Sakai Display Products Corporation

Yoshitaka Okumoto

Akihiro Yamamoto

Koji Hasegawa

Tokuyoshi Awa

Hidetoshi Nakagawa

Kenichi Mukai

Taiki Hayai

Naoto Ogawara

Yasuhiro Azahara

Mariko Nagai

Kenichi Hyohdoh

This liquid crystal display apparatus is provided with: a TFT substrate comprising a thin film transistor and a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor; and a counter substrate comprising a common electrode that faces the pixel electrode via a liquid crystal layer. The thin film transistor comprises: a semiconductor layer deposited over a gate electrode via a gate insulating layer, while having a planar shape that has a first side and a second side each overlapping the gate electrode in plan view; and a first electrode which is connected to the pixel electrode and a second electrode which faces the first electrode, said first and second electrodes being formed on the semiconductor layer. The first side and the second side of the semiconductor layer are adjacent to each other at a predetermined angle; and the first electrode at least partially covers the first side and the second side.

Liquid crystal display device

A liquid crystal display apparatus is disclosed. In the liquid crystal display apparatus, a first pixel of a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix comprises a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel. The first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel are connected to a first scanning line of a plurality of scanning lines, to which the first scanning line is supplied a first scanning signal. A first potential is supplied to a first auxiliary capacitance of the first sub-pixel based on a first control signal to select any of a plurality of row pixel groups after the first scanning signal. A second potential being different from the first potential is supplied to a second auxiliary capacitance of the second sub-pixel based on a second control signal to select any one of a plurality of row pixel groups after the first scanning signal.

Liquid crystal display apparatus

A manufacturing method for a liquid crystal display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a step (A) of preparing a first substrate including a pixel electrode and a first photoalignment film that has not been subjected to an alignment treatment, and a step (B) of exposing a region of the first photoalignment film which is to serve as a first alignment region through a plurality of first photomasks, while transporting the prepared first substrate in a predetermined transport direction, the plurality of first photomasks including two or more first photomasks arranged in a second direction intersecting the transport direction. Each first photomask includes a plurality of pairs of a light-transmitting portion and a light-blocking portion. Each first photomask is designed so that in the step (B), on a side closer to one end of the first photomask, a boundary between the light-transmitting portion and the light-blocking portion is offset from a domain boundary toward the one end, and on a side closer to the other end of the first photomask, the boundary between the light-transmitting portion and the light-blocking portion is offset from the domain boundary toward the other end.

Method for manufacturing liquid crystal display device and photomask

A method produces a liquid crystal display. The display includes a plurality of pixels having sub-pixels that include one opening and one color layer. Some of the sub-pixels having the same color are continuously spaced in one direction. In the method, overlapping photolithographic patterns produce mask openings in which a color layer in two spaced adjacent sub-pixels is to be formed. The mask openings each have a size corresponding to two or more adjacent sub-pixels; and the number of sub-pixels of the same color that are continuously arranged in the one direction is at least twice the total number of sub-pixels of the same color included in each of the pixels.

Method for producing liquid crystal display apparatus with a uniform cell gap

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Sakai, Japan

Yoshitaka Okumoto