Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid crystal display device used as a display part of an information equipment and a method of manufacturing the same, and has an object to provide the liquid crystal display device which can obtain excellent display characteristics without raising the manufacture cost and the method of manufacturing the same.

Abstract: A method of producing a liquid crystal display device. A first substrate having a liquid crystal dripped thereon, and a second substrate, are arranged in a vacuum chamber. The first substrate is held by a first electrostatic chuck and the second substrate is held by a second electrostatic chuck. The second substrate is urged onto the first substrate to bond the first substrate and the second substrate together. The bonded first and second substrates are then peeled off from the electrostatic chucks. A resin sheet is arranged on the second electrostatic chuck, so that the bonded first and second substrates do not cluig to the second electrostatic chuck when peeled off.

Abstract: The invention relates to a pattern forming method, a method of manufacturing a TFT substrate, a method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display and an exposure mask and provides a pattern forming method, a method of manufacturing a TFT substrate, a method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display and an exposure mask which make it possible to provide a liquid crystal display having high display characteristics.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which can effectively reduce electromagnetic radiation caused by clock signals or data signals. In a liquid crystal display device, a timing controller outputs a clock signal and a reverse clock signal. The clock signal and the reverse clock signal are transmitted to a clock signal line and a reverse clock signal line arranged in parallel to each other. The clock signal line is connected to normal terminals of data driver ICs, and the reverse clock signal line is connected to dummy terminals of the data driver ICs.

Abstract: AC voltage of rectangular wave is applied between a pixel electrode 25A and a common electrode 23A, and the amplitude Vac of the AC voltage component and the DC voltage component Vdc thereof are changed to measure the range of optimal DC component variation &Dgr;Vdc and determine a structure or material of a liquid crystal display device so as to lower &Dgr;Vdc less than a given value, wherein &Dgr;Vdc=|Vdcb−Vdcw|, Vdcb is the value of Vdc at which the range of transmittance variation is the minimum with Vac being fixed at a value for displaying black (2V), and Vdcw is the value of Vdc at which the range of transmittance variation is the minimum with Vac being fixed at a value for displaying white (7 V). Thickness of an insulating layer 26A on the pixel electrode 25A and on the common electrode 23A are the same. Electrode crossover portions are made to be in axial symmetry. The top surface of each stripe electrode of a pixel electrode has convex shape in cross section.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display utilizing the dispense-injection method, and it is an object of the invention to provide a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display which allows an optimum quantity of liquid crystals to be dispensed on each substrate. At a dispense-injection step, in the case of a two-shot process for fabricating two liquid crystal display panels from a single glass substrate, the heights of support posts on two CF substrates having columnar spacers formed thereon are measured at a plurality of points (e.g., five locations) on each of the surfaces using a laser displacement gauge and an average value of the height is obtained. The support post height of the columnar spacers is thus measured in advance to control the quantity of dispensed liquid crystals based on the measured value.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display panel, wherein a gap between substrates is to be maintained as designed. In a method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display panel, comprising a step of coating a resin film on one of a pair of substrates facing each other and patterning the resin film to form pillar spacers, a step of optically cleaning the surface of the substrate where the pillar spacers have been formed, and a step of forming an alignment film on the optically cleaned substrate, in the optical cleaning, a light source having an emission peak in a wavelength range of 180 nm or less or 260 nm or more and not having an emission peak in a wavelength range from 180 nm to 260 nm is used.

Abstract: To suppress a decrease in the contrast caused by the reflection on the interface to the air layer without decreasing the quality of display. A reflection-type liquid crystal display device includes a light guide plate having a polarizing element stuck or adhered thereto on the side facing a reflection-type liquid crystal display panel, a source of light arranged on an end surface side of the light guide plate, and the reflection-type liquid crystal display panel arranged maintaining a predetermined gap relative to the light guide plate, wherein a light-diffusing function is imparted to the surface of the reflection-type liquid crystal display panel on the side facing the light guide plate.

Abstract: A thin film transistor array substrate includes an insulating substrate; a thin film transistor arranged in a part of a pixel area on the insulating substrate; an auxiliary capacitor having an auxiliary capacitor electrode arranged in the pixel area and an opposite electrode facing the auxiliary capacitor electrode via an insulating layer, the opposite electrode being located in the same layer as source and drain electrodes of the thin film transistor; and a pixel electrode formed in the pixel area. The opposite electrode is divided into two or more sections, and each of the sections is electrically connected to the pixel electrode via a contact hole.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a liquid crystal display device, in which a pretilt angle and a tilt direction upon application of a voltage of liquid crystal molecules are controlled by using a polymer and is to provide a method for producing a liquid crystal display device that provides good display characteristics.

Abstract: There is provided a liquid crystal panel capable of maintaining a cell gap and preventing generation of air bubbles. In the liquid crystal panel having a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between a color filter (CF) substrate and a thin film transistor (TFT) substrate, recesses formed at respective locations of contact holes each for connecting a drain metal layer and a pixel electrode to each other are filled with respective hole-filling columnar layers. At the same time, the cell gap between the CF substrate and the TFT substrate is maintained by cell gap-maintaining columnar layers. The columnar layers are simultaneously formed by subjecting a photosensitive resin to exposure and development. As a result, a reliable liquid crystal panel which does not suffer from air bubbles remaining in the recesses formed at the locations of the contact holes, and capable of effectively maintaining the cell gap with high productivity at low costs.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a surface lighting device, in which plural light-emitting elements corresponding to plural colors including at least red, green and blue, that is, LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) capable of emitting light of primary colors are arranged to form a surface light source, and a liquid crystal display device which attains high luminance even on a large display area by including the surface lighting device.

Abstract: A method for forming a conjugated polymer which is doped by a dopant includes the steps of (a) adding a doping agent comprising a dopant moiety to a solution containing the conjugated polymer or a precursor thereof and, optionally, a second polymer, the dopant moiety being capable of bonding to the conjugated polymer, precursor thereof or the second polymer; (b) allowing the dopant moiety to bond to the conjugated polymer, precursor thereof or the second polymer to perform doping of the conjugated polymer, wherein the amount of doping agent added in step (a) is less than the amount required to form a fully doped conjugated polymer.

Abstract: A control circuit of a liquid crystal display device has a display driving data generation section. The display driving data generation section includes a conversion table 46 for storing compensation data corresponding to the combination of the significant bits of the image data nFi of the current frame and of the post driving status data (n−1)Fp of the previous frame, and an interpolation operation section for generating interpolation compensation data by performing an interpolation operation for the compensation data which is read from the conversion table according to the insignificant bits of the image data of the current frame and of the post driving status data of the previous frame. And the conversion table further comprises a singular point conversion table used when the post driving status data of the previous frame is a first data. These tables are selected depending on whether the post driving status data of the previous frame is the first data or not.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an active matrix type display providing a thin film transistor (TFT) as a switching device and which can obtain a large storage capacitor without thinning an insulating film between electrodes or expanding an electrode to a pixel area. The active matrix type display is structured to have a plurality of gate wirings formed on a glass substrate, a plurality of data wirings formed on the glass substrate substantially orthogonal to the gate wirings, the TFT decided by the gate wirings and data wirings and formed in a plurality of pixel areas arranged in a matrix shape, a pixel electrode formed inside the pixel area and connected to the TFT, and a plurality of storage capacitor electrodes layers formed a plurality of storage capacitors between the glass substrate and pixel electrode via a plurality of insulating films.

Abstract: An electroluminescent device including: a first electrode; a second electrode; and a light-emissive region of electroluminescent organic material between the electrodes; and wherein the first electrode includes a first material capable of injecting positive charge carriers into the light-emissive region and a second material capable of injecting negative charge carriers into the light-emissive region; and the second electrode inclueds a third material capable of injecting positive charge carriers into the light-emissive region and a fourth material capable of injecting negative charge carriers into the light-emissive region.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a substrate for display panel comprises a step of forming an organic insulating film on a light transmissive substrate and a step of patterning the organic insulating film to form a first opening and a second opening smaller than the first opening formed as through holes therein. In particular, this patterning step includes a lithography process of selectively exposing the organic insulating film to light with the use of a photomask and removing the light-exposed portions, the photomask being so set that the average light transmittance is lower at a light transmissive area for the first opening than at a light transmissive area for the second opening.

Abstract: The present invention provides a backlight device that has a heat-generating light source, such as a fluorescent tube. This backlight device includes; fluorescent tubes that emit light when power is supplied to the fluorescent tube electrodes; and a light guide plate that guides the light emitted from the fluorescent tubes to a liquid crystal panel. In this backlight device, heat release members for releasing the heat from the fluorescent tube electrodes are provided at the corners of the light guide plate that face the fluorescent tube electrodes of the fluorescent tubes. With these heat release members, the light guide plate is prevented from melting.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including a display part having pixels arranged in a matrix formation; signal lines and scan lines connected to the pixels; a data driver which supplies display signals to the signal lines; and a reset circuit which resets the potentials of the signal lines to a predetermined potential with a given period. In one embodiment, the reset circuit includes a first reset circuit connected to the signal lines, and a second reset circuit connected to an output part of the driver.

Abstract: A display control device for a light-emissive display comprising: input means for receiving display data defining a visual display pattern, processing means for processing the display data to generate control data for controlling the pixels of the display and having a first, normal mode of operation in which it controls the pixels to display the pattern as defined by the display data, and a second, power-saving mode of operation in which it controls a set of pixels of the display to operate with reduced power consumption whilst maintaining display of the pattern, and output means for connection to the pixels to transmit the control data to the pixels.