Abstract: Work is irradiated with polarized light generated by configuring in such a manner as to have a polarizer using a grating that separates polarized light from non-polarized light, a lamp and a condenser mirror that allow light to fall on the polarizer, a collimator lens that converts the incoming light into parallel beams, an integrator lens that uniformizes intensity distribution of light radiated from the polarizer, and a diffusion lens with functions to enlarge or contract the irradiated range to the work size, and by forming protrusions and recesses of the shape, material, and size that fit to the desired wavelength on a substrate such as quartz, etc. that transmit ultraviolet light, and by providing the light-polarizing performance by appropriately providing an incident angle. By carrying out this processing, the alignment film in the liquid crystal display element can be photo-aligned at high accuracy and uniformly.

Abstract: A backlight device includes projections disposed on the back side of a light guide plate, and engagement holes engaging with the projections formed in a housing. The projections of the light guide plate are engaged with the engagement holes in the housing to prevent displacement of the light guide plate caused by vibration and impact. One surface of each projection is flush with a light incident surface, the area of that cross-section of each projection which is parallel or substantially parallel to the light incident surface is set such that it continuously decreases as the section is farther away from the light incident surface, and as a result, occurrence of a bright line and a dark line is prevented.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device and a fabricating method thereof for simplifying a process are disclosed. In the method of fabricating the liquid crystal display device, a first conductive pattern group including a gate line and a gate electrode, a common line and a common electrode, a pixel electrode and a pad is formed on a substrate. An insulating film including a plurality of contact holes and a semiconductor pattern is formed on the first mask pattern group. And a second conductive pattern group including a data line, a source electrode and a drain electrode is formed on an insulating film provided with the semiconductor pattern, and exposes an active layer of the semiconductor pattern.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device appreciating room making it possible to prevent glare or external-image-projection on the basis of external light so that persons can watch the screen of a liquid crystal display device satisfactorily. The appreciating room comprises a room, a liquid crystal display device arranged inside the room and having a liquid crystal panel 2, and a light source which lightens the inside of the room, wherein a ¼ wavelength plate 6 is arranged on the front surface side of a viewing-side polarizer 3 of the liquid crystal panel 2, the ¼ wavelength plate 6 is arranged to set the angle ? of the slow axis direction X thereof to 45±5° or 135±5° from the absorptive axis direction A of the viewing-side polarizer toward the counterclockwise direction when the ¼ wavelength plate is seen from the viewing-side, and light inside the room is any one of left-handed circularly polarized light and right-handed circularly polarized light.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate having a first polarizer and a first retardation layer; a second substrate having a second polarizer and a second retardation layer; and a pixel between the first and second substrates, the pixel having a thin film transistor, a first reflective layer on the first substrate, a second reflective layer on the second substrate, a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a frame, an elastic spacer arranged on a peripheral portion of the display panel in parallel to the edge of the display panel, the elastic spacer being arranged between the display panel and the frame. A hardness of the elastic spacer varies along the length-side direction of the elastic spacer.

Abstract: On a glass substrate, gate bus lines, data bus lines, and TFTs are formed. Then, on the substrate, an insulating film, covering the gate bus lines, data bus lines and TFTs, is formed, and a positive type photoresist film is further formed thereon. Next, through exposure and development processes, the resist film is divided for each picture element and subjected to ultraviolet ray irradiation to harden only a surface layer thereof. Then, the resist film is subjected to heat treatment to form thereon wrinkle-form surface ruggedness of a uniform pattern, which is determined depending on the size of the resist film. Subsequently, reflection electrodes are formed on the resist film. The reflection electrodes are formed to overlap the gate bus line, data bus line and TFTs, and the regions between the adjacent reflection electrodes serve as light transmission regions.

Abstract: In general, an illumination display includes a light transmitting panel that provides enhanced illumination edge lighting. One or more light sources are optically coupled into an edge of the light transmitting panel to illuminate the light transmitting panel. The light transmitting panel refracts and reflects light such that a greater intensity of light may be emitted from one or more enhanced illumination portions, such as a raised enhanced illumination portion, of the light transmitting panel. The light source(s) may emit light of different colors corresponding to different conditions such that the illumination display indicates a condition by illuminating with the color corresponding to the condition. The illumination display may be used in various devices including, but not limited to, a device for checking the temperature of food.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display and a method of fabricating the same is capable of strengthening adhesion between a sealant and a lower plate in a panel with a high aperture ratio to which an organic protective film is applied. The organic protective film and a gate insulating film are patterned in such a manner that the sealant comes into contact with a substrate directly. Accordingly, the organic protective film or the gate insulating film at the area coated with the sealant is partially or entirely removed to directly contact the sealant with the gate insulating film or the lower glass, thereby strengthening the adhesion between the sealant and the lower plate.

Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a pair of substrates that hold an electro-optical material therebetween and include a plurality of pixels each having a reflective display region and a transmissive display region; a reflective film that is provided in the reflective display region and has a flat surface in a portion of the reflective display region adjacent to the transmissive display region, the portion of the reflective display region serving as a first mirror-reflection region; and colored layers each of which is formed in only the first mirror-reflection region and the transmissive display region.

Abstract: A substrate for a transflective liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of gate lines on a substrate; at least one data line crossing the plurality of gate lines to define a pixel region including a transmissive portion and a reflective portion; a thin film transistor connected to one of the plurality of gate lines and the at least one data line, the thin film transistor including a gate electrode, a semiconductor layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode; a first insulating layer covering a portion of the thin film transistor, the first insulating layer uncovering the pixel region and a portion of the drain electrode; a transparent electrode in the pixel region, the transparent electrode directly contacting the drain electrode and the semiconductor layer; and a reflective layer in the reflective portion, the reflective layer having a first uneven surface.

Abstract: A protective automatic darkening filter construction 10 includes two low twist liquid crystal cells 26, 30 interspersed between a series of offset polarizers 24, 28, 32. The resulting construction provides improved homogeneity in the dark state as viewed by the user over a large viewing angle. By reducing variations in shade, visibility through the filter may be improved.

Abstract: An exemplary transmission liquid crystal display (200) includes a first substrate (215) and a second substrate (235); a liquid crystal layer (220) having liquid crystal molecules interposed between the first and second substrates; a front polarizer (211) disposed at an front surface of the first substrate, and a rear polarizer (231) disposed at a rear surface of the second substrate; a first quarter-wavelength compensation member (213) between the front polarizer and the first substrate; a second quarter-wavelength compensation member (234) between the rear polarizer and the second substrate; a first discotic molecular film (214) between the first quarter-wavelength compensation member and the first substrate; and a second discotic molecular film (234) between the second quarter-wavelength compensation member and the second substrate.

Abstract: A color filter layer is formed on a glass substrate of a counter substrate. A bank pattern is formed of the same material as a red color-filter portion, a green color filter portion and a blue color filter portion of the color filter layer at the outside of the color filter layer on the glass substrate in the same step. A light shielding material is coated in a bank between the bank pattern and the color filter layer to form a light shielding layer. The light shielding layer can be formed so as to be continuous with the peripheral edge of the color filter layer. The light shielding layer is less likely to overlap with the inside of a display frame portion of the liquid crystal panel, and the aperture ratio is less likely to be reduced. The number of manufacturing steps of the light shielding layer is reduced.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a gate line formed on a substrate; first and second data lines crossing the gate line to form adjacent pixel regions in a direction of the gate line; pixel electrodes and common electrodes substantially parallel to each other and generating an in-plane electric field; a first pixel electrode line parallel to the first data line and spaced apart from the first data line by a first isolation distance; a second pixel electrode line spaced apart from the second data line by a second isolation distance; and a first common line parallel to the first data line and spaced apart from the first data line by a third isolation distance; a second common line spaced from the second data line by a fourth isolation distance, wherein the first isolation distance is shorter than the third isolation distance, and a parasitic capacitance between the first pixel electrode line and the first data line is greater than a parasitic capacitance between the second pixel electrode line and the se

Abstract: An LCD panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, alignment protrusions and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate includes pixel units arranged in an array. Each of the pixel units has at least one reflection area and one transmittance area. The first substrate has concaves in the reflection areas. The second substrate is above the first substrate. The first substrate or the second substrate has at least one padding layer in the reflection area. The alignment protrusions having approximately the same height are disposed on the second substrate and located in centers of each of the reflections and the transmittance areas. In the reflection area, a group of the alignment protrusions are in the concaves to keep a gap from the first substrate. The other group of the alignment protrusions outside of the concaves contact with the first substrate directly.

Abstract: Each pixel has a transmissive area and a reflective area. A first alignment process area and a second alignment process area are placed such that an overlapping region is created in part of the reflective area. A region where the liquid crystal alignment direction shifts continuously is created in a boundary between the transmissive are a and the reflective are a without exception. A first liquid crystal alignment region is formed wider than the transmissive area, and a second liquid crystal alignment region is formed narrower than the reflective area.

Abstract: An assembly for converting a microscope into a phase contrast microscope includes a first optical Fourier element that Fourier transforms light from a coherent light source, a cell in the Fourier plane arranged to receive light from the first optical Fourier element, a second optical Fourier element arranged to receive light from the cell and inversely Fourier transform the received light to provide an image, an image sensor that detects the image and generates an electronic representation of the image, and an adaptor capable of coupling the first and second Fourier elements, the cell, and the image sensor to the microscope such that the first Fourier element Fourier transforms light collected by the microscope objective.

Abstract: A backlight assembly of an LCD device which is capable of securing a enough space to mount a light guide plate by guiding lamp wires in the direction of a rear surface of the backlight assembly includes a lamp, a light guide plate configured to guide light emitted from the lamp, an optical sheet formed at an upper surface of the light guide plate, a mold frame accommodating the lamp, the light guide plate, and the optical sheet, a back cover formed at one side of a rear surface of the mold frame to protect the lamp and light guide plate, lamp wires connected at both ends of the lamp, and a wire outlet penetrating the back cover.

Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes a transistor, a pixel electrode connected with one of the current-flowing electrodes of the transistor, a storage capacitor wiring, a lead wiring extending from one of the current-flowing electrodes of the transistor, and a repair wiring extending from the storage capacitor wiring. The repair wiring overlaps a portion of the lead wiring with an insulating layer interposed therebetween. As a result, TFT defects (for example, a short circuit between a source electrode and a drain electrode) can be repaired, and performance of fast display and reduction in electric power consumption can be realized.