IP Library Granted Patent US 7,551,156
Granted Patent B2
US 7,551,156 · App. 11/168,991 · Granted Jun 23, 2009

Liquid crystal display device

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Patent No.
US 7,551,156
App. No.
11/168,991
Granted
Jun 23, 2009
Kind
B2
Abstract

A liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal display panel including an upper substrate, a lower substrate on which a plurality of gate lines and data lines cross each other, and a liquid crystal layer formed between the upper substrate and the lower substrate; a gate driving circuit for driving the plurality of gate lines; and a MUX circuit disposed at a surplus space portion of the lower substrate, having a plurality of inverters, an input terminal thereof connected to the gate driving circuit and an output terminal thereof connected to the plurality of gate lines corresponding to the gate driving circuit, and sequentially transmitting a gate signal into a plurality of input signals.

Claims (21)

1. A liquid crystal display device comprising:

a liquid crystal display panel including an upper substrate, a lower substrate on which N number gate lines and M number data lines cross each other, and a liquid crystal layer formed between the upper substrate and the lower substrate wherein the N number gate lines are divided into a plurality of groups:

a gate driving circuit generating a first gate signal corresponding to the plurality of gate lines formed at each group, and sequentially outputting the first gate signal to all the group according to a first control signal from an exterior of the gate driving circuit; and

a MUX circuit generating a second gate signal corresponding to the gate lines after receiving the first gate signal from the gate driving circuit, and sequentially supplying the second gate signal to the gate lines according to a plurality of second control signals from the exterior of the gate driving circuit, wherein the MUX circuit includes:

a first group of switching transistors being divided into a first sub-group and a second sub-group, and which one side terminal is respectively connected to a plurality of gate lines formed each group in the liquid crystal display panel;

a first inverter which one side and the other side terminal is commonly connected to switching transistors made of each of the first sub-group and the second sub-group for applying one signal of second control signals;

a second group of switching transistors being divided into a third sub-group and a fourth sub-group, and which one side terminal is commonly connected to the other side terminal of switching transistors made of each of the first sub-group and the second sub-group;

a second inverter which one side and the other side terminal is commonly connected to switching transistors made of each of the third sub-group and the fourth sub-group for applying another signal of second control signals;

a third group of switching transistors being divided into a fifth sub-group and a sixth sub-group, and which one side terminal is commonly connected to the other side terminal of switching transistors made of each of the third sub-group and the fourth sub-group, which the other side terminal is commonly connected to each other for receiving the first gate signal; and

a third inverter which one side and the other side terminal is commonly connected to switching transistors made of each of the fifth sub-group and the sixth sub-group for applying the other signal of second control signals.

2. The liquid crystal display device of claim 1 , wherein a surplus space portion of the lower substrate includes a region thereof which does not overlap the upper substrate, except for part where the lower substrate is attached to the upper substrate.

3. The liquid crystal display device of claim 2 , wherein the inverters are disposed at both sides or one side of the surplus space portion of the lower substrate.

4. The liquid crystal display device of claim 1 , wherein the MUX circuit is mounted inside the panel and the inverters are mounted outside the driving circuit.

5. The liquid crystal display device of claim 2 , wherein the gate driving circuit is disposed inside the surplus space portion of the lower substrate.

6. The liquid crystal display device of claim 5 , wherein a plurality of gate lines extended from one side and the other side of the liquid crystal display panel are connected to the gate driving circuit.

7. The liquid crystal display device of claim 1 , further comprising:

a data driving circuit to which a plurality of data lines are connected;

a data TCP to which the data driving circuit is connected and mounted; and

a data PCB separated from the data TCP and connected to the data TCP.

8. The liquid crystal display device of claim 7 , wherein the plurality of gate lines extending to the surplus space portion of the lower substrate formed at one side of the liquid crystal display panel are connected to the gate driving circuit mounted inside a gate TCP disposed between the data TCP and the data PCB.

9. The liquid crystal display device of claim 8 , wherein the inverters constituting the MUX circuit are disposed at a lower portion of the surplus space portion of the lower substrate formed at one side of the liquid crystal display panel.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Oct 17, 2008
From: LG.PHILIPS LCD CO., LTD.
To: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 021754/0045 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 11, 2005
From: KIM, MUN-CHUL; CHO, NAM-WOOK; SOHN, CHOONG-YONG
To: LG.PHILIPS LCD CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 017086/0218 →