Changing Position Or Orientation Of Suspended Particles Patents (Class 359/296)
  • Patent number: 11657771
    Abstract: A first substrate includes: a first base material including an insulating layer; and a partition wall disposed on the insulating layer. The insulating layer and the partition wall are formed of a resin material. The partition wall has a higher hardness than the insulating layer. A protective film that protects the insulating layer is disposed on a surface of the insulating layer. A portion of the protective film is located between the partition wall and the insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Miyata
  • Patent number: 11656524
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electrophoretic display medium. The display medium can include a substrate, an electrophoretic layer, and a network electrode. A flowable conductive material is disposed on the substrate and the electrophoretic layer is subsequently disposed into the flowable conductive material. The electrophoretic layer includes a plurality of encapsulated droplets including an internal phase and at least partially surrounded by a binder. A bottom portion of the plurality of microcapsules is embedded within the binder. The flowable conductive material is cured to create a network electrode between the plurality of encapsulated droplets and the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Richard J. Paolini, Jr., Jay William Anseth
  • Patent number: 11640097
    Abstract: A total internal reflection display includes a sub-pixel, a reflecting layer, at least one first stereoscopic electrode and a display medium layer. The sub-pixel is defined by a color filter and a black matrix disposed adjacently to the color filter. The reflecting layer is located beneath the sub-pixel. The first stereoscopic electrode is located beneath the black matrix. The width of the first stereoscopic electrode is less than the width of the black matrix. The display medium layer is located between the sub-pixel and the reflecting layer. The height of the first stereoscopic electrode is greater than half of the thickness of the display medium layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chun-Yu Lin, Kun-Cheng Tien
  • Patent number: 11640095
    Abstract: A display cover plate, a manufacturing method therefor and a display device are provided, The display cover plate includes: a substrate; and an electrochromic unit on the substrate, the electrochromic unit includes: a first electrode on the substrate; an electrochromic layer on a side of the first electrode away from the substrate; and a second electrode on a side of the electrochromic layer away from the substrate, wherein the first electrode and the second electrode are configured to generate an electric field, and the electrochromic layer allows light of different colors to pass through based on a change of the electric field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fengjuan Liu, Hongda Sun
  • Patent number: 11635640
    Abstract: A method of forming a color-changing fiber that can be incorporated into fabrics and other woven materials. The color changing fibers include an annular wall and a conductive wire axially extending through the annular wall, a core strand surrounded by the annular wall and extending axially through a central portion of the fiber, and an encapsulated electro-optic medium disposed on a surface of the core strand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Richard J. Paolini, Jr., Jay William Anseth
  • Patent number: 11635665
    Abstract: Various embodiments herein relate to electrochromic devices, methods of fabricating electrochromic devices, and apparatus for fabricating electrochromic devices. In a number of cases, the electrochromic device may be fabricated to include a particular counter electrode material. The counter electrode material may include a base anodically coloring material. The counter electrode material may further include one or more halogens. The counter electrode material may also include one or more additives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: View, Inc.
    Inventors: Anshu A. Pradhan, Robert T. Rozbicki, Dane Gillaspie, Sridhar K. Kailasam
  • Patent number: 11634895
    Abstract: Various embodiments include components (e.g., a processor in a vehicle advanced driver assistance system) configured to identify subsystems that require testing in order to verify their compliance with a safety requirement. The components may determine whether verification of compliance requires that the subsystems be tested at PON, at POFF, during runtime or a combination thereof, dynamically determine the achievable parallelism for testing the identified subsystems, dynamically determine coverage level requirements for performing or executing built in self tests (BISTs) on each identified subsystem, and perform or execute the BISTs on the subsystems at the determined level of parallel and at the determined coverage level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kiran Kumar Malipeddi, Rahul Gulati
  • Patent number: 11579477
    Abstract: An electrically controlled smart window, which includes two transparent plates arranged oppositely, a power supply component and an in-between light-adjusting area. Hereinto the light-adjusting area is divided into a matrix of light-adjusting units by pixel wall(s), and every units are closely arranged in a grid shape. To the power supply component, an electrode is connected with the pixel wall, and another is localized on the center of light-adjusting unit and did with the transparent plate. Both surface-charged liquid crystal polymer particles and conductive packing fluid are filled into the medium between the two transparent plates. According to the present disclosure, cholesteric liquid crystal polymer microparticles with specific reflection band and surface charges are used as basic reflectors, thereby achieving the significant advantages of being easy to manufacture, low cost, and stable performance, without causing interference to electromagnetic signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignees: South China Normal University, Shenzhen Guohua Optoelectronics Co., Ltd., Academy of Shenzhen Guohua Optoelectronics
    Inventors: Guofu Zhou, Hao Li, Nan Li
  • Patent number: 11567388
    Abstract: An electro-optic media includes either a plurality of microcapsules in a binder, a polymeric sheet containing sealed microcells, or droplets in a continuous polymeric phase. Each of the microcapsules, microcells, or droplets contain a dispersion that includes a plurality of charged composite particles and a suspending fluid, and the charged particles move through the suspending fluid under the influence of an electric field. The composite particles include one or more types of pigment particles that are at least partially coated with a polymeric material. Each of the binder, polymeric sheet, continuous polymeric phase, the charged composite particles, and the suspending fluid have an index of refraction, and a difference between the index of refraction of the composite particles and at least one of the binder, polymeric sheet, continuous polymeric phase, and solvent is less than or equal to 0.05 at 550 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Jin-Gyu Park, Richard J. Paolini, Jr., Peter Carsten Bailey Widger, Jillian Smith, Jay William Anseth, Craig A. Herb, George G. Harris, Mark Benjamin Romanowsky
  • Patent number: 11570408
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device including a first substrate including an organic film, a first recess and a second recess formed in the organic film, and a first projection having the organic film, a second substrate, and a sealing member located in a second area around a first area, and bonding the first substrate and the second substrate together, wherein the first substrate includes a mounting portion, the first recess and the second recess extend in the second area, a first leading end portion of the first recess is separated from a second leading end portion of the second recess, and the first projection, the first recess and the second recess overlap the sealing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Tomokazu Ishikawa, Hitomi Hasegawa, Masaru Nakakomi
  • Patent number: 11561448
    Abstract: A front plate laminate structure includes a display medium layer, a top adhesive layer, a transparent substrate, a transparent conductive film, and a color filter layer. The top adhesive layer is located on the display medium layer. The transparent substrate is located on the top adhesive layer. The transparent conductive film is located between the transparent substrate and the top adhesive layer. The transparent conductive film includes a bottom surface facing the top adhesive layer. The color filter layer is located between the transparent substrate and the display medium layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Jau-Min Ding, Po-Yuan Lo, Sheng-Long Lin, Ian French
  • Patent number: 11531235
    Abstract: A flexible display panel, a manufacturing method thereof and a display device are disclosed. The flexible display panel includes a first flexible substrate and a second flexible substrate which are cell-assembled with each other; and a liquid crystal display layer, a black matrix grid and a plurality of polymer walls which are located between the first flexible substrate and the second flexible substrate; the liquid crystal display layer is located in gaps of the plurality of polymer walls, and includes a plurality of liquid crystal pixel units arranged in an array; the plurality of liquid crystal pixel units are delimited by a projection of the black matrix grid on the liquid crystal display layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiangxiang Zou
  • Patent number: 11513415
    Abstract: A foldable electrophoretic display that is flexible and may be folded in a book-like fashion. Foldable electrophoretic display modules that can be separately manufactured and incorporated into a variety of foldable devices with differing functionality as needed by the consumer. In some embodiments, the resulting foldable electrophoretic display may include touch sensing, a front light, color, and a digitizing layer to record interactions with a stylus. In some embodiments, the display includes a color filter array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke Hashimoto, Kenji Nakazawa, Bamboo Tsai, Yung-Sheng Chang, JiaJiun Yeh, Hsintao Huang
  • Patent number: 11495784
    Abstract: A process for delineating a population of electrode structures in a web is disclosed. The web has a down-web direction, a cross-web direction, an electrochemically active layer, and an electrically conductive layer. The process includes laser machining the web in at least the cross-web direction to delineate members of the electrode structure population in the web without releasing the delineated members from the web and forming an alignment feature in the web that is adapted for locating each delineated member of the electrode structure population in the web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Enovix Operations Inc.
    Inventors: Harrold J. Rust, III, Murali Ramasubramanian, Ashok Lahiri, Bruno A. Valdes, Jeffrey Glenn Buck, Kim Lester Fortunati, Robert S. Busacca, John F. Varni, Joshua David Winans, Neal Sarswat, Gunther A. Koblmiller, Miles E. Beaven, Jeffery A. Moss, Michael E. Andres
  • Patent number: 11467454
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide an electronic paper display screen, a display device and a bonding method. The electronic paper display screen includes a substrate, the substrate including a display region and a bonding region on at least one side of the display region and adjacent to the display region, an electronic paper, the electronic paper being disposed in the display region and including an electronic ink conduction portion, the electronic ink conduction portion being at an edge of the electronic paper close to the bonding region and extending to the bonding region of the substrate, a bonding electrode disposed in the bonding region of the substrate, and a chip-on-film, the chip-on-film being electrically connected to the bonding electrode, and an end of the chip-on-film close to the display region being between the substrate and the electronic ink conduction portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mingchun Qi
  • Patent number: 11468855
    Abstract: An electrophoretic medium comprises a fluid, a first, light scattering particle (typically white) and second, third and fourth particles having three subtractive primary colors (typically magenta, cyan and yellow); at least two of these colored particles being non-light scattering. The first and second particles bear polymer coatings such that the electric field required to separate an aggregate formed by the third and the fourth particles is greater than that required to separate an aggregate formed from any other two types of particles. Methods for driving the medium to produce white, black, magenta, cyan, yellow, red, green and blue colors are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen J. Telfer, Stephen Bull, Jennifer M. Morrison, Luke M. Slominski, David Darrell Miller, Olga Vladimirova Barykina-Tassa, Christopher L. Hoogeboom, Ana L. Lattes, Lee Yezek, Brandon MacDonald, Kosta Ladavac, Craig A. Herb
  • Patent number: 11462181
    Abstract: An electrophoretic display able to operate on a reduced power supply includes a display panel and a driving circuit electrically connected to the display panel. The display panel includes a plurality of first electrophoretic particles and a plurality of second electrophoretic particles. The driving circuit is configured to provide a balance signal to the display panel during a balance period, provide a mixed signal to the display panel during a mixing period, and provide a driving signal to the display panel during a coloring period. The balance period, the mixing period, and the coloring period are sequential in time, and a preset time interval is between each of the periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: JADARD TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Lieh-Chiu Lin, Chung-Kuang Lee, Yan You
  • Patent number: 11456437
    Abstract: An electroluminescence display device having a through-hole in a display area is discussed. The electroluminescence display device can include a substrate, a through-hole, an inner dam, and a hole-trench. The substrate includes a display area where a plurality of pixels for displaying images are arranged, and a non-display area surrounding the display area. The through-hole is arranged inside the display area. The inner dam surrounds the through-hole. The hole-trench surrounds the inner dam, and is formed as the substrate is partially recessed as much as a certain thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Junggi Kim
  • Patent number: 11440838
    Abstract: Prior electrochromic devices frequently suffer from high levels of defectivity. The defects may be manifest as pin holes or spots where the electrochromic transition is impaired. This is unacceptable for many applications such as electrochromic architectural glass. Improved electrochromic devices with low defectivity can be fabricated by depositing certain layered components of the electrochromic device in a single integrated deposition system. While these layers are being deposited and/or treated on a substrate, for example a glass window, the substrate never leaves a controlled ambient environment, for example a low pressure controlled atmosphere having very low levels of particles. These layers may be deposited using physical vapor deposition. In certain embodiments, the device includes a counter electrode having an anodically coloring electrochromic material in combination with an additive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: View, Inc.
    Inventors: Anshu A. Pradhan, Robert T. Rozbicki, Dane Gillaspie, Sridhar K. Kailasam
  • Patent number: 11435606
    Abstract: Methods and controllers for driving a light-collimating film including elongated chambers of bistable electrophoretic fluids. The light-collimating films are suitable to control the amount and/or direction of light incident to a transmissive substrate. Such films may be integrated into devices, such as LCD displays, to provide a zone of privacy for a user viewing the LCD display. Because the light-collimating film is switchable, it allows a user to alter the collimation of the emitted light on demand. Because the films are bistable, they do not require additional power after they have been switched to a display state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: E INK CALIFORNIA, LLC
    Inventors: Pubudu Thilanka Galwaduge, Xiaolong Zheng, Craig Lin
  • Patent number: 11422426
    Abstract: The embodiments herein relate to electrochromic stacks, electrochromic devices, and methods and apparatus for making such stacks and devices. In various embodiments, an anodically coloring layer in an electrochromic stack or device is fabricated to include nickel-tungsten-tin-oxide (NiWSnO). This material is particularly beneficial in that it is very transparent in its clear state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: View, Inc.
    Inventors: Dane Gillaspie, Anshu A. Pradhan, Sridhar K. Kailasam
  • Patent number: 11409177
    Abstract: The embodiments herein relate to electrochromic stacks, electrochromic devices, and methods and apparatus for making such stacks and devices. In various embodiments, an anodically coloring layer in an electrochromic stack or device is fabricated to include nickel tungsten tantalum oxide (NiWTaO). This material is particularly beneficial in that it is very transparent in its clear state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: View, Inc.
    Inventors: Dane Gillaspie, Sridhar K. Kailasam, Robert T. Rozbicki
  • Patent number: 11397366
    Abstract: A switchable light-collimating film can be used as a privacy filter for computer monitors or other display devices. The film comprises a plurality of elongated chambers having pigment particles, the position of which can be controlled by the applied electric field. Distribution of the pigment particles throughout the elongated chambers, as opposed to their concentration on one side of the chambers, narrows the viewing angle to the light passing through the film and provides privacy of the viewing images to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: E INK CALIFORNIA, LLC
    Inventors: Craig Lin, Xiaolong Zheng, Yih-Ming Kang, HongMei Zang
  • Patent number: 11394004
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a flat portion and a bending portion located at a side of the flat portion, an optical film attached on the flat portion of the display panel, and a bending protection layer covering at least a part of the bending portion and contacting one edge of the optical film. The edge of the optical film includes an upper surface, a lower surface and a side surface, the lower surface of the optical film faces an upper surface of the display panel, at least a part of the side surface of the optical film contacts the bending protection layer, and at least a part of the side surface of the optical film protrudes more, as closer to the upper side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Donghwan Kim, Soonryong Park, Yunha Nam, Sumin Lee
  • Patent number: 11380274
    Abstract: A driving method for driving an electrophoretic display comprising four types of particles, the first type of particles and the third type of particles are positively charged, and the second type of particles and the fourth type of particles are negatively charged, the method comprises the steps of: (i). applying a first driving voltage to the pixel of the electrophoretic display for a first period of time at a first amplitude to drive the pixel to a color state of the fourth type of particle at the viewing side; and (ii). applying a second driving voltage to the pixel of the electrophoretic display for a second period of time, opposite to that of the first driving voltage and a second amplitude smaller than that of the first amplitude, to drive the second type particle towards the non-viewing side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: E INK CALIFORNIA, LLC
    Inventors: Shang-Chia Chen, Yajuan Chen, Craig Lin
  • Patent number: 11360016
    Abstract: An optofluidic device includes: a housing having an inlet port coupled to an inlet side and an outlet port coupled to an outlet side; and a microlens disposed within the housing between the inlet side and the outlet side. A fluid having a plurality of particles flows from the inlet side through the microlens to the outlet side. The optofluidic device further includes a light source configured to emit a light beam in a direction opposite flow direction of the fluid, the light beam defining an optical axis that is perpendicular to the microlens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Ahmet Ali Yanik, Xiangchao Zhu, Yixiang Li
  • Patent number: 11356214
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating broadcast signal frame according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a combiner configured to generate a multiplexed signal by combining a core layer signal and an enhanced layer signal; a power normalizer configured to reduce power of the multiplexed signal to a power level corresponding to the core layer signal; a time interleaver configured to generate a time-interleaved signal by performing time-interleaving that is applied to both the core layer signal and the enhanced layer signal; and a frame builder configured to generate a broadcast signal frame including a preamble for signaling start position information and size information for each of Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs). In this case, the Physical Layer Pipes include a core layer physical layer pipe corresponding to the core layer signal and an enhanced layer physical layer pipe corresponding to the enhanced layer signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jae-Young Lee, Sung-Ik Park, Sun-Hyoung Kwon, Bo-Mi Lim, Heung-Mook Kim, Nam-Ho Hur
  • Patent number: 11342400
    Abstract: A display panel and an electronic equipment are provided. By disposing a plurality of pixel driving circuit islands on a periphery of a transparent display zone, wherein each of the pixel driving circuit islands includes a plurality of first pixel driving circuits, and at least part of the first pixel driving circuits of at least part of the pixel driving circuit islands is used for driving a plurality of first display pixels of the transparent display zone, a driving circuit is not disposed on the transparent display region, thereby improving a light transmittance rate of the transparent display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Zhao, Zuomin Liao, Tao Chen
  • Patent number: 11335764
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display having at least one hole formed in a display area on which an image is displayed, and an electronic device including same. The electronic device comprises a display including the display area having a plurality of pixels and a plurality of wirings, wherein the display includes: a hole area encompassed by the display area; a plurality of first wirings extending from a first side of the display area so as to be formed at first intervals, and connected to the side opposite to the first side; second wirings extending from a second side of the display area so as to be arranged at the first intervals on the side opposite to the second side; and a plurality of third wirings extending from the first side of the display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongkoo Her, Harksang Kim, Songhee Jung, Hyunchang Shin, Byungduk Yang
  • Patent number: 11333323
    Abstract: A lamp includes a variable transmissive film and a light source arranged to transmit light through the variable transmissive film. The variable transmissive film includes an encapsulated dispersion containing a plurality of electrically charged particles and a fluid, the charged particles being movable by application of an electric field and capable of being switched between an open state and a diffusing state. In some embodiments, one portion of the variable transmission film is in the open state and one portion is in the closed state, thereby allowing light from the source to be shaped, e.g., into task lighting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Antranig Baronian, Brian D. Bean, George G. Harris
  • Patent number: 11327382
    Abstract: The embodiments herein relate to electrochromic stacks, electrochromic devices, and methods and apparatus for making such stacks and devices. In various embodiments, an anodically coloring layer in an electrochromic stack or device is fabricated to include nickel-tungsten-niobium-oxide (NiWNbO). This material is particularly beneficial in that it is very transparent in its clear state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: View, Inc.
    Inventors: Dane Gillaspie, Sridhar K. Kailasam, Robert T. Rozbicki
  • Patent number: 11322523
    Abstract: To reduce a reduction in the quality of a displayed image in portions corresponding to source lines including detour portions in a display area. Gate lines (20) and source lines (30), which intersect with each other, extend on an insulating substrate (1) so as to detour an opening area (A1). Separated portions (24) are provided as lower shielding electrodes (23) in an inner non-display area (A2) so as to be overlapped with source detour portions (31) of the source lines (30) in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keiichi Ina, Yasuyoshi Kaise
  • Patent number: 11316250
    Abstract: A chip antenna is provided. The chip antenna includes a first dielectric layer; a second dielectric layer disposed on an upper surface of the first dielectric layer; a patch antenna pattern disposed in the second dielectric layer; first and second feed vias disposed to penetrate through at least one of the first and second dielectric layers, respectively and electrically connected to a corresponding feed point among different first and second feed points of the patch antenna pattern; and first and second filters disposed between the first and second dielectric layers, respectively and electrically connected to a corresponding feed via among the first and second feed vias.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Yong An, Joong Jin Nam, Jae Yeong Kim
  • Patent number: 11317009
    Abstract: Enclosures for deep ocean or other high exterior pressure environment including a dome window with an angular measurement of between 164 and 178 degrees, a structure housing, a dome support ring, and a compliance material positioned between the dome support ring and housing are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: SEESCAN, INC.
    Inventors: Eric M. Chapman, Mark S. Olsson, Jon E. Simmons
  • Patent number: 11314098
    Abstract: A light-collimating film including elongated chambers of bistable electrophoretic fluids. The light-collimating films are suitable to control the amount and/or direction of light incident to a transmissive substrate. Such films may be integrated into devices, such as LCD displays, to provide a zone of privacy for a user viewing the LCD display. Because the light-collimating film is switchable, it allows a user to alter the collimation of the emitted light on demand. Because the films are bistable, they do not require additional power after they have been switched to a display state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: E INK CALIFORNIA, LLC
    Inventors: Xiaolong Zheng, Pubudu Thilanka Galwaduge, Craig Lin, Yih-Ming Kang, HongMei Zang, Hui Du
  • Patent number: 11248122
    Abstract: A polysiloxane-substituted quinacridone pigment is produced by a quinacridone pigment with an epoxy-terminated polysiloxane under conditions effective to cause the epoxy group on the polysiloxane to react with, and bond the polysiloxane to, the quinacridone pigment. The quinacridone pigment thus produced has the polysiloxane grouping bonded to one of the quinacridone nitrogen atoms via a hydrocarbon linking group, which bears a hydroxyl group on a carbon atom ? or ? to the quinacridone nitrogen atom. These quinacridone pigments are useful in electrophoretic displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventor: Lee Yezek
  • Patent number: 11237383
    Abstract: This disclosure describes a dimming panel and its driving method, a preparation method and a controlling device, and a controlling system. The dimming panel includes a substrate, a first transparent electrode layer and an insulating layer sequentially disposed on the substrate, and a curled structure disposed on the insulating layer. The curled structure includes a second transparent electrode layer that has a preset inherent force for curling. The second flexible electrode layer is configured to absorb or reflect light. The first transparent electrode layer and the insulating layer have groove structures that are formed corresponding to each other. The curled structure can be disposed within the groove structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wenbo Li
  • Patent number: 11237419
    Abstract: A switchable light modulator device (201, 202, 203, 204, 205) comprises a first substrate (101, 102, 103) and a second substrate (141, 142, 143, 144) with opposite major surfaces spaced apart by one or more polymer structures that each comprise two or more parts and define wall features (21b, 22b, 23b) for a plurality of cavities (111, 112, 113, 114), the cavities sealing a fluid (71, 72, 73, 74) or gel in discrete volumes. Each of the one or more polymer structures comprises a mould part (21, 22, 23) bonded to the first substrate and defining a recess (31, 32, 33), and a cast part (81, 82, 83, 84) filling the recess and bonded to the second substrate and a surface of the recess, the cast part being defined by the surface of the recess and the second substrate replicating the surfaces of both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Donal Martin O'Keeffe, Timothy O'Keeffe
  • Patent number: 11237479
    Abstract: An imprint lithography method of configuring an optical layer includes depositing a set of droplets atop a side of a substrate in a manner such that the set of droplets do not contact a functional pattern formed on the substrate. The imprint lithography method further includes curing the set of droplets to form a spacer layer associated with the side of the substrate and of a height selected such that the spacer layer can support a surface adjacent the substrate and spanning the set of droplets at a position spaced apart from the functional pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Molecular Imprints, Inc.
    Inventors: Vikramjit Singh, Michael N. Miller, Frank Y. Xu, Christopher Fleckenstein
  • Patent number: 11217768
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an organic light-emitting display panel, a method for making the same, and a display device including the same. The organic light-emitting display panel comprises an active region and a pixel spacer located within the active region, and the pixel spacer is provided with a buffer chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: YUNGU (GU'AN) TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Rusheng Liu, Bo Yuan, Genmao Huang, Lin Xu, Cuicui Sheng
  • Patent number: 11217610
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes: a first substrate; and first electrodes, a dielectric layer covering the first electrodes, and a first water-repelling layer in this sequence on the first substrate, wherein the dielectric layer has a multilayer structure including two or more layers and includes a silicon nitride film and a metal-oxide film between the silicon nitride film and the first water-repelling layer, and the silicon nitride film has an oxygen-containing surface layer region on a surface thereof that is in contact with the metal-oxide film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Hachiya, Hiroaki Furukawa, Kazuya Tsujino
  • Patent number: 11209692
    Abstract: A color filter including a substrate and colored parts formed on the substrate. The substrate has a surface having rectangular unit regions defined by evenly dividing the surface along a first direction and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. Each of the rectangular unit regions has four rectangular sub-regions which are three colored regions and one uncolored region. A first colored region has a first boundary with the uncolored region and a second boundary with a second colored region. A first colored part is formed in the first colored region with a first gap being formed in the first direction between the first boundary and a side of the first colored part facing the first boundary, and with a second gap greater than the first gap being formed in the second direction between the second boundary and a side of the first colored part facing the second boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Kobashi
  • Patent number: 11194218
    Abstract: A first substrate includes: a first base material including an insulating layer; and a partition wall disposed on the insulating layer. The insulating layer and the partition wall are formed of a resin material. The partition wall has a higher hardness than the insulating layer. A protective film that protects the insulating layer is disposed on a surface of the insulating layer. A portion of the protective film is located between the partition wall and the insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Miyata
  • Patent number: 11195480
    Abstract: There are provided display controllers and driving methods related to those described in US Published Patent Application No. 2013/0194250.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Pierre-Yves Emelie, Kenneth R. Crounse, Karl Raymond Amundson
  • Patent number: 11187958
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a scanning line, a semiconductor layer, a first inorganic insulating film located between the scanning line and the semiconductor layer, a first signal line, a second inorganic insulating film having a main surface which contacts the first signal line and located between the semiconductor layer and the first signal line, a capacitance electrode contacting the main surface, a pixel electrode overlapping the capacitance electrode, and a third inorganic insulating film covering the first signal line and the capacitance electrode and located between the first signal line and the pixel electrode and between the capacitance electrode and the pixel electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoyasu Hirano, Yoshitaka Ozeki, Koji Ishizaki, Takahiro Takeuchi, Koshiro Moriguchi
  • Patent number: 11187957
    Abstract: A light distribution control element includes a first transparent substrate, a second transparent substrate, first control electrodes and second control electrodes provided on the first transparent substrate, light-transmissive regions provided between the first transparent substrate and the second transparent substrate, and electrophoretic elements including electrophoretic particles charged to a specific polarity and having a light blocking property and optically transmissive dispersant. Each electrophoretic element is provided between two light-transmissive regions. At least a part of at least one of the first control electrodes and at least a part of at least one of the second control electrodes both overlap with each of the plurality of electrophoretic elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: TIANMA MICROELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoki Takaya, Yukihiro Ito
  • Patent number: 11175561
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electrophoretic display medium. The display medium can include a substrate, an electrophoretic layer, and a network electrode. The electrophoretic layer is disposed adjacent the top surface of the substrate. The electrophoretic layer includes a plurality of microcapsules containing an internal phase in a binder. A bottom portion of the plurality of microcapsules is embedded within the binder and a top portion of the microcapsules is emergent from the binder, thereby creating a network of valleys. The network electrode occupies at least a portion of the network of valleys.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Richard J. Paolini, Jr., Jay William Anseth
  • Patent number: 11156893
    Abstract: An electrophoretic device comprises a first electrode and a second electrode spaced apart from the first electrode, and between the electrodes an electrophoretic cell containing an electrophoretic ink and one or more non-planar solid polymer elements. The ink includes charged particles of at least one type suspended in a suspending fluid, and, 75% or more by mass of the suspending fluid is an organosilicone or an aliphatic hydrocarbon and the solid polymer is a fluorinated elastomeric polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventor: Donal O'Keeffe
  • Patent number: 11158238
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of display devices, and provides a display panel and a driving method thereof. The display panel includes: a plurality of data lines, each of the data lines including a first segment line and a second segment line, every adjacent n+1 of the data lines forming a data line group, each data line group including a first data line having a connection line and n second data lines; a DEMUX circuit including n gating control lines, each of the gating control lines being in turn connected to the first segment line of the second data lines in each data line group, and the first segment line of each of the data lines in each data line group being connected to each other; and a driving IC connected to the second segment line of each of the data lines and the DEMUX circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Everdisplay Optronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Keitaro Yamashita, Lina Xiao
  • Patent number: 11145996
    Abstract: The electrode connection structure includes: a first base material; a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer that are located on the first base material; a second base material; a first fastening member and a second fastening member; and an insulating member, wherein the first fastening member includes: a shaft portion inserted in a first through hole penetrating the first electrode layer and the insulating member; and two clamping portions that clamp a periphery of the first through hole in each of the first electrode layer and the insulating member, and the second fastening member includes: a shaft portion inserted in a second through hole penetrating the second electrode layer and the insulating member; and two clamping portions that clamp a periphery of the second through hole in each of the second electrode layer and the insulating member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Yamashita, Hiroki Eto, Hidenori Kitamura, Takumi Yamada