Liquid crystal display device

Abstract

A is employed for eliminating variations of thin-film transistor threshold values to obtain enhanced on-screen displayability of high-quality images while simultaneously increasing the manufacturing yield and reliability. In a liquid crystal display device including: an active-matrix substrate having a plurality of scan electrode leads, a plurality of image signal electrode leads crossing over the plurality of scan electrode leads, scan electrode lead terminals which extend from the scan electrode leads in an effective display area thereof to one of the sides thereof, and image signal electrode terminals which extend from the image signal electrode leads in the effective display area to the other of the sides thereof neighboring upon the one side, being formed on an upper surface thereof respectively; a color filter substrate having a common electrode formed thereon; a layer of liquid crystals being sealed between the active-matrix substrate and the color filter substrate; common electrode lead terminals for connection to the common electrode; and driver circuitry including a scan electrode driver circuit and image signal electrode driver circuit for supplying the scan electrode lead terminals and image signal electrode lead terminals with more than one signal voltage for on-screen image visualization. The device further has a first electrostatic protective element for connecting a respective odd-numbered one of the image signal electrode terminals and a second electrostatic protective element for connecting a respective even-numbered one of the image signal electrode terminals. The first and second electrostatic protective leads are electrically divided into one another on the matrix substrate and electrically connected to one another by the common electrode lead terminals.