IP Library Granted Patent US 11,036,323
Granted Patent B2
US 11,036,323 · App. 16/748,168 · Granted Jun 15, 2021

Display device

Inventors: Tetsuo Fukami (Hyogo, JP); Masahiro Ishii (Hyogo, JP)
Assignee: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
G06F3/0412G02F1/1368G02F1/13624G02F1/134363
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Patent No.
US 11,036,323
App. No.
16/748,168
Granted
Jun 15, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

A display device comprising: a plurality of source lines extending in a first direction; a plurality of gate lines extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction; a plurality of pixel electrodes arrayed in the first direction and the second direction; a plurality of common electrodes disposed corresponding to a plurality of touch regions arrayed in the first direction and the second direction, the plurality of common electrodes being disposed while opposed to the plurality of pixel electrodes; a plurality of sensor electrode lines electrically connected to the plurality of common electrodes; a plurality of inspection signal lines electrically connected to the plurality of common electrodes through a plurality of inspection thin film transistors; and an inspection gate line connected to a gate electrode of each of the plurality of inspection thin film transistors.

Claims (25)

1. A display device comprising:

a plurality of source lines extending in a first direction;

a plurality of gate lines extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction;

a plurality of pixel electrodes arrayed in the first direction and the second direction;

a plurality of common electrodes disposed corresponding to a plurality of touch regions arrayed in the first direction and the second direction, the plurality of common electrodes being disposed while opposed to the plurality of pixel electrodes;

a plurality of sensor electrode lines electrically connected to the plurality of common electrodes;

a plurality of inspection signal lines electrically connected to the plurality of common electrodes through a plurality of inspection thin film transistors; and

an inspection gate line connected to a gate electrode of each of the plurality of inspection thin film transistors.

2. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of common electrodes arrayed in the first direction are connected to different inspection thin film transistors.

3. The display device according to claim 2 , wherein two common electrodes adjacent to each other in the second direction are connected to different inspection thin film transistors.

4. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein two common electrodes adjacent to each other in the first direction are connected to different inspection signal lines.

5. The display device according to claim 4 , wherein two common electrodes adjacent to each other in the second direction are connected to different inspection signal lines.

6. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein two common electrodes adjacent to each other in the second direction are connected to different inspection signal lines.

7. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein a first common electrode included in the plurality of common electrodes is connected to an inspection signal line different from the inspection signal line connected to the common electrode disposed adjacent to a periphery of the first common electrode among the inspection signal lines.

8. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein two common electrodes adjacent to each other in the first direction are different from each other in a polarity of a signal applied through the plurality of inspection signal lines.

9. The display device according to claim 8 , wherein two common electrodes adjacent to each other in the second direction are different from each other in the polarity of the signal applied through the plurality of inspection signal lines.

10. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein two common electrodes adjacent to each other in the second direction are different from each other in a polarity of a signal applied through the plurality of inspection signal lines.

11. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein

the inspection gate line is a plurality of inspection gate lines, and

the gate electrodes of the plurality of inspection thin film transistors are connected to one of the plurality of inspection gate lines.

12. The display device according to claim 11 , wherein one inspection gate line included in the plurality of inspection gate lines is connected to the gate electrodes of at least two inspection thin film transistors included in the plurality of inspection thin film transistors.

13. The display device according to claim 11 , wherein a combination of the inspection gate line and the inspection signal line connected to a first common electrode included in the plurality of common electrodes arrayed in the first direction is different from a combination of the inspection gate line and the inspection signal line connected to another common electrodes included in the plurality of common electrodes arrayed in the first direction.

14. The display device according to claim 11 , wherein a combination of the inspection gate line and the inspection signal line connected to one of the two common electrodes adjacent to each other in the second direction is different from a combination of the inspection gate line and the inspection signal line connected to another one of the two common electrodes adjacent to each other in the second direction.

15. The display device according to claim 11 , wherein a combination of the inspection gate line and the inspection signal line connected to a first common electrode included in the plurality of common electrodes arrayed in the second direction is different from a combination of the inspection gate line and the inspection signal line connected to another common electrode included in the plurality of common electrodes arrayed in the second direction.

16. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of inspection signal lines are electrically connected to the plurality of common electrodes through the plurality of sensor electrode lines.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 27, 2024
From: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
To: PANELTOUCH TECHNOLOGIES LLC
Reel/Frame 067245/0821 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 31, 2023
From: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
To: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
Reel/Frame 064759/0824 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 9, 2020
From: FUKAMI, TETSUO; ISHII, MASAHIRO
To: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 052047/0244 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2019-014400 · Jan 30, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
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