IP Library Granted Patent US 8,350,792
Granted Patent B2
US 8,350,792 · App. 12/509,523 · Granted Jan 8, 2013

Display device

Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.; Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 8,350,792
App. No.
12/509,523
Granted
Jan 8, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

A display device in which a non-display region is formed in a portion of a display region which is formed of a mass of the pixels, out of the plurality of gate signal lines and the plurality of drain signal lines, the gate signal lines and the drain signal lines which are arranged so as to traverse the non-display region when the gate signal lines and the drain signal lines straightly extend imaginarily are formed in a pattern where the gate signal lines and the drain signal lines are routed around the non-display region.

Claims (13)

1. A display device which forms a plurality of gate signal lines arranged parallel to each other in one direction, a plurality of drain signal lines arranged parallel to each other in another direction which intersects said one direction, and a plurality of common signal lines arranged along one group of signal lines out of the gate signal lines and the drain signal lines, each common signal line being arranged between respective signal lines of said one group of signal lines on a substrate, and which defines a region surrounded by a pair of neighboring gate signal lines and a pair of neighboring drain signal lines as a region of a pixel, wherein

a non-display region is formed in a portion of a display region which is formed of a mass of the pixels,

out of the plurality of gate signal lines and the plurality of drain signal lines, the gate signal lines and the drain signal lines which are arranged so as to traverse the non-display region when the gate signal lines and the drain signal lines straightly extend imaginarily are formed in a pattern where the gate signal lines and the drain signal lines are routed around the non-display region,

out of the plurality of common signal lines, first common signal lines which are arranged so as to traverse the non-display region when the first common signal lines straightly extend imaginarily are formed in a state that the first common signal lines are physically separated to be arranged on one side and another side of the non-display region, the separated common signal lines on respective sides are respectively electrically connected to a connection lines arranged in an intersecting manner with the common signal lines in the vicinity of the non-display region, and the connection lines are electrically connected with second common signal lines which are arranged so as not to traverse the non-display region even when the second common signal lines straightly extend imaginarily out of the plurality of common signal lines, and

the first common signal lines which are physically separated by the non-display region extend closer to a non-display region side than connection portions between the first common signal lines and the connection line, and extending portions of the first common signal lines have intersecting portions where the first common signal lines intersect with the signal lines extending in the direction which intersects with the common signal lines out of the drain signal lines and the gate signal lines.

2. A display device according to claim 1 , wherein at least one common signal line out of the first common signal lines which are physically separated by the non-display region is provided with, on an edge portion of the non-display region side, one or a plurality of branch lines which intersects with the signal lines extending in the direction which intersect with the common signal lines out of the drain signal lines and the gate signal lines.

3. A display device according to claim 1 , wherein at least one common signal line out of the first common signal lines which are physically separated by the non-display region is provided with, on an edge portion of the non-display region side, a plurality of intersecting portions where the common signal line intersects with the signal lines extending in the direction which intersects with the common signal line out of the drain signal lines and the gate signal lines, and is a large width line which increases a line width thereof corresponding to the number of the plurality of intersecting portions on the non-display-region-side.

4. A display device which forms a plurality of gate signal lines arranged parallel to each other in one direction, a plurality of drain signal lines arranged parallel to each other in another direction which intersects said one direction, and a plurality of common signal lines arranged along one group of signal lines out of the gate signal lines and the drain signal lines, each common signal line being arranged between respective signal lines of said one group of signal lines on a substrate, and which defines a region surrounded by a pair of neighboring gate signal lines and a pair of neighboring drain signal lines as a region of a pixel, wherein

a non-display region is formed in a portion of a display region which is formed of a mass of the pixels,

out of the plurality of gate signal lines and the plurality of drain signal lines, the gate signal lines and the drain signal lines which are arranged so as to traverse the non-display region when the gate signal lines and the drain signal lines straightly extend imaginarily are formed in a pattern where the gate signal lines and the drain signal lines are routed around the non-display region,

out of the plurality of common signal lines, first common signal lines which are arranged so as to traverse the non-display region when the first common signal lines straightly extend imaginarily are formed in a state that the first common signal lines are physically separated to be arranged on one side and another side of the non-display region, the separated common signal lines on respective sides are respectively electrically connected to a connection lines arranged in an intersecting manner with the common signal lines in the vicinity of the non-display region, and the connection lines are electrically connected with second common signal lines which are arranged so as not to traverse the non-display region even when the second common signal lines straightly extend imaginarily out of the plurality of common signal lines,

the pixel includes a pixel electrode to which a video signal is supplied from the drain signal line via a thin film transistor, and a counter electrode to which a reference signal which becomes the reference with respect to the video signal is supplied on the substrate, and the common signal line is a signal line which is formed along the gate signal line and supplies the reference signal to the counter electrode, and

out of the pixel electrode and the counter electrode, one electrode is a planar first electrode, and another electrode out of the pixel electrode and the counter electrode includes a plurality of linear second electrodes which are arranged parallel to each other above the first electrode by way of an insulation film, and the electrical connection between the connection line and the common signal line is established via a layer which is formed on the same layer as the first electrode and is made of the same material as the first electrode.

Assignments (8)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 10, 2025
From: JAPAN DISPLAY INC
To: MAGNOLIA PURPLE CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 071890/0202 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Nov 17, 2023
From: HITACHI DISPLAYS, LTD.
To: JAPAN DISPLAY EAST, INC.
Reel/Frame 065614/0223 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Nov 17, 2023
From: JAPAN DISPLAY EAST, INC.
To: JAPAN DISPLAY, INC.
Reel/Frame 065614/0644 →
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Nov 17, 2023
From: JAPAN DISPLAY, INC.
To: JAPAN DISPLAY, INC.
Reel/Frame 065654/0250 →
NUNC PRO TUNC ASSIGNMENT Recorded Nov 17, 2023
From: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
To: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
Reel/Frame 065615/0327 →
COMPANY SPLIT PLAN TRANSFERRING FIFTY (50) PERCENT SHARE IN PATENT APPLICATIONS Recorded Oct 20, 2011
From: HITACHI DISPLAYS, LTD.
To: IPS ALPHA SUPPORT CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 027092/0684 →
MERGER Recorded Oct 20, 2011
From: IPS ALPHA SUPPORT CO., LTD.
To: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 027093/0937 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 27, 2009
From: IGETA, KOICHI; NAGASHIMA, OSAMU
To: HITACHI DISPLAYS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 023007/0244 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2008-194663 · Jul 29, 2008 · national
Continuity (1)
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