Layout of liquid crystal display panels and size of mother substrate

1. A method of manufacturing liquid crystal display (LCD) devices, comprising:

providing a plurality of mother substrates having a major axis and a minor axis, wherein the length of the major axis of each mother substrate is the same and the length of the minor axis of each mother substrate is the same, and wherein the major axis and the minor axis of the plurality of mother substrates have lengths according to the following:

selecting first characteristics of a first plurality of LCD panels and selecting second characteristics of a second plurality of LCD panels, said characteristics including: a diagonal length, an aspect ratio of a length of the LCD panel in a first direction to a length of the LCD panel in a second direction different from said first direction, and an operating mode;

choosing a first number of the first plurality of LCD panels to provide on a first of the mother substrates and choosing a second number of the second plurality of LCD panels to provide on a second of the mother substrates;

choosing an alignment of the major axis of the first LCD panels to be parallel to the major axis of the first mother substrate and choosing an alignment of the minor axis of the second LCD panels to be parallel to the major axis of the second mother substrate;

choosing a size of a dummy region at an edge of the first mother substrate and choosing a size of a dummy region at an edge of the second mother substrate;

choosing a first margin of the first mother substrate and a first margin of the second mother substrate, said first margins including: a distance between adjacent LCD panels on the mother substrate in the first direction, and a distance between the dummy region and the LCD panels in the first direction; and

choosing a second margin of the first mother substrate and a second margin of the second mother substrate, said second margins including: a distance between adjacent LCD panels on the mother substrate in the second direction, and a distance between the dummy region and the LCD panels in the second direction,

wherein the length of the major axis of the mother substrates and the length of the minor axis of the mother substrates are based on said first and second LCD panel characteristics, the first number and the second number of LCD panels, the alignment of the first and second LCD panels relative to the first and second mother substrates, the first and second margins, and said sizes of the dummy regions, such that a substrate efficiency of 90% or more is achieved in the major and minor axis directions for first mother substrate and a substrate efficiency of 90% or more is achieved in the major and minor axis directions for the second mother substrate, wherein a substrate efficiency calculation of 100% is based on assuming a total dummy region width of 30 mm or less and a margin of 0.3 to 4%, and wherein the size of the mother substrate is 1500 mm by 1850 mm;

forming the first number of the first plurality of LCD panels on the first mother substrate; and

forming the second number of the second plurality of LCD panels on the second mother substrate.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

providing a sealant and a black matrix layer around each of said first and second LCD panels,

wherein the sealant overlaps the black matrix layer.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first margins are between approximately 0.3% and about 5% of the length of the LCD panels in the first direction, and the second margins are between approximately 0.3% and about 5% of the length of the LCD panels in the second direction.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein:

the diagonal length of the second LCD panels is 32 inches;

the second number of second LCD panels is eight.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the aspect ratio of the 32-inch LCD panels is 16:9; and

wherein the length of the 32-inch LCD panels in the first direction is 413.05 mm and the length of the 32-inch LCD panels in the second direction is 715.0 mm.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the substrate efficiency calculation of 100% is based on assuming a total dummy region width of 30 mm and a margin of 1%.

7. A method of manufacturing liquid crystal display (LCD) devices, comprising:

providing a plurality of mother substrates having a major axis and a minor axis, wherein the length of the major axis of each mother substrate is 1850 mm and the length of the minor axis of each mother substrate is 1500 mm;

forming a first number of a first plurality of LCD panels on a first of the plurality of mother substrates, wherein the first LCD panels have a first diagonal length and have a major axis aligned to be parallel to the major axis of the first mother substrate, wherein a substrate efficiency of 90% or more is achieved in the major and minor axis directions for the first mother substrate, wherein a substrate efficiency calculation of 100% is based on assuming a total dummy region width of 30 mm or less and a margin of 0.3 to 4%; and

forming a second number of a second plurality of LCD panels on a second of the plurality of mother substrates, wherein the second LCD panels have a second diagonal length and have a minor axis aligned to be parallel to the major axis of the second mother substrate, wherein a substrate efficiency of 90% or more is achieved in the major and minor axis directions for the second mother substrate, wherein a substrate efficiency calculation of 100% is based on assuming a total dummy region width of 30 mm or less and a margin of 0.3 to 4%.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the substrate efficiency calculation of 100% is based on assuming a total dummy region width of 30 mm and a margin of 1%.