Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides a TFT array substrate, in which TFT elements and pixel electrodes being correspondingly connected with the TFT elements are arrayed in matrix on an insulating substrate, the TFT array substrate including: gate bus lines made from a first metal material; source bus lines made from a second metal material; pixel electrodes made from a third metal material; a clock wiring made from the first metal material; a branch wiring made from the second metal material; and a connection conductor made from the third metal material, the connection conductor connecting the clock wiring and the branch wiring at a connection part in a periphery area, the connection part having a branch-wiring via hole, which exposes the branch wiring which is covered with the connection conductor, and overlaps the clock wiring at least partly in a plane view.

Abstract: According to an aspect, a liquid crystal display device includes a first electrode having a plurality of electrode base portions that extend in a first direction; a plurality of first comb-shaped portions that protrude from each of the plurality of electrode base portions in a second direction; and a plurality of second comb-shaped portions that protrude from each of the plurality of electrode base portions in an opposite direction to the second direction. Front edges of the first comb-shaped portions and the second comb-shaped portions that extend from the adjacent electrode base portions face each other with a gap therebetween, respectively. Transmission ineffective areas are formed at portions between the front edges facing each other, respectively, and not continuously aligned.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: pixel electrodes arranged in respective sub-pixels arrayed in a matrix, plural image signal lines extending in a column direction of the matrix, and supplied with image signals, pixel transistors which are switches arranged in the respective sub-pixels, and supply the image signals to the pixel electrodes, and scanning signal lines extending in a row direction of the matrix, and control conduction of the pixel transistors. The pixel electrodes aligned in a direction along which the image signal lines extend are connected to either of two adjacent image signal lines with six sub-pixels as one period. The pixel electrodes corresponding to five of the six sub-pixels are connected to one of the two adjacent ones of the image signal lines, and the pixel electrode corresponding to one sub-pixel is connected to the other of the two adjacent ones of the image signal lines.

Abstract: The present invention is a laser irradiation apparatus which is capable of selecting a laser light of a wavelength among a plurality of laser lights having different wavelengths according to a purpose of irradiation and irradiating an object to be irradiated with the laser light having the wavelength. The laser irradiation apparatus includes, on an optical path of a mixed light beam of the plurality of laser lights having different wavelengths, a slit having a width corresponding to a diffraction limit of the laser light having the shortest wavelength among the plurality of laser lights having different wavelengths, and an objective lens for focusing a laser light that has passed through the slit on the object to be irradiated.

Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, a display element, a transistor as a drive element of the display element, and a holding capacitance element holding electric charge corresponding to a video signal. The display element, the transistor, and the holding capacitance element are provided on the substrate. The holding capacitance element includes a first semiconductor layer including an oxide semiconductor, a first conductive film provided on the first semiconductor layer, a first insulating film provided between the first semiconductor layer and the first conductive film, and a recess formed by removing part or all in thickness of the first conductive film and the first insulating film in a selective region on the first semiconductor layer.

Abstract: A method for withdrawing a liquid crystal from a liquid crystal panel includes the steps of: (a) providing a liquid crystal panel that includes a liquid crystal and two spaced-apart substrates cooperatively defining an accommodating space therebetween to accommodate the liquid crystal, and that is divided into a discard region and a reserve region; (b) forming a through hole that is located in the discard region in one of the substrates; and (c) liquefying the liquid crystal that is accommodated in the accommodating space, followed by withdrawing the liquid crystal from the accommodating space through the through hole. A method for recycling a liquid crystal panel is also disclosed.

Abstract: With regard to an IPS liquid crystal display device in which a phase difference film is used as a polarizing plate protection film at the liquid crystal cell side of a polarizing plate, which is arranged at the viewing side of IPS liquid crystal cell, to provide a means for improving the re-workability of the phase difference film at production of the display device. The IPS mode liquid crystal display device according to the present invention has an IPS mode liquid crystal cell and a first polarizing plate and a second polarizing plate, which sandwich the IPS mode liquid crystal cell.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) panel comprising a signal line, a first dielectric layer, a liquid crystal layer, a pixel electrode, and a thin film transistor (TFT) is provided. The first dielectric layer with a first permittivity ?1 is formed on the signal line and the TFT. An average permittivity of the liquid crystal layer is a second permittivity ?2 greater than the first permittivity ?1. The pixel electrode neighbors with the signal line. The distance between the signal line and a side of the first dielectric layer is a first distance d1, and the distance between a side of the first dielectric layer and a side of the pixel electrode is a second distance d2, wherein the second permittivity ?2, the first permittivity ?1, the first distance d1 and the second distance d2 are conformed to the following inequality: ( 1 ? ? ? 1 ? ? ? 2 × ? 2 ? 1 + 1 ) × ? ? ? 2 < V ? ? th V ? ? d .

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a polarizing plate, and a patterned retarder. The display panel includes a first substrate including a signal line and a pixel. A second substrate faces the first substrate. An image display device is disposed between the first and second substrates. The first substrate is disposed in a position to which external light is incident. The polarizing plate is disposed above the first substrate of the display panel. The patterned retarder is disposed between the polarizing plate and the signal line. The patterned retarder retards the external light such that the external light reflected by the signal line does not pass through the polarizing plate.

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosed technology relate to a thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panel comprising: a color filter substrate and a thin film transistor array substrate facing each other, and a liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween; and an electrostatic discharge circuit, wherein the color filter substrate comprises: a base substrate and a color filter film which has a first surface attached to the base substrate; a conductive layer attached to a second surface of the color filter film and electrically connected to the electrostatic discharge circuit to release charges on the conductive layer. The embodiments of the disclosed technology also provide a color filter substrate.

Abstract: A liquid crystal element achieving both optical control utilizing a memory property and optical control capable of supporting moving image displays is disclosed. The first substrate and the second substrate of the element are set in an orientation process direction that ensures generation of a first orientation state, and a chiral material that generates a second orientation state is included in the liquid crystal layer. The layer transitions from the second orientation state to the first orientation state when an electric field of a layer thickness direction is applied. The layer transitions from the first orientation state to the second orientation state when an electric field of a direction perpendicular to the layer thickness direction is applied. And the layer returns to the second orientation state when an orientation change is generated according to the strength of the electric field when an electric field of the perpendicular direction is applied.

Abstract: A light diffusion member includes a light-transmissive base, a plurality of light diffusion portions, a connecting portion, and a light absorbing layer. The light diffusion portions are arranged on one surface of the base and have light-incident end surfaces each positioned on the side away from the base and having a larger area than a light-emergent end surface thereof. The connecting portion connects at least two adjacent ones of the plural light diffusion portions to each other, and is positioned near the light-incident end surfaces of the adjacent light diffusion portions. The light absorbing layer is formed on the one surface of the base in a region different from a region where the light diffusion portions are formed. A size from the light-incident end surface to the light-emergent end surface of the light diffusion portion is larger than a thickness of the light absorbing layer.

Abstract: An electronic device may have a display such as a liquid crystal display. A color filter layer may be formed on a display layer such as a transparent substrate layer of the display. The color filter layer may include an array of color filter elements on an inner surface of the transparent substrate layer. The color filter layer may include opaque masking material. In an inactive portion of the display, the opaque masking material may be formed over the color filter elements and interposed between the color filter elements. In the inactive portion of the display, the opaque masking material and the color filter elements may form a ring that serves as a border region surrounding an active portion of the display. In the active portion of the display, the opaque masking layer may be patterned to from an opaque matrix that separates the color filter elements.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display module including a display area which displays an image, a cover member including a transmissive portion opposed to the display area, a first color portion opposed to a peripheral area on an outside of the display area of the display module, and a second color portion located on an outside of the first color portion, and a photosensitive resin which adheres the display module and the cover member to each other, wherein the first color portion has a higher transmittance of light of a wavelength for curing the photosensitive resin than the second color portion.

Abstract: A transparent display apparatus including a backlight module, a display panel, and a switching panel is provided. The backlight module includes a light source and a light guide plate (LGP). The display panel is located on a light emitting surface of the LGP. The switching panel and the backlight module are located at the same side of the display panel. The switching panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate opposite to the first substrate, a polymer-dispersed liquid crystal layer located between the first substrate and the second substrate, a first electrode layer located between the first substrate and the polymer-dispersed liquid crystal layer, and a second electrode layer located between the polymer-dispersed liquid crystal layer and the second substrate. The first electrode layer is divided into first electrode patterns that are separated from and electrically independent from one another. Another transparent display apparatus is also provided.

Abstract: An LCD having a backlight module is proposed. The backlight module includes an ambient light collector for collecting ambient light; a back plate; a diffuser plate on the back plate; a plurality of optical fibers straightly fixed between the diffuser plate and the back plate and coupled to the ambient light collector. Microstructure is formed on the surface of the optical fibers straightly fixed between the diffuser plate and the back plate, and the microstructure makes light from the optical fibers evenly being emitted. The backlight module utilizes microstructure formed on a surface of optical fibers for evenly distributing light from the surface of the optical fibers. In hence, it effectively guides ambient light into the backlight module via the optical fibers and ensures at the same time that the light is evenly distributed to the backlight module.

Abstract: The disclosed technology is directed to a pixel unit and a method for manufacturing the same and a liquid crystal display device. The pixel unit comprises: an array substrate; a color filter substrate; and a liquid crystal layer located between the array substrate and the color filter substrate. The pixel unit includes a displaying region and a non-displaying region in which a first electrode and a second electrode are formed on the array substrate and the color filter substrate respectively, and the rotation of molecules in the liquid crystal layer between the first electrode and the second electrode can be controlled by a vertical electrical field generated between the first electrode and the second electrode after energized to realize a normal black display mode, so that light leaking from the liquid crystal layer between the first electrode and the second electrode is prevented.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The liquid crystal display device comprises first and second substrates facing each other; a transparent conductive film formed on one surface of the first substrate, absorbing charges of electro static discharge (ESD); a black matrix including a first black matrix formed on a corner of the other surface of the first substrate and end portions spaced apart from one end of the first black matrix at a predetermined interval for insulation; a ground electrode formed on one surface of the second substrate; and a connection portion connecting the transparent conductive film with the ground electrode, and extending over the end portions.

Abstract: An array substrate includes a circumference wiring along with a periphery of an active area. A seal element is arranged surrounding the active area and forming a liquid crystal injecting mouth, and a seal material seals the liquid crystal injecting mouth. The circumference wiring is located in the liquid crystal injecting mouth and extends in a first direction. The circumference wiring includes a first wiring portion formed of a plurality of straight line portions, a second wiring portion in the shape of a grid formed of a plurality of straight line portions and a third wiring portion formed of a plurality of straight line portions. The respective straight line portions of the first, second and third wiring portions are connected along the first direction in the liquid crystal injecting mouth.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display 50 includes: a light source 10; a liquid crystal display panel 213; a wire-grid polarization plate 211, 214 located on at least one of a light-incident side and a light-emission side of the liquid crystal display panel 213, and including a base plate 101 and a plurality of wires 100 arranged in stripes on the base plate 1; a projection lens 23; a cooling part 25 which supplies wind to the liquid crystal display panel 213 and the polarization plate 211, 214 to cool them; and a covering wall 102 which covers end faces of the plurality of wires 100 and ends of a plurality of grooves 108 formed between the plurality of wires 100, at a windward side of the polarization plate 211, 214 in a flow direction of the wind supplied from the cooling part 25.