Light Modifier With Emission Face Combined With Light Guide Plate Patents (Class 362/606)
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Patent number: 12204137Abstract: A multiview backlight, multiview display, and method of multiview backlight operation include reflective multibeam elements configured to provide emitted light having directional light beams with directions corresponding to view directions of a multiview image. The multiview backlight includes a light guide configured to guide light and an array of the reflective multibeam elements. Each reflective multibeam element includes a plurality of reflective sub-elements and is configured to reflectively scatter out a portion of the guided light as the emitted light. The multiview display includes the multiview backlight and an array of light valves to modulate the directional light beams to provide the multiview image. Each reflective sub-element protrudes from a guiding surface of the light guide by a respective protrusion distance. At least some of the protrusion distances can vary as a function of distance along a length of the light guide.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2023Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: LEIA INC.Inventors: David A. Fattal, Thomas Hoekman, Colton Bukowsky, Ming Ma
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Patent number: 12204130Abstract: A method of making suspended lighting fixtures that includes the use of flexible sheets of optically transmissive material, LED strips, and a linear heat-dissipating structure. The method comprises providing a first flexible sheet having a first major surface, an opposing second major surface, and a first edge having a first light input surface. A pair of flexible sheets of an optically transmissive material are provided, each having an edge with a light input surface. A first LED strip and a second LED strip are provided along with a linear heat-dissipating structure having a first channel and a second channel. The LED strips are positioned within the respective channels and attached to the body of the linear heat-dissipating structure. The edges of the flexible sheets are positioned within the respective channels and in proximity to the respective LED strips. The flexible sheets may be bent to a curved shape.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2023Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: S.V.V. TECHNOLOGY INNOVATIONS, INC.Inventor: Sergiy Vasylyev
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Patent number: 12158660Abstract: An optical membrane, a backlight module and a display device are disclosed. The optical membrane includes a membrane body and at least two lugs, and the lugs are connected to two opposite sides of the membrane body and form an integral structure with the membrane body. Grooves are provided in connection lines between the lugs and the membrane body, and the grooves extend along the connection lines.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2021Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignees: Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Haifeng Xu, Kaiwen Wang
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Patent number: 12153243Abstract: A light source module includes a light source and a light guide plate. The light guide plate has a light entrance surface, a light exit surface, and a bottom surface. The light entrance surface faces the light source and is located between the light exit surface and the bottom surface. The bottom surface is opposite to the light exit surface and has a plurality of microstructures. The microstructures are a plurality of ridge-shaped microstructures formed in the light guide plate. Each of the microstructures includes a light-facing surface, and a first included angle between the light-facing surface and the bottom surface is 30 degrees to 70 degrees.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2023Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Chun-Ting Lin, Yi-Hsiang Huang, Hung Tsou
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Patent number: 12147118Abstract: A planar illumination device of an embodiment includes substrates, a reflector plate, and a plurality of optical sheets. The substrates are provided with a plurality of light sources and have a planar shape or a curved shape. The reflector plate is disposed on the substrates and has reflection surfaces surrounding the light sources. The plurality of optical sheets is disposed at the emission side of the reflector plate. The reflector plate includes flat parts on one side of a frame of the reflector plate. The optical sheets include respective a fixing region. The fixing region of the optical sheets is fixed to the flat parts. The flat parts on the side are sandwiched between both sides respectively provided with a pin protruding in a thickness direction. The optical sheets are provided with holes at positions corresponding to the pins to engage with the pins.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.Inventor: Kazuki Ohto
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Patent number: 12147121Abstract: A backlight module includes a light-emitting element, a quantum dot film, an optical film and a light adjusting element. The light-emitting element is adapted to emit a blue light. The quantum dot film is adapted to converting a first portion and a second portion of the blue light into a red light and a green light, respectively. The optical film is disposed on the quantum dot film. The light adjusting element is disposed between the optical film and the quantum dot film. The light adjusting element has a first surface and a second surface respectively facing the quantum dot film and the optical film. The first surface has multiple first optical microstructures. The first optical microstructures include multiple cones protruding toward the quantum dot film. Moreover, a display apparatus including the backlight module is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignees: Nano Precision (SuZhou) CO., LTD., Coretronic CorporationInventors: Wen-Yen Chiu, Chao-Hung Weng, Ming-Dah Liu, Hsin-Wei Chen, Yue-Feng Yang
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Patent number: 12135473Abstract: The display device includes a display panel and a backlight module on the display panel. The backlight module includes light guide plate having a light incident surface, a light emitting surface facing the display panel and a reflection surface. Two sides of the light incident surface connect the light emitting surface and the reflection surface respectively. The reflection surface includes a first periphery light guide region, a second periphery light guide region, and a middle light guide region between the first periphery light guide region and the second periphery light guide region. The first periphery light guide region includes first microstructures. The second periphery light guide region includes second microstructures. The first microstructures have first light guide inclined surfaces inclined towards the second periphery light guide region. The second microstructures have second light guide inclined surfaces inclined towards the first periphery light guide region.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2023Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: Qisda CorporationInventors: Chang-Min Shao, Chien-Hao Kao, Chih-Chun Chang, Jyun-Sheng Syu
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Patent number: 12124074Abstract: A light guiding plate (LGP) made of transparent material. The LGP has a side surface configured to enable light to enter the LGP. A top surface of the LGP has light-scattering imperfections and is configured to reflect light in the LGP downward. A bottom surface of the LGP is concave and configured to enable light in the LGP to leave the LGP.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2023Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Inventor: Tiejun Wang
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Patent number: 12124070Abstract: According to examples, a phase plate may include a transparent substrate and a photopolymer layer attached to the transparent substrate. The photopolymer layer may adjust a backlight via a phase adjustment and focusing. The phase plate may focus a plurality of red, green, and blue components of the backlight onto respective red, green, and blue subpixels of a thin-film-transistor (TFT) layer deposited thereon. A distance between the photopolymer layer of the phase plate and the plurality of red, green, and blue subpixels of the thin-film-transistor (TFT) layer may be in a range from about 200 ?m to about 500 ?m. In some examples, the phase plate may be part of a liquid crystal display (LCD) apparatus along with a red, green, blue (RGB) laser to provide backlight; a grating light guide to transmit the backlight; and a liquid crystal display (LCD) layer on the thin-film-transistor (TFT) layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2023Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Jian Xu, Xingzhou Tu, Ying Geng, Jacques Gollier
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Patent number: 12117692Abstract: A display module includes a backlight module and a display panel. The display panel is located at a light-emitting direction of the backlight module. The backlight module is provided with a through hole penetrating through the backlight module along a thickness direction of the backlight module, and has first region and a second region surrounding the first region. The first region surrounds the through hole. The backlight module includes a back plate and light-emitting elements arranged on a side of the back plate facing the display panel. The light-emitting elements include first light-emitting elements located in the first region and second light-emitting elements located in the second region. The first light-emitting elements are arranged around the through hole; and an arrangement density of the first light-emitting elements is larger than an arrangement density of the second light-emitting elements.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2023Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ruxing Chen, Yaozuo Ke
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Patent number: 12111489Abstract: A multibeam backlight and multiview display employ a filling fraction of a diffraction grating to control diffractive scattering efficiency. The multibeam backlight includes a light guide configured to guide light and a plurality of multibeam elements, a multibeam element of the multibeam element plurality including a diffraction grating. The multibeam element is configured to diffractively scatter a portion of the guided light out of the light guide as directional light beams having different directions corresponding to different view directions of a multiview display. A filling fraction of diffractive features within the diffraction grating is configured to control a diffractive scattering efficiency of the multibeam element. The multiview display further includes an array of light valves configured to modulate the directional light beams to provide a multiview image. The filling fraction may be a ratio of diffractive features to filling features within the diffraction grating.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2022Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: LEIA Inc.Inventors: David A. Fattal, Joseph D. Lowney
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Patent number: 12078840Abstract: A backlight module includes a light-shielding plate, a light guide plate, a first light-emitting element, and a second light-emitting element. The light-shielding plate has a first light transmissive portion. The light guide plate has a first light-emitting dotting area. The first light-emitting dotting area includes a plurality of first dots unevenly distributed within a range of the first light-emitting dotting area. The first light-emitting element and the second light-emitting element emit light toward the first light-emitting dotting area. The light guide plate has a light-emitting surface in a generally rectangular shape. The light guide plate has a first long axis direction extended parallel to a long side on the light-emitting surface. The first light-emitting element has a second long axis direction. An angle between the first long axis direction and the second long axis direction is an acute angle.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2023Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Chicony Power Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chen-Hao Chiu, Chien-Hsun Kao
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Patent number: 12078816Abstract: A grating collimator and backlight system provide collimated light to illuminate a backlight. The grating collimator includes a light guide configured to guide light as guided light and a light-recycling light source configured to provide light to the light guide and to recycle light received from the light guide. The grating collimator further includes a diffraction grating coupler configured to diffractively redirect the provided light into the light guide as the guided light. The backlight system includes the grating collimator configured to provide collimated output light and the backlight configured to receive the collimated output light. The backlight may be multiview backlight.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2021Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: LEIA Inc.Inventors: Xuejian Li, Ming Ma, David A. Fattal
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Patent number: 12066652Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a function display for selectively displaying several symbols representing one switching function, respectively, and/or at least two switching states, including a light guide stack which forms a display surface facing towards an observer; wherein the light guide stack is formed from at least planar light guides arranged in an overlaid manner in a stacking direction, which are arranged so as to be spaced apart by a transparent or translucent layer; at least one light source per light guide wherein, further, at least one microstructured symbol area in or on the light guide which is configured, if the light source is activated, to be visible to the observer; a circuit board on which the several light sources are arranged and fixed; a panel fixed to the light guide stack to which the circuit board is fixed while resting against a mounting surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Preh GmbHInventors: Wolfgang Schustek, Michael Benkert
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Patent number: 12044879Abstract: A light guide plate, a backlight module and a display device are provided. The light guide plate is configured to be coupled to a light source. The light guide plate includes a light-emitting surface, a bottom surface, a light-incident surface, plural stripe-shaped microstructures and plural light guiding microstructures. The bottom surface is opposite to the light-emitting surface. The light-incident surface is connected between the light-emitting surface and the bottom surface. The stripe-shaped microstructures are disposed on the at least one of the light-emitting surface and the bottom surface, and each of the stripe-shaped microstructures has two opposing side surfaces and an active surface. The side surfaces are respectively connected to two opposite sides of the active surface. The light-guiding microstructures are disposed between any adjacent two of the stripe-shaped microstructures and arranged along an extending direction of each of the stripe-shaped microstructures.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2022Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: Radiant Opto-Electronics CorporationInventors: Hao Chen, Chin-Ting Weng, Chia-Yin Chang, Feng-Nien Tsai
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Patent number: 12013565Abstract: An illuminated keyboard includes a membrane circuit board, a base plate, a key structure, a backlight module and a first reflective layer. The base plate is disposed beneath the membrane circuit board and has a first through hole and a plurality of second through holes adjacent to the first through hole. The key structure is disposed over the membrane circuit board and includes an elastic member. The backlight module is disposed beneath the base plate. The backlight module includes: a direct-type light-emitting element, substantially aligned with the first through hole and misaligned with a trigger portion of the elastic member; and a light guide plate, laterally adjacent to the direct-type light-emitting element. The first reflective layer is disposed over, beneath, or over and beneath the membrane circuit board and is substantially aligned with the first through hole.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2023Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: PRIMAX ELECTRONICS LTD.Inventors: Ding-Hsiang Pan, Hui-Ling Lin
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Patent number: 12010896Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display device and a manufacturing method thereof. The display device includes an imaging area and a display area on at least one side of the imaging area. The imaging area includes: a substrate; an image collection device on a side of the substrate, the image collection device including a photosensitive element and an optical element; a light blocking layer on a side of the substrate away from the image collection device, wherein the light blocking layer includes at least one of a light absorbing layer or a diffuse reflection layer, and the light blocking layer is provided with a first gap; and a plurality of first electrodes on a side of the light blocking layer away from the substrate, wherein a second gap is provided between two adjacent first electrodes of the plurality of first electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2021Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Bo Shi, Weiyun Huang, Benlian Wang, Haigang Qing
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Patent number: 12001046Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a light-emitting element, a light guide member surrounding the light-emitting element, a diffuser plate located on the light-emitting element and on the light guide member, and a metal pattern located at an upper surface of the diffuser plate. The diffuser plate contacts the light-emitting element and diffuses light emitted from the light-emitting element. A proportion of a region of the upper surface of the diffuser plate where the metal pattern is not located increases as a distance from the light-emitting element increases.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2021Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventor: Keiji Emura
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Patent number: 11947220Abstract: A quantum dot light guide module includes a transparent substrate and a transparent cover plate. The transparent substrate has a first groove, an inner wall of the first groove is a rough surface, and the first groove is provided with a quantum dot layer formed by curing a quantum dot paste. The transparent cover plate covers on a surface of the transparent substrate where the first groove is configured, a sealing adhesive layer is provided between the transparent cover plate and the transparent substrate, and the transparent cover plate is connected with the transparent substrate through the sealing adhesive layer and covered the first groove. In such a way, water vapor and oxygen are effectively isolated and the failure problem of the quantum dot layer is avoided, and the quantum dot layer is distributed uniformly in the first groove.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SHENZHEN YUNMIXIN DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Chong Xiong, Chang'ao Liu
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Patent number: 11934002Abstract: An optical system including a light-guide optical element (LOE) with first and second sets (204, 206) of mutually-parallel, partially-reflecting surfaces at different orientations. Both sets of partially-reflecting surfaces are located between parallel major external surfaces. A third set of at least partially-reflecting surfaces (202), deployed at the coupling-in region, receive image illumination injected from a projector (2) with an optical aperture having a first in-plane width and direct the image illumination via reflection of at least part of the image illumination at the third set of at least partially-reflective facets towards the first set of partially-reflective facets with an effective optical aperture having a second width larger than the first width.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2023Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Lumus Ltd.Inventors: Yochay Danziger, Ronen Chriki, Jonathan Gelberg
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Patent number: 11880058Abstract: A side-type backlight module includes a light guide plate and a reverse prism sheet that are stacked. The reverse prism sheet includes a first prism. A surface of the first prism proximate to the light guide plate includes a plurality of prism structures substantially parallel to each other. Each prism structure protrudes toward a direction approaching the light guide plate. A surface of the light guide plate proximate to the reverse prism sheet includes a plurality of strip-shaped microstructures substantially parallel to each other. Each strip-shaped microstructure protrudes toward a direction approaching the reverse prism sheet. An extending direction of the prism structure crosses an extending direction of the strip-shaped microstructure.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Pengfei Cheng, Jingfu Tao, Lu Yu, Kangle Chang, Jinzhao Zhou, Jian Sang, Heling Zhu, Yinwei Chen
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Patent number: 11867912Abstract: This disclosure provides various examples and methods of manufacturing metasurface couplers, including slanted grating metasurface couplers characterized by a plurality of parallel, elongated angled ridges. In some examples, a transmission-mode metasurface coupler with a slanted grating is used to couple optical radiation into a waveguide. In some examples, a reflection-mode metasurface coupler with a slanted grating and reflective layer is used to couple optical radiation into a waveguide.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2023Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Inventors: Gregory Kress, Abdoulaye Ndao, Arindom Datta
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Patent number: 11864415Abstract: Provided are a display panel and a preparation method thereof, and a display apparatus. The display panel includes a first display region, and the first display region includes multiple sub-display regions and a first light transmittance region located between adjacent sub-display regions. Each first sub-display region of the multiple sub-display regions includes a first light-emitting element and a first filter unit disposed in a first light-emergence direction of the first light-emitting element. Each second sub-display region in the multiple sub-display regions includes a first collimating light extraction element disposed in a second light-emergence direction of the first light-emitting element and a second filter unit disposed in a light-emergence direction of the first collimating light extraction element.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wenqu Liu, Feng Zhang, Qi Yao, Zhao Cui, Xiaoxin Song, Zhijun Lv, Dongfei Hou, Detian Meng, Liwen Dong, Libo Wang, Yang Yue, Haitao Huang, Chuanxiang Xu
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Patent number: 11860403Abstract: A backlight module and a display device are provided. The backlight module includes: an optical film including a body portion and a peripheral portion surrounding the body portion, the peripheral portion including a lug structure; and a middle frame arranged at a side where a light-entering surface of the optical film is located and at least including a first portion and a second portion, the first portion being arranged proximate to the peripheral portion of the optical film, the second portion being arranged at a side of the first portion distal to the optical film, the first portion including an inner surface facing an interior of the backlight module and an outer surface opposite to the inner surface. A groove is formed in the first portion and extends from the inner surface to the outer surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Inventor: Changjia Fu
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Patent number: 11852303Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to realize a lighting device of small light distribution angle and less leakage light and further to realize a lighting device in which the light beam is easy to control. The following is an example of the structure to meet the above purpose. A lighting device including: a light guide; LEDs set at a side surface of the light guide; a prism sheet set on a major surface of the light guide, in which a first louver which extends in a first direction and, a second louver which extends in an orthogonal direction to the first direction are superposed on the prism sheet.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2023Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.Inventors: Makoto Hasegawa, Takeo Koito, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Masafumi Okada
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Patent number: 11846796Abstract: A backlight module includes a glass substrate, a light-outputting sheet, a light guide plate, and a reflective sheet. The light-outputting sheet is disposed under the glass substrate and has a light-outputting region and a light-shielding region. The light-outputting region is disposed corresponding to the glass substrate. The light-shielding region is disposed corresponding to an outer periphery of the glass substrate. The light guide plate is disposed under the light-outputting sheet and has a light guide region and a light mixing region. The light guide region is disposed corresponding to the light-outputting region. The light mixing region is configured to receive light of a light-emitting element and guide the light to the light guide region. The light leaves the light guide region and then sequentially propagates through the light-outputting region and the glass substrate. The reflective sheet is disposed under the light guide plate.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Chicony Power Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hsuan-Wei Ho, Chun-Ming Huang, Chen-Hao Chiu
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Patent number: 11835723Abstract: An optical device may include a wedge-shaped light turning element. The optical device can include a first surface that is parallel to a horizontal axis and a second surface opposite to the first surface that is inclined with respect to the horizontal axis by a wedge angle. The optical device may include a light module that includes a plurality of light emitters. The light module can be configured to combine light for the plurality of emitters. The optical device can further include a light input surface that is between the first and the second surfaces and is disposed with respect to the light module to receive light emitted from the plurality of emitters. The optical device may include an end reflector that is disposed on a side opposite the light input surface. The second surface may be inclined such that a height of the light input surface is less than a height of the side opposite the light input surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventors: Hui-Chuan Cheng, Hyunsun Chung, Jahja I. Trisnadi, Clinton Carlisle, Kevin Richard Curtis, Chulwoo Oh
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Patent number: 11821605Abstract: A ceiling lamp includes a housing, a bottom plate, an atmosphere lamp light-transmitting plate, a first aluminum substrate, and a second aluminum substrate. The housing and the bottom plate are fixedly connected to form a mounting groove. The atmosphere lamp light-transmitting plate is fixedly mounted in the mounting groove, and the first aluminum substrate and the second aluminum substrate are fixedly mounted on the bottom plate. The first aluminum substrate is sleeved outside the second aluminum substrate, and the atmosphere lamp light-transmitting plate is sleeved on the first aluminum substrate.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2022Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: LIONWAY ELECTRONICS CO., LIMITEDInventor: Zhengjian Tan
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Patent number: 11796155Abstract: There are provided a backlight assembly (1) and a display device, the backlight assembly (1) includes a light source substrate (10), a microstructure film layer (30) and a backlight film material layer (20); the backlight film material layer (20) is located on a light outgoing side of the light source substrate (10), the microstructure film layer (30) is provided between the light source substrate (10) and the backlight film material layer (20), the microstructure film layer (30) includes a light transmission layer (301) and a microstructure region (302); the microstructure region (302) is provided at an edge position of the microstructure film layer (30).Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignees: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Jianfeng Yao, Qiuli Wang, Lei Chen, Zhiqiang Wang, Xin Ma, Chuan Sun, Xinyu Wang, Dingyang Tan
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Patent number: 11789308Abstract: A module structure and a display device are disclosed. The module structure includes a backlight sheet, a display screen, and a glass cover which are stacked, and further includes a light guide plate, LED lights, and a flexible circuit board disposed between the display screen and the glass cover, the LED lights are located on a side of the light guide plate facing away from a display area, and the LED lights are electrically connected to the flexible circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignees: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Boning Wang, Jian Ren, Xiaoping Zhang, Site Cai, Yangli Zheng, Hang Xia, Huaxu Yang, Naiqi Men, Yaodong Wang, Luo Zhang, Mang Fu
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Patent number: 11773642Abstract: A light transmitting panel assembly includes a first panel, a second panel, a frame, a gap between the first panel and the second panel, and a first active component located between the first panel and the second panel.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Clarisse Mazuir, Marcelo B. da Silveira Magalhaes, Peter F. Masschelein, Gregory A. Cohoon, Derek C. Scott, David E. Kingman
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Patent number: 11774668Abstract: A light-emitting module includes a light guide plate, a light-emitting element, a first reflection layer and a second reflection layer. The light guide plate has a light incident surface, a light exit surface, a first surface, and a second surface. The light incident surface has three edges connected sequentially. The first surface, the light exit surface, and the second surface are connected to the edges respectively. The first surface and the second surface are respectively located on opposite sides of the light guide plate. The light exit surface extends away from the light incident surface and is elongated. The light-emitting element is configured to emit light toward the light incident surface. The first reflection layer is disposed corresponding to the first surface to cover the first surface. The second reflection layer is disposed corresponding to the second surface to cover the second surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2023Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Chicony Power Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hsuan-Wei Ho, Ting-Wei Chang
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Patent number: 11740493Abstract: The invention is notably directed to a transflective display device. The device comprises a set of pixels, wherein each of the pixels comprises a portion of bi-stable, phase change material, hereafter a PCM portion, having at least two reversibly switchable states, in which it has two different values of refractive index and/or optical absorption. The device further comprises one or more spacers, optically transmissive, and extending under PCM portions of the set of pixels. One or more reflectors extend under the one or more spacers. An energization structure is in thermal or electrical communication with the PCM portions, via the one or more spacers. Moreover, a display controller is configured to selectively energize, via the energization structure, PCM portions of the pixels, so as to reversibly switch a state of a PCM portion of any of the pixels from one of its reversibly switchable states to the other.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2022Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: E Ink CorporationInventors: Harish Bhaskaran, Peiman Hosseini, Ben Broughton
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Patent number: 11742957Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure include equipment and process schemes for using a glass panel of a vehicle as a high-speed optical interconnect. An exemplary method can include forming a first insert in a first region of a glass panel of a vehicle and a second insert in a second region of the glass panel. A light emitter can be placed on a surface of the first insert. A light receiver can be placed on a surface of the second insert. The method can include injecting, by the light emitter, light into the first insert. The method can include receiving, by the light receiver, the light at the surface of the second insert.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2022Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventor: Thiago Laserra Lima
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Patent number: 11727891Abstract: In various embodiments, an apparatus comprises a composite backplane that modulates light from a light source, where the composite backplane comprises an electronics layer disposed on a substrate, a photonics integrated circuit (IC) layer disposed on the electronics layer that causes light from the light source to propagate in a first direction, and an active light modulation (ALM) interface layer disposed on the photonics IC layer controls an ALM interface layer in order to control the light propagating in the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Zhimin Shi, James Ronald Bonar, Fenglin Peng, Ying Geng
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Patent number: 11703629Abstract: A light guide structure for a backlight module is provided. A light source of the backlight module emits a light beam. The light beam is guided by the light guide structure. The light guide structure includes a plate body and a light-shielding layer. The plate body includes a light-transmissible plate, a light-guiding plate and a reflecting plate. The light-guiding plate has a lateral surface. The light-transmissible plate has a light-transmissible plate lateral surface. The reflecting plate has a reflecting plate lateral surface. The lateral surface of the light-guiding plate, the light-transmissible plate lateral surface and the reflecting plate lateral surface are collaboratively formed as a plate body lateral surface. The plate body lateral surface is covered by the light-shielding layer. The light beam from the light source is blocked by the light-shielding layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2022Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: PRIMAX ELECTRONICS LTD.Inventors: Wei-Ping Chan, Wei-Chiang Huang, Hung-Wei Kuo
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Patent number: 11693170Abstract: In a projection display system, a light-emitting diode (LED) can generate unpolarized light. A light guide can receive the unpolarized light from a perimeter of the light guide and guide the unpolarized light between a light emission surface and an opposing surface as guided light. The light guide can include a plurality of light-extraction features that can direct a portion of the guided light out of the light guide through the light emission surface as unpolarized emitted light. A polarizing film can reflect at least some of a first polarization state of the unpolarized emitted light into the light guide through the light emission surface and can transmit at least some of a second polarization state of the unpolarized emitted light through the polarizing film to form a polarized light beam. An angular reduction film can reduce a range of propagation angles of the polarized light beam.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Lumileds LLCInventor: Frederic Stephane Diana
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Patent number: 11681090Abstract: A light emitting module includes a light guide plate including a first face, a second face opposing the first face, and a through part penetrating between the first face and the second face, a light emitting device disposed in the through part on a second face side, a light transmissive member disposed on the light emitting device in the through hole on a first face side and between the light emitting device and a lateral wall of the through part, and a first light reflecting member disposed between an upper face of the light emitting device and the light transmissive member while being in contact with the upper face of the light emitting device.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2020Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventor: Tadao Hayashi
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Patent number: 11668971Abstract: The present invention provides a backlight and a display apparatus. The backlight comprises a substrate and at least one light source. The substrate has a first surface and a second surface along a thickness direction of the substrate. The first surface and the second surface are both continuous. The first surface has at least one light incident surface in the edge area. A light source is opposed to or in contact with the light incident surface to provide the substrate with light through the light incident surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2020Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Bingkun Yin, Guanghui Liu
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Patent number: 11662654Abstract: An illumination system for providing an illumination light beam is provided, which includes a light-source module, a scattering element and a light uniforming element. The light-source module emits an illumination light beam. The scattering element is between the light-source module and the light uniforming element, and has multiple scattering areas with different haze values. A haze value of a first scattering area that is close to a center of the scattering element is greater than a haze value of a second scattering area that is remote from the center. A projection device is also provided. A scattering element of the invention has multiple scattering areas with different haze values, and a haze value of one that is close to a center of the scattering element is greater than a haze value of the other that is remote from the center, thereby increasing light energy utilization.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: Coretronic CorporationInventors: Sheng-Chiang Lin, Chen-Wei Fan
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Patent number: 11662625Abstract: A transparent display device and a backlight module are provided. The transparent display device includes: a scattered display panel including a display side; a first base substrate on a side of the scattered display panel facing away from the display side; a light source on a side of the first base substrate; and a dot-array structure between the scattered display panel and the first base substrate. The first base substrate includes a light incident surface and a light emitting surface. The dot-array structure includes a plurality of protrusions, and orthographic projections of the plurality of protrusions on the light emitting surface are distributed in an array. An orthographic projection of each protrusion on a first plane is in an inverted trapezoidal shape in a direction from the first base substrate to the scattered display panel.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Yidan Peng, Long Wang, Nanfang Jia, Zhiliang Wang
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Patent number: 11655944Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to realize a lighting device of small light distribution angle and less leakage light and further to realize a lighting device in which the light beam is easy to control. The following is an example of the structure to meet the above purpose. A lighting device including: a light guide; LEDs set at a side surface of the light guide; a prism sheet set on a major surface of the light guide, in which a first louver which extends in a first direction and, a second louver which extends in an orthogonal direction to the first direction are superposed on the prism sheet.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2022Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.Inventors: Makoto Hasegawa, Takeo Koito, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Masafumi Okada
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Patent number: 11659761Abstract: A display panel comprises a substrate including a plurality of polymer layers, an inorganic interlayer insulating film, and a semiconductor layer between the plurality of polymer layers and a panel array over the substrate. The semiconductor layer within a substrate may ground electric charges entered from the outside through the semiconductor layer. Thus, the display panel protects an array provided on the substrate and improves the reliability of the display device.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jae-Young Oh, Sung-Ki Kim, Chang-Hyun Song, Hyo-Jae Lee
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Patent number: 11656489Abstract: A mold frame includes a bottom frame, a side frame and at least one position-limiting structure. The bottom frame has an opening. The side frame is disposed on a periphery of the bottom frame. The at least one position-limiting structure is disposed on a first inner side wall of the side frame. The position-limiting structure has a first side wall that is in direct contact with the first inner side wall of the side frame, and a second side wall opposite to the first side wall. The second side wall includes two surfaces that are arranged along a thickness direction of the bottom frame, and the two surfaces are connected. At least one of the two surfaces is inclined with respect to the first side wall, and a first angle, facing the first side wall, between two planes where the two surfaces are located is an obtuse angle.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Hanyan Sun, Hui Zheng, Xiaohu Li, Minghui Zhang, Inho Park
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Patent number: 11635656Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a backlight module and a display apparatus. A microprism film layer is further arranged on a light emitting side of a light guide plate, and the microprism film layer is located in a range of a preset distance by which the light guide plate extends from a side close to a light source to a side away from the light source; and the microprism film layer includes a plurality of first microprism structures, and the first microprism structures are configured to make an incident angle of light at a first interface when entering the first microprism structures greater than an emitting angle of the light at the first interface when exiting from the first microprism structures when the light in the light guide plate enters the first microprism structures from the light guide plate and then enters the light guide plate from the first microprism structures.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Qiuli Wang, Lei Chen, Zhiqiang Wang, Xin Ma, Chuan Sun, Jianfeng Yao, Xinyu Wang, Dingyang Tan
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Patent number: 11609452Abstract: A direct-type backlight module and a display are provided. The direct-type backlight module includes: a back plate, an optical assembly, and a middle frame arranged on a front face of the back plate and located at a periphery of the optical assembly. The direct-type backlight module further includes: a thermally conductive pad and a Mini LED lamp panel arranged between the back plate and the optical assembly; and a plurality of core modules disposed at a back of the back plate, wherein the back plate has a plurality of pillars arranged, and the pillars separate the core modules from the back plate.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2019Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Shenzhen TCL New Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yifeng Lin
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Patent number: 11567411Abstract: A device (100) includes a light source (130) and a light guide (110). The light source (130) is configured to emit photoresist-curative electromagnetic radiation. The light guide (110) is arranged to receive the photoresist-curative electromagnetic radiation from the light source (130) and to guide the received radiation by total internal reflection, the light guide (110) including a pattern of emission points (210) on at least one surface of the light guide (110), the emission points (210) emitting the photoresist-curative electromagnetic radiation out of the light guide (110) by frustration of total internal reflection caused by the emission points (210).Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2019Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: NANOPATH, INC.Inventor: Kevin Donahue
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Patent number: 11561382Abstract: A lighting device for an imaging optical device such as a microscope is provided. The lighting device illuminates an object to be analyzed in an imaging optical device for microscopic analysis in at least two different contrasting techniques. The lighting device has light sources for the illumination, where the light sources are associated with a contrasting technique are controllable independently from each other.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2020Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: SCHOTT AGInventor: Theis Stüven
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Patent number: 11550211Abstract: An illumination system includes a light source, a wavelength conversion element and a light guide column. The light source provides an excitation beam. The wavelength conversion element has a wavelength conversion portion for converting the excitation beam into a converted beam. The light guide column is disposed between the light source and the wavelength conversion element and located on a transmission path of the excitation beam. The light guide column has a first end, a second end opposite to the first end, a third end and a fourth end opposite to the third end. The third and fourth ends respectively face the light source and the wavelength conversion element. The third end receives the excitation beam. The excitation beam exits the first or fourth end, and the converted beam enters the light guide column through the fourth end and exits the first end. A projection device is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Coretronic CorporationInventor: Chen-Wei Fan
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Patent number: 11543576Abstract: An alarm indicator (4) is provided with a light guiding member (41), a first light source (42) and a transmissive member (43). The light guiding member (41) extends in a first direction that is parallel to a display screen in which medical information is displayed. The first light source (42) faces an end face (41a) of the light guiding member (41) in the first direction. The transmissive member (43) covers the light guiding member (41) from a second direction intersecting with the first direction. The light guiding member (41) is provided with a light reflecting portion and an outer face (41d). The light reflecting portion extends in the first direction and reflects the light incident from the end face (41a) at least toward the second direction intersecting with the first direction. The light reflected by the reflecting portion is emitted from the outer face (41d) while being diffused.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2018Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuya Kamimura, Kazunori Yoshifuku, Masaya Higuchi, Takahiro Hasegawa