IP Library Granted Patent US 9,494,826
Granted Patent B2
US 9,494,826 · App. 14/982,724 · Granted Nov 15, 2016

Liquid crystal display device and manufacturing method thereof

Inventors: Hidehiro Sonoda (Tokyo, JP); Chikae Matsui (Tokyo, JP); Noboru Kunimatsu (Tokyo, JP); Yuko Matsumoto (Tokyo, JP)
Assignees: Japan Display Inc.; Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
G02F1/1337G02F1/13439G02F1/133345G02F1/133514G02F1/133788G02F1/134363
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Patent No.
US 9,494,826
App. No.
14/982,724
Granted
Nov 15, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

A liquid crystal display device has a liquid crystal display panel including pixels each having an active device, a pixel electrode, a common electrode and a liquid crystal layer arranged in a dot matrix array. The liquid crystal display panel has a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate has the active device, the pixel electrode, the common electrode and a first alignment film. The second substrate has a second alignment film. The first alignment film and the second alignment film are respectively a photo alignment film formed by irradiating a photo decomposition type insulating film with light. The second alignment film has a thickness of at least 10 nm and no greater 50 nm and is thinner than the first alignment film.

Claims (27)

1. A liquid crystal display device comprising,

a first substrate having a first alignment film,

a second substrate having a second alignment film,

a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first alignment film and the second alignment film,

a first electrode and a second electrode disposed between the first substrate and the first alignment film, and

an insulation layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the liquid crystal layer is configured to be controlled by an electric field which is generated between the first electrode and the second electrode,

wherein the first electrode and the second electrode are transparent,

wherein the first alignment film is a photo alignment film, and

wherein a thickness of the second alignment film is less than a thickness of the first alignment film measured at a light transmitting area of the liquid crystal display device.

2. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the second electrode is a planar shape.

3. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the thickness of the second alignment film is greater than or equal to 10 nm and no greater than 50 nm.

4. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 3 ,

wherein the thickness of the first alignment film is greater than or equal to 80 nm and no greater than 130 nm.

5. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the second alignment film is a photo alignment film formed by irradiating an insulating film with linear polarized light.

6. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 5 ,

wherein the thickness of the first alignment film is greater than or equal to 80 nm and no greater than 130 nm.

7. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the first alignment film is disposed on the second electrode.

8. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 further compromising:

a video image signal line supplying an image signal to the first electrode; and

a light shielding film overlapping with the video image signal line;

wherein the light transmitting area doesn't overlap with the light shielding film.

9. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 8 ,

wherein the light shielding material is a black matrix.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 10, 2025
From: JAPAN DISPLAY INC
To: MAGNOLIA PURPLE CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 071890/0202 →
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 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2009-263616 · Nov 19, 2009 · national
Continuity (8)
Continuation 14689731 · Apr 17, 2015
Continuation 14557581 · Dec 2, 2014
Continuation 14107028 · Dec 16, 2013
Continuation 13926247 · Jun 25, 2013
Continuation 13723268 · Dec 21, 2012
Continuation 13325314 · Dec 14, 2011
Continuation 12948899 · Nov 18, 2010
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