IP Library Granted Patent US 8,884,865
Granted Patent B2
US 8,884,865 · App. 13/785,383 · Granted Nov 11, 2014

Scanning line driving circuit, display device, and scanning line driving method

Inventors: Hiroshi Haga (Kanagawa, JP); Yoichi Kitagishi (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: NLT Technologies Ltd.
G09G3/32G11C19/28G09G2310/0286G09G2300/0408G09G3/3677
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Patent No.
US 8,884,865
App. No.
13/785,383
Granted
Nov 11, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

A scanning line driving circuit includes a first transistor having a source electrode connected to a power supply and a drain electrode to a scanning line and a second transistor having a source electrode connected to the scanning line and a drain electrode connected to a clock signal line. The conductivity type of the second transistor is identical to that of the first transistor. A bias can be supplied, so that the first and second transistors are caused to be in an off-state simultaneously.

Claims (12)

1. A scanning line driving circuit, comprising:

a first transistor having a source electrode connected to a power supply and a drain electrode connected to a scanning line; and

a second transistor having a source electrode connected to the scanning line and a drain electrode connected to a clock signal line and having a conductivity type identical to that of the first transistor,

wherein a bias can be supplied so that the first and second transistors are simultaneously caused to be in an off-state;

the circuit further comprising:

a diode having a first end connected directly to a gate electrode of the first transistor and a second end supplied with a driving signal of the first transistor; and

a voltage control switch circuit having one end connected directly to the gate electrode of the first transistor, a control terminal connected directly to the second end of the diode, and an other end of the voltage control switch circuit connected directly to an external control signal line used for causing the scanning line in a floating state,

wherein, when the first transistor is a P-type transistor, one of the first and second ends of the diode is a cathode and an other of the first and second ends is an anode, and when the first transistor is an N-type transistor, the one of the first and second ends of the diode is an anode and the other of the first and second ends is a cathode,

wherein the voltage control switch circuit comprises a transistor of a conductivity type identical to that of the first transistor, and

wherein the gate electrode of the first transistor, a gate electrode of the second transistor, and the clock signal line are supplied with signals necessary for a shift operation to function as a shift resistor.

2. The scanning line driving circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the diode is formed by diode-connecting a third transistor of a conductivity type identical to that of the first transistor.

3. The scanning line driving circuit according to claim 1 , wherein, when a signal level of the clock signal line changes, a gate electrode of the second transistor is controlled to be in a floating state.

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 5, 2013
From: HAGA, HIROSHI; KITAGISHI, YOICHI
To: NEC LCD TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
Reel/Frame 029924/0180 →
Priority Claims (2)
JP 2009-098240 · Apr 14, 2009 · national
JP 2010-054379 · Mar 11, 2010 · national
Continuity (2)
Division 12759876 · Apr 14, 2010
Related Publication 20130181890A1 · Jul 18, 2013