DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING DISPLAY DEVICE
A display panel has a plurality of pixel regions to emit light. A second substrate faces a first substrate across a display medium layer, is transparent, includes a part having a thickness of less than 0.3 mm, and has a main surface on the opposite side to the arrangement side of the first substrate. A light-blocking film is arranged on the main surface and on the part, and overlaps a defective pixel region and projects from the defective pixel region by a width W in a plan view taken from the thickness direction of the display panel. The width W is equal to or more than a width W1 that prevents visual recognition of light emitted from the defective pixel region when the display panel is observed from within a viewing angle.
1 . A display device comprising:
a display panel with a plurality of pixel regions to emit light, the pixel regions including a defective pixel region where a bright point defect has occurred, the display panel including a first substrate, a display medium layer, and a second substrate, the second substrate facing the first substrate across the display medium layer, being transparent, including a part having a thickness of less than 0.3 mm, and having a main surface on the opposite side to the arrangement side of the first substrate; and
a light-blocking film arranged on the main surface and on the part, and overlapping the defective pixel region and projecting from the defective pixel region by a width W in a plan view taken from the thickness direction of the display panel, the width W being equal to or more than a width W1 that prevents visual recognition of light emitted from the defective pixel region when the display panel is observed from within a viewing angle.
2 . The display device according to claim 1 , wherein
the pixel regions include an adjacent pixel region adjacent to the defective pixel region,
the display panel further includes a black region not to emit light, the black region separating the defective pixel region and the adjacent pixel region from each other and having a width W2, and
the width W is equal to or less than the width W2.
3 . The display device according to claim 1 , wherein
the width W1 is a width calculated from a formula (1) using a set viewing angle θ, a thickness t of the part, and a refractivity n of the second substrate:
W 1= t ×tan{sin −1 (sin θ/ n )} (1).
4 . The display device according to claim 1 , wherein
the set viewing angle θ is 45°.
5 . The display device according to claim 1 , wherein
the width W1 is a width that prevents visual recognition of the light emitted from the defective pixel region when the display panel is observed from within the viewing angle through a neutral density filter for reducing a quantity of transmitted light to one-tenth of a quantity of incident light.
6 . The display device according to claim 1 , wherein
the second substrate includes a remaining part other than the part,
the part has a smaller thickness than the remaining part and has a recess formed at the main surface, and
the light-blocking film is housed in the recess.
7 . The display device according to claim 1 , wherein
each of the first substrate and the second substrate is a glass substrate having a thickness of less than 0.2 mm, and
the display panel has a curved shape.
8 . The display device according to claim 1 , wherein
the display panel is a liquid crystal display panel of a lateral field system.
9 . A method of manufacturing a display device comprising the steps of:
a) preparing a display panel with a plurality of pixel regions to emit light, the pixel regions including a defective pixel region where a bright point defect has occurred, the display panel including a first substrate, a display medium layer, and a second substrate, the second substrate facing the first substrate across the display medium layer, being transparent, including a part having a thickness of less than 0.3 mm, and having a main surface on the opposite side to the arrangement side of the first substrate; and
b) forming a light-blocking film on the main surface and on the part, the light-blocking film overlapping the defective pixel region and projecting from the defective pixel region by a width W in a plan view taken from the thickness direction of the display panel, the width W being equal to or more than a width W1 that prevents visual recognition of light emitted from the defective pixel region when the display panel is observed from within a viewing angle.