Particular Structure Patents (Class 349/56)
  • Patent number: 9743535
    Abstract: An electronic device enclosure includes a rear cover, a securing bracket, and a securing assembly. The rear cover includes a hook. The securing bracket includes a latching portion engaged with the hook. The securing assembly includes a securing member and a sliding shaft. The securing member is secured to the securing bracket. The mounting member is movable relative to the securing bracket to slide the sliding shaft. The sliding shaft presses edges of the limiting slot to push the rear cover away from the securing bracket to disengage the hook from the latching portion when sliding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignees: HONG FU JIN PRECISION INDUSTRY (WuHan) CO., LTD., HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chung Chai, Da-Long Sun, Yu-Gui Chen
  • Patent number: 9734782
    Abstract: A curved liquid crystal display (LCD) includes a curved liquid crystal panel assembly. The curved liquid crystal panel assembly includes: a lower panel including a first linear polarizer having a first polarization axis; an upper panel including a second linear polarizer having a second polarization axis, the second polarization axis cross the first polarization axis in a plan view; and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the lower panel and the upper panel. An angle formed by a first polarization axis and a second polarization axis does not meet at a right angle in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tae Kyung Yim, Hyun Ho Kang, O Sung Seo, Seung Jun Yu, Ha Won Yu, Ki Kyung Youk, Yeo Geon Yoon, Sang Myoung Lee
  • Patent number: 9703135
    Abstract: A display including a casing, a light guide plate and a display panel is provided. The light guide plate is disposed in the casing and has a light emitting surface and a first back surface opposite to each other, wherein the casing is adhered to the first back surface of the light guide plate. The display panel is disposed in the casing and adhered to the light emitting surface of the light guide plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Young Lighting Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Chun-Chung Hsiao, Bing-Han Tsai
  • Patent number: 9588273
    Abstract: A backlight unit including an optical pattern sheet and a liquid crystal display are provided. The backlight unit includes a light guide plate, a light source portion arranged adjacent to a side surface of the light guide plate to emit light, a mold frame having an extension portion that covers an upper portion of the light source portion and a part of an upper portion of the light guide plate, and an optical pattern sheet arranged on a lower portion of the extension portion to shade or diffuse incident light, wherein the optical pattern sheet includes a base film and an optical pattern portion positioned on the base film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun Hwa Song, Do Hun Kim, Dong Hoon Kim, Joong Hyun Kim, Sang Hoon Lee, Ji Won Lee, Seong Yong Hwang
  • Patent number: 9583052
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display device including: a liquid crystal display section adapted to display an image based on a video signal; a backlight; and a processing section adapted to correct the video signal and set the luminance of the backlight based on two pieces of information, a peak level of the video signal in a display screen or in each of a plurality of partial display areas into which the display screen is divided, and factor data obtained from a data map made up of a reference position on the display screen and the factor data that are associated with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Katsu, Tomohiro Nishi, Akihiro Ohta, Mitsuyasu Asano
  • Patent number: 9581864
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a first alignment film formed over the first substrate, a second substrate, a second alignment film formed over the second substrate, a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first alignment film and the second alignment film, and a projecting portion formed over the second substrate. The first alignment film is a photo alignment film, and a thickness “d2” of the second alignment film over the projecting portion and a film thickness “d1” of a portion of the first alignment film facing the projecting portion satisfy formula (1) and (2): 0 nm<d2<30 nm??(1); d2<d1??(2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignees: JAPAN DISPLAY INC., PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidehiro Sonoda, Chikae Matsui, Noboru Kunimatsu
  • Patent number: 9574747
    Abstract: A system may include: a light valve exposed to incident light from an external light source. The light valve may independently modulate multiple wavelength bands of the incident light that are transmitted through the light valve and into an environment that the system illuminates. A control system can operate the light valve to control a spectral distribution of light transmitted through the light valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Telelumen, LLC
    Inventor: Steven Paolini
  • Patent number: 9564482
    Abstract: A display device includes a pixel section that includes a plurality of pixels each of which has a display element and which are disposed in a two-dimensional manner, and a driving circuit section that drives the plurality of pixels in order to perform display, in which a first floor including the driving circuit section and a second floor including the pixel section are laminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: JOLED Inc.
    Inventors: Shinichi Teraguchi, Eisuke Negishi, Mikihiro Yokozeki, Shuji Kudo
  • Patent number: 9547117
    Abstract: A light guide plate includes a light entry surface with first elongated elements, and a light exit surface with second elongated elements. Each of the first and second elongated elements serves to guide light, and has a cross-section in a shape of a circular segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: RADIANT OPTO-ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wen-Hao Cai, Wei-Hsuan Chen
  • Patent number: 9513504
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a first substrate and a second substrate facing the first substrate; a column spacer disposed on the first substrate; a light blocking member disposed on the second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The light blocking member includes a dome shaped portion having a concave surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min Jung Kang, Yi Seop Shim, Nu Ree Um, Chul Huh
  • Patent number: 9494826
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device has a liquid crystal display panel including pixels each having an active device, a pixel electrode, a common electrode and a liquid crystal layer arranged in a dot matrix array. The liquid crystal display panel has a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate has the active device, the pixel electrode, the common electrode and a first alignment film. The second substrate has a second alignment film. The first alignment film and the second alignment film are respectively a photo alignment film formed by irradiating a photo decomposition type insulating film with light. The second alignment film has a thickness of at least 10 nm and no greater 50 nm and is thinner than the first alignment film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidehiro Sonoda, Chikae Matsui, Noboru Kunimatsu, Yuko Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 9389465
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a first alignment film formed over the first substrate, a second substrate, a second alignment film formed over the second substrate, a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first alignment film and the second alignment film, and a projecting portion formed over the second substrate. The first alignment film is a photo alignment film, and a thickness “d2” of the second alignment film over the projecting portion and a film thickness “d1” of a portion of the first alignment film facing the projecting portion satisfy formula (1) and (2): 0 nm<d2<30 nm??(1); d2<d1??(2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidehiro Sonoda, Chikae Matsui, Noboru Kunimatsu
  • Patent number: 9372358
    Abstract: Disclosed is an LCD device with reduced thickness and bezel width. The LCD device includes a liquid crystal display panel configured to include an upper substrate and a lower substrate that are facing-coupled to each other, a backlight unit configured to include a light guide plate which irradiates light incident from a light source module on the liquid crystal display panel and an optical sheet disposed on the light guide plate, and a coupling member configured to couple the liquid crystal display panel to the light guide plate with the optical sheet therebetween such that a sealed space is provided between the liquid crystal display panel and the light guide plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Seok Lee, Choun Sung Kang, Yong Ik Hwang, Hee Kyung Lee
  • Patent number: 9274025
    Abstract: A sensor that can be used for in-situ structural health monitoring with a triboluminescent material provided on a portion of an optical fiber that may be embedded in materials to be structurally monitored. Damage to the monitored material may result in a triboluminescent emission from the triboluminescent material that can be guided via the optical fiber. Analysis of the triboluminescent emission may provide information on the occurrence, severity and location of damage in a structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Okenwa Okoli, David Olawale
  • Patent number: 9097922
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid crystal display (LCD) device that prevents light leaks near spacers. The LCD device controls the optical transmissivity of a liquid crystal layer interposed between substrates disposed opposite each other, by means of an electric field generated in the layer-thickness direction of the liquid crystal layer. The LCD device includes spacers on a liquid-crystal-side surface of one substrate, signal lines formed on a liquid-crystal-side surface of the other substrate, an insulating film formed to cover the signal lines, and electrodes on the insulating film's upper surface. Each electrode contributes to controlling the optical transmissivity of the liquid crystal layer. Each spacer has a vertex surface disposed opposite to the signal lines. A portion of each electrode extends to the upper surface of a corresponding signal line. The extended portion is opposite to a part of a spacer's vertex surface disposed opposite to the corresponding signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Yanagawa, Yasushi Iwakabe, Yoshiaki Nakayoshi, Masatoshi Wakagi
  • Patent number: 9036120
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device has a liquid crystal display panel including pixels each having an active device, a pixel electrode, a common electrode and a liquid crystal layer arranged in a dot matrix array. The liquid crystal display panel has a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate has the active device, the pixel electrode, the common electrode and a first alignment film. The second substrate has a second alignment film. The first alignment film and the second alignment film are respectively a photo alignment film formed by irradiating a photo decomposition type insulating film with light. The second alignment film has a thickness of at least 10 nm and no greater 50 nm and is thinner than the first alignment film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignees: JAPAN DISPLAY INC., PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidehiro Sonoda, Chikae Matsui, Noboru Kunimatsu, Yuko Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 9028945
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a transparent composite material capable of exhibiting relatively high light transmittance, reduced haze, fabrication in the form of a thin film, and improved mechanical strengths (impact strength, flexural strength, etc.), by way of unidirectionally aligning glass fiber filaments without intersecting or overlapping with each other, and embedding the aligned glass fiber filaments into a transparent resin formed on a film, and a manufacturing method thereof. The transparent composite material is composed of glass fiber plates including a transparent resin, and a plurality of glass fiber filaments embedded in the transparent resin in a unidirectionally aligned state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jongwon Lee, Kyungho Jung, Deokhai Park, Eunseck Kang
  • Patent number: 8969886
    Abstract: An electro-optic display comprises a substrate (100), non-linear devices (102) disposed substantially in one plane on the substrate (100), pixel electrodes (106) connected to the non-linear devices (102), an electro-optic medium (110) and a common electrode (112) on the opposed side of the electro-optic medium (110) from the pixel electrodes (106). The moduli of the various parts of the display are arranged so that, when the display is curved, the neutral axis or neutral plane lies substantially in the plane of the non-linear devices (102).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventor: Karl R. Amundson
  • Patent number: 8952911
    Abstract: An electronic display device being arrangeable during use into one of at least an opened and a closed state. The device includes a deformable display panel having an active area, a periphery area adjacent the active area, and a drive circuit for driving the active area. The active area includes an active area conductive structure substantially arranged along a front side of the active area. The periphery area includes a frame structure for visually bounding the active area. The frame structure is conformal to the display panel. The frame structure is electrically conductive and an insulator structure is provided between the active area conductive structure and the conductive frame structure. The insulator structure insulates the active area conductive structure from frame structure, the conductive frame structure being arranged to thereby shield the active area against ESD damage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Creator Technology B.V.
    Inventors: Pieter van Lieshout, H. E. A. Huitema, Johannes Cornelis Adriaan Hamers
  • Patent number: 8908133
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device has a liquid crystal display panel including pixels each having an active device, a pixel electrode, a common electrode and a liquid crystal layer arranged in a dot matrix array. The liquid crystal display panel has a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate has the active device, the pixel electrode, the common electrode and a first alignment film. The second substrate has a second alignment film. The first alignment film and the second alignment film are respectively a photo alignment film formed by irradiating a photo decomposition type insulating film with light. The second alignment film has a thickness of at least 10 nm and no greater 50 nm and is thinner than the first alignment film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidehiro Sonoda, Chikae Matsui, Noboru Kunimatsu, Yuko Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 8896518
    Abstract: This display module includes a display portion, a light-emitting portion to apply light to the display portion, a light guide plate made of resin to guide the light from the light-emitting portion to the display portion, including a first positioning portion, a frame made of metal in which the light guide plate is arranged inside, including a hole, and a positioning member made of resin, including a second positioning portion so formed as to be capable of positioning the first positioning portion of the light guide plate in a state where the positioning member is so arranged as to cover the hole of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuya Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8885333
    Abstract: A mobile terminal includes a terminal body, a case defining an appearance of the terminal body, the case formed of a non-metal, and a metal frame formed of a metal, at least part of the metal frame extending through the case from inside to outside of the terminal body so as to be externally exposed, wherein the case and the metal frame are integrally formed with each other. Accordingly, a specific pattern can be realized at the appearance of the terminal body to arouse distinctive attraction to the appearance, thereby providing a terminal with such attractive appearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seunggeun Lim, Kyuho Lee, Dongguk Kang, Zhimin Choo
  • Patent number: 8858830
    Abstract: A liquid crystal composition is described, which exhibits an optically isotropic liquid crystal phase and contains an achiral component T and a chiral dopant. The achiral component T contains, as its first component, at least one compound selected from compounds represented by formula (1) in an amount of 32 wt % to 85 wt %, wherein R1 is alkyl, for example; L1, L2, L3, L4, L5 and L6 are each independently hydrogen or fluorine; Z1 and Z2 are each independently a single bond or —CF2O—, with at least one of Z1 and Z2 being —CF2O—; and X1 is halogen, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignees: JNC Corporation, JNC Petrochemical Corporation
    Inventors: Shin-Ichi Yamamoto, Yasuhiro Haseba
  • Patent number: 8854803
    Abstract: A buffer assembly includes a buffer body and an adhesive layer on the buffer body. The buffer body includes a buffer portion and a mounting portion surrounding the buffer portion. The adhesive layer includes a first adhesive portion and a second adhesive portion surrounding the first adhesive portion. The first adhesive portion and the second adhesive portion respectively correspond to the buffer portion and the mounting portion. A first cutting line is disposed between the buffer portion and the mounting portion such that the mounting portion is separable from the buffer portion along the first cutting line. A second cutting line is disposed between the first adhesive portion and the second adhesive portion such that the second adhesive portion is separable from the first adhesive portion along the second cutting line. The second cutting line superposes the first cutting line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignees: Fu Tai Hua Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qun Huang, Che-Yu Chou, Tai-Shan Zhu, Ji-Ping Wu
  • Patent number: 8829527
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a highly reliable display device at a low cost with high yield. According to the present invention, a step due to an opening in a contact is covered with an insulating layer to reduce the step, and is processed into a gentle shape. A wiring or the like is formed to be in contact with the insulating layer and thus the coverage of the wiring or the like is enhanced. In addition, deterioration of a light-emitting element due to contaminants such as water can be prevented by sealing a layer including an organic material that has water permeability in a display device with a sealing material. Since the sealing material is formed in a portion of a driver circuit region in the display device, the frame margin of the display device can be narrowed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Satoshi Murakami, Motomu Kurata, Hiroyuki Hata, Mitsuhiro Ichijo, Takashi Ohtsuki, Aya Anzai, Masayuki Sakakura
  • Patent number: 8829508
    Abstract: A display apparatus including an organic light emitting display including a terminal portion, a battery disposed on a surface of the organic light emitting display, and a flexible printed circuit board (PCB) bent to cover the organic light emitting display and the battery, a side of the flexible PCB being connected to the terminal portion and another side of the flexible PCB extending outside and attached to the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jin-Hee Park
  • Patent number: 8822998
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device includes a substrate, a plurality of sub-pixels on the substrate, each sub-pixel including a first region configured to emit light and a second region configured to transmit external light, a plurality of thin film transistors disposed in the first region of the each sub-pixel, a plurality of first electrodes disposed in the first region of each sub-pixel and electrically connected to the thin film transistors, a first insulating layer on at least a portion of the first region of each sub-pixel to cover a portion of the first electrode, an organic emission layer on the first electrode, a second insulating layer on at least a portion of the second region of each sub-pixel, the second insulating layer including a plurality of openings therein, and a second electrode covering the organic emission layer, the first insulating layer, and the second insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seong-Min Kim, Jun-Ho Choi, Jin-Koo Chung
  • Patent number: 8823009
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a highly reliable display device at a low cost with high yield. According to the present invention, a step due to an opening in a contact is covered with an insulating layer to reduce the step, and is processed into a gentle shape. A wiring or the like is formed to be in contact with the insulating layer and thus the coverage of the wiring or the like is enhanced. In addition, deterioration of a light-emitting element due to contaminants such as water can be prevented by sealing a layer including an organic material that has water permeability in a display device with a sealing material. Since the sealing material is formed in a portion of a driver circuit region in the display device, the frame margin of the display device can be narrowed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Satoshi Murakami, Motomu Kurata, Hiroyuki Hata, Mitsuhiro Ichijo, Takashi Ohtsuki, Aya Anzai, Masayuki Sakakura
  • Patent number: 8822995
    Abstract: A display substrate includes a switching transistor electrically connected to a gate line and a data line, the data line extending in a first direction substantially perpendicular to the gate line extending in a second direction, the switching transistor including a switching active pattern comprising amorphous silicon, a driving transistor electrically connected to a driving voltage line and the switching transistor, the driving voltage line extended in the first direction, the driving transistor including a driving active pattern comprising a metal oxide; and a light-emitting element electrically connected to the driving transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chun-Gi You, Kap-Soo Yoon, Gug-Rae Jo, Sung-Hoon Yang, Ki-Hun Jeong, Seung-Hwan Shim, Jae-Ho Choi
  • Patent number: 8821966
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an image display device includes the step of forming a cured resin layer by interposing a photo-curable resin composition between a protection member and a display-side panel including an image display unit and a frame member and then photo-curing the photo-curable resin composition, with the photo-curable resin composition being disposed across between the image display unit and the frame member. In the manufacturing method, a high-viscosity resin composition having a viscosity of 3000 mPa·s or more and 12000 mPa·s or less is used as the photo-curable resin composition. Alternatively, after a gap between the image display unit and the frame member is sealed with a sealing film, a photo-curable resin composition is interposed between the display-side panel and the protection member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Dexerials Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Toyoda, Yoshihisa Shinya, Yusuke Kamata
  • Patent number: 8810765
    Abstract: An electroluminescence element includes an electroluminescence substrate including a thin film transistor substrate, and a light-emitting layer provided over the thin film transistor substrate and divided by picture-element separating portions so as to correspond to unit picture elements; and a sealing substrate arranged to hermetically seal the light-emitting layer of the electroluminescence substrate. At least one of the electroluminescence substrate and the sealing substrate is a flexible substrate. Spacers are provided between the electroluminescence substrate and the sealing substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tohru Okabe, Hirohiko Nishiki
  • Patent number: 8810750
    Abstract: A backlight unit and a display device including the backlight unit are provided. The backlight unit includes at least one light source unit and a light guide plate. The light source unit provides collimated light and controls light such that it is emitted in a plurality of light exit directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong-kweun Mun, Yoon-sun Choi, Hong-seok Lee
  • Patent number: 8780145
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes: a panel (16a) that includes a plurality of picture elements that change transmittance of light according to picture levels; a detection unit (12) that detects, in one-image portions of the panel (16a), picture levels for each of the plurality of picture elements from picture signals that indicate the picture levels of each picture element; and a processor (18) that, based on the picture levels of one-image portions that were detected by the detection unit (12), adjusts the transmittance of light of the plurality of picture elements such that the image realized by the picture signal is brighter when a value that corresponds to brightness is greater than a predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigenobu Jyou, Hiroaki Ikeda, Reiichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8780582
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing, a plurality of bolts, a plurality of support members and a display screen. The housing is curved. The plurality of bolts are separately fixed to the bottom plate and received within the housing. The plurality of support members are assembled to the top ends of the plurality of bolts and are individually adjustable as to the height of their fixing location, so that all of the support members can be adjusted to be positioned on the same horizontal plane. The display screen is assembled within the housing, and supported by the plurality of support members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignees: Fu Tai Hua Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zhi-Hua Liu
  • Patent number: 8778466
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid-crystal display of the PSA (polymer sustained alignment) type, and to novel liquid-crystal media and novel polymerizable compounds for use in PSA displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Georg Bernatz, Andreas Taugerbeck
  • Patent number: 8772074
    Abstract: Provided are an organic light emitting display device and a method for manufacturing the same. The organic light emitting display device comprises a transistor on a substrate, a cathode on the transistor and connected to a source or a drain of the transistor, a bank layer on the cathode and having an opening, a metal buffer layer on the cathode, an organic light emitting layer on the metal buffer layer, and an anode on the organic light emitting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaehee Park, Heeseok Yang, Howon Choi
  • Patent number: 8773612
    Abstract: A light emitting module (1) comprises a module substrate (2), a light emitting diode string (31), and a sealing member (48). The light emitting diode string (31) includes light emitting diode elements (32) and bonding wires (37) which connect the light emitting diode elements (32). The light emitting diode element (32) has a pair of element electrodes (33, 34) and has a rectangular shape extending in a direction along which the element electrodes (33, 34) are aligned. The sealing member (48) is laminated on the module substrate (2) to seal the light emitting diode string (31). The light emitting diode elements (32) are arranged at intervals in a direction crossing the direction along which the element electrodes (33, 34) are aligned, and the element electrodes (33, 34) with the same polarity are aligned to be adjacent to each other in an arrangement direction of the light emitting diode elements (32) between the light emitting diode elements (32) adjacent to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Sanpei, Kiyoshi Otani, Masahiro Izumi, Junya Murata, Akiko Saito, Yumiko Hayashida
  • Patent number: 8767138
    Abstract: A vacuum suction control mechanism apparatus is capable of accurately bonding a film to a bonding object with a simple structure. The vacuum suction control mechanism apparatus includes a bonding head including a space defined therein, suction holes attracting a film, the suction holes extending from a surface of the bonding head to the space defined in the bonding head, a movable piece partitioning the space into two regions, the movable piece being movable relative to the bonding head within the space in contact with the suction holes, and a connection portion connectable to a decompression source, the connection portion being provided in a first region of the two regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideki Kodera
  • Patent number: 8755115
    Abstract: A 3D image projection system has a display screen having an array of pixels, an array of pixel pyramids associated with the array of pixels, and a projector configured to project light onto the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventor: Youngshik Yoon
  • Patent number: 8749542
    Abstract: According to various embodiments of the invention, gamma curves for multiple pixel groups can be calibrated using look-up tables or by using reference voltage groups provided by gamma voltage generators so that the pixels can display multiple images with correct gray levels at different view angles. Therefore, color shift can be avoided or lessened without necessarily using extra circuitry on the display panel. Also, any related light transmittance or light utilization efficiency reduction may be decreased or eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Innolux Corporation
    Inventor: Ming-Feng Hsieh
  • Patent number: 8748005
    Abstract: The invention provides a PCB protective cover, an LCD device, and a method for manufacturing a PCB protective cover. The PCB protecting cover is made of an antistatic paper material. The invention provides a novel paper PCB protecting cover. The PCB protecting cover has the advantages of good mechanical strength, simple processing, and low cost, and has antistatic ability because of being added with an antistatic material, thereby greatly reducing the cost of the PCB protecting cover when satisfying the function requirement of the PCB protecting cover, and improving the overall competitiveness of the LCD device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shihhsiang Chen, Chengwen Que
  • Patent number: 8749741
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including a first substrate, a first alignment film formed over the first substrate, a second substrate, a second alignment film formed over the second substrate, a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first alignment film and the second alignment film, and a projecting portion formed over the second substrate. The first and second alignment films are both made of a photo-decomposition-type material. A film thickness “d2” of the second alignment film over the projecting portion and a film thickness “d1” of a portion of the first alignment film facing the projecting portion satisfy a formula (1) and a formula (2): 0 nm<d2<30 nm??(1) d2<d1??(2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidehiro Sonoda, Chikae Matsui, Noboru Kunimatsu
  • Patent number: 8711303
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel that includes a number of pixel electrodes formed on a substrate and are located in a pixel region defined by gate lines and data lines that cross the gate lines. Each of the pixel electrodes located in the pixel region includes a number of sides, and at least one of the sides includes oblique lines and a protrusion formed by the oblique lines, and the pixel electrodes located in the pixel region and adjacent to each other in a first direction form a separation space that includes at least one protrusion, and a width of the separation space gradually reduces and gradually increases in a second direction crossing the first direction, and a singular point that controls the texture of liquid crystals is located at the narrowest width of the separation space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yi Li, Seong-Jun Lee, Yong-Kyu Jang, Jae-Young Lee, Ju-Yeon Seo
  • Publication number: 20140111730
    Abstract: The invention relates to compounds of the formula I, and to a liquid-crystalline medium, preferably having a nematic phase and negative dielectric anisotropy, which comprises a) one or more compounds of the formula I and b) one or more compounds of the formula III-O in which the parameters have the respective meanings indicated in Claim 1, to the use thereof in an electro-optical display, particularly in an active-matrix display based on the VA, ECB, PALC, FFS or IPS effect, to displays of this type which contain a liquid-crystalline medium of this type, and to the use of the compounds of the formula I for the stabilization of a liquid-crystalline medium which comprises one or more compounds of the formula III-O.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GmbH
    Inventors: Mark GOEBEL, Eveline BARON, Rocco FORTTE, Detlef PAULUTH
  • Publication number: 20140111729
    Abstract: The present invention provides a COF base tape. The COF base tape includes: a connected lead being configured to connect with a connected terminal of a liquid crystal glass; an alignment mark being set on the two sides of the connected lead being configured to align with a mark of the connected terminal, an area of the alignment mark thereof being light transparency. The present invention also provides a method for manufacturing the COF base tape and liquid crystal display module. The embodiment of the invention of a COF base tape and manufacturing method thereof and liquid crystal display module including the same enhances the strength of the COF base tape edge and raises the accurate alignment and operationally of the COF base tap connected with liquid glass. The present invention can save the material and reduce the cost of the art.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Chengwen Que, Dehua Li
  • Patent number: 8696933
    Abstract: Polar nematic compounds, one example of which has the following structure: is a caged boron structure, where the sphere of the caged boron structure is C and each non-sphere vertex of the caged boron structure is B—H. R is H, an alkyl, a cycloalkyl, a bicycloalkyl, an alkenyl, a cycloalkenyl, a bicycloalkenyl, an alkynyl, an acyl, an aryl, an alkylaryl, a halogen, a cyano group, or an isothiocyanoto group, or R is a group that forms an ether, a ketone, an ester, a thioester, a sulfide, or a sulfone. X is COOR? or COSR?. R? is H, an alkyl, a cycloalkyl, a bicycloalkyl, an alkenyl, a cycloalkenyl, a bicycloalkenyl, an alkynyl, an aryl, a halogen, or a cyano group. The compounds may be used in liquid crystal displays (LCDs), and in television sets, laptop computers, computer monitors, hand-held communication devices, gaming devices, watches, cash registers, clocks, and calculators having liquid crystal displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Vanderbilt University
    Inventors: Bryan Ringstrand, Piotr Kaszynski
  • Patent number: 8679618
    Abstract: An optical film includes a multi-layer sheet including: a plurality of polyethylene terephthalate polymer layers, the polymer layers having a first refraction index in a first direction parallel to a plane of the polymer layers and a second refraction index in a second direction parallel to the plane of the polymer layers, and a plurality of polyethylene terephthalate copolymer layers, the copolymer layers having a third refraction index in the first and second directions, a protection sheet on at least one side of the multi-layer sheet, and an adhesive member between the multi-layer sheet and the protection sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeong Min Moon, Byung Hwa Ji
  • Patent number: 8681184
    Abstract: A display unit for binocular representation of a multicolor image including a control unit triggering an imaging element such that the imaging element generates in a temporal successive manner the image to be displayed for a first beam path and a second beam path as a first image and second image, respectively. The images are generated in a pre-distorted manner, opposite of the chromatic aberration of the respective beam path, such that the chromatic aberration generated in the respective beam path is compensated when the first and second image is displayed. The display unit includes a switching module which operates in temporal synchrony with the first and second image being generated, such that a user can see the first image only via the first beam path and the second image only via the second beam path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss AG
    Inventors: Markus Seesselberg, Johannes Ruoff
  • Patent number: 8670081
    Abstract: An array substrate for a liquid crystal display device includes a data line formed on a substrate including a pixel region; a source electrode extending from the data line; a drain electrode separated from the source electrode; a pixel electrode contacting the drain electrode and formed of a transparent conductive material in the pixel region; an organic semiconductor layer on the source and drain electrodes; a first gate insulating layer of an organic insulating material on the organic semiconductor layer; a second gate insulting layer of an inorganic insulating material on entire surface of the substrate including the first gate insulating layer; a gate line formed on the second gate insulating layer and crossing the data line to define the pixel region; and a gate electrode on the second gate insulating layer extending from the gate line and corresponding to the organic semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Joon-Young Yang
  • Patent number: 8647167
    Abstract: An illuminated display device with a base member with a plurality of cavities therein. Illumination devices illuminate the cavities and emit light through an opening of the cavities in a pattern, and a speaker can emit sounds in synchronization with the pattern. A panel with translucent portions can overly the base member and the cavities. An animated talking character can have an animated mouth cavity complex with multiple predetermined mouth lighting configurations simulative of human utterances. The cavities can be open, or optical waveguide material or positive members can be disposed therein. Reflective material can enhance internal reflectance and light emission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Inventors: Valerie J. Heilbron, Paul G. Clem, Adam Wade Cook