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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8054432 | Liquid crystal display device and method of fabricating the same A method of fabricating a liquid crystal display device, includes applying an alignment film to a substrate surface, provisionally drying the alignment film, baking the alignment film; rubbing; and rubbing washing, which are performed in this sequence, wherein, in a... | 11/08/2011 |
| 7990501 | Transflective type LCD and method for manufacturing the same A method for manufacturing a transflective type LCD having a first substrate provided thereon with a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of signal lines which are substantially perpendicular to each other and a switching element arranged near each of interse... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7936425 | Transflective liquid crystal display device including liquid crystal film with a nematic hybrid orientation formed on a substrate A transflective liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal film and a polarizing plate on a backlight source side. A transflective liquid crystal display device includes an uniaxially anisotropic film (a quarter wave plate) and a polarizing plate on a v... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7907231 | Liquid crystal display apparatus and method for grounding liquid crystal display apparatus Disclosed is a liquid crystal display apparatus, including: a liquid crystal display panel; a polarizing plate which is processed to be conductive and is attached to a surface of the liquid crystal display panel; and a conductive frame, wherein the polarizing plate ... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7880846 | Liquid crystal display device and method of fabricating the same In applying an alignment material to surfaces of a CF substrate and a TFT substrate, which form a liquid crystal panel, to form alignment films, an alignment film is formed so as to cover at least a display region in which pixels are arranged in a matrix fashion, wh... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7871846 | Thin-film transistor, TFT-array substrate, liquid-crystal display device and method of fabricating the same A thin-film transistor includes a gate layer, a gate insulting layer, a semiconductor layer, a drain layer, a passivation layer (each of which being formed on or over an insulating substrate), and a conductive layer formed on the passivation layer. The conductive la... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7852425 | Liquid crystal panel module and liquid crystal display device using the same Disclosed is a liquid crystal display panel module. The liquid crystal display panel module includes a liquid crystal display panel in which a liquid crystal layer is sandwiched between a pair of substrates facing each other, a printed wiring board which is electric... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7817229 | Transflective type LCD and method for manufacturing the same In a transflective type LCD provided with a transparent region and a reflection region in each pixel, when an irregular film 11 is formed on an active matrix substrate 12 to form irregularities of a reflection electrode film 6, the irregular fil... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7782415 | Active matrix subtrate, liquid crystal display panel and method of manufacturing the same Disclosed is an active matrix substrate including a substrate, a gate wiring formed on the substrate, a data wiring formed on the substrate so as to cross the gate wiring, a common wiring formed on the substrate extending approximately parallel to the gate wiring, a... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7724337 | In-plane switching LCD apparatus having parallel uniform pixel and common electrode extensions having a principal portion and a specific portion A pixel region between a common electrode and a pixel electrode is composed of a principal portion in which the direction of extension of the common electrode and the pixel electrode is parallel with the initial alignment direction of the liquid crystal molecules, a... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7718346 | Method of forming wiring pattern and method of manufacturing TFT substrate using the same A method of forming a wiring pattern includes forming a first conductive film pattern, an insulating film and a second conductive film pattern intersecting with the first conductive film pattern on an insulating substrate. In the method, an etching resist pattern fo... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7714973 | Liquid crystal display device and manufacturing method thereof A liquid crystal display device of the present invention prevents certainly disconnection and electrical short of a wiring pattern of a flexible wiring board, and enhances bond strength between a liquid crystal panel and the flexible wiring board. A liquid crystal p... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7714966 | Liquid crystal display with common electrode having cross shaped alignment members A picture electrode of an MVA liquid crystal display device has a configuration where sub-picture electrodes are successively provided, while a cross-shaped slit is provided as an alignment restriction member on a common electrode of the side of a counter substrate.... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7688413 | Active matrix liquid crystal display device In a region where data wirings are formed on a TFT substrate, convex parts, each having a trapezoidal cross section or the like, are formed. A pixel electrode is formed on one of side faces of the convex part, and a common electrode is formed on the other side face.... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7683375 | Thin-film transistor with controllable etching profile A thin-film transistor includes a gate layer, a gate insulting layer, a semiconductor layer, a drain layer, a passivation layer (each of which being formed on or over an insulating substrate), and a conductive layer formed on the passivation layer. The conductive la... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7675579 | Liquid crystal driving electrode with protruded bent tip, liquid crystal display device, and manufacturing method thereof A liquid crystal display device of a multiple-domain in-plane switching mode applies to mutually engaged comb-shaped electrodes for each pixel region. The comb-shaped electrode has bent portions each in a double V shape which is formed as a comb-tooth pattern by cau... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7641373 | Backlight unit Disclosed is a backlight unit which illuminates a display panel from a rear surface thereof, including at least: tubular lamps arranged in parallel to the panel; and a reflecting member which reflects light from the lamps toward the panel, wherein the reflecting mem... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7609343 | Liquid crystal display device and method of manufacturing the same In a semi-transmissive liquid crystal display device, the thickness of liquid crystal layer in the reflective region can be adjusted by controlling the film thickness of the organic insulating film for reflection and the film thickness of the color layer for reflect... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7599036 | In-plane switching active matrix liquid crystal display apparatus In an in-plane switching active matrix LCD apparatus wherein a liquid crystal layer is sealed between a pair of transparent substrates and pectinate pixel electrodes and common electrodes are formed on the transparent substrates, a transparent continuous solid elect... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7597469 | Backlight unit and liquid-crystal display device using the same An edge-light type backlight unit reduces the color unevenness on the display screen caused by the arrangement of point-shaped light sources (e.g., LEDs) in a point-shaped light source unit comprising a set of point-shaped light sources aligned. The backlight unit i... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7593070 | Optical unit and LCD device using the optical unit An optical unit, includes a light conductive plate having a first surface and a second surface, at least one optical sheet on the first surface of the light conductive plate, and a light reflective sheet extending over the entire second surface of the light conducti... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7586570 | Liquid crystal display device The present invention aims to provide a liquid crystal display device capable of realizing a wide view angle. A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal film in which the liquid crystal molecules having positive dielectric anisotropy are diagonal orie... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7585098 | Light source device and liquid crystal display device using the same Color non-uniformity due to LED light sources of a liquid crystal display (LCD) device is improved. A light quantity control film is arranged between an LED source and the entrance surface of a mixing light guide plate. This light quantity control film is arranged i... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7583353 | Liquid crystal display and method of assembling liquid crystal display with plural optical sheets having identification parts corresponding to the position of the optical sheets The invention provides a backlight unit, a liquid crystal display apparatus and a method of assembling the backlight unit in which a large number of optical sheets can be simply and surely assembled into a chassis in an appropriate order and direction, and is charac... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7570327 | Semi-transmissive type liquid-crystal display device and method of fabricating the same A semi-transmissive type liquid-crystal display device suppresses the reduction and corrosion of the transmission or common electrode due to the cell corrosion reaction with a simple method. In each pixel region, the reflection electrode is formed over the glass pla... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7570326 | Semi-transmissive type liquid-crystal display device and method of fabricating the same A semi-transmissive type liquid-crystal display device makes it possible to easily optimize both the reflection characteristic (reflection mode) and the transmission characteristic (transmission mode) while keeping a high aperture ratio, thereby improving the displa... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7564531 | LCD device and method including a plastic substrate with metal layer containing copper surrounded by barrier metal film embedded in a groove within the plastic substrate An active matrix substrate or TFT substrate is provided with a lower layer wiring with a groove wiring structure covering surroundings of a copper layer with a barrier metal film is formed by forming a groove at an insulating substrate and depositing the barrier met... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7518690 | Image display device An image display device prevents display abnormality due to the corrosion and/or disappearance of the testing electrodes and/or and the conductive film for leading lines with a simple structure. Leading lines, which are in the wiring terminal section, electrically c... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7518667 | Method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device In a provided LCD device, a common electrode and a picture element electrode which make up the main portion of a unit picture element of the LCD device are both made up of one thin conductive layer made of a Cr layer, while a common electrode wiring line and a data ... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7518586 | Method and circuit for driving liquid crystal display and image display device A method for driving an LCD and its driving circuits are provided which are capable of being constructed at low costs, of reducing a flicker that occurs when a monochromatic color is displayed or an arbitrary image is displayed and of simultaneously making an adjust... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7515131 | Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof It is a liquid crystal display device which can display simultaneously information which is different in the front and rear sides. It has a single liquid crystal panel, a lighting unit which is arranged at both-sides and comprised with the light source, and a contro... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7499119 | Liquid-crystal display device with thin-film transistors and method of fabricating the same A LCD device prevents corrosion of the transparent conductive layers and contact resistance increase without arising the step coverage degradation due to the thickness increase of the interconnection layer, the step coverage degradation due to the formation of under... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7476898 | Thin film and manufacturing method of the same A TFT of the present invention includes a gate electrode, a gate insulating film and a first semiconductor film which are sequentially formed on an insulating substrate, a second semiconductor film including a high density impurity which is formed on the first semic... | 01/13/2009 |
