Interconnection Of Plural Cells In Parallel (e.g., Edge To Edge) Patents (Class 349/73)
  • Patent number: 6771337
    Abstract: A reflective LCD array (10) having a plurality of mirrors (40) in a mirror layer (14) of material layers (12). Underlying the mirror layer (12) are at least a second metal layer (18) and a third metal layer (20). The second metal layer (18) and the third metal layer (20) will each have a first plurality of power traces (50) and (51), arrayed such that the power traces (50) and (51) generally completely underlie a plurality of gaps (44, 46) between the mirrors (40). The power traces (50) are positioned to shield light (30) from reaching a plurality of silicon junctions (26) where traces on a poly layer (22) intersect traces on a diffusion layer (24).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignee: Aurora Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: William K. Zuravleff
  • Publication number: 20040125272
    Abstract: A flat panel display system includes a polymer memory provided thereon. The flat panel display may include a viewable portion and a non-viewable portion. In an embodiment, the polymer memory system may be provided on a non-viewable planar surface of the display. Owing to the large viewable area of many flat panel displays, it is expected that the polymer memory system can provide a large memory for a computer or other processor-based device without requiring any change in the device's form factor. Thus, such a system finds ready application in notebook computers, personal digital assistance and other mobile processor-based devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2002
    Publication date: July 1, 2004
    Inventors: David B. Chung, Kurt Sehnert
  • Patent number: 6753909
    Abstract: A camera is provided that includes an array of optical detectors and an optical filter placed adjacent the array. The optical detectors output detection signals that are used to form control signals. The filter includes spatial sections of individually adjustable optical density. The optical densities are controlled by the individual control signals. The camera outputs the combined control signals and detection signals, thus effectively providing an output with a larger dynamic range than would be provided by the detection signals of the detectors alone. An objective lens and a housing form a stand alone unit. The detectors can have different responses to different wavelengths to achieve color specific effects. Methods are further provided for controlling the filter. The detection signals are scanned to ensure that a predefined filtering condition is met. If not, control signals are iteratively generated and applied to the filter until the condition has been met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Larry Alan Westerman, Jeffrey Norris Coleman, Gary Alan Feather, James M. Florence
  • Patent number: 6750939
    Abstract: A liquid crystal micro display (lcmd) is manufactured by creating a hole in an lcmd surface, filling the lcmd with liquid crystal material through the hole, and then sealing the hole. The invention allows an lcmd to be tested before it is separated from other lcmds and packaged. As a result, the invention increases the yield and reduces the cost associated with lcmd manufacturing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: Agilent Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas Sojourner, Ken A. Nishimura, Charles D. Hoke, Barry Bronson
  • Patent number: 6741317
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a thin film transistor substrate, on which a plurality of data lines and gate lines are positioned perpendicular to each other; a plurality of pixel electrodes formed near intersections of the data lines and the gate lines; a color filter substrate positioned parallel to the thin film transistor substrate, including a color filter layer, a black matrix and a common electrode formed thereon; a polymer wall arrangement formed either on the thin film transistor substrate or on the color filter substrate dividing the substrate into a plurality of liquid crystal panels; and at least one liquid crystal injection opening formed on each panel of the plurality of liquid crystal panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: LG. Philips LCD Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Su Seok Choi, Suk Won Choi
  • Patent number: 6731368
    Abstract: In the typical LCD device, the ON/OFF inspection is performed by unit cell. However, in the case of the small size LCD device, since the liquid crystal cell substrate has many unit cells, the total inspection time is too long and the long handling time contributes to increasing the number of inferior cells. To solve these problems, the ON/OFF inspection of the liquid crystal cell for the small size LCD device having many unit cells is simultaneously performed for the entire liquid crystal cell substrate before cutting into the unit cells. Thus, the number of damaged cells during the inspection process and the process time can be reduced, and the yield can increase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: LG. Philips LCD Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hwan-Seong Yu, Gyu-Su Cho
  • Publication number: 20040070702
    Abstract: To show a plurality of individual images, a multi-panel display is used, which includes a plurality of adjacent flat display units. Each unit is provided with a respective housing and each has a display surface. The flat display units have sealant disposed around the housing. In such an arrangement, ambient light behind the multi-panel display is prevented from shining through gaps between adjacent flat display units, which might otherwise cause a distraction for the viewer of the multi-panel display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2003
    Publication date: April 15, 2004
    Applicant: SIEMENS AG
    Inventors: Michael Meyer, Peter Schellinger, Reinhold Schneeberger
  • Patent number: 6704072
    Abstract: A flat panel display device includes at least one display panel. The display panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other, and a sealant sealing the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate has at least one protrusion portion formed on a portion of an inner surface thereof to adhere to the sealant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seok-Hong Jeong, Si-Hwan Kim
  • Patent number: 6693684
    Abstract: The present invention features are series of techniques for designing and assembling of large, robust monolithic and monolithic-like flat panel displays. Many techniques originally developed for creating tiled, flat-panel displays having visually imperceptible seams may be advantageously applied to monolithic structures. These techniques include single-sided wiring, two-sided wiring from opposite sides, segmented row and column lines, and reordering row and column lines in fan-out region. Single-sided wiring facilitates the construction of displays with small outlines. By using these techniques, display sharpness and contrast may be improved. In addition, color and luminance balance and uniformity across the display may also be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: Rainbow Displays, Inc.
    Inventors: Raymond G. Greene, J. Peter Krusius, Donald P. Seraphim, Dean W. Skinner, Boris Yost
  • Patent number: 6683665
    Abstract: A tiled display structure is formed containing a plurality of image tiles. A method for assembling a tiled display structure that includes a transparent front panel and a plurality of image tiles is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: (1) heating a heat activated adhesive to a working temperature; (2) applying the softened adhesive to the front surface of the display section of an image tile, or the inner surface of the transparent front panel; (3) aligning the surface of the display section of the image tile with the inner surface of the transparent front panel; (4) cooling the adhesive. Another aspect of the invention is a modular method of repairing a tiled display structure, which includes a transparent front panel, a heat activated adhesive, and a plurality of image tiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Assignee: Sarnoff Corporation
    Inventor: Dennis Lee Matthies
  • Patent number: 6680761
    Abstract: The present invention features designs of pixels and designs of control features for seals on AMLCD tiles optimized for tiling AMLCD flat panel displays (FPDs) which have visually imperceptible seams. The FPD structure has an image view plane which is continuous and remote from the pixel apertures or image source plane on the inside of the tiles. The image is formed on the view plane by a distributed ultra low magnification flies-eye optical system (a screen) that is integrated with the tiles, effectively excluding and obscuring an image of the seams. The innovations described herein minimize the defects on the perimeter pixels by effectively damming the waviness of the front of the seal near the perimeter pixels on the tiles. Dark space required for the seal between the interior tile edges and active regions of the pixels is decreased, as is the space allocated for wiring thereby increasing the feasible aperture ratios near the mosaic edges and all apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2004
    Assignee: Rainbow Displays, Inc.
    Inventors: Raymond G. Greene, Donald P. Seraphim, Dean W. Skinner, Boris Yost
  • Patent number: 6678033
    Abstract: A display device, in particular for a vehicle, having a screen which has a liquid crystal cell, with the liquid crystal cell having a front and a rear cell wall and a liquid crystal substance arranged in the cell space between these cell walls, and having a heating apparatus by which the display device can be heated. In order to ensure reliable operation of the display device even at low temperatures, the heating apparatus is arranged in the cell space of the liquid crystal cell directly or indirectly on the front and/or, on the rear cell wall, and that the heating apparatus is operated with a pure AC voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventors: Peter Brandt, Dietmar Tippl
  • Patent number: 6674492
    Abstract: A transparent filter including a sheet-shaped body and numerous linear conductive elements arrayed on a surface thereof, which is adapted to be disposed in front of an image device having rectangular pixels; wherein the conductive elements with a linewidth of 50 &mgr;m or less are arrayed on the sheet-shaped body in two directions with a pitch P1 and a pitch P2, respectively; an aperture ratio of the filter is not less than 70%; and when lengths of a pixel of the image device in the vertical direction Y and in the horizontal direction X are denoted by W1 and W2, respectively, P1, P2, W1 and W2 satisfy a relation expressed by the following Equation (1) and Equation (2), n1+0.35≦W1/P1≦n1+0.65  (1) n2+0.35≦W2/P2≦n2+0.65  (2) The use of the transparent filter can increase the aperture ratio in comparison with that of a conventional mesh, and besides the disposal thereof in front of an image device having rectangular pixels can make the moire inconspicuous.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Kogame, Makoto Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 6667783
    Abstract: The present invention features a series of techniques for designing and assembling of large, robust monolithic and monolithic-like flat panel displays. Many techniques originally developed for creating tiled, flat-panel displays having visually imperceptible seams may be advantageously applied to monolithic structures. These techniques include single-sided wiring, two-sided wiring from opposite sides, segmented row and column lines, and reordering row and column lines in fan-out region. Single-sided wiring facilitates the construction of displays with small outlines. By using these techniques, display sharpness and contrast may be improved. In addition, color and luminance balance and uniformity across the display may also be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2003
    Assignee: Rainbow Displays, Inc.
    Inventors: Raymond G. Greene, J. Peter Krusius, Donald P. Seraphim, Dean W. Skinner
  • Patent number: 6665034
    Abstract: A rubbing direction (X) for each upper substrate of a tile panel constituting a liquid crystal panel unit is set along a horizontal direction (H) of the liquid crystal panel unit, a rubbing direction (Y) for each lower substrate of the tile panel is set along a vertical direction (V) thereof, and absorption axes (S) of polarizing plates and are allowed to coincide with the horizontal direction (H) of the liquid crystal panel unit. Moreover, in a set of four tile panels, the rubbing directions (X) and (Y) are made to differ from one another, thus viewing directions (Z) of high contrast are distributed into four directions, and turning directions (reference codes (R) and (L)) of liquid crystal molecules in the respective tile panels are arranged alternately in the horizontal direction (H) of the liquid crystal panel unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Shunji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 6661481
    Abstract: A display panel complex includes a plurality of image display panels arranged on the same plane and a joint for joining adjacent image display panels to each other among the plurality of image display panels. The joint is made of opaque particles having an opaqueness and an adhesive resin for dispersing and holding the opaque particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Shunji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 6657698
    Abstract: The present invention features designs of pixels and designs of control features for seals on AMLCD tiles optimized for tiling AMLCD flat panel displays (FPDs) which have visually imperceptible seams. The FPD structure has an image view plane which is continuous and remote from the pixel apertures or image source plane on the inside of the tiles. The image is formed on the view plane by a distributed ultra low magnification flies-eye optical system (a screen) that is integrated with the tiles, effectively excluding and obscuring an image of the seams. The innovations described herein minimize the defects on the perimeter pixels by effectively damming the waviness of the front of the seal near the perimeter pixels on the tiles. Dark space required for the seal between the interior tile edges and active regions of the pixels is decreased, as is the space allocated for wiring thereby increasing the feasible aperture ratios near the mosaic edges and all apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2003
    Assignee: Rainbow Displays, Inc.
    Inventors: Raymond G. Greene, Donald P. Seraphim, Dean W. Skinner, Boris Yost
  • Patent number: 6654080
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes cell wall structure and a chiral nematic liquid crystal material. The cell wall structure and the liquid crystal cooperate to form focal conic and twisted planar textures that are stable in the absence of a field. A device applies an electric field to the liquid crystal for transforming at least a portion of the material to at least one of the focal conic and twisted planar textures. The liquid crystal material has a pitch length effective to reflect radiation having a wavelength in both the visible and the infrared ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum at intensity that is sufficient for viewing by an observer. One liquid crystal material may be disposed in a single region or two or more liquid crystal materials may be used, each in separate regions even without the infrared reflecting layer. One aspect of the invention is directed to a photolithography method for patterning a substrate of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Assignee: Kent Displays, Inc.
    Inventors: Asad A. Khan, Xiao-Yang Huang, Haiji Yuan, Minhua Lu
  • Patent number: 6646697
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is structured in such a manner that plural of liquid crystal display panels each comprised of a liquid crystal layer provided between a pair of transparent substrates which have electrodes disposed on each facing inner surface, and a reflection-type polarizing film is disposed at least on the top surface of the plural liquid crystal display panel, or between the liquid crystal display panels, or on the lowest surface of the plural liquid crystal display panel. By controlling a reflection state and a transmission state through the reflection-type polarizing film with electric voltage applied on the liquid crystal layer of the liquid crystal display panel, a display which represents the opening and closing of a metallic shutter is made possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2003
    Assignee: Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kanetaka Sekiguchi, Takashi Akiyama, Masafumi Ide, Masami Kikuchi, Yuichi Akiba, Koji Nakagawa, Koichi Hoshino, Takashi Toida
  • Publication number: 20030206254
    Abstract: A composite liquid crystal panel includes a plurality of liquid crystal panels and a picture display surface. It cuts the border of each liquid crystal panel to a width of only one pixel, then bonding the panels together, installing the picture display surface on the liquid crystal panel, and distributing a portion of light from the normal pixels adjoining the border to the pixels corresponding to the border to resolve the gap problem. Light distribution is accomplished by using a pair of mirrors and a pair of reflecting surfaces to reflect the light of the pixels, so that light may be reflected above the pixels on the border and generate light. Then the pixels on the border and the pixels adjoining the border are redefined to form an image dot. Finally, through redistributing the light, the seams on the border may be completely eliminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2003
    Publication date: November 6, 2003
    Inventors: He-Chiang Liu, Hsiao-Yi Li, Hung-Lung Cheng
  • Patent number: 6643067
    Abstract: An electro-optical device which includes a plurality of point light sources, a micro-lens array in which a plurality of micro-lenses are disposed, and a light modulation device including a plurality of light-transmissive windows. The electro-optical device is constructed so that, by the micro-lens array, light from the plurality of point light sources is focused at the light-transmissive windows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2003
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Miyamae, Kimio Nagasaka, Osamu Okumura
  • Patent number: 6639645
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a liquid crystal display device using plastic substrates in which deformation such as warpage and distortion hardly occurs. The reflection type liquid crystal display device includes a light transmitting plastic substrate and a plastic substrate provided with a reflecting layer. The substrates are positioned facing each other to be kept fixed relative to each other with a predetermined space therebetween defined by spacers or the like. A liquid crystal layer is formed in the space between the substrates and sealed with a sealing agent. A polarizing plate along with an adhesive is attached to the outer surface of the light transmitting plastic substrate, and a polycarbonate substrate along with an adhesive is attached to the outer surface of the reflector-attached plastic substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2003
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tohru Sakuwa
  • Patent number: 6639643
    Abstract: The present invention features methods and apparatuses for sealing tiled, flat-panel displays (FPDs). Tile edges corresponding with the display's perimeter edges are designed with a wide seal. Interior edges, however, have narrow seals in order to maintain the desired, constant, pixel pitch across tile boundaries. In some cases, this invention applies specifically to arrays of tiles 2×2 or less, and, in other cases, to N×M arrays, where N and M are any integer numbers. The tiles are enclosed with top and bottom glass plates, which are sealed with an adhesive bond to the tiles on the outside perimeter of the tiled display. Vertical seams (where tiles meet at the perimeter of the FPD) are sealed with a small amount of polymer. The seal may be constructed between a cover plate and a back plate, sandwiching the tiles. The AMLCD edges may be coated with either a non-permeable material or a polymer having an extremely low permeability (for example, Parylene™).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2003
    Assignee: Rainbow Displays, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Babuka, Raymond G. Greene, John P. Koons, J. Peter Krusius, Che-yu Li, Donald P. Seraphim
  • Patent number: 6639646
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of liquid crystal cells for a liquid crystal display device includes forming a first plurality of liquid crystal cells on an upper substrate, forming a second plurality of liquid crystal cells on a lower substrate, forming a gate contact pad in a marginal space of the lower substrate, the gate pad connected to a first group of the plurality of gate lines of one of a common row and common column of the second plurality of cells, forming a data contact pad in the marginal space of the lower substrate, the data pad connected to a first group of the plurality of data lines of one of a common row and common column of the second plurality of cells, forming a common voltage contact pad on the lower substrate, forming an assembled substrate by bonding the lower substrate to the upper substrate, separating the assembled substrate into sub-substrates, introducing liquid crystal material into the second plurality of liquid crystal cells of the sub-substrate, and inspecting the second plurality of
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2003
    Assignee: LG. Philips LCD Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Joo-Soo Lim
  • Patent number: 6639638
    Abstract: A large liquid crystal display optical structure can be created by providing a transparent substrate with a dark mesh pattern disposed thereon. A means for optical scattering is over, adjacent, or surrounding the dark mesh, with a polarizer laminated to a smooth surface of the means for optical scattering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ramesh R. Kodnani, Mark V. Pierson, William J. Rudik, David B. Stone
  • Patent number: 6624870
    Abstract: The present invention features designs of pixels and designs of control features for seals on AMLCD tiles optimized for tiling AMLCD flat panel displays (FPDs) which have visually imperceptible seams. The FPD structure has an image view plane which is continuous and remote from the pixel apertures or image source plane on the inside of the tiles. The image is formed on the view plane by a distributed ultra low magnification flies-eye optical system (a screen) that is integrated with the tiles, effectively excluding and obscuring an image of the seams. The innovations described herein minimize the defects on the perimeter pixels by effectively damming the waviness of the front of the seal near the perimeter pixels on the tiles. Dark space required for the seal between the interior tile edges and active regions of the pixels is decreased, as is the space allocated for wiring thereby increasing the feasible aperture ratios near the mosaic edges and all apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2003
    Assignee: Rainbow Displays, Inc.
    Inventors: Raymond G. Greene, Donald P. Seraphim, Dean W. Skinner, Boris Yost
  • Patent number: 6614171
    Abstract: A display including at least two tiles which are aligned along one edge of each tile but are spaced from each other, each tile having electric field activatable pixels which produce light, each tile including and are spaced from their aligned edge, and a back plate aligned with the two tiles and having electric field activatable pixels which are disposed so that they are positioned in the space provided between the aligned tiles whereby, when pixels on the two tiles and the back plate are activated, a seamless image is produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Gopalan Rajeswaran, Henry R. Freidhoff, Giana M. Phelan
  • Patent number: 6573957
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide the liquid crystal display (LCD) device with a structure which can prevent the light of a back light from being passing through a bonding region, and can prevent the TFTs of the pixel regions from being damaged by the accumulated electrostatic charges, during the handling of each discrete LCD panel, the rubbing process of the alignment layer on the lower glass substrate 1, the assembling process of the LCD panels, and the handling of the completed tiling panel. The present invention is directed to a LCD device comprising a first LCD panel and a second LCD panel; wherein one edge of the first LCD panel is positioned in proximity and adjacent to one edge of the second LCD panel; and wherein a light shielding and electrically conductive adhesive bonds the one edge of the first LCD panel and the one edge of the second LCD panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Shunji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 6570629
    Abstract: Active matrix domains are integrated and disposed on one and the same substrate. Then, directions of orientation are differentiated by 90° for one active matrix domain and the other active matrix domain. As a result, two images whose polarizing directions differ by 90° are formed when images formed in the two active matrix domains are combined. Then, one image is appropriated as an image for right eye and the other image as an image for left eye and the combined image is seen by wearing glasses equipped with polarizing filters whose polarizing directions are different by 90° for the right and left eyes. Then, the image for the right eye and that for the left eye may be seen independently and a stereoscopic image may be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2003
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Hirakata, Shunpei Yamazaki, Satoshi Teramoto, Jun Koyama
  • Patent number: 6567138
    Abstract: This invention describes fabrication techniques for producing microdisplays suitable for combining into tiled, flat-panel displays having visually imperceptible seams. Assembly techniques to overcome flatness requirements imposed by tiled, flat-panel display assemblies are also described. Edge treatment techniques for individual microdisplays while still part of the silicon die or wafer are also described. The use of these inventive techniques allows the assembly microdisplays into tiled, flat-panel that are appear visually seamless and optically uniform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2003
    Assignee: Rainbow Displays, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Peter Krusius, Donald P. Seraphim
  • Patent number: 6562640
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing micro-display includes the steps of testing individual chips on a base wafer forming the micro-display, and the tested “void” chips being marked, inputting the testing data into a sealant/glue machine and a laser puncher; sealant/glue forming on the external surrounding of a “passed” chip a sealant frame by the sealant/glue machine; forming an injection hole on an ITO glass panel at a position corresponding to the position of the “passed” chip, by means of the laser puncher; dispensing spacing particles within a chip's square box which has been formed with the sealant frame; position-aligning the ITO glass panel onto the wafer based on the wafer testing data; injecting a liquid crystal via the injection hole of the ITO glass panel located on the top layer of the “passed” chip to the space between the chips and the ITO glass; and sealing and dicing handling of the ITO glass panel to precisely manufacture the micro-display with a pas
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2003
    Assignee: Taiwan Micro Display Corporation
    Inventors: Ling-Yuan Tseng, Hao-Ming Cheng
  • Patent number: 6563557
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device in which a plurality of liquid crystal layers are stacked on a substrate, a method for bonding a film for sealing liquid crystal to supporting members is improved and the fabrication cost is thereby reduced, in order to provide a reflective type liquid crystal display device that achieves a bright display image and causes no parallax problem, and to provide a reducing method of the device. The liquid crystal display device comprises a substrate, a resin film, a multiplicity of columnar supporting members, an adhesive layer, and a liquid crystal layer. The substrate comprises a pixel electrode and a driving element connected to the pixel electrode, both formed on the upper surface of the substrate. The resin film comprises a common electrode provided on the upper surface of the film, and is disposed upwardly with respect to the substrate. The supporting members are provided on the substrate so as to support the resin film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Yamanaka, Naohide Wakita, Hiroshi Yamazoe, Takeshi Karasawa, Mariko Kawaguri
  • Patent number: 6555408
    Abstract: A method of transferring elements to be used in an assembly by placing elements in regions of a template. In one example of a method, each of the elements includes a functional component. A template holding a plurality of elements is then pressed into the receiving substrate by attaching at least one side of the template holding the elements onto the receiving substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Assignee: Alien Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey Jay Jacobsen, Mark A. Hadley, John Stephen Smith
  • Patent number: 6556261
    Abstract: This invention describes fabrication techniques for producing microdisplays suitable for combining into tiled, flat-panel displays having visually imperceptible seams. Assembly techniques to overcome flatness requirements imposed by tiled, flat-panel display assemblies are also described. Edge treatment techniques for individual microdisplays while still part of the silicon die or wafer are also described. The use of these inventive techniques allows the assembly microdisplays into tiled, flat-panel that are appear visually seamless and optically uniform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Assignee: Rainbow Displays, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Peter Krusius, Donald P. Seraphim
  • Publication number: 20030071936
    Abstract: There are provided at least two liquid crystal panels 10, 20 including the liquid crystals developing a memory effect, the liquid crystal developing a memory effect on a no-viewer side has a selective reflection wavelength set at 615 nm to 665 nm, the liquid crystal developing a memory effect on a viewer side has a selective reflection wavelength set at 490 nm to 540 nm, and a color filter 40 having a certain transmission property is provided between the liquid crystal developing a memory effect on the viewer side and the liquid crystal developing a memory effect on the no-viewer side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2002
    Publication date: April 17, 2003
    Applicant: OPTREX Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Niiyama, Noriko Suehiro
  • Patent number: 6515723
    Abstract: The present invention solves a first problem, that the damage of the TFTs on the LCD panel of the tiling panel due to the ESD during the rubbing operation and other process, and a second problem that various kinds of lower glass substrate 1 and various kinds of upper glass substrate 2 are required to provide the tiling panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Shunji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 6509941
    Abstract: A method of making a tiled emissive display having at least two aligned tiles including finishing at least one edge of each tile and aligning the finished edges of such tiles and forming a monolithic structure including aligned tiles, each such aligned tile having a substrate, TFT circuits, drive circuits and bottom pixel electrodes for providing electrical signals to pixels in the corresponding tile. The method also includes coating the aligned tiles with material that produces light when activated by an electric field and forming at least one top pixel electrode over the coated material so that the coated material produces light when activated by an electric field from the electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2003
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Henry R. Freidhoff, Giana M. Phelan
  • Publication number: 20030011724
    Abstract: A tiled display may be formed by temporarily securing a plurality of modules to a substrate. Thereafter, the tiled array may be tested to insure that each module is functional. If each module is functional, the modules may be permanently secured to the substrate. If any modules are defective, they may be replaced and the tiled array may be retested.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2001
    Publication date: January 16, 2003
    Inventor: Robert C. Sundahl
  • Publication number: 20020196390
    Abstract: A stacked liquid cell, such as a stacked liquid crystal cell, comprises a stack of liquid layers and substrate layers between which the liquid layers are dispersed. The stack comprises a liquid and polymeric substrate layers made from a stratified-phase-separated composite. Being part of a stratified-phase-separated composite, in particular one manufactured in accordance with a single-substrate method, the polymeric layer may have a relative small thickness compared a conventional substrate layer which results in a stacked liquid cell having a reduced thickness or, more particular, a stacked liquid cell having a reduced thickness between subjacent liquid layers giving a reduction in parallax effects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2002
    Publication date: December 26, 2002
    Inventors: Roel Penterman, Dirk Broer
  • Patent number: 6498592
    Abstract: A tiled display structure is fabricated on a single substrate that also serves as a circuit board containing electronic components. Electrodes are formed on the substrate and the remainder of the display section is formed on the electrodes. The pixel elements use patterned display material, and occupy only a portion of the pixel structure. The electronic components are mounted on the substrate using exceptionally long leads to assist in thermal management of tiles. Alternatively, each tile includes a fin structure on the circuit board surface onto which electronic components are mounted and are not in contact with the substrate. Alternatively, each tile includes a flexible circuit board mounted on the substrate, a portion of which is bent away from the substrate. Electronic components are coupled to this portion of the flexible circuit boards such that the components are not in contact with the substrate to assist in thermal management.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2002
    Assignee: Sarnoff Corp.
    Inventor: Dennis Lee Matthies
  • Patent number: 6496238
    Abstract: The present invention features are series of techniques for designing and assembling of large, robust monolithic and monolithic-like flat panel displays. Many techniques originally developed for creating tiled, flat-panel displays having visually imperceptible seams may be advantageously applied to monolithic structures. These techniques include single-sided wiring, two-sided wiring from opposite sides, segmented row and column lines, and reordering row and column lines in fan-out region. Single-sided wiring facilitates the construction of displays with small outlines. By using these techniques, display sharpness and contrast may be improved. In addition, color and luminance balance and uniformity across the display may also be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2002
    Assignee: Rainbow Displays, Inc.
    Inventors: Raymond G. Greene, J. Peter Krusius, Donald P. Seraphim, Dean W. Skinner, Boris Yost
  • Patent number: 6487461
    Abstract: A method for aligning a plurality of thin film transistor tiles for constructing a flat panel display. A coverplate is arranged on a coverplate support. A first layer of a bonding material is applied to at least one of a first side of each of the tiles and a surface of the coverplate on which the tiles are to be secured. The tiles are arranged on the coverplate, such that the first layer of bonding material is arranged between the tiles and the coverplate. The tiles are connected to an alignment apparatus. The tiles are aligned relative to each other and the coverplate. The tiles are at least partially secured to the coverplate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael A. Gaynes, Allan O. Johnson, Ramesh R. Kodnani, Mark V. Pierson, Edward J. Tasillo
  • Patent number: 6476886
    Abstract: This invention describes fabrication techniques for producing microdisplays suitable for combining into tiled, flat-panel displays having visually imperceptible seams. Assembly techniques to overcome flatness requirements imposed by tiled, flat-panel display assemblies are also described. Edge treatment techniques for individual microdisplays while still part of the silicon die or wafer are also described. The use of these inventive techniques allows the assembly microdisplays into tiled, flat-panel that are appear visually seamless and optically uniform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: Rainbow Displays, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Peter Krusius, Donald P. Seraphim
  • Publication number: 20020154259
    Abstract: A high aperture ratio emissive tiled display comprised of a plurality of tiles including a substrate with discrete layers of integrated drive circuits, thin film transistors, circuit conductor layer and light-emitting pixel array wherein all the electronic circuitry is contained under the pixel array. Vertical interconnects are made between the drive circuits, circuits and pixel electrodes, as necessary, and can include vertical interconnections through the substrate. Large flat panel displays including at least two of said tiles are aligned to maintain pixel pitch from one tile to another to produce a seamless image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2001
    Publication date: October 24, 2002
    Applicant: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Henry R. Freidhoff, Giana M. Phelan
  • Patent number: 6469756
    Abstract: A tiled display may include subpixels that may be partially occluded by an overlaying matrix. The matrix hides the joints between adjacent tiles. The partial occlusion of one subpixel of a pixel may result in chromatic shifts and/or luminance reduction. The partially occluded subpixel may be compensated for by providing an extra light producing subpixel of the same color on the opposite side of the matrix opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2002
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Lawrence A. Booth, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6468643
    Abstract: The invention provides a laminated product of urethane-based resin. That is, the invention arranges a continuous reinforcing fiber to one direction, impregnates the arranged fiber with thermoplastic resin to form a prepreg sheet having 50% in volume ratio of the fiber, laminates two or more resulting prepreg sheets so as to intersect fiber directions at right angles or further laminate of the prepreg sheet to form a fiber-reinforced resin layer, laminates a urethane-based resin layer on the resulting fiber-reinforced resin layer, and thus provides a urethane-based resin laminated product having excellent dimensional stability and application ability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2002
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Kanbayashi, Takashi Iiyama, Hiroyuki Katayama, Tamio Kawasumi
  • Patent number: 6459462
    Abstract: There is provided an improved method for laminating the components of a tiled display such as an AMLCD tiled display. In conventional laminating processes, forces are applied to the two parallel glass plates (i.e., the cover and back plates) separated by a liquid adhesive film. The two plates are squeezed together over their entire area forcing liquid laterally out from between the glass plates and tiles until the desired spacing or gap (filled with liquid adhesive) between the cover and back plates and the tiles is obtained. However, this process may require several hours to complete for large panels and, in addition the process is susceptible to trapping air bubbles in the adhesive. Consequently, the traditional process is not well suited for the mass production of large panels. The “pseudo” rolling-like lamination process of the present invention replaces the traditional lamination process and requires significantly less time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Assignee: Rainbow Displays, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald P. Seraphim, Dean Skinner, Ho Chong Lee, Kevin G. McKenna, Christopher D. Turock
  • Patent number: 6456354
    Abstract: The present invention features designs of pixels and designs of control features for seals on AMLCD tiles optimized for tiling AMLCD flat panel displays (FPDs) which have visually imperceptible seams. The FPD structure has an image view plane which is continuous and remote from the pixel apertures or image source plane on the inside of the tiles. The image is formed on the view plane by a distributed ultra low magnification flies-eye optical system (a screen) that is integrated with the tiles, effectively excluding and obscuring an image of the seams. The innovations described herein minimize the defects on the perimeter pixels by effectively damming the waviness of the front of the seal near the perimeter pixels on the tiles. Dark space required for the seal between the interior tile edges and active regions of the pixels is decreased, as is the space allocated for wiring thereby increasing the feasible aperture ratios near the mosaic edges and all apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2002
    Assignee: Rainbow Displays, Inc.
    Inventors: Raymond G. Greene, Donald P. Seraphim, Dean W. Skinner, Boris Yost, Kohichi Miwa, Michikazu Noguchi, Shunji Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20020130987
    Abstract: A display including at least two tiles which are aligned along one edge of each tile but are spaced from each other, each tile having electric field activatable pixels which produce light, each tile including and are spaced from their aligned edge, and a back plate aligned with the two tiles and having electric field activatable pixels which are disposed so that they are positioned in the space provided between the aligned tiles whereby, when pixels on the two tiles and the back plate are activated, a seamless image is produced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2001
    Publication date: September 19, 2002
    Applicant: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Gopalan Rajeswaran, Henry R. Freidhoff, Giana M. Phelan
  • Publication number: 20020118321
    Abstract: A seamless tiled display employs active liquid crystal display (LCD) and backlight. The active matrix elements of active LCD are mounted on the inside or outside of the front plate or back plate of LCD. A thin front plate and a thin sealing wall are used to reduce the seam width of the tiled LCD. A laser cutting is used for a thin LCD sealing. A spacer added adhesive array is deposited between pixels and between front plate and back plate to guarantee the uniformity of LC cells thickness. A laser riveting is still used for making a robust plastic LCD. A reflective layer is deposited on the side wall of back plate to reflect the light emitted from the backlight and to reduce the apparent seam width. In the backlight, there can be at least one set of red, green and blue light source operated at color sequential mode to display a color image without the use of color filters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2002
    Publication date: August 29, 2002
    Inventor: Shichao Ge