Abstract: On a projecting portion projecting from a first connecting portion to be connected to a liquid crystal panel of an FPC, a second connecting portion is provided in a projecting state like a free end to the liquid crystal panel side at a position spaced from the first connecting portion. By folding-back the projecting portion to the back side of the liquid crystal panel, the second connecting portion projects to the opposite side of the liquid crystal panel, so that the liquid crystal panel and an external circuit can be connected to each other without applying an excessively great stress to the FPC.

Abstract: A driver module structure includes a flexible circuit board (2) provided with a wiring pattern (7), a semiconductor device mounted on the flexible circuit board (2), and an electrically conductive heat-radiating member (4) joined to the semiconductor device. The wiring pattern (7) includes a ground wiring pattern (8). The flexible circuit board (2) has a cavity (9) that exposes a portion of the ground wiring pattern (8). The exposed portion of the ground wiring pattern (8) and the heat-radiating member (4) are connected to establish electrical continuity via a member (11) that is fitted into the cavity (9).

Abstract: A display module is provided. The display module comprises a display panel, a printed circuit board, and a flexible packaging unit. The display panel has a plurality of first signal pads and at least one first dummy pad. The printed circuit board has a plurality of second signal pads and at least one second dummy pad. In addition, the flexible packaging unit comprises a flexible carrier and a chip, wherein the flexible carrier has a plurality of signal lines and at least one electrostatic discharge protective line. The electrostatic discharge protective line is connected between the first dummy pad and the second dummy pad. Furthermore, the electrostatic discharge protective line has an electricity conducting pad, which is exposed on the surface of the flexible carrier. The chip is disposed on the flexible carrier and connected to the display panel and the printed circuit board through the signal lines.

Abstract: A TAB tape for a tape carrier package may have an opening formed in a shortest connection portion. The opening may be provided in the shortest connection portion and a portion of the corresponding second lead. The opening may be arranged near a boundary between the corresponding first lead and the shortest connection portion. The opening may be sized to reduce the change of the lead width from the first lead to the second lead.

Abstract: An electro-optical device includes an electro-optical panel which displays an image on a display surface; a supporting member which supports the electro-optical device; and a flexible wiring substrate which is connected to the electro-optical device. The wiring substrate is bent such that at least a portion of a surface of the wiring substrate is opposite to a side surface of the supporting member, in regions other than a side of the wiring substrate connected to the electro-optical panel.

Abstract: A display device which can prevent a drawback that a positive signal line and a negative signal line are separated to left and right sides of an external connector thus generating impedance mismatching in differential signals is provided.

Abstract: The FPC that is designed to have the special shape, an elastic portion, can shorten its length by elastic force after it is turned over to the reverse side of the light source unit for achieving the purposes without wasting any space of the LCD module and incurring the inconvenience of user.

Abstract: An image display device includes a driving unit to provide first and second image signals and first and second control signals to display images, a first display unit to display first images in response to the first image signal and the first control signal from the driving unit, a second display unit to display secondary images in response to the second image signal and the second control signal from the driving unit, first data-transfer lines to transfer the second image signal from the driving unit to the second display unit, second data-transfer lines to transfer the second control signal from the driving unit to the second display unit, and a flexible printed circuit board connected between the first and second display units to provide electrical connection between the driving unit and the second display unit.

Abstract: A tap tape of a tape carrier package prevents connection parts from being eroded. The tap tape includes a base film having a device hole formed to mount a driver chip for driving a panel of a flat panel display, input patterns positioned on the base film and having a plurality of electrode pads connected to a side of the device hole, output patterns positioned on the base film and having a plurality of electrode pads connected to the other side of the device hole; and connection parts positioned at the ends of the input patterns or the output patterns and having electrode pads of widths different from widths of the electrode pads.

Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display module which makes it possible to reduce the number of components and manufacturing processes of the liquid crystal display module and to easily replace a failed LED of a backlight unit that irradiates light onto a liquid crystal panel when the LED fails. In the liquid crystal display module, an electric signal is transferred to the liquid crystal panel and the LED through a flexible printed circuit board, and the flexible printed circuit board is electrically and physically connected to the LED by connecting a coupling pin of the LED with a socket of the flexible printed circuit board. In the case in which an LED fails, the coupling pin of the failed LED can be detached from the socket of the flexible printed circuit board, and thus the LED can easily be replaced.

Abstract: A protecting cover bends a signal transfer film connected to a display panel toward a sidewall of a container and includes a first adhesive region attached to a sidewall of a front case, a second adhesive region attached to a bottom plate of the container and a guide region between the first and the second adhesive regions. A boundary line between the guide region and the second adhesive region is spaced apart from an edge of the second adhesive region by a first gap in a position corresponding to the signal transfer film and is spaced apart by a second gap that is wider than the first gap in a position corresponding to a space between the signal transfer films.

Abstract: A display device of the present invention has a drain driver mounted to a display substrate and having a gate driver and a controller therein, and also has a power source mounted to a flexible printed board and supplying a power voltage to the gate driver. The wiring of a common control signal outputted from the controller and commonly used in control of the gate driver and the power source is formed on the display substrate so that the number of pads for connecting the display substrate and the flexible printed board is reduced. Thus, the construction of the flexible printed board is simplified, and the entire display device can be made compact.

Abstract: When a control substrate 23 installed on a rear face 26 of a liquid crystal module 20 is to be connected through flat cables 30 to two drive circuit substrates 24a, 24b installed on right and left areas of an upper side surface 25 of the liquid crystal module 20, each of the flat cables 30 connecting the first and second substrates is bent in such a manner that cable surface regions thereof are overlapped with each other in the middle of the flat cable, thereby cause an extension direction of the flat cable to be shifted parallel or is bent at right angles in the middle of the flat cable.

Abstract: In a display device forming a board for mounting a connector which allows inputting of video data thereon and a board for mounting a display control circuit to be connected to the connector thereon on a surface of a display module opposite to an observation side, the board for mounting the connector thereon and the board for mounting the display control circuit thereon are physically separated from each other and, further, an area of the board for mounting the display control circuit thereon is set smaller than an area of the board for mounting the connector thereon.

Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a substrate that holds an electro-optical material; and a flexible substrate that is connected to the substrate. The flexible substrate has a first connecting portion that is arranged on one surface of the substrate; and a second connecting portion that is arranged on the other surface of the substrate.

Abstract: A liquid crystal panel structure includes a liquid crystal panel, a plurality of first and second contact terminals, and a plurality of first and second peripheral wirings. The liquid crystal display has a display area and a non-display area. The non-display area has at least one driving chip lamination area. The first and second contact terminals are allocated in the lamination area of the driving chip. The first peripheral wirings are allocated on the non-display area, and the first contact terminals are electrically connected to the pixels of the display area. The liquid crystal panel can selectively provides allocation of two types of driving chips, such that the liquid crystal panel can be applied to single or dual display module.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of liquid crystal cells on a substrate, a plurality of drive lines extending along first and second directions and connected to the plurality of liquid crystal cells, a plurality of pad lines extending from each of the plurality of drive lines at a first angle from one of the first and second directions, and a plurality of pads extending at the first angle and connected to each of the plurality of pad lines for supplying external drive signals.

Abstract: An electro-optical device includes an electro-optical panel, and an interface board through which an image display signal is supplied to the electro-optical panel. The interface board includes a flexible film board, a plurality of terminals that are disposed on the film board, a plurality of wiring lines that are disposed on one surface of the film board and that are electrically connected to the terminals, respectively, and a first conductive member that is formed on the other surface of the film board and that is grounded. The first conductive member overlaps at least one of the wiring lines when the film board is seen in plan view, and the first conductive member is formed along the one wiring line.

Abstract: An organic light emitting display device including a flexible substrate and a plurality of thin film transistors (TFTs) formed on the substrate. The plurality of TFTs formed on the substrate include a pixel transistor for driving a pixel and a driver circuit transistor for driving a driver circuit, and a longitudinal direction of a channel region of the pixel transistor makes a first predetermined angle with a direction in which the substrate is bent. As such, it is possible to minimize a change in the electrical property of the TFTs formed on the flexible substrate and to thus reduce a change in the amount of current that flows in the channels of the TFTs.

Abstract: An LCD device is disclosed, which is suitable for designing a pad for a fine pitch to decrease a pad and a data TCP of a data driver in size, the LCD device including: an LCD panel that includes upper and lower substrates and a liquid crystal layer; a gate driving unit that includes a plurality of gate drivers formed corresponding to an edge area of the lower substrate; a data driving unit that includes a plurality of data drivers connected with a source PCB and the lower substrate by respective data TCPs; and a plurality of data pads that are arranged at fixed intervals on the data TCP so as to transmit a data signal of the data driving unit to a data line of the LCD panel, wherein each of the data pads includes first and second parts having different bonding areas.

Abstract: A display device has a first color display panel having multi-color pixels formed of two groups of electrodes corresponding to signal electrodes and scanning electrodes. A second display panel has single-color pixels formed of two groups of electrodes corresponding to signal electrodes and scanning electrodes. The number of the signal electrodes of the second display panel are fewer in number than the signal electrodes of the first color display panel. A driver integrated circuit outputs driving signals shared commonly by and supplied to the signal and scanning electrodes of the first and second display panels. The driving signals output from the driver integrated circuit are supplied to the signal electrodes of the second display panel in only one color from among the colors of the multi-color pixels of the first display panel.

Abstract: An backlight assembly is provided. The backlight assembly includes a substrate, a light guide plate, a plurality of adhesive tapes, and guide grooves. The substrate includes conductive patterns supplying power to a light source device, and the light guide plate is disposed to form the same plane as that of the light source device. The plurality of adhesive tapes are attached at predetermined intervals in a region where the substrate and the light guide plate overlap each other. The guide grooves are formed in a region where the adhesive tapes are attached.

Abstract: A method for fabricating a liquid crystal display, includes: preparing a first substrate having a first region and a second region positioned at at least one side of the first region, and a second substrate attached to the first region of the first substrate; forming a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines such that they cross each other to define unit pixel regions on the first region of the first substrate, and forming switching elements at crossings of the gate lines and data lines; and extending the gate lines and the data lines of the first region to the second region of the first substrate to form a plurality of pads constituting at least one group, wherein the intervals between pads at every region constituting the single group are the same, and the pad width is different as it goes from the pad positioned at the center toward the outermost pad.

Abstract: A display apparatus has an insulating substrate, a signal line for transmitting a signal to a pixel formed in a display area on the insulating substrate, a driver integrated circuit (IC) mounted outside of the display area of the insulating substrate and electrically connected to the signal line, and an inspection pad formed outside of the display area and electrically connected to the signal line. The inspection pad is covered with resin.

Abstract: A display module of an LCD device having a rear case shaped as a four-cornered container having sidewalls on each of its four edges; a backlight assembly formed by depositing and fixing a reflector plate, a light guide plate, and a series of sheets onto a mold frame where a lamp assembly receiving portion, a gate PCB receiving portion, and a source PCB receiving portion are integrally formed; an LCD panel module having an upper panel, a lower panel coupled to the upper panel with a liquid crystal inserted therebetween, a gate PCB electrically connected to an end portion of the lower panel, and a source PCB electrically connected to another end portion of the lower panel and has a conductive pattern for an electric signal to be applied to an inverter; a main chassis which defines an active screen area of the LCD panel module and couples the mold frame and the LCD panel module to the rear case; and a front case coupled to the main chassis and covering a whole surface of the LCD panel module excluding the active

Abstract: An active matrix substrate including a substrate, a pixel array, and a peripheral circuit is provided. The substrate has a display region and a peripheral circuit region adjacent thereto. The pixel array is disposed in the display region. The peripheral circuit is disposed in the peripheral circuit region and includes a first signal line, a second signal line, a first bypass-line, a second bypass-line, a plurality of chip bonding pads, a first dummy bonding pad and a plurality of second dummy bonding pads. The first bypass-line and the first signal line transmit the same signal. The second bypass-line and the second signal line transmit the same signal. The chip bonding pads are disposed between the bypass-lines and the pixel array, and are connected to the pixel array. The first dummy bonding pad is connected to the first bypass-line. Each second dummy bonding pad is connected to the second bypass-line.

Abstract: A tap tape of a tape carrier package prevents connection parts from being eroded. The tap tape includes a base film having a device hole formed to mount a driver chip for driving a panel of a flat panel display, input patterns positioned on the base film and having a plurality of electrode pads connected to a side of the device hole, output patterns positioned on the base film and having a plurality of electrode pads connected to the other side of the device hole; and connection parts positioned at the ends of the input patterns or the output patterns and having electrode pads of widths different from widths of the electrode pads.

Abstract: A display module includes components of a display panel having an outward first FPC for connecting to a system, wherein the first FPC has a foldable part on which a welding area is defined, and a backlight unit opposite to the display panel for providing illumination for the display panel. The backlight unit has an outward second FPC which is welded with the welding area of the foldable part. Both the foldable part and second FPC are folded and turned around to keep the welding area attach to the backside of the backlight unit.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a lower frame arranged in the rear of the display panel when viewed from a viewer, and at least one printed circuit board arranged on or above a flat plane of the lower frame. In this display device, the lower frame carries plural positioning projections. They are located outside of a region, where the printed circuit board is arranged, at positions facing each other with the interposition of the region, and arise from the flat plane of the lower frame toward the printed circuit board. Distal portions of the positioning projections protrude from, and bend away from the printed circuit board arranged on or above the lower frame.

Abstract: At least one substrate includes plural pad electrodes at an end of at least one side, each of the plural pad electrodes includes a metal layer formed on the at least one substrate and a transparent conductive film formed on the metal layer, and a flexible wiring board includes a connection electrode mechanically and electrically connected to the transparent conductive film of each of the pad electrodes. Each of the pad electrodes has, on a surface on which the metal layer is formed, a metal-layer removed area in which the metal layer is not formed in a shape of a recess or an opening, the transparent conductive film covers both an area in which the metal layer is formed and the metal-layer removed area and is electrically connected to the metal layer in the area in which the metal layer is formed, and the connection electrode of the flexible wiring board is superimposed on both the metal layer and the metal-layer removed area of the pad electrode.

Abstract: An electrooptical device includes a substrate that holds an electrooptical substance, a first substrate line and a second substrate line provided on the substrate, a semiconductor device provided on the substrate, a first input bump and a second input bump provided on a surface of the semiconductor device, the surface being close to the substrate, an output bump provided on the surface of the semiconductor device to be connected to the first substrate line, a base material mounted on the substrate, a first line provided on the base material to be electrically connected to the first input bump, and a second line provided on the base material to be electrically connected to the second input bump via the second substrate line.

Abstract: An exemplary liquid crystal panel (100) includes a first substrate (110), a second substrate (120) opposite to the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer (130) sandwiched between the first and second substrates, a plurality of drive integrated circuits (ICs) (114), and a plurality of anisotropic conductive film (ACF) units (115). The first substrate includes a source bonding region (117) and a gate bonding region (118) at the periphery thereof. Each of the source bonding region and the gate bonding region includes a plurality of connecting regions and a plurality of spacing regions each between two connecting regions. The ACF units are disposed on the connecting regions of the source bonding region and the gate bonding region, and are configured for bonding the drive ICs onto the first substrate.

Abstract: A flat display panel comprises a plurality of driver ICs and one or more flexible printed circuit, a plurality of common wires formed on the substrate to electrically connect the ICs to the one or more flexible printed circuit, and at least one anisotropic conductive film that connects respective connecting terminals of the driver ICs and flexible printed circuit to terminals pads of the common wires. The anisotropic conductive film is laminated over the substrate to cover the terminal pads. The driver ICs and flexible printed circuit are aligned and attached on the anisotropic conductive layer by thermocompression bonding.

Abstract: A protective circuit structure of a liquid crystal display is described. The protective circuit structure includes a display panel substrate with a plurality of circuit layers and a bonding area. A plurality of holes are disposed in the bonding area to connect to the circuit layers. A driving circuit is adhered to the bonding area to cover the holes. In addition, an assembly method of a liquid crystal display module is also disclosed herein.

Abstract: Liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal panel having a plurality of gate lines and data lines, and at least one drive-IC having multi-channels, the multi-channels having linked channels connected to the gate lines or data lines and dummy channels not linked to the gate lines or the data lines. The linked channels may be arranged successively in a line and the dummy channels may be arranged at opposite ends of the line of the linked channels to thereby reduce dim block formation by shifting positions of the dummy portions.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a flexible printed circuit, and a holder that holds the display panel and the flexible printed circuit. The flexible printed circuit connects to a first side of the display panel and is bent in the vicinity of the first side, and part of the flexible printed circuit is disposed between the back of the display panel and the holder, the holder having an opening or a depression in the vicinity of the first side of the display panel. The flexible printed circuit deflects so that the top projects into a space in the opening or the depression of the holder, as viewed in section.

Abstract: A display panel comprising a substrate, signal lines, bonding pads, connecting leads, and capacitance compensating devices. The signal lines are disposed on the substrate. The bonding pads are disposed in a bonding area on the substrate and connected to a driver. The connecting leads are arranged in a fan configuration. Lengths of the connecting leads gradually decrease from the outside to the inside of the fan configuration. Each connecting lead is connected between the bonding pad and the signal line and has a compensating section, and lengths of the compensating sections are equal. Each capacitance compensating device is coupled to the compensating section of the corresponding connecting lead. The compensating values of the capacitance compensating devices gradually increase from the outside to the inside of the fan configuration.

Abstract: A display allowing recycling of a flexible printed circuit board and a light source mounted thereon after disassembling of the flexible printed circuit board and the light source is obtained. In this display, the adhesive strength of a surface of a first double-faced adhesive tape bonded to the first flexible printed circuit board mounted with the light source is lower than the adhesive strength of another surface of the first double-faced adhesive tape bonded to the first display panel.

Abstract: In a display device forming a board for mounting a connector which allows inputting of video data thereon and a board for mounting a display control circuit to be connected to the connector thereon on a surface of a display module opposite to an observation side, the board for mounting the connector thereon and the board for mounting the display control circuit thereon are physically separated from each other and, further, an area of the board for mounting the display control circuit thereon is set smaller than an area of the board for mounting the connector thereon.

Abstract: A flat panel display device is presented. The device includes at least one display module in the form of a matrix of pixels formed by active media enclosed between two sets of conductors. The display module has a front side by which it is to be exposed to viewers and an opposite back side where an electronic control circuit is located, and comprises two sets of electrical conductors extending along two intersecting axes respectively to define a two-dimensional array of junctions forming said pixels, each of the conductors of at least one set of conductors being bent to extend from the front side to the opposite back side of the display module.

Abstract: Light-emitting elements can be accurately directly opposed to the entrance surface of a light guide at an accurate distance therefrom, and can be mounted on a single side of a printed circuit board together with other electronic components, whereby the number of manufacturing steps and the thickness of a liquid crystal display device can be reduced. The light guide and the printed circuit board are disposed on the back surface of the liquid crystal display panel, and the respective light-emitting elements are inserted through through-holes formed to extend through the printed circuit board, with the light-emitting portions of the respective light-emitting elements opposed to the entrance surface of the light guide. The light-emitting elements, together with the other electronic components, are mounted on the printed circuit board from one side. Electrodes of the light-emitting elements are bridged and secured to a mounting surface of the printed circuit board.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes an LCD panel, a printed circuit board, and a guide panel which supports the LCD panel and to which the printed circuit board is fixed, wherein the guide panel has at least one rib to hold the printed circuit board.

Abstract: In a display module, a flexible wiring substrate is connected to a terminal portion of a flat display panel, and a reinforcing member is attached to at least one surface of the display panel. The reinforcing member is made wider than the flexible substrate and is arranged so as to cover those regions extending from an overlapping region of two substrates of the display panel to a region extending and reaching the flexible substrate located outside of the terminal portion.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes an insulating substrate, gate and data lines formed on the substrate to define pixel areas, or collectively a display area. Gate signal interconnection wires are formed at a corner portion of the substrate outside the display area to transmit gate electrical signals, and provided with gate signal interconnection lines and first and second gate signal interconnection pads connected to both ends of the gate signal interconnection lines. A gate insulating layer, and a protective layer are further formed on the substrate, and provided with first and second contact holes exposing the first and second gate signal interconnection pads. Gate and data signal transmission films are attached to the substrate, and provided with first and second gate signal leads and first and second gate signal wires. The first and second gate signal leads are connected to the first and second gate signal interconnection pads through the first and second contact holes.

Abstract: An LCD device has an LCD panel having a peripheral region, a heating layer disposed on the LCD panel, and two first flexible printed circuits (FPCs) electrically connected to the heating layer, and adapted to transmit voltage to the heating layer so that the heating layer can generate heat. At least one of the FPCs has a wide portion and a narrow portion being fixed in the peripheral region of the LCD panel and being connected to the heating layer.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display panel, a liquid crystal layer is sandwiched between a TFT substrate and a color filter substrate. An ITO film is formed on a front surface of the color filter substrate. By supplying an electric current to the ITO film at the time of staring an operation of the liquid crystal display panel, a temperature of the liquid crystal layer is elevated to a level which allows the liquid crystal layer to perform a normal operation within a short time. By forming a plating electrode on two sides of the color filter substrate, it is possible to uniformly supply an electric current to the ITO film thus enabling uniform heating of the color filter substrate.

Abstract: According to the present invention, the cost reduction of the liquid crystal display device can be achieved.

Abstract: A tape carrier package includes: a flexible substrate having an end portion that is formed with two recesses spaced apart from each other; a plurality of conductive leads provided on the flexible substrate in a manner to form a pin-like contact array on the end portion of the flexible substrate between the recesses in the end portion of the flexible substrate; and an integrated circuit provided on the flexible substrate and coupled to the conductive leads. A liquid crystal display panel includes: a panel body having a contact region; a driver printed circuit board; and a plurality of the aforesaid tape carrier packages. The pin-like contact array of the conductive leads on the end portion of the flexible substrate is connected to the contact region of the panel body and the driver printed circuit board.

Abstract: A plasma display device includes a plasma display panel, a chassis base coupled to the plasma display panel, a drive circuit coupled to the chassis base, a flexible printed circuit (FPC) couples the drive circuit to electrodes of the plasma display panel. An integrated circuit (IC) is mounted on a film structured in the form of a tape carrier package (TCP), and coupled to the FPC. An epoxy resin deposited in a connecting region where the driver IC is connected to wiring of the FPC is formed with an uneven area that includes indentations and protrusions formed substantially uniformly.

Abstract: In spite of an increase in the size of a liquid crystal display panel, it is possible to prevent the defective connection of a flexible wiring board to a transparent substrate of the liquid crystal display panel. A liquid crystal display device includes a pair of transparent substrates arranged to oppose each other across a liquid crystal, for which they are utilized to form a chamber, a plurality of pixels formed along a spreading direction of the liquid crystal, driving circuits for supplying video signals to the pixels, and a flexible wiring board for supplying signals to the input sides of the driving circuits from a substrate on which a control circuit is mounted, the flexible wiring board being divided into a plurality of portions.