IP Library Granted Patent US 7,277,147
Granted Patent B2
US 7,277,147 · App. 10/395,932 · Granted Oct 2, 2007

Liquid crystal display driven by one driving IC

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Patent No.
US 7,277,147
App. No.
10/395,932
Granted
Oct 2, 2007
Kind
B2
Abstract

A liquid crystal display includes a pair of opposing substrates in which a liquid crystal layer is disposed therebetween. Transparent electrodes are disposed on the surfaces on the liquid crystal layer sides of the substrates and lead-out wiring leads out the transparent electrodes. The lead-out wiring are formed on one substrate. At least a part of the lead-out wiring is formed by a combination of at least a transparent conductive layer and a conductive reflection-preventing layer.

Claims (30)

1. A liquid crystal display, comprising:

first and second substrates opposing each other;

a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first and second substrates;

first and second transparent electrodes disposed on liquid crystal layer sides of said first and second substrates, respectively; and

first and second lead-out wiring that respectively lead out the first and second transparent electrodes to a terminal portion of the first substrate, said lead-out wiring being formed on at least one of said first and second substrates, at least said second lead-out wiring containing a transparent conductive layer and a conductive reflection-preventing layer disposed more proximate to a display surface side of the liquid crystal display than said transparent conductive layer,

wherein an anisotropic conductive resin is formed into a loop shape between said first and second substrates, and said liquid crystal layer is disposed inside said loop-shaped anisotropic conductive resin such that said liquid crystal layer is sandwiched between said first and second substrates;

wherein said first lead-out wiring is formed on said first substrate;

wherein said second lead-out wiring is formed on said first substrate, and said second transparent electrode and said second lead-out wiring are electrically connected by said anisotropic conductive resin; and

wherein said conductive reflection-preventing layer comprises one of a laminated film formed of a metal film and a low-reflective metal oxide film, or a single layer film formed of a low-reflective metal film.

2. The liquid crystal display according to claim 1 , wherein the first and second transparent electrodes are drivable by a single IC driver via the first and second lead out wiring.

3. The liquid crystal display according to claim 1 , wherein the anisotropic conductive resin comprises conductive particles and binder resin.

4. The liquid crystal display according to claim 1 , further comprising:

phase difference plates and polarizing plates formed on a side of the first and second substrates distal to the liquid crystal layer;

a first overcoat layer formed on the first transparent electrodes and a first alignment layer formed on the first overcoat layer and adjacent to the liquid crystal layer;

a second overcoat layer formed on a reflector containing organic and metal films, the second transparent electrodes formed on the second overcoat layer, and a second alignment layer formed on the second overcoat layer and second transparent electrodes and adjacent to the liquid crystal layer.

5. The liquid crystal display according to claim 1 , wherein the conductive reflection-preventing layer is at least one of Cr, Cr-oxide, Cu or Cu-oxide, Ni or Ni-oxide, NiCu-based alloy, or Ni-based alloy.

6. The liquid crystal display according to claim 1 , wherein the conductive reflection-preventing layer is one of a NiCu-based alloy, or a Ni-based alloy.

7. The liquid crystal display according to claim 1 , wherein the metal film is Cr and the low-reflective metal oxide film is Cr-oxide.

8. A method of driving a liquid crystal display using a single IC driver, comprising:

fabricating a first and second lead-out wiring on one of two opposing substrates having a liquid crystal layer disposed therebetween such that at least a part of the first and second lead-out wiring contains a transparent conductive layer and a conductive reflection-preventing layer disposed more proximate to a display surface side of the liquid crystal display than the transparent conductive layer;

fabricating first and second transparent electrodes disposed on liquid crystal layer sides of the opposing substrates; and

electrically connecting the first and second transparent electrodes to a terminal portion of one of the substrates via the first and second lead-out wiring, the terminal portion configured to house the IC driver.

9. The method according to claim 8 , further comprising:

establishing a boundary of an anisotropic conductive resin between the substrates within which the liquid crystal layer is disposed; and

electrically connecting the second transparent electrode and second lead-out wiring though the anisotropic conductive resin.

10. The method according to claim 8 , further comprising one of laminating a metal film and a low-reflective metal oxide film to form the conductive reflection-preventing layer or forming the conductive reflection-preventing layer from a single layer low-reflective metal film.

11. The method according to claim 9 , further comprising incorporating conductive particles in binder resin to form the anisotropic conductive resin.

12. The liquid crystal display according to claim 8 , wherein the conductive reflection-preventing layer is at least one of Cr, Cr-oxide, Cu or Cu-oxide, Ni or Ni-oxide, NICu-based alloy, or Ni-based alloy.

13. The liquid crystal display according to claim 8 , wherein the conductive reflection-preventing layer is one of a NiCu-based alloy, or a Ni-based alloy.

14. The liquid crystal display according to claim 8 , wherein the metal film is Cr and the low-reflective metal oxide film is Cr-oxide.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 24, 2011
From: ALPS ELECTRIC., CO., LTD.
To: S. SONDER ET CIE, S.A.
Reel/Frame 026018/0867 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 18, 2011
From: S. SONDER ET CIE, S.A.
To: ONANOVICH GROUP AG, LLC
Reel/Frame 025982/0851 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 24, 2003
From: MIKI, YASUHIRO; MASUMOTO, YOSHIFUMI; MAFUNE, TAKAHITO
To: ALPS ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 013906/0677 →