Patents by Inventor Nobuyoshi Nagashima
Nobuyoshi Nagashima 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: 20090015745Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2008Publication date: January 15, 2009Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hidetoshi NAKAGAWA, Toshihide TSUBATA, Nobuyoshi NAGASHIMA, Yuhko HISADA
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Patent number: 7440039Abstract: An active element substrate and an opposed substrate sandwich a liquid crystal layer to constitute a liquid crystal display device. On the active element substrate, two signal lines respectively charge a pair of pixels that are adjacent to each other in a direction parallel to scanning lines. The two signal lines are provided intensively on a pixel electrode of one of the pair of pixels. In the direction parallel to the scanning lines, a pixel electrode on which signal lines are provided, and a pixel electrode on which signal lines are not provided, are arrayed alternately. This arrangement makes it possible to reduce, while ensuring a wide process margin, the fluctuation of the potential of a terminal to be connected to a pixel electrode (the fluctuation of the potential occurs during OFF-period of an active element due to capacitances respectively provided at superimposed portions of signal lines and a pixel electrode), to simplify the arrangement of signal lines, and to improve the aperture ratio.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2007Date of Patent: October 21, 2008Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kenji Enda, Masanori Takeuchi, Nobuyoshi Nagashima, Naofumi Kondo
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Publication number: 20080192165Abstract: A substrate for a display device includes an active matrix substrate and an opposed substrate which are opposed to each other with a display medium layer interposed therebetween. The active matrix substrate includes a pixel electrode arranged in a matrix shape on the side of the display medium layer and the opposed substrate includes a common electrode opposing to the pixel electrode on the side of the display medium layer, wherein the 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 the electrode slit is provided outside of a light-blocking region.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2006Publication date: August 14, 2008Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hidetoshi Nakagawa, Toshihide Tsubata, Nobuyoshi Nagashima, Yuhko Hisada
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Publication number: 20080143914Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2007Publication date: June 19, 2008Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hidetoshi NAKAGAWA, Toshihide TSUBATA, Nobuyoshi NAGASHIMA, Yuhko HISADA
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Publication number: 20080143937Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2007Publication date: June 19, 2008Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hidetoshi NAKAGAWA, Toshihide TSUBATA, Nobuyoshi NAGASHIMA, Yuhko HISADA
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Publication number: 20080049155Abstract: The present invention provides an active matrix substrate of comprising on the substrate: a plurality of scanning signal lines and data signal lines; a thin film transistor provided at an intersecting point of the signal lines and comprising a gate electrode connected to the scanning signal line, a source electrode connected to the data signal line; and a pixel electrode electrically connected to a drain electrode of the thin film transistor, wherein the active matrix substrate comprises a structure having an at least partly multilinear data signal line and an interconnection electrode for correction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2005Publication date: February 28, 2008Inventors: Toshifumi Yagi, Masanori Takeuchi, Toshihide Tsubata, Nobuyoshi Nagashima, Akira Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20070109456Abstract: An active element substrate and an opposed substrate sandwich a liquid crystal layer to constitute a liquid crystal display device. On the active element substrate, two signal lines respectively charge a pair of pixels that are adjacent to each other in a direction parallel to scanning lines. The two signal lines are provided intensively on a pixel electrode of one of the pair of pixels. In the direction parallel to the scanning lines, a pixel electrode on which signal lines are provided, and a pixel electrode on which signal lines are not provided, are arrayed alternately. This arrangement makes it possible to reduce, while ensuring a wide process margin, the fluctuation of the potential of a terminal to be connected to a pixel electrode (the fluctuation of the potential occurs during OFF-period of an active element due to capacitances respectively provided at superimposed portions of signal lines and a pixel electrode), to simplify the arrangement of signal lines, and to improve the aperture ratio.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2007Publication date: May 17, 2007Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kenji Enda, Masanori Takeuchi, Nobuyoshi Nagashima, Naofumi Kondo
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Patent number: 7196745Abstract: An active element substrate and an opposed substrate sandwich a liquid crystal layer to constitute a liquid crystal display device. On the active element substrate, two signal lines respectively charge a pair of pixels that are adjacent to each other in a direction parallel to scanning lines. The two signal lines are provided intensively on a pixel electrode of one of the pair of pixels. In the direction parallel to the scanning lines, a pixel electrode on which signal lines are provided, and a pixel electrode on which signal lines are not provided, are arrayed alternately. This arrangement makes it possible to reduce, while ensuring a wide process margin, the fluctuation of the potential of a terminal to be connected to a pixel electrode (the fluctuation of the potential occurs during OFF-period of an active element due to capacitances respectively provided at superimposed portions of signal lines and a pixel electrode), to simplify the arrangement of signal lines, and to improve the aperture ratio.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2004Date of Patent: March 27, 2007Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kenji Enda, Masanori Takeuchi, Nobuyoshi Nagashima, Naofumi Kondo
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Patent number: 7050038Abstract: An active-matrix substrate includes first and second trunk lines which are arranged so as to be spaced apart from, but adjacent to, each other and are supplied with signals electrically independently. First and second groups of lines include portions that are substantially parallel to each other. A first group of connecting pads for the first trunk line is located near the second trunk line such that each line of the first group is electrically connected to the first trunk line at an associated one of the connecting pads belonging to the first group near the second trunk line. A second group of connecting pads for the second trunk line is provided near the first trunk line such that each line of the second group is electrically connected to the second trunk line at an associated one of the connecting pads of the second group near the first trunk line.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2003Date of Patent: May 23, 2006Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masahiro Matsuda, Takaharu Yamada, Nobuyoshi Nagashima, Naofumi Kondo
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Publication number: 20060097972Abstract: In an active-matrix liquid crystal display device, each of multiple pixels includes a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel, through which different voltages are applicable to a portion of the liquid crystal layer. Each of the first and second sub-pixels includes a liquid crystal capacitor defined by a counter electrode and a sub-pixel electrode that faces the counter electrode by way of the liquid crystal layer, and a storage capacitor defined by a storage capacitor electrode, an insulating layer, and a storage capacitor counter electrode. The storage capacitor electrode is electrically connected to the sub-pixel electrode, and the storage capacitor counter electrode faces the storage capacitor electrode by way of the insulating layer. The counter electrode is shared by the first and second sub-pixels and the storage capacitor counter electrodes of the first and second sub-pixels are electrically independent of each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2005Publication date: May 11, 2006Inventors: Masanori Takeuchi, Nobuyoshi Nagashima, Naofumi Kondo
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Patent number: 7034789Abstract: In an active-matrix liquid crystal display device, each of multiple pixels includes a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel, through which different voltages are applicable to a portion of the liquid crystal layer. Each of the first and second sub-pixels includes a liquid crystal capacitor defined by a counter electrode and a sub-pixel electrode that faces the counter electrode by way of the liquid crystal layer, and a storage capacitor defined by a storage capacitor electrode, an insulating layer, and a storage capacitor counter electrode. The storage capacitor electrode is electrically connected to the sub-pixel electrode, and the storage capacitor counter electrode faces the storage capacitor electrode by way of the insulating layer. The counter electrode is shared by the first and second sub-pixels and the storage capacitor counter electrodes of the first and second sub-pixels are electrically independent of each other.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2003Date of Patent: April 25, 2006Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masanori Takeuchi, Nobuyoshi Nagashima, Naofumi Kondo
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Publication number: 20050046764Abstract: An active element substrate and an opposed substrate sandwich a liquid crystal layer to constitute a liquid crystal display device. On the active element substrate, two signal lines respectively charge a pair of pixels that are adjacent to each other in a direction parallel to scanning lines. The two signal lines are provided intensively on a pixel electrode of one of the pair of pixels. In the direction parallel to the scanning lines, a pixel electrode on which signal lines are provided, and a pixel electrode on which signal lines are not provided, are arrayed alternately. This arrangement makes it possible to reduce, while ensuring a wide process margin, the fluctuation of the potential of a terminal to be connected to a pixel electrode (the fluctuation of the potential occurs during OFF-period of an active element due to capacitances respectively provided at superimposed portions of signal lines and a pixel electrode), to simplify the arrangement of signal lines, and to improve the aperture ratio.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2004Publication date: March 3, 2005Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kenji Enda, Masanori Takeuchi, Nobuyoshi Nagashima, Naofumi Kondo
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Patent number: 6862013Abstract: On a termination side of each scanning line is provided a charging switching element and a discharging switching element in parallel with each other, the charging switching element having a gate electrode which is connected with one end of a scanning auxiliary line, the other end of which is connected to a scanning line of the same stage, the discharging switching element having a gate electrode which is connected with one end of a scanning auxiliary line, the other end of which is connected to a scanning line of the following stage.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2001Date of Patent: March 1, 2005Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masanori Takeuchi, Nobuyoshi Nagashima, Naofumi Kondo, Kazuyori Mitsumoto
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Publication number: 20040001167Abstract: In an active-matrix liquid crystal display device, each of multiple pixels includes a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel, through which different voltages are applicable to a portion of the liquid crystal layer. Each of the first and second sub-pixels includes a liquid crystal capacitor defined by a counter electrode and a sub-pixel electrode that faces the counter electrode by way of the liquid crystal layer, and a storage capacitor defined by a storage capacitor electrode, an insulating layer, and a storage capacitor counter electrode. The storage capacitor electrode is electrically connected to the sub-pixel electrode, and the storage capacitor counter electrode faces the storage capacitor electrode by way of the insulating layer. The counter electrode is shared by the first and second sub-pixels and the storage capacitor counter electrodes of the first and second sub-pixels are electrically independent of each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2003Publication date: January 1, 2004Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masanori Takeuchi, Nobuyoshi Nagashima, Naofumi Kondo
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Publication number: 20030234904Abstract: An active-matrix substrate includes first and second trunk lines which are arranged so as to be spaced apart from, but adjacent to, each other and are supplied with signals electrically independently. First and second groups of lines include portions that are substantially parallel to each other. A first group of connecting pads for the first trunk line is located near the second trunk line such that each line of the first group is electrically connected to the first trunk line at an associated one of the connecting pads belonging to the first group near the second trunk line. A second group of connecting pads for the second trunk line is provided near the first trunk line such that each line of the second group is electrically connected to the second trunk line at an associated one of the connecting pads of the second group near the first trunk line.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2003Publication date: December 25, 2003Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masahiro Matsuda, Takaharu Yamada, Nobuyoshi Nagashima, Naofumi Kondo
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Patent number: 6600534Abstract: A reflective liquid crystal display device is provided in which, on one of a pair of substrates opposed to each other with a liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween, data signal lines and scanning signal lines are provided so as to cross each other, thin film transistors are provided so as to be electrically connected to the data signal lines and the scanning signal lines, reflective pixel electrodes are provided on an interlayer insulator formed so as to cover at least a part of the data signal lines, the scanning signal lines, or the thin film transistors, and the reflective pixel electrodes are electrically connected to drain electrodes of the thin film transistors, wherein an underlying film is disposed in contact with the interlayer insulator, the underlying film uniforming heat conduction and/or light transmittance between the interlayer insulator and the one of the substrates and/or contact properties of the interlayer insulator with respect to the one of the substrates in a region where at leastType: GrantFiled: December 8, 1998Date of Patent: July 29, 2003Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kyoushi Tanaka, Nobuyoshi Nagashima, Toshiaki Fujihara, Mariko Ban
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Publication number: 20020011982Abstract: On a termination side of each scanning line is provided a charging switching element and a discharging switching element in parallel with each other, the charging switching element having a gate electrode which is connected with one end of a scanning auxiliary line, the other end of which is connected to a scanning line of the same stage, the discharging switching element having a gate electrode which is connected with one end of a scanning auxiliary line, the other end of which is connected to a scanning line of the following stage.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2001Publication date: January 31, 2002Inventors: Masanori Takeuchi, Nobuyoshi Nagashima, Naofumi Kondo, Kazuyori Mitsumoto
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Patent number: 5969832Abstract: A projection image display device includes, a light source, an image display panel having a number of pixels and a vertical scanning function, an optical system for dividing light from the light source into a plurality of lights of different wave ranges and directing and overlapping the divided plural lights onto an area from different directions, a light-collector for collecting each of the plural divided lights directed onto the area by the optical system into apertures of pixels of the image display panel corresponding to the wave range of the light, a projector for projecting an image displayed on the image display panel, and a color-changer for mutually changing, at every vertical scanning of the image display panel, the directions in which the optical system directs the plural divided lights of the different wave ranges, so as to mutually change the wave ranges of light directed to the pixels of the image display panel sequentially.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 1996Date of Patent: October 19, 1999Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroshi Nakanishi, Masahiro Adachi, Toshiyuki Makii, Nobuyoshi Nagashima, Takeshi Masuda
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Patent number: 5471329Abstract: An active matrix type liquid crystal display panel including a first and a second insulating substrates which face each other is disclosed. The first insulating substrate includes: first bus lines formed on a face of the first insulating substrate, the face facing the second insulting substrate; second bus lines crossing the first bus lines; a short-circuit line for short-circuiting the first bus lines to the second bus lines, the short-circuit line crossing the first bus lines at end portions thereof and crossing the second bus lines at end portions thereof; and a plurality of elements for electrically connecting the short-circuit line to one of the first bus lines and the second bus lines, the elements being respectively formed at the crossings of the short-circuit line and the first bus lines and at the crossings of the short-circuit line and the second bus lines.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 1993Date of Patent: November 28, 1995Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Mutsumi Nakajima, Nobuyoshi Nagashima, Kyoushi Tanaka
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Patent number: 5365284Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device for receiving television signals by an interlace scanning method, number of the rows of pixels and of scan signal lines on a liquid crystal panel is increased to be the same as the number of valid scan lines of 1 frame of television signals. The original video signals to be inputted to the device are compressed to 1/2, and interpolating signals are added to every line of the compressed signals to form pseudo video signals. Shift register operation of a scan driver and the segment driver are done twice as fast as that in the conventional device, and start timing of the shift register operation of the segment driver is controlled to be shifted by 1/2 horizontal scanning period between the even field and odd field, while the pseudo video signals are applied to the segment driver.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 1992Date of Patent: November 15, 1994Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshio Matsumoto, Shuhei Yasuda, Tokutarou Kusada, Nobuyoshi Nagashima