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A mouthguard includes a U-shaped upper bite plate which removably fits over upper teeth of a person, with the entire upper bite plate being made from a soft, deformable and edible gummi candy.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8014142 | Display window securing system A display window assembly is mounted in the opening of a bezel of a housing, and a force is exerted against the assembly by a suitable resilient element urging it outward through the opening. The assembly may be mounted on a support or frame, from which depends one ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8004628 | Backlight module, lamp hoder and liquid crystal display using same An exemplary backlight module includes a diffuser plate, a bottom plate facing the diffuser plate, lamps arranged between the diffuser plate and the bottom plate, and holders positioned between the diffuser plate and the bottom plate. Each holder includes a fixing p... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7965497 | Flat panel display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same A flat panel display apparatus including: a mother substrate; a display unit provided on the mother substrate; an opposing mother substrate facing the mother substrate such that the display unit is interposed between the mother substrate and the opposing mother subs... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7936411 | Light guide plate, backlight assembly including the same, and liquid crystal display device including the same Disclosed herein are a light guide plate, a backlight assembly including the light guide plate, and a liquid crystal display device including the backlight assembly which can uniformly maintain the brightness uniformity and prevent the moiré phenomenon. The light g... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7894182 | Flat panel display subassembly having speaker secured by integrated securing structure An exemplary flat panel display subassembly (1) includes a front frame (10), a back cover (12), and a speaker (14). The back cover is adjacent to the front frame. The speaker is adjacent to one of the front frame and the back cover, and d... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7599016 | Flat panel display module A flat panel display module comprises a display panel clamped by a first frame and a second frame structure. The first frame includes a sidewall and an elastic piece, wherein the sidewall encloses the display panel and has a breach. The elastic piece is disposed in ... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7570312 | Liquid crystal display module having replaceable light sources Disclosed is a liquid crystal display module which makes it possible to reduce the number of components and manufacturing processes of the liquid crystal display module and to easily replace a failed LED of a backlight unit that irradiates light onto a liquid crysta... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7561223 | Device and method for protecting gate terminal and lead A resist region covering the gate terminal and lead and between a passivation layer and a gate insulating layer is used to protect the gate terminal and lead. The resist region is located at a scribing line on margin of the color filter substrate of a panel, thereby... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7515219 | Electromagnetic shield for display An electromagnetic shielding system including a circuit board, a display and a shield is described. The shield includes a face having an opening through which the display is visible. A wall portion extends from the face of the shield towards the circuit board. As a ... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7443681 | Heat dissipator for display apparatus and plasma display apparatus including the heat dissipator A heat dissipator of a signal transmission member for a display apparatus can sufficiently dissipate heat from devices of the signal transmission member and protect the devices, and includes a thermal conductive supporter for dissipating heat generated by a signal t... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7441921 | Backlight unit and method of driving the same A backlight unit includes at least one cold cathode fluorescent lamp arranged at a lower end of a bottom cover, external electrode fluorescent lamps arranged on the bottom cover above the cold cathode fluorescent lamp, and inverters disposed on a rear side of the bo... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440046 | Backlight assembly and liquid crystal display having the same The present disclosure relates to a liquid crystal display (LCD). There is provided an LCD comprising at least one lamp, a light guide plate for converting light incident from the lamp into a surface light source, an LCD panel disposed above the light guide plate fo... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7433178 | Plasma display apparatus A plasma display apparatus comprising a panel displaying images, a circuit board that drives the panel, and a chassis base that supports the panel and the circuit board. A signal transfer member couples the panel and the circuit board, and a protection plate protect... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430025 | Portable electronic device When image data is displayed on the display portion of a conventional mobile telephone, characters cannot be displayed thereon, and thus the image data and the characters cannot be simultaneously displayed. In a portable electronic device according to the present in... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7427155 | Liquid crystal module A liquid crystal module provides for concave shaped recesses formed in an elastic member along the circumference of a linear light source that is arranged on the side of a light guide, and lamp holders attached to both ends of the linear light source, while ring-sha... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7423702 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device (1), comprising a liquid crystal display panel and an illumination unit (10). The illumination unit (10) further comprises a housing (11) having a rectangular bottom wall face and having, at its side periph... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7420608 | Display device with image sensing device The object of this invention is to provide a display device with an image sensing device, which can match lines of sight by a simple arrangement and realize a high pixel density, low cost and low profile. To this end, the display device with an image sensing device ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7420538 | Liquid crystal display device and driving device thereof, and method for driving liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes (i) a temperature sensor provided in at least one of pixels in a displaying area of a display panel, (ii) a lead line buried in the display panel, for transmitting a detection signal from the temperat... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7407817 | Surface plasmon resonance sensors and method for detecting samples using the same Disclosed is an optical sensing device including a source unit providing a beam of light with continuously modulated phase retardation between p- and s-polarization components of the light by employing a LCM; a reference unit receiving a first part of the light to p... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7401926 | Space light modulating apparatus, projector including same, process for manufacturing microstructure element used in same, and microstructure element manufactured by the same process A space light modulating apparatus includes a modulating unit that modulates incident light based on an image signal including a plurality of pixels and a light-shielding part placed between the pixels, and a refracting unit that refracts modulated light including a... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7388625 | Thin-film transistor array substrate and liquid crystal display device A TFT array substrate is provided with an auxiliary capacitance that has a plurality of lower electrodes disposed for each pixel in the row and column directions below a pixel TFT and connected to the drain area of the corresponding pixel TFT. The distances L1 | 06/17/2008 |
| 7379129 | Liquid crystal display apparatus which transmits light at the circumference of the main image display region and method of manufacturing the same An LCD apparatus includes first and second substrates, and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes a main region having switching device and first electrodes, and a sub region having a second electrode. The switching device applies a data signal to the ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7345668 | Method of driving liquid crystal panel, liquid crystal device, and electronic apparatus A liquid crystal device is provided comprising: a liquid crystal panel displaying grayscale levels by applying a driving signal to a pair of electrodes having liquid crystal interposed therebetween and displaying white when voltage is applied, the driving signal hav... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7342638 | Electro-optical device, method of manufacturing the same, and method of manufacturing substrate device According to an aspect of the invention, to completely planarize the outermost surface of a laminated structure by appropriately performing a planarizing process, such as a CMP process, in an electro-optical device, such as a liquid crystal device, an electro-optica... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7336874 | Display element and display device A display device is constructed with conductive fibers which are coated with a display medium and are woven together with transparent conductive fibers. The conductive fibers coated with a display medium serve as warps and the transparent conductive fibers serve as ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7324071 | Segmented character display A character display comprises fifty-nine segments arranged into rows and columns. Twenty eight of the fifty-nine segments define a periphery of the display, eleven additional segments define horizontal and vertical dividers that define four quadrants, and five addit... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7319499 | Composite structure of aluminum extrusion external framework of LCD monitor An aluminum extrusion external framework of LCD monitor primarily comprises a front frame cap, a back frame cap, and a sheathing, which are assembled with one another. Several movable laminas are mounted on the inside of the back frame cap, wherein the locking posit... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7315339 | Method for manufacturing LCD A method for manufacturing an LCD includes the steps of providing a transparent substrate having a thin film transistor and a protective film successively formed thereon, positioning a shadow mask having a number of openings formed thereon to expose parts on which p... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7270770 | Triboluminescent materials and devices This invention relates to various phosphine oxides and their use in applications which exploit the triboluminescent effect. ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7268776 | Flat panel display with signal transmission patterns A liquid crystal display of compact size is disclosed. The liquid crystal display has a tape carrier package and a single integrated PCB for processing a gate driving signal and data driving signal. The tape carrier package includes a base substrate, a gate driver I... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7253963 | Inner focus type zoom lens system An inner-focus type zoom lens system used for a camera module having an image sensor and using an LC lens is provided. The inner-focus type zoom lens system includes an objective lens group, a condensing lens group, at least one moving lens group, and an LC lens. Th... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7254031 | Display apparatus having heat dissipating structure for driver integrated circuit A display apparatus having a heat dissipating structure for a driver integrated circuit is provided. The display apparatus may be a plasma display apparatus including a chassis base, a plasma display panel (PDP) adjacent to a first side of the chassis base, and a dr... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7248764 | Light guide plate, backlight unit, liquid crystal display and method of manufacturing the light guide plate A light guide plate that eliminates haze while obtaining a desired uniformity of luminance to enhance light efficiency. The light guide plate can be used with a backlight unit using the light guide plate and an LCD using the backlight unit. The light guide plate inc... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7242443 | Triboluminescent materials and devices The invention relates to various materials and their use in applications which exploit the triboluminescent effect. ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7242444 | Space light modulating apparatus, projector including same, process for manufacturing microstructure element used in same, and microstructure element manufactured by same process A space light modulating apparatus includes a modulating unit that modulates incident light based on an image signal including a plurality of pixels and a light-shielding part placed between the pixels, and a refracting unit that refracts modulated light including a... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7238963 | Self-aligned LDD thin-film transistor and method of fabricating the same A self-aligned LDD TFT and a fabrication method thereof. A substrate is provided, on which a semiconductor layer is formed. A first masking layer is provided over a first region of the portion of the semiconductor layer. The first masking layer includes a material t... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7230127 | Photoluminescent compounds Triboluminescent materials comprising M wherein M is chosen from Tb, Eu, Sm, Dy and from 75% to 99.99% of M is replaced by Y, Gd, La or Lu. ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7197338 | Display device and portable terminal apparatus A display device includes a main LCD, a sub LCD, and a backlight. The main LCD displays information. The sub LCD is arranged to make its rear surface oppose that of the main LCD to display information different from that of the main LCD. The backlight illuminates th... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7180490 | Liquid crystal display apparatus A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a substrate and a second substrate with a liquid crystal layer sandwiched therebetween. A plurality of pixels are sandwiched between the two substrates and form a display section, each of the pixels is provided with first ... | 02/20/2007 |
