Abstract: Electrical conductor patterns (20) are provided so as to face respective source lines (SL). In each of the electrical conductor patterns (20), a plurality of electrical conductor islands (21) line up. With a source line (SL) being broken at points P1 and P2, an electrical conductor island (21-j) is connected via point Q1a and Q1b, and an electrical conductor island (21j) is connected via points Q2a and Q2b, by carrying out laser welding. This realizes a display panel including spare lines for respective data signal lines, in which display panel it is possible to increase a probability that a supply failure of a data signal can be avoided, even in a case where a data signal line is broken.

Abstract: A display panel includes: pairs of electrodes each forming an auxiliary capacitor (Cs2) by overlapping each other, wherein one electrode of each pair of the electrodes is an electrode (79) to have a picture element electrode potential, and the other one electrode of each pair of the electrodes is an auxiliary capacitor electrode (91); and auxiliary capacitor bus lines (CSLj+1) for applying voltages to the auxiliary capacitor electrodes (91), respectively each auxiliary capacitor electrode (91) being provided on an upper side of a corresponding auxiliary capacitor bus line (CSLj+1) in a film thickness direction and being connected with the corresponding auxiliary capacitor bus line (CSLj+1) through a contact hole (82), and each electrode (79) to have the picture element electrode potential being provided on an upper side of the auxiliary capacitor electrode (91) paired therewith, in the film thickness direction.

Abstract: A substrate for a liquid crystal display panel includes a first projection structure and a second projection structure and/or a depression structure, the substrate for the liquid crystal display panel includes a specific structure at a part of or near the first projection structure, the specific structure having at least one of a planar shape different from a planar shape of the second projection structure and/or the depression structure and a planar area of ? times or less or 1.5 times or more than a planar area of the second projection structure and/or the depression structure.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a liquid crystal panel 10 includes a panel manufacturing process, a substrate detachment process and a reuse-panel manufacturing process. A first liquid crystal panel 10A and a second liquid crystal panel 10B, which differ from each other in position of a sealant portion 20A, 20B to be formed thereon, are manufactured by the panel manufacturing process. Substrates 17, 18 are detached from a defective liquid crystal panel, i.e., from any one of the first liquid crystal panel 10A and the second liquid crystal panel 10B having a defect, by the substrate detachment process. The reuse-panel manufacturing process manufactures a third liquid crystal panel 10C by attaching the substrate 18A detached from the first liquid crystal panel 10A and the substrate 17B detached from the second liquid crystal panel 10B to each other.

Abstract: A substrate for a liquid crystal display panel includes a first projection structure and a second projection structure and/or a depression structure, the substrate for the liquid crystal display panel includes a specific structure at a part of or near the first projection structure, the specific structure having at least one of a planar shape different from a planar shape of the second projection structure and/or the depression structure and a planar area of ? times or less or 1.5 times or more than a planar area of the second projection structure and/or the depression structure.

Abstract: A substrate for a liquid crystal display panel includes a first projection structure and a second projection structure and/or a depression structure, the substrate for the liquid crystal display panel includes a specific structure at a part of or near the first projection structure, the specific structure having at least one of a planar shape different from a planar shape of the second projection structure and/or the depression structure and a planar area of ? times or less or 1.5 times or more than a planar area of the second projection structure and/or the depression structure.

Abstract: A CF substrate (2) is designed such that at an area of a black matrix (22) that is closer to a TFT substrate (1), a counter electrode (24) does not cover at least a part of a first area that faces source lines (13). Consequently, even when a foreign matter (13a) attaches to the source line (13), it is possible to prevent the foreign matter (13a) from contacting the counter electrode (24). This allows realizing a display panel and a display device in which electric leakage between a line electrode and a counter electrode is prevented even when a foreign matter attaches to a line electrode and a counter electrode.

Abstract: A first end-sealing member (23) is provided between a matrix substrate (2) and a counter substrate (3), on an outer circumferential side of a liquid crystal display panel as compared to a control circuit (5), so as to be away from the control circuit (5); a second end-sealing member (22) is provided between the matrix substrate (2) and the counter substrate (3), along a boundary between a first region where the control circuit (5) is provided and a second region where a display section is provided, the first region including: a third region which is allotted for the control circuit (5); and a fourth region which is allotted for no control circuit (5), so as to be away from the control circuit (5); and spacers (31) are provided in the fourth region included in the first region, so as to maintain a distance between the matrix substrate (2) and the counter substrate (3), the first region being end-sealed, with part of the first end-sealing member (23) and the second end-sealing member (22), separately from the s

Abstract: A substrate for a liquid crystal display panel includes a first projection structure and a second projection structure and/or a depression structure, the substrate for the liquid crystal display panel includes a specific structure at a part of or near the first projection structure, the specific structure having at least one of a planar shape different from a planar shape of the second projection structure and/or the depression structure and a planar area of 2/3 times or less or 1.5 times or more than a planar area of the second projection structure and/or the depression structure.

Abstract: In the liquid crystal display device (100A) of the present invention, the pixel electrode (121) has a notch (122a2) provided for a portion of a line. If the azimuthal component of liquid crystal molecules (182), located approximately at the middle of the thickness of a liquid crystal layer (180) in an area where the respective alignment regions of first and second alignment films (130) and (170) overlap with each other to a viewer's eye, is called a “reference alignment azimuth”, an oblique electric field, generated by a counter electrode (160) and the notch (122a2) of the pixel electrode (121) upon the application of a voltage, causes the azimuthal component of the liquid crystal molecules (182) in a region of the liquid crystal layer (180) associated with at least a portion of the notch (122a2) of the pixel electrode (121), to intersect with the reference alignment azimuth at an angle of 90 degrees or less.

Abstract: An active matrix display device includes: pixels (PIX) each of which includes a plurality of subpixels (2A and 2B); and a single field-effect transistor (30) which (i) serves as a selection element (30), and (ii) carries out selection or non-selection with respect to each of the plurality of subpixels (2A and 2B), lengths of a channel forming region which are used as charging/discharging paths for the respective plurality of subpixels (2A and 2B) being caused to be different from each other, by arranging the plurality of subpixels (2A and 2B) so that at least one (2A) of them is connected to a conductive path which branches off and drawn out from the channel forming region of the field-effect transistor (30), and common electrodes (COMA and COMB) being provided for the respective plurality of subpixels (2A and 2B) so as to be electrically separated from each other.

Abstract: A liquid crystal panel 10 includes a pair of substantially rectangular substrates 17, 18 attached to each other, a liquid crystal layer 19 provided between the substrates 17, 18, and a sealant portion 20 having a substantially frame-like shape surrounding and sealing the liquid crystal layer 19. The sealant portion 20 includes an oblique portion 34 arranged oblique to the sides of the substrate 17, 18, at each of the four corners thereof. The liquid crystal panel 10 further includes a reinforcing portion 35 fixed to both substrates 17, 18. The reinforcing portion 35 is arranged along a planar direction of the substrate 17, 18 so as to be located between the oblique portion 34 and a corner point of the substrate 17, 18.

Abstract: A display element that includes substrates each having a thin film layer formed by applying a thin film layer composition thereon by an ink-jet method, in which, in the formation of the thin film layers, streaky display unevenness does not develop along a direction in which an ink-jet head discharges the composition having the shape of dots aligned on straight lines from the nozzles. In the liquid crystal display element 1 including an array substrate 5 including an alignment film 8, and a color filter substrate 3 including an alignment film 7, the substrates 5 and 3 being used in a pair, the dots on the alignment films 7 and 8 are aligned such that an interval between the straight lines on the alignment film 8 is displaced by half an interval from an interval between the straight lines on the alignment film 7.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a liquid crystal panel 10 includes a panel manufacturing process, a substrate detachment process and a reuse-panel manufacturing process. A first liquid crystal panel 10A and a second liquid crystal panel 10B, which differ from each other in position of a sealant portion 20A, 20B to be formed thereon, are manufactured by the panel manufacturing process. Substrates 17, 18 are detached from a defective liquid crystal panel, i.e., from any one of the first liquid crystal panel 10A and the second liquid crystal panel 10B having a defect, by the substrate detachment process. The reuse-panel manufacturing process manufactures a third liquid crystal panel 10C by attaching the substrate 18A detached from the first liquid crystal panel 10A and the substrate 17B detached from the second liquid crystal panel 10B to each other.

Abstract: A liquid crystal panel 10 includes a pair of substrates 17, 18, which are arranged to face each other so that a gap of a predetermined size is maintained therebetween. Further included are a liquid crystal layer 19 enclosed between the substrates 17, 18, a spacer 21 arranged in the liquid crystal layer 19 to maintain the gap between the substrates 17, 18, and an anchoring layer 33 arranged to fix the spacer 21 to the array substrate 18, i.e., to one of the substrates 17, 18. The liquid crystal panel 10 further includes an alignment film 27 for orientational alignment of liquid crystal molecules included in the liquid crystal layer 19. The alignment film 27 is arranged on the surface of the array substrate 18 facing the CF substrate 17, so as to surround and cover the spacer 21 and the anchoring layer 33.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel (10) provided in the liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes: a color filter substrate (30); a TFT substrate (element substrate) (20); and a liquid crystal layer (40) provided between the color filter substrate (30) and the TFT substrate (20). The liquid crystal layer has a structure in which spacer particles (50) for keeping the gap between the TFT substrate (20) and the color filter substrate (30) are disposed in regions of the liquid crystal layer which correspond to respective non-display regions of the liquid crystal panel (10). In regions of the color filter (30), which regions correspond to the respective non-display regions in which the spacer particles (50) are disposed, colored layers (32a) having a thickness equal to that of colored layers (32a) provided in regions corresponding to respective display regions are provided.

Abstract: A display panel includes: pairs of electrodes each forming an auxiliary capacitor (Cs2) by overlapping each other, wherein one electrode of each pair of the electrodes is an electrode (79) to have a picture element electrode potential, and the other one electrode of each pair of the electrodes is an auxiliary capacitor electrode (91); and auxiliary capacitor bus lines (CSLj+1) for applying voltages to the auxiliary capacitor electrodes (91), respectively each auxiliary capacitor electrode (91) being provided on an upper side of a corresponding auxiliary capacitor bus line (CSLj+1) in a film thickness direction and being connected with the corresponding auxiliary capacitor bus line (CSLj+1) through a contact hole (82), and each electrode (79) to have the picture element electrode potential being provided on an upper side of the auxiliary capacitor electrode (91) paired therewith, in the film thickness direction.

Abstract: A liquid crystal drop fill device by which liquid crystal panels of different sizes is easily obtained from a mother glass, and a method for drop filling liquid crystal by using the device is provided in order to increase utilization efficiency of the mother glass. The device 1 includes a stage 3 arranged to support a substrate 2, liquid crystal dispensers 4 and 5 arranged to drop fill liquid crystal on the substrate 2, a first moving unit 6 arranged to support the dispensers 4 and 5 movably in a Y-direction relative to the stage 3, and second moving units 7 and 8 arranged to support the dispensers 4 and 5 movably in an X-direction relative to the first moving unit 6, wherein the device 1 further includes a third moving unit 9 arranged to support the dispenser 5 to be further movable in the Y-direction relative to the second moving unit 8.

Abstract: Electrical conductor patterns (20) are provided so as to face respective source lines (SL). In each of the electrical conductor patterns (20), a plurality of electrical conductor islands (21) line up. With a source line (SL) being broken at points P1 and P2, an electrical conductor island (21-j) is connected via point Q1a and Q1b, and an electrical conductor island (21j) is connected via points Q2a and Q2b, by carrying out laser welding. This realizes a display panel including spare lines for respective data signal lines, in which display panel it is possible to increase a probability that a supply failure of a data signal can be avoided, even in a case where a data signal line is broken.

Abstract: Each of spare lines (EL1 through ELn) is provided, for a corresponding one of source lines (SL1 through SLn), at one end of a pixel (PIX) on the side facing a source line SL of the pixel (PIX). A source line (SLi) and a spare line (ELi) are connected via a connection line (61). This makes it possible to realize a display panel in which a data signal line and a corresponding spare line are unlikely to have a breaking that causes their electrical connections not to be kept up to their ends, in an arrangement in which spare lines are provided for respective data signal lines.