With Plural Alignments On The Same Substrate Patents (Class 349/129)
  • Publication number: 20120033159
    Abstract: A VA-mode liquid crystal display device having a high display quality is provided. A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes a vertical alignment type liquid crystal layer; a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other with the liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween; a first electrode provided in the first substrate on the liquid crystal layer side and a second electrode provided in the second substrate on the liquid crystal layer side; and a first alignment film provided between the first electrode and the liquid crystal layer and a second alignment film provided between the second electrode and the liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of pixel areas located in a matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Inventors: Iichiro Inoue, Shinichi Terashita, Koichi Miyachi
  • Publication number: 20120033158
    Abstract: A VA-mode liquid crystal display device having a high display quality is provided. A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes a vertical alignment type liquid crystal layer; a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other with the liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween; a first electrode provided in the first substrate on the liquid crystal layer side and a second electrode provided in the second substrate on the liquid crystal layer side; and a first alignment film provided between the first electrode and the liquid crystal layer and a second alignment film provided between the second electrode and the liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of pixel areas located in a matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Inventors: Yohei Nakanishi, Masanobu Mizusaki, Takashi Katayama, Yuichi Kawahira
  • Patent number: 8111341
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display according to the present invention includes a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other, a pixel electrode disposed on the first substrate and including a first sub-pixel electrode and a second sub-pixel electrode spaced apart from the first sub-pixel electrode by a gap, a common electrode disposed on the second substrate, a shielding member disposed on the first substrate or the second substrate and overlapping the gap between the first sub-pixel electrode and the second sub-pixel electrode, an alignment layer disposed on at least one of the pixel electrode and the common electrode, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mee-Hye Jung, Chong-Chul Chai, Yong-Woo Lee, Young-Gu Kim
  • Publication number: 20120026443
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device has first and second substrates. A first electrode on the first substrate is alignment-treated and a second electrode on the second substrate is alignment-treated. A liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. Alignment-treating includes forming an alignment direction. The alignment direction of the first and second substrates is formed by irradiating an ion beam onto the first and second electrodes using an ion beam irradiation apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yong Sung Ham
  • Patent number: 8107045
    Abstract: A large screen display suitable for displaying moving images has a high operational property and is realized at low cost. A vertically aligned mode liquid crystal display comprises a scan wiring, a video signal wiring, a pixel electrode, an alignment directional control electrode, and a thin film transistor element formed in a position where a scan wiring and a video signal wiring intersect with each other, and a common electrode formed in a color filter substrate side. An electric field distribution formed with three electrodes comprising an alignment directional control electrode, a pixel electrode, and a common electrode formed in an countering substrate side controls motion directions of vertically aligned anisotropic liquid crystal molecules having a negative dielectric constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Obayashiseikou Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Naoto Hirota
  • Patent number: 8107044
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) apparatus includes a first substrate including a switching element and a pixel electrode, the pixel electrode electrically connected to the switching element, and a second substrate disposed over the first substrate, the second substrate including a common electrode having a first slit and a second slit, wherein the first slit divides a unit pixel area into a plurality of domains, and the second slit partially overlaps the pixel electrode and is disposed to correspond to a boundary area of adjacent unit pixel areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sun-Hyung Choi, Jin-Hee Park, Jeong-Geun Yoo
  • Patent number: 8107047
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) apparatus includes a first panel, a second panel, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first and second panels. The first panel includes a first transparent substrate having a pixel area, a thin film transistor disposed at the pixel area so as to output a pixel voltage, a first color filter disposed at the pixel area, the first color filter having a first edge, a second color filter disposed adjacent to the first color filter and having a second edge, the first edge and the second edge being overlapped to provide an overlapped area between the first color filter and the second color filter, a spacer disposed on the overlapped area between the first color filter and the adjacent second color filter, and a pixel electrode disposed on the first color filter so as to receive the pixel voltage. The spacer has a same material as one of the first color filter and the second color filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jang-Kun Song
  • Patent number: 8107043
    Abstract: A liquid crystal panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer sealed between the first substrate and the second substrate including a plurality of liquid crystal molecules. The first substrate includes a plurality of first region-dividing structures; the second substrate includes a plurality of second region-dividing structures. The first substrate, the second substrate and the liquid crystal layer form a plurality of pixel elements, each of the pixel elements is divided into a plurality of regions by the first region-dividing structures and the second region-dividing structures, and the liquid crystal molecules have gradually and continuously changed alignments in at least one of the regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Chimei Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Rui-Jie Hsiang, Chih-Lung Lin, I-An Yao, Chueh-Ju Chen, Chiu-Lien Yang
  • Publication number: 20120019756
    Abstract: A liquid crystal dripping method has a problem in that an uncured sealant increases in width at the time of attaching a pair of substrates and thus a liquid crystal material enters the sealant and unevenness occurs in the inner periphery of the sealant. A region in which reduced is the speed of diffusion of liquid crystal at the time of attaching a pair of substrates is provided between a sealant and an orientation film. Further, time for diffusing the liquid crystal and coming in contact with the sealant is made long. Accordingly, the sealant is subjected to photo-curing before the liquid crystal comes in contact with the sealant. The region in which reduced is the speed of diffusion of the liquid crystal is formed using a material for forming a vertical orientation film, a silane coupling agent, a substance having a photocatalytic function, or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahide KANAI, Takeshi Nishi, Daisuke Kubota, Tetsuji Ishitani
  • Publication number: 20120019757
    Abstract: The MVA liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes a first domain regulating structure formed in a first substrate and a second domain regulating structure formed in a second substrate. The first domain regulating structure includes a first linear component extending in a first direction and a second linear component extending in a second direction different from the first direction by about 90°. The second domain regulating structure includes a third linear component extending in the first direction, and a fourth linear component extending in the second direction. When a voltage is applied across a liquid crystal layer, four domains in which the tilt directions of liquid crystal molecules are mutually different by about 90° are formed. An arbitrary pixel includes at least one first electrode formed in the first substrate and a second electrode formed in the second substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2010
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh, Akihiro Shohraku, Yuki Yamashita, Akane Sugisaka, Masahiro Yoshida, Takahiro Sasaki
  • Patent number: 8102492
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal layer, a common electrode, and an electrode set. The liquid crystal layer is placed between said common electrode and the electrode set, and the electrode set is provided for switching the liquid crystal layer. The electrode set includes a first electrode for switching a first area of the liquid crystal layer and a second electrode for switching a second area of the liquid crystal layer. Particularly, the second area includes at least a part of the area of the liquid crystal layer that the first area does not include. The first electrode has a shape which in cooperation with the second electrode allows alignment of the LC molecules in substantially two orthogonal directions. A method is provided to get rid of the circular polarizers which provide a good on-axis aperture ratio but which show reduced off-axis performance compared to linear polarizers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Chimei Innolux Corporation
    Inventor: Nathalie Magali Danielle Dessaud
  • Patent number: 8102493
    Abstract: A multi-domain vertically aligned liquid crystal display (MVA LCD) includes an active component array substrate, an opposite substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. The active component array substrate has a plurality of pixel units, and the liquid crystal layer is disposed between the active component array substrate and the opposite substrate. The liquid crystal layer proximal each pixel unit is divided into plural domain sets. Each domain set has plural domains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Chimei Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Wang-Yang Li, Che-Ming Hsu, Ying-Hao Hsu, Ming-Feng Hsieh, Chih-Yung Hsieh, I-Lin Ho
  • Patent number: 8102491
    Abstract: A liquid crystal apparatus includes a display region in which electrodes are disposed in a matrix pattern, a non-display region provided at a periphery of the display region, and a liquid crystal disposed in the display region and non-display region. The liquid crystal disposed in the display region is splay-aligned when a voltage is not applied and bend-aligned when the voltage is applied. The liquid crystal disposed in the non-display region is bend-aligned. The apparatus also includes an alignment film including an inorganic material provided in at least one of a pair of substrates. The thickness of the alignment film provided in the display region is smaller than the thickness of the alignment film provided in the non-display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yohei Ishida, Akira Sakai
  • Patent number: 8102584
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a reconfigurable spatial light modulator capable of spatially modulating an incident wavefront responsive to an image formed on the modulator. A light source is configured to direct a coherent illumination light beam towards the modulator such that the modulator produces a modulated outgoing light beam therefrom. A filter is configured to spatially filter a light pattern formed by the outgoing light beam on a plane to selectively transmit light from a plurality of diffraction peaks therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Cristian A. Bolle, Christopher D. W. Jones, Roland Ryf, Maria E. Simon
  • Patent number: 8098353
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes; a gate line, a data line disposed substantially perpendicular to the gate line, a switching element connected to the gate line and the data line, a pixel electrode connected to the switching element, and having a first inclination direction determining member including at least one first oblique portion forming an oblique angle with the gate line and the data line, and an inclination direction assistance member disposed adjacent to the first inclination direction determining member, and substantially parallel to the first oblique portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hoon Kim, Ji-Won Sohn, Seung-Beom Park, Yoon-Sung Um, Jin-Won Park, Hye-Ran Yoo
  • Patent number: 8098354
    Abstract: In a vertical alignment liquid crystal display, a thin film transistor is formed on a first insulating substrate, and a pixel electrode (ITO) including cutouts (OPEN) is formed on the first substrate or a second substrate. A width of the cutouts of the upper and lower substrates gradually increases or decreases along a length thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hoon Kim, Dong-Gyu Kim, Kyeong-Hyeon Kim, Jae-Jin Lyu, Jong-Ho Son
  • Patent number: 8098355
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display is provided, which includes: a first substrate; a first signal line formed on the first substrate; a second signal line formed on the first substrate and intersecting the first signal line; a thin film transistor connected to the first and the second signal lines; a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor; a second substrate; a common electrode formed on the second substrate; a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a tilt direction determining member formed on one of the first and the second substrates and having a notch that divides the domain determination member into a plurality of portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jang-Kun Song, Sahng-lk Jun, Jae-Hong Jeon, Jae-Ho Lee, Jeong-Young Lee
  • Publication number: 20120008079
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device capable of reducing the probability of image sticking. The liquid crystal display device includes a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer between the substrates. At least one of the substrates includes an alignment film and a polymer layer on the alignment film. The polymer layer includes monomer units derived from at least two species of polymerizable monomers. The at least two species of polymerizable monomers include at least two species of monomers selected from the group consisting of: specific polyfunctional monomers and specific monofunctional monomers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2009
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Inventors: Masanobu Mizusaki, Takashi Katayama, Yuichi Kawahira, Takeshi Noma, Yohei Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 8094284
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display panel is provided. A photo-alignment layer and a patterned pixel electrode are formed on a first and a second substrates respectively. A liquid crystal layer is formed between the photo-alignment layer and the patterned pixel electrode. The patterned pixel electrode includes intersected electrodes having a first directional portion and a second directional portion intersected therewith, and stripe electrodes having slits therebetween connect at least one of the first directional portion and the second directional portion. When an electric field between the first and the second substrates is substantially zero, the liquid crystal molecules near the photo-alignment layer have a pre-tilt angle while those on another side are substantially perpendicular to the second substrate. As the liquid crystal layer is driven, the liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer are substantially arranged along an extending direction of the slits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Rong-Ching Yang, Ming-Hung Wu, Chia-Ming Chen, Yu-Ping Kuo
  • Patent number: 8094274
    Abstract: A super large wide-angle high-speed response liquid crystal display apparatus manufactured by using a photolithographic procedure for three times. The invention adopts a halftone exposure technology to form a gate electrode, a common electrode, a pixel electrode and a contact pad, and then uses the halftone exposure technology to form a silicon (Si) island and a contact hole, and a general exposure technology to form a source electrode, a drain electrode and an orientation control electrode. A passivation layer uses a masking deposition method. A film is formed by using a P-CVD method, or a protective area is formed at a local area by using an ink coating method or spray method, and a TFT array substrate used for the super large wide-angle high-speed response liquid crystal display apparatus manufactured by using a photolithographic procedure for three times can be produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Mikuni Electoron Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sakae Tanaka, Toshiyuki Samejima
  • Patent number: 8094277
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device used as a display part of an electronic apparatus which exhibits high brightness and favorable display quality. The liquid crystal display device includes a pair of substrates which are arranged to face each other in an opposed manner; vertical-alignment type liquid crystal which is sealed between the pair of substrates; a plurality of pixel regions, each pixel region including a sub pixel having a pixel electrode on one substrate and a sub pixel having a pixel electrode on one substrate, a slit formed between the pixel electrodes; and a singular point control part which includes projecting portions which are formed on end portions of the pixel electrodes on the slit-side and controls singular points of the liquid crystal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasutoshi Tasaka, Takahiro Sasaki, Yohei Nakanishi, Masakazu Shibasaki, Takashi Sasabayashi, Hidefumi Yoshida, Tsuyoshi Kamada, Hideaki Tsuda, Kazuya Ueda
  • Patent number: 8094276
    Abstract: To provide a production method of a liquid crystal display device and a liquid crystal display device, in which generation of a joint line on a display screen is suppressed and yield can be improved even if a substrate is subjected to an alignment treatment by completing exposure for the substrate through several exposures in a liquid crystal display device including pixels each having two or more domains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Iichiro Inoue, Hiroyuki Hakoi, Shinichi Terashita, Koichi Miyachi
  • Patent number: 8092871
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes: a liquid crystal layer containing a nematic liquid crystal material; a pair of electrodes opposing each other via the liquid crystal layer; a pair of alignment films respectively provided between the pair of electrodes and the liquid crystal layer; and an alignment sustaining layer formed of a photopolymerized material on each of surfaces of the pair of alignment films which are closer to the liquid crystal layer, the alignment sustaining layer being configured to regulate a pretilt azimuth of a liquid crystal molecule of the liquid crystal layer during the absence of an applied voltage across the liquid crystal layer, wherein the pretilt azimuth of the liquid crystal molecule of the liquid crystal layer is regulated by the alignment sustaining layer during the absence of an applied voltage across the liquid crystal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kentaro Usui, Seiji Tanuma, Kazutaka Hanaoka, Kimiaki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8094275
    Abstract: An active device array substrate includes a substrate, scan and data lines defining pixel regions, active devices, pads, color filter layers, and pixel electrodes. The active devices respectively correspond to the pixel regions and electrically connect the corresponding scan lines and data lines. The pads disposed within the corresponding pixel regions connect the active devices. The color filter layers covering the pixel regions are disposed on the active devices and the pads. Each color filter layer has an opening exposing the corresponding pad and having a polygonal shape. The pixel electrodes are located on the color filter layers in the pixel regions. Each pixel electrode connects the pad downward via the corresponding opening and has parallel fine slits having a first extension direction. An included angle between the first extension direction and an extension direction of a first side of the opening is ?1, and 60°??1?90°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Wen-Hsien Tseng, Yen-Heng Huang, Chia-Hui Pai, Chung-Kai Chen, Wei-Yuan Cheng
  • Patent number: 8094273
    Abstract: A display panel and a color filter substrate thereof are provided. The display panel includes a first substrate, an alignment structure set, a second substrate, a pixel electrode, and a liquid crystal layer. The alignment structure set includes a first and a second alignment units disposed on the upper electrode. The first alignment unit is different from the second alignment unit. The pixel electrode is formed on the second substrate and includes a first electrode and a second lower electrode opposite to the first and second alignment units, respectively. A color filter may be disposed between the first substrate and the alignment structure layer to form a color filter substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Chih-Jen Hu, Meng-Chang Tsai
  • Patent number: 8089595
    Abstract: Transflective liquid crystal displays and fabrication methods thereof. A single gap transflective liquid crystal display includes a first substrate with a reflective region and a transmissive region. A second substrate opposes the first substrate with a gap therebetween. A liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first and second substrates. A color filter is disposed on the first substrate, wherein the color filter is thicker in the transmissive region than in the reflective region, wherein a recess is formed at the reflective region. A first alignment layer is conformably formed on the color filter, forming a second recess in the reflective region. The second recess is filled with a second alignment, wherein the first and second alignment layers provide different orientations and pre-tilt angles for the liquid crystal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Chung-Hao Chen, Chi-Chang Liao, Yi-An Sha
  • Patent number: 8089594
    Abstract: A vertically aligned liquid crystal display device such as of the MVA mode and a method of manufacturing the same featuring favorable viewing angle characteristics. The liquid crystal display device includes an electrode formed on at least one substrate of a pair of substrates to apply a voltage to the liquid crystal molecules, a first alignment control layer for vertically aligning the liquid crystal molecules and a liquid crystal layer that are held between the pair of substrates, and a second alignment control layer of an ultraviolet ray-cured product formed after the liquid crystal layer is held between the pair of substrates, wherein the second alignment control layer is so formed that there exist two or more regions of different threshold voltages in each display pixel, at least one region has a threshold voltage higher than a threshold voltage produced by the first alignment control layer, and a pre-tilted angle ?p of not smaller than 86° but smaller than 90° is possessed by all regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shingo Kataoka
  • Patent number: 8089597
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) panel including a first substrate, a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of pixel structures, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer is provided. The scan lines, data lines, and pixel structures are disposed on the first substrate. The pixel structures are electrically connected to the corresponding scan lines and data lines. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first and the second substrates. Each pixel structure includes a first active device, a first pixel electrode electrically connected to the first active device, and a second pixel electrode. A V-shaped main slit formed between the first and the second pixel electrodes has a tip and two branches connected thereto. The tip of the V-shaped main slit directs towards the second pixel electrode. The edges of the first and the second pixel electrodes adjoining each branch are substantially parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Chieh-Wei Chen, Te-Wei Chan, Jenn-Jia Su
  • Patent number: 8089596
    Abstract: A vertical alignment liquid crystal layer is sealed between a first substrate having a first electrode and a second substrate having a second electrode, each pixel region has a reflective region and a transmissive region, and a gap adjusting section is provided on one of sides of the first substrate and the second substrate which sets a thickness (gap) of the liquid crystal layer which controls a phase difference of incident light to the liquid crystal layer so that a gap in the reflective region is smaller than a gap in the transmissive region. An alignment controller which divides alignment of the liquid crystal within a pixel region is provided in the pixel region on at least one of the sides of the first substrate and the second substrate. It is also possible to optimize by changing the gap in red, green, and blue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Norio Koma, Kazuhiro Inoue, Kazuyuki Maeda, Masaaki Aota, Masayuki Kametani
  • Patent number: 8085377
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) panel and an LCD device using the same are provided. The LCD panel includes a first and a second substrate, wherein a liquid crystal layer is sealed between the first and the second substrates. The first substrate has a plurality of pixel unit each including a data line, a scan line, a switch element, a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode, a first aligning electrode and a second aligning electrode. The scan line corresponds to a gap between the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode. The switch element has an input terminal, a control terminal, a first output terminal and a second output terminal. The first aligning electrode and the second aligning electrode correspond to the edges of the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode respectively, and receive a voltage of a common electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Wintek Corporation
    Inventors: Wen-Chun Wang, Kuo-Chang Su
  • Patent number: 8085373
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a pair of substrates, a liquid crystal between substrates and alignment layers disposed on the inner surface sides of the substrates. The alignment layer is made from a material including polyamic acid containing a diamine component and polyimide containing a diamine component different from the diamine component of the polyamic acid. The alignment layer is subjected to alignment treatment by irradiation of light. UV light can be irradiated in the oblique direction onto the alignment layer through a mask having openings. A reflecting plate can be arranged between a UV light source and the mask. Also, bank structures having a thickness from 0.1 to 0.15 ?m can be provided on the alignment layer of the TFT substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideo Chida, Hidefumi Yoshida, Yasutoshi Tasaka
  • Patent number: 8085374
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including a pair of substrates, an electrode and an alignment layer formed on each of the substrates, and a liquid crystal filled between the pair of substrates. The alignment layer of one of the pair of substrates is treated so that the alignment layer is divided into a plurality of stripe regions including a first stripe region and a second stripe region adjacent to the first stripe region, the first and second stripe regions extending parallel to each other and forming a first boundary therebetween. A direction of alignment of liquid crystal molecules on the first stripe region is opposite to a direction of alignment of liquid crystal molecules on the second stripe region, and directions of alignment of liquid crystal molecules on the first and second stripe regions are parallel to the first boundary. A shading layer is provided to cover the first boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidefumi Yoshida, Tsutomu Seino, Yasutoshi Tasaka
  • Patent number: 8085375
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal material interposed between the first and second substrates. The liquid crystal display includes first protrusions and second protrusions that are alternately disposed with each other on the first substrate. A common electrode is provided at a side part of the first protrusions, and a pixel electrode is provided at a side part of the second protrusions to face the common electrode. A lateral electric field is generated between the common electrode and the pixel electrode facing each other for controlling an alignment of molecules of the liquid crystal material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong-Seok Cho, Won-Sang Park
  • Patent number: 8081282
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate having a gate line and two data lines crossing with the gate line to define a pixel, a first pixel electrode connected to the gate line and the first data line, and a second pixel electrode connected to the gate line and the second data line. A second substrate opposes the first substrate and includes a common electrode having a common electrode cutting pattern. The pixel electrode includes a pixel electrode cutting pattern to form domains and sub domains in the pixel with the common electrode cutting pattern. A liquid crystal layer is arranged between the first and second substrates. The pixel electrodes include bent portions. The pixel electrode and the common electrode include sub cutting patterns extending towards the sub domains at the bent portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Industrial Cooperation Foundation of Chonbuk National University
    Inventors: Seung-hee Lee, Ji-won Sohn, Yeon-mun Jeon, Seong-jin Hwang, Jae-jin Lyu
  • Patent number: 8081278
    Abstract: A transreflective LCD has a TFT array plate, a color filter plate and a liquid crystal therebetween. A trench is in the overcoat layer of the TFT array plate and/or the color filter plate. The trench can be located in a transmission area or in a reflective area of a pixel. A conformal transparent electrode is located therein, and an overcoat material is filled up in the trench.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Ying-Chi Lu, Ching-Sheng Cheng, Chih-Jen Hu
  • Patent number: 8077285
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes an upper substrate, a lower substrate and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the upper substrate and the lower substrate. The lower substrate includes a pixel array divided into a plurality of columns of pixel areas and a plurality of rows of pixel areas. Each pixel area includes a upper sub-pixel electrode, a lower sub-pixel electrode insulated to the upper sub-pixel electrode and a TFT switch electrically connected to the lower sub-pixel electrode. The upper sub-pixel electrode is electrically connected to a lower sub-pixel electrode of a previous column, and the lower sub-pixel electrode is electrically connected to a upper sub-pixel electrode of a next column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corporation
    Inventor: Meng-Yi Hung
  • Patent number: 8077279
    Abstract: A picture element includes a 4-divided domain including first, second, third and fourth sub-domains which are arranged in this order in a predetermined direction and in each of which an orientation direction of liquid crystal molecules located in the vicinity of the center of a liquid crystal layer in the thickness direction is different from those of the other sub-domains. A first substrate includes two first regions having an orientation-regulating force for orienting the liquid crystal molecules in a first direction and a second region provided between the two first regions and having an orientation-regulating force for orienting the liquid crystal molecules in a second direction that is opposite to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinichi Terashita, Masami Kido
  • Publication number: 20110299020
    Abstract: Each pixel of a liquid crystal display device 100 of the present invention includes: a first electrode 12; a second electrode 22; a liquid crystal layer 32 provided between the first electrode and the second electrode; a first vertical alignment film 14 provided between the first electrode and the liquid crystal layer; a second vertical alignment film 24 provided between the second electrode and the liquid crystal layer; and a pair of alignment-sustaining layers 16 and 26 of photopolymerization products 16a and 26a formed on one surface of the first vertical alignment film that is closer to the liquid crystal layer and one surface of the second vertical alignment film that is closer to the liquid crystal layer, wherein the photopolymerization products 16a and 26a of the pair of alignment-sustaining layers each cover 30% or more and 60% or less of an area of the transmission region of a corresponding one of the first and second vertical alignment films 14 and 24.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Inventor: Minoru Takagi
  • Patent number: 8068201
    Abstract: A vertical orientation liquid crystal display in which orientation control by oblique electric field is performed stably and lowering in light transmission rate of the liquid crystal display is suppressed without increasing the number of manufacturing steps significantly. In the vertical orientation liquid crystal display, a plurality of regions having different inclination orientations of liquid crystal molecule are formed by applying a voltage to each pixel electrode having an aperture or a recessed portion. The liquid crystal display comprises a switching element connected electrically with the pixel electrode, and an auxiliary electrode formed to overlap the aperture or the recessed portion in the pixel electrode wherein the auxiliary electrode is formed of the same film as that of the semiconductor layer in the switching element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuki Kawashima, Yasutoshi Tasaka
  • Patent number: 8064019
    Abstract: To provide: a production method of a liquid crystal display device, the production method being capable of efficiently and stably providing alignment treatment for an alignment film of the liquid crystal display device, in which a plurality of domains is formed in a pixel region; and an exposure device for alignment treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hakoi, Iichiro Inoue, Koichi Miyachi
  • Patent number: 8059242
    Abstract: Transmittance and contrast of a liquid crystal display device according to FFS method are improved. A plurality of picture elements, each made of an R pixel, a G pixel and a B pixel, is disposed in a matrix form. In each of the pixels, a gate signal line extends in a left to right direction and a display signal line extends in a top to bottom direction so as to cross the gate line. A thin film transistor for pixel selection is disposed around an intersection of the gate line and the display signal line. There is provided a pixel electrode connected with the thin film transistor. A common electrode is provided on the pixel electrode through an insulation film. A plurality of slits having edges at borders between the picture elements is disposed in the common electrode to cross each of the picture elements in the left to right direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohide Onogi, Yasuo Segawa
  • Patent number: 8059243
    Abstract: An array substrate includes a lower substrate, a switching element and a pixel electrode. In the lower substrate, unit pixel areas are each divided into a plurality of domains. The switching element is disposed on the lower substrate and transmits a pixel signal. The pixel electrode is disposed on the unit pixel area and is electrically connected to the switching element. The pixel electrode includes a plurality of slit portions disposed thereon. A portion of the slit portions is longitudinally extended in a zigzag shape along different directions in correspondence with the domains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Su-Jeong Kim, Jang-Kun Song, Sung-Hwan Hong, Kee-Bum Park, Seon-Ah Cho, Hye-Ran You, Su-Han Woo, Jae-Jin Lyu, Eun Cho
  • Patent number: 8054429
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including first and second substrates, with a liquid crystal layer including liquid crystal molecules between the first and second substrates. A first electrode formed on the first substrate and a second electrode formed on the second substrate. An alignment layer is formed on at least one of the substrates, and a polymer is formed on the alignment layer. The liquid crystal molecules are tilted when no voltage is applied to the liquid crystal molecules. The first electrode has a plurality of stripe-like electrode patterns, and the stripe-like electrode patterns have a width that is wider than a width of a space between adjacent strip-like electrode patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazutaka Hanaoka, Takahiro Sasaki, Tsutomu Seino, Yohei Nakanishi, Seiji Tanuma, Kimiaki Nakamura, Yuichi Inoue, Masakazu Shibasaki, Hideaki Tsuda, Yoshio Koike, Yasutoshi Tasaka, Hidefumi Yoshida, Kunihiro Tashiro
  • Patent number: 8054428
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display and a fabricating method thereof. The cell gaps for the red, green and blue pixel areas are formed in a separate manner for correcting the color shift to enhance image quality. Openings for controlling the cell gaps are provided in the protective layer and the gate insulating layer and have a zigzag-shaped boundary. In this way, the light leakage near the boundary of the openings can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jang-Kun Song, Sang-Gab Kim, Seung-Hee Lee
  • Patent number: 8054427
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device, which is configured to have a liquid crystal layer held between a pair of substrates, includes a display area including a red color pixel, a green color pixel and a blue color pixel, a pixel electrode which is disposed in each of the color pixels, a counter-electrode which is opposed to the pixel electrode via an interlayer insulation film, and an alignment film which is disposed in contact with the liquid crystal layer and is subjected to such rubbing treatment as to restrict alignment of liquid crystal molecules included in the liquid crystal layer. The pixel electrode has a slit which is formed to be inclined with respect to a direction of rubbing of the alignment film, and the slit of the red pixel and the slit of the blue pixel are formed to be inclined in different directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Higano
  • Patent number: 8054432
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a liquid crystal display device, includes applying an alignment film to a substrate surface, provisionally drying the alignment film, baking the alignment film; rubbing; and rubbing washing, which are performed in this sequence, wherein, in applying the alignment film, the alignment film is formed so as to cover at least a display region, and a portion of the alignment film which extends in a region outside the display region is imparted with an adsorptive property by modification during a process from the provisional drying to the rubbing washing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: NEC LCD Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Motomatsu, Mitsuhiro Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 8054426
    Abstract: A VA mode LCD device is disclosed, to improve the viewing-angle properties by isotropically compensating for a viewing angle, in which the VA mode LCD device includes first and second substrates; a plurality of gate and data lines formed on the first substrate, and formed perpendicularly to define a plurality of pixel regions. A thin film transistor is formed in each pixel region of the first substrate. A pixel electrode and a common electrode are formed in each pixel of the respective first and second substrates, wherein the pixel and common electrodes generate an electric field. At least one first slit of a curved-stripe shape, such as a circular-stripe shape, is formed in the pixel electrode of the first substrate. At least one second slit is formed in the common electrode of the second substrate. A liquid crystal layer formed between the first and second substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youn-Seung Choi, Jin-Ho Kim
  • Patent number: 8054430
    Abstract: A tetragonal ring shape aperture is formed in the common electrode on one substrate and a cross shape aperture is formed at the position corresponding to the center of the tetragonal ring shape aperture in the pixel electrode on the other substrate. A liquid crystal layer between two electrodes are divided to four domains where the directors of the liquid crystal layer have different angles when a voltage is applied to the electrodes. The directors in adjacent domains make a right angle. The tetragonal ring shape aperture is broken at midpoint of each side of the tetragon, and the width of the aperture decreases as goes from the bent point to the edge. Wide viewing angle is obtained by four domains where the directors of the liquid crystal layer indicate different directions, disclination is removed and luminance increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jang-Kun Song, Kyeong-Hyeon Kim, Kye-Hun Lee, Hea-Ri Lee
  • Patent number: 8054431
    Abstract: To provide a production method of a liquid crystal display device and a liquid crystal display device, in which generation of a joint line on a display screen is suppressed and yield can be improved even if a substrate is subjected to an alignment treatment by completing exposure for the substrate through several exposures in a liquid crystal display device including pixels each having two or more domains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Iichiro Inoue, Hiroyuki Hakoi, Shinichi Terashita, Koichi Miyachi
  • Patent number: 8054393
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device used in miniaturized portable equipment which exhibits favorable display quality while decreasing a load applied to a driver circuit which supplies a video signal line to pixel electrodes. In a liquid crystal display device which includes liquid crystal display elements and a liquid crystal driving circuit, a boosting circuit is provided to a pixel portion. The boosting circuit, after writing a video signal in a pixel electrode and one electrode of a boosting capacitance, brings the pixel electrode into a floating state. Then, by applying the video signal to another electrode of the boosting capacitance, a voltage of the pixel electrode is boosted or dropped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Takahashi