Patents by Inventor Takaharu Yamada
Takaharu Yamada 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: 20120229712Abstract: In the present liquid crystal display device, a conventional first auxiliary capacitance trunk line 430 is formed to be narrow, and a second auxiliary capacitance trunk line 440 is additionally provided and disposed at the closest position to the periphery of a substrate. Thus, a shift register can be distanced from the periphery of the substrate without increasing a frame area as a whole, so that the shift register is not overlaid with a seal material. Moreover, the extent of an area overlaid with a seal material within a wiring area for providing signals to the shift register can be reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2010Publication date: September 13, 2012Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masahiro Yoshida, Isao Ogasawara, Satoshi Horiuchi, Takaharu Yamada
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Patent number: 8264630Abstract: In an auxiliary capacitance electrode of each pixel region, a side end on one side in a direction in which a drain electrode crosses an end of a gate electrode so as to enter from the outside of the gate electrode to the inside thereof is disposed inside of an auxiliary capacitance line, and a side end on the other side in a direction in which the drain electrode crosses the end of the gate electrode so as to go out from the inside of the gate electrode to the outside thereof is disposed outside of the auxiliary capacitance line.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2009Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Nobuyoshi Ueda, Hiroyuki Iida, Takaharu Yamada, Ryoki Ito, Satoshi Horiuchi
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Patent number: 8264434Abstract: An active matrix substrate used in a display device or the like capable of making substantially uniform the level shift generated in the pixel potential caused by the distribution of resistance and capacity in each signal line is disclosed. On the TFT substrate which is an active matrix substrate including a common electrode line formed parallel to the scan signal line, in order to eliminate non-uniformity of the level shift of the pixel potential generated at the scan signal fall, each pixel circuit is formed so that the capacity between the scan signal line and the pixel electrode becomes greater as electrically going farther from the scan signal line drive circuit and going farther from the common electrode line drive circuit. Embodiments can be applied especially to an active matrix substrate used in a liquid crystal display device, an EL display device, and the like.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2005Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takaharu Yamada
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Publication number: 20120200544Abstract: In a shift register that operates based on four-phase clock signals, including two-phase clock signals that are provided to odd-order stages and two-phase clock signals that are provided to even-order stages, of which phases are shifted by 90 degrees from each other, a potential of a first clock appears as a potential of a scanning signal, when a potential of a first node is at a high level, in each stage. In this configuration, the potential of the first node included in each stage is set to a high level based on a pulse of a scanning signal outputted from a pre-stage, and is set to a low level based on a pulse of a scanning signal outputted from a third stage after a stage concerned.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2010Publication date: August 9, 2012Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akihisa Iwamoto, Hideki Morii, Takayuki Mizunaga, Shinya Tanaka, Tetsuo Kikuchi, Takaharu Yamada, Satoshi Horiuchi, Chikao Yamasaki, Kei Ikuta
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Patent number: 8217872Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device including an active matrix substrate with improved characteristics and providing high-contrast between black and white displays.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2008Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ryohki Itoh, Satoshi Horiuchi, Takaharu Yamada
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Publication number: 20120140158Abstract: A pad section 112 of a liquid crystal display device and a main surface of a substrate located in a periphery of the pad section 112 are formed so as to be exposed from a multilayer film 109. The pad section 112 is formed of an aluminum alloy material film, and the difference between a potential of the aluminum alloy material film and that of an ITO film is smaller than the difference between a potential of an aluminum film and that of the ITO film.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2010Publication date: June 7, 2012Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hijiri Nakahara, Yukinobu Nakata, Takaharu Yamada, Seiji Muraoka
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Publication number: 20120133854Abstract: In an MVA liquid crystal display device of the present invention, in at least one electrode (21) of each pixel, a portion sandwiched between a first portion and a second portion adjacent to the first portion of the first electrode has an extended portion (21aE1, 21bE1, 21aE2, 21bE2) protruding in the row direction, the first portion being a portion in which an edge of the first electrode intersects with a slit (22a, 22b) or a portion in which the edge of the first electrode intersects with an extended line of a slit (22a, 22b) closest to the edge and the second portion being a portion in which the edge of the first electrode intersects with a second domain regulating structure (44a, 44b) or a portion in which the first electrode intersects with an extended line of a second domain regulating structure (44a, 44b) closest to the edge.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2010Publication date: May 31, 2012Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryohki Itoh, Masahiro Yoshida, Takaharu Yamada, Yuhko Hisada, Satoshi Horiuchi
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Publication number: 20120127408Abstract: In an MVA liquid crystal display device of the present invention, each pixel includes at least one electrode (21), the first electrode (21) has a first corner portion with a first edge parallel to a row direction and a second edge parallel to a column direction, and a first substrate further includes an electrode layer (e.g., a storage capacitor counter electrode (18a)) which overlaps at least part of the first edge and at least part of the second edge of the first corner portion. According to the present invention, it is possible to provide an MVA liquid crystal display device capable of suppressing the degradation in display quality caused by the disturbance in alignment of liquid crystal molecules in the vicinity of the edge of the first electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2010Publication date: May 24, 2012Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryohki Itoh, Masahiro Yoshida, Takaharu Yamada, Yuhko Hisada, Satoshi Horiuchi
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Publication number: 20120105418Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device with excellent display performance which has a high pixel aperture design and can avoid alignment disorder of liquid crystal molecules and improve image roughness. The liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes: a liquid crystal layer between a thin film transistor array substrate and an opposed substrate; and at least one electrode for applying a voltage to the liquid crystal layer. The thin film transistor array substrate includes: a transparent substrate; source lines and gate lines running in longitudinal and transverse directions, respectively, on a main surface of the transparent substrate; a conductive portion in a pixel defined by the source lines and the gate lines; and an insulating film covering the conductive part, and is provided with a contact hole electrically connecting an electrode on the thin film transistor array substrate among the at least one electrode and the conductive part through the insulating film.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2010Publication date: May 3, 2012Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryohki Itoh, Takaharu Yamada, Yuhko Hisada, Satoshi Horiuchi
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Publication number: 20120081626Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid-crystal display device in which a pixel defect does not occur even when an electrode becomes disconnected. The liquid-crystal display device according to the present invention comprises a liquid crystal layer and a pair of substrates between which the liquid crystal layer is interposed. At least one of the pair of substrates includes an electrode that applies a voltage to the liquid crystal layer. The electrode that applies the voltage to the liquid crystal layer includes two or more linear portions. The substrate comprising the electrode that applies the voltage to the liquid crystal layer, from among the pair of substrates, includes a floating electrode that overlaps at least two of the two or more linear portions via an insulating film.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2010Publication date: April 5, 2012Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryohki Itoh, Takaharu Yamada, Yuhko Hisada, Satoshi Horiuchi
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Publication number: 20110310343Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel (40a) having a plurality of display interconnects (3) provided so as to extend parallel to each other; a drive circuit (44a) provided on a side of one ends of the display interconnects (3), and connected to the display interconnects (3); a first interconnect path (Wa) and a second interconnect path (Wb) that are provided so as to cross the one ends of the display interconnects (3) in an insulating state; and a third interconnect path (Wc) that crosses the other ends of the display interconnects (3) in an insulating state, and is connected to the first interconnect path (Wa) and the second interconnect path (Wb). An amplifier circuit (A) is provided in a path including the first interconnect path (Wa) and the second interconnect path (Wb), and in a path including the first interconnect path (Wa) and the third interconnect path (Wc).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2009Publication date: December 22, 2011Inventors: Nobuyoshi Ueda, Takaharu Yamada, Tadatoshi Ozeki, Satoshi Horiuchi, Takashi Okamoto, Teruhiko Yamaguchi, Isao Ogasawara
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Publication number: 20110298774Abstract: An LUT fixedly stores correction values to compensate for a pull-in voltage in pixels in a liquid crystal panel. In at least one example embodiment, the display control unit outputs an input video signal Xa, a video signal Xp of a previous frame read from a frame memory, and a pixel polarity indicating a polarity of a pixel applied voltage on the pixel basis, and outputs a correction value read from the LUT to a data line driving circuit as a video signal Xb after correction. The data line driving circuit performs alternate current driving, based on the video signal Xb after correction. The LUT stores different correction values between when a positive polarity voltage is applied and when a negative polarity voltage is applied, for at least a part of combinations of values of the input video signal Xa and the video signal Xp of the previous frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2009Publication date: December 8, 2011Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takaharu Yamada, Yasunao Iwata, Kuniko Maeno, Yasuhiro Mimura, Tomoo Furukawa, Hideki Morii, Tetsuya Fujikawa
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Publication number: 20110291097Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides a TFT array substrate, in which TFT elements and pixel electrodes being correspondingly connected with the TFT elements are arrayed in matrix on an insulating substrate, the TFT array substrate including: gate bus lines made from a first metal material; source bus lines made from a second metal material; pixel electrodes made from a third metal material; a clock wiring made from the first metal material; a branch wiring made from the second metal material; and a connection conductor made from the third metal material, the connection conductor connecting the clock wiring and the branch wiring at a connection part in a periphery area, the connection part having a branch-wiring via hole, which exposes the branch wiring which is covered with the connection conductor, and overlaps the clock wiring at least partly in a plane view.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2009Publication date: December 1, 2011Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Isao Ogasawara, Takaharu Yamada, Masahiro Yoshida, Satoshi Horiuchi, Shinya Tanaka, Tetsuo Kikuchi
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Publication number: 20110273653Abstract: An array substrate of the present invention includes: an insulating substrate; a plurality of scanning lines on the insulating substrate; a plurality of data lines each disposed so as to intersect the plurality of scanning lines on the insulating substrate; picture element electrodes each formed in a substantially rectangular shape, the picture element electrodes each being connected, via a switching element, to a corresponding scanning line and a corresponding data line, the picture element electrodes each having a long side disposed along a direction in which the plurality of scanning lines are extended and a short side disposed along a direction in which the plurality of data lines are extended, the picture element electrodes each having cut sections formed by cutting two corners of each of the picture element electrodes, the cut sections being formed so as to serve as alignment dividing means.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2009Publication date: November 10, 2011Inventors: Masahiro Yoshida, Satoshi Horiuchi, Takaharu Yamada, Yuhko Hisada, Ryohki Itoh
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Publication number: 20110242073Abstract: A high-quality display is achieved by suppressing a disturbance in alignment in a liquid crystal display panel including a substrate structured so that a slit in a pixel electrode intersects with a scanning signal line or an auxiliary capacitor line. An active matrix substrate (10) includes: a pixel electrode (12) having a slit; and an auxiliary capacitor line (14). In a region of intersection between the slit (15) and the auxiliary capacitor line (14) or a scanning signal line (21), at least a drain line (13) or a data signal line (22) is provided between a layer of the pixel electrode (12) and a layer of the auxiliary capacitor line (14) or of the scanning signal line (21) in such a way as to cover the auxiliary capacitor line (12) or the scanning signal line (21).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2009Publication date: October 6, 2011Inventors: Satoshi Horiuchi, Takaharu Yamada, Yuhko Hisada, Ryohki Itoh
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Publication number: 20110141071Abstract: A display panel includes a plurality of display lines provided in each of blocks and extending in parallel with each other, a plurality of drive circuits provided outside a display region and connected to the display lines in the respective blocks, a plurality of first lines provided outside the display region and intersecting end portions closer to the drive circuits of the display lines in the respective blocks, the first lines being insulated from the display lines, and a second line provided outside the display region and intersecting end portions farther from the drive circuits of the display lines of all the blocks, the second line being insulated from the display lines. The second line is configured to intersect the first lines while being insulated from the first lines, and be supplied with a display signal from each of the drive circuits via an amplifier circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2009Publication date: June 16, 2011Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tadatoshi Ozeki, Takaharu Yamada, Masahiro Yoshida, Kazuyori Mitsumoto
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Publication number: 20110134089Abstract: A display panel includes a plurality of display lines provided in each of blocks and extending in parallel with each other, a plurality of drive circuits provided outside a display region and connected to the display lines in the respective blocks, a plurality of first lines provided outside the display region and intersecting end portions closer to the drive circuits of the display lines in the respective blocks, the first lines being insulated from the display lines, and a second line provided outside the display region and intersecting end portions farther from the drive circuits of the display lines of all the blocks, the second line being insulated from the display lines. The second line is configured to intersect the first lines while being insulated from the first lines, and be supplied with a display signal from each of the drive circuits via an amplifier circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2011Publication date: June 9, 2011Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tadatoshi OZEKI, Takaharu YAMADA, Masahiro YOSHIDA, Kazuyori MITSUMOTO
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Publication number: 20110122105Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of display interconnects (3) provided so as to extend parallel to each other; a drive circuit (44aa) provided at one ends of the display interconnects (3), and connected to the display interconnects (3); a first interconnect (Wa) provided so as to cross the other ends of the display interconnects (3) in an insulating state; and a second interconnect (Wb) provided so as to cross the one ends of the display interconnects (3) in an insulating state, and so as to be connected to the first interconnect (Wa). When any of the display interconnects (3) is disconnected, a display signal from the drive circuit (44aa) is supplied to the other side of the disconnected display interconnect (3) sequentially through the second interconnect (Wb) and the first interconnect (Wa) in this order via an amplifier circuit (A).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2009Publication date: May 26, 2011Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryohki Itoh, Takaharu Yamada, Isao Ogasawara, Takashi Okamoto
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Patent number: 7834946Abstract: A display device includes multiple signal lines that are connected to multiple pixel electrodes including first and second pixel electrodes. The distance between one end of the first pixel electrode and the centerline of a first signal line is greater than the distance between one end of the second pixel electrode and the centerline of a second signal line. Alternatively, the distance between the other end of the first pixel electrode and the centerline of an adjacent signal line, which is located on the opposite side of the first pixel electrode from the first signal line, is greater than the distance between the other end of the second pixel electrode and the centerline of another adjacent signal line, which is located on the opposite side of the second pixel electrode from the second signal line.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2007Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Satoshi Horiuchi, Yuhko Hisada, Ryohki Itoh, Takaharu Yamada
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Publication number: 20100283931Abstract: In a TFT array substrate (20), connecting points (P10) of a first metal layer (M1) and a second metal layer (M2) are provided in a peripheral region (A20). A driving circuit (B60b), which is at least a part of a driving circuit (60), is provided between the connecting points (P10) and an edge (24) of the TFT array substrate (20).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2008Publication date: November 11, 2010Inventors: Satoshi Horiuchi, Takaharu Yamada, Isao Ogasawara