Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Fujitsu Corporation

Fujitsu Display Technologies Corporation

Japan Display Inc.

Au Optronics Corporation

Takashi Sasabayashi

Hidefumi Yoshida

Yasutoshi Tasaka

Yoshio Koike

Arihiro Takeda

Yohei Nakanishi

Takahiro Sasaki

Seiji Tanuma

Takatoshi Mayama

Tsuyoshi Kamada

Hideaki Tsuda

Shingo Kataoka

Kouji Tsukao

Kenji Okamoto

Hiroyasu Inoue

Kunihiro Tashiro

Katsufumi Ohmuro

Tetsuya Fujikawa

Hideo Chida

Satoshi Murata

Kazutaka Hanaoka

Kazuya Ueda

Tadashi Hasegawa

Noriaki Furukawa

Hisashi Yamaguchi

Yoji Taniguchi

Shougo Hayashi

Makoto Ohashi

Hideaki Takizawa

Keiji Imoto

Yoshinori Tanaka

Yuichi Inoue

Kimiaki Nakamura

Manabu Sawasaki

Tomonori Tanose

Masahiro Ikeda

Makoto Tachibanaki

Minoru Otani

Atuyuki Hoshino

Makoto Morishige

Takeshi Kinjou

Siro Hirota

Masakazu Shibasaki

Jin Hirosawa

Hirokazu Morimoto

Keiji Tago

Satoshi Sekido

Yusuke Morita

Shinpei Nagatani

Koichi Katagawa

Hitomi Hasegawa

Katsuyoshi Hiraki

Katsunori Tanaka

Katsuhiko Kishida

Keisuke Takano

Hidetoshi Sukenori

Takae Ito

Mikio Oshiro

Toshimitsu Minemura

Syun Tsuyuki

Shigeru Masuda

Toshihiro Suzuki

Tetsuya Kobayashi

Nobuko Fukuoka

Takeshi Gotoh

Yoshitaka Yamada

Hiroshi Azuma

Minoru Ohtani

Katufumi Ohmuro

A display device includes: an array substrate having a flexible substrate and a pixel circuit over the flexible substrate; a first supporting film under the array substrate; a second supporting film over the array substrate; and a member under the first supporting film with an adhesive layer sandwiched therebetween. The member includes a first film and a second film having a different thermal expansion coefficient respectively. The first film and the second film are respectively a first metal film containing a metal film and a second metal film containing a second metal, and the first metal and the second film are independently selected from copper, nickel, zinc, manganese, iron, cobalt, aluminum, tin, lead, and silver.

Display device and electronic device

An organic EL display device includes a bank having an inclined surface, a first electrode formed on the inclined surface, an organic film including a light emitting layer and directly contacting the first electrode on the inclined surface, and a second electrode directly contacting the organic film on the inclined surface.

Organic EL display device

A stereoscopic image display device includes a display panel having a first display area switchable to a two-dimensional display mode or a three-dimensional display mode and a second display area. A liquid crystal lens unit is arranged above the display panel and having a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes a first electrode formed in the first and second display areas for controlling alignment of the liquid crystal layer, a second electrode passing the second display area for supplying a voltage to the first electrode of the first display area, and a third electrode arranged between the second electrode and the liquid crystal layer in the second display area so that the third electrode has an overlap area with the second electrode in plane. The second substrate includes a fourth electrode formed so as to control the alignment of the liquid crystal layer with the first electrode.

Stereoscopic image display device

In one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a lens array unit having a cylindrical lens array constituted by a plurality of cylindrical lenses each having a lens surface and a generatrix corresponding to the lens surface. The lens surface is arranged in a line in a direction orthogonally crossing the generatrix. A first substrate is arranged at a back side of the lens array unit and includes a pixel electrode in a belt shape extending in a different direction from the direction in which the generatrix extends. The pixel electrode is formed in a V character shape. A second substrate is arranged between the lens array unit and the first substrate including a counter electrode in a belt shape commonly arranged on the pixel electrodes extending in a parallel direction to the pixel electrode.

Liquid crystal display device

A liquid crystal display has a pair of substrates with liquid crystal sealed between them. A polymer layer regulates directions in which the liquid crystal molecules tilt. A plurality of gate bus lines and a plurality of drain bus lines are provided on one of the substrates. Color filters and a pixel electrode are provided on the substrate. The pixel electrode includes a first sub-pixel electrode and a second sub-pixel electrode. A common electrode is provided on the other substrate. A first and a second thin film transistor are connected to the first sub-pixel electrode. The first thin film transistors is connected to a first gate bus line, and the second thin film transistor is connected to a second bus line.

Liquid crystal display

In one embodiment, a first substrate includes a pixel electrode having a first main electrode in a belt-like shape extending along a first cross line direction which crosses at an acute angle in a counterclockwise direction with respect to an initial alignment direction of liquid crystal molecules, and a second main electrode in the belt-like shape extending along a second cross line direction which crosses at an acute angle in a clockwise direction with respect to the initial alignment direction of the liquid crystal molecules. A second substrate includes a counter electrode having a pair of third main electrodes in the belt-like shape arranged above a pair of regions sandwiching the first main electrode extending along a first cross line direction and a pair of fourth main electrodes in the belt-like shape arranged above a pair of regions sandwiching the second main electrode extending along the second cross line direction.

A liquid crystal display device is provided which has a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the pair of substrates, in which liquid crystal molecules are vertically aligned with respect to the substrates when no voltage is applied between the substrates and the liquid crystal molecules tilt in a plurality of directions to be almost parallel to the substrates by applying a voltage between the substrates. In the liquid crystal layer, when the voltage is applied, a proportion of a region where the liquid crystal molecules tilt in a direction of 0 degrees to 180 degrees is different from a proportion of a region where the liquid crystal molecules tilt in a direction of 180 degrees to 360 degrees with the angle being defined counterclockwise with the right direction on a screen being 0 degrees.

A liquid crystal display device comprising a liquid crystal layer including liquid crystal molecules provided between a first substrate and a second substrate; pixels forming a display area; electrodes for applying a voltage across the liquid crystal layer within each of the pixels; a plurality of domain regulating structures for dividing orientations of the liquid crystal molecules and forming multiple domains within each of the pixels, when a predetermined voltage is applied across the liquid crystal layer within each of the pixels. The device also includes a structure which is formed in an outer area located next to the display area, but that does not overlap the display area, and is substantially the same as at least one of the plurality of domain regulating structures.

A liquid crystal display device including a pair of substrates in a spaced relationship with one another. A pair of alignment films are provided, one alignment film being formed on each substrate such that the alignment films face one another. A liquid crystal layer, including plural liquid crystals, is inserted between the pair of alignment films, wherein the alignment films impart a given pre-tilt angle to the liquid crystals. The alignment films are composed of a material containing at least two types of polymers having a prescribed initial alignment and different alignment variation rates in response to ultraviolet ray irradiation. The pre-tilt angle being adjusted, without rubbing the alignment films, through ultraviolet exposure of the alignment films.

Alignment films in a liquid crystal display device and a method of manufacturing the same

A liquid crystal display including a pair of substrates; a liquid crystal sealed between the substrates; alignment regulating structures formed on at least one of the substrates; and a plurality of pixel regions having both of a first area in which the alignment regulating structures are disposed at first intervals and which has a first threshold voltage for driving of the liquid crystal and a second area in which the alignment regulating structures are disposed at second intervals smaller than the first intervals and which has a second threshold voltage lower than the first threshold voltage. Each of the first intervals is a distance between adjacent alignment regulating structures along a direction parallel to one of the substrates in the first area and each of the second intervals is a distance between adjacent alignment regulating structures along a direction parallel to one of the substrates in the second area.

Liquid crystal display and method of manufacturing the same

A manufacturing method of a liquid crystal display apparatus, including disposing a pair of substrates to face each other, on which no surface alignment control films are formed; sealing a liquid crystal to which a polymerizable compound is added, between these substrates; polymerizing the polymerizable compound by irradiating UV rays when no voltage is applied; and forming a polymer near the surfaces of the substrates. The anchoring energy for the liquid crystal molecules on the substrate surface is controlled by controlling the composition, the adding amount and the polymerizing conditions of the polymerizable compound.

Liquid crystal display apparatus and manufacturing method therefor

A liquid crystal display device including a pair of substrates sandwiching liquid crystal molecules, a plurality of gate bus lines, and a plurality of data bus lines, with each of the data bus lines extending to intersect the gate bus lines and bending in a zigzag manner. A plurality of pixels are formed in areas enclosed by the data and gate bus lines, with a plurality of pixel electrodes, each covering a substantial area of one of the pixels. A plurality of domain regulating structures for regulating orientation directions of the liquid crystal molecules and for forming multiple domains are formed in each of the pixels. At least one of the domain regulating structures bends along a first side edge of the pixel electrode and domains are divided in accordance with the bending of the domain regulating structure.

Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device including a TFT substrate on which a picture element electrode is provided for each picture element, a counter substrate having a common electrode provided thereon, and a liquid crystal contained between the TFT and counter substrates, the liquid crystal display device achieving to shorten response time (rise time) by utilizing the following phenomenon that when a voltage applied to the picture element electrode changes from a first voltage (e.g., black display voltage) to a second voltage (e.g., white display voltage), transmittance increases to maximum transmittance with a change in the state of the alignment of liquid crystal molecules and then decreases to transmittance in a stable state corresponding to the second voltage.

A vertical alignment mode liquid crystal display device having an improved viewing angle characteristic is disclosed. The liquid crystal display device uses a liquid crystal having a negative anisotropic dielectric constant, and orientations of the liquid crystal are vertical to substrates when no voltageisapplied, almost horizontal when a predetermined voltage is applied, and oblique when an intermediate voltage is applied. At least one of the substrates includes a structure as domain regulating means, and inclined surfaces of the structure operate to regulate azimuths of the oblique orientations of the liquid crystal when the intermediate voltage is applied.

Vertically-aligned (VA) liquid crystal display device

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Kawasaki, Japan

Takashi Sasabayashi