Display device
According to an aspect, a display device includes: a substrate; a display region; a peripheral region; signal lines; terminals; wires coupling the terminals and the signal lines in the peripheral region; and first and second metal layers in different layers perpendicularly to the substrate and an insulating film in the peripheral region. The peripheral region includes: a first wiring region, in which the wires are electrically coupled to the signal lines; a second wiring region between the first wiring region and the terminals, and in which at least one or more wires pass through the first and second metal layers; and a third wiring region between the first and second wiring regions, and in which the wires extend in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The third wiring region includes contacts coupling the first and second metal layers, and a virtual line connecting the contacts has a curved shape.
1. A display device, comprising:
a substrate;
a display region provided with a plurality of pixels;
a peripheral region positioned between an edge of the substrate and the display region;
a plurality of signal lines, each of which is coupled to switching elements provided to the respective pixels, and that are arrayed in the first direction, in the display region;
a driver IC;
a plurality of terminals arrayed in the first direction in the peripheral region of the substrate, and electrically coupled to the driver IC;
a signal line coupling circuit located between the display region and the terminals in the peripheral region and electrically coupled to the signal lines; and
a plurality of wires, each of which couples one of the terminals and the signal lines coupling circuit in the peripheral region,
wherein
the peripheral region positioned between the signal line coupling circuit and the terminals includes:
a first wiring region provide between the signal line coupling circuit and the terminals, in which the respective wires extend diagonally with respect to a second direction intersecting the first direction;
a second wiring region provided between the first wiring region and the terminals, and in which the respective wires extend diagonally with respect to the second direction; and
a third wiring region provided between the first wiring region and the second wiring region, and in which the wires extend in the second direction,
the display region includes a curved part that is a border between the display region and the peripheral region
the wires each applying a video signal to the signal line coupling circuit are bent at bent points that are disposed between the first wiring region and the third wiring region,
a virtual line connecting the bent points is not a straight line, and
the virtual line is not the border between the display region and the peripheral region.
2. The display device of claim 1 , wherein the virtual line is a zigzag line including a plurality of line portions having an angle with respect to the first direction.
3. The display device of claim 1 , wherein the virtual line has a curved shape, in plan view.
4. The display device of claim 1 , wherein, in the third wiring region, the wires, each extending in the second direction orthogonal to the first direction, are arranged such that an arrangement pitch of the wires in the first direction decreases with distance from the display region.
5. The display device of claim 1 , wherein, in the third wiring region, the wires, each extending in the second direction orthogonal to the first direction, are arranged such that a length of the one of the wires extending in the second direction increases with distance from the display region.
6. The display device of claim 5 , wherein, in the third wiring region, an arrangement pitch of the wires in the first direction decreases with distance from the display region.
7. The display device of claim 2 , wherein
the wires include a first wire and a second wire, and
in the first wiring region, a first angle between the second direction and an extending direction of the first wire provided away from the display region is smaller than a second angle between the second direction and an extending direction of the second wire that is closer to the display region than the first wire is.
8. The display device of claim 2 , wherein
the wires include a first wire and a second wire,
in the third wiring region, each of the wires extends in the second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and a first length in the second direction of the first wire provided away from the display region is different form a second length in the second direction of the second wire that is closer to the display region than the first wire is.
9. The display device of claim 2 , wherein
the wires include a first wire, a second wire, and a third wire;
in the third wiring region, each of the wires extends in the second direction orthogonal to the first direction, the first wire is close to an end of the substrate and has a first length in the second direction, the second wire is closer to the display region than the first wire is and has a second length in the second direction, and the third wire is provided in a middle of an area between the display region and the end of the substrate and has a third length in the second direction; and
the third length is different form the second length.
10. The display device of claim 2 , wherein
the wires include a first wire, a second wire, and a third wire;
in the third wiring region, each of the wires extends in the second direction orthogonal to the first direction, the first wire is close to an end of the substrate and has a first length in the second direction, the second wire is closer to the display region than the first wire is and has a second length in the second direction, and the third wire is provided in a middle of an area between the display region and the end of the substrate and has a third length in the second direction; and
the third length is different form the first length.
11. The display device of claim 10 , wherein the third length is different form the second length.
12. The display device of claim 11 , wherein the first length is different form the second length.
13. The display device of claim 2 , wherein
one of the wires is provided close to the display region and has:
in the first wiring region, a first angle between the second direction and an extending direction of the one of the wires,
in the second wiring region, a second angle between the second direction and an extending direction of the one of the wires,
the first angle is different from the second angle, and
the one of the wires extends in the first wiring region, the second wiring region, and the third wiring region that is disposed between the first wiring region and the second wiring region.