With Different Alignments On Opposite Substrates Patents (Class 349/128)
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Patent number: 8351016Abstract: A display device 1 of the present invention includes a first conductive layer 20 and a second conductive layer 21 arranged across an insulating layer 24 from the first conductive layer 20. An overlap section 40 at which the first conductive layer 20 and the second conductive layer 21 overlap each other is provided. At least one of the first conductive layer 20 and the second conductive layer 21 includes a slit portion 210a that is arranged in the overlap section 40. The width of the slit portion 210a is set to be smaller at a medial area 82 except both end areas 81 of the slit portion 210a, than at the both end areas 81.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2007Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hidetoshi Nakagawa
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Patent number: 8345196Abstract: A liquid crystal display with better visibility and transmittance. The liquid crystal display includes a first plate having a first field-generating electrode, disposed in a pixel area on an insulating substrate, comprising a plurality of sub-electrodes which are separated from each other by a predetermined distance and arranged parallel to each other, and a connecting electrode electrically connecting the sub-electrodes. An alignment film that is rubbed in a first direction covers a first field-generating electrode and an alignment film that is rubbed in a second direction covers a second field-generating electrode to achieve a predetermined orientation of the liquid crystals when no field is applied and more uniform rotation of the liquid crystal molecules when a field is applied.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2009Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chang-hun Lee, Hee-seop Kim, Jun-woo Lee, JianGang Lu, Eun-hee Han
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Patent number: 8345201Abstract: An alignment film material according to the present invention includes: a precursor of a first polyimide (p1); a second polyimide (p2) and a precursor thereof; and a vinyl-type monomer. The vinyl-type monomer is represented by general formula (1) P1-A1-(Z1-A2)n-P2 (in general formula (1), P1 and P2 are, independently, acrylate, methacrylate, acrylamide or methacrylamide; A1 and A2 represent, independently, 1,4-phenylene, 1,4-cyclohexane or 2,5-thiophene, or naphthalene-2,6-diyl or anthracene-2,7-diyl; at least one of A1 and A2 is substituted by at least one fluorine group; and Z1 is a —COO— group, a —OCO— group, a —O— group, a —CONH— group or a single bond, where n is 0 or 1).Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2009Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masanobu Mizusaki, Yohei Nakanishi
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Patent number: 8339549Abstract: A liquid crystal display device has a liquid crystal display panel including pixels each having an active device, a pixel electrode, a common electrode and a liquid crystal layer arranged in a dot matrix array. The liquid crystal display panel has a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate has the active device, the pixel electrode, the common electrode and a first alignment film. The second substrate has a second alignment film. The first alignment film and the second alignment film are respectively a photo alignment film formed by irradiating a photo decomposition type insulating film with light. The second alignment film has a thickness of at least 10 nm and no greater 50 nm and is thinner than the first alignment film.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2011Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hidehiro Sonoda, Chikae Matsui, Noboru Kunimatsu, Yuko Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20120314168Abstract: A liquid crystal display including a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other, a first alignment layer disposed on the first substrate, the first alignment layer including a vertical photo-alignment material, a second alignment layer disposed on the second substrate, the second alignment layer including a vertical alignment material, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2011Publication date: December 13, 2012Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Suk Hoon KANG, Jun Woo LEE, Baek Kyun JEON, Kyoung Tae KIM, Soo-Ryun CHO
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Patent number: 8289493Abstract: A display panel having a first region, a second region and a third region is provided. The display panel includes an active device array substrate, an opposite substrate, a display medium between the active device array substrate and the opposite substrate, and spacers arranged between the active device array substrate and the opposite substrate for maintaining a cell gap. The active device array substrate includes an active device array in the first region, a pad in the second region, a driving circuit in the third region, and a first alignment layer covering the first region, the second region and the third region. A thickness of the first alignment layer in the third region corresponding to the driving circuit is increased to be greater than those in the first region and the second region for buffering the pressure applied by the spacers.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2010Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: Au Optronics CorporationInventor: Yi-Hau Shiau
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Publication number: 20120249934Abstract: A display apparatus and a liquid crystal display device are provided. The display apparatus comprises a display device for displaying an image and a diffractive optical element. The diffractive optical element comprises pixel unit regions. Each of the pixel unit regions has a long pixel side and a short pixel side adjacent to each other. The diffractive optical element is disposed on a light emitting side of the display device and comprises first grating regions and second grating regions. The first grating regions have a first diffraction grating. The second grating regions have a second diffraction grating. An azimuth angle of the first diffraction grating is different from an azimuth angle of the second diffraction grating.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2012Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: CHI MEI CORPORATIONInventors: Wang-Yang Li, Ting-I Wu
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Patent number: 8279376Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel including a first substrate, a liquid crystal layer, an alignment layer, a polymer layer, scan lines, data lines, pixel structures, first capacitor bottom electrodes and second capacitor bottom electrodes, and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. Each pixel structure has a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode. Each first capacitor bottom electrode is disposed between the first pixel electrode and the first substrate. Each second capacitor bottom electrode disposed between the second pixel electrode and the first substrate includes a first pattern and a plurality of second patterns. The first pattern extends from a first side to an opposite second side of the second pixel electrode. The second patterns connected to the first pattern are disposed on the first side and the second side. The second pattern at least partly overlaps a region between the second pixel electrode and the data line.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2008Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Au Optronics CorporationInventors: Te-Wei Chan, Chieh-Wei Chen, Cheng-Han Tsao, Chung-Yi Chiu
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Patent number: 8279386Abstract: This object aims to provide a liquid crystal display panel with good in viewing angle characteristic, and capable of carrying out a high brightness display. The liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate having at least one pixel unit and at least one first orienting structure, a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer sealed between the first and second substrates and having negative dielectric anisotropy. The pixel unit includes a pixel electrode that is located in the display area, while the first orienting structure is located outside the display area. In addition, the liquid crystal layer contains an optical rotation material, and some of the liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer are inclined toward the internal part or the external part of the pixel unit by the first orienting structure.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2009Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Chimei Innolux CorporationInventors: Cheng-Chung Peng, Yuren Shen, Shih-Hung Fa, Jin-Jei Wu
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Patent number: 8274621Abstract: A display device 1 according to the present invention, having a display area AA capable of image display and a nondisplay area PA provided outside the display area AA, includes a first wiring line 14 and a second wiring line 20 in the nondisplay area PA. The second wiring line 20 is arranged across an insulating layer 17 from the first wiring line 14, so that a crossover section 25 at which the first wiring line 14 intersects with the second wiring line 20 is provided. The second wiring line 20 includes a plurality of branch lines 22, 23 branching therefrom and being located in the crossover section 25, while the first wiring line 14 includes a plurality of slit portions 260A, 270A and the like crossing the branch lines 22, 23.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2007Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hidetoshi Nakagawa
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Patent number: 8269934Abstract: A liquid crystal display device and a method of manufacturing the liquid crystal device are disclosed. The liquid crystal display device includes a red subpixel, a green subpixel, a blue subpixel, and a viewing angle controlling subpixel. The red, green, and blue subpixels are driven in a TN method, and the viewing angle controlling subpixel is driven in an ECB method. Therefore, the liquid crystal display device provides flexibility in a security range to a user, and not only can be used for one person but also can be used for two or more persons to view an image of high quality without inconvenience while securing security.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2007Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyun Suk Jin, Hyung Seok Jang
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Patent number: 8269932Abstract: A liquid crystal display screen includes a first substrate, a first alignment layer, a liquid crystal layer, a second alignment layer, and a second substrate. The liquid crystal layer is sandwiched therebetween. The first alignment layer and the second alignment layer correspondingly are disposed on the first substrate and the second substrate. The first alignment layer and the second alignment layer respectively include a plurality of parallel first grooves and perpendicular second grooves. Furthermore, at least one of the alignment layers includes a carbon nanotube layer. The carbon nanotube layer includes at least one carbon nanotube film. The carbon nanotube film comprising a plurality of carbon nanotubes joined end to end and substantially aligned along a single direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2008Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignees: Tsinghua University, Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wei-Qi Fu, Liang Liu, Kai-Li Jiang, Shou-Shan Fan
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Patent number: 8259269Abstract: A VA liquid crystal display device is capable of performing display under the wide environments including a bright place and a dark place, transmission display with a wide viewing angle and a high image quality, and improves the gray scale productivity in an oblique direction. An alignment control structure (projection structure) is disposed in a direction orthogonal to the slits of a common electrode (comb-like electrode), a lateral electric field is applied to a liquid crystal layer that is vertically aligned by the comb-like electrode, and the alignment of the liquid crystal is controlled to a different direction to make multi-domains in the VA liquid crystal display device. Also, the multi-domains are performed by continuously changing the pitches of the slits.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2006Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co.. Ltd.Inventors: Osamu Itou, Masaya Adachi, Shinichiro Oka
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Publication number: 20120218500Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display element including a first alignment film and a second alignment film and a liquid crystal layer that is provided between the first alignment film and the second alignment film, wherein the first alignment film includes a compound in which a polymer compound that includes a cross-linked functional group or a polymerized functional group as a side chain is cross-linked or polymerized, the second alignment film includes the same compound as the compound that configures the first alignment film, and the formation and processing of the second alignment film is different from the formation and processing of the first alignment film and when a pretilt angle of the liquid crystal molecules which is conferred by the first alignment film is ?1 and a pretilt angle of the liquid crystal molecules which is conferred by the second alignment film is ?2, ?1>?2.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2012Publication date: August 30, 2012Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Masahiko Nakamura, Shunichi Suwa, Masashi Miyakawa, Tadaaki Isozaki
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Patent number: 8253871Abstract: A vertical alignment liquid crystal display device includes a number of pixel regions. Each pixel region includes a lower substrate unit and an upper substrate unit having an upper glass layer, a first protrusion and a second protrusion formed on the upper glass layer, and a conductive layer formed on the second protrusion. Each of the first and second protrusions includes two uneven sections. A first potential difference is applied between the upper glass layer and the lower substrate unit, and a second potential difference, being independent from the first potential difference, is applied between the conductive layer formed on the second protrusion and the lower substrate unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2010Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Chimei Innolux CorporationInventor: Hung-Yu Chen
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Patent number: 8228480Abstract: A liquid crystal device 1 of the present invention includes a first conductive layer 20 and a second conductive layer 21 arranged across an insulating layer from the first conductive layer 20. A crossover section 40 at which the first conductive layer 20 and the second conductive layer 21 intersect each other is provided. At least one of the first conductive layer 20 and the second conductive layer 21 includes a slit portion 210a and a cutout portion 201b, which are arranged in the crossover section 40 so that the cutout portion 210b is at a predetermined distance from the slit portion 210a.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2007Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hidetoshi Nakagawa
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Patent number: 8223309Abstract: A display panel provided with a first region and a second region includes an active device array substrate, an opposite substrate, a display medium between the active device array substrate and the opposite substrate and a conductive member. The active device array substrate includes an active device array, a pad located in the second region and a first alignment layer covering the first region and the second region. The opposite substrate includes an electrode layer and a second alignment layer covering the electrode layer. The ratio of a thickness of the first or second alignment layer in the second region to that in the first region is substantially greater than zero and less than or equal to about 0.43. The conductive member is located in the second region and corresponding to the pad and penetrates the first alignment layer and the second alignment layer to connect the electrode layer and the pad.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2009Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: Au Optronics CorporationInventor: Yi-Hau Shiau
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Patent number: 8202748Abstract: A manufacturing method of a liquid crystal display apparatus, including disposing a pair of substrates to face each other, on which no surface alignment control films are formed; sealing a liquid crystal to which a polymerizable compound is added, between these substrates; polymerizing the polymerizable compound by irradiating UV rays when no voltage is applied; and forming a polymer near the surfaces of the substrates. The anchoring energy for the liquid crystal molecules on the substrate surface is controlled by controlling the composition, the adding amount and the polymerizing conditions of the polymerizable compound.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2010Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashi Sasabayashi, Arihiro Takeda, Yoshio Koike, Takahiro Sasaki, Hidefumi Yoshida, Kazutaka Hanaoka
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Patent number: 8203677Abstract: The present invention provides a polarizing plate including: a layer of polarizer for polarizing incident light and emitting the polarized light; and a coating type optically anisotropic layer disposed on the side to which the polarized light is emitted from the polarizer layer.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2009Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Eiji Sakai
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Patent number: 8203678Abstract: A pixel unit of a liquid crystal display includes a first sub-pixel electrode coupled by a direct current path to a corresponding switching element and a second sub-pixel electrode capacitively connected to the first sub-pixel electrode. The second sub-pixel electrode has a protrusion extending upwardly toward a spaced apart common electrode. The common electrode has a cut-out directly above the protrusion.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2009Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jae-Hyun Kim, Gee-Bun Kim, Ae Shin
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Patent number: 8194215Abstract: A liquid crystal device comprises a first alignment surface which induces a high pretilt greater than 45° but less than 90°; a typical value is 85°. The pretilt has a component parallel to the surface pointing in a predetermined direction. A second alignment surface induces a low pretilt which is less than 45° but greater than 0°; a typical pretilt is 5°. The low pretilt has a component parallel to the second surface which also points in the predetermined direction. A layer of crystal material is disposed in between the first and second surfaces. A novel liquid crystal mode is thus provided and is referred to as the “splay-twist mode”. Such a device may be used in a switchable public/private display.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2007Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Nathan James Smith, Benjamin John Broughton
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Publication number: 20120133872Abstract: A unit pixel of a liquid crystal display panel includes a plurality of domains formed using a photoalignment process technology. The domains have different domain alignment vectors, and major axes of liquid crystal molecules on alignment layers are aligned in parallel to transmission axes of the liquid crystal display panel. In addition, the unit pixel has a pixel electrode including slits. The slits have a slit angle at which the slits cross alignments of the domains at a predetermined angle, and the slit angle is less than 45°. As a result, transmittance of the unit pixel may increase, ensuring high image quality.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2011Publication date: May 31, 2012Inventors: YOUNG-GU KIM, Jin-Soo Jung, Hak-Sun Chang, Hee-June Kwak
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Patent number: 8189150Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel including a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer is provided. The first substrate includes a plurality of first unit regions, and each of the first unit regions includes at least a pixel region. A plurality of first alignment patterns are disposed in each of the pixel regions, wherein a width of the first alignment patterns in at least one first unit region is different from a width of the first alignment patterns in other first unit regions adjacent to the at least one first unit region. The second substrate is disposed opposite to the first substrate. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2009Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Chungwa Picture Tubes, Ltd.Inventor: Yui-Chen Liu
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Publication number: 20120113371Abstract: A liquid crystal display is provided that includes first and second panels facing each other, an alignment layer disposed on at least one of the first and second panels, a fixing member disposed on the surface of the alignment layer to fix the alignment structure of the alignment layer, and liquid crystal materials disposed between the first and second panels. The liquid crystal materials include liquid crystal molecules that have a pre-tilt angle and are disposed on the alignment layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2012Publication date: May 10, 2012Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Ji-Won SOHN, Jun-Woo LEE, Jiangang LU, Seung-Hoon LEE, Seon-Ah CHO, Jun-Hee NA
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Patent number: 8164725Abstract: A liquid crystal device includes: a circuit substrate; a counter substrate disposed so as to be opposed to the circuit substrate; a liquid crystal layer interposed between the circuit substrate and the counter substrate, the liquid crystal layer showing vertical alignment as an initial alignment state; a first alignment layer manufactured on a side of the counter substrate using a coating process, the side facing the liquid crystal layer, the first alignment layer having a vertical alignment function; and a second alignment layer manufactured on a side of the circuit substrate using a vacuum process, the side facing the liquid crystal layer, the second alignment layer generating a pretilt.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2009Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Nobukazu Nagae, Takeshi Miyashita
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Patent number: 8149361Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display including a first substrate including a first alignment layer, gate lines, and data lines, a second substrate facing the first substrate and including a second alignment layer, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. A plurality of pixels are arranged in a matrix defined by the gate lines and the data lines, and alignment directions of the first alignment layer and the second alignment layer in a first pixel are different than alignment directions in a neighboring pixel.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2009Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Bong-Sung Seo, Jun-Woo Lee, Young-Gu Kim, Min-Sik Jung, Byoung-Hun Sung
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Patent number: 8149363Abstract: A VA-mode liquid crystal display device which includes a pair of alignment sustaining layers 34a and 34b formed by a photopolymerized material on surfaces of a pair of vertical alignment films 32a and 32b which are closer to a liquid crystal layer, and a cruciform opening 22a provided only in a counter electrode. When a predetermined voltage is applied across the liquid crystal layer, four liquid crystal domains are formed such that the azimuths of the directors of the respective liquid crystal domains are different from one another and form an angle of about 45? relative to the polarization axes of a pair of polarizing plates. When no voltage is applied across the liquid crystal layer, the pretilt azimuths of liquid crystal molecules included in regions respectively corresponding to the four liquid crystal domains are regulated by the alignment sustaining layers 34a and 34b.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2008Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshito Hashimoto, Hiroyuki Ohgami, Masumi Kubo, Masayuki Soga
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Patent number: 8134669Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device including a TFT substrate on which a picture element electrode is provided for each picture element, a counter substrate having a common electrode provided thereon, and a liquid crystal contained between the TFT and counter substrates, the liquid crystal display device achieving to shorten response time (rise time) by utilizing the following phenomenon that when a voltage applied to the picture element electrode changes from a first voltage (e.g., black display voltage) to a second voltage (e.g., white display voltage), transmittance increases to maximum transmittance with a change in the state of the alignment of liquid crystal molecules and then decreases to transmittance in a stable state corresponding to the second voltage.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2006Date of Patent: March 13, 2012Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuichi Inoue, Takahiro Sasaki, Takashi Sasabayashi
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Patent number: 8120736Abstract: A liquid crystal display is provided that includes first and second panels facing each other, an alignment layer disposed on at least one of the first and second panels, a fixing member disposed on the surface of the alignment layer to fix the alignment structure of the alignment layer, and liquid crystal materials disposed between the first and second panels. The liquid crystal materials include liquid crystal molecules that have a pre-tilt angle and are disposed on the alignment layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2008Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ji-Won Sohn, Jun-Woo Lee, Jiangang Lu, Seung-Hoon Lee, Seon-Ah Cho, Jun-Hee Na
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Patent number: 8120737Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including a pair of spaced and opposed substrates, an electrode and a first alignment layer formed on one substrate, an electrode and a second alignment layer formed on the other substrate, and liquid crystal filled between the pair of substrates. The first alignment layer defines two regions of different alignment directions, within one pixel, with the two regions of the first alignment layer being separated by a first boundary, where the two different alignment directions of the first alignment layer are generally parallel to the first boundary, but extend in opposite directions, and where each region of the first alignment layer is treated to realize an alignment with a pretilt angle by the irradiation of ultraviolet rays.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2008Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hidefumi Yoshida, Tsutomu Seino, Yasutoshi Tasaka
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Publication number: 20120033159Abstract: A VA-mode liquid crystal display device having a high display quality is provided. A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes a vertical alignment type liquid crystal layer; a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other with the liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween; a first electrode provided in the first substrate on the liquid crystal layer side and a second electrode provided in the second substrate on the liquid crystal layer side; and a first alignment film provided between the first electrode and the liquid crystal layer and a second alignment film provided between the second electrode and the liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of pixel areas located in a matrix.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2010Publication date: February 9, 2012Inventors: Iichiro Inoue, Shinichi Terashita, Koichi Miyachi
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Publication number: 20120033158Abstract: A VA-mode liquid crystal display device having a high display quality is provided. A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes a vertical alignment type liquid crystal layer; a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other with the liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween; a first electrode provided in the first substrate on the liquid crystal layer side and a second electrode provided in the second substrate on the liquid crystal layer side; and a first alignment film provided between the first electrode and the liquid crystal layer and a second alignment film provided between the second electrode and the liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of pixel areas located in a matrix.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2010Publication date: February 9, 2012Inventors: Yohei Nakanishi, Masanobu Mizusaki, Takashi Katayama, Yuichi Kawahira
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Publication number: 20120019755Abstract: In one embodiment, a liquid crystal display panel includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a first direction and a second direction orthogonally crossing with the first direction. A first alignment pattern is formed in the counter electrode. The first alignment pattern faces the pixel electrode and extending in the first direction. A second alignment pattern is formed in the counter electrode. The second alignment pattern also faces the pixel electrode and extends in the second direction intersecting with the first alignment pattern. An expanding alignment portion is arranged at the intersecting portion of the first alignment pattern and the second alignment pattern. The first and second alignment patterns are formed of alignment slits or alignment protrusions arranged in the counter substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2011Publication date: January 26, 2012Applicant: Toshiba Mobile Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Taiyo TOKUOKA, Tetsuya Iizuka, Kazuya Daishi, Jin Hirosawa
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Patent number: 8102584Abstract: An apparatus includes a reconfigurable spatial light modulator capable of spatially modulating an incident wavefront responsive to an image formed on the modulator. A light source is configured to direct a coherent illumination light beam towards the modulator such that the modulator produces a modulated outgoing light beam therefrom. A filter is configured to spatially filter a light pattern formed by the outgoing light beam on a plane to selectively transmit light from a plurality of diffraction peaks therein.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2008Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: Alcatel LucentInventors: Cristian A. Bolle, Christopher D. W. Jones, Roland Ryf, Maria E. Simon
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Patent number: 8102491Abstract: A liquid crystal apparatus includes a display region in which electrodes are disposed in a matrix pattern, a non-display region provided at a periphery of the display region, and a liquid crystal disposed in the display region and non-display region. The liquid crystal disposed in the display region is splay-aligned when a voltage is not applied and bend-aligned when the voltage is applied. The liquid crystal disposed in the non-display region is bend-aligned. The apparatus also includes an alignment film including an inorganic material provided in at least one of a pair of substrates. The thickness of the alignment film provided in the display region is smaller than the thickness of the alignment film provided in the non-display region.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2009Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yohei Ishida, Akira Sakai
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Patent number: 8094276Abstract: To provide a production method of a liquid crystal display device and a liquid crystal display device, in which generation of a joint line on a display screen is suppressed and yield can be improved even if a substrate is subjected to an alignment treatment by completing exposure for the substrate through several exposures in a liquid crystal display device including pixels each having two or more domains.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2010Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Iichiro Inoue, Hiroyuki Hakoi, Shinichi Terashita, Koichi Miyachi
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Patent number: 8089595Abstract: Transflective liquid crystal displays and fabrication methods thereof. A single gap transflective liquid crystal display includes a first substrate with a reflective region and a transmissive region. A second substrate opposes the first substrate with a gap therebetween. A liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first and second substrates. A color filter is disposed on the first substrate, wherein the color filter is thicker in the transmissive region than in the reflective region, wherein a recess is formed at the reflective region. A first alignment layer is conformably formed on the color filter, forming a second recess in the reflective region. The second recess is filled with a second alignment, wherein the first and second alignment layers provide different orientations and pre-tilt angles for the liquid crystal layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2006Date of Patent: January 3, 2012Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Chung-Hao Chen, Chi-Chang Liao, Yi-An Sha
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Patent number: 8085374Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including a pair of substrates, an electrode and an alignment layer formed on each of the substrates, and a liquid crystal filled between the pair of substrates. The alignment layer of one of the pair of substrates is treated so that the alignment layer is divided into a plurality of stripe regions including a first stripe region and a second stripe region adjacent to the first stripe region, the first and second stripe regions extending parallel to each other and forming a first boundary therebetween. A direction of alignment of liquid crystal molecules on the first stripe region is opposite to a direction of alignment of liquid crystal molecules on the second stripe region, and directions of alignment of liquid crystal molecules on the first and second stripe regions are parallel to the first boundary. A shading layer is provided to cover the first boundary.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2010Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hidefumi Yoshida, Tsutomu Seino, Yasutoshi Tasaka
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Patent number: 8085372Abstract: A liquid crystal display device where both improvement in light transmittance of a liquid crystal display panel having a photo alignment film and suppression of occurrence of after image can be achieved. The liquid crystal display device has a liquid crystal display panel including pixels each having an active device, a pixel electrode, a common electrode and a liquid crystal layer arranged in a dot matrix array. The liquid crystal display panel has a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate has the active device, the pixel electrode, the common electrode and a first alignment film. The second substrate has a second alignment film. The first alignment film and the second alignment film are respectively a photo alignment film formed by irradiating a photo decomposition type insulating film with light.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2010Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Displays Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hidehiro Sonoda, Chikae Matsui, Noboru Kunimatsu, Yuko Matsumoto
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Patent number: 8059241Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal disposed between a first transparent substrate and a second transparent substrate, a first electrode and second electrode which overlie the first transparent substrate and which are used to drive the liquid crystal, one or more layers overlying the first electrode, and one or more layers overlying the second electrode. The correlation between layers disposed between the first electrode and the liquid crystal agrees with the correlation between layers disposed between the second electrode and the liquid crystal.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2009Date of Patent: November 15, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Masaaki Aota, Manabu Watanabe, Tatsuya Yata, Yasuo Segawa, Tomohide Onogi
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Patent number: 8054426Abstract: A VA mode LCD device is disclosed, to improve the viewing-angle properties by isotropically compensating for a viewing angle, in which the VA mode LCD device includes first and second substrates; a plurality of gate and data lines formed on the first substrate, and formed perpendicularly to define a plurality of pixel regions. A thin film transistor is formed in each pixel region of the first substrate. A pixel electrode and a common electrode are formed in each pixel of the respective first and second substrates, wherein the pixel and common electrodes generate an electric field. At least one first slit of a curved-stripe shape, such as a circular-stripe shape, is formed in the pixel electrode of the first substrate. At least one second slit is formed in the common electrode of the second substrate. A liquid crystal layer formed between the first and second substrates.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2006Date of Patent: November 8, 2011Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Youn-Seung Choi, Jin-Ho Kim
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Patent number: 8054431Abstract: To provide a production method of a liquid crystal display device and a liquid crystal display device, in which generation of a joint line on a display screen is suppressed and yield can be improved even if a substrate is subjected to an alignment treatment by completing exposure for the substrate through several exposures in a liquid crystal display device including pixels each having two or more domains.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2010Date of Patent: November 8, 2011Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Iichiro Inoue, Hiroyuki Hakoi, Shinichi Terashita, Koichi Miyachi
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Patent number: 8054425Abstract: An alignment-treating method including a first irradiation step of conducting an alignment-treating for realizing an alignment of liquid crystals in a predetermined azimuth direction on a alignment layer of a substrate by obliquely irradiating the substrate with ultraviolet rays, and a second irradiation step of conducting an alignment-treating for realizing an alignment of liquid crystals in an azimuth direction different from the predetermined azimuth direction by obliquely irradiating a region of the substrate where ultraviolet ray irradiation has not been conducted in the first irradiation step with ultraviolet rays in an azimuth direction 180° different from an azimuth direction of ultraviolet ray irradiation in the first irradiation step.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2010Date of Patent: November 8, 2011Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hidefumi Yoshida, Tsutomu Seino, Yasutoshi Tasaka
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Patent number: 8049852Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display, the method including; disposing a thin film transistor having an input terminal and an output terminal on a first substrate, connecting a pixel electrode to the output terminal, disposing an organic layer on the pixel electrode, forming a first alignment layer having at least two different alignment directions by disposing a mask on the organic layer and radiating an ion beam to the organic layer, disposing a common electrode on a second substrate corresponding to the first substrate, forming a second alignment layer having at least two different alignment directions on the common electrode, and disposing a liquid crystal layer between the first alignment layer and the second alignment layer.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2009Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Pusan National UniversityInventors: Soon-Joon Rho, Jang-Sub Kim, Baek-Kyun Jeon, Hee-Keun Lee, Jae-Chang Kim, Tae-Hoon Yoon, Phil-Kook Son, Bong-Kyun Jo
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Patent number: 8045110Abstract: Provided are an LCD capable of improving an image quality and an aperture ratio by uniform alignment of liquid crystal, and a method for fabricating the LCD. A first ion beam is irradiated onto an alignment layer formed on a substrate in a first direction, and a second ion beam is irradiated onto the alignment layer in a second direction that is symmetrical or asymmetrical to the first direction with respect to a line perpendicular to the substrate. Accordingly, the entire surface of the alignment layer can be uniformly aligned. Consequently, light leakage can be prevented and thus an image quality can be enhanced. Also, a black matrix margin can be reduced and an aperture ratio can be enhanced.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2005Date of Patent: October 25, 2011Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yong Sung Ham
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Patent number: 8018560Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device comprises a first substrate having a grooved surface profile; an alignment film layer of inorganic material formed on the grooved surface and having the grooved surface profile, the alignment film of inorganic material being aligned in response to an ion beam incident to the grooved surface in a direction parallel to a groove direction; a second substrate aligned opposite the first substrate for forming a plurality of LCD cells having liquid crystal (LC) material deposited therein, wherein LC molecules align parallel to the grooves for enhanced LCD performance.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2009Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Minhua Lu, Ke-Hsiung Yang
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Patent number: 8009266Abstract: A process for producing a liquid crystal display having less alignment defects, which seldom causes aligning disorder at the boundary where ferroelectric liquid crystals allowed to flow are brought into contact with each other when the ferroelectric liquid crystals are coated on the substrate flow. The process includes a first alignment layer formation step and a liquid crystal coating step. The liquid crystal coating step is a step of linearly coating the ferroelectric liquid crystals on a first alignment layer of a liquid crystal side substrate in a direction substantially perpendicular or substantially parallel to the alignment treatment direction conducted in the first alignment layer formation step.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2007Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: DAI Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoko Sawatari, Masato Okabe
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Patent number: 8004619Abstract: An optical element is disclosed. The optical element may include a container having a holding chamber; a polarized or conductive and transparent first liquid filled in the holding chamber; a liquid crystal filled in the holding chamber and not mutually mixing with the first liquid; first and second electrodes applying an electric field to the first liquid; and voltage application means for applying voltage between the first electrode and the second electrode.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2009Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tadahiro Ohishi, Kazuhiro Tanaka
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Patent number: 8004738Abstract: An electro-wetting display panel including an active device array substrate, a dielectric layer, a wall structure, a first liquid containing dyes, a second liquid, and an opposite substrate is provided. The active device array substrate includes a substrate, scan lines, data lines, and pixels. The pixels are electrically connected with the scan lines and the data lines accordingly. Each pixel includes an active device, a transparent pixel electrode, and a reflective layer. The transparent pixel electrode located above the reflective layer is electrically connected with the active device. The reflective layer has a bumpy surface. The dielectric layer is disposed on the active device array substrate. The wall structure is disposed on the dielectric layer. The first liquid is disposed on the dielectric layer. The opposite substrate is disposed above the active device array substrate. The second liquid is disposed between the active device array substrate and the opposite substrate.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2010Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: Au Optronics CorporationInventors: Syuan-Ling Yang, Yi-Hsueh Lin, Shih-Chyuan Fan-Jiang, Chih-Hung Shih
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Patent number: 7999777Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel having a first substrate, a second substrate, and a positive liquid crystal sandwiched between the first and second substrates. The liquid crystal display panel includes a plurality of sub pixels which include a first electrode and a second electrode formed on the first substrate. The liquid crystal display panel is configured to drive the liquid crystal by generating an electric field using a difference in potential between the first electrode and the second electrode. The first substrate includes a first alignment film, a plurality of video lines, and a first polarizer, and the second substrate includes a second alignment film, and a second polarizer. Relationships exist among extension directions of the video lines and directions of alignment axis orthogonal thereto, of the alignment films a polarization axis of at least one of the polarizer, and angles therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2008Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.Inventors: Masateru Morimoto, Yasuyuki Yamada