Patents Assigned to Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
  • Patent number: 8368080
    Abstract: The present invention provides light emitting displays which produce a bright image by efficiently emitting light radiated from a light-emitting thin-film layer to the viewer side, and also produces a high-quality image of high contrast ratio and changing in color to a limited extent over a wide viewing angle range even in a bright atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaya Adachi, Osamu Itou
  • Patent number: 8368830
    Abstract: To form a sufficiently large storage capacitor, a liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel having a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal held between the first substrate and the second substrate, the liquid crystal display panel having multiple pixels arranged in matrix. The first substrate has, in a transmissive display area provided in each of the pixels, a laminated structure containing a first transparent electrode, a first insulating film, a second transparent electrode, a second insulating film, and a third transparent electrode which are laminated in this order. The first transparent electrode and the second transparent electrode are electrically insulated from each other and together form a first storage capacitor through the first insulating film, and the second transparent electrode and the third transparent electrode are electrically insulated from each other and together form a second storage capacitor through the second insulating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tohru Sasaki, Takahiro Ochiai
  • Patent number: 8368311
    Abstract: The present invention overcomes image defects such as the brightness inclination or smears by reducing the line resistance of a power source bus line which supplies electricity to organic EL elements. A plurality of pixels which are arranged in a matrix array is connected to power source lines, and the plurality of power source lines are connected to a power source bus line. Both ends of the power source bus line are connected to a power source part via a FPC. By supplying electricity to both ends of the power source bus line from the power source part, the line resistance of the power source bus line can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi, Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Tokuda, Hiroshi Kageyama, Masamitsu Furuie
  • Patent number: 8368837
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal display panel; and a backlight disposed to face the liquid crystal display panel, the backlight including at least a frame having a bottom surface facing the liquid crystal display panel, a reflector placed on the bottom surface of the frame, and a plurality of light sources disposed on the liquid crystal display panel side of the reflector and supported by the frame, wherein a recess protruding in the opposite direction to the liquid crystal display panel is formed in the bottom surface of the frame, the recess and the reflector constituting an air duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Ota, Akio Tezuka
  • Patent number: 8363199
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device including: a first substrate and a second substrate which are arranged so as to be opposed to each other for sandwiching a liquid crystal; an image display portion; a sealing material which seals the liquid crystal; and a light-shielding film which is formed on a liquid crystal side of the second substrate so that a part of the light-shielding film extends beyond the image display portion to overlap with the sealing material, and which has openings in the image display portion, at least in regions of the multiple pixels, in which the part of the light-shielding film that overlaps with the sealing material has a recessed portion formed on a sealing material side of the light-shielding film continuously or discontinuously along a circumferential direction of the sealing material, to a depth that is smaller than a thickness of the light-shielding film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuninobu Sekiya, Yasuyuki Yamada
  • Patent number: 8363196
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate having display portion and peripheral portion, a plurality of gate signal lines and a plurality of drain signal lines formed over the substrate, a plurality of switching elements connected to the plurality of gate signal lines and the plurality of drain signal lines and formed over the substrate, and a plurality of pixel electrodes connected to the plurality of switching elements and formed in the display portion. An organic interlayer film is formed in the display portion and the peripheral portion, and a covering layer is formed on the organic interlayer film in the peripheral portion and the insulating film includes at least one of a plurality of recesses and protuberances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kawamura, Kazuhiko Yanagawa, Nagatoshi Kurahashi, Tsuyoshi Uchida
  • Patent number: 8363416
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including: a display panel; a circuit board; a connector mounted on the circuit board; a flexible wiring board attached to the connector; and a housing which accommodates the display panel, the circuit board, and one part of the flexible wiring board, and includes a slit formed therein, from which another part of the flexible wiring board is pulled out. The flexible wiring board includes, in the one part of the flexible wiring board, a first region extending in directions which intersect a pull-out direction from the slit, and having a width which is larger than a width of the flexible wiring board at a position overlapping the slit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 8363047
    Abstract: A display device includes a dynamic ratioless shift register which is operated in a stable manner and can expand the degree of freedom of design. In the dynamic ratioless shift register which is provided with thin film transistors having semiconductor layers made of p-Si on a substrate surface, a node which becomes the floating state is connected to a fixed potential through a capacitance element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Miyazawa, Iwao Takemoto, Atsushi Hasegawa, Masashiro Maki, Kazutaka Goto
  • Patent number: 8358386
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal display panel, and a backlight disposed on the rear surface of the liquid crystal display panel, the backlight is provided with a plurality of white light-emitting diodes arranged in a plane opposing the liquid crystal display panel. Based on a chromaticity coordinate value representing a color of emission identified for each of the white light-emitting diodes, the white light-emitting diodes are selectively combined for arrangement in proximity in such a manner that the color of emission as a result of averaging over the white light-emitting diodes (1a, 1b) to be arranged in proximity takes a predetermined value of chromaticity coordinates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ikuko Imajo, Ryutaro Oke, Sachiko Yamazaki, Masashi Baba
  • Patent number: 8357940
    Abstract: A bottom gate-type thin film transistor includes a gate insulating film, an interlayer insulating film formed on the gate insulating film, having an opening which is formed in a formation region of a gate electrode, and a semiconductor film formed on the interlayer insulating film so as to cover the opening. The interlayer insulating film contains nitrides in an amount larger than that in the gate insulating film, and the semiconductor film includes a microcrystalline semiconductor film or a polycrystalline semiconductor film formed on semiconductor crystalline nuclei which are formed on the gate insulating film and the interlayer insulating film and contain at least Ge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Isao Suzumura, Yoshiaki Toyota, Mieko Matsumura
  • Patent number: 8358394
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates, a liquid crystal layer disposed therebetween, pixel regions formed by gate signal lines and image signal lines formed over the first substrate, a first insulating layer formed over the gate signal lines, thin film transistors connected to the gate signal lines with in a second insulating layer formed thereover, pixel electrodes connected to the thin film transistors, a counter electrode formed of a first transparent conductive layer over the second insulating layer, and a second transparent conductive layer and an external connection terminal disposed outside of the pixel regions. The second transparent conductive layer is formed over the second insulating layer and is electrically connected to the counter electrode and the external connection terminal, and a part of each of the gate signal lines is disposed outside of the pixel regions and is covered by the second transparent conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masuyuki Ohta, Kazuhiro Ogawa, Keiichiro Ashizawa, Kazuhiko Yanagawa, Masahiro Yanai, Nobutake Konishi, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Masahiro Ishii, Makoto Yoneya, Sukekazu Aratani
  • Patent number: 8358259
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which can obviate the generation of leaking of light and display irregularities in the vicinities of so-called dummy pixels. The liquid crystal display device includes a pair of substrates which are arranged to face each other in an opposed manner with liquid crystal sandwiched therebetween, a plurality of gate signal lines and a plurality of drain signal lines which are formed on one substrate in a matrix array, a plurality of pixel regions defined by the gate signal lines and the drain signal lines, and a reference electrode and a pixel electrode which are formed in the inside of each pixel region. In such a constitution, the plurality of pixel regions are formed in both a display region and a non-display region, and a voltage applied to the reference electrodes is applied to the pixel electrodes in the inside of the pixel regions in the non-display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nagatoshi Kurahashi, Masahiro Ishii, Hiroshi Yamagata
  • Publication number: 20130011945
    Abstract: An image displaying device having multiple photosensing devices have successfully suppressed a leakage current from each photosensing device and improved the S/N ratio. In the image displaying device, pixels and photosensing devices are disposed as pairs in a matrix pattern on a substrate. Each of the pixels and each of the photosensing devices are driven independently. Each photosensing device includes a semiconductor layer that is a photoelectric conversion layer connected to at least a first electrode and a second electrode. The contact surfaces of the first and second electrodes with respect to the semiconductor layer are disposed so that their center axes are separated from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicants: Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd., Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Isao SUZUMURA, Yoshiaki Toyota
  • Patent number: 8351003
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates with a liquid crystal layer therebetween. A planer electrode and a plurality of overlapping linear electrodes are formed on the first substrate with an insulation film disposed between the planar electrode and the plurality of linear electrodes. A projecting portion is formed on one of the first and second substrates and an alignment film is formed on each of the first and second substrates and on the projection portion. The alignment films are made of a photo-decomposition-type material, and a film thickness of the alignment film on the projecting portion and a film thickness of a portion of the alignment film facing the projecting portion satisfy a predetermined relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidehiro Sonoda, Chikae Matsui, Noboru Kunimatsu
  • Patent number: 8350792
    Abstract: A display device in which a non-display region is formed in a portion of a display region which is formed of a mass of the pixels, out of the plurality of gate signal lines and the plurality of drain signal lines, the gate signal lines and the drain signal lines which are arranged so as to traverse the non-display region when the gate signal lines and the drain signal lines straightly extend imaginarily are formed in a pattern where the gate signal lines and the drain signal lines are routed around the non-display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Igeta, Osamu Nagashima
  • Patent number: 8351011
    Abstract: In an liquid crystal display device which includes: an image display part having a plurality of pixels; and a sealing member which is formed between the first substrate and the second substrate while surrounding the image display part and seals the liquid crystal therein, the sealing member includes a liquid crystal filling port which is formed by cutting away a portion of the sealing member, an side-wall edge surface of the first substrate and a side-wall edge surface of the second substrate are made coplanar with a side-wall edge surface of the sealing member along the extending direction of the sealing member on at least one side of the first substrate and the second substrate where the liquid crystal filling port is formed, and the liquid crystal filling port is formed such that a width of the liquid crystal filling port is narrowed along the liquid-crystal filling direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukari Shigekura, Yasuyuki Yamada, Hiroshi Miyairi
  • Publication number: 20130002734
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes pixels each having an switching element, drain drivers and gate drivers for operating the switching elements and the pixels, and drain lines and gate lines supplying signals from the drain drivers and the gate drivers to the switching elements being formed on one of a pair of substrates sandwiching a liquid crystal layer. Wiring lines are formed on the one of a pair of substrates for transferring display data signals and a clock signal to the gate drivers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicants: Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd., Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Imajo, Tetsuro Izawa, Kimitoshi Ohgiichi, Hiroshi Okawara, Shiro Ueda, Nobuyuki Ishige, Tetsuya Kawamura, Hisashi Ishino, Fumiaki Komori
  • Patent number: 8345205
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate and a second substrate with a liquid crystal layer therebetween, the first substrate having a plurality of drain signal lines and a plurality of gate signal lines, and a plurality of pixel regions defined by the drain signal lines and the gate signal lines. The pixel regions include a first electrode having a plurality of linear shapes, a second electrode having a planer shape, the second electrode being overlapped with the first electrode through an insulation film, and a thin film transistor having a video signal supplied thereto from the drain signal line. The first electrode is connected with the thin film transistor so that an electric potential of the video signal is supplied thereto, and a standard electric potential is supplied to the second electrode. A third electrode is arranged between the drain signal line and the liquid crystal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kikuo Ono, Makoto Yoneya, Tsunenori Yamamoto, Junichi Hirakata, Yoshiaki Nakayoshi
  • Patent number: 8345203
    Abstract: A display device includes: a substrate; a plurality of pixels which are mounted on the substrate, each pixel including a pixel electrode; and switching elements which are mounted on the substrate, each switching element being connected to the pixel electrode. The substrate includes: a flexible insulation substrate; a first insulation layer which is formed over the insulation substrate and includes a plurality of insulation films which are spaced apart from each other, and the switching element is formed on any one of the respective insulation films. The display device can enhance flexibility thereof while forming relatively hard background films thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomio Yaguchi, Yasushi Nakano, Tetsuya Nagata
  • Patent number: 8345182
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including lenticular lenses and color separation filters, associated with a subpixel row direction, on the backlight side with respect to lenticular lenses. In a RGW row, a color separation filter reflecting B wavelengths is arranged, and in a GBW row, a color separation filter reflecting R wavelengths is arranged. Together with collecting light in transmissive aperture parts with lenticular lenses and improving the transmitted quantity of light, the light reflected by color separation filters is returned to the backlight and re-utilized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Sugita, Masaya Adachi, Shoichi Hirota