Abstract:
An array substrate and a liquid crystal display device adopt a four-domain electrode structure and have advantages of improving the gradient of a V-T curve and contrast, achieving ideal response time, and the like. The array substrate comprises gate lines, data lines and pixel units defined by the gate lines and the data lines. Pixel electrodes (10) and common electrodes (11) arranged on the same layer are formed in the pixel units. Both the common electrodes (11) and the pixel electrodes (10) adopt a comb structure, and comb teeth of the common electrodes (11) and comb teeth of the pixel electrodes (10) are alternately arranged. Each comb tooth of the comb structure is divided into an upper comb tooth (13) and a lower comb tooth (14) in different directions by a node (12). All the upper comb teeth (13) are parallel to each other, and all the lower comb teeth (14) are parallel to each other. For a pixel electrode (10) and a common electrode (11) that are neighboring each other, a spacing (151) between two upper comb teeth (13) is unequal to a spacing (152) between two lower comb teeth (14).
Abstract:
A display panel is driven in any one mode of an external light transmission mode and an external light reflection mode. The display panel includes an upper plate including a first substrate, at least one first electrode layer formed on an inner surface of the first substrate, and a first polarizing film formed on an outer surface of the first substrate and having a first polarization axis, a lower plate including a second substrate, at least one second electrode layer formed on an inner surface of the second substrate, and a second polarizing film formed on an outer surface of the second substrate and having a second polarization axis perpendicular or parallel to the first polarization axis, an LC layer filled between the upper plate and the lower plate, and an LC driving power supply connected between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer and configured to selectively provide an LC driving voltage to the LC layer. The LC layer has a first arrangement in which a polarization direction of incident light is changed by a preset angle in an entire region of the LC layer when the LC driving voltage is not applied, or a second arrangement in which the polarization direction of the incident light is maintained in at least partial region of the LC layer, to which the LC driving voltage is applied, when the LC driving voltage is applied. The first polarizing film includes an absorptive polarizing film, and the second polarizing film includes a reflective polarizing film.
Abstract:
To increase production efficiency while retaining the display quality of a liquid crystal display apparatus. The apparatus comprises a first substrate, a second substrate, a first electrode on the first substrate extending in a first direction, a second electrode on the second substrate extending in a second direction which intersects to the first direction, a liquid crystal layer provided between the two substrates. A pixel is configured where the two electrodes intersect and an orientation process is performed perpendicular to the second direction on one of the substrates. The electrode edge shape of the second electrode includes lines that are obliquely crossed relative to the direction of orientation process and periodically bend back. The pixel edges of the pixel are demarcated including the lines obliquely crossed, and all change points where the lines of the electrode edge of the second electrode interconnects are disposed to superimpose with the first electrode.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a liquid crystal display element in which the influence of an alignment defect occurring in the vicinity of an end portion of a slit on the display of a contour portion of a display pattern can be prevented or reduced. Specifically disclosed is a liquid crystal display element provided with a liquid crystal layer, a first electrode (122) and a second electrode (132) which face each other with the liquid crystal layer sandwiched therebetween in the thickness direction of the liquid crystal layer, wherein the first electrode is provided with a first slit (122a) pierced in the thickness direction, the second electrode is provided with a second slit (132a) pierced in the thickness direction, the first slit and the second slit are formed so as to be displaced from each other when viewed in the thickness direction such that when voltage is applied between the first electrode and the second electrode, an electric field having an inclination with respect to the thickness direction is generated, and the contour shape of one end portion of the first slit is a shape having one corner or less with an angle of 90 degrees or less.
Abstract:
A dry-toner type coloured particle display ( fig. 13 ) is disclosed. In the image display panel, two or more groups of particles (103) having different colours and different charging characteristics are sealed in the space between two substrates (101,102), at least one of which is transparent. The particles move through the space in response to an applied electrostatic field produced by a pair of electrodes arranged on the substrates in order to display an image. Surface texture parameters R a (average roughness) and S m (usually an average peak to peak distance between neighbouring asperities on a surface) of the bounding substrates lie within specified ranges, defined relative to the particle size, in order to weaken attractive forces between the particles and the surface of the respective substrate. These attractive forces can be adhesion forces such as intermolecular and electrostatic image charge forces (as well as others), and are reduced by decreasing the effective particle to substrate contact area. As a result, the particles are more easily removed and the display driving voltage is reduced. Further display arrangements include the provision of bumps, dips or micro-cutouts on part of a substrate electrode to create a lateral electric field component, which again weakens attractive forces between the particles and the substrate electrode. Additionally, there is an arrangement disclosed in which an insulating member having a volume resistivity ρ of not less than 1 x 10 12 Ω.cm is coated thinly on to the surface of the substrate with which the particles are in contact in order to prevent leakage of charge away from the particles to the substrate. Finally, there is an arrangement in which the display state of the image can be read-out by detecting the current due to the particles when these are moved inside a pixel.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal display device, wherein a liquid crystal layer held between a lower substrate (1) and an upper substrate (2) comprises crossed columns (15), a wall surface structure (17), and a seal member (13). The columns (15) are disposed at four sides of each of pixels. The pixels adjacent to each other are connected to each other through openings (27) between the columns (15). The wall surface structure (17) is formed around the columns (15) arranged in a lattice shape. The columns (15) and the wall surface structure (17) are formed on a same member with adhesiveness, and simultaneously formed by patterning using photolithography. A part of the wall surface structure (17) forms a liquid crystal filler port (14). The seal member (13) is installed on the outer periphery of the wall surface structure (17). A liquid crystal filled from the filler port (14) is filled into all pixels through the openings (27). Since the openings between the columns (15) are always brought into a lit state, a lattice-like black matrix (6) covering the upper side of all columns (15) is formed on the upper substrate (2).
Abstract:
A drive method for an electrophoretic display panel having one electrode as a common electrode and another electrode divided into a plurality of segment electrodes, the drive method having steps of: applying pulses that change between two different potential levels to the common electrode; applying pulses at one of the two potential levels to the segment electrode of a segment that changes display state to produce a potential difference to the pulse applied to the common electrode; applying pulses of the same phase and potential as the pulses applied to the common electrode to the segment electrode of a segment that holds the same display state; and inserting a high impedance state to the pulses applied to the common electrode and the pulses applied to the segment electrode of the segment that holds the same display state when the pulse potential changes.