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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 1997
Filed:
Jun. 21, 1994
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
To prevent dielectric breakdown for a storage capacitor of a liquid crystal display element connected to a predetermined gate line in a liquid crystal display device. In a liquid crystal display device including a display region in which a plurality of liquid crystal display elements are formed in a matrix and a peripheral region enclosing the display region, wherein the display region includes a plurality of gate lines arranged in parallel with one another and a plurality of reference voltage lines each of which is formed between the gate lines and serves as an electrode for a storage capacitor of each of the liquid crystal display elements and said peripheral region includes a plurality of connecting terminals which are separated from each other by a distance smaller than a distance between adjacent gate lines in the display region, the connecting terminals are arranged in a plurality of groups, said gate lines are each connected to the connecting terminals, and a short-circuit line is formed along the peripheral region so that the connecting terminals are short-circuited, a conductor extended from said short-circuit line is formed between a region between said groups and the reference voltage lines which face the region.