IP Library Granted Patent US 8,941,803
Granted Patent B2
US 8,941,803 · App. 13/783,907 · Granted Jan 27, 2015

Liquid crystal display device and electronic apparatus using the same

Inventors: Soichi Saito (Kanagawa, JP); Shinya Niioka (Kanagawa, JP); Masayuki Jumonji (Kanagawa, JP); Hiroshi Tanabe (Kanagawa, JP); Masamichi Shimoda (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.
G02F1/134363G02F1/136286G02F2001/136295
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Patent No.
US 8,941,803
App. No.
13/783,907
Granted
Jan 27, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

A liquid crystal display device of IPS mode includes an array of pixels arranged in a matrix pattern by crossing a plurality of video signal lines and a plurality of scanning signal lines each other. Each of the pixels is provided with at least a switching element. A transparent insulating film is provided on both signal lines, and a plurality of pixel electrodes, common electrodes and common lines are provided on the transparent insulating film. The common lines are formed in a grid-shaped pattern such that a first group of the common lines is made of a first conductor having lower reflectivity against optical light than that of metal while a second group of the common lines is made of a second conductor including a metal layer such that said first group and said second group are crossing each other along said video signal lines and said scanning signal lines.

Claims (10)

1. A liquid crystal display device of a lateral electric field mode comprising:

a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between a first substrate and a second substrate;

an array of pixels arranged two-dimensionally on said first substrate in a matrix pattern by crossing a plurality of video signal lines and a plurality of scanning signal lines with each other, each of said pixels being provided with at least a switching element;

a transparent insulating film provided on said video signal lines and said scanning signal lines;

a plurality of pixel electrodes provided on said transparent insulating film;

a plurality of common electrodes provided on said transparent insulating film; and

a plurality of common lines provided on said transparent insulating film,

wherein said common lines being formed in a grid-shaped pattern overlap with said plurality of video signal lines and said plurality of scanning lines on said first substrate;

wherein one direction grid material of said common lines is made of a first conductor having lower reflectivity against optical light than that of a metal layer, while another direction grid material of said common lines extending in other direction is made of a second conductor including the metal layer such that said one direction and the other direction are crossing each other,

wherein a peripheral circuit using a same semiconductor layer disposed in a display area is provided around said display area, and a conductor extended from said common line covers a part of said peripheral circuit with said transparent insulating film interposed therebetween, a part of said peripheral circuit is a signal processing circuit.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 22, 2013
From: NEC LCD TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
To: NLT TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
Reel/Frame 030486/0309 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 4, 2013
From: SAITO, SOICHI; NIIOKA, SHINYA; JUMONJI, MASAYUKI; TANABE, HIROSHI; SHIMODA, MASAMICHI
To: NEC LCD TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
Reel/Frame 029915/0980 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2009-32239 · Feb 16, 2009 · national
Continuity (2)
Division 12656721 · Feb 16, 2010
Related Publication 20130182208A1 · Jul 18, 2013