Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes first and second substrates, a liquid crystal layer, a sealing member, and first and second spacers. The first substrate includes a first display part having a pixel electrode formed thereon. The second substrate includes a second display part having a common electrode. The liquid crystal layer is interposed between the first and second substrates. The seal line includes a liquid crystal inlet. The first spacer is disposed between the first and second display parts. The second spacer is disposed near the liquid crystal inlet. The second and third spacers prevent the cell gap of the liquid crystal inlet from being narrowed, so that a liquid crystal material may be injected easily completely. Thus, the liquid crystal material is completely filled to enhance the display quality.

Abstract: An apparatus for fabricating a liquid crystal display device includes a controller for providing nitrogen (N2) gas at a constant pressure, a plurality of dispensers receiving the nitrogen gas from the controller, each of the dispensers dotting a silver paste at two or more regions of a first substrate, and a plurality of flow control valves each introducing the nitrogen gas into each of the plurality of dispensers at the same pressure.

Abstract: Disclosed is a system for fabricating a liquid crystal display using liquid crystal dropping and a method of fabricating a liquid crystal display using the same. The present invention includes a liquid crystal forming line dropping liquid crystals on the first substrate, a sealant forming line forming the sealant on the second substrate, and a bonding and hardening line bonding the two substrates to each other and hardening the sealant, printing a sealant, bonding the substrates each other, and hardening the sealant and an inspection process line of cutting the bonded substrates into panel units and grinding and inspecting the unit panels.

Abstract: A seal pattern for a liquid crystal display device includes a substrate having an active area and a non-active area, a main seal pattern arranged in a boundary between the active area and the non-active area and having an injection hole, a V-shaped seal pattern arranged in the non-active area and spaced apart from the injection hole, wherein an open portion of the V-shape faces in a direction opposite the injection hole, and a sub-seal pattern arranged in the non-active area, having a same width as that of the main seal pattern, and having a plurality of exhaust holes arranged in positions corresponding to the V-shaped seal pattern and the injection hole.

Abstract: Disclosed are a fixing device and method of fixing substrate to provide holding means capable of surely fixing and positioning a sheet-like substrate even in vacuum, and to provide an operational mechanism thereof. A fixing device includes: a carrier plate for setting a glass substrate thereon; a claw for pressing the glass substrate set on the carrier plate, when the glass substrate is set thereon, by sandwiching the glass substrate from the periphery thereof; and an airbag having air sealed therein and expanding by lowering an external pressure. The claw is operated by using expansion of the airbag as power, thereby fixing the glass substrate.

Abstract: Bubbles mixed in liquid crystal injected into a liquid crystal cell are pushed out through an outlet. The outlet has a space secured to a maximum limit by an extended sealing portion reaching the outer peripheral end surfaces of substrates, and a step with a color filter is formed. The pushed-out bubbles are surely trapped by the space of the outlet. In a replenishing port for replenishing liquid crystal, an introduction spacer having a height equal to that of the color filter is provided, and by a capillary phenomenon, liquid crystal for replenishment can be smoothly introduced into the liquid crystal cell.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device includes a vacuum processing chamber having a substrate entrance, an upper stage and a lower stage provided at an interior of the vacuum processing chamber, and a compensation system positioned within the vacuum processing chamber for compensating for a temperature loss of the vacuum processing chamber when a pressure in the interior of the vacuum processing chamber is reduced.

Abstract: A liquid crystal dispensing system includes a container for containing liquid crystal; a liquid crystal measuring sensor proximate the container; a discharge pump for pumping liquid crystal from the container, and a nozzle for dispensing liquid crystal discharged from the discharge pump onto a substrate. In an exemplary embodiment, the crystal dispensing system includes a control unit for controlling a discharge amount of liquid crystal discharged from the discharge pump and calculating and compensating a dispensing amount of liquid crystal based on an amount of measured liquid crystal in the container.

Abstract: A liquid droplet discharging method of the present invention forms a pattern on a substrate by discharging liquid droplets on the substrate from a discharging head having a liquid droplet discharging device, and moving the discharging head and the substrate relatively, and includes the steps of: preparing CAD data specified by a combination of a plurality of vector data; preparing bitmap data including an XY-matrix in which discharging positions of the liquid droplets are specified based on the CAD data; preparing liquid droplet discharging data for discharging of the liquid droplets based on the bitmap data; and forming the pattern by driving the liquid droplet discharging device based on the liquid droplet discharging data.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for manufacturing a plurality of multi-layered cells, particularly liquid crystal display cells, or electrochemical photovoltaic cells, or a combination of such cells, each cell including at least two superposed sealed cavities each delimited by a sealing frame and filled with a liquid, this method comprising the step of collectively manufacturing a batch of cells including at least three plates common to all the display cells and connected to each other by patterns of sealing material connecting said plates to each other and forming the sealing frames which delimit the cavities of said cells, this method being characterised in that filling holes are pierced through the plates such that each of the cavities of a cell is fed by a different filling hole, each of the filling holes being in communication with at least two cells and feeding the cavities of the same level, i.e.

Abstract: A smectic liquid crystal, typically, ferroelectric liquid crystal is uniformly orientated as follows: a space is provided as a dummy region in an area outside a panel region where a liquid crystal inlet is placed; two substrates are overlapped and cut into panels of a desired size, leaving the panel region and the dummy region whereas the rest is cut off; a liquid crystal is injected with the dummy region left in the liquid crystal inlet portion; and, immediately after the liquid crystal is injected, the dummy region is cut off to carry out monostabilization treatment.

Abstract: A method of preventing seal damage in LCD panel manufacturing. A photo spacer pattern made of photoresist is used instead of extra seal pattern, such that tact time of sealing process is reduced, air blockage is enhanced, the number of TFT-array areas able to be formed on a glass substrate is increased, and chipping or unevenness of the panel resulting during panel cutting owing to extra seal patterns are all avoided.

Abstract: A driver circuit-integrated type active matrix substrate 212 has, on a glass substrate 210, a liquid crystal display unit 221 including a matrix array composed of thin film transistors, and driver circuits 224–226 for driving the liquid crystal display unit. A peripheral portion of the glass substrate 210 has recessed grooves 260–263 formed therein, and power supply lines 251–254 for supplying power to the driver circuits 225 and 226 are buried in the recessed grooves. Such a configuration reduces the resistance of bus wiring lines such as the power supply lines for the driver circuits and data lines, without increasing an area of the peripheral portion. The driver circuit-integrated type active matrix substrate reduces an amount of voltage drop in power supply voltage, ensuring reliable operation of the driver circuits.

Abstract: A seal pattern for a liquid crystal display device includes a substrate having an active area and a non-active area, a main seal pattern arranged in a boundary between the active area and the non-active area and having an injection hole, a V-shaped seal pattern arranged in the non-active area and spaced apart from the injection hole, wherein an open portion of the V-shape faces in a direction opposite the injection hole, and a sub-seal pattern arranged in the non-active area, having a same width as that of the main seal pattern, and having a plurality of exhaust holes arranged in positions corresponding to the V-shaped seal pattern and the injection hole.

Abstract: A seal material for isolating a liquid crystal material from the outside is provided between substrates disposed opposite to each other with the liquid crystal material interposed therebetween. The seal material is formed as an annular pattern having no portion that contacts the liquid crystal material. There is a first rib-like supporting strut for preventing contact between the liquid crystal and the seal material and a second rib-like supporting strut that is positioned with respect to the first rib-like supporting strut to form a passage into which the liquid crystal material flows from an opening formed in the first rib-like supporting strut, which opening serves as an exit, the supporting struts being formed inside the seal material and between the substrates.

Abstract: In a method of filling a liquid crystal display panel with liquid crystal and a liquid crystal filling system using the method, a seal line and spacers are formed on a color filter substrate. A first volume defined by the seal line and a second volumes defined by the spacers are obtained. An amount of liquid crystal to be supplied into a region enclosed by the seal line is precisely calculated based on the first and second volumes. Shortage of the liquid crystal supplied into the LCD panel and overflow of the liquid crystal can be avoided. Accordingly, the steps for supplying the liquid crystal into the LCD panel may be reduced, and simultaneously peripheral regions of the LCD panel be prevented from being contaminated by the liquid crystal while the liquid crystal is filled into the LCD panel.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device comprising a pair of substrates between which a liquid crystal layer is interposed, a display surface provided on one of the substrates, and a lighting device arranged at a side of another of the substrates, the present invention forms a light shielding film on at least one of side surfaces of the substrates along a direction perpendicular to the display surface and prevents light leak leaking from the lighting device through the at least one of side surfaces.

Abstract: A flexible liquid crystal display (LCD) substrate support structure and a method of supporting a flexible LCD substrate during fabrication have been provided. The method forms channels or trenches in-between a rigid support substrate and the flexible LCD substrate. A vacuum is created in the channels or trenches to pull adhesive in. The adhesive formed in this manner contains no air or water bubbles whose expansion in subsequent LCD fabrication processes can destroy the integrity of thin film transistor films formed on the flexible LCD substrate.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a thin display (15), and a method of manufacturing the same. The display (15) comprises an isolated substrate 80), with cavities (60) also called micro pockets in a pattern, or created with a separate sheet (55) with holes (60) mounted on the substrate (80). These micro pockets (60) will make the picture elements of the display (15). The display (15) further comprises perforated holes (70) in the centre of the micro pockets (60) and a conductive material (40, 50) covering the surfaces inside the micro pockets (60) and the perforated holes. An electro-optical material (30) fill the cavities (60), and a uniform layer of transparent conductive material (20) cover all the filled micro pockets (60). A top layer of a transparent substrate (10) cover the conductive layer (20).

Abstract: Display panel with the integrated driver circuit, the display panel comprises an isolating array substrate and further comprises a plurality of peripheral areas, a liquid crystal injection hole, display area, gate driver circuit and data driver circuit. This invention disposes the data driver circuit on the adjacent edge of the peripheral area, and disposes the liquid crystal injection hole on one peripheral area which is opposite to one of the adjacent edges. This invention makes it convenient to design the display panel.

Abstract: One substrate is supported by an attracting and adsorbing operation and by an adhesive means provided inside a pressurizing plate; the other of substrate, on which a liquid crystal agent is dropped, is supported on a table by an attracting and adsorbing operation or by an adhesive means. Then, the pressure inside the chamber is reduced until a designated reduced pressure level is attained, and the pressure is increased after the substrates come firmly into contact with an adhesive agent that has been provided on the other of substrates, so that the individual substrates are attracted and adsorbed by the pressurizing plate and the table, whereby the substrates are laminated while positioning the substrates. Then, by retracting the adhesive means in the pressurizing plate or the table, the adhesive member is removed from the substrate surface, while or after twisting the adhesive member.

Abstract: A bonding machine for fabrication of a large size LCD having an upper stage and a lower stage provided in a bonding chamber to face each other, for adsorbing the first and second substrates carried in the bonding chamber, and bonding the substrates together. The bonding machine having supporting means in the bonding chamber, lifting means, and process supplementing means fitted in the bonding chamber so as to be rotatable and movable up/down. The method including loading the first and second substrates on respective stages, driving the supporting means to support the second substrate loaded on the upper stage, and evacuating the bonding chamber, the upper stage adsorbing the second substrate and bonding the first and second substrates together, and lifting the bonded first and second substrates from the lower stage by using the lifting means, and unloading the first and second substrates.

Abstract: A method and system are used for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device such that a dispensing amount of liquid crystal is measured. The method includes steps of filling liquid crystal into a case portion of a liquid crystal dispenser, assembling the liquid crystal dispenser to set the case portion into the liquid crystal dispenser, setting the liquid crystal dispenser in a testing apparatus, testing dispensing characteristics of the liquid crystal dispenser, mounting the liquid crystal dispenser on a liquid crystal dispensing unit of a production line after the testing the dispensing characteristics, dispensing the liquid crystal from the liquid crystal dispenser onto a first substrate of the liquid crystal display device disposed beneath the mounted liquid crystal dispenser, and assembling the first substrate with a second substrate to form a liquid crystal display device.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing liquid crystal devices on a silicon substrate is disclosed. Such a method is accomplished by preparing a silicon substrate having a plurality of die arranged in an array with scribe streets between the dies, and alignment marks within designated scribe streets; preparing a glass substrate having scribe lines, alignment marks within designated scribe lines and openings for filing liquid crystal; attaching the glass substrate to the silicon substrate using the alignment marks on the glass substrate and on the silicon substrate to form a silicon-glass assembly; filling liquid crystal, via the openings on the glass substrate, into a cell gap of each die on the silicon-glass assembly, and sealing the openings on each die to form a liquid crystal device; and separating liquid crystal devices from the silicon-glass assembly along the scribe lines on the glass substrate.

Abstract: Disclosed are a fixing device and method of fixing substrate to provide holding means capable of surely fixing and positioning a sheet-like substrate even in vacuum, and to provide an operational mechanism thereof. A fixing device includes: a carrier plate for setting a glass substrate thereon; a claw for pressing the glass substrate set on the carrier plate, when the glass substrate is set thereon, by sandwiching the glass substrate from the periphery thereof; and an airbag having air sealed therein and expanding by lowering an external pressure. The claw is operated by using expansion of the airbag as power, thereby fixing the glass substrate.

Abstract: A structure of liquid crystal display and manufacture method thereof are described. The liquid crystal display is manufactured by a one drop fill process. The display comprises a first substrate, a second substrate, a conductive pattern layer, a black matrix layer, a liquid crystal layer and an ultraviolet-type seal. The metal pattern layer is made of indium tin oxide and formed on the first substrate. Therefore, the metal pattern layer is a transparent layer allowing the ultraviolet light to pass through. The ultraviolet-type seal is pre-cured by the ultraviolet light from the first substrate direction to the seal, and then cured by a heating process. Hence, the liquid crystal pollution problem is reduced.

Abstract: A producing method of a liquid crystal display panel includes steps (a) to (e). The Step (a) is fixing a counter substrate on a fixing table, wherein the counter substrate includes a plurality of counter portions each of which includes a plurality of counter electrodes. The Step (b) is dividing the counter substrate into the plurality of counter portions. The Step (c) is putting a liquid crystal material on the each of plurality of counter portions. The Step (d) is attaching a device substrate and the counter substrate together, wherein the device substrate includes a plurality of device portions each of which includes a plurality of switching devices. The Step (e) is dividing the device substrate into the plurality of device portions. The each of plurality of device portions is attached to a corresponding one of the each of plurality of counter portions.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display panel, comprising the steps of: forming a plurality of pixels on a first substrate; forming a plurality of micro cell structures on the first substrate, wherein each micro cell structure surrounds at least one pixel; forming a first alignment layer on the first substrate; providing the micro cell structures with a liquid crystal by utilizing Ink Jet Printing technology; and combining the first substrate with a second substrate by forming a sealing member therebetween.

Abstract: A method of cleaning a liquid crystal display bonding chamber includes loading a first substrate and a second substrate in the bonding chamber, bonding the first substrate and the second substrate to produce bonded substrates, unloading the bonded substrates, repeating the loading, the bonding and the unloading for K times, where K is an integer greater than zero, and cleaning the bonding chamber.

Abstract: Relating to a method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device, minimizing liquid crystal material loss and use of cleaning solvent, and providing a liquid crystal display device in which a seal pattern having few gap inconsistencies are taken as a objective. Liquid crystal material wraparound can be prevented by forming a seal stopper portion outside a peripheral seal portion, and in addition, by increasing the degree of symmetry of the seal pattern and by forming a damming portion between injection ports, gap inconsistencies within the liquid crystal display device can be reduced.

Abstract: First, a completed liquid crystal cell made by adhering two substrates with a sealant is loaded into a liquid crystal injection chamber, and then the liquid crystal injection chamber forms a high vacuum by evacuating much of the air from the chamber. The injection hole of the sealant is completely immersed in the liquid crystal material. At this time, the interior of the liquid crystal cell enclosed by the sealant is under high vacuum. Next, non-active gas is injected into the interior of the liquid crystal injection chamber, and then the vacuum in the interior of the chamber is reduced or it is allowed to return to atmospheric pressure. Then, because the interior of the liquid crystal injection chamber is at low vacuum or at atmospheric pressure and the interior of the liquid crystal cell enclosed by the sealant is at high vacuum, the liquid crystal material is injected into the interior of the liquid crystal cell enclosed by the sealant.

Abstract: A lower holding table and an upper holding table, which hold substrates, respectively, are moved relative to each other, causing one of the substrates to contact the drops of liquid crystal, formed on the other substrate. The substrate that is held on the lower holding table is thereby made to float. Next, the floating substrate is made to abut on the lower holding table. A contact load smaller than the bonding load to be applied to bond the substrates together is thereby applied to the two substrates, thus aligning the substrates with each other in the horizontal direction. The bonding load is applied to the two substrates thus aligned. The substrates are thereby bonded with a seal layer.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display panel is provided which includes bonding a pair of substrates to each other with a gap maintained therebetween and defining an intake between the substrates, injecting liquid crystal into a space between the substrates through the intake in an environment heated in comparison with room temperature, and sealing the intake by a sealant, with the environment kept heated from the injecting of the liquid crystal.

Abstract: Method for fabricating an LCD having the liquid crystal dropping method applied thereto including loading first and second substrates into a bonding chamber, aligning the first and second substrates, bonding the first and second substrates, venting the bonding chamber for applying a pressure to the bonded substrates, inspecting the substrates, and unloading the first and second substrates.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a liquid crystal display includes a unitary vacuum processing chamber having a substrate entrance, a loader part to load first and second substrates through the substrate entrance, one of the first and second substrates having a liquid crystal material disposed thereupon, upper and lower stages disposed within the vacuum processing chamber for affixing the first and second substrates, a stage moving system for providing relative movement between the upper and lower stages, and a vacuum generating system for evacuating an interior of the vacuum processing chamber.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel and method for fabricating the same are disclosed in the present invention. The liquid crystal display panel includes first and second substrates facing into each other, a column spacer in a pixel region between the substrates, a dummy column spacer formed in a dummy region between the substrates, the dummy column spacer having an opened portion in at least one of corner-regions, a UV sealant formed outside the dummy column spacer between the substrates, and a liquid crystal layer between the substrates.

Abstract: An LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) manufacturing method includes: a step of forming a columnar spacer for maintaining a gap between a TFT (Thin Film Transistor) substrate and a CF (Color Filter) substrate into which a liquid crystal is to be injected; and a subsequent step of performing under-pressure hole sealing processing which determines the gap finally, as applying an under-pressure hole sealing load value of 0.15-0.60 kg/cm2.

Abstract: A droplet discharge method for discharging a liquid material from a discharge device and arranging the liquid material in a specified quantity on a substrate, the discharge device includes a nozzle for discharging the liquid material in droplets, and the droplet discharge method include the steps of cleaning the nozzle using the liquid material, and arranging at least a part of the liquid material used for cleaning on the substrate.

Abstract: A liquid crystal dispensing apparatus for controlling the amount of liquid crystal dropped onto a substrate by controlling the tension of a spring. The spring applies a force to a needle that forces the needle toward an opening on the end of the container so as to close the opening. A tension controller controls that length of the spring, and thus its force. A solenoid moves the needle against the spring when an electric source is applied to the solenoid such that the opening is opened. The spring tension controls the time required to return the needle to a position that closes the opening. The spring tension also controls the amount of liquid crystal that is ejected when the opening is opened.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a liquid crystal display panel having first and second substrates, the method includes the steps of forming first and second orientation films on the first and second substrates, respectively, forming a seal material at edges of the first substrate, assembling the first and second substrates with each other, performing a first pressurizing and heating process on the first and second substrates to form a first cell gap, injecting a liquid crystal material into the first cell gap, performing second pressurizing and heating process on the first and second substrates to form a second cell gap, and sealing the second cell gap.

Abstract: The present invention is related to a method of fabricating a ferroelectric liquid crystal display which prevents problems of injecting liquid crystal that result from a volume shrinking of the liquid crystal during the injection process. In the method, the pressure in a chamber is changed to above a liquid crystal injection pressure, while cooling a liquid crystal panel after injecting the liquid crystal, and at the same time, the temperature of a liquid crystal tray maintained at a liquid crystal injection temperature, to continue injection of the liquid crystal to an otherwise un-injected portion of the liquid crystal panel, so that an problems related to inadequate injection can be prevented.

Abstract: This invention relates to liquid crystal (LC) displays comprising cells of well-defined shape, size and aspect ratio which cells are filled with a liquid crystal composition preferably containing dichroic dye(s), and novel processes for their manufacture.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for fabricating a liquid crystal display that is capable of shortening a liquid crystal exhaust time in a liquid crystal injection and sealing process to improve the productivity of the liquid crystal display. In the apparatus and method, a heater heats a high-pressure air pressurizing the upper plate and the lower plate of the liquid crystal display panel to heat and pressurize the upper plate and the lower plate of the liquid crystal display panel. Accordingly, the liquid crystal is heated when it is exhausted by the pressurization to have a low viscosity, so that a liquid crystal exhaust time can be shorted to improve the productivity of the liquid crystal display.

Abstract: Liquid crystal material is introduced into a liquid crystal panel having upper and lower substrates and a seal pattern having an injection port at a peripheral portion thereof including, preparing an open portion that elongates from the injection port to a side of the lower substrate. The liquid crystal material is in a tray having a protruded portion corresponding in shape to the open portion. The protruded portion of the tray is inserted into the injection port, so that the liquid crystal material in the tray can be injected into the panel through the protruded portion and the injection port. After the injection process, there is no need to clean the panel, because liquid crystal material does not contaminate the outside of the panel.

Abstract: Method for fabricating an LCD having the liquid crystal dropping method applied thereto, including providing a first substrate and a second substrate having seals formed thereon, loading the first and second substrates into a bonding chamber, bonding the first and second substrates, setting the bonded first and second substrates, venting the bonding chamber for applying a pressure to the first and second substrates, and unloading the first and second substrates having the pressure applied thereto.

Abstract: A method and system are used for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device such that a dispensing amount of liquid crystal is measured. The method includes steps of filling liquid crystal into a case portion of a liquid crystal dispenser, assembling the liquid crystal dispenser to set the case portion into the liquid crystal dispenser, setting the liquid crystal dispenser in a testing apparatus, testing dispensing characteristics of the liquid crystal dispenser, mounting the liquid crystal dispenser on a liquid crystal dispensing unit of a production line after the testing the dispensing characteristics, dispensing the liquid crystal from the liquid crystal dispenser onto a first substrate of the liquid crystal display device disposed beneath the mounted liquid crystal dispenser, and assembling the first substrate with a second substrate to form a liquid crystal display device.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a display panel includes a first step, a second step which is to be carried out immediately before the first step, and a third step which is to be carried out immediately after the first step. The first step takes longer time to be carried out per a display panel than those of the second and third steps. The number of display panels to be processed in the first step is greater than both the number of display panels having been processed in the second step and the number of display panels to be introduced into the third step.

Abstract: A liquid crystal micro display (lcmd) is manufactured by creating a hole in an lcmd surface, filling the lcmd with liquid crystal material through the hole, and then sealing the hole. The invention allows an lcmd to be tested before it is separated from other lcmds and packaged. As a result, the invention increases the yield and reduces the cost associated with lcmd manufacturing.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a thin film transistor substrate, on which a plurality of data lines and gate lines are positioned perpendicular to each other; a plurality of pixel electrodes formed near intersections of the data lines and the gate lines; a color filter substrate positioned parallel to the thin film transistor substrate, including a color filter layer, a black matrix and a common electrode formed thereon; a polymer wall arrangement formed either on the thin film transistor substrate or on the color filter substrate dividing the substrate into a plurality of liquid crystal panels; and at least one liquid crystal injection opening formed on each panel of the plurality of liquid crystal panels.