Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Kazuhiko Tsuda

Tokio Taguchi

Kozo Nakamura

Shun Ueki

Makoto Kanbe

Takao Imaoku

Naofumi Kimura

Masahiro Shimizu

Satoru Kishimoto

Yuichi Iyama

Hisakazu Nakamura

Takatomo Yoshioka

Mariko Ban

Kouji Kumada

Akiyoshi Fujii

Sayuri Fujiwara

Iori Aoyama

Takashige Ohta

Toshihiro Matsumoto

Seiichi Mitsui

Tokihiko Shinomiya

Hidekazu Hayashi

Shinji Yamagishi

Noboru Noguchi

Hisashi Nagata

Mutsumi Nakajima

Mamoru Ishida

Keisuke Yoshida

Yoshifumi Ohta

Junichi Yamada

Masako Nakamura

Yasuhisa Itoh

Akihiko Kojima

Akira Sakai

Yoshihiro Izumi

Makoto Shiomi

Hiroshi Hamada

Nobuaki Yamada

Shuichi Kozaki

Masahiro Hasegawa

Shigeaki Mizushima

Yuzuru Kanemori

Mayuko Sakamoto

Yoshito Hashimoto

Yutaka Sawayama

Hiroyuki Ohgami

Kenichi Katoh

Takehisa Sakurai

Katsuya Mizukata

Yusuke Nishihara

Koji Taniguchi

Kenichi Iwauchi

Takayuki Natsume

Hideki Fujimoto

Tetsuo Fukaya

Hitoshi Kamezaki, Legal Representative

Masano Kamezaki, Legal Representative

Kazuhiro Ishizuka

Yutaka Kamezaki

Tomoko Tanaka

An array board includes a display area having a non-rectangular shape, TFTs disposed in the display area, a plurality of gate lines disposed in the display area and connected to the TFTs, a non-display area surrounding the display area, unit circuits disposed in the non-display area and connected to the gate lines, and a block connection line. The unit circuits are linearly arranged in the non-display area to form circuit blocks. The circuit blocks in the non-display area form a gate circuit portion in which at least two of the circuit blocks are away from each other in an oblique direction with respect to an arrangement direction of the unit circuits. The block connection line extends across the circuit blocks in the non-display area. The block connection line is connected to the circuit blocks.

Display board and display device including a plurality of circuit blocks with different numbers of unit circuits

An organic EL display deviceincludes a flexible plastic substrate, an organic EL elementon the plastic substrate, and a sealing filmprovided on the plastic substrateto cover the organic EL element. The sealing filmincludes a first sealing layeron a surface of the plastic substrate, a stress relief layeron a surface of the first sealing layer, and a second sealing layeron a surface of the stress relief layer. Compressive stress of the first sealing layeris lower than compressive stress of the second sealing layer

Display device

Provided is a display devicethat includes a display panel having flexibility (an organic EL panelas an example), and an optical memberhaving flexibility, arranged so as to be stacked on the display panel, wherein the display panel and the optical memberare stacked and bonded in a bent state, and thereafter stretched into a flat shape.

Display device, bonding jig, bonding device, and stretching jig used for manufacturing the display device, and method for manufacturing display device

An organic EL display deviceincludes a flexible plastic substrate, an organic EL elementon the plastic substrate, and to sealing filmprovided on the plastic substrateto cover the organic EL element. The sealing filmincludes a first sealing layeron a surface of the plastic substrate, a stress relief layeron a surface of the first sealing layer, and a second sealing layeron a surface of the stress relief layer. Compressive stress of the first sealing layeris lower than compressive stress of the second sealing layer

Organic EL display device

A liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix pattern, each pixel including a first electrode and a second electrode for generating a transverse electric field, wherein: in a first group of pixels arranged in a line along either a row direction or a column direction, pairs of pixels are arranged repeatedly, each pair of pixels including two adjacent pixels that are different from each other in terms of an electrode structure of at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode; and voltages of the same polarity are applied to the two adjacent pixels included in the pair of pixels, and voltages of different polarities from each other are applied to two pixel pairs adjacent to each other in the first group of pixels.

Liquid crystal display device

A liquid crystal display device wherein a first substrate and a second substrate are bonded together by a sealing material, a pixel electrode, a common electrode, a shift register, a clock line, and a power supply line are formed on the first substrate, a plurality of conductive particles are mixed into the sealing material, the plurality of conductive particles are maintained at a same potential as the common electrode, and the plurality of conductive particles are disposed at a position overlapping at least a part of the power supply line, when viewed from a normal direction of the first substrate.

A method for making a stamper which has an uneven surface pattern, in which unit structures are arranged in x and y directions at respective periods that are both shorter than the shortest wavelength of an incoming light ray, on the surface of a substrate and satisfies the following Inequality (1): where &#x3bb;is the shortest wavelength of the incoming light ray, &#x3b8;iis the largest angle of incidence of the incoming light ray, ni is the refractive index of an incidence medium, &#x39b;x is the period of the uneven surface pattern in the x direction, and &#x39b;y is the period of the pattern in the y direction. As a result, diffraction of short-wave light components can be reduced in a broad wavelength range.

Antireflective member, optical element, display device, method of making stamper and method of making antireflective member using the stamper

The present invention provides a liquid crystal display panel which is capable of providing a sufficiently high response speed and an excellent transmittance, and a liquid crystal display device. The liquid crystal display panel of the present invention includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the substrates. The first substrate and the second substrate have electrodes. The electrodes of the second substrate include a pair of comb-shaped electrodes and a slit-formed electrode.

Liquid crystal display panel, and liquid crystal display device

The present invention provides a liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display device each of which exhibits a sufficiently high response speed and an excellent transmittance. The liquid crystal display panel of the present invention includes a first substrate; a second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the substrates, the first substrate and the second substrate each comprising an electrode, the electrode of the second substrate including a pair of comb-shaped electrodes and a planar electrode, the liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules which are inclined from an orthogonal direction to the main faces of the substrates between the pair of comb-shaped electrodes in a plan view of the main faces of the substrates when a voltage lower than a threshold voltage is applied.

Liquid crystal display panel and liquid crystal display device

The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device that can achieve a sufficiently-high-speed response and has a sufficiently excellent transmittance and a thin film transistor array substrate preferably used in the liquid crystal display device. The thin film transistor array substrate according to the present invention is a thin film transistor array substrate that includes, as electrodes, one pair of comb electrodes and a sheet electrode, and at least one electrode selected from the group consisting of the pair of comb electrodes and the sheet electrode being electrically connected along a pixel line.

Thin film transistor array substrate and liquid crystal display device

The present invention provides a thin film transistor array substrate and a liquid crystal display device including the thin film transistor array substrate that are preferably applicable to a liquid crystal display device including the three-layered electrode structure that enables high response speed and high transmittance, and can have a high aperture ratio. The thin film transistor array substrate of the present invention includes: a thin film transistor element, gate bus lines, and source bus lines, in which the thin film transistor array substrate includes electrodes, the electrodes include a first electrode and a second electrode, the first electrode includes a linear portion along the source bus lines, the first electrode includes a linear portion along the gate bus lines, at least one linear portion along the source bus lines is disposed transversely to the linear portion along the gate bus lines in a plan view of main face of the substrate and is connected to a drain electrode of the thin film transistor element at a position overlapping the gate bus lines, and the second electrode is a planar electrode.

The present invention provides an anti-reflective film that prevents wavelength dispersion from being applied to light transmitted through an anti-reflective film. The present invention is an anti-reflective film, which reduces reflection of visible light on a surface of a substrate by being mounted on the substrate, has a wavelength dispersion structure for applying first wavelength dispersion to visible light transmitting through the anti-reflective film, and contains a wavelength dispersion material for applying second wavelength dispersion to the visible light transmitting through the anti-reflective film, wherein visible light transmitted through the anti-reflective film has flat transmission wavelength dispersion in a visible light region.

Anti-reflective film and production method thereof

A display device and an optical film are disclosed which can protect the moth-eye structure while maintaining low reflectance. A display device is provided, which comprises an anti-reflection film including a moth-eye structure and a peelable protective film, wherein the protective film covers the moth-eye structure and is attached to a flat portion of the display device, the flat portion being flatter than the moth-eye structure. The flat portion suitably corresponds to the substrate and/or a region free of the moth-eye structure on the anti-reflection film, in a display panel.

Display device and optical film

A method of fabricating a motheye mold according to the present invention includes the steps of: (a) anodizing a surface of an aluminum film () via an electrode () that is in contact with the surface, thereby forming a porous alumina layer which has a plurality of very small recessed portions; (b) after step (a), allowing the porous alumina layer to be in contact with an etchant, thereby enlarging the very small recessed portions of the porous alumina layer; and (c) after step (b), further anodizing the surface to grow the plurality of very small recessed portions. The aluminum film is made of aluminum with a purity of 99.99 mass % or higher. The electrode includes a first electrode portion () which is made of aluminum with a purity of 99.50 mass % or lower and a second electrode portion () which is made of aluminum with a higher purity than the aluminum of the first electrode portion and which is interposed between the surface and the first electrode portion. Step (a) and step (c) are performed with the second electrode portion being in contact with the surface in an electrolytic solution. According to the present invention, a method of efficiently anodizing an aluminum film formed over a large surface substrate and an electrode structure for use in the method.

Mold manufacturing method and electrode structure for use therein

The present invention provides a display device which can reduce reflected light reflected on the respective surfaces of a display panel and a protective plate, even if the protective plate is disposed on the surface of the display panel, without employing a complicated structure and without degrading display quality. The display device includes: a display panel; and a protective plate disposed facing the display panel. The protective plate has a protective base material and a first polarizer, the display panel has a second polarizer of which a polarization axis is parallel to that of the first polarizer, and light passing between the first polarizer and the second polarizer is linearly polarized light.

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Ikoma-gun, Japan

Kazuhiko Tsuda