Did You Know...
...that the inventor of the electric motor was a blacksmith named Thomas Davenport? Described as "a brilliantly unsuccessful inventor", Davenport invented the first rotary electric motor. In 1836 he headed out -- on foot -- from his Vermont home to file a patent application at the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. By the time he got there, he had squandered away his money and couldn't afford the $30 filing fee so he turned around and went home. When he later mailed in his application with money he'd raised, the Patent office was destroyed in a fire. He did finally get credit for his invention on Feb. 5, 1837.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189149 | Liquid crystal panel and liquid crystal display apparatus A liquid crystal panel has a first optical film (4) adhered to a viewing side of a liquid crystal cell (2) through a first pressure-sensitive adhesive layer (3), and a second optical film (6) adhered to the reverse side of the liquid crys... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8164723 | Liquid crystal display having a thin gasket and method for manufacturing the same A liquid crystal display device includes a substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a liquid crystal alignment layer between the substrate and the liquid crystal layer, a barrier layer between the liquid crystal alignment layer and the liquid crystal layer, and a gasket f... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8134667 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel having a first substrate, a second substrate disposed on an observer side of the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate, and ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8077278 | Flexible display device with dilatant fluid A display device is provide, which includes a supporting substrate, a flexible display provided with a transparent display substrate formed above the supporting substrate, and a dilatant fluid accommodating member. The dilatant fluid accommodating member is disposed... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8045108 | Liquid crystal display device To provide a liquid crystal display device in which it is possible, with a simple configuration, to avoid a bright spot defect caused by a polishing flaw, called a dimple, formed in a surface of an observer side substrate of a liquid crystal display panel. A ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045109 | Liquid crystal display device operated with an in-plane switching system and manufacturing method thereof Provided are a method of manufacturing liquid crystal display device possessing transparent conductive layer exhibiting excellent optical transparency, resistance characteristic, evenness, adhesion to substrate, and hardness, and liquid crystal display device thereo... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8040476 | Display device and method of producing the same The display device includes a pair of insulating substrates arranged so as to be opposed, a bonding layer, and a strain suppressing plate. The bonding layer is provided on the outer surface side of one insulating substrate. The strain suppressing plate has rigidity ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8023082 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device includes: a first substrate; a second substrate which is placed nearer to a viewer than the first substrate, and which faces a viewer side of the first substrate; a liquid crystal sandwiched between the first substrate and the second ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8018558 | Liquid crystal display device A face plate on which a frame is formed for improved design aesthetics is bonded to a top surface of an upper polarizer of a liquid crystal display panel with a pressure-sensitive adhesive material. The frame on the face plate is formed from five layers of printing.... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7986388 | Substrate film for optical sheets, optical sheet, and liquid crystal display module An object of the present invention is to provide a substrate film for optical sheets, an optical sheet and a backlight unit which can markedly enhance utilization efficiency of rays of light and dramatically increase luminance and which are suited for immediate bene... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7961281 | Display device integral with protection plate, and display apparatus using the same A display device includes a display panel to display an image, a protection plate that is arranged on an observation side of the display panel with a predetermined gap with respect to the display panel, spacer that is arranged between the display panel and the prote... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7956967 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device related to the present invention can reduce a stress applied to a crystal liquid panel and prevent unevenness in a display of the liquid crystal panel. This liquid crystal display device includes the crystal liquid panel having an upp... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7952668 | Display medium, and manufacturing method and apparatus of the display medium A display medium including: a pair of substrates; a pair of electrodes disposed on the pair of substrates, and facing each other; and a functional layer and a display layer disposed between the pair of electrodes with an adhesive layer disposed between the functiona... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7924380 | Semiconductor light-receiving device Disclosed is light-receiving device (1) comprising semiconductor substrate (101), a light-receiving layer arranged on semiconductor substrate (101), and filter layer (103) arranged between semiconductor substrate (101) and the ligh... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7911571 | Electro-optic device, electronic instrument, and projection display The invention provides, an electro-optic device that can include a pair of substrates sandwiching an electro-optic substance therebetween. The electro-optic device can further include a coating member including an antistatic material and being disposed on a surface ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7889298 | Transparent conductive film, and substrate, electronic device and liquid crystal display using the same A transparent conductive film including an indium oxide, a tin oxide and at least one lanthanoid metal oxide, the film including a portion connected to a conductor, and at least the connection portion having crystallinity. ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7884904 | Image display device An image display device provided with a panel comprising a substrate comprising glass or resin, a front side laminated body and a back side laminated body, and an optical member adjacent to the back side laminated body, wherein the surface of the optical member goin... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7852441 | Liquid crystal panel and liquid crystal display A liquid crystal panel of the present invention comprises at least: a liquid crystal cell comprising a liquid crystal layer containing a liquid crystal molecule that is oriented in homogeneous alignment with no electric field applied thereto; a first polarizer place... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7834968 | Liquid crystal device and electronic apparatus An optically compensated birefringence mode liquid crystal device includes a plurality of gate lines and source lines interesting each other in a plan view, and a plurality of switching elements formed in a one-to-one correspondence with the intersections of the gat... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7812907 | Film with alignment film and optical device A film with alignment film which stably causes liquid crystal alignment and is excellent in adhesion between its constituting layers so as to give a high endurance and an excellent re-workability, and further to provide an optical device using the same. The film wit... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7812908 | Display apparatus and method for manufacturing substrate for display apparatus A display apparatus includes a substrate including a display area of an approximate rectangle, and at least one film pattern which is formed over the substrate and extends to outside of the display area. A perimeter of the at least one film pattern has a shape of a ... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7764344 | Ruggedized and high-brightness liquid crystal display and method of manufacture A ruggedized, high brightness, liquid crystal display (LCD) unit having a thin display panel, a front cover glass faceplate and an improved backlight assembly is disclosed. The faceplate is bonded to the panel using an improved process to minimize panel deformation ... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7742137 | Display device and electrical appliance using the same A liquid crystal display device comprising a pair of substrates, a liquid crystal display panel having a liquid crystal layer positioned between the substrates, a transparent protective plate arranged on a front surface side of the display panel, and an optically tr... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7667803 | Liquid crystal display device In a liquid crystal display device including an orientation film and a seal material, at a terminal connection portion where one substrate extends outward from another substrate, a step portion of an organic insulating film is formed on an inner side of the seal mat... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7663718 | Very thin achromatic quarter wave film laminate for transflective LCD and method for producing the same Disclosed herein is an very thin achromatic quarter wave film laminate for transflective LCD included in an LCD polarizer. More specifically, the very thin achromatic quarter wave film laminate for transflective LCD has a considerably reduced thickness, as compared ... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7646457 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device comprising a liquid crystal cell, two polarizing plates having a polarizer and a protective film satisfying (1) and (2) below, and an optical compensatory film satisfying (3)-(8) below and disposed between the liquid crystal cell and ... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7639331 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device that includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal material sandwiched between the first and second substrates. In the device, the first substrate includes an active element, a first insulation film formed above... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7570330 | Liquid crystal display cell and liquid crystal display An array substrate, a gate insulating layer, and a data line are deposited sequentially on a liquid crystal cell. At a part of this configuration, a planarizing layer covers the gate insulating layer and the data line. The planarizing layer has a groove formed right... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7532289 | Method for fabricating color filter substrate for a liquid crystal display device with color filter having polarizing function A display device and a method of fabricating a color filter substrate for the display device are provided. The method includes forming a black matrix on a substrate having a pixel region, forming a color filter layer including a lyotropic liquid crystal material ove... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7532290 | Barrier layers for coating conductive polymers on liquid crystals The present invention relates to a bistable reflective display comprising a water-swellable, electrically modulated imaging layer, a conductive layer comprising an electronically conductive polymer and a barrier layer therebetween and a method for making the same. | 05/12/2009 |
| 7528915 | Optical module, method of forming the optical module, backlight assembly having the optical module and display device having the backlight assembly A display device comprises an optical module, a light source unit, a container and a display panel. The optical module comprises at least one optical member and a transparent adhesion member combined with the optical member. The optical member has a first modulus of... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7525617 | Liquid crystal display device and method for fabricating the same A method for fabricating a liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes forming a gate electrode and a common electrode line on a first substrate; forming a first insulating layer on the gate electrode; forming an active layer and source/drain electrodes on the firs... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7474371 | Method of improving the flatness of a microdisplay surface, liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) display panel and method of manufacturing the same A method of improving the flatness of a microdisplay surface. A reflective mirror layer and a raised layer are formed in order on a semiconductor substrate. The raised layer may comprise a buffer layer and a stop layer, and pixel electrode areas are defined therefro... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7432996 | Housing for image display device having liquid crystal display panel and micro-patterned retarder bonded at specific location The present invention is intended to improve assembleability of a portion of a liquid crystal display panel. In an image display system for displaying images by allowing a light irradiated from behind to be transmitted therethrough, a liquid crystal display panel un... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7428030 | Protective film for polarizing plate A protective film for a polarizing plate is disclosed in which an contact angle of the surface in contact with a polarizer with respect to pure water is less than 55° and the surface in contact with a polarizer becomes hydrophilic due to a plasma treatment. ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7428032 | Horizontal electric field LCD TFT substrate having gate insulating layer of varying thickness and fabricating method thereof A thin film transistor substrate structure of the present invention comprises a gate and a common lines formed from a first conductive layer; a data line formed from a second conductive layer and intersecting the gate and common lines, the data line insulated from t... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7426007 | Liquid crystal display panel having seal pattern support member In a liquid crystal display panel, in case that a seal pattern is formed on a black matrix and an over-coat layer which are made of an organic material, the over-coat layer is formed to have a thickness of about 1.2 μm to about 5 μm thereby preventing the black ma... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7420637 | Substrate with parallax barrier layer, method for producing substrate with parallax barrier layer, and three-dimensional display The present invention provides a three-dimensional display device, which can display a 3D image of higher quality than a conventional one by arranging a parallax barrier layer with higher positioning accuracy, and a method for fabricating such a display device. The ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7413766 | Antistatic optical film, method for manufacturing the same and image viewing display An antistatic optical film comprising an antistatic layer laminated on at least one side of an optical film, wherein the antistatic layer comprises a water soluble or a water dispersible conductive polymer, has excellent antistatic effect, optical characteristics an... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7411641 | Liquid crystal display panel and liquid crystal display module A liquid crystal display (LCD) panel and module is provided. The LCD panel comprises a thin film transistor (TFT) array substrate, a color filter substrate, a liquid crystal layer, an upper polarizing plate and a lower polarizing plate. The color filter substrate is... | 08/12/2008 |
