Abstract: Provided is a display that causes an electric field generated in a transverse or diagonal direction to drive liquid crystals and enables allocation of a contact area for a conducting connection. A transparent electrode layer is formed on a surface of a counter substrate that is opposite to a surface of the counter substrate on which the liquid crystals are disposed. The counter substrate is included in a liquid-crystal display panel. An electrode layer is formed on the rear surface of a protective plate disposed to face the counter electrode. Conductive substances are disposed between the transparent electrode layer and the electrode layer to connect the transparent electrode layer to the electrode layer. A GND connecting part provided in a surrounding area of the protective plate connects the electrode layer formed on the protective plate to, for example, a casing, thus connecting the electrode layer to the GND.

Abstract: Provided is a display that causes an electric field generated in a transverse or diagonal direction to drive liquid crystals and enables allocation of a contact area for a conducting connection. A transparent electrode layer is formed on a surface of a counter substrate that is opposite to a surface of the counter substrate on which the liquid crystals are disposed. The counter substrate is included in a liquid-crystal display panel. An electrode layer is formed on the rear surface of a protective plate disposed to face the counter electrode. Conductive substances are disposed between the transparent electrode layer and the electrode layer to connect the transparent electrode layer to the electrode layer. A GND connecting part provided in a surrounding area of the protective plate connects the electrode layer formed on the protective plate to, for example, a casing, thus connecting the electrode layer to the GND.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes an alignment layer having an alignment direction inclined at an angle ? where 0°<?<90° with respect to an extending direction of a gate line, a pixel electrode, and a common electrode placed opposite to the pixel electrode with an insulating layer interposed therebetween. One of the pixel electrode and the common electrode has a slit for generating a fringe electric field to liquid crystals with the other of the pixel electrode and the common electrode. The slit includes a first slit lying in the alignment direction or a direction perpendicular to the alignment direction, and a plurality of second slits and a plurality of third slits respectively inclined at an angle ±? with respect to the first slit.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes an alignment layer having an alignment direction inclined at an angle ? where 0°<?<90° with respect to an extending direction of a gate line, a pixel electrode, and a common electrode placed opposite to the pixel electrode with an insulating layer interposed therebetween. One of the pixel electrode and the common electrode has a slit for generating a fringe electric field to liquid crystals with the other of the pixel electrode and the common electrode. The slit includes a first slit lying in the alignment direction or a direction perpendicular to the alignment direction, and a plurality of second slits and a plurality of third slits respectively inclined at an angle ±? with respect to the first slit.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes an alignment layer having an alignment direction inclined at an angle ? where 0°<?<90° with respect to an extending direction of a gate line, a pixel electrode, and a common electrode placed opposite to the pixel electrode with an insulating layer interposed therebetween. One of the pixel electrode and the common electrode has a slit for generating a fringe electric field to liquid crystals with the other of the pixel electrode and the common electrode. The slit includes a first slit lying in the alignment direction or a direction perpendicular to the alignment direction, and a plurality of second slits and a plurality of third slits respectively inclined at an angle ±? with respect to the first slit.

Abstract: A transflective liquid crystal display device provided with columnar spacers is provided that can suppress variation in color tone of white in a reflective mode and can minimize degradation in reflectivity even when a coloring material used for a transmissive region and a coloring material used for a reflective region are the same. The device includes a color filter substrate, a TFT substrate, a liquid crystal material sandwiched by the color filter substrate and the TFT substrate, columnar spacers formed only in pixels having a green coloring material and defining a cell gap, and light-blocking portions provided only in predetermined regions in the vicinity of locations where the columnar spacers are formed.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes an alignment layer having an alignment direction inclined at an angle ? where 0°<?<90° with respect to an extending direction of a gate line, a pixel electrode, and a common electrode placed opposite to the pixel electrode with an insulating layer interposed therebetween. One of the pixel electrode and the common electrode has a slit for generating a fringe electric field to liquid crystals with the other of the pixel electrode and the common electrode. The slit includes a first slit lying in the alignment direction or a direction perpendicular to the alignment direction, and a plurality of second slits and a plurality of third slits respectively inclined at an angle ±? with respect to the first slit.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a gate line placed on an array substrate, a pixel electrode in a comb teeth shape, a common electrode in a comb teeth shape that generates an in-plane electric field with the pixel electrode, an alignment layer that has an alignment direction inclined at a predetermined rubbing angle ? with respect to a vertical direction perpendicular to the gate line, and two sections (upper pixel and lower pixel) where a direction of response of liquid crystals is different. The comb teeth of the pixel electrode and the common electrode are inclined at a predetermined electrode angle ? with respect to the vertical direction in each of the two sections, and the electrode angle ? and the rubbing angle ? satisfy conditions of |?|>|?| and 90°?|???|?45° in each of the two sections.

Abstract: Provided is an in-plane response-type liquid-crystal display device having a sufficiently high contrast ratio enough to display high-quality images. The device is free from the problem of light leak to be caused by spacers, and is free from the problem of rough surface appearances. In the device, the surface of each spacer is coated with a thermoplastic polymer prepared through graft polymerization of a molecular compound having a vinyl group or a polymerization initiator, with one or more polymerizable monomers. The functional groups existing in the surface of each spacer are bonded to the alignment layers adjacent to the spacers via van der Waals bonding or hydrogen bonding, whereby the spacers are fixed onto the orientation film on at least one of the electrode substrate and the color filter substrate constituting the device. The bonds are extremely small, and the region around the spacers through which light will leak is much reduced.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device has the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate includes a gate line, a source line crossing the gate line, a switching element connected to the source line, a liquid crystal drive electrode connected to the switching element and having a plurality of electrodes substantially parallel to each other, and a common electrode consisting of a plurality of comb-shaped electrodes arranged substantially parallel to and alternately with the liquid crystal drive electrode. The second substrate includes color filters arranged in an array arrangement and a black matrix provided between the color filters. A spacer between the substrates contacts the first substrate in the area where the gate line, the liquid crystal drive electrode, and the common electrode are arranged in the vicinity of each other.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device has the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate includes a gate line, a source line crossing the gate line, a switching element connected to the source line, a liquid crystal drive electrode connected to the switching element and having a plurality of electrodes substantially parallel to each other, and a common electrode consisting of a plurality of comb-shaped electrodes arranged substantially parallel to and alternately with the liquid crystal drive electrode. The second substrate includes color filters arranged in an array arrangement and a black matrix provided between the color filters. A spacer between the substrates contacts the first substrate in the area where the gate line, the liquid crystal drive electrode, and the common electrode are arranged in the vicinity of each other.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device has the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate includes a gate line, a source line crossing the gate line, a switching element connected to the source line, a liquid crystal drive electrode connected to the switching element and having a plurality of electrodes substantially parallel to each other, and a common electrode consisting of a plurality of comb-shaped electrodes arranged substantially parallel to and alternately with the liquid crystal drive electrode. The second substrate includes color filters arranged in an array arrangement and a black matrix provided between the color filters. A spacer between the substrates contacts the first substrate in the area where the gate line, the liquid crystal drive electrode, and the common electrode are arranged in the vicinity of each other.

Abstract: Provided is an in-plane response-type liquid-crystal display device having a sufficiently high contrast ratio enough to display high-quality images. The device is free from the problem of light leak to be caused by spacers, and is free from the problem of rough surface appearances. In the device, the surface of each spacer is coated with a thermoplastic polymer prepared through graft polymerization of a molecular compound having a vinyl group or a polymerization initiator, with one or more polymerizable monomers. The functional groups existing in the surface of each spacer are bonded to the alignment layers adjacent to the spacers via van der Waals bonding or hydrogen bonding, whereby the spacers are fixed onto the orientation film on at least one of the electrode substrate and the color filter substrate constituting the device. The bonds are extremely small, and the region around the spacers through which light will leak is much reduced.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device according to an embodiment of the invention includes: a transmissive region and a reflective region in one pixel; a TFT substrate; a CF substrate; a liquid crystal layer formed between the TFT substrate and the CF substrate; a first polarization control element provided on the side opposite to the liquid crystal layer of the TFT substrate; and a second polarization control element provided on the side opposite to the liquid crystal layer of the CF substrate. The first polarization control element and the second polarization control element each include at least a polarizing plate and a retarder. The second polarization control element includes a liquid crystal film as a retarder, the second polarization control element is provided closer to a display surface side than the first polarization control element, and an antireflection film is formed on the second polarization control element.

Abstract: The invention provides a small-sized liquid crystal display in which a frame region of an outer peripheral portion of a display region is made small without any light leak at peripheral portion of the display region of a liquid crystal display panel. The invention also provides a manufacturing process of such a liquid crystal display. Periphery shading films (shade films 3a and 3b) of a display region of a liquid crystal display panel are alternately formed on a first substrate 1 (shade film 3a) and a second substrate 2 (shade film 3b) oppositely arranged, and a transparent portion (width Q) for irradiating a seal resin 4 used to adhere the two substrates forming the liquid crystal display panel with ultraviolet rays 7 is provided within a region (width P) where the periphery shading films are formed.

Abstract: Provided is an in-plane response-type liquid-crystal display device having a sufficiently high contrast ratio enough to display high-quality images. The device is free from the problem of light leak to be caused by spacers, and is free from the problem of rough surface appearances. In the device, the surface of each spacer is coated with a thermoplastic polymer prepared through graft polymerization of a molecular compound having a vinyl group or a polymerization initiator, with one or more polymerizable monomers. The functional groups existing in the surface of each spacer are bonded to the alignment layers adjacent to the spacers via van der Waals bonding or hydrogen bonding, whereby the spacers are fixed onto the orientation film on at least one of the electrode substrate and the color filter substrate constituting the device. The bonds are extremely small, and the region around the spacers through which light will leak is much reduced.

Abstract: The invention provides a small-sized liquid crystal display in which a frame region of an outer peripheral portion of a display region is made small without any light leak at peripheral portion of the display region of a liquid crystal display panel. The invention also provides a manufacturing process of such a liquid crystal display. Periphery shading films (shade films 3a and 3b) of a display region of a liquid crystal display panel are alternately formed on a first substrate 1 (shade film 3a) and a second substrate 2 (shade film 3b) oppositely arranged, and a transparent portion (width Q) for irradiating a seal resin 4 used to adhere the two substrates forming the liquid crystal display panel with ultraviolet rays 7 is provided within a region (width P) where the periphery shading films are formed.

Abstract: A semi-transmissive liquid crystal display device includes a TFT array substrate having a transmission pixel electrode that forms a transmission area and a reflection pixel electrode that forms a reflection area, a color filter substrate having a color filter formed by using a color material and a light-shielding film provided around the color filter, and a liquid crystal held between the TFT array substrate and the color filter substrate. The semi-transmissive liquid crystal display device further includes an opening provided in the color material in the reflection area and having at least two sides formed over the light-shielding film of finished dimensional accuracy higher than that of the color material, and a resin film formed to cover the color material while burying the opening.

Abstract: A transflective liquid crystal display device provided with columnar spacers is provided that can suppress variation in color tone of white in a reflective mode and can minimize degradation in reflectivity even when a coloring material used for a transmissive region and a coloring material used for a reflective region are the same. The device includes a color filter substrate, a TFT substrate, a liquid crystal material sandwiched by the color filter substrate and the TFT substrate, columnar spacers formed only in pixels having a green coloring material and defining a cell gap, and light-blocking portions provided only in predetermined regions in the vicinity of locations where the columnar spacers are formed.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a TFT substrate having a plurality of pixel electrodes formed thereon, a color filter substrate having a metal light-shielding film formed thereon, a liquid crystal held between the TFT substrate and the color filter substrate, and a large number of spacers disposed in a gap between the TFT substrate and the color filter substrate, in which a voltage is applied between the pixel electrodes to generate an electric field substantially parallel to the TFT substrate surface, causing the liquid crystal to respond in an in-plane direction based on the electric field.