IP Library Patent Application 12585925
Patent Application
App. No. 12/585,925

Liquid crystal display device

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App. No.
12/585,925
Abstract

The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which can realize the reduction of thickness of substrates and the miniaturization of a profile size thereof. In a liquid crystal display device which includes a liquid crystal display panel, a backlight which is arranged on a side opposite to a viewer of the liquid crystal display panel, and a frame, the backlight has a frame-like mold, the liquid crystal display panel has a surface thereof on a side remote from the viewer fixed to a surface thereof on a viewer's side of the frame-like mold, a side surface of the liquid crystal display panel is retracted to the inside of the frame-like mold than a side surface of the frame-like mold, and the liquid crystal display panel and the frame-like mold are housed in the inside of the frame without interposing a resin between the side surface of the liquid crystal display panel and the frame.

Claims (10)

1 . A liquid crystal display device comprising:

a liquid crystal display panel;

a back light unit with light guide plate;

a mold frame with flat upper surface;

a reflection film;

wherein the liquid crystal display panel formed on the mold frame with adhesive member therebetween, and width of the liquid crystal display panel is smaller than the mold frame;

the reflection film formed behind the backlight unit and adhered to the mold frame with adhesive member;

and the light guide plate is not overlapped with the mold in plane view and folded by the liquid crystal display panel, the mold frame, and the reflection film.

2 . The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 , wherein thickness of the liquid crystal display panel is 0.6 mm or less.

3 . The liquid crystal display device according to claim 2 , wherein the adhesive member is pressure-sensitive adhesive double-coated tape.

Assignments (3)
MERGER Recorded Dec 13, 2011
From: IPS ALPHA SUPPORT CO., LTD.
To: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 027482/0140 →
ATTACHED ARE (1) THE COMPANY SPLIT DOCUMENTS IN JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION THEREOF AND (2) THE CERTIFICATE OF COMPANY SPLIT DOCUMENT IN JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION, WHICH TOGETHER CONVEY 50% OWNERSHIP OF THE REGISTERED PATENTS AS LISTED IN THE ATTACHED TO EACH OF THE RECEIVING PARTIES (SEE PAGE 10, EXHIBIT 2-1, SECTION 1 OF THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE COMPANY SPLIT PLAN.) Recorded Dec 13, 2011
From: HITACHI, DISPLAYS, LTD.
To: HITACHI DISPLAYS, LTD.; IPS ALPHA SUPPORT CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 027615/0589 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 29, 2009
From: OOHIRA, EIJI
To: HITACHI DISPLAYS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 023335/0752 →