Abstract: A display panel includes a first substrate a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a black matrix and a plurality of dots. The second substrate faces the first substrate. The liquid crystal layer is interposed between the first and second substrates. The black matrix is formed on at least one of the first and second substrates to block light. The dots are interposed between the first and second substrates corresponding to the black matrix. Each of the dots includes a plurality of spacers aligned in a predetermined direction.

Abstract: A spacer ink printing apparatus for printing spacers on an LCD substrate includes a main body, a pressing roller and a spacer ink removing portion. The apparatus may further include a spacer ink guiding portion and/or a spacer ink spreading portion. The pressing roller is combined with the main body and rotates so as to press a spacer ink sprayed onto a printing plate into each of a plurality of receiving recesses of the printing plate. The spacer ink removing portion is combined with the main body and serves to remove any excess spacer ink from the printing plate, thereby reducing wasted spacer ink and decreasing the manufacturing cost of LCDs produced with the apparatus.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for printing spacers on LCD substrates include a printing roller and a planarizing unit. The printing roller picks up a plurality of spacer ink dots, each containing a plurality of minute, rigid, spherical spacers, onto an outer surface thereof and prints them on an LCD substrate at selected locations thereon. The planarizing unit is spaced apart from the outer surface of the printing roller and operates to planarize the spacers such that the spacers are arranged in a single layer having a uniform height substantially equal to the diameter of the spacers. The planarizing unit thereby prevents the spacers from being printed on the substrate in multiple layers such that the cell gap between the substrates of the LCD does not vary, but is uniform in height, thereby improving the quality of the image produced by the display.

Abstract: A display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a seal line and an outer spacer. The first substrate includes a display area on which a plurality of thin film transistors are formed, and a peripheral area surrounding the display area. The second substrate is opposite to the first substrate. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The seal line is formed between the first substrate and the second substrate in the peripheral area to confine the liquid crystal between the first and second substrates. The outer spacers are disposed in the peripheral area, and inwardly spaced apart from the seal line by a separation distance thereby preventing liquid crystal from being polluted by particles of an uncured seal line during manufacturing.

Abstract: A thin film transistor array panel is provided, which includes: a substrate; a plurality of first signal lines formed on the substrate; a plurality of second signal lines intersecting, and insulated from, the first signal lines; a plurality of pixel electrodes formed in intersection areas of the first and second signal lines; a plurality of first thin film transistors electrically connected to the first signal lines, the second signal lines, and the pixel electrodes; a plurality of buffer electrodes capacitively coupled to the pixel electrodes and located at a boundary of the intersection areas; and a plurality of second thin film transistors electrically connected to the buffer electrodes and the first signal lines, wherein the first signal lines are connected to the pixel electrodes of a previous row.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate having a display area and a peripheral area and including a plurality of pixels formed in the display area, a second substrate facing the first substrate, and a plurality of first groups of bead spacers and a plurality of second groups of bead spacers disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first groups of bead spacers have a different size or different elasticity coefficient than the second groups of bead spacers, and include a plurality of bead spacers, respectively.

Abstract: An array substrate includes a switching device, a pixel electrode, an alignment layer and a storage electrode part. The switching device is formed in a pixel area defined by gate lines and data lines. The pixel electrode is formed in the pixel area and electrically connected to the switching device. The alignment layer is formed on the pixel electrode and rubbed in a predetermined alignment direction. The storage electrode part is formed in an area adjacent to the switching device. The storage electrode part includes at least one side having an angle of about forty degrees to about fifty degrees with respect to the alignment direction. The array substrate improves display quality of the liquid crystal display panel.

Abstract: A display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer. The second substrate faces the first substrate. The second substrate includes a switching device that is electrically connected to a data line and a gate line, a pixel electrode that is electrically connected to the switching device, and an interference-reducing member that reduces electrical interference between the data line and the pixel electrode. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first and second substrates, with the liquid crystal layer being operated in an optical compensated bend (OCB) mode. Therefore, an electric interference between the data line and the pixel electrode is prevented and the bend alignment state is stably maintained. Additionally, a manufacturing cost is lowered.

Abstract: A thin film transistor array panel is provided, which includes: a substrate; a plurality of first signal lines formed on the substrate; a plurality of second signal lines intersecting, and insulated from, the first signal lines; a plurality of pixel electrodes formed in intersection areas of the first and second signal lines; a plurality of first thin film transistors electrically connected to the first signal lines, the second signal lines, and the pixel electrodes; a plurality of buffer electrodes capacitively coupled to the pixel electrodes and located at a boundary of the intersection areas; and a plurality of second thin film transistors electrically connected to the buffer electrodes and the first signal lines, wherein the first signal lines are connected to the pixel electrodes of a previous row.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display is provided, which includes: groups of gate lines transmitting a gate-on voltage; data lines alternately transmitting normal data voltages and an impulsive data voltage; pixels arranged in a matrix and including switching elements that are connected to the gate lines and the data lines and turn on in response to the gate-on voltage to transmit the data voltages; gate driving circuits connected to respective groups of gate lines and sequentially applying the gate-on voltage to the gate lines; a data driver applying the data voltages to the data lines; a duty ratio selector outputting a duty ratio selection signal informing a selected duty ratio; and a signal controller controlling the gate driver and the data driver based on the duty ratio selection signal, wherein the signal controller determines a time for the application of the impulsive data voltage based on the duty ratio selection signal.