公开(公告)号：US20220004061A1

公开(公告)日：2022-01-06

申请号：US17478348

申请日：2021-09-17

Applicant: Japan Display Inc. ,  Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Noboru KUNIMATSU ,  Chikae MATSUI ,  Hidehiro SONODA ,  Yuko MATSUMOTO ,  Shoichi UCHINO ,  Masaki MATSUMORI ,  Yasushi TOMIOKA

IPC: G02F1/1337 ,  G02F1/1343 ,  G02F1/1368 ,  H01L27/12 ,  C09K19/56

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a TFT substrate having a first alignment film and an opposing substrate having a second alignment film with liquid crystals sandwiched therebetween. One of the first and second alignment films, comprises a first polyimide produced via polyamide acid ester containing cyclobutane as a precursor and a second polyimide produced via polyamide acid as a precursor. The polyamide acid has a higher polarity than that of the polyamide acid ester. The one of the first and second alignment films is responsive to photo-alignment. A first side of the one of the first and second alignment films is adjacent to the liquid crystals, and a second side thereof is closer to one of the TFT substrate and the counter substrate than the first side. The first side contains more of the first polyimide and less of the second polyimide than the second side.

公开(公告)号：US20210041748A1

公开(公告)日：2021-02-11

申请号：US17077412

申请日：2020-10-22

Applicant: Japan Display Inc.

Inventor： Noboru KUNIMATSU ,  Masaki MATSUMORI ,  Hidehiro SONODA ,  Yasushi TOMIOKA ,  Toshiki KANEKO

IPC: G02F1/1337 ,  G02F1/1339 ,  G02F1/1333 ,  G02F1/1362 ,  G02F1/1368 ,  G02F1/1343

Abstract: The present invention prevents the shaving of an alignment film caused by a columnar spacer in a liquid crystal display device of an IPS method using photo-alignment. A plinth higher than a pixel electrode is formed at a part where a columnar spacer formed over a counter substrate touches a TFT substrate. When an alignment film of a double-layered structure is applied over the pixel electrode and the plinth, the thickness of the alignment film over the plinth reduces by a leveling effect. When photo-alignment is applied in the state, a photodegraded upper alignment film over the plinth disappears and a lower alignment film having a high mechanical strength remains. As a result, it is possible to prevent the shaving of the alignment film.

公开(公告)号：US20170363914A1

公开(公告)日：2017-12-21

申请号：US15696357

申请日：2017-09-06

Applicant: Japan Display Inc. ,  Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Noboru KUNIMATSU ,  Chikae MATSUI ,  Hidehiro SONODA ,  Yuko MATSUMOTO ,  Shoichi UCHINO ,  Masaki MATSUMORI ,  Yasushi TOMIOKA

IPC: G02F1/1337 ,  C09K19/56 ,  G02F1/1343 ,  H01L27/12 ,  G02F1/1368

CPC classification number: G02F1/133723 ,  C09K19/56 ,  G02F1/133711 ,  G02F1/133788 ,  G02F1/134363 ,  G02F1/1368 ,  H01L27/1262 ,  H01L27/1296 ,  Y10T428/10 ,  Y10T428/1005

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a TFT substrate having a first alignment film and an opposing substrate having a second alignment film with liquid crystals sandwiched therebetween. One of the first and second alignment films, comprises a first polyimide produced via polyamide acid ester containing cyclobutane as a precursor and a second polyimide produced via polyamide acid as a precursor. The polyamide acid has a higher polarity than that of the polyamide acid ester. The one of the first and second alignment films is responsive to photo-alignment. A first side of the one of the first and second alignment films is adjacent to the liquid crystals, and a second side thereof is closer to one of the TFT substrate and the counter substrate than the first side. The first side contains more of the first polyimide and less of the second polyimide than the second side.

公开(公告)号：US20150370102A1

公开(公告)日：2015-12-24

申请号：US14840604

申请日：2015-08-31

Applicant: Japan Display Inc.

Inventor： Noboru KUNIMATSU ,  Masaki MATSUMORI ,  Hidehiro SONODA ,  Yasushi TOMIOKA ,  Toshiki KANEKO

IPC: G02F1/1337 ,  G02F1/1339 ,  G02F1/1333 ,  G02F1/1368 ,  G02F1/1362

CPC classification number: G02F1/1337 ,  G02F1/1333 ,  G02F1/133345 ,  G02F1/133723 ,  G02F1/13378 ,  G02F1/133788 ,  G02F1/1339 ,  G02F1/13394 ,  G02F1/136286 ,  G02F1/1368

Abstract: The present invention prevents the shaving of an alignment film caused by a columnar spacer in a liquid crystal display device of an IPS method using photo-alignment. A plinth higher than a pixel electrode is formed at a part where a columnar spacer formed over a counter substrate touches a TFT substrate. When an alignment film of a double-layered structure is applied over the pixel electrode and the plinth, the thickness of the alignment film over the plinth reduces by a leveling effect. When photo-alignment is applied in the state, a photodegraded upper alignment film over the plinth disappears and a lower alignment film having a high mechanical strength remains. As a result, it is possible to prevent the shaving of the alignment film.

公开(公告)号：US20150140709A1

公开(公告)日：2015-05-21

申请号：US14603334

申请日：2015-01-22

Applicant: JAPAN DISPLAY INC. ,  PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.

Inventor： Noboru KUMIMATSU ,  Chikae MATSUI ,  Hidehiro SONODA ,  Yuko MATSUMOTO ,  Shoichi UCHINO ,  Masaki MATSUMORI ,  Yasushi TOMIOKA

IPC: G02F1/1337 ,  H01L27/12

CPC classification number: G02F1/133723 ,  C09K19/56 ,  G02F1/133711 ,  G02F1/133788 ,  G02F1/134363 ,  G02F1/1368 ,  H01L27/1262 ,  H01L27/1296 ,  Y10T428/10 ,  Y10T428/1005

Abstract: A method for fabricating a liquid crystal display device including a TFT substrate having an alignment film formed thereon, an opposing substrate, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched therebetween. The alignment film on the TFT substrate includes a photolytic polymer made from a first precursor including cyclobutane, and a non-photolytic polymer made from a second precursor. The method includes the steps of depositing a mixture material including the first precursor and the second precursor in which the second precursor settles more on an upper surface of the TFT substrate than the first precursor, imidizing the mixture material, and irradiating the mixture material with ultraviolet light for photo-alignment, and after irradiating, heating the mixture material to form the alignment film.

Abstract translation: 一种制造液晶显示装置的方法，该液晶显示装置包括其上形成有取向膜的TFT基板，相对基板和夹在其间的液晶层。 TFT基板上的取向膜包括由包含环丁烷的第一前体制成的光解聚合物和由第二前体制成的非光解聚合物。 该方法包括以下步骤：将包含第一前体和第二前体的混合材料沉积在第二前体中，其中第二前体比第一前体沉淀在TFT基板的上表面上，对混合物进行酰亚胺化，并用紫外线照射混合材料 用于光取向的光，并且在照射之后，加热混合物材料以形成取向膜。

公开(公告)号：US20150062520A1

公开(公告)日：2015-03-05

申请号：US14475845

申请日：2014-09-03

Applicant: Japan Display Inc.

Inventor： Masaki MATSUMORI ,  Shuuji IMAZEKI ,  Yasushi TOMIOKA ,  Noboru KUNIMATSU

IPC: G02F1/1337

CPC classification number: G02F1/133723 ,  B32B2457/202 ,  C08G73/16 ,  C08G2150/00 ,  C09D179/08 ,  G02F1/133788 ,  G02F1/134363 ,  G02F1/1368 ,  Y10T428/10 ,  Y10T428/1005

Abstract: Various layer separation states are generated by the combination of a polyamide acid ester and a polyamide acid and a long residual image characteristic cannot be further improved merely by combining them. A liquid crystal display device comprises a substrate, a liquid crystal layer, and an orientation film placed between the substrate and the liquid crystal layer. The orientation film comprises a polyimide precursor having two or more components. In the polyimide precursor, an octanol-water partition coefficient is defined as log P and the difference in log P (Δ log P) between the two components having most distant log Ps is set so as to fall within a prescribed range.

Abstract translation: 通过聚酰胺酸酯和聚酰胺酸的组合产生各种层分离状态，仅通过组合它们就不能进一步提高长残留图像特性。 液晶显示装置包括基板，液晶层和位于基板和液晶层之间的取向膜。 取向膜包括具有两种或更多种成分的聚酰亚胺前体。 在聚酰亚胺前体中，将辛醇 - 水分配系数定义为log P，将具有最远距离log Ps的两个成分之间的log P（＆Dgr; log P）的差设定为规定范围。