Abstract: A liquid crystal display device has the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate includes a gate line, a source line crossing the gate line, a switching element connected to the source line, a liquid crystal drive electrode connected to the switching element and having a plurality of electrodes substantially parallel to each other, and a common electrode consisting of a plurality of comb-shaped electrodes arranged substantially parallel to and alternately with the liquid crystal drive electrode. The second substrate includes color filters arranged in an array arrangement and a black matrix provided between the color filters. A spacer between the substrates contacts the first substrate in the area where the gate line, the liquid crystal drive electrode, and the common electrode are arranged in the vicinity of each other.

Abstract: A method of driving a liquid crystal display device of IPS mode is disclosed. The liquid crystal display device includes a pair of substrates, a liquid crystal layer placed between the substrates, gate lines placed above one of the substrates, source lines placed to cross the gate lines with an insulative layer interposed therebetween, a switching element placed near the crossing point of the gate lines and the source lines, and a pixel electrode connected to the source lines through the switching element. A signal voltage required for image display is supplied to the pixel electrode by the source line through the switching element. The method sets an average value of the signal voltage in such a way that an average value of a positive polarity voltage and a negative polarity voltage of the pixel electrode varies with a grayscale to be displayed, and inputs the average value of the signal voltage to the pixel electrode.

Abstract: A light source unit includes a light source having LED chips for emitting different colors of light and an optical sensor for detecting light from a light mixer. A light source control section controls by feedback control luminance of each of the LED chips according to values detected by the optical sensor. The light source unit also includes a temperature control section for controlling the temperature of the light source. The temperature control section is a feedback control system. Keeping the light source at a constant temperature allows suppressing spectrum changes of the LED chips with temperature, thereby suppressing changes in the luminance and chromaticity of the light source unit.

Abstract: The display device includes the lead line connected to pixels, the line terminal connected to the lead line and connected to the terminal of the drive circuit mounted directly on the insulating substrate by the conductive material through the transparent conductive film, the external terminal to be connected to an external unit, an external line connected to the external terminal, and an external line terminal connected to the external line and connected directly to the terminal of the drive circuit by the conductive material. The surface of the line terminal to be connected to the transparent conductive film is formed by the high resistance conductive film, and the surface of the external line terminal to be connected to the terminal of the drive circuit by the conductive material is formed by the low resistance conductive film.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device displays images by applying an electric field substantially parallel to an insulating substrate between a pixel electrode and a common electrode placed across from each other. The liquid crystal display device has a capacitor terminal connected to the pixel electrode and placed opposite to a capacitor electrode with an insulating layer therebetween. The pixel electrode has at least two voltage supply paths to the capacitor terminal.

Abstract: A high-precision patterning is conducted with a half-tone resist thickness being prevented from varying due to the presence/absence of a base film. A transmitting portion and two kinds of semi-transmitting portions, providing different quantities of transmitted light, are provided in a photomask for exposing a resist, and a smaller-transimitting-light-quantity semi-transmitting portion is used in a base film-present area and a large-transmitting light-quantity semi-transmitting portion is used in a base-film-free area to regulate luminous exposure while exposing, thereby forming a half-tone resist having uniform thickness.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device having transistors disposed at the intersections of gate lines and source lines, pixel electrodes connected with the transistors, opposite electrodes opposite to these pixel electrodes, and liquid crystal held between said opposite electrodes and said pixel electrodes is disclosed. The pixel electrodes comprise a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode. The second pixel electrode are disposed in a layer above an insulating layer which is itself disposed in a layer above the first pixel electrode. The second pixel electrode has a region that does not overlap with the first pixel electrode. The second pixel electrode are electrically connected with the first pixel electrode.

Abstract: A display device includes a scanning line (1) formed on an insulating substrate; a storage capacitance line (3) formed in parallel to the scanning line; an image signal line (2) formed across the scanning line (1) and the storage capacitance line (3) through an insulating layer; and a pixel electrode (6) being surrounded with the scanning line (1), the storage capacitance line (3) and the image signal line (2); wherein at least one overlapped area (11) of the storage capacitance line (3) and the image signal line (2) is defined in the area other than the crossing region of the storage capacitance line (3) and the image signal line (2) within one pixel area; whereby, breakage of the image signal line is mended without increasing the production steps, and production yield is improved.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semitransparent display device includes the steps of forming a light shield film over a transparent display region on a transparent substrate, applying a photosensitive organic film over the transparent substrate coated with the light shield film, exposing and developing the photosensitive organic film to form a through hole extending through the photosensitive organic film in the transparent display region, removing the light shield film exposed through the through hole after forming the through hole, and forming a reflective film above the photosensitive organic film to form a reflective display region. Thereby, such a situation can be prevented that light reflected by a stage after passing through a TFT array substrate causes visible irregularities in thickness of an organic flattening film during exposure processing for forming the organic flattening film.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a liquid crystal display including: a plurality of electrode terminals arranged on one of end faces of a TFT glass substrate in such a manner as to be aligned on an imaginary line; and a plurality of lead terminals of a tape carrier package aligned on the electrode terminals, said plurality of lead terminals connected through an anisotropic conductive film; wherein the electrode terminals near the end face of the glass substrate is formed obliquely in such a manner as to be extended in the direction of both right and left with respect to the plurality of electrode terminals.

Abstract: A fine wiring line profile with satisfactory precision is formed from a multilayer film containing a first layer made of an aluminum alloy and a second layer formed thereon made of a molybdenum-niobium alloy, by simultaneously etching the two layers constituting the multilayer film through only one etching operation while preventing the upper layer from forming overhangs. An etchant for etching a multilayer film containing an aluminum alloy layer formed over a substrate and a molybdenum-niobium alloy layer formed thereon having a niobium content of 2-19% by weight contains an aqueous solution of an acid mixture containing phosphoric acid, nitric acid, and an organic acid; and a method of etching is carried out with this etchant. The etchant preferably has a phosphoric acid concentration Np of 50-75% by weight, a nitric acid concentration Nn of 2-15% by weight, and an acid ingredient concentration defined by Np+(98/63)Nn of 55-85% by weight.

Abstract: A display apparatus has an insulating substrate, a signal line for transmitting a signal to a pixel formed in a display area on the insulating substrate, a driver integrated circuit (IC) mounted outside of the display area of the insulating substrate and electrically connected to the signal line, and an inspection pad formed outside of the display area and electrically connected to the signal line. The inspection pad is covered with resin.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device has a gate line formed on a substrate, and a gate insulating film deposited thereon. On the gate insulating film are provided a source line, and a conductive layer above the gate line. An insulating layer is formed thereon, and a pixel electrode is then provided. The conductive layer does not contact the source line, and at least two portions of the conductive layer are electrically connected with the gate line.

Abstract: A thin film transistor array substrate including an insulating substrate, a first metallic pattern formed on the insulating substrate, and an insulating film provided on the first metallic pattern. A semiconductor pattern is provided on the insulating film, and a second metallic pattern is provided on the semiconductor pattern. The second metallic pattern is surrounded by the semiconductor pattern.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device for color display comprising a transmission-type liquid crystal panel, capable of controlling an amount of transmission light, and a backlight disposed behind the liquid crystal panel capable of emitting three colors of light separately in a time-dividing manner, in which three data corresponding to the three colors of the backlight are displayed sequentially to thereby make the backlight emit a corresponding color in a period corresponding to data to be displayed. The switching can be performed manually or in response to outside signal, between a sequence in which the backlight emits three colors separately one time in one display period to perform color display, and a sequence in which the backlight emits three colors simultaneously three times to perform black-and-white display.

Abstract: A control circuit can prevent malfunction of a scan line driving circuit even when any inputted signal is not in normal timing relation due to any cause. The control circuit includes: a counter 11 for counting up to a predetermined count number based on a clock inputted; a comparator arranged at the subsequent stage of the counter to determine whether or not the counter is under counting; and a protection circuit arranged at subsequent stage of the comparator 12 for normalizing a start pulse that starts operation of the scan line driving circuit, even when any input signal of a timing controller is abnormal, by outputting a normalized start pulse 19 via AND gate 18 to which a start pulse 13 generated by the timing controller and an output signal 16 of the comparator 12 are inputted.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device has a gate line formed on a substrate, and a gate insulating film deposited thereon. On the gate insulating film are provided a source line, and a conductive layer above the gate line. An insulating layer is formed thereon, and a pixel electrode is then provided. The conductive layer does not contact the source line, and at least two portions of the conductive layer are electrically connected with the gate line.

Abstract: According to the present invention, in a carrying system comprising a carrying vehicle and a manufacturing apparatus the interior of which is kept cleaner than a surrounding environment, manufactured articles to be transferred are prevented from being contaminated by foreign matter or the like attached to transfer ports. A carrying vehicle includes a running unit 14 that runs along a predetermined carrying path, a cleaning unit 12 that supplies cleaned air, a housing section 13 to which the cleaned air is supplied and in which manufactured articles are housed, a transfer port 11 which is formed in a side of a housing and through which a manufactured article is loaded into or unloaded from the housing section 13, and an air injecting section 19A that blows out air toward the transfer port 11.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to provide a driving circuit and driving method for a LCD having high performance of moving image displaying within few amount of memory and downscaled circuit. In the present invention, a voltage applied to a pixel to drive liquid crystal material in the pixel is determined as a voltage with which the transparency of the pixel at the end of the current field becomes the designated transparency. To determine the voltage, a data table for quick response in which output data is stored in correspondence with some of the possible value of a preceding field image data and some of the possible value of the current field image data is employed, and the output data corresponding to the preceding field image data and the current field image data is determined by the data table through linear interpolation. The voltage corresponding to the output data is applied to the pixel.

Abstract: A terminal interconnection 45a including an aluminum alloy film 4a and a nitrogen-containing aluminum film 5a layered together is formed on a glass substrate 2. Nitrogen-containing aluminum film 5a in a contact portion 12a within a contact hole 11a exposing the surface of terminal interconnection 45a has a predetermined thickness d1 determined based on a specific resistance of the nitrogen-containing aluminum film. The thickness of the nitrogen-containing aluminum film outside the contact portion is larger than that of the nitrogen-containing aluminum film within the contact portion. Thereby, a semiconductor device or a liquid crystal display device having a reduced contact resistance and an appropriate resistance against chemical liquid is achieved.