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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 1991
Filed:
Oct. 20, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
21912168 ; 21912175 ; 21912176 ; 21912178 ; 21912182 ; 21912183 ;
Abstract
An apparatus for repairing a liquid crystal display comprises a common electrode, pixel electrodes facing the common electrode, and a liquid crystal sealed between the common and pixel electrodes. If the liquid crystal contains foreign matter which short-circuits the common and pixel electrodes to each other, a pixel electrode is irradiated with a laser beam such that at least a ring line region completely surrounding a portion touching the foreign matter is burnt away, whereby a region inside of the ring line region and a region outside of the ring line region are electrically insulated from each other.