrate may include a display area and a peripheral area neighboring each other. The plurality of pixels may be positioned on the display area and may include a first pixel and a second pixel. The first data line may be electrically connected to the first pixel. The second data line may be electrically connected to the second pixel and may be electrically isolated from the first data line. The defect sensing line may be positioned on the peripheral area. The first input pad may be electrically connected to the defect sensing line. The static electricity discharge element may be electrically connected through the defect sensing line to the first input pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kwang-Min Kim, Seung-Kyu Lee, Won Kyu Kwak
  • Patent number: 10670935
    Abstract: The display device includes a first substrate; an active layer disposed on the first substrate; a first insulation layer disposed on the active layer; a first electrode layer disposed on the first insulation layer including a gate electrode line extending along a first direction and a protruding portion extending along a second direction; a second insulation layer disposed on the first electrode layer; and a second electrode layer disposed on the second insulation layer. The second electrode layer includes a date line extending along the second direction and a conductive layer. The conductive layer includes a first conductive portion and a second conductive portion, wherein the first conductive portion has a first maximum width A along the first direction, and the second conductive portion has a second maximum width B along the first direction. The first maximum width A is less than the second maximum width B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chung-Wen Yen, Yu-Tsung Liu, Chao-Hsiang Wang, Te-Yu Lee
  • Patent number: 10665620
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, an insulating layer, and a crack-sensing line. The substrate includes a display area having a plurality of pixels to display images, and a non-display area surrounding the display area. The insulating layer is disposed in the non-display area and includes a recess. The crack-sensing line is disposed in and extends along the recess, and electrically connected to at least one of the pixels. The recess is disposed at a surface or inside of the insulating layer, and extends along the non-display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sun Park, Ji Won Sohn, Su Yeon Yun
  • Patent number: 10663788
    Abstract: An array substrate includes inter-pixel patterns. A counter substrate includes light-shielding patterns. In a case where a position of an inter-pixel pattern to be noticed is displaced from a peak of a curved shape to a peripheral section of a display area, a shift amount of the position of a light-shielding pattern to be noticed when the counter substrate is in a flat state from the position of the inter-pixel pattern to be noticed when the array substrate is in a flat state first increases and then decreases. Alternatively, a substrate that is one of the array substrate and the counter substrate includes light-shielding patterns. In a case where a position of a light-shielding pattern to be noticed is displaced from a peak of a curved shape to a peripheral section of a display area, a width of the light-shielding pattern to be noticed first increases and then decreases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yukihiro Kudo, Koji Yonemura
  • Patent number: 10649301
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a display panel, a manufacturing method thereof and a display device. The display panel includes: a first substrate and a second substrate which are cell-assembled; a liquid crystal layer, disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; a spacer layer, disposed between the liquid crystal layer and the first substrate; and an electrochromic layer, disposed between the first substrate and the spacer layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qingsen Guo, Yongzhi Song, Bo Zhou
  • Patent number: 10651258
    Abstract: Disclosed are an organic light emitting display device to improve an aperture ratio, and a method of manufacturing the same. The organic light emitting display device includes a plurality of contact holes overlapping an anode of an organic light emitting element in each sub-pixel region, wherein conductive films connected through at least one of the contact holes are transparent, thus allowing regions, where the contact holes are formed, to be used as light emitting regions, thereby improving an aperture ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung-Sun Beak, Jeong-Oh Kim, Jong-Won Lee
  • Patent number: 10649281
    Abstract: A light-modulating cell includes: a pair of polarizing plates (a first polarizing plate and a second polarizing plate); a pair of electrodes (a first transparent electrode and a second transparent electrode) arranged between the pair of polarizing plates (the first polarizing plate and the second polarizing plate); and a pair of alignment films (a first alignment film and a second alignment film) arranged between the pair of electrodes (the first transparent electrode and the second transparent electrode). A plurality of spacers, which support at least any one of the pair of alignment films and are in two-dimensional contact with at least any one of the pair of alignment films, is provided. At least some of the plurality of spacers have an inconstant distance to another spacer positioned at a closest distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Nakamura, Tomoya Kawashima, Kumiko Kambara, Norio Ishii
  • Patent number: 10644159
    Abstract: Disclosed is an array substrate, a method for manufacturing the array substrate, and a display device. The array substrate includes: a plurality of pixel units arranged in an array, each pixel unit being provided with one thin film transistor including an active layer and a polymer film on array. The polymer film on array is formed with a first via hole, and the active layer is conductive in a region thereof corresponding to the first via hole, such that a pixel electrode located on the polymer film on array is electrically connected to the source through the first via hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Longqiang Shi
  • Patent number: 10644163
    Abstract: A field effect transistor including: a substrate, and at least gate electrode, a gate insulating film, a semiconductor layer, a protective layer for the semiconductor layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode provided on the substrate, wherein the source electrode and the drain electrode are connected with the semiconductor layer therebetween, the gate insulating film is between the gate electrode and the semiconductor layer, the protective layer is on at least one surface of the semiconductor layer, the semiconductor layer includes an oxide containing In atoms, Sn atoms and Zn atoms, the atomic composition ratio of Zn/(In+Sn+Zn) is 25 atom % or more and 75 atom % or less, and the atomic composition ratio of Sn/(In+Sn+Zn) is less than 50 atom %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koki Yano, Hirokazu Kawashima, Kazuyoshi Inoue
  • Patent number: 10634958
    Abstract: Provided is a manufacturing method of a black photo spacer array substrate. In a manufacturing method of a black photo spacer array substrate, a double layer color resist structure formed with a first color resist layer and a second color resist layer is used to pad a main pad part and a sub pad part of a main photo spacer and a sub photo spacer. Then, a thickness of the main photo spacer and a thickness of the sub photo spacer are decreased to reduce the usage amount of black photo spacer material of forming the main photo spacer and the sub photo spacer to reduce the production cost. A height difference of the main photo spacer and the sub photo spacer can be achieved by decreasing a thickness of the first color resist layer under the sub pad part with a half exposure process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhuming Deng
  • Patent number: 10634957
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a post spacer, which is applied to a liquid crystal display panel. The post spacer has a material having a structure as represented by Formula 1, wherein X includes at least one of groups represented by Formulae 2-1 to 2-5; Y includes at least one of groups represented by Formulae 3-1 and 3-2; at least one of the X and the Y has a molecular chain end having a group capable to chemically cross-link with materials of alignment layers; and at least one of the X and the Y has a side chains having a group capable to generate a hydrogen bond or intermolecular force with a material of liquid crystal molecules. The present disclosure also discloses a liquid crystal display panel having the post spacers described above and a method of manufacturing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventor: Yong Yang
  • Patent number: 10627688
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate is provided that includes: a plurality of source lines (data lines) 15S; a plurality of lines that intersect with the source lines 15S, and include at least a plurality of gate lines 13G; a gate driver (driving circuit) 11 that includes a plurality of switching elements 18, and are connected to at least a part of the lines, so as to control potentials of the lines according to a control signal; and a plurality of pixel control elements 16T that are provided in correspondence to a plurality of pixels that compose a display region, and are connected with the data lines 15S and the gate lines 13G, so as to control display of the corresponding pixels, respectively. Either the data lines 15S or the gate lines 13G are vertical lines while the others are horizontal lines, and intervals of the horizontal lines are irregular intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayuki Nishiyama, Kohhei Tanaka, Takeshi Noma, Yosuke Iwata, Ryo Yonebayashi
  • Patent number: 10629744
    Abstract: Provided is a method for fabricating an electronic device, the method including: preparing a carrier substrate including an element region and a wiring region; forming a sacrificial layer on the carrier substrate; forming an electronic element on the sacrificial layer of the element region; forming a first elastic layer having a corrugated surface on the first elastic layer of the wiring region; forming a metal wirings electrically connecting the electronic element thereto, on the first elastic layer of the wiring region; forming a second elastic layer covering the metal wirings, on the first elastic layer; forming a high rigidity pattern filling in a recess of the second elastic layer above the electronic element so as to overlap the electronic element, and having a corrugated surface; forming a third elastic layer on the second elastic layer and the high rigidity pattern; and separating the carrier substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Kyoung Ik Cho, Jae Bon Koo, Chan Woo Park, Bock Soon Na, Sang Seok Lee, Sang Chul Lim, Soon-Won Jung, Hye Yong Chu
  • Patent number: 10622433
    Abstract: A display substrate, a method for forming a display substrate and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes: a display region and a non-display region around the display region, where the non-display region of the display substrate includes: a gate driving circuit and a signal line on a base substrate, where the gate driving circuit is electrically insulated from the signal line, and an orthographic projection of the gate driving circuit onto the base substrate at least partially overlaps with an orthographic projection of the signal line onto the base substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Long Han
  • Patent number: 10620500
    Abstract: An array substrate is provided, including a plurality of pixel unit pairs arranged in an array and defined by mutually intersected gate lines and data lines. Two of the gate lines are arranged between the pixel unit pairs in adjacent rows, each pixel unit pair includes a first pixel unit and a second pixel unit, and a gate insulation layer, a first metal layer, a passivation layer and a pixel electrode layer are stacked on a base substrate and arranged between the first pixel unit and the second pixel unit. Orthographic projections of the pixel electrode layer and the first metal layer onto the base substrate partially overlap to form a storage capacitor, and the first metal layer is connected to a common electrode layer of each pixel unit pair in a lap joint manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHONGQING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Maokun Tian, Rui Wang, Zhonghao Huang, Wei Chen
  • Patent number: 10608055
    Abstract: An AMOLED display panel comprises a display area and a non-display area. The display area has a plurality of pixel electrodes and the neighboring pixel electrodes are spaced apart from each other. The non-display area surrounds the display area and comprises a virtual pixel area and a boundary area. The virtual pixel area is close to the display area and has a plurality of virtual electrodes. At least part of the virtual electrodes are disposed close to the pixel electrodes at a boundary of the display area. The virtual electrodes and the pixel electrodes are formed by the same manufacturing process. The boundary area is close to the virtual pixel area or both the virtual pixel area and the display area. The virtual pixel area is located between the display area and the boundary area. The present invention may improve display uniformity of the AMOLED display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiuyan Li, Peng Li
  • Patent number: 10606139
    Abstract: A pixel structure includes a substrate, first and second gate lines, first and second data lines, and at least one pixel unit. The first and second gate lines and the first and second data lines are over the substrate and intersect with each other. The pixel unit is disposed on the substrate. The pixel unit includes first and second active devices, a common electrode, and first and second pixel electrodes. The first and second active devices are electrically connected to the first data line, and electrically connected to the first and second gate lines respectively. The common electrode is connected to a common potential source. The first and second pixel electrodes are over the common electrode and electrically connected to the first and second active devices respectively. At least one second branch electrode of the second pixel electrode shrinks from its one side to another side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sih-Yan Lin, Chia-Chun Hsu, Yu-Zhang Huang, Yen-Hua Lo, Hsin-Chun Huang, Wen-Rei Guo
  • Patent number: 10606114
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel, including a first substrate and a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate, the first substrate provided with a pixel area and a periphery area at a side facing the second substrate, a metal line provided in the pixel area and the periphery area, a black matrix provided on the second substrate at a side facing the first substrate, wherein the metal line includes a preset portion disposed in the periphery area, and an opening is provided in the black matrix at a position overlapping the preset portion of the metal line. A display device including the liquid crystal display panel is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hongfei Cheng
  • Patent number: 10607854
    Abstract: Provided in an embodiment of the present invention are a manufacturing method of an electrode pattern, a thin film transistor and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display panel. The manufacturing method of an electrode pattern includes: forming a metal thin film; performing processing on the metal thin film to form a partner layer over a surface of the metal thin film, the partner layer being configured to react with a photoresist to form a hydrogen bond; and performing patterning to form an electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haixu Li, Zhanfeng Cao, Qi Yao, Jianguo Wang, Fanna Meng
  • Patent number: 10598996
    Abstract: An array substrate, a display panel, and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes a substrate, and a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data lines disposed on the substrate. The plurality of scanning lines and the plurality of data lines are insulated and intersected to define a plurality of pixel units. Each pixel unit includes a thin film transistor and a pixel electrode, a gate electrode of the thin film transistor is electrically connected to a scanning line, a source electrode is electrically connected to a data line, and a drain electrode is electrically connected to the pixel electrode. An active layer of the thin film transistor includes at least one channel region including first sub-channel region and at least one second sub-channel region. A first width of the first sub-channel region is smaller than a second width of the second sub-channel region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignees: SHANGHAI AVIC OPTO ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shoufu Jian, Zhaokeng Cao, Zhiqiang Xia
  • Patent number: 10600817
    Abstract: A thin film transistor (TFT) includes a scan line on a substrate, the scan line including a straight portion extending along a first direction, an active layer including an oxide semiconductor and overlapping the straight portion of the scan line, the active layer having a first region, a second region, and a third region that are linearly and sequentially aligned along the first direction, a first insulating layer between the active layer and the scan line, a first electrode connected to the first region of the active layer, and a second electrode connected to the third region of the active layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Won-Mi Hwang, Young-Bae Jung
  • Patent number: 10593657
    Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes a supporting film and a flexible substrate disposed on the supporting film. The display device also includes a driving layer disposed on the flexible substrate, and a conductive pad disposed on the driving layer. The display device further includes a light-emitting diode disposed on the conductive pad and electrically connected to the conductive pad, wherein the supporting film has a first hardness, the flexible substrate has a second hardness, and the first hardness is greater than or equal to the second hardness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuan-Lin Wu, Yu-Hsien Wu, Kuan-Feng Lee, Tsung-Han Tsai
  • Patent number: 10593283
    Abstract: The display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, pixel structures, a liquid crystal layer and a transparent conductive layer. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the pixel structures and the second substrate. The transparent conductive layer is disposed between the second substrate and the liquid crystal layer. When a liquid crystal molecule of the liquid crystal layer is a positive liquid crystal molecule, an absolute voltage difference between the transparent conductive layer and the common electrode is smaller than or equal to 2.3 volts(V). When the liquid crystal molecule of the liquid crystal layer is a negative liquid crystal molecule, the absolute voltage difference between the transparent conductive layer and the common electrode is smaller than or equal to 5V.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignees: HannStar Display (Nanjing) Corporation, HannStar Display Corporation
    Inventors: Wei-Chih Hsu, Chen-Hao Su, Yu-Chen Liu
  • Patent number: 10578928
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a display panel and a display device and relates to the technical field of display. The display panel includes an array substrate and an opposite substrate that are subjected to cell docking, and sealing material provided between the array substrate and the opposite substrate and located in a peripheral area of the display panel, wherein the display panel further includes an optical part provided on a side of the sealing material close to the array substrate and/or the opposite substrate and configured to guide ultraviolet light having passed through the sealing material back into the sealing material. The display panel is used to fabricate the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong Hu, Hongfei Cheng, Pan Li
  • Patent number: 10571753
    Abstract: A liquid crystal panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a spacer. The first substrate includes pixel electrodes and position detection electrodes and the position detection electrodes detect an input position input with a position inputter based on electrostatic capacitances between the position inputter and the position detection electrodes. The second substrate has a display surface displaying an image thereon and is arranged opposite the first substrate and includes transparent electrodes overlapping the position detection electrodes, respectively. The spacer has conductivity and is disposed in a display region and between the first substrate and the second substrate and is contacted with one of the position detection electrodes and one of the transparent electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masakatsu Tominaga
  • Patent number: 10571768
    Abstract: Disclosed are a pixel array, a display panel and a display device. The pixel array includes: a plurality of pixel units arranged in an array, a plurality of data lines and a plurality of gate lines, wherein each of the pixel units includes four sub-pixel units; the first sub-pixel unit group includes two adjacent sub-pixel units, and the second sub-pixel unit group includes remaining two adjacent sub-pixel units; the first sub-pixel unit group and the second sub-pixel unit group are alternately arranged in both a row direction and a column direction; the data line connected with the two adjacent sub-pixel units included in the first sub-pixel unit group is different from the data line connected with the two adjacent sub-pixel units included in the second sub-pixel unit group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yujie Gao
  • Patent number: 10564461
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of forming a crystalline ITO thin film for forming the crystalline ITO thin film on a liquid crystal panel and a method of forming an On-cell type touch panel by using the method of forming a crystalline ITO thin film. The method of forming a crystalline ITO thin film includes: forming a noncrystalline ITO thin film on a surface of a side of a color filter substrate being far away from the liquid crystal layer, by a deposition process; and crystallizing the noncrystalline ITO thin film by an excimer laser anneal process at a preset temperature so as to obtain the crystalline ITO thin film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shaoqing Lv
  • Patent number: 10565954
    Abstract: A field-effect transistor, including: a base; a passivation layer; a gate insulating layer formed therebetween; a source electrode and a drain electrode, which are formed to be in contact with the gate insulating layer; a semiconductor layer, which is formed between at least the source electrode and the drain electrode, and is in contact with the gate insulating layer, the source electrode, and the drain electrode; and a gate electrode, which is in contact with the gate insulating layer, and faces the semiconductor layer via the gate insulating layer, wherein the passivation layer contains a first passivation layer, which contains a first composite metal oxide containing Si, and an alkaline earth metal, and a second passivation layer, which is formed to be in contact with the first passivation layer, and contains a second composite metal oxide containing an alkaline earth metal, and a rare-earth element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryoichi Saotome, Naoyuki Ueda, Yuki Nakamura, Yukiko Abe, Shinji Matsumoto, Yuji Sone, Sadanori Arae
  • Patent number: 10566456
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a thin film transistor, a method for fabricating the same, and an OLED display panel. The method for fabricating a thin film transistor includes: forming a poly-silicon layer and a gate insulation layer on a base substrate in that order; forming a pattern of a gate above the base substrate with the gate insulation layer in a patterning process; doping the base substrate with the pattern of the gate for the first time; forming a pattern of first photoresist on the base substrate doped for the first time, using a mask for forming the pattern of the gate, wherein the pattern of the first photoresist covers the pattern of the gate and an area for forming a lightly doped drain area; and doping the base substrate with the pattern of the first photoresist for the second time to form a pattern of an active layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Feng Kang, Nini Bai, Liangliang Liu, Liang Tang
  • Patent number: 10558102
    Abstract: A method for forming a liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display panel are provided. The method includes using a mask for the patterning of the second metal layer and using the mask to pattern the common electrode on the second substrate. As a result, the common electrode includes a hollow region formed thereon. The hollow region is the same as the pattern of the second metal layer. Therefore, the capacitance between the second metal layer and the common electrode can be reduced. The problem of horizontal crosstalk is mitigated. The display quality of the liquid crystal display panel is enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Fengling Bian
  • Patent number: 10558834
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a display apparatus including a display panel including a display substrate having a display area divided into pixel regions and spacing regions each located between every two adjacent pixel regions, the display substrate further includes a light shielding layer formed therein with a light through hole within the spacing region; the display apparatus further includes a condensing lens provided at a side of the light shielding layer facing a light exit side of the display panel at a position corresponding to the light through hole, and a fingerprint identification component provided at a side of the light shielding layer facing away from the light exit side, for capturing light coming from the display panel, reflected by a fingerprint of a finger at the light exit side and passing through the light through hole after being condensed by the condensing lens, to identify an image of the fingerprint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuo Sun, Fei Liu, Haijun Yin, Jianqiang Liu
  • Patent number: 10553614
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for a thin-film transistor array substrate is disclosed. The method includes: providing a base substrate; depositing a first metal layer on the base substrate, and patterning to form a gate electrode and a first storage electrode; depositing a gate insulation layer, wherein the gate insulation layer covers the gate electrode and the first storage electrode; depositing a metal oxide semiconductor layer, and patterning to form a metal oxide active layer; depositing a second insulation layer, and patterning to form an etching barrier layer; depositing a second metal layer, and pattering to form a source electrode, a drain electrode and a second storage electrode, wherein the first storage electrode and the second storage electrode are two electrodes of a storage capacitor; depositing a third insulation layer, and patterning to form a passivation layer; and depositing a third metal layer, and patterning to form a pixel electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xingyu Zhou