Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device, each pixel region formed over a liquid crystal side of one substrate out of respective substrates which are arranged to face each other with liquid crystal therebetween includes pixel electrodes to which a video signal is supplied from a drain signal line through a switching element driven in response to a scanning signal from a gate signal line and capacitive elements which are formed between the pixel electrodes and a capacitive signal line by way of a dielectric film. In such a constitution, the pixel region is divided into a plurality of regions, and video signals are supplied to respective pixel electrodes and capacitive elements in respective regions through paths which are branched from the switching element.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a pixel electrode to which a video signal is supplied and a counter electrode to which a reference signal is supplied in each pixel. In the display device a positive-side gray scale voltage and a negative-side gray scale voltage are formed. The positive-side gray scale voltage and the negative-side gray scale voltage are formed with respect to the reference signal such that an average value of the positive-side gray scale voltage and the negative-side gray scale voltage is increased along with an increase of the signal amplitude of the video signal in the vicinity of the minimum thereof, the average value is decreased along with a further increase of the signal amplitude of the video signal, and the average value is increased along with an increase of the amplitude of the video signal in the vicinity of the maximum thereof.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device is intended to decrease the number of manufacturing steps. The liquid crystal display device is arranged so that in each pixel area provided on a liquid-crystal-side surface of one of a pair of substrates disposed to oppose each other with a liquid crystal interposed therebetween, a signal from a drain line is applied to a pixel electrode via a drain electrode and a source electrode which are formed in a layer overlying a semiconductor layer of a thin film transistor, by the supply of a scanning signal from a gate electrode which is positioned as an underlying layer with respect to the semiconductor layer.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a pair of opposing substrates, a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the substrates, plural pixels each having a switching element and disposed in an area surrounded by first and second gate signal lines and drain signal lines. Each video information supplied for each pixel from a corresponding one of the drain signal lines is written thereinto via the switching element driven by a first scanning signal from the first gate signal line. A second scanning signal from the second gate signal line rises approximately simultaneously with fall of the first scanning signal such that disturbances introduced into one of the pixels by the first scanning signal and the second scanning signal cancel each other.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device, or more particularly, an active matrix type liquid crystal display device having a pixel electrode formed in a pixel field defined on one of two transparent substrates opposed to each other with a liquid crystal layer between them. The pixel electrode is overlapped a signal line, which is formed in a portion of the one transparent substrate coincident with a black matrix, with a dielectric between them. The width of the overlap is set to a value satisfying a condition that an electric field induced between the signal line and pixel electrode will not invade into the pixel field defined with the black matrix. Owing to the structure, inhomogeneous luminance caused by a source electrode of a thin film transistor can be avoided. Moreover, inhomogeneous luminance caused by a capacitive element can be avoided.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device comprises a pair of substrates which are arranged to face each other in an opposed manner while sandwiching liquid crystal therebetween, pixel regions which are formed on a liquid-crystal-side surface of one substrate out of the pair of substrates, and thin film transistors which are formed on respective pixel regions, wherein each thin film transistor includes a gate electrode connected to a gate signal line, a semiconductor layer laminated to the gate electrode by way of an insulation film, a drain electrode formed on the semiconductor layer and connected to a drain signal line, and a source electrode connected to a pixel electrode, and the semiconductor layer is formed in a periodically irregular shape in a zone having a width substantially larger than a width of the source electrode on a side thereof from which at least the source electrode is pulled out.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes first and second gate signal line formed on a first insulating substrate and arranged adjacent to one another, a terminal electrically connected to the first gate signal line, first and second thin-film transistors, a first pixel electrode electrically connected to an electrode of the first thin-film transistor, a second pixel electrode electrically connected to an electrode of the second thin-film transistor, a first and second video signal lines, a second insulating substrate which is transparent and superposed on the first insulating substrate, a transparent common electrode, and liquid crystals provided between the common electrode and the first and second pixel electrodes. A first light-shielding film is formed on the second insulating substrate and covers peripheries of the first and second pixel electrodes, and second light-shielding films are formed on the first insulating substrate.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device can readily achieve uniformization of the threshold voltages of individual thin film transistors in spite of its simple construction. The liquid crystal display device includes gate signal lines juxtaposed in one direction, drain signal lines juxtaposed to intersect with the gate signal lines, thin film transistors which are respectively formed in areas each surrounded by the gate signal lines and the drain signal lines and are driven by supply of scanning signals from the gate signal lines, pixel electrodes to which video signals from the drain signal lines are to be supplied via the respective thin film transistors, a first terminal for applying voltages to the respective gate signal lines via diodes, and a second terminal for applying voltages to the respective drain signal lines via diodes.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display unit in IPS or FFS mode having a wide viewing angle, when a current is supplied to the unit so as to make display continuously, black spot-like unevenness (small dark or white spots) is produced. Since liquid crystal with low resistivity is used in IPS or FFS mode, impurities in the liquid crystal flow during display to form indeterminate black unevenness, or stay in an end portion of a display pattern producing an after image. To prevent this in a liquid crystal display unit, new electrodes or wires connected to at least one group of the scanning or video signal lines through-holes for restraining small dark or white spots are formed on the protective film, and electrodes connected to at least one group of the pixel electrodes, the opposed electrodes and opposed voltage signal lines are formed on opposite sides of the new electrodes or wires for restraining small dark or white spots.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device which is free of luminance irregularity includes, in each of pixels on a liquid-crystal-side surface of a substrate disposed in opposition to a liquid crystal, a thin film transistor to be driven by supply of a scanning signal from a gate signal line, a pixel electrode to be supplied with a video signal from a drain line via the thin film transistor, and a counter electrode which generates an electric field having a component parallel to the pixel electrode and the substrate. In the liquid crystal display device, a UXGA display area is constituted by an assembly of the pixels, and the scanning signal has a delay time set to 3.8 &mgr;s or less at the pixel in the display area that is located on a terminal side of the gate signal line which is opposite to an input side thereof.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a pair of opposing substrates, a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the substrates, plural pixels each having a switching element and disposed in an area surrounded by first and second gate signal lines and drain signal lines. Each video information supplied for each pixel from a corresponding one of the drain signal lines is written thereinto via the switching element driven by a first scanning signal from the first gate signal line. A second scanning signal from the second gate signal line rises approximately simultaneously with fall of the first scanning signal such that disturbances introduced into one of the pixels by the first scanning signal and the second scanning signal cancel each other.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device having a first gate signal line, a capacity line, a terminal, first and second thin-film transistors, a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode, a first video signal line, and a second video signal line. A channel length and a channel width of the second thin-film transistor are substantially equal to a channel length and the channel width of the first thin-film transistor. The first and second pixel electrodes are partly superposed on the capacity line via an insulating film, and an area where the second pixel electrode is superposed on the capacity line is selected to be smaller than an area where the first pixel electrode is superposed on the capacity line.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device is intended to decrease the number of manufacturing steps. The liquid crystal display device is arranged so that in each pixel area provided on a liquid-crystal-side surface of one of a pair of substrates disposed to oppose each other with a liquid crystal interposed therebetween, a signal from a drain line is applied to a pixel electrode via a drain electrode and a source electrode which are formed in a layer overlying a semiconductor layer of a thin film transistor, by the supply of a scanning signal from a gate electrode which is positioned as an underlying layer with respect to the semiconductor layer.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device has gate signal lines extending in the x-direction and arranged in the y-direction, and drain signal lines extending in the y-direction and arranged in the x-direction on the surface of the liquid crystal side of the one transparent substrate between a pair of transparent substrates opposed to each other via liquid crystals. A thin-film transistor is fumed on by a scanning signal from a gate signal line, and a pixel electrode will be supplied with a video signal from the drain signal line via the thin-film transistor that is fumed on in each of the regions surrounded by the signal lines. The thin-film transistor is of the MIS type, and the capacity between the gate electrode and the source electrode thereof is small on the input terminal side of the gate signal line and increases in a direction toward the end of the gate signal line, thereby to suppress the occurrence of flickering.

Abstract: A thread trimming device for a sewing machine in which a movable knife coupled to a thread trimmer lever by way of a link mechanism is turned to cut sewing threads in cooperation with a fixed knife, the first projection of the thread trimmer lever engaging in the cam groove of a thread trimmer cam, comprises a thread trimmer positive motion bracket having a second projection capable of engaging in the positive motion cam groove of a thread trimmer positive motion cam so as to keep the engagement of the first projection with the cam groove after the second projection thereof engages the positive motion cam groove until it is disengaged therefrom. Since the time of completing the thread trimming can be set by the positive motion cam groove of the thread trimmer positive motion cam, the timing of the thread trimming can be adjusted with certainty. Furthermore, the operating time of the driving means can be remarkably reduced.