52nd week of 2017 patent applcation highlights part 40 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20170371160 | HEAD MOUNTED IMAGING APPARATUS WITH OPTICAL COUPLING - A head-mounted imaging apparatus includes a frame that houses a left-eye and a right-eye imaging apparatus. Each imaging apparatus forms a virtual image to an eye of an observer and includes a projector, a planar waveguide, and an optical coupler. The projector is supported by a temple member of the frame and emits a central projected light beam along a projection axis. The planar waveguide accepts the projected light beam through an input aperture and forms an expanded light beam that is output from an output aperture and directed toward the observer's eye. The optical coupler receives the central projected light beam along a first axis that is at an obtuse angle with respect to the waveguide surface, and the optical coupler redirects the central projected light beam along a second axis that is at an acute angle with respect to the waveguide surface. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371161 | BINOCULAR DEVICE COMPRISING A MONOCULAR DISPLAY DEVICE - A binocular device adapted to a wearer comprising: a first lens and a second lens, respectively designed to be placed in front of first and second eyes of the wearer, the first lens comprising at least a back face, a monocular display device designed and arranged to display a virtual picture towards the first eye of the wearer, the virtual picture being transmitted through the back face of the first lens defining a display area on the back face, wherein: the second lens comprises an adapted area and a corresponding area, the corresponding area is the area scanned by the second eye of the wearer when the first eye scans the virtual picture through the display area, and the adapted area is arranged so that the adapted area overlaps at least a part of the corresponding area, and the adapted area is configured to be obscured. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371162 | HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING PLURALITY OF DISPLAYS AND PLURALITY OF EYE LENSES - A head-mounted display device includes: a first display that displays a first image, the first display being located in front of a pupil of a user in a forward-looking-state in which the pupil is looking forward; a second display that displays a second image, the second display being located diagonally in front of the pupil in the forward-looking-state; a first eye lens that causes first light of the first image to pass through the pupil, the first eye lens being located between the pupil and the first display in the forward-looking-state; and a second eye lens that causes second light of the second image to pass through the pupil, the second eye lens being located between the pupil and the second display in the forward-looking-state. The distance between the second display and the second eye lens decreases as a distance from the first display increases. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371163 | NEAR EYE DIFFRACTIVE HOLOGRAPHIC PROJECTION METHOD - An augmented reality display device (such as a head mounted device) includes a partially transparent and partially reflective lens, a laser light source, a radio frequency source, a display controller, an acousto-optical modulator, and a microelectromechanical (MEMS) device. The laser light source generates light. The radio frequency (RF) source generates a RF signal. The display controller generates a synchronization signal. The acousto-optical modulator receives at least a portion of the light, modulates the light based on the RF signal, and provides modulated light. The MEMS device receives the synchronization signal from the display controller and reflects the modulated light towards the partially transparent and partially reflective lens. The MEMS device determines a direction in which the modulated light reflects based on the synchronization signal and the partially transparent and partially reflective lens reflecting the modulated laser light towards an eye of a user of the augmented realty display device. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371164 | WEARABLE SMART GLASSES - Smart glasses comprise a glasses frame. The smart glasses further comprise a pair of glasses legs connected to two lateral portions of the glasses frame respectively, each of the glasses legs having a first end and a second end, wherein the second end of each of the glasses legs bends inwardly to form a first arc portion. In addition, the smart glasses further comprise a pair of clamping members each disposed at one of the glasses legs, wherein each of the clamping members comprises an elastic clamping element, said elastic clamping element being disposed at the inner side of said second end, wherein said elastic clamping element having a free end that bends inwardly to form a second arc portion. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371165 | HEAD UP DISPLAY WITH STABILIZED VERTICAL ALIGNMENT - A head up display arrangement for a motor vehicle includes an image source emitting a virtual image based on image data. A mirror is positioned to reflect the virtual image such that the virtual image further reflects off of a windshield of the motor vehicle and is visible to a driver of the vehicle while eyes of the driver are disposed within an eyebox. A driver's input device is coupled to the mirror and changes an angle of reflection of the mirror and thereby changes a vertical level of the eyebox in response to input from the driver. A controller is communicatively coupled to the image source and produces the image data. The controller determines the angle of reflection of the mirror, and adjusts the image data in response to the change in the angle of reflection of the mirror such that a vertical level of the virtual image is unchanged by the change in the angle of reflection of the mirror. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371166 | DEVICE FOR MACHINING MATERIAL BY MEANS OF LASER RADIATION - A device for machining material by means of laser radiation, including a focusing optics for focusing a laser beam onto a workpiece and an adjusting optics for adjusting the intensity distribution comprising at least two plate-shaped optical elements which are arranged one behind the other in the beam path of the laser beam, which are rotatable relative to one another in the circumferential direction, and which each have a surface with a circular pattern of sector-shaped facets which, in the circumferential direction, are alternately inclined with respect to the respective plate plane. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371167 | DISCRETE LASER FIBER INPUTS FOR IMAGE PROJECTORS - Discrete light fiber inputs for high powered image projector display systems are disclosed herein. Various embodiments disclosed herein may employ a bundle of light fiber inputs, a diffuser and reducing relay optic to convert the fiber input array into a smaller pattern of spots that may be interfaced to a projector display system that may perform light recycling. Many embodiments herein may facilitate higher power laser light for illumination and, possibly, recycling. In these embodiments, laser fibers may be individually collimated and illuminate a diffuser. The diffuser spots may be then imaged through a common path relay that can be resized to allow room for the individual lasers and collimation lenses. The diffuser spots may be imaged through holes in a mirror that is on the input side of an integration rod which recycles the light. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371168 | IMPROVED INTEGRATION ROD ASSEMBLIES FOR IMAGE PROJECTORS - Integrating rod modules are disclosed comprising a plurality of single and/or solid integrating rods that are mated together by straps. Such modules tend to comprise a greater length than the single and/or solid integrating rods and provide good illumination to a modulator that light from a light source is transmitted through the integrating rod module. The straps may comprise a material (e.g., glass) that has substantially same or similar thermal characteristics as the integrating rods. The straps may be glued to the integrating rods by a glue having a substantially different (e.g., lower) index of refraction than the integrating rods, so as not to disturb the internal reflectance of the rods. The straps may be reinforced by braces that may allow the integrating rod module to be set within a projection display system at an angle substantially different from horizontal. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371169 | LENS GRATES, THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D) DISPLAY DEVICES, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES - The present disclosure relates to a lens grate having a first substrate and a second substrate opposite to the first substrate, a first electrode layer on the first substrate, a resin layer on the first electrode layer, a second electrode layer on the second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the resin layer and the second electrode layer. One side of the resin layer facing toward the liquid crystal layer is configured with a plurality of concave spherical surfaces. By configuring the concave spherical surfaces, the thickness of the liquid crystal layer is gradually decreased along the direction from the center area to the rim area from regardless of the viewing directions, i.e., top-down, left-right, or slant, and thus the viewing angle is wide. With such design, the viewing angle of the 3D effect may be enlarged so as to enhance the 3D display performance. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371170 | Display Device and Assembly Method Thereof - A method of assembling a display device is proposed. The method includes: arranging an alignment imaging device over the lens layer, aligning a first alignment target of the display panel and a first alignment target of the lens layer, controlling the display panel to emit and obtaining the light passing through the lens layer with the alignment imaging device to form bright and dark stripes, arranging one or more second alignment targets on the display panel and adjusting the position of the lens layer so as to align the central line of a bright stripe in the bright and dark stripes to the second alignment targets, and adhering the display panel to the lens layer. By using the present disclosure, the precise alignment of the display panel and the lens layer is reflected rapidly. The yield rate increases. The three-dimensional display effect of the display device improves as well. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371171 | Display Apparatus and Three-Dimensional Display Method Thereof - The present disclosure relates to a display apparatus and a three-dimensional display method thereof. A via hole at least passing through a base substrate is formed in an array substrate of a liquid crystal display panel, and a signal line on a upper surface of the array substrate can be connected with a driving chip bonded onto an electroluminescent display substrate, through to the via hole on a lower surface of the array substrate and through a conductive material in an optical clear adhesive. A signal line on the electroluminescent display substrate also can be connected with a driving chip bonded onto an upper surface of the array substrate, through the conductive material in the optical clear adhesive on a lower surface of the array substrate and through the via hole. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371172 | Volumetric 3D Display - A drive system for a projection screen in a swept surface volumetric 3D display is disclosed. The drive system causes the projection screen to reciprocate through an excursion distance at a screen reciprocating frequency relative to a projection system. The drive system includes an actuator arrangement for generating an input reciprocating force substantially at the screen reciprocating frequency through an input excursion distance and a support structure for the projection screen. The support structure includes a resonant mounting arrangement for the projection screen. The resonant mounting arrangement is operably connected to the actuator arrangement and configured to allow the projection screen to reciprocate through the excursion distance. The resonant mounting arrangement is configured to have a resonant frequency substantially equivalent to the screen reciprocating frequency on actuation of the actuator arrangement. A gaming console incorporating a swept surface volumetric 3D display based on the drive system is also disclosed. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371173 | Despeckling System for Projected Light - Speckle artifacts as viewed in images projected on a display surface by a projector can be reduced. At least one spatial light modulator, illuminated by one or more light sources, can be imaged to a screen by a projection lens. A deflector subsystem can be provided in image space, proximate to the lens, where the image light emerges. In this location, image light directed to any given field point on the display surface is convergent, but can appear collimated. The deflector subsystem can include a tilted optical plate that is rotated in a plane along an axis. As the deflector subsystem is temporally rotated, the image light to any given field point traverses different optical paths, varying the angular diversity to reduce perceivable speckle by changing at least the angle of incidence to the screen. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371174 | OPTICAL DEVICE - An optical device includes: a piezoelectric element of a sheet shape; a restriction section attached to the piezoelectric element, the restriction section configured to restrict a movable area in the piezoelectric element to a polygonal predetermined region; an optical element attached to the movable area of the piezoelectric element; and a plurality of electrodes disposed on the piezoelectric element, the plurality of electrodes configured to be applied with voltage independently, wherein: the electrodes are disposed at adjacent two comers in the movable area; and the piezoelectric element expands and contracts based on voltage applied to the electrodes in a manner that a periphery of the corner where the electrode is disposed in the movable area expands and contracts in multiple directions including two directions along two sides forming the corner. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371175 | OPTICAL DEVICE AND OPTICAL APPARATUS - An optical device includes: an optical element; a housing unit configured to accommodate the optical element; a support part configured to pivotally support the optical element to be tiltable with respect to the housing unit; a piezoelectric element configured to connect the optical element and the housing unit to each other; and an electrode arranged at the piezoelectric element. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371176 | DEVICE FOR MEASURING AN ABERRATION, IMAGING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEASURING AN ABERRATION - A device for measuring an aberration has an image sensor, projection optics for optically projecting onto the image sensor, an optical unit for influencing the optical projection onto the image sensor so that the result on the image sensor is a multiple image of a plurality of sub-images, wherein the optical unit has at least one region per sub-image, wherein the regions influence different lateral portions of a wavefront incident on the projection optics in different ways, and an evaluator configured to determine information relating to the aberration based on the multiple image. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371177 | EYEGLASS RETAINER DEVICE AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME - An eyewear retention device that comprises two retaining devices, each meant to be positioned on a temple member of a pair of eyeglasses. The retainer devices are meant to be positioned between the concha and pinna of the ear so that hold the eyeglasses on the nose of the wearer securely at the wearer's desired portion without any slippage of the eyeglasses along the nose. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371178 | CUSTOM OPHTHALMIC LENS DESIGN DERIVED FROM MULTIPLE DATA SOURCES - There is disclosed a method for recommending ophthalmic lens parameters. The method includes receiving user data from a plurality of lens wearers, receiving lens configuration information, and receiving satisfaction information for a plurality of lens wearers. The user data and satisfaction information are analyzed to identify and/or determine lens features based on correlations in the user data and the satisfaction information, including repeating the analyzing when additional user data and additional satisfaction information is received and/or on a regular basis. When new wearer information including a lens prescription for a new wearer and user data for the new wearer is received, lens parameters are produced for the new wearer including evaluating lens manufacturing characteristics based on the analyzing in correlation with the new wearer information. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371179 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A FILTER FOR AN OPHTHALMIC LENS AND OPHTHALMIC LENS COMPRISING SUCH A FILTER - Disclosed is a method for determining a filter for an ophthalmic lens to be placed in front of the eye of the wearer, the filter being able to improve or maintain the visual comfort and/or the visual performances of the wearer. The determination method includes: a step of measuring a variable representative of sensitivity of the eye or both eyes of the wearer to a characteristic light flow, and a step of determining at least one optical characteristic of the filter according to the representative variable measured. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371180 | ACCOMMODATING LENS WITH CAVITY - A lens comprises an internal cavity structure formed by dissolution of a soluble insert material. The internal soluble material may dissolve through a body of a lens such as a contact lens in order to form the cavity within the contact lens. The cavity within the lens can be shaped in many ways, and corresponds to the shape of the dissolved material, such that many internal cavity shapes can be readily fabricated within the contact lens. The insert can be placed in a mold with a pre-polymer material, and the pre-polymer material cured with the insert placed in the mold to form the lens body. The polymerized polymer may comprise a low expansion polymer in order to inhibit expansion of the lens when hydrated. The polymer may comprise a hydrogel when hydrated. The soft contact lens material comprises a sufficient amount of cross-linking to provide structure to the lens and shape the cavity. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371181 | PAIR OF SPECTACLE LENSES FOR BINOCULAR VISION, MANUFACTURING METHOD, SUPPLY SYSTEM AND SUPPLY PROGRAM THEREOF - A pair of spectacle lenses for binocular vision. In each of the pair of spectacle lenses for binocular vision, when an inner horizontal direction of each of the spectacle lenses is a direction toward the nose of a user who wears the spectacle lenses, and an outer horizontal direction of each of the spectacle lenses is a direction toward an ear of the user, a portion for viewing an object at finite distance is provided and a shape of a base out prism is formed in the position such that a line of sight of a user viewing an object through the portion is directed to a direction that is different from a direction from the object. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371182 | FLUID-FILLED LENSES AND ACTUATION SYSTEMS THEREOF - An actuator assembly for an adjustable fluid-filled lens is provided. In some embodiments, the actuator assembly includes a clamp configured to adjust the optical power of the fluid lens module when the clamp is compressed. In some embodiments, a magnetic element is configured to adjust the optical power of the fluid-filled lens. In some embodiments, a plunger changes the optical power of the fluid lens module. In some embodiments, a reservoir is configured such that deformation of the reservoir changes the optical power of the fluid-filled lens. In some embodiments, a balloon is configured to deform the reservoir. In some embodiments, an adjustable fluid-filled lens includes a septum configured to be pierceable by a needle and automatically and fluidly seal a fluid chamber after withdrawal of the needle. In some embodiments, a thermal element can heat fluid within a fluid chamber to change an optical power of the lens module. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371183 | Control of a Periodic Light Source Illuminating a Room Shared by Two Users Wearing Shutter Glasses Synchronized with the Light Source - A method including receiving information indicative of a first light preference profile, receiving information indicative of a second light preference profile, determining that the first light preference profile differs from the second light preference profile, determining a first light control setting based on the first light preference profile, determining a second light control setting based on the second light preference profile, determining a periodic light source actuation directive, causing sending of the periodic light source actuation directive to the light source, determining a first shutter control directive for the first near eye apparatus, causing sending of the first shutter control directive to the first near eye apparatus, determining a second shutter control directive for the second near eye apparatus, and causing sending of the second shutter control directive to the second near eye apparatus is disclosed. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371184 | Smart Contact Lens With Orientation Sensor - Current invention propounds a novel active contact lens device, system, as well as, a corresponding method of operation of such contact lens with an embedded orientation determination mechanism. The system, furthermore, utilizes an onboard, integrated orientation and gaze sensing component to determine eye orientation, in 3D (x,y,z) dimension corresponding to the direction of eye gaze, or in 2D (x,y) dimension, denoting orientation relative to the horizontal or vertical line of the eye, also known as, the horizontal or vertical meridian of the eye. Such a system may be used to provide rich augmented reality (AR) or virtual reality (VR) experience to its user/wearer. Hereby, we propose to incorporate several electronic, electro-optical, optical or other types of components into the contact lens substrate and interconnect them to form such an innovative AR/VR enabled active contact lens system. The system proffered herein, may incorporate and integrate a number of the following components: an integrated orientation sensing module, a positioning module (a location determination module—for example GPS sensor), an integrated substantially transparent, or semi-transparent, or non-transparent display device, a source of electric power, a communication component, a processing component, and an audio output device. Some constituent modules may be integrated into the lens substrate and some may be located remotely and accessible via wireless communication channel. The smart contact lens with an embedded orientation module may be used to implement a variety of reactive, adaptive, predictive, behavior monitoring and analyzing systems. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371185 | STRUCTURE FOR CURVED DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING FRAME FOR CURVED DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - Disclosed herein is a structure for a curved display device. The structure for a curved display device includes: a plurality of unit body parts each comprising a sheet bent into an arcuate shape; and at least one bent part through which adjacent ones of the unit body parts are connected. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371186 | OPTICAL SWITCHING DEVICE - An optical switching device comprising a polarisation layer and a switching layer which comprises a liquid-crystalline material and a dye compound. Use of the optical switching device for the regulation of the passage of light through an area element. A window element which has the optical switching device therein. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371187 | Display Device, Input/Output Device, and Semiconductor Device - To provide a display device with high visibility or low power consumption. The display device includes a self-luminous display element and a reflective display element. The reflective display element includes a light-reflective layer and a layer containing a liquid crystal material. The self-luminous display element transmits visible light. The layer containing the liquid crystal material includes a region located between the light-reflective layer and the self-luminous display element. The display device further includes a polarizing plate, and the polarizing plate preferably includes a region located between the layer containing the liquid crystal material and the self-luminous display element. Alternatively, the self-luminous display element preferably includes a region located between the layer containing the liquid crystal material and the polarizing plate. The display device further preferably includes one coloring film or two or more coloring films, and the one coloring film or one of the two or more coloring films preferably includes at least a region located between the layer containing the liquid crystal material and the self-luminous display element. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371188 | LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL AND FABRICATING METHOD THEREOF - A liquid crystal panel and a method of fabricating the same are described. For the liquid crystal panel, an optical alignment treatment is performed to irradiate a polarized ultraviolet light to an optical alignment layer in advance. Thus, when a polymerizing step is performed, tilting directions of the liquid crystal molecules can be made uniform, thereby solving the problem of reducing an optical transmittance existing in the conventional technology. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371189 | DISPLAY PANEL - A display panel is provided. The display panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate has a display area and the second substrate is arranged opposite to the first substrate. The display panel further includes a display layer. The display layer is positioned between the first substrate and the second substrate. The display panel also includes a sealant. The sealant is positioned between the first substrate and the second substrate and outside the display area. The sealant has an outline, and at least one portion of the outline is wavy. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371190 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A highly reliable display device is provided. In a flexible display device including at least a first display region and a second display region, at least a portion of a wiring provided in the first display region or the second display region has a meandering shape or a chain-like shape. Since the wiring has a meandering shape or a chain-like shape, a short-circuit, a disconnection, or the like of the wiring due to curving or bending of the display device does not occur easily. The wiring having a meandering shape or a chain-like shape can prevent defective operation, lowered reliability, or the like of the display device. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371191 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - A liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display apparatus are provided. The liquid crystal display panel includes a first substrate, a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and a second substrate, and the second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate. The second substrate includes a second base, a lower polarizing film positioned under the second base; and a wave plate positioned under the lower polarizing film, and used to reduce ambient light reflected by a reflection film. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371192 | Pixel geometries for spatially multiplexed stereo 3D displays - A 3D image pixel in a spatially multiplexed stereo 3D display includes a first left-eye subpixel and a second left-eye subpixel that are both driven when displaying the left-eye image. The 3D image pixel also includes a first right-eye subpixel and a second right-eye subpixel that are both driven when displaying the right-eye image. The subpixels may all have a square shape. Single color emitters in the subpixels of the same eye may be driven by the same electronics. A 3D image pixel in a second spatially multiplexed stereo 3D display includes a left-eye pixel driven when displaying the left-eye image and a right-eye pixel driven when displaying the right-eye image. The pixels may all have a rectangular shape, and the horizontal measurement of the pixels may be greater than the vertical measurement of the pixels. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371193 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - According to an aspect, a display apparatus includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels each including a pixel capacitor and a pixel transistor, a scanning line that is coupled to the respective pixels and is configured to receive a scan signal, and a video signal line that is coupled to the respective pixels and is configured to receive a video signal; and a driver configured to drive the display panel. The pixel transistor includes: at least one N-channel metal oxide semiconductor (NMOS) transistor coupled between the video signal line and the pixel capacitor; and a P-channel metal oxide semiconductor (PMOS) transistor coupled in parallel with the NMOS transistor. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371194 | DISPLAY DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate including a first area and a second area, the first area including a display area where pixels are arranged, and the second area being adjacent to the first area and where wirings are arranged, wherein the wirings are covered with a protection layer, the second area includes a peripheral area and a central area in an arrangement direction of the wirings, and a thickness of at least one of the first substrate and the protection layer varies between the peripheral area and the central area. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371195 | DISPLAY DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate and an external circuit, the first substrate including a first area, a second area, and wirings, the first area including a display area in which pixels are arranged the external circuit being mounted on the second area. The wirings are electrically connected to the external circuit, provided in the first area and the second area, and arranged in the first direction. At least one of the wirings is inclined with respect to a second direction orthogonal to the first direction in a first portion of the second area. The first substrate is bent in the first portion. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371196 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device is provided. The liquid crystal display device includes a plastic frame, used to install a liquid crystal display panel. A color of the plastic frame changes from white to black, from a side close to the liquid crystal layer to a side far from the liquid crystal layer, to prevent light leaking. The color of the plastic frame changes gradually from white to black from inside to outside, so as to reduce a thickness of the plastic frame while preventing light leaking. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371197 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes: a panel including a display screen and a side face that extends along a periphery of the display screen; a backlight located on a side of the panel opposite to the display screen to radiate light on the panel; a case, for containing the backlight, including a bottom that faces the panel with the backlight in between and a side wall that stands at a periphery of the bottom and faces the side face of the panel; and a combining member provided between the side face of the panel and the side wall to combine the panel and the case. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371198 | DISPLAY DEVICE - The present disclosure relates to a display device including a display module, cover bottom, a PCB, and a cover shield. The PCB includes a guide hole formed therethrough in a thickness direction and coupled to the cover bottom to be disposed on a rear surface of the cover bottom. The cover shield includes a guide protrusion configured to protrude from one surface at a position corresponding to the guide hole to be inserted into the guide hole and configured to be coupled to the cover bottom to cover the PCB. Accordingly, the cover shield is configured in such a way that the guide protrusion of the cover shield is inserted into the guide hole of the PCB interposed between the cover bottom and the cover shield while the cover shield is coupled to the cover bottom, thereby more easily and accurately guiding an assembly position of the cover shield. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371199 | DISPLAY DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a display device, including a first insulating, a first common electrode located on a side of the first insulating layer, a second common electrode being adjacent to the first common electrode, and a second insulating, wherein the first insulating layer is in contact with the second insulating layer at a position corresponding to the first boundary portion, the second common electrode is contact with any one of the first and second insulating layers at a position corresponding to the second boundary portion, and being in contact with both the first and second insulating layers at a position corresponding to the third boundary portion. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371200 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF COLOR RESIST LAYER - The invention provides a manufacturing method of color resist layer to manufacture the color resist layer by micro transfer printing (MTP), comprising forming a color resist thin film on a first substrate, using a MTP transfer stamp to adsorb a part of the color resist thin film to the plurality of protrusions of the MTP transfer stamp, and transferring the color resist thin film adsorbed by the plurality of protrusions of the MTP transfer stamp to the second substrate to form the color resist layer on the second substrate. The method uses the protrusions of the MTP transfer stamp to form the pattern to control the pattern of the color resist layer instead of exposure and development. No color resist material is wasted, the cost is reduced and the process is simple and widely applicable. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371201 | Optical Member Including Optical Fibers and Multi-Panel Display Device Including the Same - An optical member for a multi-panel display device includes a first optical member located on a first display device and including optical fibers; a second optical member located on a second display device neighboring the first display device and including optical fibers; and an optical fiber triangular bar located to overlap a region where the first and second optical members are adjacent to each other, and including optical fibers, wherein each of the first and second optical members includes a chamfer portion corresponding to the optical fiber triangular bar at the region where the first and second optical members are adjacent to each other. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371202 | DISPLAY PANEL AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR, DRIVE METHOD AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A display panel and a manufacturing method therefor, a drive method and a display device. The display panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate which are arranged opposite to each other. The first substrate includes a first base substrate, and a plurality of first wire grid polarizers and a plurality of pixel units, which are successively located on a side of the first base substrate facing the second substrate in an array arrangement; polarization directions of two adjacent first wire grid polarizers are perpendicular to each other. The second substrate includes: a second base substrate, and a plurality of second wire grid polarizers in an array arrangement which are located on a side of the second base substrate facing the first substrate, and polarization directions of two adjacent second wire grid polarizers are perpendicular to each other. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371203 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND CONTROLLING METHOD - A display device and a controlling method are disclosed to achieve peep-proof effect while increasing utilization rate of light. The display device includes a display panel including a first substrate, a second substrate and a plurality of display units, wherein a first light source is disposed on one side of the first substrate; light emitted by the first light source is incident onto the first substrate and propagated in the first substrate in a manner of total reflection; and a light adjusting structure is disposed on a surface of the first substrate close to the second substrate, and is configured to reduce a divergence angle of light emitted by each of the display units of the display panel. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371204 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND BONDING METHOD - A display device includes a display panel, a backlight under the display panel, and an adhesive placed so as to extend over a side face of the display panel and a side face of the backlight. An outer face of the adhesive opposite to a face of the adhesive bonded to the side face of the display panel and the side face of the backlight is formed as a flat face along one or both of the side face of the display panel and the side face of the backlight. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371205 | DOWNCONVERSION FILM ELEMENT - A downconversion film element comprises quantum dots and phosphor, wherein either (a) the quantum dots emit a peak red wavelength in a range from 615 to 660 nm and a FWHM of less than 50 nm, and the phosphor emits a peak green wavelength in a range from 515 to 555 nm and a FWHM of less than 80 nm and has an internal fluorescence quantum yield of 75% or greater or (b) the quantum dots emit a peak green wavelength in a range from 515 to 555 nm and a FWHM of less than 40 nm, and the phosphor emits a peak red wavelength in a range from 615 to 645 nm and a FWHM of less than 80 nm and has an internal fluorescence quantum yield of 75% or greater. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371206 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND BACKLIGHT MODULE - A display device including a display panel and a backlight module is provided. The backlight module is correspondingly disposed below the display panel and includes light-emitting elements providing light beams and disposed on a circuit board, lens units each being disposed on a corresponding light-emitting element and having a concave inside surface covering the corresponding light-emitting element and a convex outside surface covering the concave inside surface, and an inverse prism sheet disposed between the lens units and the display panel, and the inverse prism sheet having inverse prisms with a vertex corner. At least a portion of the light beams emitted from the convex outside surface each has a predetermined light-emitting angle θ | 2017-12-28 |
20170371207 | MATERIAL OF ALIGNMENT FILMS, METHODS OF FABRICATING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANELS AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANELS - The present application provides a material of alignment film, a method of fabricating a liquid crystal display panel, and a liquid crystal display panel. The material of alignment film of the present application is obtained by mixing a polymerizable monomer in the polyamic acid solution, thus is easy to fabricate. The method of fabricating the liquid crystal display panel of the present application obtains an alignment film including a polyimide film and polymer protrusions located on a surface of the polyimide film by coating the material of alignment film on a substrate, and going through a series of processes; the alignment film can allow liquid crystal molecules arrange in vertical alignment and generate a pre-inclination angle, and a risk of the polymerizable monomer contaminating the liquid crystal molecules does not exist, so as to enhance quality of the liquid crystal display panel. The liquid crystal display panel of the present application has a simple structure and good alignment effect, and has excellent display quality. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371208 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a first substrate, a thin film transistor (TFT), a pixel electrode, an organic layer, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. The TFT is disposed on the first substrate. The pixel electrode is electrically connected to the TFT. The pixel electrode includes side surfaces forming a first angle with respect to the first substrate. The organic layer substantially covers the side surfaces of the pixel electrode. The organic layer includes side surfaces forming a second angle with respect to the first substrate. The second angle is smaller than the first angle. The second substrate faces the first substrate. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371209 | PHOTO ALIGNMENT AGENT AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A photo alignment including a copolymer of a diamine and a dianhydride, wherein the copolymer includes a repeating unit including a first group derived from the diamine and a second group derived from the dianhydride, and wherein any one of the first group and the second group includes a photoreactive group and the other one of the first group and the second group includes at least one selected from a tert-butyl group, a tert-butoxy group, a tert-butyloxycarbonyl group, and a di-tert-butyloxycarbonyl group. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371210 | METHOD FOR PREPARING LIQUID CRYSTAL ALIGNMENT LAYER, LIQUID CRYSTAL ALIGNMENT LAYER, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A method for preparing a liquid crystal alignment layer, a liquid crystal alignment layer, and a display device. The method for preparing a liquid crystal alignment layer includes: S | 2017-12-28 |
20170371211 | MULTIPLE ALIGNMENT METHOD IN LIQUID CRYSTALLINE MEDIUM - A method is disclosed for realizing a liquid crystal tri-dimensional aligned structure, including: providing a first substrate having a first surface; forming a liquid crystal layer in contact to said first surface, said liquid crystal layer including a polymerizable liquid crystal compound; realizing a first aligning formation within said liquid crystal layer by irradiating a first portion of said liquid crystal layer with electromagnetic or electron beam radiation according to a given first pattern, so that said first portion of liquid crystal compound becomes polymerized and said first aligning formation is made of said polymerized liquid crystal compound according to said given first pattern, said first aligning structure defining a first aligning axis; locally orienting optical axes of molecules of said liquid crystal layer along said first aligning axis. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371212 | LIQUID CRYSTAL PIXEL STRUCTURE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A liquid crystal pixel structure is disclosed. The liquid crystal pixel structure includes: a pixel electrode, located in a pixel aperture. The pixel electrode has two or more display domains applied with the same voltage level. The pixel electrode extends in different directions in the display domains. A gate line is located at an intersection of the display domains. An edge of the intersection of the display domains overlaps the gate line. A data line is located at an edge of the pixel aperture. The pixel electrode is controlled by the gate line and the data line via a transistor. The aperture of the pixel structure is divided by the gate lines. Therefore, the edge of the display domains overlaps the gate lines. The dark line can be covered by the gate lines and thus the aperture rate and the transparent rate can be raised. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371213 | ARRAY SUBSTRATE AND DRIVE METHOD THEREOF, DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE - An array substrate and drive method thereof, a display panel and a display device. The array substrate includes: a base substrate; and a plurality of pixel units and a plurality of fingerprint identifying units located on the base substrate; each pixel unit including a plurality of sub-pixel units with color filters of different colors. Orthogonal projections of sub-pixel units on the base substrate and orthogonal projections of fingerprint identifying units on the base substrate are arranged in an matrix. The array substrate can prevent interference between the fingerprint recognition signal and the display signal. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371214 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A liquid crystal includes first and second substrates, the first substrate including intersecting data lines and scan lines. A liquid crystal layer is sandwiched therebetween. Also, a plurality of sub-pixels districted by data lines and gate lines, and arranged along the long-axis and the short-axis directions in a matrix. A pixel electrode in the sub-pixels includes a central portion. A common electrode including linear electrodes arranged along the data lines and disposed with gaps therebetween. Sub-pixels are bent at the center portion, such that the linear electrodes or the gaps in both sides of the sub-pixels are inclined in opposite directions with respect to the long-axis direction. At least one of the linear electrodes or at least one of the gaps has a bent portion at the central portion of the respective pixel electrode. The common electrode is provided on liquid crystal layer side over the pixel electrode. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371215 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The liquid crystal display device includes: a TFT substrate including scanning lines extending in a first direction and being arranged in a second direction, Video signal lines extending in the second direction and being arranged in the first direction, pixel electrodes arranged in regions surrounded by the scanning lines and the video signal lines, and common electrodes formed with an insulating film arranged between the common electrodes and the pixel electrodes; a counter substrate opposed to the TFT substrate; and a liquid. crystal. The first common electrode extends between the first and second scanning lines in the first direction, and the second common electrode extends between the second and third scanning lines in the first direction. The first and second common electrodes are electrically connected by a bridge. The bridge covers the first video signal line without covering the second video signal line, when seen in a plan view. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371216 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL - The liquid crystal display panel includes: storage capacitors respectively provided for a plurality of pixels on a substrate; a plurality of storage capacitor lines | 2017-12-28 |
20170371217 | POLARISATION-INDEPENDENT, OPTICAL MULTIPLEXING AND DEMULTIPLEXING SYSTEMS BASED ON FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTAL PHASE MODULATORS FOR SPATIAL MODE DIVISION MULTIPLEXING AND DEMULTIPLEXING - We describe a multimode reconfigurable optical spatial mode multiplexing system having first and second first and second input beams and a beam combiner to combine these into an optical output. At least one of the paths comprises a polarisation-independent reconfigurable phase modulator to impose a controllable phase profile on an input beam in an input beam phase modulating optical path, to controllably convert a spatial mode order of the input beam from a lower to a higher order spatial mode. The system also has a control input to control the phase modulator to configure the phase profile for the mode conversion. The input beams are combined into a multiple spatial mode combined beam output independent of a polarisation of the input beams. The number of spatial modes of the combined beam can be more than a number of spatial modes in either of the first and second input beams separately. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371218 | MITIGATING DEFECTS IN AN ELECTROCHROMIC DEVICE UNDER A BUS BAR - Methods are provided for fabricating electrochromic devices that mitigate formation of short circuits under a top bus bar without predetermining where top bus bars will be applied on the device. Devices fabricated using such methods may be deactivated under the top bus bar, or may include active material under the top bus bar. Methods of fabricating devices with active material under a top bus bar include depositing a modified top bus bar, fabricating self-healing layers in the electrochromic device, and modifying a top transparent conductive layer of the device prior to applying bus bars. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371219 | DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed is a high quality display device which avoids complicated element structure, and does not unnecessarily reduce portability. The display device comprises: a pair of substrates which are disposed facing each other, and on each of which electrodes are formed; and a material layer which is sandwiched between the pair of substrates. The material layer contains: a coloring material which changes color upon the application of a voltage; and a light-emitting material which emits light upon photoexcitation. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371220 | SMART WINDOW - The present disclosure provides a smart window including a first base layer and a second base layer positioned to face each other; a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer respectively positioned at inner surfaces of the first base layer and the second base layer; and an electrolyte layer interposed between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer, wherein the first conductive layer includes a plurality of first nanostructures, and the second conductive layer includes a plurality of second nanostructures having a different average length from the plurality of first nanostructures. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371221 | COUNTER ELECTRODE FOR ELECTROCHROMIC DEVICES - The embodiments herein relate to electrochromic stacks, electrochromic devices, and methods and apparatus for making such stacks and devices. In various embodiments, an anodically coloring layer in an electrochromic stack or device is fabricated to include nickel tungsten tantalum oxide (NiWTaO). This material is particularly beneficial in that it is very transparent in its clear state. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371222 | THERMAL CONTROL OF VARIABLE TRANSMITTANCE WINDOWS - An electrical control system for controlling a variable transmittance window is disclosed. The system comprises a driver circuit in communication with an electro-optic element. A controller is in communication with the driver circuit. The controller is configured to identify a temperature condition of the electro-optic element and adjust an output voltage supplied to the electro-optic element in response to the temperature condition. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371223 | Controlling Transitions in Optically Switchable Devices - The embodiments herein relate to methods for controlling an optical transition in an optically switchable device, and optically switchable devices configured to perform such methods. In various embodiments, non-optical (e.g., electrical) feedback is used to help control an optical transition. The feedback may be used for a number of different purposes. In many implementations, the feedback is used to control an ongoing optical transition. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371224 | ELECTRICALLY CONTROLLED INTERFERENCE COLOR FILTER AND THE USE THEREOF - The invention relates to an electrically controlled interference colour filter comprising at least two transparent electrodes, at least one nematic liquid crystal layer and alignment layers for alignment of the liquid crystals. When an electrical field is applied the liquid crystals can be realigned and thus the transmission wavelength range of the interference colour filter can be shifted. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371225 | VIEWING ANGLE CONTROLLING LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - A viewing angle controlling light source device and a display apparatus are provided. The viewing angle controlling light source device includes a base substrate; a light emitting array arranged on the base substrate, wherein the light emitting array includes a plurality of light emitting units; at least one liquid crystal lens array arranged on the light emitting array, wherein the liquid crystal lens array includes a plurality of liquid crystal lens units corresponding to the light emitting units one by one, each liquid crystal lens unit includes a first electrode and a second electrode, and a liquid crystal layer arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode a light emergent direction of light emitted by the light emitting unit after the light transmitting through the liquid crystal lens unit by regulating a voltage difference between the first electrode and the second electrode. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371226 | OPTICAL DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - According to embodiments of the present invention, an optical device is provided. The optical device includes a waveguide structure including a floating gate, and an optical waveguide arranged spaced apart from the floating gate, wherein the optical waveguide overlaps with the floating gate, a carrier injection portion arranged spaced apart from the floating gate, and an electrode arrangement, wherein, in response to a first voltage difference applied to the electrode arrangement, the optical device is configured to inject charge carriers from the carrier injection portion to the floating gate to cause a change in refractive index of the waveguide structure, and wherein, in response to a second voltage difference applied to the electrode arrangement, the optical device is configured to drive the charge carriers from the floating gate to the optical waveguide to deplete the charge carriers. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371227 | Methods and Systems for Optical Beam Steering - An integrated optical beam steering device includes a planar dielectric lens that collimates beams from different inputs in different directions within the lens plane. It also includes an output coupler, such as a grating or photonic crystal, that guides the collimated beams in different directions out of the lens plane. A switch matrix controls which input port is illuminated and hence the in-plane propagation direction of the collimated beam. And a tunable light source changes the wavelength to control the angle at which the collimated beam leaves the plane of the substrate. The device is very efficient, in part because the input port (and thus in-plane propagation direction) can be changed by actuating only log | 2017-12-28 |
20170371228 | ENHANCED PHOTOLUMINESCENCE - Described embodiments include a plasmonic apparatus and method. The plasmonic apparatus includes a substrate having a first negative-permittivity layer comprising a first plasmonic surface. The plasmonic apparatus includes a plasmonic nanoparticle having a base with a second negative-permittivity layer comprising a second plasmonic surface. The plasmonic apparatus includes a dielectric-filled gap between the first plasmonic surface and the second plasmonic surface. The plasmonic apparatus includes a plasmonic cavity created by an assembly of the first plasmonic surface, the second plasmonic surface, and the dielectric-filled gap, and having a spectrally separated first fundamental resonant cavity wavelength λ | 2017-12-28 |
20170371229 | COMPACT INFRARED BROADBAND SOURCE - A device for the generation of supercontinuum in infrared fiber with a pump light comprising a microchip laser operating with a wavelength of 1.0 μm or greater that can be wavelength shifted though a nonlinear element to a wavelength beyond the two-photon absorption of the infrared fiber and launched into infrared fiber whereby the spectrum is broadened in the infrared fiber through various nonlinear processes to generate a supercontinuum within the mid-IR from 2 to 14 μm. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371230 | CAMERA MODULE ASSEMBLY WITH MOVABLE REFLECTIVE ELEMENTS - A camera apparatus is described that includes a frame housing and a camera module affixed to the frame housing. The camera module may include a lens and an image sensor. The camera apparatus may include a reflective element and a motor. The reflective element may be disposed within the frame housing, the reflective element being movable relative to the lens to select a direction from which the lens collects light. The motor may be adapted to move the reflective element in response to detecting a magnetic field change generated by at least one magnet disposed within the frame housing. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371231 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes an imaging element, an imaging lens, an AF controller, an image synthesis unit, and a display. The imaging element captures multiple images of an object to obtain a plurality of image data. The imaging lens includes a focus lens and is used for generating an image of the object in the imaging element. The AF controller controls a focus state of the imaging lens. The image synthesis unit synthesizes a region with a large amount of blurriness in image data of a current frame and a region with a small amount of blurriness in image data of a preceding frame obtained before the image data of the current frame, among the plurality of image data obtained by the imaging element by the plurality of times of image capturing during the drive of the focus lens. The display displays an image synthesized by the image synthesis unit. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371232 | ANTI-SHAKE COMPENSATION STRUCTURE FOR AUTO-FOCUS - An anti-shake compensation structure is provided. The anti-shake compensation structure includes an auto-focus module driving a lens to move along a light entering path of the lens. The auto-focus module includes a lens holder holding the lens, a coil adjacent to the lens holder, and a magnet corresponding to the coil. The anti-shake compensation structure further includes an outer frame supporting the lens holder, and a compensation driving unit driving the lens to sway relative to the outer frame along a direction not parallel to the light entering path. The compensation driving unit includes a compensation coil corresponding to the magnet. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371233 | COOLING DEVICE AND PROJECTOR USING THE SAME - A cooling device for an emitting module of a projector includes a base, a guiding portion installed on the base, and a latch portion installed on the base. The guiding portion includes a positioning plate secured on one side of the base and a guiding plate secured on the other side of the base. The positioning plate and the guiding plate are foldable relative to the base to be connected with each other and so define an inlet channel. Air flow can pass through the inlet channel to cool the emitting module. The latch portion is configured to form an outlet in different directions to adjust a direction and strength of the air flow. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371234 | WAVELENGTH CONVERSION DEVICE, LIGHTING DEVICE, AND PROJECTOR - A wavelength conversion device includes a wavelength conversion element configured to convert at least a part of incident excitation light into converted light having a wavelength different from a wavelength of the excitation light and emit the converted light and a substrate connected to the wavelength conversion element in a crossing direction crossing an incident direction of the excitation light on the wavelength conversion element and configured to radiate heat transferred from the wavelength conversion element. A dimension of the substrate along the incident direction is larger than a dimension of the wavelength conversion element along the incident direction. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371235 | VEHICLE ILLUMINATION DEVICE - A projection mechanism of a vehicle projection device projects a graphic of a graphic film toward an outer side of a vehicle. A projection direction of the graphic from the projection mechanism is inclined with respect to a rotation axis of the projection mechanism. Thus, by manually rotating a dial to rotate the projection mechanism about the rotation axis, the projection direction of the graphic from the projection mechanism can be altered, and the projection position of the graphic from the projection mechanism can be altered. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371236 | LIGHT SOURCE SYSTEM AND PROJECTION SYSTEM - A light source system and a projection system, comprising a light source; a switching system switching light emitted by the light source into at least two light beams having a preset proportion in the manner of time division or light intensity division; a color wheel assembly located in a transmission light path of each light beam of the at least two light beams, with the color wheel assembly generating light having different colors and a preset proportion under the irradiation of each light beam of the at least two light beams, and light of different colors being able to synthesize a projection image after being modulated by a light modulation system, wherein the switching system can adjust the proportion of the at least two light beams according to the parameters of the projection image, so as to adjust the proportion of the light of different colors. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371237 | PROJECTION METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ROBOT - The present invention provides a projection method for a robot, the method comprises: receiving a playing command, according to a preset path, obtaining depth data of a projection area corresponding to the robot currently; according to a variation value of the depth data, determining whether the projection area is a flat surface; when the projection area is the flat surface, playing a film according to the playing command. The robot in the present invention can automatically search for the projection area that meets a projection requirement according to depth information of the projection area, such that operation procedures for a user can be greatly reduced, and an applicability of the user can be improved. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371238 | MASK FOR PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SUBSTRATE USING THE SAME - A mask for photolithography includes: a transparent substrate; a phase shift pattern on the transparent substrate and configured to change a phase of light; a dielectric layer on the transparent substrate; and a negative refractive-index meta material layer on the dielectric layer. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371239 | Method and Apparatus for Pellicle Removal - A method and apparatus for removing a pellicle from a photomask wherein the adhesive between the pellicle frame and photomask is cooled sufficiently to allow the adhesive property of the adhesive to diminish to the point where the adhesive will release from the photomask with little or no mechanical force and leaving minimal adhesive on the photomask. The adhesive is cooled by way of manifolds containing coolant being brought in contact with the pellicle frame or by way of a coolant spray nozzles spraying coolant directly onto the pellicle frame. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371240 | IMPRINT RESIST WITH FLUORINATED PHOTOINITIATOR AND SUBSTRATE PRETREATMENT FOR REDUCING FILL TIME IN NANOIMPRINT LITHOGRAPHY - A nanoimprint lithography method includes disposing a pretreatment composition including a polymerizable component on a substrate to form a pretreatment coating. Discrete imprint resist portions are disposed on the pretreatment coating, with each discrete portion of the imprint resist covering a target area of the substrate. The imprint resist is a polymerizable composition and includes a fluorinated photoinitiator. A composite polymerizable coating is formed on the substrate as each discrete portion of the imprint resist spreads beyond its target area. The composite polymerizable coating includes a mixture of the pretreatment composition and the imprint resist. The composite polymerizable coating is contacted with a template, and is polymerized to yield a composite polymeric layer on the substrate. The interfacial surface energy between the pretreatment composition and air exceeds the interfacial surface energy between the imprint resist and air or between at least a component of the imprint resist and air. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371241 | RESIST COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR FORMING RESIST PATTERN - A resist composition containing a resin component having a structural unit represented by general formula (a0-1), and a compound represented by general formula (b1). In general formula (a0-1), R is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, or a halogenated alkyl group. Va | 2017-12-28 |
20170371242 | COMPOSITION FOR FORMING SILICON-CONTAINING RESIST UNDERLAYER FILM REMOVABLE BY WET PROCESS - The object of the present invention is to provide resist underlayer film-forming composition for forming resist underlayer film usable as hard mask and removable by wet etching process using chemical solution such as sulfuric acid/hydrogen peroxide. A resist underlayer film-forming composition for lithography comprises a component (A) and component (B), the component (A) includes a hydrolyzable silane, hydrolysis product thereof, or hydrolysis-condensation product thereof, the hydrolyzable silane includes hydrolyzable silane of Formula (1):R | 2017-12-28 |
20170371243 | MICRON PATTERNED SILICONE HARD-COATED POLYMER (SHC-P) SURFACES - In this invention use of silicone hard-coated polycarbonate (SHC-PC) as direct photo definable, thermally, chemically and optically stable polymer that can be patterned using conventional microfabrication and drying etching process is reported. As a result of the increased resistance to thermal and chemical deformations and flow of the silicone hard-coated polycarbonate (SHC-PC), it has been shown for the first time that the illustrated process herein to be compatible with a variety of conventional thin film deposition, micro and nano fabrication approaches such as metal evaporation, photoresist deposition/developing and electroplating that are typically incompatible to polycarbonate. As such high optical clarity surfaces with ultra-hydrophobic-hydrophilic properties with well-defined micro and nano patterned surface features of high surface roughness were fabricated with high fidelity. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371244 | COMPOSITION FOR FORMING UPPER LAYER FILM, PATTERN FORMING METHOD, RESIST PATTERN, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A composition for forming an upper layer film is applied onto a resist film formed using an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition, and includes a resin X and a compound A having a radical trapping group. A pattern forming method includes applying an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition onto a substrate to form a resist film, applying the composition for forming an upper layer film onto the resist film to form an upper layer film on the resist film, exposing the resist film having the upper layer film formed thereon, and developing the exposed resist film using a developer including an organic solvent to form a pattern. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371245 | SUBSTRATE TREATING APPARATUS AND SUBSTRATE TREATING METHOD - A substrate treating apparatus and a substrate treating method are provided. The substrate treating apparatus comprises: a process chamber; a support member positioned in an inner space of the process chamber to support the substrate; an exhaust line provided to communicate with the interior of the process chamber; an exhaust member for providing a suction pressure to the exhaust line; and a controller for controlling the exhaust member when dividing the substrate treating step in which the treating for the substrate is performed into the first treating step and the second treating step, a difference is generated between the pressure that the exhaust member provides to the exhaust line in the first treating step and the pressure that the exhaust member provides to the exhaust line in the second treating step. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371246 | BIAS CORRECTION FOR LITHOGRAPHY - Methods include inputting an array of pixels, where each pixel in the array of pixels has a pixel dose. The array of pixels represents dosage on a surface to be exposed with a plurality of patterns, each pattern of the plurality of patterns having an edge. A target bias is input. An edge of a pattern in the plurality of patterns is identified. For each pixel which is in a neighborhood of the identified edge, a calculated pixel dose is calculated such that the identified edge is relocated by the target bias. The array of pixels with the calculated pixel doses is output. Systems for performing the methods are also disclosed. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371247 | New Surface Treatment Method for Dielectric Anti-Reflective Coating (DARC) to Shrink Photoresist Critical Dimension (CD) - A KrF (248 nm) photoresist patterning process flow is disclosed wherein photoresist patterns having a sub-100 nm CD are formed on a dielectric antireflective coating (DARC) thereby lowering cost of ownership by replacing a more expensive ArF (193 nm) photoresist patterning process. A key feature is treatment of a DARC such as SiON with a photoresist developer solution that is 0.263 N tetramethylammonium hydroxide (TMAH) prior to treatment with hexamethyldisilazane (HMDS) in order to significantly improve adhesion of features with CD down to about 60 nm. After the HMDS treatment, a photoresist layer is coated on the DARC, patternwise exposed, and treated with the photoresist developer solution to form a pattern therein. Features that were previously resolved by KrF patterning processes but subsequently collapsed because of poor adhesion, now remain upright and intact during a subsequent etch process used to transfer the sub-100 nm features into a substrate. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371248 | OPTICAL ILLUMINATION SYSTEM - Systems and methods are provided that combine an amplitude modulation SLM with a phase modulating SLM in the same optical illumination system. The combination of the amplitude modulation SLM and the phase modulation SLM allows the optical illumination to compensate for the limitations of amplitude modulation SLM by using phase modulating SLM and conversely to compensate for the limitations of phase modulation SLM by using amplitude modulating SLM. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371249 | EXPOSURE APPARATUS AND EXPOSURE METHOD, AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A movable body apparatus moves an object and includes a measurement member in a cantilevered supported state; a moving member having a holding section of the object and a space section into which the measurement member can be inserted; a measurement system that measures positional information of the moving member by irradiating a grating member with a measurement beam via a head and receiving light of the measurement beam from the grating member, the head being provided at one of the measurement member and the moving member, and the grating member being provided at the other of the measurement member and the moving member; and a drive system that moves the moving member based on the positional information. The measurement member has a cross-sectional shape in which its fixed end is thicker than its free end. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371250 | METHODS OF MANUFACTURING PHOTOMASKS, METHODS OF INSPECTING PHOTOMASKS, AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES - Methods of inspecting photomasks are provided. A method of inspecting a photomask includes electronically inspecting a first mask pattern in a mask region of the photomask and refraining from electronically inspecting a separate second mask pattern in the mask region of the photomask. The first mask pattern includes a geometric feature that corresponds to at least a portion of the second mask pattern. Moreover, the mask region is outside of a scribe lane region of the photomask. Related methods of manufacturing photomasks and methods of manufacturing semiconductor devices are also provided. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371251 | PROJECTION EXPOSURE TOOL FOR MICROLITHOGRAPHY AND METHOD FOR MICROLITHOGRAPHIC IMAGING - A projection exposure tool for microlithography for imaging mask structures of an image-providing substrate onto a substrate to be structured includes a measuring apparatus configured to determine a relative position of measurement structures disposed on a surface of one of the substrates in relation to one another in at least one lateral direction with respect to the substrate surface and to thereby simultaneously measure a number of measurement structures disposed laterally offset in relation to one another. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371252 | PATTERN FORMING APPARATUS AND PATTERN FORMING METHOD, MOVABLE BODY DRIVE SYSTEM AND MOVABLE BODY DRIVE METHOD, EXPOSURE APPARATUS AND EXPOSURE METHOD, AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A controller of an exposure apparatus ( | 2017-12-28 |
20170371253 | EXPOSURE APPARATUS, EXPOSURE METHOD, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING DEVICE - An exposure apparatus includes a projection optical system having a last optical element via which an exposure beam is projected to a projection area, and a liquid supply system having a first supply port and a second supply port via which an immersion liquid is supplied to form a liquid immersion area. The first supply port is arranged on one side of the projection area in a scanning direction, and the second supply port is arranged on the other side of the projection area in the scanning direction, the first and second supply ports facing downwardly. A plurality of shot areas of a substrate are successively exposed with the exposure beam through the liquid immersion area covering only a portion of an upper surface of the substrate. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371254 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTORECEPTOR AND IMAGE FORMATION DEVICE - An electrophotographic photoreceptor comprising at least a photosensitive layer on a conductive substrate, wherein the photosensitive layer is a laminate having a charge transport layer and a charge generation layer, the charge transport layer contains four or more types of compounds each having a maximum absorption wavelength falling within a wavelength range of from 300 nm to 600 nm in a tetrahydrofuran solution at 25° C., and maximum absorption wavelengths falling within the wavelength range of at least four types of the compounds of said four or more types of the compounds are separated from each other by 10 nm or more. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371255 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING TONER FOR ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPMENT - The present invention relates to a process for producing a toner for development of electrostatic images, including step (1) of mixing a releasing agent and a water dispersion of resin particles (A) to obtain a water dispersion of releasing agent particles; step (2) of mixing the obtained water dispersion of the releasing agent particles and a water dispersion of resin particles (B) to aggregate the releasing agent particles and the resin particles (B), thereby obtaining aggregated particles; and step (3) of coalescing the obtained aggregated particles to obtain coalesced particles, in which the resin particles (A) include a composite resin including a segment (a1) constituted of a polyester resin and a vinyl-based resin segment (a2) containing a constitutional unit derived from a styrene-based compound; and a resin constituting the resin particles (B) includes a segment (b1) constituted of a polyester resin in an amount of not less than 50% by mass. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371256 | ELECTROSTATIC LATENT IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER - An object of the present invention is to provide an electrostatic latent image developing toner containing: a binder resin; and a releasing agent, wherein the binder resin contains a crystalline polyester resin; an endothermic peak top temperature of the electrostatic latent image developing toner is 70° C. or more measured with differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) in a heating-up period of the toner; and a heat value ΔH | 2017-12-28 |
20170371257 | LAYERED INORGANIC MINERAL, TONER, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A layered inorganic mineral including a surface treated with a fluorine-containing compound, where the layered inoganic mineral that can be favorably used for a toner that is excellent in high charging ability, charging stability, and low temperature fixing ability, and that can exhibits high reliability during cleaning. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371258 | ELECTROSTATIC LATENT IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER - An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes toner particles each including a core and a shell layer. The shell layer is a collection of resin particles having the same composition (primary particle diameter of at least 90% by number of the resin particles: 20 nm-30 nm). The shell layer includes a first shell layer, which is a film including the resin particles in a non-aggregated state, and a second shell layer, which is a plurality of particle aggregates (secondary particle diameter of at least 90% by number of the particle aggregates: 100 nm-150 nm). The particle aggregates each include the resin particles in an aggregated state. The surface of the core is entirely covered with the shell layer. The second shell layer is present in a surface of the toner particle in a proportion of at least 5% by area and no greater than 15% by area. | 2017-12-28 |
20170371259 | ELECTROSTATIC LATENT IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER - An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes toner particles each including a toner core ( | 2017-12-28 |