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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7399498 | Material composition for producing optical waveguide and method for producing optical waveguide A transparent vessel is filled with a mixture solution containing a first photo-curable resin of a low refractive index and a second photo-curable resin of a high refractive index different in curing mechanism. When light at a wavelength capable of curing the first ... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7399560 | Method for manufacturing mask, method for manufacturing wiring pattern, and method for manufacturing plasma display A method for manufacturing a mask includes performing a lyophobic treatment on at least one surface of a translucent substrate; disposing a light-shielding material on the surface subjected to the lyophobic treatment of the translucent substrate in a desired shape b... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7396637 | Method for manufacturing electroluminescent element A main object of the present invention is to provide a method for manufacturing an EL element which can avoid a state which plural unnecessary layers are laminated on each pattern-formed light-emitting portion when the light-emitting portions are formed by photolith... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7393404 | Pigment dispersants and their use A pigment dispersant contains the following component (a) alone or the following components (a) and (b) in combination: Component (a): a composite pigment formed of a diketopyrrolopyrrole pigment having a sulfonic group and another diketopyrrolopyrrole pigmen... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7393618 | Composition for color converting member and production method of color conversion substrate using the same A color conversion member composition (10) including (A) a color filter material (1), (B) a photoluminescent inorganic nanocrystal (3), (C) a medium (5), and (D) two or more solvents (5), wherein all of the solvents (D) are good solvents for one of the color filter ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7393623 | Incorporation of markings in optical media Optical media having markings that are non-interfering, or substantially non-interfering with readout of data from the optical media are disclosed. The optical media make use of certain formulations of color forming coatings described herein. Protective coatings use... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7390617 | Selective light absorption shifting layer and process The invention includes a process for forming a laser pixel array useful with a pump-beam, comprising: a) forming a layer containing a formamide of an amino dye compound on a support wherein the layer absorbs light outside the laser... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7390618 | Manufacturing method of microstructure, manufacturing method and manufacturing device of electronic device Minute structures are obtained by exposing a process target material and changing the shape thereof by relatively shifting a laser beam or electron beam against the process target material and simultaneously repeating irradiation in an intermittent manner. A plurali... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7384724 | Method for fabricating optical devices in photonic crystal structures A method for manufacturing optical components in a three-dimensional photonic crystal lattice. A first resist (9) is coated on a substrate (10) and exposed to an e-beam (11), to produce an imaged area (12). Another resist coating is appli... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7381507 | Photo-patterned light polarizing films This invention relates to methods for preparing photo-patterned mono- or polychromatic, polarizing films. The polarizer can be pixelated into a number of small regions wherein some of the regions have one orientation of the principal neutral or color absorbing axis;... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7377831 | Plasma display panel and method of manufacturing the same The present invention relates to a plasma display panel, and more particularly, to a plasma display panel and method of manufacturing the same in which a manufacturing process is simple. To this end, in a plasma display panel according to an embodiment of the presen... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7372497 | Effective method to improve sub-micron color filter sensitivity An image sensor device and method for forming said device are described. The image sensor structure comprises a substrate with photodiodes, an interconnect structure formed on the substrate, a color filter layer above the interconnect structure, a first microlens ar... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7371508 | Plasma display panel and method for fabricating the same A plasma display panel in which projections are formed in grooves between partitions and phosphor layers are provided on the projections so as to increase the area where phosphor adheres and thereby to increase the luminance. A couple of substrates are opposed to ea... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372630 | Laser, irradiation apparatus, laser irradiation method, and method for manufacturing semiconductor device Providing a method and apparatus for efficiently irradiating a uniform laser light on an irradiation surface even when a laser light of high coherence or a large size substrate is used. The laser irradiation apparatus of the invention comprises a laser; means for di... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369915 | Device, system and method for accurate printing of three dimensional objects A system and method for building three dimensional objects may adjust data used to build the objects to, for example, improve quality or correct for defects. A printer may, for example, accept data representing the object and modify the data according to an adjustme... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7368222 | Optical data storage media with enhanced contrast Disclosed is an optical data storage medium with enhanced contrast. The optical data storage medium includes a substrate having oppositely facing first and second surfaces. A first metal/alloy layer is formed overlaying the first surface of the substrate. The first ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7368744 | Photon sieve for optical systems in micro-lithography The use of photon sieves may be as a pupil defining element in an illumination system; a field of defining elements in an illumination system; a pupil lens element in a projection lens; a color correction system in the projection system; or as a transmitting diffrac... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7368514 | Siloxane monomer containing trifluorovinylether group and sol-gel hybrid polymer prepared by using the same The present invention relates to a siloxane monomer containing a trifluorovinylether group and a sol-gel hybrid polymer prepared using the monomer, more particularly to siloxane monomer with novel structure prepared by reacting alkoxychlorosilane with a Grignard rea... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7364838 | Gray level imaging masks, optical imaging apparatus for gray level imaging masks and methods for encoding mask and use of the masks A grayscale mask for imaging operations, including a substrate layer and a mask layer having a plurality of apertures forming a mask pattern to form a grayscale image. Each edge of each aperture includes a plurality segments forming a serrated edge, resulting in mix... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7361709 | Colored composition, method of manufacturing color filter, and method of manufacturing black matrix substrate A colored composition contains a colorant carrier including a transparent resin, a precursor thereof, or a mixture of the transparent resin and the precursor, a colorant, and an organic liquid medium. The organic liquid medium consists of an organic solvent (a) havi... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362665 | Seek method of optical disks and optical storage device An optical disk includes a first area, a second area having time information undistinguishable from time information of the first area and a third area having unique time information. The third area is divided into a plurality of sub-areas. Peculiar zone numbers are... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7361450 | Photosensitive resins, resin compositions and products of curing thereof A photosensitive resin (A) consisting substantially of a product obtained by reacting a polyester (c) which is a reaction product of a polyol (a) with a tetrabasic acid dianhydride (b) with a compound (d) having an ethylenically unsaturated group and an epoxy group ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7361379 | Method of registering a spacer with a conducting track A method of producing a relief structure on a patterned conductor comprises the steps of; coating a layer of conductive material onto a transparent substrate, coating a layer of metal onto the layer of conductive material, coating a layer of photoresist onto the lay... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7361456 | Method of manufacturing master disk, apparatus of manufacturing master disk, method of detecting moving distance difference of master disk, and apparatus of detecting moving distance difference of master disk A method is provided for manufacturing a master disk in which there is precise feeding accuracy of the master disk by using a horizontally moving device which moves with curvature. The method of manufacturing a master disk includes the steps of rotating a resist mas... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356921 | Method for forming a conductive layer pattern A method for forming a conductive layer pattern by selectively depositing droplets containing conductive material onto a porous receiving layer. Much of the conductive material is left on the surface for forming wiring patterns but some of it permeates the pockets o... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7358013 | Method for manufacturing cholesteric liquid crystal reflective coding plate A method for manufacturing a reflective coding plate is provided. The method includes steps of providing a first substrate, forming a mixture layer on the first substrate, providing a second substrate on the mixture layer and thereby a sandwich structure is formed, ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7358036 | Photosensitive composition for manufacturing optical waveguide, production method thereof and polymer optical waveguide pattern formation method using the same A photosensitive composition for optical waveguides comprising of an organic oligomer, a polymerization initiator and a crosslinking agent, the organic oligomer being a silicone oligomer represented by the following formula (1), wherein X denotes hydrogen, deuterium... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7358672 | Plasma display panel with light-shield The plasma display panel disclosed has a front substrate and a rear substrate positioned to face each other. The front substrate includes display electrodes provided with scan electrodes and sustain electrodes, and a light-shield provided on a non-discharge area bet... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7357990 | Polymeric fluorescent material, process for producing the same, and polymeric luminiscent element A method for producing a polymeric fluorescent substance characterized by comprising the step of contacting with an alkali a crude polymeric fluorescent substance that is fluorescent in a solid state and has a polystyrene equivalent number average molecular weight o... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7354700 | Method for manufacturing insulating resin layer, substrate for electro-optical devices, method for manufacturing electro-optical device, and electro-optical device The invention provides a method for manufacturing an insulating layer for electro-optical devices, wherein the insulating layer contains an insulating material used for electro-optical devices and is not deteriorated in display property. The method for manufacturing... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7354694 | Styryl dye The present invention provides styryl dyes which have absorption maxima at a wavelength of 400 nm or less and are sensitive to a laser beam with a wavelength of 450 nm or less, light absorbents and optical recording media which comprise the styryl dyes, and a proces... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7351519 | Patterning of indium-tin oxide (ITO) for precision-cutting and aligning a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel A method of improved patterning of indium-tin oxide (ITO) for precision-cutting and aligning a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel includes depositing a transparent ITO layer upon a transparent substrate, depositing a non-transparent plating layer upon the transparen... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7351520 | Micro-lens array and manufacturing method thereof A micro-lens array and manufacturing method. A hybrid micro-lens in which a refractive lens and a diffraction lens are formed includes: a refractive lens; a first ultraviolet hardening material which is bonded on a curved surface of the refractive lens to form an as... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352384 | Method for printing a near field photoinduced stable structure, and optical fibre tip for implementing same The invention generally concerns a method involving emitting polarization light waves through an aperture with a dimension of maximum size lower than or equal to 100 nm, wherein the aperture is circumferentially bound by an opaque area that prevents the light waves ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349158 | Diffraction grating-based encoded micro-particles for multiplexed experiments Microparticles 8 includes an optical substrate 10 having at least one diffraction grating 12 disposed therein. The grating 12 having a plurality of colocated pitches Λ which represent a unique identification digital code that is detected... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7344826 | Method for forming a capacitor In a method for forming a photoresist pattern, a method for forming a capacitor, and a capacitor manufactured using the same, a light is selectively irradiated onto a selected portion of a photoresist film formed on a substrate. An interfered light generated from th... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7341826 | Method for fabricating a patterned core for a light guide plate A method for fabricating a patterned core for a light guide plate includes: providing a substrate (500); coating a photo-resist layer (600) on the substrate; exposing the photo-resist layer to light using a photo-mask (700), the photo-mask havin... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343055 | Low bias drift modulator with buffer layer The invention relates to an electro-optic modulator structure containing an additional set of bias electrodes buried within the device for applying bias to set the operating point. Thus the RF electrodes used to modulate incoming optical signals can be operated with... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7338754 | Micro-lens array substrate and production method therefor, and projection type liquid crystal display unit using those In a micro-lens array substrate (12) that includes first and second micro-lens arrays (6, 7) respectively having a plurality of lenses, the first micro-lens array (6) is sandwiched between two inorganic dielectric substrates (21, 24), and... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339155 | CMOS image sensor and method for fabricating the same A CMOS image sensor and a method for fabricating the same are disclosed, in which light-shielding layers are formed in trenches to improve photosensitivity of the image sensor and simplify its process steps. The CMOS image sensor includes a plurality of photodiodes ... | 03/04/2008 |
