Liquid crystal display device
View Patent ↗A liquid crystal display device has been disclosed. The liquid crystal display device provides a display with a high reflectance (high transmittance) and a high color purity while maintaining white balance and adjusts the white balance by changing the occupied area instead of the transmission characteristics of a CF in order to prevent yellowing of the display due to a low-temperature light source.
1. A liquid crystal display device comprising:
a transparent electrode;
a TFT substrate;
a reflecting plate having wrinkle-like unevenness on the surface thereof; the wrinkle-like unevenness having a plurality of protrusions; and
a liquid crystal layer provided between the transparent electrode and the reflecting plate,
wherein at least part of the wrinkle-like unevenness has a first linear part extending in a first direction, a second linear part extending from the top end of the first linear part in a second direction different from the first direction by certain angles to a predetermined side, and a third linear part extending from the top end of the second linear part in a third direction different from the second direction by certain angles to the predetermined side,
the wrinkle-like unevenness having a directional pattern,
the wrinkle-like unevenness extending primarily in either horizontal or vertical direction on the display plane of the liquid crystal display device,
further comprising a structure provided beneath the reflecting plate and having unevenness, wherein the wrinkle-like unevenness of the reflecting plate is almost in accordance with the unevenness of the structure,
wherein the structure is formed in the same layer as at least any one of the signal wire, gate wire and storage capacitor of the TFT substrate, or part of the structure is formed in the same layer as at least one of the signal wire and the gate wire of the TFT substrate.
2. A liquid crystal display device, as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the distance between neighboring crests or troughs of the wrinkle-like unevenness is equal to or less than 15 μm.
3. A liquid crystal display device, as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the distance between neighboring crests or troughs of the wrinkle-like unevenness differs randomly.
4. A liquid crystal display device, as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the distance between neighboring crests or troughs of the wrinkle-like unevenness differs from each another for each pixel.
5. A liquid crystal display device, as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the difference between the first direction and the second direction and the difference between the second direction and the third direction are equal to or less than 45°.
6. A liquid crystal display device, as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the average tilting angle of the wrinkle-like unevenness is 5° to 15°.
7. A liquid crystal display device, as set forth in claim 1 , wherein said at least any one of the signal wire, gate wire and storage capacitor is bent in a similar fashion as the structure.
8. A liquid crystal display device, as set forth in claim 7 , wherein the side of a pixel electrode is bent in a similar fashion as the structure.
9. A liquid crystal display device, as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the reflecting plate has a light transmission domain and a display of a transmission type and a display of a reflection type are possible.
10. A liquid crystal display device, as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the liquid crystal layer is of a vertically aligned type using n-type liquid crystal.
11. A liquid crystal display device comprising:
a transparent electrode;
a TFT substrate;
a reflecting plate having wrinkle-like unevenness on the surface thereof, the wrinkle-like unevenness having a plurality of protrusions; and
a liquid crystal layer provided between the transparent electrode and the reflecting plate,
wherein:
said plurality of the protrusions are arranged in parallel with each other when viewed from a direction perpendicular to the reflecting plate; and
each of the protrusions has a first linear part extending in a first direction, a second linear part extending from the top end of the first linear part in a second direction different from the first direction by certain angles to a predetermined side, and a third linear part extending from the top end of the second linear part in a third direction different from the second direction by certain angles to the predetermined side,
further comprising a structure provided beneath the reflecting plate and having unevenness, wherein the wrinkle-like unevenness of the reflecting plate is almost in accordance with the unevenness of the structure,
wherein the structure is formed in the same layer as at least any one of the signal wire, gate wire and storage capacitor of the TFT substrate, or part of the structure is formed in the same layer as at least one of the signal wire and the gate wire of the TFT substrate.
12. The liquid crystal display device as set forth in claim 11 , wherein the second direction in which the second linear part extends is a vertical direction of a display surface of the liquid crystal display device or a horizontal direction of the display surface of the liquid crystal display device.
13. The liquid crystal display device as set forth in claim 1 , wherein said plurality of the protrusions are arranged so as not to cross each other.