IP Library Granted Patent US 8,013,534
Granted Patent B2
US 8,013,534 · App. 11/939,717 · Granted Sep 6, 2011

Electro-optic device and electronic apparatus

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Patent No.
US 8,013,534
App. No.
11/939,717
Granted
Sep 6, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

An electro-optic device includes a substrate on which a plurality of electro-optic elements are configured, a plurality of IC chips that drive the electro-optic elements, and a plurality of wiring patterns. Each of the IC chips includes a first power terminal and a second power terminal connected to each other in the IC chip, a third power terminal sandwiching the first power terminal with the second power terminal and placed on a first side opposite to the second power terminal, and a fourth power terminal sandwiching the second power terminal with the first power terminal and placed on a second side opposite to the first power terminal. The wiring patterns include a first power trunk line connecting the second power terminal in a first IC chip among from the IC chips and the first power terminal in a second IC chip placed on the second side of the first IC chip, a second power trunk line connecting the fourth power terminal in the first IC chip and the third power terminal in the second IC chip, a first electric supply line that supplies a first potential for driving the electro-optic elements from a power supply circuit to the first power terminal in the first IC chip, and a second electric supply line that supplies a second potential for driving the electro-optic elements from the power supply circuit to the third power terminal in the first IC chip.

Claims (12)

1. An electro-optic device comprising:

a substrate on which a plurality of electro-optic elements are configured;

a plurality of integrated circuit chips that drive the plurality of electro-optic elements, each of the plurality of integrated circuit chips including a first power terminal and a second power terminal connected to each other in the integrated circuit chip, a third power terminal sandwiching the first power terminal with the second power terminal and placed on a first side opposite to the second power terminal, and a fourth power terminal sandwiching the second power terminal with the first power terminal and placed on a second side opposite to the first power terminal; and

a plurality of wiring patterns including a first power trunk line connecting the second power terminal in a first integrated circuit chip among from the plurality of integrated circuit chips and the first power terminal in a second integrated circuit chip placed on the second side of the first integrated circuit chip, a second power trunk line connecting the fourth power terminal in the first integrated circuit chip and the third power terminal in the second integrated circuit chip, a first electric supply line that supplies a first potential for driving the electro-optic elements from a power supply circuit to the first power terminal in the first integrated circuit chip, and a second electric supply line that supplies a second potential for driving the electro-optic elements from the power supply circuit to the third power terminal in the first integrated circuit chip.

2. The electro-optic device according to claim 1 , wherein in each of the plurality of integrated circuit chips, the first and second power terminals are symmetrically arranged about a predetermined reference line, and the third and fourth power terminals are symmetrically arranged about the predetermined reference line.

3. The electro-optic device according to claim 1 ,

wherein each of the plurality of integrated circuit chips includes a plurality of first signal terminals arranged on the first side of the third power terminal and a plurality of second signal terminals arranged on the second side of the fourth power terminal and connected to the corresponding plurality of first signal terminals in the integrated circuit chip and drives the electro-optic elements on the basis of a control signal supplied to a corresponding one of the plurality of first signal terminals, and

wherein the plurality of wiring patterns include a plurality of signal trunk lines connecting each of the second signal terminals in the first integrated circuit chip and a corresponding one of the first signal terminals in the second integrated circuit chip.

4. The electro-optic device according to claim 3 , wherein in each of the plurality of integrated circuit chips, each of the plurality of first signal terminals and a corresponding one of the plurality of second signal terminals connected to the first signal terminal are symmetrically arranged about the predetermined reference line of the integrated circuit chip.

5. The electro-optic device according to claim 3 , wherein each of the plurality of integrated circuit chips includes a switching unit configured to switch between a first state in which the control signal supplied to the first signal terminal is output to the second signal terminal in the integrated circuit chip and a second state in which the control signal supplied to the second signal terminal is output to the first signal terminal in the integrated circuit chip,

6. The electro-optic device according to claim 5 , wherein each of the plurality of integrated circuit chips includes a control terminal placed between the first power terminal and the second power terminal, and the switching unit is configured to switch between the first state and the second state on the basis of a signal supplied to the control terminal.

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

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 17, 2022
From: EL TECHNOLOGY FUSION GODO KAISHA
To: ELEMENT CAPITAL COMMERCIAL COMPANY PTE. LTD.
Reel/Frame 059435/0428 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 31, 2018
From: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
To: EL TECHNOLOGY FUSION GODO KAISHA
Reel/Frame 047998/0879 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 14, 2007
From: HAYASHI, TAKAAKI
To: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 020114/0832 →