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公开(公告)号:US10074320B1
公开(公告)日:2018-09-11
申请号:US15087665
申请日:2016-03-31
Applicant: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Inventor: Anthony Botzas , Robert Waverly Zehner , Gerben Boon
CPC classification number: G09G3/348 , G02B26/005 , G02B2207/115 , G09G3/2074 , G09G2300/0452 , G09G2320/0673
Abstract: A display device includes a first support plate and an opposing second support plate. A plurality of pixel regions is formed between the first support plate and the second support plate. Each pixel region includes a plurality of sub-pixel regions. A plurality of pixel wall portions over the first support plate form a perimeter of each of the plurality of sub-pixel regions. A sub-pixel region spacer is positioned in a first sub-pixel region of the plurality of sub-pixel regions. The sub-pixel region spacer includes a first spacer portion in the first sub-pixel region having a first landing surface extending between the plurality of pixel wall portions forming the perimeter of the first sub-pixel region. A second spacer portion of the sub-pixel region spacer extends from the second support plate in the first pixel region and is coupled to the first spacer portion.
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公开(公告)号:US09910265B1
公开(公告)日:2018-03-06
申请号:US14754329
申请日:2015-06-29
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor: Gerben Boon , Karel Johannes Gerhardus Hinnen , Daniel Figura
CPC classification number: G02B26/005 , G02B5/201
Abstract: An electrowetting display comprises a first support plate and a second support plate opposite to the first support plate. A plurality of electrowetting elements is provided between the first support plate and the second support plate. A first fluid is disposed within the electrowetting elements on the first support plate, and a second fluid is disposed on the first fluid. The second fluid is substantially immiscible with the first fluid. A plurality of color filter elements arranged in an array and a black matrix structure are disposed on the second support plate. The black matrix structure is positioned such that the black matrix is offset in at least one direction with respect to the electrowetting elements.
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公开(公告)号:US10338373B2
公开(公告)日:2019-07-02
申请号:US14975393
申请日:2015-12-18
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor: Gor Manukyan , Gerben Boon
Abstract: An electrowetting element comprising a first fluid and a second fluid immiscible with the first fluid. A first support plate comprises: a first support plate surface in contact with at least one of the first fluid or the second fluid, a substrate having a substrate surface, an electrode and a ridge. The ridge comprises a substantially parallel ridge surface substantially parallel to the substrate surface and a sloping ridge surface angled relative to the substantially parallel ridge surface. A wall is located at least partly on the substantially parallel ridge surface. The ridge is configured to reduce a flow of the first fluid along an inner surface of the wall.
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公开(公告)号:US10078213B1
公开(公告)日:2018-09-18
申请号:US15429670
申请日:2017-02-10
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor: Gerben Boon , Christian Etienne Hendriks , Daniel Figura
IPC: G02B26/00 , G02B26/02 , G02B1/10 , G02B1/12 , G09G3/34 , G02B5/00 , G03F7/00 , G03F7/16 , G03F7/20 , G03F7/26
CPC classification number: G02B26/005 , G02B1/12 , G02B5/003 , G02B26/004 , G03F7/0005 , G03F7/16 , G03F7/20 , G03F7/2002 , G03F7/26 , G09G3/34 , G09G3/348 , G09G2300/04
Abstract: A method for fabricating an electrowetting display may include depositing a sacrificial layer on a support plate, etching portions of the sacrificial layer to form liquid duct forms on the support plate, depositing a photoresist layer on the liquid duct forms and the support plate, etching portions of the photoresist layer to form a spacer grid, and removing the liquid duct forms to form liquid ducts between the support plate and the portions of the spacer grid.
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公开(公告)号:US10061117B1
公开(公告)日:2018-08-28
申请号:US15074521
申请日:2016-03-18
Applicant: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Inventor: Erno Hermanus Antonius Langendijk , Carmen Paula Alamar , Gerben Boon
CPC classification number: G02B26/005
Abstract: A display device includes a first support plate and an opposing second support plate. At least a portion of a wall on the first support plate is associated with a pixel within a pixel region. The wall has a first segment, a second segment perpendicular to the first segment, and a third segment perpendicular to the first segment and parallel to the second segment. A first spacer on the second support plate extends toward the wall. The first spacer includes a first portion contacting the wall along a length of the first segment, a second portion coupled to the first portion and contacting the second segment along a first portion of the second segment, and a third portion coupled to the first portion and contacting the third segment along a first portion of the third segment.
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公开(公告)号:US09921404B1
公开(公告)日:2018-03-20
申请号:US14315134
申请日:2014-06-25
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor: Gerben Boon
CPC classification number: G02B26/005 , G02B26/004 , H05K13/00
Abstract: A method for fabricating electronic displays comprises placing a fluoropolymer layer on a support plate for the electronic display device and etching the fluoropolymer layer. Etching changes a surface of the fluoropolymer layer so that the fluoropolymer layer becomes less hydrophobic. Pixel walls are formed on the hydrophilic surface of the fluoropolymer layer to form an array of electrowetting display elements. The fluoropolymer layer is subsequently immersed in a vapor or a liquid that is heated to heat the surface of the fluoropolymer layer. Such immersion allows the surface of the fluoropolymer layer to reflow and to become more hydrophobic.
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公开(公告)号:US10185142B1
公开(公告)日:2019-01-22
申请号:US14976797
申请日:2015-12-21
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor: Gerben Boon , Chiara Cometti , Pavel Novoselov , Lara Tauk
Abstract: An electrowetting element comprising a first fluid and a second fluid immiscible with the first fluid. A support plate comprises a first layer comprising a migration pathway, the first layer comprising a first surface in contact with at least one of the first fluid or the second fluid. A substance is disposed within at least a portion of the migration pathway in the first layer. The substance is distinct from both the first fluid and the second fluid and is configured to reduce migration of at least a component of the first fluid or a component of the second fluid into the migration pathway in the first layer.
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公开(公告)号:US10054785B1
公开(公告)日:2018-08-21
申请号:US14980872
申请日:2015-12-28
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor: Iren Fischer , Romaric Mathieu Massard , Gerben Boon , Bokke Johannes Feenstra
CPC classification number: G02B26/005 , G02B1/04 , G02B2207/115 , G03F7/20
Abstract: An electrowetting element comprises a first fluid and a second fluid immiscible with the first fluid. A first support plate comprises a first substrate; an electrode; and a layer in contact with at least one of the first fluid or the second fluid. A second support plate comprises a second substrate. One of the first support plate or the second support plate comprises a resist structure protruding in a direction towards the other one of the first support plate or the second support plate. The resist structure comprises a polymer nanocomposite material.
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公开(公告)号:US09841595B1
公开(公告)日:2017-12-12
申请号:US14754029
申请日:2015-06-29
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor: Karel Johannes Gerhardus Hinnen , Gerben Boon , Cristina Maria Petcu , Tulasi Sridhar Reddy Guntaka , Erno Langendijk
CPC classification number: G02B26/005 , G02B5/0866
Abstract: An electrowetting element comprises a first fluid and a second fluid immiscible with the first fluid. A support plate includes a support plate surface in contact with at least one of the first or second fluids. The support plate includes an electrode for applying a voltage to control a configuration of the first and second fluids and a reflective surface. A first layer positioned between the reflective surface and the support plate surface has a first layer optical thickness substantially equal to a quarter multiple of a reference wavelength.
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公开(公告)号:US09804383B2
公开(公告)日:2017-10-31
申请号:US15380976
申请日:2016-12-15
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor: Cristina Maria Petcu , Gerben Boon
CPC classification number: G02B26/005 , G02B1/04 , G02B1/06 , G02B5/003 , G09G3/348
Abstract: An electrowetting element comprising a first fluid and a second fluid immiscible with the first fluid. A support plate includes an electrode and, located between the electrode and the first fluid, a first layer and a second layer. The first layer comprises an inorganic material and the second layer comprises an organic material. The first layer is in contact with the second layer and between the second layer and the first fluid.
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