Abstract: An active matrix substrate in a liquid crystal panel of an FFS mode has a data line 24 including an amorphous Si film 122, an n+amorphous Si film 123, a main conductor part 133, and an IZO film 141. The main conductor part 133 and the IZO film 141 are etched at a portion close to the end of a covered region of a photoresist 142, to form the n+amorphous Si film 123 larger than the main conductor part 133 and the IZO film 141. A pattern of a photomask for a source layer is made larger than a pattern of a photomask for a pixel electrode layer, to form the amorphous Si film 122 larger than the n+amorphous Si film 123. The main conductor part 133 is formed of a molybdenum-based material, and in a layer over the data line 24, two-layered protective insulating films are formed such that a compressive stress is generated in one film and a tensile stress is generated in the other film. Accordingly, a high-yield active matrix substrate having a common electrode is provided.

Abstract: The present invention provides a fringe field switching (FFS) mode liquid crystal display device that makes it possible to improve transmittance when a voltage is applied.

Abstract: A thin film transistor array including a substrate, thin film transistors each including a gate electrode formed on the substrate, a source electrode, a drain electrode, a semiconductor layer formed between the source electrode and the drain electrode, an interlayer insulation film formed on the drain electrode, and an upper pixel electrode formed on the interlayer insulation film, and an insulation layer having light shielding property is formed between adjacent upper pixel electrodes.

Abstract: A pixel structure is provided and disposed in a pixel region divided up by a dummy line. The pixel structure includes a pixel electrode. The pixel electrode includes first branches and second branches located at opposite sides and disposed symmetrically with respect to the dummy line. One first branch has an extending portion and an end portion. A direction is directing from a front end toward a terminal end of the extension portion, and the terminal end of the extension portion is connected to a front end of the end portion. A bending direction is directing from the front end to a terminal end of the end portion. The direction is toward the dummy line and the bending direction is parallel to or away from the dummy line, or the direction is away from the dummy line and the bending direction is parallel to or toward the dummy line.

Abstract: A pixel structure, including pixels arranged in a matrix. Each pixel includes sub-pixels arranged along a row direction, including first type sub-pixels and at least one second type sub-pixel. The sub-pixels in different rows are arranged alternately such that each sub-pixel column includes the same numbers of the second type sub-pixels. Each sub-pixel has a color resist and a photo spacer disposed thereon. The color resists of the second type sub-pixels have a sectional difference from the color resists of the first type sub-pixels, and the sectional difference is greater than a height of the photo spacer of each of the first type sub-pixels. For each second type sub-pixel, a photo spacer (PS) stage is extended from a corresponding common voltage line, and the color resist is disposed on the corresponding PS stage to form the sectional difference. Thus, each common voltage line has the same number of PS stages.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a first substrate; a second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer of a horizontal orientation type that is sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate includes a first electrode pair that applies a first horizontal electric field to the liquid crystal layer, an insulating layer provided on the first electrode pair, and a second electrode pair that is provided on the insulating layer and that applies a second horizontal electric field to the liquid crystal layer. The first electrode pair includes first and second linear electrodes provided with a gap therebetween. The second electrode pair includes third and fourth linear electrodes provided with a gap therebetween. In a plan view of the first substrate, the third and fourth linear electrodes extend in a direction perpendicular with respect to the first and second linear electrodes.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes first and second substrates, and liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes first and second electrodes. The second electrode includes comblike electrodes extending in parallel to a first direction and tapered toward tips thereof, and a connecting portion which connects the comblike electrodes. An initial alignment direction is parallel to the first direction or a direction orthogonal to the first direction. The comblike electrode includes a first part having sides each form a first angle with the first direction, and a second part having sides each form a second angle with the first direction, the second angle being greater than the first angle.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display in which the common voltage line is disposed directly on or directly under the common electrode directly contacts the common electrode such that a signal delay of the common voltage line may be reduced and simultaneously a reduction in the aperture ratio of the liquid crystal display may be prevented.

Abstract: There is provided an excellent contact between an electrode of a thin film transistor and a pixel electrode. A display device includes: an organic planarization film including a first contact hole opened on an electrode of a thin film transistor; an interlayer insulating film including a second contact hole opened on the electrode of the thin film transistor and on the organic planarization film; a base electrode that covers a portion where an end of the second contact hole overlaps a side wall of the first contact hole; and a pixel electrode contacted with the electrode of the thin film transistor.

Abstract: A touch-sensing system comprises an active stylus including a probe electrode and associated sensory logic. The sensory logic is configured to receive a synchronization pulse sequence via the probe electrode between consecutive touch-sensing frames of a capacitive touch screen, to use the synchronization pulse sequence to synchronize a local row counter of the sensory logic to a remote row counter of the capacitive touch screen, to receive an excitation pulse via the probe electrode within a given touch-sensing frame, and to use the excitation pulse to maintain synchronization between the local row counter and the remote row counter.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a first substrate; a gate line disposed on the first substrate; a first data line and a second data line disposed on the first substrate; a first thin film transistor connected to the gate line and to the first data line; a first subpixel electrode connected to the first thin film transistor; a second thin film transistor connected to the gate line and to the second data line; a second subpixel electrode connected to the second thin film transistor; a third thin film transistor connected to the gate line and to the first data line; a fourth thin film transistor connected to the gate line and to the second data line; and a third subpixel electrode connected to the third and fourth thin film transistors.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a thin-film transistor (“TFT”), a color filter, a pixel electrode, a planarizing layer and a first column spacer. The second substrate faces the first substrate. The TFT is on the first substrate. The color filter is on the TFT. The pixel electrode is on the color filter. The planarizing layer covers the color filter and the pixel electrode, and includes a hybride resin including silane. The first column spacer protrudes from an upper surface of the planarizing layer and maintains a cell gap between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first column spacer is on the TFT. The first column spacer includes the hybride resin including silane.

Abstract: A touch sensor integrated type display device includes gate lines and data lines disposed to cross over each other, pixel electrodes respectively disposed in areas defined by the crossing of the gate lines and the data lines in an active area, 1-1 electrodes arranged in at least two rows and at least two columns in the active area, 1-2 electrodes positioned outside the 1-1 electrodes and extending from the active area to a bezel area, and first routing wires respectively connected to the 1-1 and 1-2 electrodes and arranged in parallel. Each gate line extends from the active area to the bezel area on opposite sides of the active area, and each data line extends from the active area to the bezel area on opposite sides of the active area crossing the gate line.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a first substrate includes a sub-pixel electrode extending in a first direction, a first main pixel electrode connected with one end of the sub-pixel electrode and extending in a second direction orthogonally crossing the first direction, and a second main pixel electrode connected with the other end of the sub-pixel electrode and extending in the second direction. A second substrate includes first and second sub-common electrodes arranged on both sides sandwiching the sub-pixel electrode, a first main common electrode connected with the first sub-common electrode and extending along the second direction opposite to the extending direction of the first main pixel electrode on one end side of the sub-pixel electrode, and a second main common electrode connected with the second sub-common electrode and extending along the second direction opposite to the extending direction of the second main pixel electrode on the other end side of the sub-pixel electrode.

Abstract: A display device may include a liquid crystal layer and a pixel electrode that overlaps the liquid crystal layer. The pixel electrode may include a first bar, a second bar, a third bar, and a plurality of first-type branches. The second bar may be directly connected to a first end of the first bar. The third bar may be directly connected to a first end of the second bar or directly connected to a second end of the first bar. The first-type branches may be slanted with respected to the first bar and may be positioned between the third bar and at least one of the first bar and the second bar.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a plurality of pixels including first, second and third pixels that display different colors and are sequentially disposed, a plurality of data lines including first, second and third data lines sequentially and repeatedly disposed where the first data line is disposed between the third pixel and the first pixel, the second data line is disposed between the first pixel and the second pixel, and the third data line is disposed between the second pixel and the third pixel, widths of the first, second and third data lines are substantially the same as each other, and a first interval between the first data line and the second data line is different from a second interval between the second data line and the third data line or a third interval between the third data line and the first data line.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display capable of reducing a texture by increasing a liquid crystal control ability. The liquid crystal display includes a first electrode and a second electrode facing each other with a liquid crystal layer therebetween. The first electrode includes a horizontal extension forming a boundary between adjacent subregions and a vertical extension connected to the horizontal extension, and the horizontal extension includes a portion which has a largest width at a position proximate to the vertical extension, and which has a smaller width at a position farther from the vertical extension.

Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a liquid crystal display, including: a first substrate; a second substrate facing the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer formed between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a first color pixel area, a second color pixel area, and a third color pixel area formed on the first substrate or the second substrate, wherein the first, second, and third color pixel areas respectively include one of a red filter, a green filter, and a blue filter, and a cross-section of the blue filter has an at least approximately parabolic or semicircular shape. According to exemplary embodiments of the present invention, it is possible to prevent excessively yellow images and improve luminance thereof by changing a shape of a blue color filter included in the liquid crystal display.

Abstract: An FFS mode array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The FFS mode array substrate has: a glass substrate provided with a gate electrode thereon; a first insulation layer; a semiconductor layer having a channel region and a common electrode region to form a channel semiconductor layer on the channel region of the semiconductor layer, and form a common electrode layer on the common electrode region of the semiconductor layer by doping semiconductor thereon; and a second insulation layer provided with a first through hole and a second through hole therein.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first interlayer insulation film located above a first gate line and a second gate line, a first common electrode extending over the first interlayer insulation film, a second interlayer insulation film covering the first common electrode, and a first pixel electrode disposed on the second interlayer insulation film. The first common electrode extends, from a position opposed to the first pixel electrode, beyond the source line in the first direction and beyond the gate line in the second direction.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate including a semiconductor layer including a first extension portion and a second extension portion, a gate line, a first common electrode opposed to at least the second extension portion, a source line extending above the second extension portion, a pixel electrode including a main pixel electrode, a second common electrode including a second main common electrode opposed to the source line, and a first alignment film.

Abstract: The present invention realizes a bright image display by enhancing a numerical aperture of pixels. At least a portion of a pixel electrode is overlapped to a thin film transistor by way of a first insulation film, the pixel electrode is connected to an output electrode of the thin film transistor via a contact hole which is formed in the first insulation film, the counter electrode is arranged above the pixel electrode by way of a second insulation film in a state that the counter electrode is overlapped to the pixel electrode, the counter electrode is formed at a position avoiding the contact hole formed in the first insulation film as viewed in a plan view, and at least a portion of the counter electrode is overlapped to the thin film transistor.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device: includes: a first polarizer; a liquid crystal cell including a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules aligned in parallel with a substrate of the liquid crystal cell; a first compensation film; and a second polarizer, wherein, as viewed perpendicularly to the substrate, an absorption axis of the first polarizer is parallel with an optical axis of the first compensation film, and an angle ? between the absorption axis of the first polarizer and an optical axis of the liquid crystal layer satisfies 0°<?, in a cross section of the liquid crystal cell as viewed along a transmission axis of the first polarizer, an optical axis of the liquid crystal layer and the optical axis of the first compensation film have a tilt angle in the same direction to a face of the substrate, and the first compensation film has a positive birefringence.

Abstract: A liquid-crystal display panel and device are provided. The display panel includes: a first substrate including a first common electrode; a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate, including a second common electrode and a pixel electrode; and a liquid-crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. A projection of the pixel electrode on the first substrate does not overlap with a pattern of the first common electrode on the first substrate.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an array substrate, a display panel, a display device and a method for manufacturing the array substrate. The array substrate includes: a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines arranged in a crisscross manner on a base substrate, so as to define a plurality of subpixels; and a common electrode arranged opposite to each of the plurality of subpixels. At least one of the subpixels is provided with a common electrode line connected to the common electrode at an identical subpixel region.

Abstract: A pixel unit, an array substrate and a LCD device including the array substrate are disclosed. The pixel unit includes a scan line, a signal line, a slit electrode, a coupling electrode cooperated with the slit electrode to generate an electric field, and a thin film transistor, a plurality of slits are formed on the slit electrode. The scan line and the signal line are intersected and overlapped with each other to define at least two sub-regions. The coupling electrode comprises at least two sub-electrodes respectively located in the at least two sub-regions. The slit electrode corresponds to all of the sub-regions and slits in different sub-regions extend along different directions.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes first and second substrates; first and second electrodes provided on the first and second substrates respectively; and a liquid crystal layer provided between the first and second substrates. The first electrode includes first openings each having an elongated shape in a first direction and which are arranged with regularity, and a short side edge thereof is longer than a length between the first openings adjacent in the first direction. The second electrode includes second openings each having an elongated shape in the first direction and which are arranged with regularity, and a short side edge thereof is longer than a length between the second openings adjacent in the first direction. Each of the first and second openings has a recess in at least either of two outer edge parts along the first direction in a planar view.

Abstract: A liquid crystal includes first and second substrates, the first substrate including intersecting data lines and scan lines. A liquid crystal layer is sandwiched therebetween. Also, a plurality of sub-pixels districted by data lines and gate lines, and arranged along the long-axis and the short-axis directions in a matrix. A pixel electrode in the sub-pixels includes a central portion. A common electrode including linear electrodes arranged along the data lines and disposed with gaps therebetween. Sub-pixels are bent at the center portion, such that the linear electrodes or the gaps in both sides of the sub-pixels are inclined in opposite directions with respect to the long-axis direction. At least one of the linear electrodes or at least one of the gaps has a bent portion at the central portion of the respective pixel electrode. The common electrode is provided on liquid crystal layer side over the pixel electrode.

Abstract: A pixel array structure includes a plurality of pixel zones arranged in an array that defines a row direction and a column direction perpendicular to each other. Each pixel zone includes at least one opening formed therein, which includes first, second, and third opening segments that are sequentially connected to each other. The first opening segment extends from an end of the second opening segment and the third opening segment extends an opposite end of the second opening segment. The extension direction of the third opening segment is opposite to that of the first opening segment. The first and third opening segments have projections on the column direction that are connected to each other and have projections on the row direction that are respectively connected to opposite ends of a projection of the second opening segment on the row direction. Also disclosed is a liquid crystal display panel.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a fabricating method of alignment film. The fabricating method of alignment film comprises: forming a blocking layer (2) on a substrate (1); and forming an alignment layer (3) on the blocking layer (2). According to the present disclosure, by way of a layered coating technology, a complete separation of the blocking layer and the alignment layer is achieved. Moreover, since the blocking layer is coated in advance, the alignment layer has a decreased angle with respect to the substrate, which facilitates a uniform distribution of the alignment layer such that the formation of Mura on the panel is effectively avoided. In addition, the blocking layer and the alignment layer are formed in different steps such that the thickness of the blocking layer and the alignment layer is accurately controlled. Therefore, an accurate distribution of capacitance on the blocking layer and the alignment layer is achieved and the residual charge on the alignment layer is effectively reduced.

Abstract: The array substrate comprises a pixel electrode located in a pixel area and a common electrode corresponding to the pixel area; and a first passivation layer provided between the common electrode and the pixel electrode; wherein the pixel electrode comprises a plurality of strip-shaped first pixel electrodes and strip-shaped second pixel electrodes which are alternately arranged at intervals; and the common electrode comprises a plurality of strip-shaped common electrodes which are spaced from each other; wherein ends of the plurality of strip-shaped first pixel electrodes are connected to each other to form a comb shape, and ends of the plurality of strip-shaped second pixel electrodes are connected to each other to form a comb shape; and the comb-shaped first pixel electrode and the comb-shaped second pixel electrode are spaced from each other.

Abstract: A pixel electrode of an array substrate is connected with a drain electrode of a TFT via a first aperture formed on a second interlayer insulating film, a second aperture that includes a bottom portion of the first aperture and is formed on a common electrode, a third aperture that includes at least a part of the bottom portion of the first aperture, is included in a second aperture and is formed on a third interlayer insulating film, and a fourth aperture that is formed on the first interlayer insulating film in a region where the third aperture overlaps with the bottom portion of the first aperture.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a first substrate; a first electrode on the first substrate, and a plurality of first cutouts defined in the first electrode; an insulating layer on the first electrode; a second electrode on the insulating layer, a plurality of second cutouts defined in the second electrode, and a plurality of branch electrodes defined by the plurality of second cutouts; a second substrate facing the first substrate; and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate. The second cutouts have a linear shape which extends in a length direction, widths of the plurality of first cutouts is larger than that of the plurality of branch electrodes in a width direction crossing the length direction, and the second cutouts overlap the plurality of first cutouts, in the length direction.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an array substrate comprises: forming a pixel electrode and a gate of a thin film transistor on a substrate; forming a gate insulating layer; forming an active layer and a source and a drain, which are provided on the active layer, of the thin film transistor by a patterning process; forming a passivation layer; forming a main via penetrating through the gate insulating layer and the passivation layer and a main-via extension portion under a portion of the drain by a patterning process, wherein the main via is connected to the main-via extension portion; removing a portion of the drain which protrudes above the main-via extension portion so as to form a final via; and forming a connection electrode and a common electrode, wherein the connection electrode electrically connects the drain to the pixel electrode through the final via.

Abstract: The embodiments of the invention provide a display device, a thin film transistor, an array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof. The manufacturing method comprises: step A, forming patterns of a source electrode, a drain electrode, a data line and a pixel electrode; step B, forming an active layer and agate insulating layer in order, and forming a via hole in the gate insulating layer for connecting the data line and an external circuit; and step C, forming patterns of a gate electrode, a gate line and a common electrode line, or forming a pattern of a gate electrode, a gate line and a common electrode.

Abstract: The present display device includes a liquid crystal panel having a liquid crystal layer between an array substrate and a facing substrate. The array substrate has an electrode layer having an upper electrode and a lower electrode facing each other in a Z direction, and an opening including a plurality of slits extending in an X direction is formed in the upper electrode and the lower electrode. The liquid crystal layer is provided on the electrode layer, liquid crystal molecules in vicinity regions on one side and the other side of the opening which face each other in a width direction of each slit are oriented as rotating in reverse to each other, and the facing substrate has a conductive layer.

Abstract: A touch panel and display device including the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the touch panel includes an insulation substrate having a length and a width and a first sensing electrode pattern formed over the insulation substrate and including a plurality of first sensing electrodes and a plurality of first connection portions connecting the first sensing electrodes to each other in a first direction. A second sensing electrode pattern is formed over the insulation substrate and includes a plurality of second sensing electrodes, wherein the first and second sensing electrodes are alternately arranged. The touch panel also includes a plurality of second connection portions substantially overlapping the first connection portions and connecting the second sensing electrodes to each other in a second direction crossing the first direction. The first and second directions are inclined with respect to the length and width of the insulation substrate.

Abstract: A pixel electrode is configured of one comb tooth portion and a contact portion whose width is widened from the end portion of the comb tooth portion in a first direction that is the extending direction of a scanning line. The width of the contact portion is not expanded in a direction opposite to the first direction, and the production of a domain is prevented. A picture signal line is bent in the direction in which the width of the contact portion of the pixel electrode is widened, so that the comb tooth portion of the pixel electrode can be disposed in the center between the picture signal lines, and the width of the contact portion can be formed in a sufficient width in the direction in which the picture signal line is bent. Thus, the contact margin of the pixel electrode can be provided.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a first polarizer; a liquid crystal cell including a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules horizontally aligned to a face of a substrate; and a second polarizer. The liquid crystal display further includes a first optical compensation film disposed between the first polarizer and the liquid crystal cell, an absorption axis of the first polarizer, an optical axis of the first optical compensation film, and an optical axis of the liquid crystal layer being parallel to each other in a view of the liquid crystal cell in a direction orthogonal to the face of the substrate of the liquid crystal cell. The optical axis of the liquid crystal layer of the liquid crystal cell and the optical axis of the first optical compensation film have a tilt angle from the face of the substrate of the liquid crystal cell in a same direction.

Abstract: A first interlayer insulating film is arranged on a gate line and a source line. A first common electrode includes a first sub-common electrode extending in the first direction on the first interlayer insulating film and facing the gate line. A second interlayer insulating film covers the first common electrode. A pixel electrode includes a first main pixel electrode extending in the second direction on the second interlayer insulating film. A second common electrode includes a second sub-common electrode and a second main common electrode and set to the same potential as the first common electrode. The second sub-common electrode extends on the second interlayer insulating film in the first direction so as to face the first sub-common electrode, and is cut out on a straight line along which the first main pixel electrode extends. The second main common electrode extends in the second direction facing the source line.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate with a first alignment film, a second substrate with a second alignment film, and a liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween. The first substrate has first and second electrodes. An initial alignment direction of liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer is parallel to a first direction or a direction orthogonal to the first direction. The second electrode includes comblike electrodes extending parallel to the first direction and a connecting portion which connects the comblike electrodes. The connecting portion includes a projection which projects in a second direction more than an outermost comblike electrode.

Abstract: A liquid crystal panel and a cross-shaped spacer structure thereof are disclosed. The liquid crystal panel includes an array substrate, a color filter substrate, and a cross-shaped spacer structure sandwiched between the array substrate and the color filter substrate. The cross-shaped spacer structure includes a plurality of H-shaped first spacers disposed on the upper surface of the array substrate and a plurality of strip-like second spacers disposed on the lower surface of the color filter substrate. The end surface of the crossbar of each one of the H-shaped first spacers and the end surface of each one of the strip-like second spacers are abutted against each other in a cross manner. Thus, when the liquid crystal panel is impacted by external force, the H-shaped first spacers and the strip-like second spacers can keep a tight abutment therebetween, so as to ensure the display quality of the liquid crystal panel.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a color filter display substrate, a method for manufacturing the color filter display substrate, a display panel and a method for manufacturing the display panel. The color filter display substrate includes: a base substrate; color resin coatings arranged on the base substrate; a black matrix arranged between two of the color resin coatings; and an electric field shielding member arranged on the black matrix and configured to shield an electric field between adjacent pixel units.

Abstract: A display substrate. The display substrate includes: a plurality of pixel units; a gate driving unit supplying a gate signal to the plurality of pixel units and including a plurality of shift register circuits which are dependently connected to each other; a vertical start line supplying a vertical start signal to the gate driving unit; and an electrostatic protection unit having two ends connected to different points of the vertical start line, the electrostatic protection unit including a plurality of back-to-back diodes connected in series with each other between the two ends. Each of the back-to-back diodes include a pair of diodes connected in parallel to each other in a bidirectional diode structure.

Abstract: An array substrate comprises: a substrate; and a plurality of gate lines (101) and a plurality of data lines (102), which are formed on the substrate. Two adjacent gate lines (101) and two adjacent data lines (102) intersect with each other to form a pixel region. Each pixel region comprises two pixel electrodes (103) and two thin-film transistors (TFTs). The drain electrodes of two thin-film transistors (TFTs) are respectively connected to two pixel electrodes (103), the source electrodes of two thin-film transistors (TFTs) are respectively connected to two data lines, and the gate electrodes of two thin-film transistors (TFTs) are connected to one of two gate lines.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate including a first source line and a second source line, a first main pixel electrode of a strip shape, a second main pixel electrode of a strip shape. The first substrate is configured such that a first distance between the first main pixel electrode and the first source line is less than a second distance between the first main pixel electrode and the second source line, and a third distance between the second main pixel electrode and the first source line is greater than a fourth distance between the second main pixel electrode and the second source line.

Abstract: A liquid crystal panel is disclosed. The panel includes a first substrate, having a plurality of color filter units. The panel also includes a second substrate disposed opposed to the first substrate, where the second substrate includes a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines intersecting and insulated from the gate lines, and a plurality of pixel units connected to the gate and data lines. The panel also includes a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a shielding pillar disposed between two adjacent color filter units, where the shielding pillar includes a plurality of discontinuous auxiliary shielding pillars, and where each auxiliary shielding pillar intersects a data line at an included angle.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an array substrate comprises: forming a pixel electrode and a gate of a thin film transistor on a substrate; forming a gate insulating layer; forming an active layer and a source and a drain, which are provided on the active layer, of the thin film transistor by a patterning process; forming a passivation layer; forming a main via penetrating through the gate insulating layer and the passivation layer and a main-via extension portion under a portion of the drain by a patterning process, wherein the main via is connected to the main-via extension portion; removing a portion of the drain which protrudes above the main-via extension portion so as to form a final via; and forming a connection electrode and a common electrode, wherein the connection electrode electrically connects the drain to the pixel electrode through the final via.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a TFT substrate and a counter substrate and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched therebetween. A scanning line, a video signal line, a thin film transistor connected to the scanning line and the video signal line, a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor, and a counter electrode are formed on the TFT substrate, and a columnar spacer formed on the counter substrate. The pixel and counter electrodes are transparent, and the liquid crystal layer is controlled by an electric field generated between the pixel and counter electrodes. The counter electrode contacts with a metal line having a first part which is extended in parallel with the scanning line and a second part which is extended in parallel with the video signal line, a width of the first part of the metal line being narrower than a width of the scanning line.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal between a TFT substrate including pixels formed in a matrix, and a counter substrate. A pixel electrode is formed in an area surrounded by scanning lines and video signal lines. A common electrode is formed in a lower layer of the pixel electrode through an interlayer insulating film. A long side of the pixel electrode of a first pixel is inclined at a first angle clockwise at a right angle to the extending direction of the scanning line. A long side of the pixel electrode of a second pixel is inclined at the first angle counterclockwise at a right angle to the extending direction of the scanning line. The liquid crystal is a negative type liquid crystal. Further, a protrusion formed in the long side of the pixel electrode has a side parallel to the extending direction of the scanning line.