IP Library Granted Patent US 7,199,852
Granted Patent B1
US 7,199,852 · App. 10/994,118 · Granted Apr 3, 2007

Fringe field switching liquid crystal displays using trapezoid electrodes

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Patent No.
US 7,199,852
App. No.
10/994,118
Granted
Apr 3, 2007
Kind
B1
Abstract

Structures, devices, systems and methods of using fringe field switching mode liquid crystal display (LCD) in which the electrodes have a trapezoidal structure. The disclosed fringe field switching mode LCD includes common electrodes and pixel electrodes arranged on a back substrate to produce a fringe field. Each electrode is comprised of alternating sections of main bone and trapezoidal electrode.

Claims (7)

1. A fringe field switching mode liquid crystal display comprising:

(a) a first substrate;

(b) a second substrate;

(c) a plurality of elongated pixel electrodes and common electrodes having alternating sections of main bone electrode with trapezoidal shaped electrode disposed adjacent to each other in each pixel region of a liquid crystal side surface of said first substrate, each of said pixel region including one pixel electrode and one common electrode disposed on the same substrate adjacent to one side of the one pixel electrode, wherein the width of the main-bone section of said one common and said one pixel electrodes is from approximately 1 to approximately 50 μm and the height of the trapezoid edge of said one common and said one pixel electrode is from approximately 1 to approximately 50 μm;

(d) aligning layers formed on liquid crystal side of said first and said second substrate providing liquid crystal homogeneous alignment;

(e) a liquid crystal material filling the space between said first and said second substrates as a liquid crystal cell; and

(f) a linear polarizer disposed on each exterior surface of said liquid crystal cell respectively.

Assignments (4)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Apr 3, 2014
From: CHIMEI INNOLUX CORPORATION
To: INNOLUX CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 032604/0487 →
MERGER Recorded Mar 8, 2011
From: TPO DISPLAYS CORP.
To: CHIMEI INNOLUX CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 025919/0338 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jan 5, 2011
From: TOPPOLY OPTOELECTRONICS CORP.
To: TPO DISPLAYS CORP.
Reel/Frame 025586/0499 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 19, 2004
From: LU, RUIBO; HONG, QI; WU, SHIN-TSON
To: RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA, INCORPORATED; TOPPOLY OPTOELECTRONICS CORPS.
Reel/Frame 018849/0788 →