IP Library Granted Patent US 7,333,167
Granted Patent B2
US 7,333,167 · App. 10/229,048 · Granted Feb 19, 2008

Electrooptical device and electronic equipment having resin film in light emitting region and sealing region

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Patent No.
US 7,333,167
App. No.
10/229,048
Granted
Feb 19, 2008
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention provides a color filter substrate that can include color filters 12 , which are formed in at least a display region and each of which are composed of colored portions, and a light shielding layer on a substrate main body. The light shielding layer can be formed on the approximately entire surface of a color filter non-forming region, in addition to the display region. Further, the colored portions can be formed by an inkjet method, and the color filter substrate can further include a resin member for partitioning pixels for forming the respective colored portions, and the resin member can be formed on the approximately entire surface of the color filter non-forming region, in addition to along the peripheries of the respective colored portions.

Claims (23)

1. An electrooptical device, comprising:

a pair of opposing substrates having electrodes on inner surfaces thereof and an electrooptical material held therebetween, the pair of substrates being bonded by a seal formed on the inner surfaces of the pair of substrates, and at least one of the pair of substrates being a color filter substrate having a plurality of color filters formed in a region surrounded by a seal portion in which the seal is formed; and

a resin film that is formed on a light shielding layer of the color filter substrate in the region including where the seal portion is formed, as well as another region surrounding an entire periphery of the color filters, a bank being formed of the resin film between adjacent color filters on the color filter substrate,

a substantially entire portion of the seal being formed directly on the inner surface of one of the pair of substrates and directly on the electrodes of opposing substrate of the pair of substrates, the opposing substrate being the color filter substrate.

2. The electrooptical device according to claim 1 , the color filter substrate having alignment marks formed of the resin film.

3. The electrooptical device according to claim 1 , the resin film having a film thickness between 0.5 μm and 5 μm.

4. The electrooptical device according to claim 1 , the resin film being provided to partition sections in which respective color filter portions are formed when the color filters are formed by an inkjet method.

5. The electrooptical device according to claim 1 , the resin film being formed of a material having liquid repellency with respect to a liquid material that forms the color filters.

6. The electrooptical device according to claim 1 , the resin film being formed of a material having a light shielding property.

7. The electrooptical device according to claim 1 , the resin film being formed of a material having an electric insulating property.

8. The electrooptical device according to claim 1 , the seal being formed of a material containing particles that maintains a gap between the pair of substrates constant and an adhesive that bonds the pair of substrates.

9. Electronic equipment, comprising the electrooptical device according to claim 1 .

10. The electrooptical device according to claim 1 , the electrooptical device further comprising:

an orientation film formed on the inner surfaces of each of the substrates, the orientation film not extending into the region where the seal portion is formed.

11. An electrooptical device, comprising:

a first substrate;

a second substrate opposing the first substrate, the second substrate being a color filter substrate having a plurality of color filters, each of the substrates having electrodes on inner surfaces thereof and an electrooptical material held therebetween;

a seal that bonds the first substrate and the second substrate, the seal being formed on the inner surfaces of each of the first substrate and the second substrate, the color filters being formed in a region surrounded by a seal portion in which the seal is formed;

a resin film that is formed on a light shielding layer of the second substrate in the region including where the seal portion is formed, as well as another region surrounding an entire periphery of color filters; and

a bank being formed of the resin film between adjacent color filters on the second substrate,

a substantially entire portion of the seal being formed directly on the inner surface of the first substrate and directly on the electrodes of the second substrate.

12. The electrooptical device according to claim 1 , the electrooptical device further comprising:

an orientation film formed on the inner surfaces of the first substrate and the second substrate, the orientation film not extending into the region where the seal portion is formed.

Assignments (6)
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Apr 19, 2022
From: KATEEVA CAYMAN HOLDING, INC.
To: HB SOLUTION CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 059727/0111 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Mar 17, 2022
From: KATEEVA, INC.; KATEEVA CAYMAN HOLDING, INC.
To: SINO XIN JI LIMITED
Reel/Frame 059382/0053 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Jan 23, 2020
From: KATEEVA, INC.
To: SINO XIN JI LIMITED
Reel/Frame 051682/0212 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Jan 22, 2020
From: EAST WEST BANK, A CALIFORNIA BANKING CORPORATION
To: KATEEVA, INC.
Reel/Frame 051664/0802 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Apr 4, 2019
From: KATEEVA, INC.
To: EAST WEST BANK
Reel/Frame 048806/0639 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 6, 2017
From: SEIKO EPSON CORP
To: KATEEVA, INC.
Reel/Frame 044719/0414 →