IP Library Granted Patent US 8,269,925
Granted Patent B2
US 8,269,925 · App. 12/495,910 · Granted Sep 18, 2012

Liquid crystal display device with light blocking film overlapping drain signal line

Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.; Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 8,269,925
App. No.
12/495,910
Granted
Sep 18, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

A liquid crystal display device which can obviate color mixing of colors when a display screen is viewed from oblique directions while enhancing a numerical aperture of a pixel is provided. In a liquid crystal display device having red sub pixels, green sub pixels and blue sub pixels, a width of a light blocking film arranged on a boundary portion between the blue sub pixel and the sub pixel of other color is set larger than a width of a light blocking film arranged on a boundary portion between the red sub pixel and the green sub pixel.

Claims (26)

1. A liquid crystal display device comprising:

a pair of substrates which is arranged to face each other in an opposed manner with liquid crystal sandwiched therebetween;

light blocking films and color filters formed on one substrate of the pair of substrates;

red sub pixels, green sub pixels, and blue sub pixels determined based on colors of the color filters; and

drain signal lines, thin film transistors, and pixel electrodes formed on an other substrate of the pair of substrates;

wherein drain electrodes of the thin film transistors are connected to the drain signal lines, and the pixel electrodes are connected to the thin film transistors;

wherein the red sub pixels, the green sub pixels and the blue sub pixels are arranged in a first direction;

wherein the light blocking films are overlapped with the drain signal lines, and arranged on a boundary portion between the red sub pixel and the green sub pixel arranged adjacent to each other, on a boundary portion between the green sub pixel and the blue sub pixel arranged adjacent to each other, and on a boundary portion between the blue sub pixel and the red sub pixel arranged adjacent to each other; and

wherein a width of the light blocking film arranged on the boundary portion between the blue sub pixel and the sub pixel of a color other than a blue color and disposed between the pixel electrodes in the first direction is set larger than a width of the light blocking film arranged on the boundary portion between the red sub pixel and the green sub pixel and disposed between the pixel electrodes in the first direction.

2. A liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 , wherein assuming the width of the light blocking film arranged on the boundary portion between the red sub pixel and the blue sub pixel as Wrb, the width of the light blocking film arranged on the boundary portion between the green sub pixel and the red sub pixel as Wgr, and the width of the light blocking film arranged on the boundary portion between the blue sub pixel and the green sub pixel as Wbg, a relationship of Wrb>Wbg>Wgr is established.

3. A liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 , wherein the light blocking films are overlapped with the drain electrodes, and the width of the light blocking film arranged on the boundary portion between the blue sub pixel and the sub pixel of the color other than the blue color and overlapped with the drain electrode is set larger than a width of the light blocking film arranged on the boundary portion between the red sub pixel and the green sub pixel and overlapped with the drain electrode.

4. A liquid crystal display device comprising:

a pair of substrates which is arranged to face each other in an opposed manner with liquid crystal sandwiched therebetween;

light blocking films and color filters formed on one substrate of the pair of substrates;

red sub pixels, green sub pixels, and blue sub pixels determined based on colors of the color filters,

drain signal lines, thin film transistors, and pixel electrodes formed on an other substrate of the pair of substrates;

wherein drain electrodes of the thin film transistors are connected to the drain signal lines, and the pixel electrodes are connected to the thin film transistors;

wherein the red sub pixels, the green sub pixels and the blue sub pixels are arranged in a first direction,

wherein the light blocking films are overlapped with the drain signal lines, and arranged on a boundary portion between the red sub pixel and the green sub pixel arranged adjacent to each other, on a boundary portion between the green sub pixel and the blue sub pixel arranged adjacent to each other, and on a boundary portion between the blue sub pixel and the red sub pixel arranged adjacent to each other; and

wherein the drain signal lines are arranged at equal interval in the first direction, and wherein a distance Lr between a center line of a width of the light blocking film arranged on the boundary portion between the red sub pixel and the blue sub pixel and a center line of a width of the light blocking film arranged on the boundary portion between the red sub pixel and the green sub pixel is larger than

a distance Lb between a center line of a width of the light blocking film arranged on the boundary portion between the blue sub pixel and the green sub pixel and a center line of the width of the light blocking film arranged on the boundary portion between the blue sub pixel and the red sub pixel.

5. A liquid crystal display device according to claim 4 , wherein a distance Lb between the center line of the width of the light blocking film arranged on the boundary portion between the green sub pixel and the blue sub pixel and the center line of the width of the light blocking film arranged on the boundary portion between the green sub pixel and the red sub pixel as Lg, is larger than Lb and smaller than Lr.

6. A liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 , wherein the drain signal lines extend in a second direction transverse to the first direction, the light blocking films arranged on the boundary portions extend in the second direction between the sub pixels of different colors and have substantially a same width over the extent of the boundary portions between the sub pixels of the different colors.

7. A liquid crystal display device according to claim 2 , wherein the drain signal lines extend in a second direction transverse to the first direction, the light blocking films arranged on the boundary portions extend in the second direction between the sub pixels of different colors have substantially a same width over the extent of the boundary portions between the sub pixels of the different colors.

8. A liquid crystal display device according to claim 3 , wherein the drain signal lines extend in a second direction transverse to the first direction, the light blocking films arranged on the boundary portions extend in the second direction between the sub pixels of different colors have substantially a same width over the extent of the boundary portions between the sub pixels of the different colors.

9. A liquid crystal display device according to claim 4 , wherein the drain signal lines extend in a second direction transverse to the first direction, the light blocking films arranged on the boundary portions extend in the second direction between the sub pixels of different colors have substantially a same width over the extent of the boundary portions between the sub pixels of the different colors.

Assignments (7)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 10, 2025
From: JAPAN DISPLAY INC
To: MAGNOLIA PURPLE CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 071890/0202 →
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 Dec 26, 2013
From: JAPAN DISPLAY EAST, INC.
To: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
Reel/Frame 031869/0816 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Dec 26, 2013
From: HITACHI DISPLAYS, LTD.
To: JAPAN DISPLAY EAST, INC.
Reel/Frame 031869/0675 →
COMPANY SPLIT PLAN TRANSFERRING FIFTY (50) PERCENT SHARE IN PATENT APPLICATIONS Recorded Oct 20, 2011
From: HITACHI DISPLAYS, LTD.
To: IPS ALPHA SUPPORT CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 027092/0684 →
MERGER Recorded Oct 20, 2011
From: IPS ALPHA SUPPORT CO., LTD.
To: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 027093/0937 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 1, 2009
From: OCHIAI, TAKAHIRO; SASAKI, TOHRU; ITO, OSAMU
To: HITACHI DISPLAYS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 022899/0939 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2008-171954 · Jul 1, 2008 · national
Continuity (1)
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