Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Device Engineering Co., Ltd.

Hitachi Displays, Ltd.

Masaaki Matsuda

Takeshi Tanaka

Kouichi Anno

Tetsuya Kawamura

Hiroshi Okawara

Masahito Ohe

Shigeru Matsuyama

Kenkichi Suzuki

Kikuo Ono

Kazuhiko Yanagawa

Yoshiaki Nakayoshi

Masahiro Ishii

Masahiro Yanai

Masaru Takabatake

Minoru Hiroshima

Ryoji Oritsuki

Atsushi Nemoto

Yuichi Hashimoto

Hayao Kozai

Toshikazu Horii

Takashi Isoda

The present invention aims at acquiring a display device with no brightness irregularities of display. A plurality of drain signal lines are formed in parallel on a pixel-forming-side surface of a substrate. With respect to the respective drain signal lines, a plurality of drain signal lines which are arranged close to each other are formed into each group, and one ends of the respective drain signal lines which are formed into each group are converged together, are extended and are connected to an output terminal of a semiconductor integrated circuit which constitutes a video signal drive circuit. A bus line for supplying reference signals to respective pixels is formed on at least an outer profile side of a mass of pixels at the video signal drive circuit side. The first power supply lines start from both sides of the semiconductor integrated circuit, run outside the drain signal lines which are formed into groups and are connected to the bus line. Second power supply lines start from both sides of the semiconductor integrated circuit, reach portions of the bus line corresponding to an approximately center portion of the drain signal lines which are formed into groups and are connected to the bus line.

Image display device

A display device having a substrate, and a display area and a peripheral area being formed on the substrate. A signal line is extended from the display area to the peripheral area on the substrate, and the signal line at the peripheral area is covered with a first insulating film, a semiconductor layer, and a second insulating film in this order.

Display device with signal line extended from display area to peripheral area being covered in peripheral area

A process for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device including a step of irradiating polarized UV light to an orientation film formed on a substrate. A power of the irradiating polarized UV light is set to a value which is less than 10 mJ/cm.

Polarized UV light irradiation method for liquid crystal display device

For preventing brightness irregularities in a display screen of a liquid crystal display device having an illumination unit disposed opposite to a liquid crystal display panel thereof, the present invention provides a reflection member which has a first surface facing an opposite side of a light source to a side surface of a light guide body in the illumination unit and a second surface covering a space at the liquid-crystal-display panel side of the light source so as to make the first and second surfaces reflect light from the light source into the light guide body.

Liquid crystal display device

For preventing corrosion of signal lines (conductive layers for supplying signals to pixel areas) which are formed over one of a pair of substrates of a liquid crystal display device and are disposed so as to extend from the inside of an area surrounded by a sealing material toward the outside of the area, that at least one of the signal lines is covered with stacked layers formed of a first insulating film, a semiconductor layer, and a second insulating film formed sequentially over the at least one of the signal lines in this order.

Liquid crystal display device having particular stacked layered structure at peripheral portion

A technique is provided for eliminating on-screen display irregularities or defects otherwise occurring due to re-attachment of flying fragments or the presence of residual cutaway portions during electrode cutting processes using laser light. During manufacture of an active-matrix substrate, a separator section is used to connect image signal electrode lead terminals in common together to an electrostatic protective lead to perform electrostatic protection of thin-film transistors, and the separator section is comprised of a laminated structure of a low-resistivity metal layer and high-melting-point metal layer.

A is employed for eliminating variations of thin-film transistor threshold values to obtain enhanced on-screen displayability of high-quality images while simultaneously increasing the manufacturing yield and reliability. In a liquid crystal display device including: an active-matrix substrate having a plurality of scan electrode leads, a plurality of image signal electrode leads crossing over the plurality of scan electrode leads, scan electrode lead terminals which extend from the scan electrode leads in an effective display area thereof to one of the sides thereof, and image signal electrode terminals which extend from the image signal electrode leads in the effective display area to the other of the sides thereof neighboring upon the one side, being formed on an upper surface thereof respectively; a color filter substrate having a common electrode formed thereon; a layer of liquid crystals being sealed between the active-matrix substrate and the color filter substrate; common electrode lead terminals for connection to the common electrode; and driver circuitry including a scan electrode driver circuit and image signal electrode driver circuit for supplying the scan electrode lead terminals and image signal electrode lead terminals with more than one signal voltage for on-screen image visualization. The device further has a first electrostatic protective element for connecting a respective odd-numbered one of the image signal electrode terminals and a second electrostatic protective element for connecting a respective even-numbered one of the image signal electrode terminals. The first and second electrostatic protective leads are electrically divided into one another on the matrix substrate and electrically connected to one another by the common electrode lead terminals.

A polarized light irradiation method for achieving both wide view-field angles and display uniformity with less display irregularity as well as an apparatus for use in attaining this polarized light irradiation method. After reshaping output light from a light source,into a beam pattern BP, a polarized light separation plate,is used to separate therefrom only P-polarized wave components while simultaneously causing the polarizing axis of the separated P-polarized wave components to be identical to the short side direction of the rectangular beam pattern BP thereby letting it pass through an organic high-molecular or polymeric film acting as an optical radiation surface,for addition of a liquid crystal orientation controllability thereto.

Liquid crystal display device having orientation film oriented by light

A first substrate has at least scanning signal electrodes, video signal electrodes and pixel electrodes, all of which constitute display pixels, and active elements. A first alignment layer is formed, directly or via an insulating layer, as a top layer on the electrodes constituting the display pixels and the active elements. A second substrate which is bonded to the first substrate with a very small interval provided in between is provided with a second alignment layer that is formed so as to confront the first alignment layer. A liquid crystal layer is provided in a space between the first and second alignment layers. The electrodes constituting the display pixels are formed so as to apply, to the liquid crystal layer, an electric field that is substantially parallel with the surfaces of the first and second substrates and are connected to an external control device for controlling the electric field in accordance with a desired display pattern. Polarizing plates change an optical characteristic of light to be output from the second substrate in accordance with the alignment state of the liquid crystal layer that is produced by the electric field applied to the liquid crystal layer. At least one of the first and second alignment layers has been given alignment ability by illumination with polarized light.

Active matrix liquid crystal display device method for checking the

In a liquid crystal display substrate in which the pixel electrode is applied with a voltage through the drain and source of a thin-film transistor (TFT) that conducts by a voltage applied to the TFT gate electrode, this gate electrode and a busline connected to the gate electrode are formed as a multi-layered structure consisting of a gate layer and at least two layers of a gate insulation film and an amorphous silicon film. The multi-layered structure is formed by etching through a single mask.

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