IP Library Granted Patent US 7,623,205
Granted Patent B2
US 7,623,205 · App. 11/387,712 · Granted Nov 24, 2009

Transflective liquid crystal display device and manufacturing method thereof

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Patent No.
US 7,623,205
App. No.
11/387,712
Granted
Nov 24, 2009
Kind
B2
Abstract

A transflective liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates facing each other, a gate line and a data line on the first substrate, the gate and data lines intersecting each other and defining a pixel region having a transmissive region and a reflective region, a thin film transistor at an intersection between the gate line and the data line, a pixel electrode in the pixel region connected to the thin film transistor, an organic insulating layer on the second substrate, the organic insulating layer including a through-hole in the transmissive region, a reflective electrode on the organic insulating layer in the reflective region, a black matrix on the second substrate, a color filter layer on the second substrate in the pixel region, and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates.

Claims (15)

1. A liquid crystal display device, comprising:

first and second substrates facing each other;

a gate line and a data line on the first substrate, the gate and data lines intersecting each other and defining a pixel region having a transmissive region and a reflective region;

a thin film transistor on the first substrate at an intersection between the gate line and the data line;

a pixel electrode in the pixel region of the first substrate connected to the thin film transistor;

an organic insulating layer includes an uneven pattern in the reflective region on the second substrate, the organic insulating layer including a through-hole in the transmissive region;

a reflective electrode on the second substrate corresponding to the organic insulating layer in the reflective region;

a black matrix on the reflective electrode of the second substrate corresponding to the thin film transistor of the first substrate and a boundary region between adjacent pixel regions;

a color filter layer on the reflective electrode in the reflective region and the second substrate in the reflective region and the transmission region; and

a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates,

wherein a first gap between the first and second substrates in the transmissive region is larger than a second gap in the first and second substrates in the reflective region.

2. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the uneven pattern includes at least one groove.

3. The device according to claim 1 , further comprising a common electrode on the color filter layer.

4. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the color filter layer contacts the second substrate via the through-hole in the transmissive region.

5. The device according to claim 1 , further comprising a light source, light generated by the light source incident onto a bottom surface of the second substrate.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Oct 27, 2008
From: LG.PHILIPS LCD CO., LTD.
To: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 021772/0701 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 24, 2006
From: KIM, DONG YUNG
To: LG.PHILIPS LCD CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 017682/0881 →