Abstract: An in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates and a plurality of gate and data bus lines defining pixel regions and arranged perpendicularly and/or horizontally on the first substrate. A common line is formed with the gate bus line, and a plurality of thin film transistors are formed at respective crossing areas of the gate and data bus lines. A plurality of gate electrodes are connected to the gate bus lines, and a gate insulator having a contact hole on the gate electrodes. A transparent first metal layer including a plurality of first electrodes is on the gate insulator. A passivation layer having a contact hole is on the first metal layer. A transparent second metal layer including a plurality of second electrodes is on the passivation layer. A black matrix for preventing light from leaking around the thin film transistor, the gate bus line, and data bus line is on the second substrate.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device having a digitizer. A liquid crystal panel is supported by a lower frame having a side wall portion. A digitizer is located on the liquid crystal panel. An upper frame having a front surface with an opening region and a side wall portion is located over the digitizer such that the tipper frame pressurizes a peripheral portion of the digitizer. The opening region is formed at a location corresponding to the display region of the liquid crystal panel. The upper and lower frames mate to hold the liquid crystal panel and the digitizer in place. The upper frame is beneficially metallic to provide electrical shielding of conductors on the digitizer. Common electrical circuits are shared by the digitizer and the liquid crystal panel.

Abstract: An in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device comprises first and second substrates, a plurality of gate and data bus lines defining pixel regions and arranged on the first substrate, a plurality of data electrodes on same plane of the data bus lines these some parts are overlapped with adjacent gate bus line, a passivation layer on the data electrodes, a plurality of common electrodes on the passivation layer these some parts are overlapped with adjacent data electrodes, and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates.

Abstract: Process steps for bonding substrates of a touch panel. Steps include forming an insulator layer around a flexible printed cable (FPC) contact formed on electrodes, forming a low resistive metal layer, to which the FPC is attached, on the insulator layer, forming dot spacers out of insulating material within the active area. Next, connecting the FPC with a band region formed by the insulator layer and the low resistive metal layer after the insulator layer, the low resistive metal layer and the dot spacers have been formed. Finally, bonding the substrates for reading an X coordinate and for reading a Y coordinate after connection between the insulator layer, the low resistive metal layer, the dot spacers and the FPC.

Abstract: A contact structure of a touch panel having X-axis (Y-axis) potential compensating electrodes arranged along peripheries of the conductive film of a substrate; a FPC contact for another substrate constructed on an electrode arrangement defined by electrodes; the electrodes arranged along outermost peripheries of the transparent conductive film of the another substrate; and another FPC contact for the another substrate constructed on the electrode arrangement defined by the electrodes arranged on the film of the another substrate.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a thin film transistor (TFT) assembly having a plurality of array lines, a plurality of pads, a plurality of link lines connecting the pads to the array lines, an insulating layer, and an electrode pattern formed on a substrate, and further having short-preventing structures for preventing electrical shorts between the pads and the link lines. The method includes the steps of forming the plurality of pads on the substrata, depositing the insulating layer on the substrate including over the pads, etching the insulating layer, to form contact holes, and etching the insulating layer between the adjacent pads to expose a surface of the substrate to prevent a short between the adjacent pads from occurring, and forming the electrode pattern on the insulating layer by depositing and patterning an electrode layer such that the electrode pattern contacts the pads through the contact holes formed in the insulating layer.

Abstract: A protector for a wired/wireless data transmitting/receiving terminal and a wired/wireless data transmitting/receiving terminal having the same. The protector prevents a display or a touch screen from getting damaged while maintaining characteristics and commercial value of the terminal employing a digitizer (touch screen) as a display or input device. A data transmitting/receiving terminal comprises a sheet protector installed on a display or a touch screen of a terminal bodyand includes a support band capable of attaching the sheet protector as a complementary structure to one end at regions at least excluding a display area. The protector includes a support band supported or attached to the support band of the terminal body and extends from the support band so as to cover the display and the touch screen. The invention can be applied to a protector for a display.

Abstract: An in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates and a plurality of gate and data bus lines defining pixel regions and arranged perpendicularly and/or horizontally on the first substrate. A common line is formed with the gate bus line, and a plurality of thin film transistors are formed at respective crossing areas of the gate and data bus lines. A plurality of gate electrodes are connected to the gate bus lines, and a gate insulator having a contact hole on the gate electrodes. A transparent first metal layer including a plurality of first electrodes is on the gate insulator. A passivation layer having a contact hole is on the first metal layer. A transparent second metal layer including a plurality of second electrodes is on the passivation layer. A black matrix for preventing light from leaking around the thin film transistor, the gate bus line, and data bus line is on the second substrate.

Abstract: An in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device comprises first and second substrates, a plurality of gate and data bus lines defining pixel regions and arranged on the first substrate, a plurality of data electrodes on same plane of the data bus lines these some parts are overlapped with adjacent gate bus line, a passivation layer on the data electrodes, a plurality of common electrodes on the passivation layer these some parts are overlapped with adjacent data electrodes, and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a thin film transistor (TFT) assembly having a plurality of array lines, a plurality of pads, a plurality of link lines connecting the pads to the array lines, an insulating layer, and an electrode pattern formed on a substrate, and further having short-preventing structures for preventing electrical shorts between the pads and the link lines. The method includes the steps of forming the plurality of pads on the substrate, depositing the insulating layer on the substrate including over the pads, etching the insulating layer to form contact holes, and etching the insulating layer between the adjacent pads to expose a surface of the substrate to prevent a short between the adjacent pads from occurring, and forming the electrode pattern on the insulating layer by depositing and patterning an electrode layer such that the electrode pattern contacts the pads through the contact holes formed in the insulating layer.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a thin film transistor (TFT) assembly having a plurality of array lines, a plurality of pads, a plurality of link lines connecting the pads to the array lines, an insulating layer, and an electrode pattern formed on a substrate, and further having short-preventing structures for preventing electrical shorts between the pads and the link lines. The method includes the steps of forming the plurality of pads on the substrate, depositing the insulating layer on the substrate including over the pads, etching the insulating layer to form contact holes, and etching the insulating layer between the adjacent pads to expose a surface of the substrate to prevent a short between the adjacent pads from occurring, and forming the electrode pattern on the insulating layer by depositing and patterning an electrode layer such that the electrode pattern contacts the pads through the contact holes formed in the insulating layer.

Abstract: A contact structure of a touch panel having X-axis (Y-axis) potential compensating electrodes arranged along peripheries of the conductive film of a substrate; a FPC contact for another substrate constructed on an electrode arrangement defined by electrodes; the electrodes arranged along outermost peripheries of the transparent conductive film of the another substrate; and another FPC contact for the another substrate constructed on the electrode arrangement defined by the electrodes arranged on the film of the another substrate.

Abstract: A contact structure of a touch panel having X-axis (Y-axis) potential compensating electrodes arranged along peripheries of the conductive film of a substrate; a FPC contact for another substrate constructed on an electrode arrangement defined by electrodes; the electrodes arranged along outermost peripheries of the transparent conductive film of the another substrate; and another FPC contact for the another substrate constructed on the electrode arrangement defined by the electrodes arranged on the film of the another substrate.

Abstract: A flat panel display with input device having enhanced assemblability and lowered failure rate is achieved by connecting a touch screen driver with a display driver. Signal distortion is reduced by simplifying wiring. Reduction of signal distortion in an input device or a flat panel display and economic benefit in its manufacture occurs by constructing a display driver and a touch screen driver on the identical printed circuit board (PCB).

Abstract: An in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device comprises first and second substrates, a plurality of gate and data bus lines defining pixel regions and arranged on the first substrate, a plurality of data electrodes on same plane of the data bus lines these some parts are overlapped with adjacent gate bus line, a passivation layer on the data electrodes, a plurality of common electrodes on the passivation layer these some parts are overlapped with adjacent data electrodes, and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates.

Abstract: An in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates and a plurality of gate and data bus lines defining pixel regions and arranged perpendicularly and/or horizontally on the first substrate. A common line is formed with the gate bus line, and a plurality of thin film transistors are formed at respective crossing areas of the gate and data bus lines. A plurality of gate electrodes are connected to the gate bus lines, and a gate insulator having a contact hole on the gate electrodes. A transparent first metal layer including a plurality of first electrodes is on the gate insulator. A passivation layer having a contact hole is on the first metal layer. A transparent second metal layer including a plurality of second electrodes is on the passivation layer. A black matrix for preventing light from leaking around the thin film transistor, the gate bus line, and data bus line is on the second substrate.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a substrate; a transistor over the substrate, the transistor having a gate, a source, and a drain; a passivation layer over the transistor; a light shielding layer over a portion of the passivation layer over the transistor; a planarization layer over the light shielding layer and the passivation layer, the planarization layer having a contact hole over one of the source and the drain; a pixel electrode over the planarization layer, the pixel electrode being connected to the one of the source and the drain through the contact hole; and an alignment layer over the pixel electrode.

Abstract: An active matrix liquid crystal display (AMLCD) with a high aperture ratio and with an etch stopper formed by a back exposure method, and not with an additional pattern mask. The AMLCD has a gate line that extends in a first direction on the substrate and has a first region that corresponds to the gate electrode region. The gate line also has a second region corresponding to a non-gate electrode region and a contact hole adjacent to the first region and the second region. A thin film transistor (TFT) of the AMLCD is formed with a nonlinear channel region.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate including a plurality of data bus lines, a plurality of gate bus lines, and a plurality of thin film transistors at cross points of the plurality gate bus lines and the plurality of gate bus lines; a second substrate including a color filter layer; at least one shielding layer for shielding an outer induced electric field; and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate.

Abstract: A common line contact of a liquid crystal display is disclosed including a transparent insulating substrate; first common lines formed on a predetermined portion of the substrate, and connected to the storage electrode of a storage capacitor of a thin film transistor, the thin film transistor being in close proximity to the first common lines; a gate bus line formed between the first common lines on the substrate, the gate bus line connecting the gate electrode of the thin film transistor to an input pad; an insulating layer formed on the substrate and gate bus line, other than a predetermined portion of the first common lines; a second common line formed to come into contact with an exposed portion of the first common lines, and connected to a data line on the insulating layer; a passivation layer formed on the second common line; and a protective layer formed on a portion of the passivation layer, which corresponds to a portion where the first and second common lines come into contact with each other.