Abstract: An active matrix substrate of the present invention includes: a first signal line and a second signal line which are aligned in a column direction in which the first signal line and the second signal line extend; a first transistor and a second transistor; and a first electrode and a second electrode, the first signal line being connected via the first transistor to the first electrode, and the second signal line being connected via the second transistor to the second electrode, and the first signal line having a first end which is one of both ends of the first signal line and faces the second signal line, the first end including a tapered part which is tapered toward the second signal line. This makes it possible to prevent a leakage defect from occurring between two signal lines which are aligned in a direction in which the two signal lines extend.

Abstract: A functional panel (FP) includes a COM substrate (4) and an SEG substrate (3) that face each other. The functional panel (FP) is combined with a display panel (LP) via an adhesive. The COM substrate (4), which is provided farther from the display panel (LP) than the SEG substrate (3) is, has edges (E1, E2) that face each other. The SEG substrate (3), which is provided closer to the display panel (LP) than the COM substrate (4) is, has (i) an edge (E3) provided along and inside the edge (E1) when viewed from above and (ii) an edge (E4) provided along and inside the edge (E2) when viewed from above. This effectively prevents the occurrence of a defective external shape.

Abstract: An active matrix substrate of the present invention includes: a first signal line and a second signal line which are aligned in a column direction in which the first signal line and the second signal line extend; a first transistor and a second transistor; and a first electrode and a second electrode, the first signal line being connected via the first transistor to the first electrode, and the second signal line being connected via the second transistor to the second electrode, and the first signal line having a first end which is one of both ends of the first signal line and faces the second signal line, the first end including a tapered part which is tapered toward the second signal line. This makes it possible to prevent a leakage defect from occurring between two signal lines which are aligned in a direction in which the two signal lines extend.

Abstract: A novel method of electrochemical treatment such as electroplating, etc. and an electrochemical reaction apparatus thereof which is high in reactability and able to be electrochemically reacted efficiently, which is small or zero in amount of generation of liquid waste such as electrolytic solution and cleaning liquid and therefore, amicable to the environment, and in which it is no more required to clean the electrode, etc. with cleaning liquid after reaction. Electrochemical reaction is executed in a reaction vessel (6) containing matter (5) which is in a supercritical or subcritical state and an electrolytic solution (1), and after reaction, the supercritical or subcritical matter (5) is shifted into a state of the matter (5) before being shifted into a critical state.

Abstract: A novel method of electrochemical treatment such as electroplating, etc. and an electrochemical reaction apparatus thereof which is high in reactability and able to be electrochemically reacted efficiently, which is small or zero in amount of generation of liquid waste such as electrolytic solution and cleaning liquid and therefore, amicable to the environment, and in which it is no more required to clean the electrode, etc. with cleaning liquid after reaction. Electrochemical reaction is executed in a reaction vessel (6) containing matter (5) which is in a supercritical or subcritical state and an electrolytic solution (1), and after reaction, the supercritical or subcritical matter (5) is shifted into a state of the matter (5) before being shifted into a critical state.

Abstract: A flat-panel display device includes a display control unit having a scanning line driver for periodically selecting at least two adjacent scanning lines and driving such lines together. A scanning controller controls a driver to turn on elements connected to a first one of the adjacent scanning lines located on one side of a row of the pixels capacitively coupled thereto and driven for the row of pixels, and elements connected to a second one of the adjacent scanning lines located on another side of the row of pixels capacitively coupled thereto and not driven for the row of pixels, at a substantially identical timing, and to turn off the elements connected to second adjacent scanning line earlier than the elements connected to the first adjacent scanning line.

Abstract: Each signal-input pad in signal-line pad groups and scanning-line pad groups has enough width and length for contacting with inspection probe and serves as an inspection pad. Hence, the space for disposing inspection pads separately from the connection pads are no more needed, thereby reducing width of periphery connection area in the array substrate.

Abstract: An active matrix display device including an array substrate that has a signal lines and scanning lines that cross each other, switching elements, and pixel electrodes that are provided in the vicinity of the respective crossing points. The pixel electrodes are connected to the lines via respective switching elements. A scanning signal supply provides a scanning signal that has a first voltage that turns on the switching elements and a second voltage that turns off the switching elements. A first connector electrically connects the scanning lines to each other. A driving circuit having nonlinear resistor elements sets the voltage of the first connector to be substantially equal to the second voltage.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the structure of an active matrix type liquid crystal display device in which a channel length of a thin film transistor without increasing resistance of a scanning line region to improve a switching characteristic. A slit is formed at the channel of the thin film transistor formed on the scanning line region. The slit is used as a mask and a pattern of a channel protection film for determining the channel of the thin film transistor is formed by exposure form a back surface of a substrate. According to this method, a desirable channel length can be obtained, and the scanning line region, facing to the channel through the slit, functions as an auxiliary region, so that the resistance of the scanning line region can be reduced.

Abstract: In an active matrix type display device using TFTs as switching elements, in order to remarkably improve the aperture ratio and, at the same time, largely lower a dissipation power, an extending electrode is provided as one unit to a scanning line and light is shut off at those areas between a signal line and two display pixel electrodes situated adjacent the signal line, the two display pixel electrodes being arranged with the signal line interposed.

Abstract: An active matrix type display device including a plurality of thin film transistors disposed at crossing points of a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of signal lines, and serving as switching elements for controlling pixels of the display device. Each pixel has a elongated electrode extending in overlapped relation with signal line. A dielectric layer, composed of the same layer as a gate insulating layer and a semiconductor layer, which is the same layer as the active layer of a thin film transistor, is interposed between the signal line and the elongated electrode, and a part of the elongated electrode serves as a electrode of a storage capacitor which is electrically coupled with the pixel.