Optical Element Produced Patents (Class 427/162)
  • Publication number: 20150092170
    Abstract: A method for repairing a collector for an EUV projection exposure apparatus having a first coating and a second coating, wherein the first coating is arranged between the second coating and a surface of the collector. The method includes completely or partly removing the first coating by treatment with a first chemical solution, and applying a new first coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Oli Ehrler, Uwe Meier, Alexander Uhl, Holger Kierey
  • Patent number: 8995042
    Abstract: An electrochromic thin film, an electrochromic device, and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. The electrochromic device comprises: a first substrate and a second substrate provided opposite to each other, a first transparent electrically-conductive layer provided on the inner side of the first substrate, a second transparent electrically-conductive layer provided on the inner side of the second substrate, an organic-inorganic electrochromic thin film provided between the first transparent electrically-conductive layer and the second transparent electrically-conductive layer. The organic-inorganic electrochromic thin film is obtained by forming a mesh-like microsphere-film on the first transparent electrically-conductive layer; forming an inorganic electrochromic film in the voids of the microsphere-film and removing the microsphere-film; and making the inorganic electrochromic film and an organic electrochromic solution undergo a polymerization reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Boe Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yue Shi
  • Patent number: 8993046
    Abstract: An image sensor is provided. The image sensor includes a pixel sensor, a color filter array comprising a plurality of color filters formed on the pixel sensor, wherein two adjacent color filters have a gap therebetween, and a gapless microlens array comprising a plurality of microlenses formed on the color filter array. The invention also provides a method for fabricating the image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: VisEra Technologies Company Limited
    Inventor: Po-Shuo Chen
  • Publication number: 20150086728
    Abstract: A light guide plate includes a first transparent base layer, an adhesive layer and a transparent composite layer. The adhesive layer is configured for bonding the transparent composite layer on the first transparent base layer. The transparent composite layer is located on the adhesive layer, and the transparent composite layer comprising a light emitting surface, the light emitting surface includes a plurality of microstructures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventor: PO-CHOU CHEN
  • Publication number: 20150086799
    Abstract: An organic polymer solution may include about 0.1%-30% by weight of a specific polymer having rigid rod-like molecules. These molecules may include various cores, spacers, and sides groups to ensure their solubility, viscosity, and cross-linking ability. The rigid rod-like molecules are selected in such a way that they form self-assembling structures in the polymer solution, which makes it a lyotropic liquid crystal. The organic polymer solution, when properly deposited on a substrate and dried to remove solvents, forms a solid optical retardation layer of positive A-type substantially transparent to electromagnetic radiation in the visible spectral range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: LIGHT POLYMERS HOLDING
    Inventors: Irina Kasyanova, Evgeni Poliakov, Valery Kuzmin, Mary Parent
  • Publication number: 20150085522
    Abstract: A backlight assembly includes a first light source part including a plurality of first light sources configured to generate light having a first color and a plurality of second light sources configured to generate light having a second color different from the first color, and a light guiding plate including a first incident surface and an exiting surface adjacent to the first incident surface. The exiting surface is configured to allow the light to pass therethrough. The exiting surface includes a first peripheral portion configured to absorb the light having the second color and a central portion adjacent to the first peripheral portion and configured to allow the light to pass therethrough. The first and second light sources are alternately located.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-Deok Im, Jong-Hyuk Kang, Jung-Hyun Kwon, Hae-Il Park, Hyun-Min Cho, Oleg Prudnikov, Jae-Byung Park, Dong-Hoon Lee
  • Publication number: 20150085240
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a display substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The display substrate includes a display region and a sealant coating region provided outside the display region, and the sealant coating region is provided with a groove to limit a sealant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Hongyan Xing, Hao Wu, Yanyan Yin
  • Publication number: 20150086761
    Abstract: Provided is a method of fabricating a light functional substrate. The method includes applying particles onto a surface of water contained in a container to form a monolayer constituted by the particles, immersing a substrate into the container, drawing the substrate out of the container to form patterns constituted by the particles on the substrate in a first direction, and forming a planarization film covering the patterns on the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jaehyun MOON, Seung Koo PARK, Doo-Hee CHO, Jin Wook SHIN, Jun-Han HAN, Jonghee LEE, Joo Hyun HWANG, Chul Woong JOO, Jin Woo HUH, Nam Sung CHO, Jong Tae LIM, Jeong Ik LEE, Byoung Gon YU
  • Patent number: 8988758
    Abstract: A thermochromic window doped with a dopant and a method of manufacturing the same. The thermochromic window includes a substrate and a thermochromic thin film formed on the substrate. The thermochromic thin film has a thermochromic material doped with a dopant, the concentration of the dopant gradually decreasing in a depth direction from one surface of the upper surface and the undersurface of the thermochromic thin film. The thermochromic window has a high level of visible light transmittance and high phase change efficiency while having a low phase transition temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Corning Precision Materials Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Won Choi, Yung-Jin Jung, Dong Gun Moon, Jee Yun Cha
  • Publication number: 20150076468
    Abstract: A light extraction product (1) for a semiconductor light emitting device is provided with a concavo-convex structure layer (11), provided with a concavo-convex structure (11a) on a surface thereof, having a first refractive index (n1) and a light extraction layer (12), provided on the convex portion of the concavo-convex structure (11a), having a second refractive index (n2), where in a first light extraction layer (12a) a distance Lcv between an average position Sh of tops of the convex-portions and a convex-portion upper interface average position Scv of the first light extraction layer (12a) meets equation (1) 10 nm?Lcv?5000 nm, in the concavo-convex structure (11a) a convex-portion average height H meets equation (2) 10 nm?H?5000 nm, an average pitch P meets equation (3) 50 nm?P?5000 nm, and the distance Lcv and the convex-portion average height H meet equation (4) 50 nm?Lcv+H?6000 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: ASAHI KASEI E-MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fujito Yamaguchi, Jun Koike, Aya Takagiwa
  • Publication number: 20150079279
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a color filter. A black matrix layer is formed on a substrate, and the substrate includes a first area, a second area and a third area at that moment. Then, a first color resist layer, a second color resist layer and a third color resist layer are formed on the first area, the second area and the third area, respectively. Curing temperatures of the first color resist layer and the second color resist layer are less than a curing temperature of the third color resist layer, and the first color resist layer, the second color resist layer and the third color resist layer are completely cured after treatment of a third temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventor: Hsiao-hsien Chen
  • Publication number: 20150078704
    Abstract: An optical device includes: an optical element with a surface including one of a light-receiving portion and a light-emitting portion; a resin layer provided over the one of light-receiving portion and the light-emitting portion; and a resin lens provided over the resin layer, wherein the resin layer includes a first shape larger than a second shape of the resin lens in a direction parallel to the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Mariko Kase, Takashi Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 8980369
    Abstract: Adverse hydrogen aging limitations in multiply-doped optical fibers are overcome by passivating these optical fibers using a deuterium passivation process. This treatment essentially pre-reacts the glass with deuterium so that the most active glass sites are no longer available to react with hydrogen in service. Optical fibers of main interest are doped with mixtures of germanium and phosphorus. Optimum passivating process conditions are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: OFS Fitel, LLC
    Inventors: David John DiGiovanni, Robert Lingle, Jr., Michael J LuValle, George E Oulundsen, Durgesh Shivram Vaidya
  • Publication number: 20150068599
    Abstract: A metallic-dielectric photonic crystal is formed with a periodic structure defining a plurality of resonant cavities to selectively absorb incident radiation. A metal layer is deposited on the inner surfaces of the resonant cavities and a dielectric material fills inside the resonant cavities. This photonic crystal can be used to selectively absorb broadband solar radiation and then reemit absorbed radiation in a wavelength band that matches the absorption band of a photovoltaic cell. The photonic crystal can be fabricated by patterning a sacrificial layer with a plurality of holes, into which is deposited a supporting material. Removing the rest of the sacrificial layer creates a supporting structure, on which a layer of metal is deposited to define resonant cavities. A dielectric material then fills the cavities to form the photonic crystal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Jeffrey Brian Chou, Sang-Gook Kim
  • Patent number: 8973245
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a flat panel detector such that the surface on the side of a fluorescent body layer of a scintillator panel which has the fluorescent body layer comprising a column crystal on the supporting body, is coupled to the planar light receiving element surface of a light-receiving element, comprising: a step of manufacturing the scintillator panel which has a larger area than that of the planar light receiving element surface; a step of trimming the edges of the scintillator panel, obtained by the step of manufacturing the scintillator panel, to correspond to the area of the planar light receiving element surface; and a step of coupling the edge-trimmed scintillator panel to the planar light receiving element surface, thus providing a flat panel detector which has an excellent productivity and that can be made small in size without non-image area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc.
    Inventors: Takehiko Shoji, Keiko Itaya, Masashi Kondo, Makoto Iijima
  • Patent number: 8974065
    Abstract: An optical body includes a substrate having a concave-convex surface, a reflecting layer formed on the concave-convex surface, and an optical layer formed on the reflecting layer to embed the concave-convex surface, wherein the reflecting layer directionally reflects light, the concave-convex surface is made up of a plurality of triangular pillars arrayed in a one-dimensional pattern, and the triangular pillar has an apex angle ? and a slope angle ?, the apex angle ? and the slope angle ? satisfying a formula (1) or (2) given below: 30???4.5??285(70???80)??(1) 30????1.5?+195(80???100)??(2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Dexerials Corporation
    Inventors: Hironori Yoshida, Tsutomu Nagahama, Masashi Enomoto
  • Publication number: 20150064348
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing an optical film. The method includes an unwinding step, a cleaning step and an application step. In the unwinding step, a long-band shaped flexible base having a first principal surface and a second principal surface is unwound from a continuous roll, and the base is continuously fed to a downstream side. In the cleaning step, a cleaning liquid is supplied between the second principal surface of the base and a cleaning roll, and the cleaning liquid is applied and spread over the base by the cleaning roll to clean the second principal surface of the base. Thereafter, in the application step, a resin solution is applied onto the first principal surface of the base and then the resin solution is dried.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Mitsuru SUZUKI, Takuya Mori, Daisuke Hayashi, Atsushi Muraoka, Nao Murakami
  • Publication number: 20150062694
    Abstract: The present invention is related to 6,7-dihydrobenzimidazo[1,2-c]quinazolin-6-one derivatives of the general structural formula (I), the anisotropic optical film based on these derivatives with phase-retarding properties for displays, and method of producing thereof: where X is a carboxylic group COOH, m is 0, 1, 2 or 3; Y is a sulfonic group SO3H, n is 0, 1, 2 or 3; Z is an acid amide group L-NH2; p is 0, 1, 2 or 3; K is a counterion selected from the list comprising H+, NH4+, Na+, K+, Li+, Mg2+, Ca2+, Zn2+, and Al3+; s is the number of counterions providing neutral state of the molecule; R is a substituent selected from the list comprising CH3, C2H5, NO2, Cl, Br, F, CF3, CN, OH, OCH3, OC2H5, OCOCH3, OCN, SCN, NH2, and NHCOCH3; w is 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4; and R1 is a substituent selected from the list comprising H, CH3, C2H5, C3H7, i-C3H7, CH2CH2CH2CH3, CH(CH3)CH2CH3, CH2CH(CH3)CH3 and C(CH3)3 and L is a linking group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: CRYSOPTIX KK
    Inventors: Tatyana Doutova, Pavel I. Lazarev, Elena N. Sidorenko
  • Publication number: 20150064826
    Abstract: A light-scattering substrate which can be thinned and has improved thermal resistance, a method of manufacturing the same, an organic light-emitting display device including the same, and a method of manufacturing the organic light-emitting display device are disclosed. The light-scattering substrate includes a light-scattering layer composed of a plurality of metal nanoparticles which are attached to at least a surface of a substrate. The metal nanoparticles are formed by agglomeration of a metal on the substrate, and show a surface plasmon phenomenon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Soo-Beom Jo, Dae-Woo Lee
  • Publication number: 20150064405
    Abstract: An anti-reflective article, including: a substrate; an integral binder region on at least a portion of the surface of the substrate; and a nanoparticulate monolayer partially embedded in the integral binder region, as defined herein. The integral binder can be comprised of the same or different material as the substrate material. Methods of making and using the article are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Karl William Koch, III, Ellen Marie Kosik Williams
  • Publication number: 20150062704
    Abstract: The present invention concerns an optical article comprising a substrate, at least one of the main surfaces of which is coated with a first coating comprising, at its surface, silanol groups and, in direct contact with this coating, a second coating which is a precursor for an antifog coating, the second coating being formed by deposition, on the first coating, of at least one compound A having: a polyoxyalkylene group, and at least one group capable of establishing a covalent bond with a silanol group, characterized in that the second coating comprises an internal part, in which said compound A is grafted to the first coating, and an external part, which can be removed by washing and/or wiping, resulting from the deposition of the compound A, and in that the second coating is coated with at least one temporary layer comprising at least 50%, preferably at least 60% and better still at least 70% by weight of silica, with respect to the total weight of the temporary layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: Essilor International (Compagnie Generale D'Optique)
    Inventors: Francis Henky, Alexis Theoden
  • Publication number: 20150062713
    Abstract: An antireflection article including: a transparent substrate having a refractive index of from 1.48 to 1.53; a binder layer associated with the substrate, the binder having a refractive index of from 1.55 to 1.75; and a nanoparticulate monolayer or near monolayer associated with the binder layer, the nanoparticulate layer having an effective refractive index less than the refractive index of binder. Methods of making and using the article are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Shandon Dee Hart, Kenneth Edward Hrdina, Dmitri Vladislavovich Kuksenkov, Daniel Aloysius Nolan, Ellen Marie Kosik Williams
  • Patent number: 8968856
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a security element (20) for security papers, value documents and the like having a diffraction pattern that exhibits an embossed relief pattern (24, 26) and a coating layer (28, 32) that increases the visibility of the diffraction effect of the embossed relief pattern (24, 26). According to the present invention, the relief pattern (24, 26) is formed on the basis of a cholesteric liquid crystalline material (24) and the coating layer (28, 32) includes a reflective (28) and/or a high-index layer (32).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventors: Winfried Hoffmüller, Theodor Burchard
  • Publication number: 20150056459
    Abstract: The present application relates to a method for enhancing metal corrosion resistance of a metal deposited on a substrate, the method comprises contacting the metal coated substrate with a treating composition comprising metal oxide nano-particles. Furthermore, the present application relates to a method for making a mirror comprising a substrate having a metal coated thereon, wherein the method comprises contacting the metal coated substrate with a treating composition comprising metal oxide nano-particles. Preferably, the metal oxide nano-particles are selected from one or more oxides of zinc, iridium, tin, aluminum, cerium, chromium, vanadium, titanium, iron, indium, copper, gold, palladium, platinum, manganese, cobalt, nickel, zirconium, molybdenum, rhodium, silver, indium, wolfram, iridium, lead, bismuth, samarium, erbium, or mixtures of these materials. In addition, the present application relates to the products obtainable by these methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Applicant: Valspar Sourcing, Inc.
    Inventors: Hilmar Weisse, Dirk Hinzmann, Andrea Engels
  • Publication number: 20150056370
    Abstract: A thin film deposition apparatus includes a mask in contact with a first surface of a substrate, a magnet plate above a second surface of the substrate and configured to pull the mask toward the first surface of the substrate, the second surface being an opposite surface to the first surface, and an insulating member between the magnet plate and the second surface of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Applicant: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jae-Cheol Lee
  • Publication number: 20150056371
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of producing hollow particles for reducing light scattering in an antireflection coating. This method includes synthesizing core-shell particles including a core containing an organic compound as a major component and a shell containing an inorganic-based compound as a major component in an aqueous medium, dispersing the core-shell particles in an organic solvent, and preparing hollow particles by heating the core-shell particles dispersed in the organic solvent to remove the core therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventor: Yu Kameno
  • Patent number: 8962072
    Abstract: A method for production of an adhesive optical film comprises the step of forming an anchor layer by applying an anchor layer-forming coating liquid to the optical film to form a coating with a thickness of 20 ?m or less before drying, wherein the anchor layer-forming coating liquid contains a mixed solvent composed mainly of water and an alcohol, and a binder resin, and by drying the coating under drying conditions satisfying both of the following requirements: (1) the drying temperature T is between 40° C. and 70° C.; and (2) the value (T×H) obtained by multiplying the drying temperature T (° C.) by the drying time H (seconds) satisfies the relation 400?(T×H)?4,000 to remove the mixed solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Yuusuke Toyama, Atsushi Yasui, Tomoyuki Kimura, Masayuki Satake
  • Patent number: 8963097
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining a plurality of the two dimensional arrays of gadolinium oxysulfide. An array has wider width non-silver based spacers (304) that extend between rows or columns of dixels and narrower width non-silver based spacers (306) that extend between the other of the rows or columns of dixels. The method further includes applying a silver coating (312) to at least one of a top or bottom surface of the arrays. The method further includes forming a stack by stacking the silver coated arrays, one on top of another (FIG. 3B), with substantially equal layers of adhesive between adjacent arrays. The method further includes slicing the stack through the wider non-silver based spacers to form two dimensional arrays of scintillator dixels (314) having silver based spacers (312) along at least one direction of the array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventor: Simha Levene
  • Patent number: 8958668
    Abstract: A plasmonic transducer includes at least two metal elements with a gap therebetween. The metal elements are elongated along a plasmon-enhanced, near-field radiation delivery axis. Cross sections of the metal elements in a plane normal to the delivery axis vary in shape along the delivery axis. A waveguide is disposed along an elongated side of the plasmonic transducer. The waveguide is optically coupled to the plasmonic transducer along the elongated side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Chubing Peng, Yongjun Zhao
  • Patent number: 8956691
    Abstract: A method for producing organic-inorganic composite particles includes preparing a cyclic olefin monomer expressed by general formula (1) and inorganic particles coated with a compound having a carbon-carbon double bond, and binding at least one of the cyclic olefin monomer and a cyclic olefin polymer derived from the cyclic olefin monomer to the carbon-carbon double cong by bringing the cyclic olefin monomer into contact with the inorganic particles in the presence of a catalyst for ring opening metathesis polymerization of the cyclic olefin monomer:
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Seiji Okada
  • Patent number: 8956701
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a process for tinting an article, comprising providing an article having a substrate and an ink receptive coating applied thereon, applying on said ink receptive coating a tinting solution containing at least one dye through ink jet printing, said ink receptive coating being obtained by curing an ink receptive coating composition comprising the at least partial hydrolyzate of a component A consisting of one or more compounds containing at least one polyalkylene oxide segment having at least three alkylene oxide units, said segment being chosen from polyethylene oxide, polypropylene oxide and polyethylene oxide-co-polypropylene oxide segments and at least one —Si(X)n hydrolyzable group, in which n is an integer ranging from 1 to 3, and the X groups, identical or different, represent OH groups or precursors of OH groups, and optionally, at least one silane component B, components A and optional component B being chosen such that a cross-linked structure is generated upon polymeriz
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique)
    Inventors: Yaw Chuan Lim, Lixin Song, Yu Liu
  • Publication number: 20150044084
    Abstract: Systems and methods for fabricating multi-functional articles comprised of additively formed gradient materials are provided. The fabrication of multi-functional articles using the additive deposition of gradient alloys represents a paradigm shift from the traditional way that metal alloys and metal/metal alloy parts are fabricated. Since a gradient alloy that transitions from one metal to a different metal cannot be fabricated through any conventional metallurgy techniques, the technique presents many applications. Moreover, the embodiments described identify a broad range of properties and applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2012
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: California Institute of Technology
    Inventor: California Institute of Technology
  • Publication number: 20150042990
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a substrate for generating surface plasmons (SPs) and surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) by means of an excitation radiation, wherein the substrate has a carrier layer and a coating with gold or silver. A surface of the carrier layer is provided with identical surface structures arranged in an array of rows and columns The surface structures are recesses with an elongate shape which are arranged with a first periodicity (PH) and with a second periodicity (PV) in direction of the rows and orthogonal to the direction of the rows, respectively. The invention is further directed to a method for the production of the substrate and to uses of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventor: Yerzhan USSEMBAYEV
  • Publication number: 20150043080
    Abstract: A film for a display device and a method of manufacturing the film, the film including transparent layers; and scattering layers, the transparent layers and scattering layers being alternately arranged with a predetermined cycle, wherein a plurality of patterns are non-periodically formed in an upper surface or a lower surface of the film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Ik LIM, Won Sang PARK
  • Publication number: 20150044509
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula (I), (Ia) or (Ib) wherein A1, and A? is for example (II) is 1 or 2; X is C1-C4 alkylene or CO; Y is for example O, O(CO), O(CO)O, R1 is for example hydrogen, d-dsalkyl, C3-C30cycloalkyl, phenyl, naphthyl, anthracyl, phenanthryl, biphenylyl, fluorenyl or C3-C20heteroaryl, all of which optionally are substituted; R2 and R3 for example are C1-C10haloalkylene which is optionally substituted, or R2 and R3 are phenylene, which optionally is substituted; R4 is a group (A) or a group (B); R5 and R6 for example are C1-C20alkyl; or R4 and R5 or R4 and R6 together form a straight-chain C2-C6alkylene, R5 and R6 together form a straight-chain C2-C6alkylene; R7, R8, R9 and R10 ifor example are C1-C20alkyl; M for example is C1-C20alkylene, C2-C20alkenylene, C2-C20alkynylene; R25 and R26 are for example hydrogen, C1-C20alkyl; R27, R28, R29, R30 and R31 are for example hydrogen, C1-C20alkyl, C2-C20alkenyl, C3-C20cycloalkyl, or two radicals R27 and R28, R28 and R29, R29 and R30 and/or R30 and R31 toget
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Kunimoto, Hisatoshi Kura
  • Patent number: 8951424
    Abstract: A substrate for an electrowetting display device including a pixel electrode, a partition wall pattern and a water-repellent pattern. The pixel electrode is formed on a base substrate. The partition wall pattern is disposed along an edge of the pixel electrode to expose the pixel electrode. The water-repellent pattern is disposed at a space formed by the pixel electrode and the partition wall pattern to be extended along a lower portion of side surfaces of the partition wall pattern from an area on which the pixel electrode is formed. The water-repellent pattern exposes an upper portion of the side surfaces and an upper surface of the partition wall pattern. Thus, a manufacturing reliability of a substrate for an electrowetting display device is improved to prevent a display quality from being reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Seung Bo Shim, Jin-Ho Ju, Dae Ho Kim, Sang-Il Kim, Sung-Kyun Park, Jae-Jin Lyu
  • Patent number: 8951615
    Abstract: Systems and methods for producing a material of desired thickness. Deposition techniques such as atomic layer deposition are alter to control the thickness of deposited material. A funtionalization species inhibits the deposition reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: UChicago Argonne, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey W. Elam, Angel Yanguas-Gil
  • Publication number: 20150036234
    Abstract: Disclosed are compositions and methods for making and using thin film opto-electronic conversion devices using nanoparticles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Adela Ben-Yakar, Richard K. Harrison
  • Publication number: 20150036132
    Abstract: A sensor with a substrate includes nanowires extending vertically from the substrate, a hafnia coating on the nanowires that provides hafnia coated nanowires, and a noble metal coating on the hafnia coated nanowires. The top of the hafnia and noble metal coated nanowires bent onto one another to create a canopy forest structure. There are numerous randomly arranged holes that let through scattered light. The many points of contact, hot spots, amplify signals. The methods include the steps of providing a Raman spectroscopy substrate, introducing nano crystals to the Raman spectroscopy substrate, growing a forest of nanowires from the nano crystals on the Raman spectroscopy substrate, coating the nanowires with hafnia providing hafnia coated nanowires, and coating the hafnia coated nanowires with a noble metal or other metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Tiziana C. Bond, Ali Altun, Hyung Gyu Park
  • Publication number: 20150035269
    Abstract: An optical multilayer (1) comprising textured surfaces suitable for use in anti-counterfeiting and/or security applications is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Ian Richard Hooper, Christopher Robert Lawrence, John Roy Sambles, Andrew Shaun Treen
  • Publication number: 20150037513
    Abstract: High rate deposition methods comprise depositing a powder coating from a product flow. The product flow results from a chemical reaction within the flow. Some of the powder coatings consolidate under appropriate conditions into an optical coating. The substrate can have a first optical coating onto which the powder coating is placed. The resulting optical coating following consolidation can have a large index-of-refraction difference with the underlying first optical coating, high thickness and index-of-refraction uniformity across the substrate and high thickness and index-of-refraction uniformity between coatings formed on different substrates under equivalent conditions. In some embodiments, the deposition can result in a powder coating of at least about 100 nm in no more than about 30 minutes with a substrate having a surface area of at least about 25 square centimeters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Xiangxin Bi, Herman A. Lopez, Prasad Narasimha, Eric Euvrard, Ronald J. Mosso
  • Publication number: 20150036101
    Abstract: To provide an optical member in which a patterned shape is visible when viewed from a prescribed angle without impeding the field of vision of the wearer, and a method of manufacturing an optical member permitting the manufacturing of such an optical member. The optical member of the present invention is characterized by comprising a lens substrate 2, a patterning layer 3 in which a prescribed shape has been patterned in a manner covering a portion of the lens substrate, and a hard coat layer 4 formed so as to cover the lens substrate and the patterning layer, and in that a refractive index of the lens substrate 2 is equal to a refractive index of the hard coat layer 4, and differs from a refractive index of the patterning layer 3 by equal to or more than 0.02.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: HOYA LENS MANUFACTURING PHILIPPINES INC.
    Inventors: Yuta Hoshino, Shugo Oshita, Yukiko Koshi
  • Patent number: 8948562
    Abstract: The present invention provides templating methods for replicating patterned metal films from a template substrate such as for use in plasmonic devices and metamaterials. Advantageously, the template substrate is reusable and can provide plural copies of the structure of the template substrate. Because high-quality substrates that are inherently smooth and flat are available, patterned metal films in accordance with the present invention can advantageously provide surfaces that replicate the surface characteristics of the template substrate both in the patterned regions and in the unpatterned regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Regents of the University of Minnesota
    Inventors: David J. Norris, Sang Eon Han, Aditya Bhan, Prashant Nagpal, Nathan Charles Lindquist, Sang-Hyun Oh
  • Patent number: 8945668
    Abstract: Provided are a phenoxy resin composition for transparent plastic substrate and a transparent plastic substrate using the phenoxy resin composition, capable of effectively substituting for a conventional glass substrate since having excellent thermal and chemical resistance, high adhesiveness, low water infiltration, and a small coefficient of linear thermal expansion. In one general aspect, there is provided a phenoxy resin composition for transparent plastic substrate, including: phenoxy resin having a chemical structure expressed as follows: wherein the n value is 35 to 400.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Toray Advanced Materials Korea Inc.
    Inventors: Chang-Hoon Sim, Yeun-Soo Kim, Ki-Jeong Moon
  • Publication number: 20150029453
    Abstract: A liquid-crystal photo-alignment layer that is composed of polymer stabilized azo dyes is provided, where a polymer network is introduced in the photo-alignment layer for stabilization. The photo-alignment layer is realized based on a two-step irradiation to first achieve molecule alignment to form the photo-alignment layer and then stabilize this layer. To realize the photo-alignment layer, a pre-determined surface of the substrate is first coated with a film of mixture. The mixture comprises an azo dye and a monomer preferably mixed in an optimal concentration of 0.67 wt/wt. The azo dye and the monomer have light-absorption peaks at different wavelengths such that photo-alignment of the azo-dye molecules and stabilization of the photo-alignment layer by polymerization of the monomer are achievable by two separate exposures of light to the film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Qi GUO, Abhishek Kumar SRIVASTAVA, Vladimir Grigorievich CHIGRINOV, Hoi Sing KWOK
  • Publication number: 20150029588
    Abstract: Techniques to control light wavefronts are described herein. A plurality of sub-wavelength grating (SWG) layers includes a SWG layer. The SWG layer is arranged to control a light wavefront.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Marco Fiorentino, David A. Fattal, Raymond G. Beausoleil
  • Publication number: 20150029415
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a touch panel structure, a method for forming the same and a touch device having the same. A touch panel structure of the present invention comprises a substrate, a color layer, an inorganic layer, and a photoresist layer. The color layer is disposed on a surface of the substrate. The inorganic layer is disposed on a surface of the color layer which is opposite to the substrate. The photoresist layer is disposed on a surface of the inorganic layer which is opposite to the substrate, wherein the color layer and the photoresist layer have different surface tensions. For electronic products that rely on the Colorful OGS (One Glass Solution) technology, by providing an inorganic layer between the color layer and the photoresist layer, problems related to different surface tensions when the layers are stacked during the manufacturing process of a touch panel can be solved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: CANDO CORPORATION
    Inventors: CHUNG-CHI WANG, YUN-WEN CHEN
  • Publication number: 20150029456
    Abstract: Provided is an optically anisotropic body having good coatability onto a laminate, in which the laminate includes an optically anisotropic layer formed of a composition including a liquid crystal compound by direct coating, and an isotropic resin layer formed on the optically anisotropic layer by direct coating, and has good coatability onto the isotropic resin layer. The laminate includes an optically anisotropic layer and an isotropic resin layer formed of a resin composition directly coated on the optically anisotropic layer, in which the optically anisotropic layer is a layer formed by curing a liquid crystal composition including a liquid crystal compound containing a polymerizable group; the isotropic resin layer is the outermost layer of the laminate; and the surface energy on the side of the isotropic resin layer of the laminate is 34.0 mN/m or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Reona IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20150030298
    Abstract: Light guiding structures are provided to improve the light coupling between photonic active devices and the top of a metallization layer stack interconnecting these photonic active devices. Each light guiding structure comprises a hole extending between the near surface of the photonic active devices and the top surface of the metallization layer stack, said hole being filled with dielectrics or a combination of dielectrics and metals. Such a light guiding structure removes from the optical path of light rays, the interfaces between the metallization layers, thereby confining light laterally and enabling interconnects with increased thickness and more levels of metal. This results in the suppression of multiple reflections and optical crosstalk. The light guiding structures can have cross-section diagonals with sub-wavelength dimensions can be fabricated after all CMOS process steps, thus having minimal interference and maximal compatibility with CMOS processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventor: Carlos J.R.P. Augusto
  • Publication number: 20150022893
    Abstract: A diffraction grating includes a grating area having, in a direction running parallel to a substrate, a periodic arrangement of first areas with a first grating material and second areas with a second grating material. The first grating material and the second grating material are solid materials with different indices of refraction. A reflection-reducing or reflection-increasing layer system having at least two layers with different indices refraction. The reflection-reducing or reflection-increasing layer system is arranged on one side of the grating area facing away from the substrate, and an additional layer system having at least two layers with different indices of refraction is arranged between the substrate and the grating area. A method for producing the diffraction grating is also specified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: Frank Fuchs, Uwe D. Zeitner, Ernst-Bernhard Kley