Patents by Inventor Hidetoshi Nakagawa

Hidetoshi Nakagawa has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8144097
    Abstract: A display device displays images with a plurality of signal lines and includes spare lines, each being arranged to be connectable to the signal lines so as to be used for recovery of the signal lines from disconnection. Each of the spare lines has constricted sections for cutting. With this arrangement, it is possible to easily and properly recover the signal lines from disconnection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 8134668
    Abstract: The present invention provides: a liquid crystal display device capable of improving display qualities and yield, the liquid crystal display device having two or more domains in a pixel through an alignment treatment that has been provided for a substrate over several times; and a production method thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20120002128
    Abstract: A display device displays images with a plurality of signal lines and includes spare lines, each being arranged to be connectable to the signal lines so as to be used for recovery of the signal lines from disconnection. Each of the spare lines has constricted sections for cutting. With this arrangement, it is possible to easily and properly recover the signal lines from disconnection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hidetoshi NAKAGAWA
  • Patent number: 8077284
    Abstract: The present invention is a substrate for a display device comprising an active matrix substrate and an opposed substrate which are opposed to each other with a display medium layer interposed therebetween, said active matrix substrate including a pixel electrode arranged in a matrix shape on the side of the display medium layer and said opposed substrate including a common electrode opposing to the pixel electrode on the side of the display medium layer, wherein said substrate for a display device includes an electrode slit formed in one of the pixel electrode and the common electrode; and at least one of the electrical connecting portions of said electrode slit is provided outside of a light-blocking region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Nakagawa, Toshihide Tsubata, Nobuyoshi Nagashima, Yuhko Hisada
  • Patent number: 8040308
    Abstract: A display device displays images with a plurality of signal lines and includes spare lines, each being arranged to be connectable to the signal lines so as to be used for recovery of the signal lines from disconnection. Each of the spare lines has constricted sections for cutting. With this arrangement, it is possible to easily and properly recover the signal lines from disconnection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20110134352
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel of the present invention includes a liquid crystal layer 42 interposed between a first substrate 10 and a second substrate 20, and a sealant portion 32, which surrounds the liquid crystal layer, the sealant portion being made of a sealant containing a photocurable resin 34a and conductive beads 34b. The first substrate includes a wiring 51, which intersects, in a non-display region, with two mutually adjoining sides of the second substrate. The wiring has two conductive layers 52 and 54, which are layered with an insulating layer 53 sandwiched therebetween. Two contact sections 58 that are formed where the wiring intersects with the sealant portion include contact holes 17a formed in an organic insulating film 17 and an insulating layer 53, and a contact layer 58 that is in contact with the conductive layer in the contact holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2009
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20110134022
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display panel having a narrower frame region than in the conventional art. The liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes a liquid crystal layer 42 interposed between a first substrate 10 and a second substrate 20, and a sealant portion 32 that surrounds the liquid crystal layer, the sealant portion 32 being made of a sealant containing a photocurable resin and conductive beads. The first substrate 10 includes a recess 14a in which an organic insulating film 14 is not present in a non-display region. At least a portion of a black matrix 22a overlaps the recess 14a. A portion of the sealant portion 32 is disposed in the recess 14a. An opposite electrode 24 is not formed in a region of the second substrate 20 that faces the recess 14a.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2009
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20110025941
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes: a plurality of first wirings (1a) provided so as to extend parallel to each other; a plurality of second wirings (1b) each provided between adjoining ones of the first wirings (1a) so as to extend parallel to each other; and a third wiring (3c) which is provided so as to cross the first wirings (1a) with an insulating film therebetween, to which the second wirings (1b) are connected via contact holes (11a) formed in the insulating film, and which has a larger width than that of the second wirings (1b). Each of the first wirings (1a) has a multi-line portion (Wa) and a single-line portion (Wb), which are connected together, in a region overlapping the third wiring (3c).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 7868991
    Abstract: In a wiring figure pattern of a display panel, each wiring is separated into bands of optimal widths by slits of a constant width as a wiring figure pattern so that minimum light irradiation for curing a photocuring sealing material can be carried out without increasing the electric resistance of the wiring. The optimal width means a resistance such that light coming from both sides of the band cures the sealing material on the upper surface of the band without influencing the driving and display of liquid crystal. At a point where the width of wiring becomes two times or more of the optical width between the start point and end point of intersection of the wiring and the sealing material region, the wiring is divided by the slit. A first branch forms the band of the optimal width extending from the branch point to the end point, whereas the second branch extends to the end point and is spaced apart from the first branch by the width of the slit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Nakagawa, Naoshi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20100289975
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes a plurality of pixels, each including first and second subpixels SP-A and SP-B. The reference alignment azimuths of liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer of the first subpixel SP-A include only first and second reference alignment azimuths with no third or fourth one. The reference alignment azimuths of liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer of the second subpixel SP-B include only the third and fourth reference alignment azimuths with no first or second one. In one vertical scanning period, the absolute value of an effective voltage applied to the liquid crystal layer of the first subpixel SP-A is greater than that of an effective voltage applied to the liquid crystal layer of the second subpixel SP-B.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2008
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20100289025
    Abstract: A TFT (5) includes: a gate electrode (12a); a first semiconductor portion (14a) that overlaps the gate electrode (12a) having the gate insulating film (13) interposed therebetween; a source electrode (15a) and a drain electrode (15b) that overlap the gate electrode (12a) having the gate insulating film (13) and the first semiconductor portion (14a) interposed therebetween; a second semiconductor portion (14b) that overlaps the gate electrode (12a) between the gate insulating film (13) and the source electrode (15a); and a conductive portion (15c) that overlaps the gate electrode (12a) having the gate insulating film (13) and the second semiconductor portion (14b) interposed therebetween. The TFT (5) brings the source line (15a) and the pixel electrode (17) into conduction by a switching element that includes short-circuit portion at the source electrode (15a) and the drain electrode (15b), the second semiconductor portion (14b) and the conductive portion (15c).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2008
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20100188623
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device capable of improving display qualities in a frame region and a production method thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2008
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20100177270
    Abstract: A display device 1 according to the present invention, having a display area AA capable of image display and a nondisplay area PA provided outside the display area AA, includes a first wiring line 14 and a second wiring line 20 in the nondisplay area PA. The second wiring line 20 is arranged across an insulating layer 17 from the first wiring line 14, so that a crossover section 25 at which the first wiring line 14 intersects with the second wiring line 20 is provided. The second wiring line 20 includes a plurality of branch lines 22, 23 branching therefrom and being located in the crossover section 25, while the first wiring line 14 includes a plurality of slit portions 260A, 270A and the like crossing the branch lines 22, 23.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2007
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20100165225
    Abstract: Retention capacitor upper electrodes and wires are provided facing a retention capacitor line across an insulating film so as to form a retention capacitor. The retention capacitor line includes a slit penetrating the retention capacitor line in a direction perpendicular to a substrate. The slit is formed so as to overlap regions facing regions in which both wires are formed. This allows for provision of an active matrix substrate capable of repairing defects so that they are less visible, without decreasing an aperture ratio of each pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2008
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20100141883
    Abstract: A display device 1 of the present invention includes a first conductive layer 20 and a second conductive layer 21 arranged across an insulating layer 24 from the first conductive layer 20. An overlap section 40 at which the first conductive layer 20 and the second conductive layer 21 overlap each other is provided. At least one of the first conductive layer 20 and the second conductive layer 21 includes a slit portion 210a that is arranged in the overlap section 40. The width of the slit portion 210a is set to be smaller at a medial area 82 except both end areas 81 of the slit portion 210a, than at the both end areas 81.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2007
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 7728943
    Abstract: The present invention is a substrate for a display device comprising an active matrix substrate and an opposed substrate which are opposed to each other with a display medium layer interposed therebetween, said active matrix substrate including a pixel electrode arranged in a matrix shape on the side of the display medium layer and said opposed substrate including a common electrode opposing to the pixel electrode on the side of the display medium layer, wherein said substrate for a display device includes an electrode slit formed in one of the pixel electrode and the common electrode; and at least one of the electrical connecting portions of said electrode slit is provided outside of a light-blocking region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Nakagawa, Toshihide Tsubata, Nobuyoshi Nagashima, Yuhko Hisada
  • Publication number: 20100118246
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device and a production method of a liquid crystal display device, capable of improving display qualities in a display region close to a frame region without causing any defects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20100097366
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, each pixel includes first and second subpixels. CS bus lines connected to the respective storage capacitors of the first and second subpixels are electrically independent of each other. A CS voltage has a waveform that inverts its polarity at least once a frame, which includes a first subframe for sequentially scanning a series of odd rows and a second SF for sequentially scanning even rows that have been skipped during the first SF. A source signal voltage varies so as to have two frames or subframes with mutually opposite polarities. A CS voltage has a waveform that has quite opposite consequences on the effective voltage of a subpixel of a pixel connected to the jth scan line to be selected during the first subframe and on that of another subpixel of a pixel connected to the (j+1)th scan line to be selected during the second subframe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2008
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Inventors: Masae Kitayama, Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh, Kentaroh Irie, Toshihide Tsubata, Naoshi Yamada, Hidetoshi Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20100085524
    Abstract: The present invention provides: a liquid crystal display device capable of improving display qualities and yield, the liquid crystal display device having two or more domains in a pixel through an alignment treatment that has been provided for a substrate over several times; and a production method thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2007
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20100079716
    Abstract: In a wiring figure pattern of a display panel, each wiring is separated into bands of optimal widths by slits of a constant width as a wiring figure pattern so that minimum light irradiation for curing a photocuring sealing material can be carried out without increasing the electric resistance of the wiring. The optimal width means a resistance such that light coming from both sides of the band cures the sealing material on the upper surface of the band without influencing the driving and display of liquid crystal. At a point where the width of wiring becomes two times or more of the optical width between the start point and end point of intersection of the wiring and the sealing material region, the wiring is divided by the slit. A first branch forms the band of the optimal width extending from the branch point to the end point, whereas the second branch extends to the end point and is spaced apart from the first branch by the width of the slit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2009
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hidetoshi NAKAGAWA, Naoshi YAMADA