Liquid crystal display device
View Patent ↗The present invention provides a LCD device, comprising: a backlight module, comprising a light emitting surface and an opposite back surface; a liquid crystal panel, on the light emitting surface, wherein a signal binding end is disposed on a front surface, away from the backlight module, of the liquid crystal panel; and a COF, comprising a flexible circuit board, and a binding part and a driver chip on a first surface of the flexible circuit board, wherein the flexible circuit board is connected to the signal binding end through the binding part and is bent extendedly to the back surface of the backlight module; and in the region of the flexible circuit board at the back surface of the backlight module, the first surface of the flexible circuit board comprises a first area facing away from the backlight module, and the driver chip is connected to the first area.
1. A liquid crystal display (LCD) device, comprising:
a backlight module, comprising a light emitting surface and a back surface opposite to the light emitting surface;
a liquid crystal panel, disposed on the light emitting surface of the backlight module, wherein a signal binding end is disposed on a front surface, away from the backlight module, of the liquid crystal panel; and
a chip on film (COF), comprising a flexible circuit board, a binding part and a driver chip disposed on a first surface of the flexible circuit board, wherein the flexible circuit board is connected to the signal binding end through the binding part and is bent and extended to the back surface of the backlight module;
wherein the first surface of the flexible circuit board extendedly bending to the back surface of the backlight module comprises a first area facing away from the backlight module, and the driver chip is connected to the first area;
wherein the flexible circuit board comprises two or more bending portions stacked between the backlight module and the driver chip in a vertical direction, the two or more bending portions are bended and extended toward the first area.
2. The LCD device according to claim 1 , wherein the COF comprises a flexible circuit board, and the binding part comprises a first binding part and a second binding part; wherein
the first binding part is disposed on a first end of the flexible circuit board in order to electrically connect the flexible circuit board to the signal binding end,
the second binding part is disposed on a second end of the flexible circuit board in order to electrically connect the flexible circuit board to a printed circuit board; and
the driver chip is disposed between the first binding part and the second binding part on a signal transmission pathway.
3. The LCD device according to claim 2 , wherein the two or more bending portions allow the flexible circuit board to bend and extend in an S shape to the back surface of the backlight module.
4. The LCD device according to claim 3 , wherein a first bending portion and a second bending portion are disposed between the first end and the second end of the flexible circuit board, and the first area is defined as an area between the second bending portion and the second end of the first surface and faces away from the backlight module.
5. The LCD device according to claim 2 , wherein the first binding part is connected to the signal binding end through a first anisotropic conductive film.
6. The LCD device according to claim 5 , wherein the printed circuit board is connected to the second binding part through a second anisotropic conductive film.
7. The LCD device according to claim 2 , wherein the COF comprises a gate-COF for signal scanning and a source-COF for data signal providing.
8. The LCD device according to claim 2 , wherein the liquid crystal panel comprises a thin film transistor (TFT) array substrate and a color filter substrate arranged oppositely, and the signal binding end is disposed on an edge of the TFT array substrate.