IP Library Granted Patent US 7,639,340
Granted Patent B2
US 7,639,340 · App. 11/963,851 · Granted Dec 29, 2009

Manufacturing method of liquid crystal display panel

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Patent No.
US 7,639,340
App. No.
11/963,851
Granted
Dec 29, 2009
Kind
B2
Abstract

A liquid crystal display panel and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The liquid crystal display panel comprises a color filter substrate and a thin film transistor array substrate arranged in parallel and a liquid crystal layer between the substrates. In addition, several spacers are disposed on a black matrix of the color filter substrate. These spacers lean on the edge of at least one of the gate layer lines and source layer lines on the thin film transistor array substrate. The invention increases the bonding stability between the color filter substrate and the thin film transistor array substrate so that the reliability and display quality of the liquid crystal display panel is improved.

Claims (27)

1. A method of fabricating a liquid crystal display panel, comprising:

providing a thin film transistor array substrate, wherein the thin film transistor array substrate has a plurality of gate layer lines and a plurality of source layer lines thereon;

providing a color filter substrate, wherein the color filter substrate has a plurality of spacers thereon; and

joining the thin film transistor array substrate and the color filter substrate together such that the spacers on the color filter substrate lean on at least one of the side edges of the gate layer lines or the source layer lines of the thin film transistor array substrate,

wherein the spacers are formed at the overlapping area between the gate layer lines and the source layer lines with the spacers leaning against both the gate layer lines and the source layer lines, and the adjacent spacers are joined together on the color filter substrate to form a latching structure such that a central recess section of the latching structure is able to latch onto the overlapping area between the gate layer lines and the source layer lines.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the step of forming the color filter substrate comprises:

providing a glass substrate;

forming a black matrix over the glass substrate such that the black matrix encloses a plurality of openings on the glass substrate;

forming a plurality of color filtering units inside the openings enclosed by the black matrix; and

forming spacers on the black matrix.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the step of forming the spacers comprises:

forming an organic photosensitive material layer over the glass substrate; and

patterning the organic photosensitive material layer.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein after forming the spacers, further comprises post-baking the spacers.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the gate layer lines comprise scan lines and the source layer lines comprise data lines.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the gate layer lines further comprise common lines.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the spacers have a cylindrical or a wall-like shape.

8. A method of fabricating a liquid crystal display panel, comprising:

providing a thin film transistor array substrate, wherein the thin film transistor array substrate has a plurality of gate layer lines and a plurality of source layer lines thereon;

providing a color filter substrate, wherein the color filter substrate has a plurality of spacers thereon; and

joining the thin film transistor array substrate and the color filter substrate together such that the spacers on the color filter substrate lean on at least one of the side edges of the gate layer lines or the source layer lines of the thin film transistor array substrate,

wherein the spacers are formed on opposite sides of the gate layer lines with the spacers leaning against the gate layer lines as well, and the adjacent spacers are joined together on the color filter substrate to form a latching structure such that a central recess section of the latching structure is able to latch onto the gate layer lines.

9. A method of fabricating a liquid crystal display panel, comprising:

providing a thin film transistor array substrate, wherein the thin film transistor array substrate has a plurality of gate layer lines and a plurality of source layer lines thereon;

providing a color filter substrate, wherein the color filter substrate has a plurality of spacers thereon; and

joining the thin film transistor array substrate and the color filter substrate together such that the spacers on the color filter substrate lean on at least one of the side edges of the gate layer lines or the source layer lines of the thin film transistor array substrate,

wherein the spacers are formed on opposite sides of the source layer lines with the spacers leaning against the source layers as well, and the adjacent spacers are joined together on the color filter substrate to form a latching structure such that a central recess section of the latching structure is able to latch onto the source layers.

Assignments (3)
MERGER Recorded Dec 31, 2015
From: INTELLECTUAL VENTURES FUND 82 LLC
To: NYTELL SOFTWARE LLC
Reel/Frame 037407/0878 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 23, 2011
From: LIU, MENG-CHI; CHEN, HSIAO-FEN
To: CHUNGHWA PICTURE TUBES, LTD.
Reel/Frame 027441/0978 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 31, 2011
From: CHUNGHWA PICTURE TUBES LTD.
To: INTELLECTUAL VENTURES FUND 82 LLC
Reel/Frame 026837/0529 →