Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7952653 | Liquid crystal display device having ESD protection circuit and method for manufacturing the same A source electrode and a drain electrode on a silicon oxide film (31) each has a double-layered structure of an ITO film (32), a transparent electrode, and a metal film (33) formed on the ITO film (32). A gap (35), no source electr... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7649584 | LCD array substrate and fabrication method thereof An LCD array substrate includes a plurality of gate lines arranged in a first direction; a plurality of data lines arranged in a second direction to cross the plurality of gate lines; a semiconductor layer formed at overlapping regions of the gate lines and the data... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7432528 | TFD LCD panel Active devices in a thin film diode (TFD) liquid crystal display (LCD) panel used to control liquid crystal are formed by a metal layer, a transparent conductive layer, and an insulating layer sequentially on a substrate, wherein the metal layer is used as transmitt... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7425999 | Electro-optical device and manufacturing method thereof To suppress the occurrence of a failure caused by static electricity in the manufacturing process of an active matrix type display device in which an active matrix circuit and peripheral drive circuits are integrated on a glass substrate, a protective capacitor to b... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7352053 | Insulating layer having decreased dielectric constant and increased hardness A method of manufacturing a mechanically robust insulating layer, including forming a low-k dielectric layer having a first dielectric constant on a substrate and forming a carbon nitride cap layer on the low-k dielectric layer, the insulating layer thereby having a... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7335538 | Method for manufacturing bottom substrate of liquid crystal display device A method for manufacturing liquid crystal display substrates comprises the steps of: (a) providing a substrate having a transparent electrode layer and a metal layer; (b) forming a patterned photoresist layer through half-tone or diffraction; (c) defining signal lin... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7242442 | Active matrix substrate, display apparatus, and method for producing the same In an active matrix substrate for allowing a point defect of a defect pixel portion, among a plurality of pixel portions arranged two-dimensionally, to be repaired by radiation of energy, the active matrix substrate includes one of a first protection member for abso... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7184108 | Display device and diode array panel therefor A liquid crystal display is provided, which includes: a pair of first and second signal lines transmitting select pulses having opposite polarity; a third signal line transmitting data voltages; first and second field generating electrodes separated from each other ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7151578 | Two-layered conductive film having transmitting and expanding electrical signal functions A wiring structure includes: a plurality of linear conductors extending generally parallel to one another; a first input terminal for inputting an electrical signal to a first group of linear conductors selected from among the plurality of linear conductors; and a s... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7081939 | Display device having a black matrix overlapping a gate control signal line formed on substrate A control signal unit includes a substrate, a signal line formed on the substrate, and an insulating layer covering the signal line. A contact hole exposes the signal line with a predetermined width. The contact hole has a lateral side bordering on the signal line. ... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7061556 | Display device using bidirectional two-terminal element and manufacturing method of display device To provide an active matrix type display device which can be manufactured by an easier method than before. A display device 100 has a plurality of first electrodes 11, a plurality of bidirectional two-terminal elements 12, a plurality of ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7030952 | Microdisplay pixel cell and method of making it A plurality of active areas are defined on a semiconductor substrate. Then at least one gate is formed on the semiconductor substrate to cover a portion of the active area. Thereafter a plurality of source/drain are formed in the active area not covered by the gate ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7018915 | Group III nitride compound semiconductor device and method for forming an electrode An AlN buffer layer 2; a silicon (Si)-doped GaN high-carrier-concentration n+ layer 3; an Si-doped n-type Al0.07Ga0.93N n-cladding layer 4; an Si-doped n-type GaN n-guide layer 5; an active layer 6 ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7002647 | Display device and method of manufacturing the same An active matrix type display device is realized by integrally forming pixel electrodes and switching thin film transistors. The display device has a panel structure formed by a pair of substrates bonded to each other with a predetermined gap separating them and a l... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6980263 | Display device using bidirectional two-terminal element and manufacturing method thereof A display device includes a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of picture electrodes electrically connected to one of the plurality of first electrodes via at least one bidirectional two-terminal element respectively, a plurality of second electrodes, and a ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6970225 | Electrooptic device, method for manufacturing the same, and electronic apparatus An electrooptic device has a first substrate 10 and a second substrate 20 disposed to oppose each other, and liquid crystal 35 provided between the first substrate 10 and the second substrate 20. This electrooptic device has a seal... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6963381 | Active matrix display device with asymmetrical reflection, and insulating layer with a corrugated surface and a flat portion An active matrix display device includes a pair of substrates, an optical modulation layer lying between the substrates, a plurality of pixel electrodes on one of the substrates, switching elements for driving the respective pixel electrodes provided in the vicinity... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6937305 | Cholesteric liquid crystal color filter layer and manufacturing method thereof A cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) color filter layer for reflective LCD device includes an additional blue CLC color filter in the red and/or green CLC color filter to increase a color temperature. Since the additional blue CLC color filter is formed using ultravio... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6933989 | Manufacturing method for a liquid crystal display device There is provided a liquid crystal display device in which the wiring resistivity of signal lines is reduced. The liquid crystal display device includes substrates disposed in opposition to each other with a liquid crystal interposed therebetween, a thin film transi... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6924867 | Display device substrate, method for manufacturing the display device substrate, liquid-crystal device, and electronic equipment A panel substrate includes a substrate, a plurality of display electrodes running in parallel on the substrate, and a plurality of wirings respectively continuous from the display electrodes formed on the substrate. The display electrodes and the wirings respectivel... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6876407 | Liquid crystal display apparatus A thin film two-terminal element is formed by laminating a protruding portion of a second conductor layer on a first conductor layer via a nonlinear resistor layer. An insulator layer is positioned between the first conductor layer and the second conductor layer exc... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6831728 | Method of manufacturing nonlinear element, method of manufacturing electrooptic device, electrooptic device, and electronic apparatus The present invention provides a method of manufacturing a nonlinear element capable further improving nonlinearity of a nonlinear element, an electrooptic device, and electronic apparatus. In forming an element substrate of a liquid crystal device, an underlying la... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6710826 | Two-terminal type non-linear element, manufacturing method and liquid crystal display panel The present invention provides a MIM type non-linear element in which the capacitance is sufficiently small and in which little changes over time are exhibited in the current-voltage characteristics, a liquid crystal display panel with high image quality using the M... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6618100 | Liquid crystal device, liquid crystal device manufacturing method and electronic apparatus A liquid crystal device comprises a plurality of pixel electrodes (6), and nonlinear elements (11) including element-side electrodes (14) electrically connected to the pixel electrodes (6). An element-side electrode (14) is shaped in a pattern (14a) forme... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6608655 | Liquid crystal display device including identical shape dummy wire surrounding each pixel and capable of reducing the influence of parasitic capacities A dummy wire is provided on the outside of pixel electrodes disposed on the right end so as to apply the same amount of parasitic capacity as a neighboring signal wire applies. Further, on the outside of the pixel electrodes disposed on the upper or lower... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6593991 | Liquid crystal display apparatus with two-terminal nonlinear devices A liquid crystal display apparatus is provided which is capable of realizing a uniform display even at a high definition and offering a widened operating temperature. A signal line is formed on a signal line through an intervening insulating layer in an a... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6424399 | Active matrix substrate and liquid crystal display apparatus having electrical continuity across contact holes, and method for producing the same A reflection type liquid crystal display apparatus includes: a first substrate having a plurality of reflecting electrodes; a second substrate having a light transmitting electrode; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the s... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6411350 | Method of manufacturing an electrode substrate resistant to wire breakage for an active matrix display device A method for manufacturing an electrode substrate includes providing an insulating substrate and forming a first conductive layer on the insulating substrate. The first conductive layer has a narrowed wiring region and forms a first wiring pattern and a s... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6407784 | Reflection type liquid crystal display and method of fabricating the same There is provided a reflection type liquid crystal display including (a) a first substrate, (b) a second substrate having a transparent electrode formed thereon in facing relation to the first substrate, and (c) a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between t... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6404473 | Display device having a wiring multi-layered structure with tapered first layer and a manufacturing process for the tapered structure A liquid crystal display device comprising a wiring line of a laminated structure over an insulating substrate. The laminated structure includes a first layer made of a first metal layer, and a second layer formed over the first layer and made of a second... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6384880 | Two-terminal type non-linear element, manufacturing method thereof and liquid crystal display panel The present invention provides a MIM type non-linear element in which the capacitance is sufficiently small and in which little changes over time are exhibited in the current-voltage characteristics, a liquid crystal display panel with high image quality ... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6350557 | Thin-film two-terminal elements, method of production thereof, liquid crystal display A thin-film two-terminal element including first metal film functioning as a wiring layer and a first electrode, a first insulating film formed on the first electrode of the first metal film and having a non-linear resistance property, a second metal film... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6333771 | Liquid crystal display device capable of reducing the influence of parasitic capacities A dummy wire is provided on the outside of pixel electrodes disposed on the right end so as to apply the same amount of parasitic capacity as a neighboring signal wire applies. Further, on the outside of the pixel electrodes disposed on the upper or lower... | 12/25/2001 |
| 6222596 | Thin film diode including carbon nitride alloy semi-insulator and method of making same A system and method for driving a thin film diode (TFD) inclusive AMLCD or imaging device includes providing each pixel with a pair of select lines and a single data line. In certain embodiments, the insulator or semi-insulator layer between electrodes of... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6208390 | Electrode substrate resistant to wire breakage for an active matrix display device An electrode substrate comprising a first conductive layer having a narrowed wiring region, defining a boundary region, separating a first wiring pattern and a second wiring pattern of the first conductive layer. The electrode substrate further comprises ... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6201584 | Liquid-crystal display device There is provided a novel structure in which in a liquid-crystal display device including active devices a sufficient writing operation is ensured and a decrease in voltage applied to liquid crystal is prevented by a method different from a method for imp... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6181396 | Irregularly corrugated reflective plate for a liquid crystal display A reflective liquid crystal display apparatus reflective plate includes embodiments with a full-width at half maximum value in a distribution graph of distances between adjacent projecting or recessed portions with an average of the distances between the ... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6157422 | Two-terminal nonlinear element having insulating films of different thickness formed on the flat top surface of a lower electrode The two-terminal nonlinear element of this invention includes: a lower electrode having a flat top surface and tapered side walls; a thinner insulating film formed on a portion of the flat top surface of the lower electrode adjacent to the boundary with t... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6128050 | Liquid crystal display device with separated anode oxide electrode A first electrode 1 comprises an anode oxide electrode 5, a lower electrode 2 and signal electrodes, wherein the signal (electrodes are connected to each other by the anode oxide electrode when the anodic oxidation treatment is performed, while a second e... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6008872 | High aperture liquid crystal display including thin film diodes, and method of making same A backlit transmissive liquid crystal display including non-linear resistive thin film diodes (TFDs). Select address lines on the active substrate provide both conventional address line functionality, as well as acting as one of the electrodes for each th... | 12/28/1999 |
