Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Toshihiro Yamashita

Takayuki Shimada

Yutaka Takafuji

Masumi Kubo

Yasuhiro Matsushima

Yasunobu Akebi

Mikio Katayama

Hisashi Nagata

Yoshimitsu Tajima

Toshio Matsumoto

Manabu Takahama

Osamu Sasaki

Seishi Kosegawa

Yoji Yoshimura

Masahide Watatani

A collective substrate of active-matrix substrates is divided into a first block and a second block. In cells of the first block and the second block, from a corresponding signal input pad group, an inspection scanning signal is inputted via a scanning-line short ring connecting line to scanning lines, an inspection display signal is inputted via a signal-line short ring connecting line to signal lines, and an auxiliary capacity wire signal is inputted via an auxiliary capacity wire main wire connecting line to auxiliary capacity wires. This arrangement makes it possible to perform an electrical inspection with high accuracy and efficiency on a large-format active-matrix substrate, and to manufacture an inspection probe frame in a simple manner at low cost.

Manufacturing method of collective substrate of active-matrix substrates, manufacturing method of active-matrix substrates, and inspecting method of collective substrates of active-matrix substrates

In an active matrix substrate having thereon a matrix of pixels each composed of a pair of a TFT and a pixel electrode, when the shorting of the pixel electrodes in adjacent pixels occurs, an electrical connection between the pixel electrode and drain electrode in the TFT of a matching pair in either of the shorted pixel electrodes is cut. For example, when the shorting of two adjacent pixels occurs, the pixel electrodes in both the pixels are driven by the TFT in the non-cut pixel. This arrangement makes it possible to make a display defect resulted from the shorting of adjacent pixels on the active matrix substrate less noticeable, and hence to upgrade display quality.

Active matrix substrate and correcting method of structural defect thereof

Collective substrate of active-matrix substrates, manufacturing method thereof and inspecting method thereof

To enhance the display quality by improving the writing characteristic of active matrix display device. A plurality of signal lines of video signals are provided for pixels of each column arranged in two-dimensional array, and the driving element of each pixel is designed to be driven by any one of the signal lines, so that the scanning time of each line may be extended longer than one horizontal scanning period.

Active matrix display device and its driving method

A driving circuit integrated type active-matrix liquid crystal display device is arranged such that a buffer composed of a P-channel thin film transistor and an N-channel thin film transistor that are connected in series is adopted for the P-channel thin film transistor and an N-channel thin film transistor; at least one of the P-channel thin film transistor and the N-channel thin film transistor is composed of a plurality of thin film transistors that are connected in parallel; and at least one of a power source line and an output line connected to the plurality of thin film transistors connected in parallel is formed in a wiring pattern composed of a main wiring section and a branched wiring section branched into respective thin film transistors. The described arrangement permits a line-shaped defect due to a defective thin film transistor which constitutes a buffer of the drive circuit to be eliminated with ease, while improving a yield of panels.

Liquid crystal display device

Active matrix substrate and correcting method of structural defect

A liquid crystal display, employed in a projector, including a liquid crystal panel using, for example, a TN liquid crystal, having visual angle characteristics that the direction of a visual angle in which the contrast reaches its maximum does not match with the direction of the normal line, and transmitting incident light from an opposing substrate side while modulating the same. The liquid crystal panel can reverse the sides and the top and bottom of an image by reversing the orders of image signal application to the signal lines and scanning signal application to the scanning lines, respectively. Signal input units are formed at two opposing ends of the liquid crystal panel and a mounting means for mounting the liquid crystal display to the projector is formed point symmetry with respect to the center of the liquid crystal panel. As a result, the projector can use the liquid crystal displays of one type in common when images formed by the liquid crystal displays must be reversed left to right and/or upside down with respect to each other.

Liquid crystal display and projector employing the same

A liquid crystal display device which includes: a plurality of source bus lines in parallel with each other; a plurality of gate bus lines in parallel with each other, crossing the source bus lines; a switching element connected to one of the plurality of source bus lines and one of the gate bus lines; a pixel portion connected to the switching element; and a source drive circuit for supplying a data signal to the plurality of source bus lines, wherein the source drive circuit has a data signal line connected to the respective source bus lines, and the data signal line forms a closed circuit, thereby making a delay time of the data signal supplied to the plurality of source bus lines uniform is disclosed.

Liquid crystal display device and method for driving the same

An active matrix panel includes: a liquid crystal section having a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix; a plurality of source lines for applying video signals to the plurality of pixels; a source driver for sequentially applying the video signals to the plurality of source lines; and a plurality of sample hold capacitances for holding the video signals applied to the source line, wherein each of the source lines is connected to a predetermined number of the sample hold capacitances in parallel.

Active matrix panel and method for fabricating the same

With respect to at least one of a plurality of TFTs constituting a liquid crystal display device; a signal wiring having one end functioning as a gate electrode of the TFT is formed so as to include: a main portion, formed by patterning a first wiring layer, having a disconnected portion in the vicinity of an active region of the transistor; and a connecting portion, formed by patterning a second wiring layer which is different from the first wiring layer, for interconnecting the disconnected portion. Thus, the breakdown of the gate insulating film of the TFTs during the ion implantation process can be prevented.

Liquid crystal display device with a disconnected wiring pattern

A projection-type liquid crystal display is provided with an image-outputting section which includes a liquid-crystal panel. On the light-releasing side of the liquid crystal panel, an active-matrix substrate and a polarizing element are bonded to each other with a bonding material that has virtually the same refractive index as that of these members so as to reduce internal reflection on the light-releasing surface of the active-matrix substrate and external reflection on the light-incident surface of the polarizing element. Further, a reflection-reducing coating layer is formed on the light-releasing surface of the light-releasing-side polarizing element to reduce internal reflection on the light-releasing surface of the polarizing element.

Projection-type liquid crystal display with a liquid crystal panel

A liquid crystal display panel of the invention includes an active matrix substrate. The active matrix substrate includes: a substrate; a plurality of pixel electrodes for driving a liquid crystal, the pixel electrodes being arranged in rows and columns on the substrate; a plurality of data signal lines for supplying data signals to pixel electrodes of a corresponding column; a plurality of switching devices for electrically connecting each data signal line to the pixel electrodes of the corresponding column; a plurality of scanning signal lines for controlling the switching devices to be conductive; and a plurality of storage capacitances respectively connected to terminals of the switching devices which are connected to the pixel electrodes. Each pixel electrode overlaps a corresponding data signal line with an insulating film interposed therebetween in a first region and overlaps an adjacent data signal line which is connected to pixel electrodes of a neighbor column with the insulating film interposed therebetween in a second region. A first coupling capacitance formed in the first region is substantially equal to a second coupling capacitance formed in the second overlap portion. The active matrix substrate receives the data signals in which polarities are inverted between fields or frames and the polarities are different between the corresponding one and the adjacent one of the data signal lines.

Active matrix LCD device having two equal coupling capacitances

An active matrix substrate including an external signal supplying circuit for externally supplying the video signals to the data lines. The external signal supplying circuit includes a data line connection section connected to the data lines; an inspection signal inputting section and an inspection signal outputting section both connected to the data line connection section; and a switching device for electrically connecting the inspection signal inputting section or the inspection signal outputting section to the data line connection section. After the active matrix substrate is subjected to an electrical inspection, a short ring is formed for electrically connecting an inspection signal inputting terminal provided with an inspection signal inputting section, an inspection signal outputting terminal provided with an inspection signal outputting section, a first terminal provided with a gate driving circuit, a second terminal provided with a source driving circuit, and the data line connection section, in a case when the active matrix substrate is judged to have no defect; and then the short ring is removed after an alignment treatment of a display medium.

Active matrix substrate and a method for producing the same

A thin-film semiconductor device having a CMOS inverter comprising a pair of n-type and p-type thin-film transistors, wherein the gate electrode of at least one of the paired thin-film transistors comprises a plurality of gate electrode sections spaced apart along the channel length. The channel region of the n-type thin-film transistor is doped with p-type impurities. This structure serves to reduce the leakage current and maintain high OFF resistance for a high source-drain voltage. Further, since a good symmetry of characteristics is maintained between the n-type and p-type thin-film transistors that constitute the CMOS inverter, no appreciable bias is caused in the output voltage of the CMOS inverter.

CMOS thin-film transistor having split gate structure

An active matrix substrate including a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix manner and a plurality of switching elements connected in series to each of the plurality of pixels, each of the plurality of switching elements having a gate electrode, a gate electrode of at least one of the plurality of switching elements being electrically isolated from those of the other remaining switching elements.

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Toshihiro Yamashita