Nonrectilinear Rows And Columns Patents (Class 349/145)
  • Patent number: 8363195
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel (10) includes: an active-matrix substrate (not illustrated), a counter substrate (not illustrated), liquid crystals sandwiched between the active-matrix substrate and the counter substrate; and a plurality of pixels (P) arranged in rows and columns. Each of the rows is provided with a plurality of gate signal lines (12) for supplying scanning signals having different pulse widths from each other, and the pixels of the same row are divided into a plurality of groups according to which of the gate signal lines (12) the pixels are connected to.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yohsuke Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 8339554
    Abstract: A liquid crystal device includes a first substrate; a second substrate arranged to face the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a pixel electrode disposed over the substrate; and a common electrode overlapping the pixel electrode, and the common electrode having curved portions between slits in the common electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Ito, Shin Fujita
  • Patent number: 8339531
    Abstract: A display device in which a pixel voltage is held at low power consumption without any influence from fluctuation in threshold voltage is provided. A liquid crystal capacitor element (Clc) is formed between a pixel electrode (20) and a counter electrode (80). A counter voltage (Vcom) is applied to the counter electrode (80). The pixel electrode (20), one ends of a first switch circuit (22) and a second switch circuit (23), and a first terminal of a second transistor (T2) form an internal node (N1). The other end of the first switch circuit (22) is connected to a source line (SL). The second switch circuit (23) has the other end connected to a voltage supply line (VSL) and is a series circuit of transistors (T1 and T2). A control terminal of the transistor (T1), a second terminal of the transistor (T2), and one end of the boost capacitor element (Cbst) form an output node (N2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshimitsu Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 8310639
    Abstract: A display device with a plurality of gate signal lines extended in the first direction; a plurality of drain signal lines extended in the second direction; a plurality of pixel regions in a state that each pixel region includes a switching device, a pixel electrode which is connected with the drain signal line and a counter electrode. The counter electrode is formed with respect to the pixel electrode by way of an insulation film and is formed every pixel. The pixels include first pixels and second pixels, wherein only the first pixels have a counter voltage signal line which extends in the first direction, and the counter voltage signal line is connected with the counter electrodes in the first pixels. Further, the counter electrodes of the first pixels and the counter electrodes of the second pixels are electrically connected with each other using conductive stride over the gate signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Matsuoka, Kikuo Ono
  • Patent number: 8259244
    Abstract: A display substrate in accordance with one or more embodiments includes a first line pattern, a first insulation layer, a second line pattern, a color filter layer and a pixel electrode, which are formed on a substrate. The first line pattern includes a gate line and a light-blocking layer. The light-blocking layer has a first opening portion formed in a storage capacitor region. The first insulation layer is formed on the substrate having the first line pattern. The second line pattern is formed on the first insulation layer. The color filter layer is formed on the substrate having the second line pattern, and has a second opening portion overlapping with the storage electrode. The pixel electrode is formed on the substrate having the color filter layer. Thus, short circuits between the storage electrode and the pixel electrode may be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: In-Woo Kim
  • Patent number: 8253913
    Abstract: A thin film transistor array panel is provided, which includes: a substrate; a plurality of first signal lines formed on the substrate; a plurality of second lines formed on the substrate, intersecting the first signal line, and including a plurality of curved portions having at least two curve points and a plurality of intermediate portions, the curved portions and the intermediate portions alternately connected; a plurality of pixel electrodes located substantially in areas defined by the first and the second signal lines; and a plurality of thin film transistors connected to the first and the second signal lines and the pixel electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-Mi Tak, Seung-Soo Baek, Dong-Gyu Kim
  • Patent number: 8253884
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes an illuminator and a liquid crystal panel for performing displaying by using light which is emitted from the illuminator. The liquid crystal panel includes a pair of substrates, a liquid crystal layer provided between the pair of substrates, and a pair of alignment films provided on sides of the pair of substrates facing the liquid crystal layer. At least one of the alignment films is a photo-alignment film which is imparted with an orientation regulating force through a photo-alignment treatment, and the illuminator includes a light source causing primary generation of at least blue light, among other light which is used for displaying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Koichi Miyachi
  • Patent number: 8248567
    Abstract: A display device includes a display drain signal line which belongs to a display pixel is connected to a pixel electrode via a TFT, a first dummy drain signal line which belongs to a dummy pixel is connected to a dummy pixel electrode via a TFT, and a second dummy drain signal line is disposed outside of the dummy pixel. The second dummy drain signal line is not connected to a dummy pixel electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kawamura, Kazuhiko Yanagawa, Nagatoshi Kurahashi, Tsuyoshi Uchida
  • Patent number: 8243244
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device for preventing a vertical line defect includes sub-pixels arranged repeatedly in order of red, green, and blue along an N-th (where N is a natural number) horizontal line, and sub-pixels formed in a staggered structure with the N-th horizontal line and arranged repeatedly in order of green, blue, and red along an (N+1)-th horizontal line. Gate lines are formed along the horizontal lines. Data lines are formed to cross the gate lines with a gate insulating layer disposed therebetween and formed to be bent along the sub-pixels of the staggered structure. Thin film transistors are connected to the gate lines and to the data lines and pixel electrodes are connected to the thin film transistors. Storage electrodes overlap the pixel electrodes with the gate insulating layer and a passivation layer disposed therebetween to form storage capacitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Won-Seok Ma
  • Patent number: 8243243
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention provides a display device having a common electrode and pixel electrodes disposed in an insulating state on one of a pair of substrates between which a liquid crystal layer is held, in which each of the pixel electrodes includes a plurality of electrode portions disposed in parallel with one another, each of the electrode portions has a flat surface shape in which each of the electrode portions is bent approximately at a central portion in an extension direction, and each of the pixel electrodes also includes a bridge portion through which corresponding ones of the electrode portions are connected to one another in the bending portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hironao Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8212950
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes a first and second substrates which are opposite, and further includes scanning lines, data lines, pixel electrodes and switches, intersection of two adjacent scanning lines and data lines forming a pixel region. The pixel electrodes are disposed in pixel regions. Each pixel electrode crosses one data line and includes a first and second sub-pixel electrodes which are electrically connected to each other; the first and second sub-pixel electrodes are arranged on two sides of the data line; there is a gap between the first and second sub-pixel electrodes, and the data line is configured in the gap. A problem that conventional liquid crystal display panel has a complex manufacture process, leaks light at a dark state and has a low penetrability can be solved, thereby improving yield of the products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Infovision Optoelectronics (Kunshan) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yanbing Qiao, Te-Chen Chung, Liufei Zhou
  • Patent number: 8208112
    Abstract: A display device is provided and includes pixel electrodes, each of the pixel electrodes including a plurality of electrode sections which are arranged parallel to each other. Each electrode section is bent approximately in the middle along its extension direction in plan view. The pixel electrodes include a center connection portion adapted to connect together the electrode sections at their bent portions, and include end connection portions adapted to connect together the electrode sections at their end portions, and include protruding portions each of which is formed by extending the end connection portion in such a manner as to protrude from the arranged electrode sections. The display device also includes a substrate on which the pixel electrodes are arranged, an opposed substrate provided to face the side of the substrate on which the pixel electrodes are formed, and a liquid crystal layer filled and sealed between the substrate and opposed substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hironao Tanaka, Yoshihiro Sakurai, Harumi Okuno
  • Patent number: 8174658
    Abstract: A thin film transistor (TFT) substrate includes: a plurality of gate lines extending in one direction, a plurality of data lines extending in a direction intersecting the gate lines, a pixel electrode formed in a pixel region defined by an intersection of the gate line and the data line, and with one side of the pixel electrode overlapping a portion of one data line and another side of the pixel electrode overlapping a portion of another data line. The TFT further includes a storage electrode line having a storage electrode disposed in a central portion of the pixel region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dong-Gyu Kim
  • Patent number: 8169557
    Abstract: A display substrate includes a first pixel part including a first switching element, a second pixel part including a second switching element, a third pixel part including a third switching element, a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode and a third pixel electrode. The third pixel part is adjacent to the first pixel part. The first pixel electrode is electrically connected to the first switching element, and is formed on the first and second pixel part. The second pixel electrode is electrically connected to the second switching element, and is formed on a portion of the second pixel part. The third pixel electrode is electrically connected to the third switching element, and is formed on the first and third pixel parts. Therefore, an opening ratio is increased, thereby improving an image display quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin-Young Choi, Jin Jeon
  • Patent number: 8164730
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a substrate and a plurality of pixel electrodes that are formed on the substrate, each of the pixel electrodes including first and second subpixel electrodes, wherein the first and second subpixel electrodes are adjacently disposed in a lateral direction. Each of the first and second subpixel electrodes includes at least two parallelogram shaped electrode pieces having different inclination directions and at least one of electrode pieces of the second subpixel electrode is positioned on or under the first subpixel electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-Gyu Kim, Hee-Joon Kim
  • Patent number: 8149366
    Abstract: A thin film transistor panel for a liquid crystal display includes a substrate, a plurality of data lines formed over the substrate and extending in a first direction, and a plurality of gate lines formed over the substrate and extending in a second direction. The plurality of gate lines cross the plurality of data lines to form a plurality of pixel areas, each of the plurality of pixel areas having a multi-bent band shape. Each of a plurality of pixel electrodes are formed in a corresponding pixel area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-Gyu Kim, Back-Won Lee
  • Patent number: 8144297
    Abstract: A display device includes a pair of substrates with liquid crystal therebetween, and a plurality of pixel regions provided on one substrate. Each pixel region is constituted of one and another region including a switching element, a pixel electrode, and a counter electrode. In the one region, the counter electrode extends substantially planar at a center except at a periphery of the one region, and the pixel electrode is constituted of a first group of electrodes which extend in one direction and arranged in parallel at a first distance. In the another region the counter electrode is constituted of a group of electrodes which extend in one direction and arranged in parallel in a direction which intersects the one direction in the another region, and the pixel electrode is constituted of a second group of electrodes which extend in the one direction and arranged in parallel at a second distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Nakayoshi, Kazuhiko Yanagawa, Takahiro Ochiai, Hirotaka Imayama
  • Patent number: 8134671
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including a pair of substrates sandwiching liquid crystal molecules, a plurality of gate bus lines, and a plurality of data bus lines, with each of the data bus lines extending to intersect the gate bus lines and bending in a zigzag manner. A plurality of pixels are formed in areas enclosed by the data and gate bus lines, with a plurality of pixel electrodes, each covering a substantial area of one of the pixels. A plurality of domain regulating structures for regulating orientation directions of the liquid crystal molecules and for forming multiple domains are formed in each of the pixels. At least one of the domain regulating structures bends along a first side edge of the pixel electrode and domains are divided in accordance with the bending of the domain regulating structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Arihiro Takeda, Katsufumi Ohmuro, Yoshio Koike, Shingo Kataoka, Takahiro Sasaki, Takashi Sasabayashi, Hideaki Tsuda, Hideo Chida, Makoto Ohashi, Kenji Okamoto, Hisashi Yamaguchi, Minoru Otani, Makoto Morishige, Noriaki Furukawa, Tsuyoshi Kamada, Yoshinori Tanaka, Atuyuki Hoshino, Shougo Hayashi, Hideaki Takizawa, Takeshi Kinjou, Makoto Tachibanaki, Keiji Imoto, Tadashi Hasegawa, Hidefumi Yoshida, Hiroyasu Inoue, Yoji Taniguchi, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Satoshi Murata, Manabu Sawasaki, Tomonori Tanose, Siro Hirota, Masahiro Ikeda, Kunihiro Tashiro, Kouji Tsukao, Yasutoshi Tasaka, Takatoshi Mayama, Seiji Tanuma, Yohei Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 8125604
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate; a second substrate which faces the first substrate and comprises a common electrode; and a liquid crystal layer located between the first and second substrates, the first substrate comprises: a data line and a gate line which cross each other; and a pixel electrode which is bent at least once and comprises a first sub-pixel electrode and a second sub-pixel electrode which are separated from each other, the first sub-pixel electrode is extended along the direction of the data line, the second sub-pixel electrode comprises a first part located on the right side of the first sub-pixel electrode and a second part located on the left side of the first sub-pixel electrode, and the data line comprises a first data line passing through the first part and a second data line passing through the second part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seong-young Lee, Sahng-ik Jun, Dong-gyu Kim
  • Patent number: 8094283
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display including a polarizing plate having a linear polarization axis slanted in relation to a scan line, a transparent pixel electrode, an active element which drives the transparent pixel electrode, and a wire for connecting the active element and the transparent pixel electrode. The wire has an end part so shaped as to be slanted in a direction parallel to or perpendicular to the linear polarization axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Ogura, Shuichi Tatemori
  • 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: 8081283
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a pixel disposed on the second substrate, a bottom capacitor electrode, a top capacitor electrode, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a plurality of protrusions disposed on the first substrate. The pixel includes a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode, in which a main slit is formed between the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode. The bottom capacitor electrode is disposed on the second substrate and overlaps a portion of the main slit, and the top capacitor electrode is disposed on the second substrate and forms a capacitor with the bottom capacitor electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventor: Mu-Jen Su
  • Patent number: 8049855
    Abstract: A display device having a common electrode and pixel electrodes disposed in an insulating state on one of a pair of substrates between which a liquid crystal layer is held, in which each of the pixel electrodes includes a plurality of electrode portions disposed in parallel with one another, each of the electrode portions has a flat surface shape in which each of the electrode portions is bent approximately at a central portion in an extension direction, and each of the pixel electrodes also includes a bridge portion through which corresponding ones of the electrode portions are connected to one another in the bending portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hironao Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8040479
    Abstract: A gate line extending in a transverse direction and a data line intersecting the gate line are formed on the substrate. The data line includes a curved portion and an intermediate portion crossing the gate line substantially at a right angle. A pixel electrode is formed on an insulating layer. The pixel electrode is connected to a thin film transistor and it has an edge extending substantially parallel to the curved portion of the data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jang-Kun Song
  • Patent number: 8040472
    Abstract: A multi-domain vertical alignment liquid crystal display that does not require physical features on the substrate (such as protrusions and ITO slits) is disclosed. Each pixel of the MVALCD is subdivided into color components, which are further divided into color dots. The polarity of the color dots are arranged so that fringe fields from adjacent color dots causes multiple liquid crystal domains in each color dot. Specifically, the color dots of a pixel are arranged so that each color dot of a first polarity has four neighboring pixels of a second polarity. Thus, a checkerboard pattern of polarities is formed. Furthermore, the checkerboard pattern is extended across multiple pixels in the MVALCD. In addition, many display unit include multiple pixel designs to improve color distribution or electrical distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Hiap L. Ong and Kyoritsu Optronics, Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiap L. Ong
  • Patent number: 8023089
    Abstract: A pixel array and a display panel with the pixel array are provided. The number of the scan lines used in the pixel array is reduced to half, while the number of data lines is doubled because every two sub-pixel rows correspond to one scan line in the pixel array. The wire impedances between the data lines and the pixel array are thus made the same. The aperture ratio of each sub-pixel is thereby increased and the size of the TFT in each sub-pixel is also reduced. The complexity in the wire arrangement of the pixel array is accordingly lowered to improve the transmittance of the display panel and make the frame resolution of the display panel more even.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventor: Yih-Yuan Yeh
  • Patent number: 8013334
    Abstract: The present invention provides a bonding structure of circuit substrates for instant circuit inspecting. The connecting wire design of the bonding structure has an instant inspection ability of circuit connection in bonding two circuit substrates. In two bonded circuit substrates, the signal inputted at the circuit part passes the conductive particles to the first connecting wire, and then passes the conductive particles again to the detecting part from the first connecting wire. Therefore, measuring the output signal can inspect the reliability of the circuit connection of the bonded circuit substrates. If the output signal is the same as the input signal, the bonding structure between the first connecting wire and the circuit part is validated, or, if not, the bonding structure is invalidated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ming-Tan Hsu, I-Cheng Shih
  • Patent number: 7995017
    Abstract: A thin film transistor array panel is provided, which includes: a substrate; a first signal line formed on the substrate; a second signal line formed on the substrate and having an intersecting portion intersecting the first signal line and a curved portion connected to the intersecting portion; a first thin film transistor connected to the first and the second signal lines; and a pixel electrode that are connected to the first thin film transistor, includes first and second partitions, and are curved along the curved portion of the second signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dong-Gyu Kim
  • Patent number: 7990505
    Abstract: A liquid crystal device includes a first substrate; a second substrate arranged to face the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a pixel electrode disposed over the substrate; and a common electrode overlapping the pixel electrode,, and the common electrode having curved portions between slits in the common electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Ito, Shin Fujita
  • Patent number: 7973901
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a substrate; a pixel electrode disposed on the substrate and having a first subpixel electrode and a second subpixel electrode; and a common electrode facing the pixel electrode, wherein the first subpixel electrode has a pair of bent edges substantially parallel to each other, the second subpixel electrode has a pair of bent edges substantially parallel to each other, and the second subpixel electrode has a height greater than a height of the first subpixel electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung-Hoo Yoo, Jong-Ho Son, Hee-Wook Do, Hyun-Wuk Kim, Hak-Sun Chang, Yoon-Sung Um
  • Patent number: 7968881
    Abstract: The invention relates to a thin film transistor substrate and a display device including the same, and provides a thin film transistor substrate and a display device including the same, which can prevent damage of elements due to static electricity by forming, in each unit pixel region where a pair of first and second pixel electrodes, a pair of first and second drain electrode plates that are connected to the first and second pixel electrodes and to connected to drain terminals of thin film transistors, and can obtain a dot inversion driving effect through line inversion driving by connecting the first drain electrode in one pixel region to the first drain electrode plate, connecting the second drain electrode in the one unit pixel region to the second drain electrode plate, connecting a first drain electrode in another unit pixel region neighboring the one unit pixel region to the second drain electrode plate, and connecting a second drain electrode in another unit pixel region to the first drain electrode
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Kyeong Lee, Hyo Taek Lim, Young Goo Song, Sahng Ik Jun, Ja Hee Woo
  • Patent number: 7944537
    Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display capable of high quality image and bright display. Gate signal lines are curved at near switching elements of the liquid crystal display. A pixel area is defined by the gate signal lines and their intersecting data signal lines. Pixel electrodes and common electrodes are disposed along a longitudinal direction of a pixel. A pixel signal and a common signal line is connected to the pixel electrode and the common electrode respectively. A storage capacitor may be formed in the middle of a longitudinal direction of the pixel, or where generally a texture may arise during display. One half of the pixel may be symmetrical with the other half with respect to the storage capacitor. A common signal line may be parallel with the data signal line and be disposed nearer to the data signal line than a pixel signal line. The pixel may be disposed symmetrically with respect to the data signal line therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang-Hun Lee, Eun-Hee Han, Hak-Sun Chang
  • Patent number: 7940361
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including, a pair of substrates, a gate electrode of a thin film transistor (TFT) formed on one of the substrates, and a wiring layer connected to the gate electrode or an electrode of the thin film transistor, wherein at least a part of the gate electrode or a part the wiring layer is formed by a layer structured by a pure copper layer and a Cu—Mn alloy layer including Mn, wherein a concentration of Mn in the Cu—Mn alloy layer is more than 0.1 and not more than 20 atomic percentage within a solubility limit of Mn in the copper, and wherein a boundary surface between the Cu—Mn alloy layer and said one of the substrate includes an oxide layer having a Mn oxide layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Advanced Interconnect Materials, LLC
    Inventor: Junichi Koike
  • Patent number: 7894030
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device and method therefore include a substrate; first, second and third pixel electrodes formed on the substrate and adjacent to each other in a row direction; first, second and third gate lines connected to the first, second and third pixel electrodes, respectively; and first, second and third data lines which cross the first, second and third gate lines and connected to the first, second and third pixel electrodes, respectively. Each of the first to third pixel electrodes includes at least two parallelogrammic electrode portions each with inclination directions different from each other, at least two data lines of the first to third data lines are overlapped by the first to third pixel electrodes, and the first to third gate lines are connected to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-Ho Han, Jeong-Geun Yoo
  • Patent number: 7892626
    Abstract: A substrate with plane patterns formed in a liquid process wherein the plane patterns are formed based on a combination of plane shapes by which a difference in internal pressure of a solution between any two points of the solution is small, the solution being ejected onto the substrate so as to form the plane patterns by the liquid process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Future Vision Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto Abe, Hiroki Kaneko, Takuya Takahashi, Etsuko Nishimura, Yoshitaka Tsutsui, Takaaki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7889303
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device according to a FFS method, a line inversion drive with suppressed crosstalk due to a signal distortion is made available. Pixels A are disposed in sequence in a left to right direction in a first row, while pixels B are disposed in sequence in the left to right direction in a second row that is below the first row. In the pixel A, a pixel electrode is formed of the first layer transparent electrode and connected with a thin film transistor through a contact hole. In the pixel B, a common electrode is formed of the first layer transparent electrode and connected with a common electric potential line through a contact hole. Also in the pixel A, a common electrode having a plurality of slits is formed of the second layer transparent electrode and connected with the common electric potential line through a contact hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohide Onogi, Yasuo Segawa
  • Patent number: 7880852
    Abstract: A thin film transistor (TFT) substrate includes: a plurality of gate lines extending in one direction, a plurality of data lines extending in a direction intersecting the gate lines, a pixel electrode formed in a pixel region defined by an intersection of the gate line and the data line, and with one side of the pixel electrode overlapping a portion of one data line and another side of the pixel electrode overlapping a portion of another data line. The TFT further includes a storage electrode line having a storage electrode disposed in a central portion of the pixel region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dong-Gyu Kim
  • Patent number: 7852444
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display with improved viewing angle and uncompromised transmittance is provided, along with a thin film transistor (TFT) array panel usable for such liquid crystal display. The TFT array panel includes a substrate, a plurality of gate lines formed on the substrate, a plurality of data lines formed on the substrate and intersecting the gate lines, and a plurality of thin film transistors. Each of the thin film transistors includes a gate electrode connected to one of the gate lines, a source electrode connected to one of the data lines, and a drain electrode. The TFT array panel also includes a plurality of pixel electrodes, each of the pixel electrodes connected to one of the drain electrodes and having a pair of oblique edges parallel to each other, and covering at least a portion of the drain electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jang-Kun Song
  • Patent number: 7812911
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal display panel driven by a dot inversion method using a data driver driven by a column inversion method. Within the liquid crystal display, liquid crystal cells capable of expressing any one color are alternately arranged adjacent left and right sides along the length of a data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sang Moo Song
  • Patent number: 7787095
    Abstract: A thin film transistor array panel including a substrate, a plurality of first signal lines formed on the substrate, a plurality of second signal lines, insulated from the first signal lines, which are formed on the substrate and which define an area of a display area by traversing the first signal lines, a driver disposed on a peripheral area, a plurality of connection lines, disposed on the peripheral area, which couple the driver to each of the first signal lines, and an insulating layer which insulate the first signal lines from the connection lines. The insulating layer includes a plurality of contact holes, portions of the first signal lines and the connection lines are connected through the contact holes, and sizes of exposed portions of the first signal lines exposed through the contact holes increase as respective distances from the contact holes to the driver increase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ji-Suk Lim
  • Patent number: 7782433
    Abstract: A method of forming an oxide film on a surface of a copper alloy, including the steps of providing a copper alloy including copper and an element selected from the group consisting of Mn, Zn, Ga, Li, Ge, Sr, Ag, Ba, Pr and Nd, and diffusing atoms of the element to a surface of the copper alloy so as to form an oxide film on the surface of the copper alloy, wherein a concentration of the element in the copper alloy is more than 0.1 and not more than 20 atomic percentage and within a solubility limit of the element in the copper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignees: Tohoku University, Advanced Interconnect Materials LLC
    Inventor: Junichi Koike
  • Patent number: 7728929
    Abstract: A transflective liquid crystal display device includes a first and a second substrates, a liquid crystal layer, and a plurality of reflective electrodes and transparent electrodes. The liquid crystal layer is interposed between the first and the second substrates and functions in an OCB mode. The reflective electrode and the transparent electrode in one picture element are spaced apart from each other to produce a transverse electric field when a voltage is applied across the liquid crystal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Wintek Corporation
    Inventors: Yi-Chun Wu, Wen-Jui Liao, Chin-Chang Liu, Chian-Chang Lee
  • Patent number: 7724338
    Abstract: A thin film transistor array panel is provided, which includes: a substrate; a gate line formed on the substrate; first and second storage electrodes formed on the substrate and disposed opposite each other with respect to the gate line; a gate insulating layer formed in the gate line and the first and the second storage electrodes; a curved data line formed on the gate insulating layer; a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line; a passivation layer formed on the data line and the thin film transistor; a pixel electrode formed on the passivation layer, connected to the thin film transistor, and having an obtuse corner and an acute corner; and an overpass cross over the gate line and connected to the first and the second storage electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Een-Mi Kwon, Ae Shin, Seung-Soo Baek, Young-Mi Tak
  • Patent number: 7719652
    Abstract: An array substrate for an in-plane switching liquid crystal display device includes a substrate, gate lines arranged in a first direction on the substrate, data lines crossing the gate lines to define a pixel region, the pixel region consists of four sub-pixel regions, a switching element at the crossing of the gate and data lines, a pixel electrode in each of the sub-pixel regions, and a common electrode alternatively arranged with the pixel electrode to form a plurality of blocks in each of the sub-pixel regions. Two of the sub-pixel regions include an n-number of blocks (n is a natural number). Two of the sub-pixel regions include an (n+2)-number of blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyeon-Ho Son, Heum-Il Baek
  • Patent number: 7697101
    Abstract: An array substrate for a liquid crystal display device includes: a gate line on a substrate along a first direction; a data line along a second direction and crossing the gate line, the crossing of the data line and the gate line defining a pixel region having a parallelogrammic shape; a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line; and a pixel electrode in the pixel region and connected to the thin film transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Soon-Kwang Hong
  • Patent number: 7675597
    Abstract: A thin film transistor panel for a liquid crystal display includes a substrate, a plurality of data lines formed over the substrate and extending in a first direction, and a plurality of gate lines formed over the substrate and extending in a second direction. The plurality of gate lines cross the plurality of data lines to form a plurality of pixel areas, each of the plurality of pixel areas having a multi-bent band shape. Each of a plurality of pixel electrodes are formed in a corresponding pixel area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-Gyu Kim, Back-Won Lee
  • Patent number: 7667806
    Abstract: A thin film transistor panel for a liquid crystal display includes a substrate, a plurality of data lines formed over the substrate and extending in a first direction, and a plurality of gate lines formed over the substrate and extending in a second direction. The plurality of gate lines cross the plurality of data lines to form a plurality of pixel areas, each of the plurality of pixel areas having a multi-bent band shape. Each of a plurality of pixel electrodes are formed in a corresponding pixel area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-Gyu Kim, Back-Won Lee
  • Patent number: 7639332
    Abstract: A display element includes a dielectric material layer 3, provided between a pair of substrates (substrates 1 and 2), which is made of a medium showing optical isotropy when no electric field is applied and showing optical anisotropy when an electric field is applied. Further, comb-shaped electrodes 4 and 5 are provided face to face on the substrate 1 so as to be positioned in a surface which faces the substrate 2. Furthermore, polarizing plates 6 and 7 are respectively provided on rear surfaces with respect to the counter surfaces of the substrates 1 and 2. Thus, it is possible to realize the display element which has a wide driving temperature range, a wide viewing angle property, and a high-speed response property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichi Miyachi, Seiji Shibahara, Iichiro Inoue, Shoichi Ishihara, Takako Koide
  • Patent number: 7609351
    Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display capable of high quality image and bright display. Gate signal lines are curved at near switching elements of the liquid crystal display. A pixel area is defined by the gate signal lines and their intersecting data signal lines. Pixel electrodes and common electrodes are disposed along a longitudinal direction of a pixel. A pixel signal and a common signal line is connected to the pixel electrode and the common electrode respectively. A storage capacitor may be formed in the middle of a longitudinal direction of the pixel, or where generally a texture may arise during display. One half of the pixel may be symmetrical with the other half with respect to the storage capacitor. A common signal line may be parallel with the data signal line and be disposed nearer to the data signal line than a pixel signal line. The pixel may be disposed symmetrically with respect to the data signal line therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang-Hun Lee, Eun-Hee Han, Hak-Sun Chang
  • Patent number: RE43574
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display is provided, which includes a liquid crystal panel assembly including a plurality of red, green, blue and white pixel areas, and a backlight unit placed at a side of the liquid crystal panel assembly. The light emitted from the backlight unit has a color coordinate (x, y) where x ranges from about 0.31 to about 0.34, and y ranges from about 0.32 to about 0.35.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keun-Kyu Song, Jeong-Ye Choi, Nam-Seok Roh, Mun-Pyo Hong, Cheol-Woo Park