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US 12,748,335 B1Granted
Display electronic slurry module with frontlight integrated into common electrode plate
AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.
InventorsWeihsin Hou, Bin Hou, Xiaolong Zheng
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Abstract
A device includes a thin film transistor structure including a plurality of pixel electrodes and a pixelated electronic slurry structure coupled to the thin film transistor structure. The device also includes a common electrode plate including a common electrode electrically coupled to the pixelated electronic slurry structure and a touch sensor module coupled to the common electrode plate.
Claims20
A device comprising:
- a thin film transistor structure including a plurality of pixel electrodes;
- a display unit coupled to the thin film transistor structure and comprising:
- a common electrode;
- a coating coupled to the common electrode and characterized by a first index of refraction;
- an optical layer coupled to the coating and characterized by a second index of refraction greater than the first index of refraction;
- an optical scattering structure coupled to the optical layer;
- a light source optically coupled to the optical layer;
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- a touch sensitive module coupled to the display unit.
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A device comprising:
- a thin film transistor structure including a plurality of pixel electrodes;
- a pixelated electronic slurry structure coupled to the thin film transistor structure;
- a common electrode coupled to the pixelated electronic slurry structure;
- a coating coupled to the common electrode and characterized by a first index of refraction;
- an optical layer coupled to the coating, having an edge, and characterized by a second index of refraction greater than the first index of refraction;
- a second optical layer coupled to the optical layer, wherein the second optical layer has a third index of refraction greater than or equal to the second index of refraction;
- an optical scattering structure disposed in the second optical layer;
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- a light source optically coupled to the edge of the optical layer.
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A device comprising:
- a thin film transistor structure including a plurality of pixel electrodes;
- a pixelated electronic slurry structure coupled to the thin film transistor structure;
- a common electrode coupled to the pixelated electronic slurry structure;
- a coating coupled to the common electrode and characterized by a first index of refraction;
- an optical layer coupled to the coating, having an edge, and characterized by a second index of refraction greater than the first index of refraction;
- an optical scattering structure disposed in the optical layer;
- a light source optically coupled to the edge of the optical layer;
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- a second optical layer coupled to the optical layer and the optical scattering structure, wherein the second optical layer is characterized by the first index of refraction.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.