Patents Assigned to Hitachi Display, Ltd.
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Patent number: 8279151Abstract: The present invention efficiently arranges a spare TFT element in a pixel region of a liquid crystal display device. A display device includes a substrate on which TFT elements which are arranged in pixel regions each of which is surrounded by two neighboring scanning signal lines and two neighboring video signal lines are formed. The substrate arranges a first TFT element and a second TFT element in each pixel region in which the first TFT element and the second TFT element independently include a channel layer, a drain electrode and a source electrode respectively, only either one of the first TFT element and the second TFT element in each pixel region is operated when a video signal is applied to the video signal line and a scanning signal is applied to the scanning signal line, and the first TFT element and the second TFT element differ from each other in largeness or a shape of an occupied area or a channel width and a channel length of each TFT element when the substrate is viewed in a plan view.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2007Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryutaro Oke, Shisei Kato
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Patent number: 8279203Abstract: An image display device capable of controlling in a differentiated manner the signal-brightness characteristics of natural pictures and those of different image sources, such as texts, in the screen frame is to be provided. The image display device is provided with a display area in which are arrayed a plurality of pixels each having a light-emitting device whose brightness is controlled with an image signal output voltage supplied from a signal voltage output circuit. The display area comprises first and second pixel groups of pixels connected to different drive voltage lines. The display area has a display characteristic that the first pixel group and the second pixel group are substantially equal in emission spectrum and differ in light emission brightness relative to the same image signal voltage supplied from the signal voltage output circuit.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2005Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hajime Akimoto, Toshihiro Sato, Naoki Tokuda
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Patent number: 8278665Abstract: An organic light emitting diode display includes a thin film transistor on a substrate (1). The thin film transistor includes a gate electrode (2), a gate insulating film (3) that covers the gate electrode (2), a first semiconductor film (4) provided on the gate insulating film (3), a second semiconductor film (5) provided on the first semiconductor film (4), a back channel protection insulating film (7) and an ohmic contact film (8) provided on the second semiconductor film (5), and source/drain electrodes (9). A crystallinity of the first semiconductor film (4) is higher than that of the second semiconductor film (5). The back channel protection insulating film (7) is formed as one of an organic insulating film and an organic/inorganic hybrid insulating film. The thin film transistor has excellent off-state characteristics, swing characteristics, and saturation characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2010Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Haruhiko Asanuma, Genshiro Kawachi
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Patent number: 8274642Abstract: A maskless exposure method of drawing a circuit pattern includes: moving a substrate with respect to a projection optical system; scanning, by the projection optical system, the substrate in a first direction; shifting a scanning region in a second direction; scanning the substrate in the first direction so that an overlapping part is formed. A plurality of marks different from the circuit pattern are exposed in a vicinity of the overlapping part. The plurality of marks are a set of marks at least including two marks disposed on one side of the overlapping part and two marks disposed on another side of the overlapping part. Deviations between the pair of the scanning regions, an inclination of exposing light, and a yawing angle of a stage are analyzed by measuring deviations of distances among the plurality of marks. Calibration data are obtained from a result of the analyzing.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2009Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyasu Matsuura, Seiji Ishikawa, Tadamichi Wachi, Toshimasa Ishigaki
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Patent number: 8274630Abstract: Liquid crystal is sandwiched between a first substrate in rectangular form and a second substrate in rectangular form, pixel electrodes and a first alignment film are formed on the first substrate, a counter electrode and a second alignment film are formed on the second substrate, the second alignment film is rubbed in a direction at an angle in a range of 45°+/?3° relative to one side of the second substrate, the counter electrode is provided with a protruding pad portion, and the direction in which the pad portion extends is to an angle of 15° or more and 35° or less with the side of the second substrate.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2010Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideyuki Shintani, Shinichi Soto, Hiroshi Saeki, Osamu Nagashima, Tomokazu Ishikawa
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Patent number: 8274635Abstract: A display device which can ensure a sufficient adhesive strength on an adhering surface between each of a pair of substrates of a liquid crystal display panel and a sealing material is provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2011Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Aki Tsuchiya, Takashi Yamamoto, Akira Ishii, Naoki Kikuchi, Yoshihiro Arai
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Patent number: 8274218Abstract: A color light emitting display includes light-emitting devices constituting a plurality of red, green and blue pixels disposed in a matrix form on a substrate, said light-emitting display takes out light from a side of said light-emitting devices opposite to said substrate on which said light-emitting devices are formed, and wherein when a wavelength of the light having an interference intensity of which with respect to the light emitted from an emissive layer constituting said light-emitting device becomes a maximum value at 0 degree of a viewing angle is ?imax, and a wavelength of the light becomes a maximum in a light intensity of the light emitted from said emissive layer is ?emax, a relationship of ?emax?50 nm??imax<?emax is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2012Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masaya Adachi, Toshihiro Sato, Naoki Tokuda
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Patent number: 8274619Abstract: A display device which can reduce easily the brightness unevenness produced by the insufficient writing of TFT, wherein, the display device having: a display panel which, over a surface of an insulating substrate, includes plural scanning signal lines; plural picture signal lines; plural TFTs; plural pixel electrodes coupled to sources of the TFTs; and a counter electrode, wherein the pixel and counter electrodes are arranged over the same surface of an insulating layer overlying the surface of the insulating substrate, and when a gate insulating film provided at one TFT among the TFTs is thinner than a gate insulating film provided at another TFT among the TFTs, a gap between a pixel electrode coupled to the source of the one TFT and the counter electrode is set to be wider than a gap between a pixel electrode coupled to the source of the another TFT and the counter electrode.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2011Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ken Ohara, Tsunenori Yamamoto, Yoshiaki Nakayoshi, Hiroshi Saito, Jun Ooida
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Patent number: 8274500Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device where a common driver circuit formed of only a single channel transistor can be made smaller, wherein the counter electrode driving circuit has M basic circuits that are connected to M counter electrodes (M?2), the (n?1)th selection scan signal, the nth selection scan signal, an alternating current signal and an inverse alternating current signal are inputted in the nth basic circuit (1?n?M), there is a difference in phase between said selection scan signal and said alternating current signal, as well as between said selection scan signal and said inverse alternating current signal, and said nth basic circuit supplies a positive or negative counter voltage to the Nth counter electrode on the basis of said inputted (n?1)th selection scan signal, nth selection scan signal, alternating current signal and inverse alternating current signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2011Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Abe, Hideo Sato, Masahiro Maki
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Patent number: 8269911Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device which uses light emitting diodes as a light source, the present invention provides a light source which can be effectively housed in a housing casing of a backlight even when an area of a printed circuit board is increased by taking radiation of heat from the light emitting diodes into consideration. A printed circuit board is formed by arranging light emitting diodes on a flexible substrate. The printed circuit board is formed with an area larger than an area of a light incident surface of a light guide plate, and is arranged to face the light incident surface of the light guide plate in an opposed manner. The light guide plate and the printed circuit board are housed in the inside of a housing casing, the printed circuit board is made foldable by forming slits in the printed circuit board thus enabling housing of the printed circuit board in the housing casing in a folded shape.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2008Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Saburo Watanabe, Hiroshi Tokuyama, Norihisa Fukayama
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Patent number: 8269922Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device including: a liquid crystal display panel; a fluorescent tube disposed on a side opposite to a display surface of the liquid crystal display panel; an electrode holder for retaining the fluorescent tube; a frame to which the electrode holder is attached; a light reflection cover including one of a hole and a notch for allowing the fluorescent tube to pass therethrough, the light reflection cover covering a part of the fluorescent tube and an area of the frame on an outer side of the fluorescent tube; and an elastic body provided on the light reflection cover so as to face the fluorescent tube in a non-contact manner.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2010Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shimon Itakura, Fumihiko Hieda, Makoto Fujimoto
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Patent number: 8269695Abstract: A self-emission type display device is disclosed. A current comparator circuit (47) in a data line drive circuit having a current compensating function (2) detects only the result of size comparison between the current amount due to the degeneration of a self-emission element and a reference value. The reduction of the current amount below the reference value is stored by being added to the least significant bits of a display data storage circuit (30). In accordance with the display data read from the storage circuit (30), a D/A conversion circuit (41) generates a write signal voltage.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2006Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naruhiko Kasai, Hajime Akimoto, Toshihiro Satou
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Patent number: 8269925Abstract: A liquid crystal display device which can obviate color mixing of colors when a display screen is viewed from oblique directions while enhancing a numerical aperture of a pixel is provided. In a liquid crystal display device having red sub pixels, green sub pixels and blue sub pixels, a width of a light blocking film arranged on a boundary portion between the blue sub pixel and the sub pixel of other color is set larger than a width of a light blocking film arranged on a boundary portion between the red sub pixel and the green sub pixel.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2009Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Ochiai, Tohru Sasaki, Osamu Ito
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Patent number: 8264432Abstract: An image display device comprises a unit which divides one line into a plurality of blocks (blocks A, B, and C) in a horizontal direction and detects in parallel, a unit which collectively detects a plurality of lines (lines A and B) in a vertical direction in parallel. The unit detects a pixel state of a pixel of the block (for example, block A) and a pixel state of the same pixel as an adjacent block (for example, block B), and corrects a variation between the detection result of the block and the detection result of the adjacent block. The unit detects a pixel state of a pixel through the line (for example, line A) and a pixel state of the same pixel through a different line (for example, line B), and corrects a variation between the detection result of the line and the detection result of the different line.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2009Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masato Ishii, Naruhiko Kasai, Tohru Kohno, Hajime Akimoto
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Patent number: 8264481Abstract: To implement brightness change of pixels due to variations in environmental temperatures with low electric power, the display device includes a display part having a display area arrayed with plural pixels, a display scanning circuit and a signal driving circuit for driving the plural pixels, and a power circuit that supplies a current for illuminating each of the plural pixels with brightness corresponding to a display signal from the signal driving circuit; and a detection unit that includes: a monitor element for driving a constant current that detects environmental temperatures; and plural constant current sources, detects a voltage value relating to the luminous intensity of the pixels by the monitor element to generate a signal to control an output voltage of the power circuit, and changes over a constant current source of the monitor element according to a voltage value detected in the detection unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2008Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tohru Kohno, Mitsuhide Miyamoto, Hajime Akimoto, Naruhiko Kasai, Masato Ishii
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Patent number: 8259252Abstract: In a thin liquid crystal display device having a front window, a cushion material is interposed between a liquid crystal display panel and a mold in which a backlight is housed. When an external force is applied to the front window, the cushion material helps to avoid concentration of stress on a TFT substrate constituting the liquid crystal display panel. Thus, it is possible to prevent the TFT substrate from being cracked. Further, a peripheral wall portion is formed in the mold and is bonded to the front window, in order to prevent the phenomenon that the liquid crystal display panel is removed from the front window when an excess force is applied to a transparent adhesive material that bonds the front window and the liquid crystal display panel together.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2010Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Eiji Oohira
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Patent number: 8258024Abstract: The display device having a thin film transistor formed on a substrate including a display portion is provided. The thin film transistor including: a gate electrode; a gate insulating film formed so as to cover the gate electrode; a semiconductor laminated film formed on top the gate insulating film so as to extend over the gate electrode, the semiconductor laminated film being formed by laminating at least a polycrystalline semiconductor film and an amorphous semiconductor film, a first electrode and a second electrode disposed on top of the semiconductor laminated film so as to be opposed to each other across a region superposing the gate electrode. In the display device, the semiconductor laminated film is formed immediately below a wiring extending from the first electrode and immediately below a wiring extending from the second electrode.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2009Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mieko Matsumura, Mutsuko Hatano, Yoshiaki Toyota, Takuo Kaitoh
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Patent number: 8259275Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device capable of significantly reducing occurrence of a failure such as an interlayer short-circuit. In the liquid crystal device, a first layer formed of a copper film having a purity of 99.5% or more and a second layer formed of an alloy film containing copper as a main component are successively formed on a glass substrate or a substrate on which a transparent conductive film containing indium is formed. The alloy film serving as the second layer is made of an alloy containing copper as a main component, which has a higher etching rate in a wet etching process compared with that of copper. Accordingly, a patterned cross-section of the copper film having a large film thickness can be etched in a tapered shape, to thereby improve coverage of an insulating film or the like laminated on a wiring pattern.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2009Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takaaki Suzuki, Takuya Takahashi
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Patent number: 8259280Abstract: An image display device having a display panel in which a first substrate and a second substrate are disposed to each other, in which the first substrate includes an insulating substrate composed of a resin, a circuit layer having a circuit where a plurality of Thin-film transistors are arranged in a matrix, and a polarizer disposed between the insulating substrate and the circuit layer, the insulating substrate has a thickness of 20 ?m or more and 150 ?m or less, a transmittance of 80% or more for a visible light at a wavelength of 400 nm or more and 800 nm or less, and a 3% weight reduction temperature of 300° C. or higher, and has no melting point or has a melting point of 300° C. or higher.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2009Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Hattori, Midori Kato, Mutsuko Hatano, Takeshi Satou
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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