Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Toshio Etoh

Keiji Aota

Tadashi Nishioka

Teruo Kawamura

Tsugio Nakazono

A plurality of terminal portions provided in a frame region include first and second terminal electrodes sequentially arranged from a display region side and electrically connected to each other, COFs provided corresponding to the plurality of terminal portions, respectively, include first and second counter electrodes sequentially arranged from the display region side to be opposed to the first and second terminal electrodes, respectively, and electrically connected to each other, and in at least one terminal portion of the plurality of terminal portions, the second terminal electrode and the second counter electrode are electrically connected to each other through an anisotropic conductive film.

Display device

Provided are a flexible printed circuit that reduces the chance of the occurrence of short-circuit failures caused by swarf generated from punching out flexible printed circuit, and an electric circuit structure having this flexible printed circuit and an electric circuit substrate to which the flexible printed circuit is connected. A flexible printed circuit () has a wiring pattern () formed on the flexible base film (). The flexible printed circuit () is individually punched out to be separated in a condition where the wiring pattern () is disposed on the base film (), and the wiring pattern () has a narrowed portion () near the edge of the base film ().

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Osaka, Japan

Toshio Etoh