IP Library Granted Patent US 8,035,790
Granted Patent B2
US 8,035,790 · App. 11/626,460 · Granted Oct 11, 2011

Mount structure, electrooptic device, and electronic device

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Patent No.
US 8,035,790
App. No.
11/626,460
Granted
Oct 11, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

A mount structure includes a first electronic component and a second electronic component mounted to the first electronic component. The first and second electronic components include first and second terminals arrayed in strips and extending along a plurality of lines passing through first and second common points The second terminals are connected to the corresponding first terminals. The second common point substantially corresponds to the first common point. The range in which the first electronic component and the second electronic component are mounted includes a terminal region in which the first and second terminals are arrayed substantially at a specified interval, and a no terminal region in which there is no first terminals across a range wider than the specified interval or there are first dummy terminals in place of the first terminals. In the no terminal region, second dummy terminals are arrayed in strips and extend along the lines passing through the second common point.

Claims (80)

1. An electro-optic device, comprising:

an electro-optic panel; and

a connecting board mounted to the electro-optic panel;

wherein

the electro-optic panel has a first terminal group including a plurality of first terminals;

the connecting board has a second terminal group including a plurality of second terminals conductively connected to the corresponding first terminals of the first terminal group;

the range in which the electro-optic panel and the connecting board are mounted includes

a terminal region in which the first terminals are arrayed substantially with an equal pitch, and

a no-terminal region in which there are no first terminals; and

the second terminal group has

in the terminal region, the second terminals arrayed in correspondence with the first terminals, respectively, and

at least a dummy terminal provided in the no-terminal region only in a position immediately adjacent to the second terminal at an edge of the terminal region,

wherein the first terminals are linear and a plurality of the first terminals converge toward a first common point, and

wherein the second terminals are linear and a plurality of the second terminals converge toward a second common point.

2. The electro-optic device according to claim 1 , wherein the first terminal group has

a third terminal group including some of said first terminals provided as one kind of wires and arrayed in a first area of the terminal region, and

a fourth terminal group including some further said first terminals provided as another kind of wires and arrayed in a second area of the terminal region; and

the no-terminal region is positioned between the first and second areas of the terminal region.

3. The electro-optic device according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one dummy terminal in the no-terminal region and the second terminals in the terminal region are arrayed substantially at said pitch.

4. The electro-optic device according to claim 1 , wherein

the first and second common points are spaced apart in a predetermined direction perpendicular to arrays of the first and second terminals.

5. The electro-optic device according to claim 4 , wherein the at least one dummy terminal and the second terminals-converge toward the second common point.

6. The electro-optic device according to claim 1 , wherein the connecting board is a flexible wiring board.

7. An electronic device comprising the electro-optic device according to claim 1 .

8. An electro-optic device, comprising:

an electro-optic panel; and

a connecting board mounted to the electro-optic panel;

wherein

the electro-optic panel has a first terminal group including a plurality of first terminals;

the connecting board has a second terminal group including a plurality of second terminals conductively connected to the corresponding first terminals of the first terminal group;

the range in which the electro-optic panel and the connecting board are mounted includes, in a width direction of the connecting board,

a terminal region in which the first terminals are arrayed in said width direction substantially with an equal pitch, and

a no-terminal region in which there are no first terminals across a range that is sufficiently wide in the width direction for accommodating at least three first terminals at said pitch, and which is located in said width direction between first and second areas of the terminal region; and

the second terminal group has

in the terminal region, the second terminals arrayed in said width direction in correspondence with the first terminals, respectively, and

two dummy terminals provided in the no-terminal region only in positions immediately adjacent in said width direction to the second terminals at facing edges of the first and second areas of the terminal region;

wherein the dummy terminals in the no-terminal region and the second terminals in the terminal region are arrayed in said width direction substantially at said pitch;

wherein the two dummy terminals in the no-terminal region are spaced in said width direction by an area free of any said first, second, and dummy terminals, a dimension of said area in said width direction being at least two times of said pitch;

wherein the first terminals are linear and a plurality of the first terminals converge toward a first common point; and

the second terminals are linear and a plurality of the second terminals converge toward a second common point.

9. The electro-optic device according to claim 8 , wherein the first terminal group has

a third terminal group including some of said first terminals provided as one kind of wires and arrayed in the first area of the terminal region, and

a fourth terminal group including some further said first terminals provided as another kind of wires and arrayed in the second area of the terminal region.

10. The electro-optic device according to claim 9 , wherein the electro-optic panel includes

a plurality of pixels,

at least a common electrode for multiple said pixels, and

for each said pixel, an active element and a pixel electrode connected to the active element;

the first terminals in the third terminal group are one selected from the group consisting of

selecting wires for selecting the active elements of the pixels of the electrooptic panel, respectively,

data wires for supplying specified potentials to the pixel electrodes of the pixels of the electro-optic panel, respectively, and

common wires for supplying a common potential to said multiple pixels;

and

the first terminals in the fourth terminal group are another one selected from the group consisting of said selecting wires, said data wires and said common wires.

11. The electro-optic device according to claim 8 , wherein

all of the first terminals linearly extend respectively along first converging straight lines passing through the first common point;

all of the dummy terminals and all of the second terminals linearly extend respectively along second converging straight lines passing through the second common point; and

the first and second common points are spaced apart in a longitudinal direction perpendicular to said width direction.

12. The electro-optic device according to claim 8 , wherein the connecting board is a flexible wiring board.

13. The electro-optic device according to claim 1 , wherein

the no-terminal region extends over the range that is sufficient for accommodating at least three first terminals at said pitch.

14. The electro-optic device according to claim 11 , wherein

the first common point is closer, in the longitudinal direction, to the connecting board than the second common point.

15. An electro-optic device, comprising:

an electro-optic panel; and

a connecting board mounted to the electro-optic panel;

wherein

the electro-optic panel has a first terminal group including a plurality of first terminals;

the connecting board has a second terminal group including a plurality of second terminals conductively connected to the corresponding first terminals of the first terminal group;

the range in which the electro-optic panel and the connecting board are mounted includes, in a width direction of the connecting board,

a terminal region in which the first terminals are arrayed in said width direction substantially with an equal pitch, and

a no-terminal region in which there are no first terminals across a range that is sufficiently wide in the width direction for accommodating at least three first terminals at said pitch, and which is located in said width direction between first and second areas of the terminal region; and

the second terminal group has

in the terminal region, the second terminals arrayed in said width direction in correspondence with the first terminals, respectively, and

two dummy terminals provided in the no-terminal region only in positions immediately adjacent in said width direction to the second terminals at facing edges of the first and second areas of the terminal region;

wherein the dummy terminals in the no-terminal region and the second terminals in the terminal region are arrayed in said width direction substantially at said pitch,

wherein the two dummy terminals in the no-terminal region are spaced in said width direction by an area free of any said first, second, and dummy terminals, a dimension of said area in said width direction being- at least two times of said pitch,

wherein all of the first terminals linearly extend respectively along first converging straight lines passing through the first common point,

wherein all of the dummy terminals and all of the second terminals linearly extend respectively along second converging straight lines passing through the second common point,

wherein the first and second common points are spaced apart in a longitudinal direction perpendicular to said width direction, and

wherein the first common point is closer, in the longitudinal direction, to the connecting board than the second common point.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 11, 2025
From: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
To: MAGNOLIA WHITE CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 072398/0001 →
MERGER AND CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jul 24, 2025
From: JAPAN DISPLAY EAST INC.; JAPAN DISPLAY WEST INC.
To: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
Reel/Frame 071935/0063 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 8, 2013
From: SONY CORPORATION
To: JAPAN DISPLAY WEST INC.
Reel/Frame 031378/0243 →