Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Tatsuji Saitoh

Kazunori Tanimoto

Isao Ogasawara

Masahiro Yoshida

Toshihiro Matsumoto

Tetsuya Fujikawa

Satoshi Horiuchi

Junichi Morinaga

Masakatsu Tominaga

Ryohki Itoh

Katsuhiro Okada

Toshiaki Fujihara

Katsuya Ogawa

Kenji Fujita

Kuniko Maeno

Katsushige Asada

Katsuhiro Mikumo

Junichi Mori

Sunao Aoki

A display panel has a plurality of gate terminals that are formed of a gate metal layer and a plurality of source terminals that are formed of a source metal layer, disposed alternately as seen in a plane. From each of the source terminals an intermediate region and a terminal region are provided with inorganic insulating film such that a source terminal lead formed of the source metal layer is covered therewith. The intermediate region is provided with organic insulating film such that the inorganic insulating film is covered therewith. The inorganic insulating film is smaller in thickness in the terminal region than in the intermediate region. The inorganic insulating film has an opening in the terminal region to expose at least a portion of a surface of the source terminal.

Display panel and method for producing the same

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.

Liquid crystal display device

An active matrix type display panel, used as a display-use panel, has pixel patterns each having aperture sections. The aperture sections are set to have a width satisfying the following inequality,0&#x3c;(minimum width of the aperture sections in the pixel)/(maximum width of the aperture sections in the pixel)&#x2266;0.037, or0.130&#x2266;(minimum width of the aperture sections in the pixel)/(maximum width of the aperture sections in the pixel)&#x3c;1.

Display panel and display apparatus

A parallax barrier is manufactured by forming a light-blocking layer by patterning a metal layer or a resin layer on a barrier glass in a photolithography step. On a mask used in the photolithography step, some pitches between slits are different, the slits corresponding to portions whereupon the light-blocking layers are to be formed. In addition, on the mask, first pitches (for instance, 100) and second pitches (for instance 99.5), which can be actually formed with accuracy, are formed in a cycle, and the average of such pitches can be accord with a theoretical pitch distance (for instance, 99.99). Thus, in the parallax barrier to be used for a multiple display device, visibility of the entire screen can be improved, and the parallax barrier which can be manufactured by using the mask lithography technology having a limited accuracy, and a method for manufacturing such parallax barrier are provided.

Parallax barrier, multiple display device and parallax barrier manufacturing method

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Osaka, Japan

Tatsuji Saitoh