Patents by Inventor Manabu Sawasaki
Manabu Sawasaki 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).
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Publication number: 20050248700Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid crystal display used in a display section of an electronic apparatus and a liquid crystal display substrate used for the same and provides a liquid crystal display that can be manufactured through simplified manufacturing processes and that can provide high display quality and a liquid crystal display substrate used for the same. A configuration is employed which includes gate bus lines and drain bus lines formed on a substrate such that they intersect each other with an insulation film interposed therebetween and pixel electrodes provided so as to cover at least one of the gate bus lines and the drain bus lines with a dielectric layer interposed therebetween and forming parasitic capacities between the gate bus lines or drain bus lines and themselves.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2003Publication date: November 10, 2005Inventors: Takashi Takagi, Atsuyuki Hoshino, Manabu Sawasaki, Takuya Saguchi
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Publication number: 20050237459Abstract: The invention relates to liquid crystal displays used in display sections of electronic apparatus and provides a liquid crystal display in which high anti-pressure characteristics can be achieved with a high aperture ratio maintained. A configuration is provided, which includes a pair of substrates provided opposite to each other, a liquid crystal sealed between the substrates, a plurality of pixel regions provided on the substrates, and protrusion-like structures provided in the pixel regions for regulating the alignment of the liquid crystal and maintaining a cell thickness between the substrates.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2004Publication date: October 27, 2005Inventors: Masahiro Ikeda, Manabu Sawasaki, Takashi Takagi
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Publication number: 20050168672Abstract: The liquid crystal display comprises a first substrate 2 including a gate bus line 12a, a data bus line 28, a thin film transistor 18 formed near an intersection between the gate bus line 12a and the data bus line 28, and a pixel electrode 52 including a transmission electrode 32a electrically connected to the thin film transistor 18 and a reflection electrode 48b electrically connected to the transmission electrode 32a; a second substrate 4 opposed to the first substrate 2 and including an opposed electrode 68 opposed to the pixel electrode 52; and a liquid crystal layer 6 sealed between the first substrate 2 and the second substrate 4. The reflection electrode 48b is formed over another gate bus line 12b which is different from the gate bus line 12a, with an insulation layer 40 formed therebetween. The decrease of a voltage applied between the reflection electrode 48b and the opposed electrode 68 can be prevented while the space which can be not used as the transmission region can be utilized.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2004Publication date: August 4, 2005Inventors: Kunihiro Tashiro, Yasutoshi Tasaka, Katsufumi Ohmuro, Hidefumi Yoshida, Yoshinori Tanaka, Norio Sugiura, Seiji Doi, Manabu Sawasaki, Tomonori Tanose, Isao Tsushima, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Tomoshige Oda
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Publication number: 20050140914Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display device that is used in display portions of electronics devices and a manufacturing method thereof, and intends to provide a liquid crystal display device that can obtain excellent display quality and a manufacturing method thereof. The method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device includes preparing a pair of substrates that have a structure P1 having a height Hp1 and a structure P2 having a height Hp2, the heights Hp1 and Hp2 satisfying a relationship of 0.3 (?m)?Hp1?Hp2?1.0 (?m); controlling a dropping amount V of liquid crystal so that a cell gap G1 that is determined by the dropping amount V of liquid crystal, the height Hp1 and the height Hp2 satisfy a relationship of Hp2<G1<Hp1; dropping the controlled dropping amount V of liquid crystal on one of the pair of substrates; and attaching the pair of substrates in a vacuum followed by returning to an atmospheric pressure to fill in the liquid crystal between the pair of substrates.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2004Publication date: June 30, 2005Inventors: Manabu Sawasaki, Yoji Taniguchi, Takashi Takagi
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Publication number: 20050128381Abstract: In order to suppress color tint during display of black, chromaticity is changed when black is displayed while maintaining chromaticity when white is displayed. For this purpose, the pigment to be dispersed in a color resist is adjusted in particle size and concentration. Such adjustment is so performed that the chromaticity difference between displayed white and black becomes 0.01 or smaller in the x-y chromaticity coordinates by varying the transmissivity of color pixels during display of black. With such a structure, successfully provided is a color liquid crystal display capable of preventing color tint in displayed black, while keeping white chromaticity at the desired level.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2004Publication date: June 16, 2005Inventors: Tomonori Tanose, Manabu Sawasaki
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Publication number: 20050123861Abstract: The present invention provides a method of manufacturing a substrate for MVA type or transreflective liquid crystal display device capable of obtaining a substrate for liquid crystal display device having a good display quality while simplifying the production process and a method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device using same. A positive-working resist is spread over a glass substrate to form a resist layer thereon. The resist layer is exposed to light and developed to form a resist pattern having linear patterns. The linear pattern in the resist pattern is then irradiated with ultraviolet rays. The resist pattern is then subjected to heat treatment at a predetermined temperature to form a structure having a flat portion formed by the melt flow of the linear pattern irradiated with ultraviolet rays and a protrusion formed by the reflow of the linear pattern unirradiated with ultraviolet rays.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2004Publication date: June 9, 2005Inventors: Takashi Takagi, Manabu Sawasaki
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Publication number: 20050024567Abstract: A liquid crystal display device capable of obtaining high luminance and good display characteristics, a substrate for such a liquid crystal display device, and a manufacturing method of such a substrate, are provided. A color filter substrate holds, together with an array substrate, a liquid crystal having negative dielectric anisotropy. Color filters are formed on a glass substrate and a common electrode is formed on the color filters. Protrusions and auxiliary protrusions for regulating the alignment of the liquid crystal are formed on the common electrode so as to have different sectional shapes.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2004Publication date: February 3, 2005Applicant: FUJITSU DISPLAY TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Manabu Sawasaki, Takashi Takagi, Tomonori Tanose
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Patent number: 6836308Abstract: A liquid crystal display device capable of obtaining high luminance and good display characteristics, a substrate for such a liquid crystal display device, and a manufacturing method of such a substrate, are provided. A color filter substrate holds, together with an array substrate, a liquid crystal having negative dielectric anisotropy. Color filters are formed on a glass substrate and a common electrode is formed on the color filters. Protrusions and auxiliary protrusions for regulating the alignment of the liquid crystal are formed on the common electrode so as to have different sectional shapes.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2001Date of Patent: December 28, 2004Assignee: Fujitsu Display Technologies CorporationInventors: Manabu Sawasaki, Takashi Takagi, Tomonori Tanose
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Publication number: 20040246424Abstract: The generation of residues or flakes of a color filter is suppressed to eliminate conduction failures on an LCD substrate having a color filter on an array substrate. A passivation film formed between a pixel electrode formed in each of a plurality of pixel regions and a TFT for driving the pixel electrode has a multi-layer structure constituted by SiN layers and a SiO layers, and the SiO layer is located at the top of the film. A resin CF layer is formed on the passivation film having such a multi-layer structure. Since the resin CF layer is formed directly on the SiO layer, reduction of the adhesion of the same is suppressed. As a result, the color filter is unlikely to come off when the resin CF layer is formed, and residues of the color filter is unlikely to be generated when a contact hole is formed in the resin CF layer. This suppresses conduction failures and makes it possible to provide a reliable TFT substrate and LCD having high display characteristics.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2004Publication date: December 9, 2004Applicant: FUJITSU DISPLAY TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Manabu Sawasaki, Tomonori Tanose, Katsunori Misaki
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Publication number: 20040239840Abstract: A LCD panel is disclosed that provides improved performance of the frame area that surrounds the panel's display area. The frame area includes a transparent substrate, and color filters provided side-by-side on the transparent substrate, each of the color filters filtering one of at least two colors. The LCD panel is further constituted by a first electrode that counters the color filters, a second electrode that counters the first electrode, and liquid crystal that is inserted between the electrodes. Display spots are suppressed and the frame can appear in a desired color when the panel is in operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2004Publication date: December 2, 2004Applicant: FUJITSU DISPLAY TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Ikeda, Manabu Sawasaki, Hidetoshi Sukenori, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Shiro Hirota
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Publication number: 20040125322Abstract: The invention relates to liquid crystal displays used in display sections of electronic apparatus and substrates for a liquid crystal display used for the same and provides a liquid crystal display having high luminance and high display characteristics and a substrate for a liquid crystal display used in the same. A configuration is employed which includes a pair of substrates provided opposite to each other, a liquid crystal sealed between the substrate, a black matrix formed like grids on one of the substrates, a plurality of pixel regions defined by the black matrix, and a pillar spacer formed on the black matrix and provided such that it protrudes from the black matrix into four adjoining pixel regions when viewed in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2003Publication date: July 1, 2004Applicant: FUJITSU DISPLAY TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventor: Manabu Sawasaki
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Publication number: 20040119924Abstract: A vertically alignment mode liquid crystal display device having an improved viewing angle characteristic is disclosed. The disclosed liquid crystal display device uses a liquid crystal having a negative anisotropic dielectric constant, and orientations of the liquid crystal are vertical to substrates when no voltage being applied, almost horizontal when a predetermined voltage is applied, and oblique when an intermediate voltage is applied. At least one of the substrates includes a structure as domain regulating means, and inclined surfaces of the structure operate as a trigger to regulate azimuths of the oblique orientations of the liquid crystal when the intermediate voltage is applied.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2003Publication date: June 24, 2004Applicant: Fujitsu Display Technology CorporationInventors: Arihiro Takeda, Katsufumi Ohmuro, Yoshio Koike, Shingo Kataoka, Takahiro Sasaki, Takashi Sasabayashi, Hideaki Tsuda, Hideo Chida, Makoto Ohashi, Kenji Okamoto, Hisashi Yamaguchi, Minoru Otani, Makoto Morishige, Noriaki Furukawa, Tsuyoshi Kamada, Yoshinori Tanaka, Atuyuki Hoshino, Shougo Hayashi, Hideaki Takizawa, Takeshi Kinjou, Makoto Tachibanaki, Keiji Imoto, Tadashi Hasegawa, Hidefumi Yoshida, Hiroyasu Inoue, Yoji Taniguchi, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Satoshi Murata, Manabu Sawasaki, Tomonori Tanose, Siro Hirota, Masahiro Ikeda, Kunihiro Tashiro, Kouji Tsukao, Yasutoshi Tasaka, Takatoshi Mayama, Seiji Tanuma, Yohei Nakanishi
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Publication number: 20040114081Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a substrate for a liquid crystal display, a liquid crystal display having the same, and a method of manufacturing the same which make it possible to provide a display having high luminance and preferable display characteristics to be used in display sections of information apparatuses and the like. Each pixel is defined by gate bus lines extending in the horizontal direction and drain bus lines extending in the vertical direction. TFTs are formed in the vicinity of intersections between the bus lines, and resin overlap sections for shielding the TFTs from light are formed above the same. No black matrix is formed on a common electrode substrate which is provided in a face-to-face relationship with a TFT substrate, and the bus lines and the resin overlap sections formed on the TFT substrate function as a black matrix.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2003Publication date: June 17, 2004Applicant: FUJITSU DISPLAY TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Manabu Sawasaki, Yuichi Inoue, Masakazu Shibasaki
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Publication number: 20040090582Abstract: In the liquid crystal display device and the method of manufacturing the same, the pixel electrodes 32 and the projection pattern 35 are formed on the TFT substrate 30 side, and surfaces of the pixel electrodes 32 and the projection pattern 35 are covered with the vertical alignment film 36. Also, the opposing electrode 44 and the projection pattern 45 are formed on the CF substrate 40 side, and surfaces of the opposing electrode 44 and the projection pattern 45 are covered with the vertical alignment film 46. Then, the TFT substrate 30 and the CF substrate 40 are arranged such that top end portions of the projection pattern 45 on the CF substrate 40 are brought into contact with the TFT substrate 30. Then, the liquid crystal 49 having the negative dielectric anisotropy is sealed between them. Accordingly, the step of scattering the spacers can be omitted, change in the cell thickness can be prevented, and the good display quality can be achieved.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2003Publication date: May 13, 2004Applicant: FUJITSU DISPLAY TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Ikeda, Manabu Sawasaki, Yoji Taniguchi, Hiroyasu Inoue, Tomonori Tanose, Yoshinori Tanaka
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Publication number: 20040075798Abstract: An MVA liquid crystal display which is high in brightness and has preferable characteristics is provided. Further, the MVA liquid crystal display with a preferable display quality as well as a larger margin in fabrication and a higher yield is provided. A first substrate having a first electrode, a second substrate having a second electrode corresponding to a display pixel, the liquid crystal having negative dielectric anisotropy sealed between the first and the second substrates, and a structure which is provided on each of the first and the second substrate to control an alignment of the liquid crystal are provided. The structure in the first substrate has a linear protrusion structure and provides at least two auxiliary protrusion structures opposing to each end portion facing to the second electrode extending from a protrusion structure provided and the width between the two auxiliary protrusions and the opposing second electrode is more than 6 &mgr;m respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2003Publication date: April 22, 2004Applicant: FUJITSU DISPLAY TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyasu Inoue, Yoji Taniguchi, Yoshinori Tanaka, Takahiro Sasaki, Kenji Okamoto, Minoru Otani, Manabu Sawasaki, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Shougo Hayashi, Kazuhiko Sumi, Tomonori Tanose
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Patent number: 6724452Abstract: A vertical alignment mode liquid crystal display device having an improved viewing angle characteristic is provided. The liquid crystal display device uses a liquid crystal having a negative anisotropic dielectric constant, and orientations of the liquid crystal are vertical to substrates when no voltage is applied, almost horizontal when a predetermined voltage is applied, and oblique when an intermediate voltage is applied. At least one of the substrates includes a structure as domain regulating means, and inclined surfaces of the structure operate as a trigger to regulate azimuths of the oblique orientations of the liquid crystal when the intermediate voltage is applied.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 1998Date of Patent: April 20, 2004Assignee: Fujitsu Display Technologies CorporationInventors: Arihiro Takeda, Katsufumi Ohmuro, Yoshio Koike, Shingo Kataoka, Takahiro Sasaki, Takashi Sasabayashi, Hideaki Tsuda, Hideo Chida, Makoto Ohashi, Kenji Okamoto, Hisashi Yamaguchi, Minoru Otani, Makoto Morishige, Noriaki Furukawa, Tsuyoshi Kamada, Yoshinori Tanaka, Atuyuki Hoshino, Shougo Hayashi, Hideaki Takizawa, Takeshi Kinjou, Makoto Tachibanaki, Keiji Imoto, Tadashi Hasegawa, Hidefumi Yoshida, Hiroyasu Inoue, Yoji Taniguchi, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Satoshi Murata, Manabu Sawasaki, Tomonori Tanose, Siro Hirota, Masahiro Ikeda, Kunihiro Tashiro, Kouji Tsukao, Yasutoshi Tasaka, Takatoshi Mayama, Seiji Tanuma, Yohei Nakanishi
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Patent number: 6671025Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first projection pattern formed of insulating material on a second electrode, and a second vertical alignment film for covering the second electrode and at least the first projection pattern on the second electrode. With this configuration, top end portions of the first projection pattern formed over the light shielding films come into contact with a first substrate. Accordingly, the step of scattering spacers can be omitted, change in the cell thickness can be prevented, and good display quality can be achieved.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2000Date of Patent: December 30, 2003Assignee: Fujitsu Display Technologies CorporationInventors: Masahiro Ikeda, Manabu Sawasaki, Yoji Taniguchi, Hiroyasu Inoue, Tomonori Tanose, Yoshinori Tanaka
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Patent number: 6661488Abstract: A vertically alignment mode liquid crystal display device having an improved viewing angle characteristic is disclosed. The disclosed liquid crystal display device uses a liquid crystal having a negative anisotropic dielectric constant, and orientations of the liquid crystal are vertical to substrates when no voltage being applied, almost horizontal when a predetermined voltage is applied, and oblique when an intermediate voltage is applied. At least one of the substrates includes a structure as domain regulating means, and inclined surfaces of the structure operate as a trigger to regulate azimuths of the oblique orientations of the liquid crystal when the intermediate voltage is applied.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2000Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Arihiro Takeda, Katsufumi Ohmuro, Yoshio Koike, Shingo Kataoka, Takahiro Sasaki, Takashi Sasabayashi, Hideaki Tsuda, Hideo Chida, Makoto Ohashi, Kenji Okamoto, Hisashi Yamaguchi, Minoru Otani, Makoto Morishige, Noriaki Furukawa, Tsuyoshi Kamada, Yoshinori Tanaka, Atuyuki Hoshino, Shougo Hayashi, Hideaki Takizawa, Takeshi Kinjou, Makoto Tachibanaki, Keiji Imoto, Tadashi Hasegawa, Hidefumi Yoshida, Hiroyasu Inoue, Yoji Taniguchi, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Satoshi Murata, Manabu Sawasaki, Tomonori Tanose, Siro Hirota, Masahiro Ikeda, Kunihiro Tashiro, Kouji Tsukao, Yasutoshi Tasaka, Takatoshi Mayama, Seiji Tanuma, Yohei Nakanishi
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Publication number: 20030063249Abstract: The invention relates to a substrate for use in a liquid crystal display of a CF-on-TFT structure in which a color filter is formed on the side of an array substrate in which a switching element is formed, and has an object to provide a substrate for use in a liquid crystal display, which enables simplification of a manufacturing process typified by a photolithography process and has high reliability. The substrate for use in the liquid crystal display is constructed to include external connection terminals which include first terminal electrodes electrically connected to gate bus lines led out from a plurality of pixel regions arranged on a glass substrate in a matrix form, second terminal electrodes formed of forming material of a pixel electrode and directly on the glass substrate, and electrode coupling regions for electrically connecting the first and the second terminal electrodes, and which electrically connect an external circuit and the gate bus lines.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2002Publication date: April 3, 2003Applicant: FUJITSU DISPLAY TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Atuyuki Hoshino, Shiro Hirota, Naoto Kondo, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Masahiro Kihara, Katsunori Misaki, Seiji Doi, Tomoshige Oda, Akira Komorita, Akihiro Matsui, Manabu Sawasaki, Masahiro Ikeda, Takashi Takagi, Tomonori Tanose, Takuya Saguchi, Hidetoshi Sukenori, Hiroyasu Inoue
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Publication number: 20030043326Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a substrate for a liquid crystal display, a liquid crystal display having the same, and a method of manufacturing the same which make it possible to provide a display having high luminance and preferable display characteristics to be used in display sections of information apparatuses and the like. Each pixel is defined by gate bus lines extending in the horizontal direction and drain bus lines extending in the vertical direction. TFTs are formed in the vicinity of intersections between the bus lines, and resin overlap sections for shielding the TFTs from light are formed above the same. No black matrix is formed on a common electrode substrate which is provided in a face-to-face relationship with a TFT substrate, and the bus lines and the resin overlap sections formed on the TFT substrate function as a black matrix.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2002Publication date: March 6, 2003Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Manabu Sawasaki, Yuichi Inoue, Masakazu Shibasaki, Naoto Kondo, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Takashi Takagi, Tomonori Tanose, Tomoshige Oda, Akira Komorita, Katsunori Misaki, Shiro Hirota