IP Library Granted Patent US 8,309,959
Granted Patent B2
US 8,309,959 · App. 12/473,303 · Granted Nov 13, 2012

Display device having opening portion with different widths

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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 8,309,959
App. No.
12/473,303
Granted
Nov 13, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

A display device which surely allows the black-spot-forming correction at the time of forming an opening portion in a portion of a scanning signal line where a scanning signal line and a video signal line intersects each other and forming a semiconductor layer and a conductor layer by a resist flow method is provided. A scanning signal line which forms an opening portion in a portion thereof which intersects a video signal line, an insulation film, a semiconductor layer which covers a region which spreads larger than a conductor layer, and the conductor layer are sequentially stacked. The conductor layer includes the video signal line, a drain electrode and a source electrode of a thin film transistor, and a connecting line which connects the video signal line and the drain electrode. The connecting line is branched from the video signal line over the opening portion, and the opening portions is formed in a projecting manner toward both edges of the scanning signal line such that a width of the opening portion in the direction which intersects the connecting line is set larger than a width of the semiconductor layer.

Claims (6)

1. A display device in which scanning signal lines, an insulation film, a semiconductor layer, and a conductor layer are sequentially stacked on a substrate, wherein

the conductor layer includes a video signal line which intersects the scanning signal line as viewed in plan view, a drain electrode and a source electrode of a thin film transistor, and a connecting line which connects the video signal line and either one of the drain electrode and the source electrode,

the semiconductor layer is formed so as to cover a region of the insulation film which is larger than a region where the conductor layer is formed as viewed in plan view,

an opening portion which partially overlaps with the video signal line as viewed in plan view is formed in the scanning signal line,

the connecting line is branched from the video signal line over the opening portion, and extends to the outside of the opening portion, and

the opening portion is formed in a projecting manner toward both edges of the scanning signal line such that, as viewed in plan view, at least at a portion of the opening portion on a side where the connecting line advances into the opening portion, a width of the opening portion in the direction which intersects the connecting line is set larger than a width of the semiconductor layer which expands toward an outer side of the connecting line, and the width of the opening portion in the direction which intersects the connecting line at the portion of the opening portion is set larger than a width of the opening portion in the direction which intersects the connecting line at a crossing area of the video signal line and the opening portion.

Assignments (3)
NUNC PRO TUNC ASSIGNMENT Recorded Nov 17, 2023
From: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
To: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
Reel/Frame 065615/0327 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 10, 2011
From: IPS ALPHA TECHNOLOGY, LTD.
To: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 026257/0377 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 28, 2009
From: MATSUMOTO, JUN; YAMAMOTO, KAZUSHI
To: IPS ALPHA TECHNOLOGY, LTD.
Reel/Frame 022743/0482 →