Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Kuniko Maeno

Masakatsu Tominaga

Junichi Morinaga

Yoshihito Hara

Satoshi Horiuchi

Isao Ogasawara

Shingo Kamitani

Tetsuya Fujikawa

Masaki Maeda

Yasuhiro Mimura

Yoshihiro Asai

Katsushige Asada

Katsuhiro Mikumo

Masahiro Yoshida

Tomoo Furukawa

Ryohki Itoh

Katsuhiro Okada

Toshiaki Fujihara

Katsuya Ogawa

Kazunori Tanimoto

Hironobu Sawada

Tatsuji Saitoh

Masayuki Yamanaka

Provided is an active matrix substrate in which parasitic capacitance can be reduced and the display quality can be improved is provided, a touch-panel-equipped display device including the same, and a liquid crystal display device including the same. An active matrix substrateincludes a plurality of pixel electrodes; a plurality of counter electrodes provided so as to be opposed to the pixel electrodes, respectively, capacitors being formed between the counter electrodesand the pixel electrodes; a conductive layer provided on a side opposite to the counter electrodeswith respect to the pixel electrodes; a first insulating layer; and a second insulating layer. The first insulating layeris arranged between the pixel electrodesand the conductive layer, and the second insulating layeris arranged between the pixel electrodesand the counter electrodes. The conductive layer includes auxiliary capacitance electrode portionsthat are provided so as to be opposed to the pixel electrodes, respectively, and form capacitors between the same and the pixel electrodes, and the auxiliary capacitance electrode portionsand the other portions of the conductive layer than the auxiliary capacitance electrode portionsare positioned apart from each other.

Active matrix substrate, touch-panel-equipped display device including same, and liquid crystal display device including same

Provided is a display device in which connection defects in terminal parts can be suppressed, and a method for producing the same. An active matrix substrateof a display device includes gate lines, data lines arranged so as to intersect with the gate lines, pixel electrodes, counter electrodes forming capacitors between the same and the pixel electrodes, and signal lines that are connected with the counter electrodes and supply a driving signal for touch detection. Further, the active matrix substrateincludes a display driving circuit that supplies a control signal to at least either the gate lines or the data lines, and a touch detection driving circuit that supplies a driving signal for touch detection. Still further, the active matrix substrateincludes a plurality of terminal parts Ta to which the display driving circuit and the touch detection driving circuit are connected, and the terminal parts Ta have a common layer structure.

Display device and method for producing same

Provided is a touch-panel-equipped display device that can improve the touch sensing accuracy, without decreases in the display quality, and a method for producing the same. A touch-panel-equipped display device includes an active matrix substrateThe active matrix substrateincludes a plurality of pixel electrodesa plurality of counter electrodesforming capacitors between the same and the pixel electrodesa plurality of touch detection linesa first insulating layerand a second insulating layerThe touch detection linesare connected with any of the counter electrodesand supply a driving signal for touch detection to the counter electrodesconnected therewith. Between each pixel electrodeand the corresponding one of the counter electrodesthe second insulating layeris arranged. Further, on each touch detection linethe first insulating layeris arranged, the second insulating layeris arranged on the first insulating layerand each counter electrodeis arranged on the second insulating layer

Touch-panel-equipped display device and method for producing touch-panel-equipped display device

A TFT substrate () includes a substrate (); a TFT () supported by the substrate; a scanning line (); a signal line (); a first interlayer insulating layer () provided so as to cover the TFT; a pixel electrode () electrically connected to a drain electrode () of the TFT; and a transparent storage capacitor electrode () provided so as to overlap at least a part of the pixel electrode. At least the first interlayer insulating layer has a contact hole (CH) formed therein through which the pixel electrode is electrically connected to the drain electrode. The scanning line includes a first area (R) in which the scanning line is branched into two branched lines (). The contact hole is located between the two branched lines.

Active matrix substrate and liquid-crystal display device

A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, and a columnar spacer. The first substrate includes a pixel electrode, a TFT, and an interlayer insulating layer. The second substrate includes first, second and third color filters arranged in a delta arrangement. Each pixel has a substantially polygonal shape with n vertices (where n is an integer and n&#x2267;8) or a substantially circular shape. The TFT and the columnar spacer are arranged in a first tricolor boundary region. A contact hole cut through the interlayer insulating layer is arranged in a second tricolor boundary region. Two of three pixels that define the first tricolor boundary region also define the second tricolor boundary region, but the remaining pixel is arranged at a different location.

Liquid crystal display device

An active matrix substrate includes a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix; and a source wiring running in a column direction, wherein the source wiring includes a first side portion running along one side in a column direction of at least one pixel electrode of the plurality of pixel electrodes, a crossing portion running across the pixel electrode, and a second side portion running along another side in the column direction of the pixel electrode, the first side portion and the second side portion are connected to each other via the crossing portion, and at least one crossing portion is provided on each of at least two pixel electrodes aligned in the column direction out of the plurality of pixel electrodes.

Active matrix substrate and liquid crystal display device

Each of picture elements () has a plurality of alignment regions (RRRand R), in each of which liquid crystal molecules contained in a liquid crystal layer are aligned in a direction that is different from those in the others of the plurality of alignment regions. Each of a plurality of scanning signal lines () and a border region (Rand R) between corresponding adjacent ones of the plurality of alignment regions (RRRand R) at least partially overlap each other when viewed from above.

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