Particular Structure Patents (Class 349/56)
  • 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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
  • 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
  • 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: 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: 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: 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: 8648990
    Abstract: A semiconductor light emitting device includes a laminate section in which p-type layer 5 and n-type layer 7 are laminated such that they sandwich active layer 6. A part of light emitted from active layer 6 exits from a first surface of the laminate section. The semiconductor light emitting device includes a reflection layer that is located on a second surface opposite to the first surface of the laminate section and that reflects light that is emitted from active layer 6 and that enters from the second surface in the direction of the active layer side. The reflection layer includes metal layer 1 and transparent electrode films 2 to 4 that are transparent to a wave length of light that enters from active layer 6 and that have conductivity. The refractive index of transparent conduction film 3 is lower than that of each of transparent conduction films 2 and 4 and p-type layer 5. The absorption coefficient of transparent conduction film 3 is smaller than that of each of transparent conduction films 2 and 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Naofumi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8648992
    Abstract: A thin film capacitor is characterized by forming a lower electrode, coating a composition onto the lower electrode without applying an annealing process having a temperature of greater than 300° C., drying at a predetermined temperature within a range from ambient temperature to 500° C., and calcining at a predetermined temperature within a range of 500 to 800° C. and higher than a drying temperature. The process from coating to calcining is performed the process from coating to calcining once or at least twice, or the process from coating to drying is performed at least twice, and then calcining is performed once. The thickness of the dielectric thin film formed after the first calcining is 20 to 600 nm. The ratio of the thickness of the lower electrode and the thickness of the dielectric thin film formed after the initial calcining step (thickness of lower electrode/thickness of the dielectric thin film) is preferably in the range 0.10 to 15.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Materials Corporation, STMicroelectronics(Tours) SAS
    Inventors: Hideaki Sakurai, Toshiaki Watanabe, Nobuyuki Soyama, Guillaume Guegan
  • 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
  • Patent number: 8629945
    Abstract: A viewing system has a parallax separation device placed in front of a liquid crystal display panel. The liquid display panel can be used to display a composite image that has many display segments, with each segment having two or more elongated image sections of different images. Each image section may occupy one or more columns of color pixels. The parallax separation device has a plurality of parallax separation elements, each aligned with a display segment for separating the different image sections as seen in a viewer's eyes. The parallax separation device has a barrier axis parallel to the longitudinal axis of the elongated image sections. The color sub-pixels in each pixel are arranged along a direction parallel to the barrier axis. A tracking device and a processor are used to determine the locations of image sections under the parallax separation elements based on positions of a viewer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: 3DV Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kwok Wah Allen Lo
  • Patent number: 8628685
    Abstract: Compounds including at least one mesogenic substructure and at least one long flexible segment and methods of synthesizing the same are disclosed. Formulations which include various embodiments of the mesogen-containing compounds and their use in articles of manufacture and ophthalmic devices are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Transitions Optical, Inc
    Inventors: Meng He, Anil Kumar
  • Patent number: 8623474
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display utilizing a vertically aligned state of liquid crystal molecules when no voltage is applied and to a method of manufacturing the same. Objectives include providing a liquid crystal display and a method of manufacturing the same in which the existing step for forming vertical alignment films can be omitted to achieve a cost reduction. The liquid crystal display includes a monofunctional monomer having a structure expressed by X—R (where X represents an acrylate group or a methacrylate group, and R represents an organic group having a steroid skeleton). A liquid crystal material is sandwiched between substrates, which are then irradiated with ultraviolet rays to cure the monofunctional monomer, thereby forming a polymer film at an interface of a substrate. The monofunctional monomer has a hydrophobic skeleton such as an alkyl chain and a photoreactive group on one side of the skeleton.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shingo Kataoka, Hideaki Tsuda, Katsufumi Ohmuro, Jin Hirosawa, Seiji Tanuma, Yoshio Koike
  • Patent number: 8625043
    Abstract: A display device is disclosed. In one embodiment, the display device includes a display panel displaying an image and a bottom chassis including a bottom portion where the display panel is mounted and a plurality of side walls connected with the bottom portion and facing a side surface of the display panel. At least two of the side walls include a base side wall and a reinforcing side wall integrally formed with the base side wall by a connection portion. The connection portion and the reinforcing side wall are bent from the base side wall and thus partially overlap the base side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeong-Ho Hwang, Hwan-Jin Kim, Sang-Min Yi
  • Patent number: 8619221
    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: June 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidehiro Sonoda, Chikae Matsui, Noboru Kunimatsu, Yuko Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 8610652
    Abstract: Provided are display apparatuses and methods of operating the same. In a display apparatus, a display image may be continuously held for longer than about 10 msec after the power of the display panel is turned off. The display apparatus may indicate a liquid crystal display (LCD) apparatus including an oxide thin film transistor (TFT). Off leakage current of the oxide TFT may be less than about 10?14 A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-hoon Lee, Do-hyun Kim, Sang-wook Kim, Chang-jung Kim
  • Patent number: 8603357
    Abstract: The present inventions to provide a novel polymerizable chiral compound (chiral agent) having high helical twisting power, a polymerizable liquid crystal composition comprising the polymerizable chiral compound and a polymerizable liquid crystal compound, a liquid crystal polymer, and an optically anisotropic body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Zeon Corporation
    Inventors: Kei Sakamoto, Kentaro Tamura
  • Patent number: 8603596
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes an illuminator and a liquid crystal panel for performing displaying by using light which is emitted from the illuminator. The liquid crystal panel includes a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer provided therebetween. The liquid crystal layer is formed of a liquid crystal material which contains molecules having at least one of a carbon-carbon triple bond and a polycyclic group. The illuminator includes a light source causing primary generation of at least blue light, among other light which is used for displaying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Koichi Miyachi
  • Patent number: 8598570
    Abstract: An organic transistor array includes gate electrodes provided on a substrate, source and drain electrodes provided above or below the gate electrodes via a gate insulator layer, and an organic semiconductor layer opposing the gate electrodes via the gate insulator layer, and forming a channel region between mutually adjacent source and drain electrodes. The organic transistor array in a plan view is sectioned into sections each forming a single pixel, and each section has a closest packed structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichiro Yutani, Takumi Yamaga, Atsushi Onodera
  • Patent number: 8582065
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a liquid crystal display device with a good display quality, and a manufacturing method of such a liquid crystal display device. A liquid crystal display device (10) includes a liquid crystal display panel (11) with a display surface (20) defining a recessed curved surface having curvature of 1/500- 1/50 (1/mm), and with a scattering section which is arranged parallel to the display surface (20), which defines a recessed curved surface having curvature of 1/500- 1/50 (1/mm), and in which a plurality of elongated regions (A-C) having different haze values are arranged in parallel with each other from a middle section of the curved surface toward both end sections in the curving direction. The haze values of the plurality of elongated regions (A-C) arranged in parallel with each other vary in a step-wise manner from the middle section of the curved surface toward the both end sections in the curving direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiromi Enomoto
  • Patent number: 8582046
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a light guide plate guiding light, light sources disposed adjacent to at least one side of the light guide plate, and a lower receptacle. The lower receptacle includes a bottom plate on which the light guide plate and the light sources are disposed, a lower receptacle side wall extending in a direction substantially perpendicular to the bottom plate and from an edge of the bottom plate, and an upper plate extended from the lower receptacle side wall and substantially parallel to the bottom plate. The upper plate does not overlap the light guide plate in a plan view of the liquid crystal display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jeoung-Gwen Lee
  • Patent number: 8576196
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a touch screen and a method of manufacturing the same. The touch screen includes: a transparent substrate; a transparent electrode formed on the transparent substrate and including a sensing part sensing a touch input and an extension part extending from the sensing part to an edge of the transparent substrate; a wiring electrode formed at the edge of the transparent substrate and spaced apart from the extension part of the transparent electrode; and a conductive paste formed at the edge of the transparent substrate and covering both the extension part and the wiring electrode so as to electrically connect the transparent electrode to the wiring electrode, whereby the transparent electrode is formed after the wiring electrode is formed and the wiring electrode is connected to the transparent electrode through the conductive paste, thereby preventing the transparent electrode from being damaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Woon Chun Kim, Yong Soo Oh, Sang Hwan Oh, Jong Young Lee
  • Patent number: 8576366
    Abstract: A pixel array includes pixel sets. Each pixel set includes a first and second scan lines arranged in parallel on a substrate, a data line not parallel to the first and second scan lines, a first active device electrically connecting the first scan line and the data line, a second active device electrically connecting the second scan line and the data line, a first pixel electrode electrically connecting the first active device, a second pixel electrode electrically connecting the second active device, and an auxiliary electrode pattern that includes a connecting portion and a first and second branch portions. A gap is between the first and second pixel electrodes. The connecting portion underneath the gap between the first and second pixel electrodes partially overlaps the first and second pixel electrodes. The first and second branch portions connect the connecting portion and partially overlap the first and second pixel electrodes, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Hui-Ting Hsu, Chu-Yu Liu, Yu-Chieh Kuo, I-Chun Chen, Jen-Wen Wan, Chou-Chin Wu
  • Publication number: 20130286317
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal medium composition, a liquid crystal display using same and a manufacturing method thereof. The liquid crystal medium composition includes a liquid crystal material, a polymerizable monomer, a stabilizer, and a sensitizer. The sensitizer shows strong absorbance of ultraviolet light having wavelength between 300-380 nm and is composed of a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon composed of a plurality of benzene rings linked with substituted moieties. The liquid crystal display includes: upper and a lower substrate that are arranged parallel to each other and the liquid crystal medium composition arranged between the upper and lower substrates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co. LTD.
    Inventor: Xinhui Zhong
  • Patent number: 8564738
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a conductive support layer, a light emitting structure layer on the conductive support layer, a first transparent conductive layer and a second transparent conductive layer disposed between the conductive support layer and the light emitting structure layer, and an electrode on the light emitting structure layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-Youl Lee, So Jung Kim, June O Song, Kwang Ki Choi
  • Patent number: 8551358
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid-crystalline medium, characterised in that it contains a polymerisable component (A) containing one more polymerisable compounds and a liquid-crystalline component (B) containing one more compounds of the general formula I in which R, rings A1 and A2, Z1, Z2, Y1, Y2, X0 and r are as defined in Claim 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Seung-Eun Lee, Eun Young Kim, Dong-Mee Song, Kyung-Ah Park, Sang-Hyun Park, Eun-Kyu Lee
  • Patent number: 8553176
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device performs suitable overshoot drive, even if a panel temperature is changed due to a change of the backlight emission luminance. The liquid crystal display device includes: a temperature sensor which detects the temperature in the device; an emphasis conversion section, which obtains, after the elapse of one vertical display period, an emphasis conversion parameter for making the transmissivity of the liquid crystal panel reach the transmissivity specified by input image signals, and which outputs applying voltage signals for the liquid crystal panel on the basis of the emphasis conversion parameter; and a main microcomputer which corrects the panel temperature of the liquid crystal panel on the basis of the changed light emission luminance when the light emission luminance of the backlight is changed. The emphasis conversion section variably controls the emphasis conversion parameter on the basis of the panel temperature corrected via the main microcomputer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Matsui, Yoshiyuki Kawagoe
  • Patent number: 8553177
    Abstract: A light guide plate comprising an incidence surface, a lower surface, an upper surface and an opposite surface which is opposite to the incidence surface, wherein the length of the upper surface is less than the length of the lower surface, and an acute angle is formed between the opposite surface and the direction of elongation line of the upper surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaopan Zheng, Haikuo Gao, Daekeun Yoon
  • Patent number: 8547311
    Abstract: A dual-image flat display device includes a first and a second substrates parallel with each other, a liquid crystal layer having liquid crystal molecules, and at least a pixel disposed on the second substrate. The pixel includes pluralities of sub-pixels arranged side by side along a first direction. Each sub-pixel has a first azimuthal angle domain and a second azimuthal angle domain, wherein the first and second azimuthal angle domains are arranged side by side along a second direction in the sub-pixel, and the second direction is not parallel with the first direction. The azimuthal angles of liquid crystal molecules in the first and second azimuthal angle domains have an included angle less than 180°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chao-Yuan Chen, Chieh-Wei Chen, Hung-Lung Hou, Chia-Yu Lee, Jenn-Jia Su
  • Patent number: 8545717
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising a curable dichroic dye and a curable liquid crystal compound, which are used to prepare an optical component that is vertically oriented to give a narrow viewing angle, to form an optical component, and an optical component comprising an optical component layer prepared using the same. There is provided a composition for forming an optical component comprising 0.1-90 parts by weight of a dichroic dye and 10-98.85 parts by weight of a curable liquid crystal compound, and there is also provided an optical component comprising an optical component layer in which a curable liquid crystal compound and a curable dichroic dye are vertically oriented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Il Cho, Dae Hee Lee, Sin Young Kim, Hee Jean Lee, Su Young Ryu
  • Patent number: 8545720
    Abstract: The present invention relates to liquid-crystal (LC) media for use in LC displays of the PS (polymer stabilised) or PSA (polymer sustained alignment) type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GmbH
    Inventors: Achim Goetz, Melanie Klasen-Memmer, Stephan Derow
  • Patent number: 8546810
    Abstract: A thin film transistor in which an effect of photo current is small and an On/Off ratio is high is provided. In a bottom-gate bottom-contact (coplanar) thin film transistor, a channel formation region overlaps with a gate electrode, a first impurity semiconductor layer is provided between the channel formation region and a second impurity semiconductor layer which is in contact with a wiring layer. A semiconductor layer which serves as the channel formation region and the first impurity semiconductor layer preferably overlap with each other in a region where they overlap with the gate electrode. The first impurity semiconductor layer and the second impurity semiconductor layer preferably overlap with each other in a region where they do not overlap with the gate electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Miyairi, Yasuhiro Jinbo, Hiromichi Godo, Takafumi Mizoguchi, Shinobu Furukawa
  • Patent number: 8547373
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a back light unit for a liquid crystal display device, which can improve safety and reliability of the back light unit; and a method for fabricating the same. The back light unit for a liquid crystal display device includes lamps for supplying a light to a liquid crystal display panel, a printed circuit board of a non-conductive plastic having sockets mounted thereto for supplying a high voltage to the lamps, a cover bottom fastened to the printed circuit board, having the lamps received therein, and a hook shaped projection formed as one unit with the printed circuit board for placing in a hole in the cover bottom for fastening the printed circuit board to the cover bottom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong-Hag Kim, Sung-Joong Kim, Yun-Seo Park
  • Patent number: 8542335
    Abstract: A simple matrix type dot-matrix liquid crystal display element includes a first and a second transparent substrate disposed opposite to each other, first and second transparent electrodes disposed on the opposed face of the first and the second transparent substrate, respectively, a first and a second vertical alignment film disposed on the opposed side of the first and the second transparent substrate to cover the first and the second electrodes, respectively, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the opposed side of the first and the second transparent substrate and having ??<0 and ?nd>450 nm, and a first and a second viewing angle compensation plate disposed on the unopposed side of the first and the second transparent substrate, respectively, wherein in the first transparent electrode, openings extending in a predefined direction are aligned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshihisa Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 8535562
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal composition satisfying at least one of characteristics such as a high maximum temperature of a nematic phase, a low minimum temperature of the nematic phase, a small viscosity, a large optical anisotropy, a large dielectric anisotropy, a large specific resistance, a large elastic constant, a high stability to ultraviolet light and a high stability to heat, or having a suitable balance regarding at least two of the characteristics. Also provided is an AM device having a short response time, a large voltage holding ratio, a large contrast ratio, a long service life and so forth. The liquid crystal composition contains a specific compound having a large elastic constant as a first component, and a specific compound having a large dielectric anisotropy as a second component, and has a nematic phase, and a liquid crystal display device contains the composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignees: JNC Corporation, JNC Petrochemical Corporation
    Inventors: Norikatsu Hattori, Takashi Hiraoka, Taketo Maeda, Masayuki Saito
  • Patent number: 8537151
    Abstract: An inspection method for an active-matrix substrate including the scanning lines, the data lines, the pixels disposed in matrix, and the power lines. The pixel includes: an organic EL device; a drive transistor; a capacitor; a selection transistor having a gate connected to the scanning line and connected between the data line and the gate of the drive transistor, and the guard potential transistor having a gate connected to a source of the selection transistor, a source connected to a drain of the selection transistor, and a drain connected to the power line. The inspection method includes: a writing process for writing a charge in the capacitor; a reading process for reading the written charged from the capacitor; and a holding process for holding the charge for a predetermined period from the end of the writing process to the start of the reading process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Tajika, Hiroshi Shirouzu
  • Patent number: 8530007
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes a first insulating substrate, in which a pixel area is defined, a gate line formed on the first insulating substrate, a data line crossing the gate line, and a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line. The second substrate is opposite to the first substrate. The liquid crystal layer is interposed between the first and second substrates and includes a liquid crystal composition with a nematic-isotropic phase transition temperature (Tni) of 79° C. or above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: SooJeong Huh, Namseok Lee, Won-Gup Yoon, Soyoun Park, SiHeun Kim
  • Patent number: 8525540
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a switch control unit, a test apparatus and method for a liquid crystal cell. The switch control unit controls a signal input to the liquid crystal display driver and controls the output of the signal from the liquid crystal display driver accordingly, and includes a control signal generator and a switch module. The test apparatus for the liquid crystal cell comprises: a switch control unit connected with a gate driver, for controlling ON and OFF of a signal input to the gate driver and controlling ON and OFF of a gate scan signal accordingly. The test method for the liquid crystal cell comprises: inputting a test signal; controlling ON and OFF of a gate scan signal by controlling ON and OFF of a signal input to a gate driver so as to determine the badness positions on a screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Beijing Boe Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhilong Peng, Xiangfei He, Chunbae Park, Wei Wang
  • Patent number: 8519995
    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 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Chimei Innolux Corporation
    Inventor: Ming-Feng Hsieh
  • Patent number: 8520161
    Abstract: This invention provides a display device and the assembly method thereof. The display device includes a first electronic module and a second electronic module partly overlapping each other. The first electronic module includes a first signal transmission unit with one side extending to form a first extension section. The second electronic module includes a second signal transmission unit partly overlapping the first signal transmission unit and having a side extending to form a first connection section. The first extension section overlaps and is electrically connected to the first connection section. Part of the overlapping first extension section and first connection section are bent to partly overlap the second signal transmission unit. Thus the second signal transmission unit is able to accept and to transmit signals via the first signal transmission unit of the first electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Jui-Lin Lai, Che-Chih Chang, Chih-Chung Chao
  • Patent number: 8520376
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is disclosed, by which misalignment between a tape carrier package and a panel can be prevented in a manner of forming an align mark between output pads provided to a central part of the tape carrier package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuk-Hui Chang, Young-Nam Lee