Abstract: A mother substrate for a display device includes a display cell, a test pad, an electrostatic preventing pattern and a connecting line. The display cell includes a pad and a signal line. The signal line is extended from the pad and is electrically connected to a pixel. The test pad is disposed out of the display cell and is electrically connected to the signal line of the display cell and receives a test signal. The electrostatic preventing pattern electrically connected to the test pad is disposed adjacent to the test pad and includes a plurality of edges. The electrostatic preventing pattern is formed from a metal pattern. The connecting line is extended from the electrostatic preventing pattern and is electrically connected to the pad of the display cell.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) is provided that comprises a rearward LCD substrate sheet that has an array of vias formed, where the vias provide electrical conduction between both sides of the rearward LCD substrate sheet. The number of vias in the array is substantially equal to or at least equivalent to a combination of a number of column drive lines and a number of row drive lines. The respective drive lines are connected to a corresponding via, such as on one side of the rearward LCD substrate sheet, and respective patterned conductors are connected to a corresponding via, such as on the other side of the rearward LCD substrate sheet. The patterned conductors provide a connection between respective drive lines and one or more corresponding drivers. In one example, this allows a “full bleed” display to be generated.

Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal display (LCD) that has a reduced cost due to an increase in the thickness of the FPC board included of the display. The liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal panel, a first housing having a first side and a second side and a plurality of sides, the liquid crystal panel being accommodated on the first side, a flexible printed circuit board having a first side in contact with the liquid crystal panel, and a second side disposed adjacent to the second side of the first housing, a second housing having a bottom, an opening, and a plurality of sides extending from the bottom to define a cavity, wherein the plurality of sides are fastened to the first housing, further wherein the opening is formed through the bottom to expose at least a portion of the flexible printed circuit board, and a reflective sheet disposed on a interior surface of the bottom.

Abstract: A display substrate includes a plurality of gate lines extending in a first direction and arranged in a second direction in a display area of the display substrate, an alignment film formed in the display area and in an end area adjacent to end portions of the gate lines in a peripheral area surrounding the display area, and a plurality of circuit stages formed in the end area to connect to the gate lines and a dummy stage connected to a last circuit stage of the circuit stages. Each of the circuit stages includes a gate driving circuit disposed at the higher portion the gate line corresponding to the circuit stages and a gate connecting line formed in the peripheral area between the display area and the gate driving circuit to connect each of the circuit stages with each of the gate lines.

Abstract: An image display device includes a light source, an array substrate having a plurality of sub-pixel areas and corresponding to a plurality of color filters, wherein the array substrate includes: a display region and a peripheral region around the display region; and a liquid crystal layer comprising a plurality of liquid crystal molecules. A light transmittance per unit area in the peripheral region of the array substrate is equal to or less than a light transmittance per unit area in the display region of the array substrate, and a resistivity ratio of the color filter having a highest resistivity to the color filter having a lowest resistivity is less than 10 and greater than 0.

Abstract: A chip having a bump layout suitable for the chip on glass technology and a driving IC includes a plurality of first bumps and a plurality of second bumps for electrically connecting to a glass substrate of a displayer. The first and second bumps are disposed on a surface of the chip and near two opposite long sides of the chip respectively. The ratio of the total contacting area of the first bumps to that of the second bumps is between 0.8 and 1.2. Thus, a pressure applied on the chip and the glass substrate of the displayer for connection can be uniformly exerted all over the chip, and the stability of the connection is therefore improved.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display (LCD) in which warping of a liquid crystal panel-driving printed circuit board (PCB) is reduced. The LCD includes: a liquid crystal panel; a lower housing which accommodates the liquid crystal panel; a lamp-driving PCB fixed to the lower housing; a reinforcing member which has one end fixed to at least one surface of the lamp-driving PCB and another end separated from the lamp-driving PCB; and a liquid crystal panel-driving PCB which includes a circuit-mounting board disposed outside the lower housing, wherein at least part of the circuit-mounting board is inserted between the lamp-driving PCB and the reinforcing member, so as to be at least partially supported by the lamp-driving PCB and the reinforcing member.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate, gate lines and data lines disposed on a display area of the first substrate, a common voltage line disposed on a peripheral area of the first substrate, a common voltage transmission unit extending from the common voltage line, an organic layer disposed on the common voltage transmission unit and the common voltage line, a connecting member disposed on the organic layer disposed on the peripheral area, a first insulating layer disposed on the pixel electrode and the connecting member, a common electrode disposed on the first insulating layer, and a short point connecting the connecting member and the common electrode to each other. The common electrode and the first insulating layer include a plurality of cutouts in the peripheral region and display region of the first substrate which have substantially a same plane shape as each other.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a substrate having a display region and a non-display region. In the display region, the gate line and a data line cross to define a pixel region and a thin film transistor is disposed at the crossing portion of the gate and data lines. The thin film transistor includes a gate electrode and source and drain electrodes. A peripheral line having a plurality of openings is disposed in the non-display region. The openings are slits, rectangles, circles, or triangles. The openings relieve plasma during dry-etching of the peripheral line. A pixel electrode is connected to the drain electrode in the pixel region.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device of a horizontal electric field type is disclosed. The LCD device is fabricated by a three-mask process, and has gate pad, common pad and data pad electrodes, each including a upper electrode formed of a transparent conductive material. With a lift-off process, these upper electrodes are formed within contact holes.

Abstract: A display apparatus including an organic light emitting display including a terminal portion, a battery disposed on a surface of the organic light emitting display, and a flexible printed circuit board (PCB) bent to cover the organic light emitting display and the battery, a side of the flexible PCB being connected to the terminal portion and another side of the flexible PCB extending outside and attached to the battery.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other, common voltage wiring disposed on the first substrate and transmitting a common voltage, a first insulating layer disposed on the common voltage wiring, a common electrode disposed on a whole surface of the second substrate, a first conductive member disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and electrically connecting the common electrode and the common voltage wiring to each other, and a sealant combining the first substrate and the second substrate. The first insulating layer includes a first contact hole exposing a first portion of the common voltage wiring and a plurality of a second contact hole exposing a second portion of the common voltage wiring, the second contact hole having a smaller area than the first contact hole.

Abstract: In an element substrate of a liquid crystal device, a peripheral electrode to which a potential different from a common potential applied to a dummy pixel electrode and the like is applied is formed in a region interposed between an image display region and a sealing material. An electrical supply line that supplies the potential from the side to the peripheral electrode runs through the outside from a scanning line driving circuit portion.

Abstract: The driver IC used to activate a display panel has a free region which is proactively provided therein so as to separate its external connection terminals from an edge side thereof by a distance representing at least one row of the terminals. In mounting the driver IC on a display panel by COG technique, the driver IC may be COG-mounted so that bent parts of lead-out lines led out from the display panel and bent at a midway along their lengths to have a narrowed pitch are in position to overlie the free region. The same effect as achieved by reducing the size of the short side of the driver IC by the size of the free region can be obtained. According to the invention, the reduction in frame size of an image-display panel can be readily realized without the need for reducing the chip size of a driver IC.

Abstract: An anisotropic conductive film includes a first thin film layer including concave portions, conductive balls arranged in the concave portions, insulating balls disposed on and between the conductive balls and each having a diameter smaller than the conductive balls, and a second thin film layer disposed covering the insulating balls. A display apparatus includes a pad part and a driving chip, which are electrically connected by the anisotropic conductive film.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to reliably ground an external conductive film formed on an opposed substrate to secure a stable shield effect in an IPS-type liquid crystal display device. An external conductive film formed on an opposed substrate is connected to an earth pad formed on a TFT substrate through a conductive thermocompression bonding tape. The conductive thermocompression bonding tape is connected by a thermocompression bonding head to form a conductive area. The width of the conductive area on the opposed substrate is made larger than the width of the conductive area on the TFT substrate to prevent the conductive thermocompression bonding tape from peeling off from the opposed substrate. Accordingly, the external conductive film of the opposed substrate is reliably grounded.

Abstract: A flexible circuit board according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a flexible base film including a liquid crystal panel bonding part at a side, which is bonded with a liquid crystal panel, a driving integrated circuit at a center of the flexible base film, a plurality of first conductive patterns on the flexible base film and extending from the driving integrated circuit to the liquid crystal panel bonding part, a solder resin layer exposing a first portion of the first conductive patterns, which is disposed on the liquid crystal panel bonding part, and covering a second portion of the first conductive patterns, which is a portion of the first conductive patterns other than the first portion, and a solder resin layer extending part protruding from an edge of the solder resin layer in a direction parallel to a direction in which the first conductive patterns extend.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel with a pad portion area, the pad portion area having an input pad portion, the input pad portion including a plurality of input pads and a plurality of dummy pads, an output pad portion, and a conducting wire portion, the conducting wire portion electrically connecting two dummy pads of the plurality of dummy pads in the input pad portion, a driving integrated circuit (IC) on the pad portion area, the driving IC including an input bump portion corresponding to the input pad portion and an output bump portion corresponding to the output pad portion, and a flexible printed circuit (FPC) electrically connected to the driving IC.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides a TFT array substrate, in which TFT elements and pixel electrodes being correspondingly connected with the TFT elements are arrayed in matrix on an insulating substrate, the TFT array substrate including: gate bus lines made from a first metal material; source bus lines made from a second metal material; pixel electrodes made from a third metal material; a clock wiring made from the first metal material; a branch wiring made from the second metal material; and a connection conductor made from the third metal material, the connection conductor connecting the clock wiring and the branch wiring at a connection part in a periphery area, the connection part having a branch-wiring via hole, which exposes the branch wiring which is covered with the connection conductor, and overlaps the clock wiring at least partly in a plane view.

Abstract: Provided is a display device in which a frame can be made narrower while preventing connection faults. The present invention is a display device, provided with a display device substrate having an external connection terminal and a lower-layer wiring running below the external connection terminal, an external connection component, and a conductive member that electrically connects the display device substrate and the external connection component.

Abstract: Signal lines include a first signal line, a second signal line formed on the first signal line via a first insulating film, and a transparent conductive film formed on the second signal line via a second insulating layer. The transparent conductive film is formed so as to cover a first connection hole which penetrates to the first signal line through the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer and a second connection hole which penetrates to the second signal line through the second insulating layer. A recess portion formed in the first insulating layer and/or the second insulating layer is disposed between the connection hole close to the side edge portion of the substrate of the first and second connection holes. The side edge portion of the transparent conductive film extends to a bottom of the recess portion.

Abstract: A display device at which the contact-type wiring inspection can be accurately carried out is provided. In a display device in which two or more kinds of lines are arranged on a substrate by way of an interlayer insulation film, in at least a partial region of the substrate outside a display region, a plurality of upper-layer lines which are arranged parallel to each other on an upper side of the interlayer insulation film, lower-layer lines which are arranged on a lower side of the interlayer insulation film and between the upper-layer lines or adjacent to the upper-layer lines, and adjustment layers for adjusting a height which are arranged on a lower side of the interlayer insulation film and below the upper-layer lines so as to position surfaces of the upper-layer lines at a highest position on the substrate are formed.

Abstract: Provided is a flexible substrate wherein a connection portion between the flexible substrate and an electric circuit board meets requirements of narrow wiring pitch and low resistance at the connection portion. An electric circuit structure, which has the flexible substrate and the electric circuit board to which the flexible substrate is connected, is also provided. A wiring pattern (22) is formed on a flexible base film (21), a connection terminal (25) connected electrically to an electrode terminal of another electric circuit board is arranged at an end portion of the wiring pattern (22), and the connection terminal (25) includes wide connection terminals (25b, 25c) having a terminal width extending across plural lines of the wiring pattern (22).

Abstract: An electronic device is disclosed. In some embodiments, the electronic device includes a liquid-crystal display (LCD) and a plurality of driver integrated circuits (ICs) coupled to the LCD. The driver ICs may be disposed near non-central locations along a side of the LCD, and in some embodiments, one of the driver ICs may be a master driver IC and the other driver IC or driver ICs may be slave driver ICs.

Abstract: A display substrate, a display device having the same and a method of manufacturing the display substrate are provided. The display substrate includes a base substrate having a pixels-populated area (PA) and a surrounding area (SA) outside the PA, a first contact pad portion formed in the surrounding area, a second contact pad portion formed in the surrounding area formed to be spaced apart from the first contact pad portion with a spacing region provided therebetween, an insulating layer formed in the spacing region between the first and second contact pad portions and having a thickness smaller than or equal to a thickness of each of the first and second contact pad portions, and a first conductive film formed on the first and second pad portions.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) is provided that comprises a rearward LCD substrate sheet that has an array of vias formed, where the vias provide electrical conduction between both sides of the rearward LCD substrate sheet. The number of vias in the array is substantially equal to or at least equivalent to a combination of a number of column drive lines and a number of row drive lines. The respective drive lines are connected to a corresponding via, such as on one side of the rearward LCD substrate sheet, and respective patterned conductors are connected to a corresponding via, such as on the other side of the rearward LCD substrate sheet. The patterned conductors provide a connection between respective drive lines and one or more corresponding drivers. In one example, this allows a “full bleed” display to be generated.

Abstract: A display panel and a display device having the display panel are discussed. According to an embodiment, the display panel includes a lower substrate provided with a display area and a non-display area; a plurality of data pad portions formed at a side region of the non-display area; an upper substrate bonded to the lower substrate, except for the side region of the non-display area; and at least one ground line supplied with ground power, and formed on the lower substrate of the non-display area to surround in part an outline portion of the display area.

Abstract: A connecting structure of the present invention includes a first substrate, a second substrate on which the first substrate is laminated, and a sheet like connection body having one end connected to one principal surface of the first substrate and another end connected to one principal surface of the second substrate, wherein a lengthwise direction of the sheet like connection body is parallel to a perimeter part of the first substrate, and the sheet like connection body has a slit part extending from one of end portions thereof to a part thereof along the lengthwise direction, and has a first end and a second end divided by the slit part at one of end portions, the first end is connected to a principal surface of the first substrate in vicinity of a peripheral part of the first substrate, and the second end is connected to a principal surface of the second substrate in vicinity of a peripheral part of the first substrate.

Abstract: A mounting unit of a second flexible circuit board is arranged on a rear surface side of a liquid crystal display panel. A portion of a first flexible circuit board at which a connection terminal is formed is bonded to an end portion of a display surface side of the liquid crystal display panel, is pulled out from the end portion of the liquid crystal display panel, is bent and overlapped with the opposite surface to the surface where the light emission components of the mounting unit are mounted with a space, and an external terminal is arranged on the rear surface side. An extended portion is pulled out from the mounting unit, is bent so as to return to the direction of the mounting unit, and is overlapped with the first flexible circuit board on an outer surface of the first flexible circuit board.

Abstract: A connecting structure of the present invention includes a first substrate, a second substrate on which the first substrate is laminated, and a sheet like connection body having one end connected to one principal surface of the first substrate and another end connected to one principal surface of the second substrate, wherein a lengthwise direction of the sheet like connection body is parallel to a perimeter part of the first substrate, and the sheet like connection body has a slit part extending from one of end portions thereof to a part thereof along the lengthwise direction, and has a first end and a second end divided by the slit part at one of end portions, the first end is connected to a principal surface of the first substrate in vicinity of a peripheral part of the first substrate, and the second end is connected to a principal surface of the second substrate in vicinity of a peripheral part of the first substrate.

Abstract: An apparatus and method of preventing signal delay in display device according to the present invention includes a first substrate, a driving portion formed on the first substrate, a plurality of signal lines formed on the first substrate to transmit signals to the driving portion, a second substrate facing the first substrate, and a conductive member formed on the second substrate, wherein the driving portion overlaps with the conductive member, and the signal lines and the conductive member do not overlap. Accordingly, the capacitances between the signal lines may be substantially the same.

Abstract: A mounting structure includes a first member that includes a first electrode, a second member that includes a second electrode facing the first electrode, and an anisotropic conductive material that includes conductive particles electrically connecting the first electrode and the second electrode by being deformed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The first electrode is positioned in a bottom portion of an opening portion of an insulating layer that is formed in the first member. At least a part of the periphery of the opening portion of the insulating layer overlaps with the second electrode in a plan view. Also, a particle diameter of the conductive particles is equal to or more than twice a depth value of the opening portion.

Abstract: Provided is an LCD capable of compensating for a resistance variation in a link unit. The resistance variations in the gate lines, data lines and common lines are reduced to minimize the signal distortion in the LCD. Accordingly, it is possible to enhance the image quality characteristics of the LCD. The resistance variation can be reduced by adjusting the number or the size of contact holes in the link unit.

Abstract: An electro-optic device includes: an electro-optic panel; a first flexible printed circuit; a second flexible printed circuit; and a conductive section. Each of the first flexible printed circuit and the second flexible printed circuit has a structure in which a reference potential layer and a signal potential layer are laminated after being insulated from each other, the reference potential layer applying a reference potential to the electro-optic panel, the signal potential layer applying a signal potential to the electro-optic panel, and the first flexible printed circuit and the second flexible printed circuit each having an opening in which a part of the reference potential layer is exposed. The conductive section electrically connects the part exposed in the opening of the reference potential layer in the first flexible printed circuit and the part exposed in the opening of the reference potential layer in the second flexible printed circuit to each other.

Abstract: A substrate for a display device is disclosed which enables further reduction in area of a frame region and a display device comprising the substrate.

Abstract: A stem wiring (13a) having a broad line width is formed above branch wirings (13b) having a narrow line width. In a region where the stem wiring (13a) is connected to the branch wiring (13b), the stem wiring (13a) overlaps with the branch wiring (13b) via a gate insulating film when seen in a plan view, a contact hole is provided in the gate insulating film so as to uncover the branch wiring (13b), and the stem wiring (13a) is electrically connected to the branch wiring (13b) via a connecting conductor formed in the contact hole. Consequently, a TFT array substrate can be achieved, in which a disconnection failure or an abnormal line width is reduced without enlarging the dimension of a driving circuit region.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device and a method for manufacturing the same, are discussed. The liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates each having an active area and a non-active area, gate lines and data lines formed on the active area of the first substrate to define a plurality of pixel areas, thin film transistors formed at intersections of the gate and data lines, pixel electrodes, a common electrode formed over the second substrate, a conductive seal pattern between the first and second substrates, a common line pattern formed on the first substrate to correspond to the conductive seal pattern, and a transparent electrode pattern overlapping the common line pattern with an insulating layer interposed therebetween, the transparent electrode pattern having a width equal to or less than that of the common line pattern.

Abstract: The invention discloses a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel manufacturing method as well as an LCD panel and an LCD. The manufacturing method comprises the following steps: A: Treating a surface of an electrode of an LCD panel, the surface at least comprising a contact surface with an Au ball, to diminish the adhesion of an alignment liquid to the contact surface and prevent the alignment liquid from not coating the contact surface; and B: Coating or printing the alignment liquid. Because the electrode surface to which an Au ball particle will be applied (namely the transfer pad) is treated before the application to diminish the adhesion of the alignment liquid to this surface, and no alignment layer will be formed on the surface of the transfer pad. Therefore, the alignment layer can be very wide, the uniformity of the alignment layer at the edge is good, the accuracy is high, the display effect on the edge of the LCD panel is improved, and the frame of the LCD panel is narrowed.

Abstract: A height difference under a sealant is reduced in a case where lines are present under the sealant. There is provided a substrate having an active matrix display circuit and peripheral driving circuits, a counter substrate having a counter electrode provided on the substrate in a face-to-face relationship therewith, a sealant provided between the substrate and the counter substrate such that it surrounds the active matrix display circuit and peripheral driving circuits, a liquid crystal material provided inside the sealant, a plurality of external connection lines provided on the substrate under the sealant with a resin inter-layer film interposed therebetween for electrically connecting the active matrix display circuit and peripheral driving circuits to circuits present outside the sealant and an adjustment layer provided in the same layer as the plurality of external connection lines.

Abstract: A display device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: a substrate, a plurality of gate lines formed on the substrate, a plurality of data lines formed on the substrate, a plurality of switching elements connected to the gate lines and the data lines, a plurality of clock signal transmitting lines formed on the substrate, and a gate driver connected to the gate lines and the clock signal transmitting lines. A direction of each of the clock signal transmitting lines is changed approximately ninety degrees in a first region and a second region. The regions are disposed between an edge of the substrate and the gate driver. A symmetry is present between portions of the clock signal transmitting lines arranged in the first region and the second region.

Abstract: Disclosed is a gate printed circuit board, a connector-free liquid crystal display (LCD) panel assembly, a driving-signal timing module included in the liquid crystal display (LCD) panel assembly, and a method of driving the liquid crystal display (LCD) panel assembly. According to the present invention, since a separate connector and a gate printed circuit board of a conventional LCD panel is not required for applying a gate-driving signal generated from an external information processing device, a thickness and the number of parts of the LCD device is reduced. Further, when the gate-driving signal is transmitted through the TFT substrate, the voltage Voff for maintaining a thin-film transistor (TFT) in a turned-off state is modified so that users may not recognize the imbalance in brightness.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device (100) according to the present invention includes a first substrate (10) including pixel electrodes (11), gate lines (G) and switching elements (12), a second substrate (20) including a plurality of signal electrodes (21) which are electrically independent of each other, and a liquid crystal layer (30) interposed between the first and second substrates. The first substrate further includes a gate driver (15) which generates gate signals to be supplied to the gate lines. The second substrate further includes an external connecting terminal section (24). A signal that has been input through the external connecting terminal section is supplied to the gate driver. The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device with a counter source structure which contributes to narrowing its frame area.

Abstract: A chip on film (COF) structure for a liquid crystal panel is disclosed, and comprises a flexible substrate, an output edge, a first wire bonding portion, two second wire bonding portions, a fan-out trace portion, and two array trace portions. A long direction of lead strips of the second wire bonding portion is parallel to the output edge, and the array trace portions connect one end of the lead strips of the second wire bonding portion to the output edge. The design of the second wire bonding portions parallel to the output edge and turning traces of the array trace portions can lower the length of the fan-out trace portion, so that it is advantageous in a design trend of narrow frame edge of a liquid crystal panel.

Abstract: Inter-substrate connection terminals are provided between four corners of an opposed substrate and a TFT substrate. Lines are provided between first and second terminals in the TFT substrate and an external circuit connection terminal. Lines are provided between first and second terminals, between first and third terminals, between the third and fourth terminals, and between second and fourth terminals, respectively. Lines bypassing the first terminal are provided between lines. A line bypassing the second terminal is provided between lines.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display with an integrated mounting portion for receiving a printed circuit board is presented. A liquid crystal panel has a first surface on which an image is displayed and a second surface opposite the first surface, a printed circuit board is connected to the liquid crystal panel and has a front surface and a rear surface, and an intermediate receiving container includes a frame and a printed circuit board mounting portion positioned on a sidewall of the frame. The printed circuit board is mounted on the printed circuit board mounting portion such that the front plane of the printed circuit board and the first plane of the liquid crystal panel face the same side.

Abstract: A display device includes a TFT substrate with gate signal lines, drain signal lines, thin-film transistors connected thereto, a gate driver connected to the gate signal lines, a drain driver having output terminals connected to drain signal lines, and a film substrate having first wirings. The first wirings are disposed between the drain driver and the film substrate. The drain driver is mounted on the film substrate, and the output terminals are connected to the first wirings between the film substrate and the drain driver. The output terminal includes first group terminals formed in parallel with a longer edge of the drain driver, and second group terminals formed in parallel with the longer edge and disposed between the loner edge and the first group terminals.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a TFT substrate having a display region which has first and second electrodes, a plurality of TFTs and a plurality of scanning signal lines connected to the plurality of TFTs, a counter substrate, a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the TFT and counter substrates, and sealed by a sealant, a plurality of scanning line leads connected to the plurality of scanning signal lines formed in a region outside of the display region, and a shield electrode formed on the TFT substrate covering the plurality of scanning line leads. The second electrode is connected to one of the plurality of TFTs, and liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer are driven by an electric field, which is generated between the first and second electrodes. The shield electrode is electrically connected to the first electrode and overlapped with the sealant in plan view.

Abstract: A flat panel display (FPD) has a conductive heat proof plate inserted into the back surface of a display panel on which printed circuit boards (PCBs) and signal lines are formed. The signal lines are surrounded by a blocking unit, and the external surface of the blocking unit is made of a conductive material to be electrically coupled to the heat proof plate so that resistance against electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) of a large flat panel display is improved and a thermal characteristic is improved.

Abstract: First terminals and second terminals, which are terminals of adjacent terminal wires, are staggered in the direction in which wires run, and transparent conductive films provided to the first terminals and second terminals extend so as to overlap the terminal wires outside the regions in which contact holes are created and are formed so as to have a width narrower than the width of the terminal wires in the regions where contact holes are created.

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.