Liquid crystal cells, elements and systems inventions 04/07

20070091216 - Projector: A projector includes an illuminating device that emits an illuminating light beam; a liquid crystal device that modulates the illuminating light beam from the illuminating device in accordance with image information; a projection optical system that projects light modulated by the liquid crystal device; a polarizing plate arranged on at... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070091217 - Active matrix display and electrooptical device: A structure for reducing the OFF current of an active matrix display. In the active matrix display, plural TFTs are connected in series with each one pixel electrode. Of these TFTs connected in series, at least one TFT excluding the TFTs located at opposite ends is maintained in conduction. Alternatively,... Agent: Eric Robinson

20070091218 - Electrostatic discharge protection structure and thin film transistor substrate including the same: An electrostatic discharge protection structure contains a short ring surrounding a display region comprising pixel electrodes and thin film transistors, a plurality of switching elements disposed between the display region and the short ring corresponding to the scan lines and data lines, at least one of which is turned on... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070091219 - Thin film transistor substrate: A thin film transistor array panel comprises a plurality of gate lines formed on an insulating substrate; a repair line formed on the insulating substrate; a gate insulating layer formed on the gate lines and the repair line; a plurality of data lines formed on the gate insulating layer; an... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070091220 - Thin film transistor array panel and manufacturing method thereof: A thin film transistor array panel is provided, which includes: a substrate; a first signal line formed on the substrate; a second signal line formed on the substrate and intersecting the first signal line; a thin film transistor including a gate electrode connected to the first signal line and having... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070091222 - Backlight unit and liquid crystal display module using the same: This invention relates to a backlight unit that prevents a wrinkle of an optical sheet, and a liquid crystal display module using the same. A backlight includes at least one light source. A light guide panel converts a light from the light source into a surface light. A housing receives... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070091221 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device includes a bracket, and a liquid crystal display panel. The bracket includes a bezel, and a cover mounted to the bezel. One of the bezel and the cover includes an elastic member mounted to a side thereof. A side of the liquid crystal display panel... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070091224 - Liquid crystal display having frame with antiskid member integrally formed thereon: An exemplary liquid crystal display (1) includes a frame (15) and a liquid crystal panel (10). The frame includes a supporting board (150); and an antiskid member (153) integrally formed with and directly joined to the supporting board. The liquid crystal panel is received in the frame, and edge portions... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070091225 - Liquid crystal display with housing providing fpcb access: An exemplary liquid crystal display (LCD) (40) includes an LCD panel (42), a backlight module (41), and a housing assembly. The housing assembly includes a rear housing (48) and a corresponding front housing (46) to secure the LCD panel and the backlight module. The rear housing has a first sidewall... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070091223 - Panel type television and lcd television: Since size and mounting method of display panels of a large-sized panel type television differ by manufacturers, different parts are needed for display panels of different manufacturers. The display panel fixing plate is separated into a panel top fixing plate, a panel bottom fixing plate, and a bridge plate. The... Agent: Yokoi & Co., U.s.a., Inc.

20070091226 - Liquid crystal television set, liquid crystal display: Conventionally, a fixing bracket attached to a rear inside wall of a main body of a liquid crystal television set or a liquid crystal display would interfere with the main body, generating chatter. A hook part having a bent tip erected in a protruding manner from a rear inside wall... Agent: Yokoi & Co., U.s.a., Inc.

20070091227 - Backlight module with reflector having reflection pattern thereat and liquid crystal display having same: An exemplary backlight module (11) includes a light guide plate (12), a reflector (18), and a light emitting diode unit (142). The light guide plate has a light incident surface (122). The reflector is positioned adjacent to the light incident surface, and has a reflection pattern (184) thereat. The light... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070091230 - Display incorporating reflective polarizer: A display includes a liquid crystal display panel, an optical cavity producing substantially collimated light and a birefringent reflective polarizer.... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070091228 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device of an in-plane switching mode comprises at least optically anisotopic members (A) and (B) and liquid crystal cell disposed between a pair of polarizers having absorrption axes disposed approximately perpendicularly to each other, wherein nzA>nyA and nxB>nzB (nxA, nxB: refractive indices (n) in the direction... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070091229 - Vertically aligned liquid crystal display: Disclosed herein is an integrated-type polarizer comprising a polarizing film provided with a biaxial retardation film as a protective film on a first side thereof, the polarizing film having an absorption axis perpendicular to the optical axis of the biaxial retardation film. Also is provided a vertically aligned liquid crystal... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP Song K. Jung

20070091231 - Reflective structure having a directivity of diffuse reflection and apparatus with it: An object of the invention is to provide a reflective structure which can cause diffused reflecting light to have a desired directivity more reliably and an apparatus with it. An optical diffusing reflective structure 1 having an optical reflective layer 20 whose surface is roughened and which is supported by... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070091232 - Flexible liquid crystal display and manufacturing method thereof: A flexible liquid crystal display (LCD), includes a first substrate having a first plastic substrate that has a convex-concave pattern formed thereon and a reflective layer formed on the convex-concave pattern; a second substrate having a second plastic substrate, combined with the first substrate and a thin film transistor formed... Agent: David W. Heid Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070091235 - Liquid crystal display device: A transfiective liquid crystal display panel, in which at least one of a pixel electrode substrate and a counter electrode substrate is provided with a protruding portion so that the thickness of a liquid crystal layer in a reflective region is smaller than that in a transmissive region, wherein a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070091233 - Liquid crystal display device and electronic apparatus: The invention can provide a liquid crystal display device in which a homeotropic alignment liquid crystal layer is interposed between a pair of substrates and a transmissive display region and a reflective display region are provided in one dotregion. A liquid crystal layer thickness-adjusting layer for making the thickness of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070091234 - Liquid crystal display device and electronic apparatus: The invention can provide a liquid crystal display device in which a homeotropic alignment liquid crystal layer is interposed between a pair of substrates and a transmissive display region and a reflective display region are provided in one dotregion. A liquid crystal layer thickness-adjusting layer for making the thickness of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070091237 - Liquid crystal display: A liquid crystal display comprises: first and second panels facing each other; a compensation film and a first polarizer disposed on the first panel, the compensation film having phase retardation characteristics; and a second polarizer having a supporting film disposed on the second panel, the supporting film having phase retardation... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070091236 - Optical film and image viewing display: An optical film(3) of the invention comprises a polarizing plate(1), in which a transparent protective film(1b) is laminated on both sides of a polarizer(1a), and plural retardation films(2) so that an absorption axis of the polarizing plate(1) is perpendicular or parallel to slow axes of the plural retardation films(2) and... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070091238 - Liquid crystal panel, print mask to print alignment layer and method for making the alignment layer: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal panel, a print mask to print an alignment layer and a method for making the alignment layer. According to embodiments of the present invention, a liquid crystal panel divided into an active area and a peripheral area comprises a first substrate; a... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070091239 - Optical element: An optical element including: an alignment substrate; a liquid crystal layer formed on the alignment substrate, made by forming and curing a film of a liquid crystalline material; and a protective layer having high hardness, formed on the liquid crystal layer. The protective layer is for protecting the liquid crystal... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070091240 - Liquid crystal display and method of manufacturing the same: A liquid crystal display is disclosed that includes a first substrate having a reflective layer; a second substrate having multiple pixels formed thereon, the pixels each having a color filter layer; and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first and second substrates with a predetermined distance between the first... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070091241 - Liquid crystal display device and method for making the same and method for repairing defective pixel using the same: A liquid crystal display device comprises a first sub-pixel electrode and a second sub-pixel electrode together forming a pixel cell, a dual thin film transistor having two electrodes electrically connected to the first and second sub-pixel electrodes respectively, and a connecting layer formed between the first and second sub-pixel electrodes.... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070091242 - Liquid crystal display device: The present invention aims at the miniaturization and the reduction of thickness of a liquid crystal display device. In a liquid crystal display device which includes: a liquid crystal display panel; a backlight which is arranged on a back-surface side of the liquid crystal display panel; and a flexible printed... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070091243 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display (LCD) includes a liquid crystal panel a liquid crystal panel including first and second substrates, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first and second substrates; a gate driving block including a plurality of gate drivers disposed in an edge area of the first substrate;... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070091244 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display panel (20) includes a first substrate (200) with a black matrix (240) disposed on an inner surface therefore, a second substrate (220), and an opaque sealant (280) disposed around the black matrix and combined the first and second substrates together. The opaque sealant and the edge... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070091245 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device is disclosed, which comprises a upper substrate; a lower substrate; a liquid crystal layer; a sealing member sandwiched between the upper substrate and the lower substrate; and at least one rampart. The sealing member divides the space between the upper substrate and the lower substrate... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070091246 - Liquid crystal display device and method of manufacturing the same: An LCD device is obtained by joining a counter substrate and a TFT substrate with a sealing member having at least a UV-curable characteristic. The sealing member includes a UV-curable resin and high-refractive layers formed respectively on the surfaces of spacers which are dispersed in the UV-curable resin, each of... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070091247 - Liquid crystal display device and method of manufacturing the same: Provided is a method of manufacturing an LCD device in which alignment films are formed by a method of printing non-contact alignment films on substrates. Print control patterns are provided between a sealing member and each of display regions. Each of the print control patterns is formed of a highly... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070091248 - Liquid crystal display device having photospacers overlapping data lines: An exemplary liquid crystal display device (3) includes a first substrate (31), a second substrate (32) opposite to the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer (34) disposed between the first and second substrates. A number of data lines (322) is disposed on the first substrate. A number of photospacers... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070091249 - Flat panel display device: A flat panel display device includes a display area where pixel cells are defined by each of a plurality of data signal lines and a plurality of gate signal lines, and a plurality of inspection signal lines for inspecting line defects in the data signal lines and the gate signal... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070085938 - Display device, method for manufacturing the same, and television apparatus: An object of the present invention is to provide a display device which can be manufactured with usability of a material improved and with a manufacturing step simplified and to provide a manufacturing technique thereof. One feature of a display device of the present invention is to comprise an insulating... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070085939 - Thin film transistor substrate with improved inter-layer adhesion: Disclosed are a thin film transistor (TFT) substrate capable of preventing separation between an organic layer and an inorganic layer, a method of fabricating the TFT substrate, an LCD panel having the TFT substrate, and a method of fabricating the LCD panel. The TFT thin film transistor substrate includes a... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070085940 - Pixel structure and method of repairing the same: A pixel structure and a method of repairing the same are provided. The pixel structure includes a scan line, a data line, a thin film transistor, a pixel electrode, a common line and a dielectric layer. The common line adjacent to the data line serves as a repairing section, the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070085941 - Liquid crystal display with frame having reinforcing part: An exemplary liquid crystal display (1) includes a liquid crystal panel (13), and a frame (18). The liquid crystal panel has a block (134) outwardly extending from a side surface (132) thereof. The frame includes a side wall (181) defining a gap (189) thereat, and a reinforcing part (188) at... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070085942 - Sine-wave-like diffusion plate utilized in direct type backlight module of liquid crystal display: A sine-wave-like diffusion plate used in a backlight module of a liquid crystal display is provided. The diffusion plate is provided with an oppositely disposed first surface and second surface, and is used to receive and diffuse the light generated by a light source, and is characterized such, that the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070085943 - Backlight assembly and liquid crystal display having the same: The present disclosure relates to a liquid crystal display (LCD). There is provided an LCD comprising at least one lamp, a light guide plate for converting light incident from the lamp into a surface light source, an LCD panel disposed above the light guide plate for displaying an image thereon,... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070085944 - Liquid crystal display apparatus: A cold-cathode tube has hitherto been used as a backlight for supplying illumination to a liquid crystal television but recently, light emitting diode pieces have been used for a backlight of a large-size liquid crystal television. For the purpose of improving the emission efficiency, flip chip mounting of the light... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070085945 - Display device and electronic apparatus: A display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and microcapsules sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate, the microcapsules constituting a display area, the microcapsules encapsulating a display material whose optical properties change in response to electrical stimulation. A conductive material for conducting between the substrates... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070085946 - Liquid crystal display device and method of fabricating the same: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel; a first polarizer on a first surface of the liquid crystal display panel; a second polarizer on a second surface of the liquid crystal display panel; and a first light path control film on a first surface of the... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20070085947 - Array substrate, method of manufacturing the same and liquid crystal display device having the same: An array substrate includes a switching element, a pixel electrode and an insulating layer. The switching element is formed in a display area of a substrate. The insulating layer is formed on the substrate having the switching element formed thereon. The insulating layer includes a plurality of reflective particles reflecting... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070085949 - Transflective type liquid crystal display: Disclosed is a transflective liquid crystal display having a high opening ratio and a single cell gap structure, which includes first and second substrates arranged opposite each other and respectively having reflective and transmissive regions; an opposite direction reflector disposed on the first substrate for reflecting introduced light to the... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

20070085948 - Transflective type liquid crystal display device having high transmission and wide viewing angle characteristics: Disclosed is a transflective type LCD device having high transmission and wide viewing angle characteristics. The transflective type LCD device includes first and second substrates aligned in opposition to each other, reflecting and transparent electrodes formed on one surface of the first substrate, a lower polarizing plate formed on the... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

20070085950 - Light guide plate and diffusion plate with cholesteric liquid crystal layer and backlight module having the same: The present invention relates to a light guide plate and a diffusion plate. A cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) layer is disposed on a surface of the light guide plate or the diffusion plate to output a single polarized light with extremely low light-intensity loss, thus having an effect of enhancing... Agent: Volentine Francos, & Whitt PLLC

20070085951 - Uv curable alignment material for fabrication of monolithic compensators for liquid crystal displays: A segmented, rigid-rod aromatic polyimide mixed with a UV curable acrylate photopolymer material comprises an alignment layer for aligning nematic polymeric liquid crystal compensator films. The material may also provide an out-of-plane retardation. The segmented, rigid-rod aromatic polyimide-based UV curable acrylate alignment layer, when applied in appropriate thickness, functions as... Agent: Koppel, Patrick & Heybl

20070085952 - Display device and manufacturing method thereof: A liquid crystal display device includes an orientation film on a liquid-crystal-side surface of at least one substrate out of respective substrates which are arranged to face each other with liquid crystal therebetween. The orientation film forms a pattern which is constituted of either a plurality of notches or holes... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070085953 - Flexible electronics using ion implantation to adhere polymer substrate to single crystal silicon substrate: An electronic apparatus uses a single crystalline silicon substrate disposed adjacent to a flexible substrate. The electronic apparatus may be a flexible flat panel display, or a flexible printed circuit board. The flexible substrate can be made from polymer, plastic, paper, flexible glass, and stainless steel. The flexible substrate is... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20070085954 - Liquid crystal panel, method for producing liquid crystal panel, and electronic apparatus: A liquid crystal panel includes: a pair of substrates; inorganic oriented films having plural fine pores being provided on surfaces of the substrates facing each other; a liquid crystal layer being provided between the inorganic oriented films; and a sealing part sealing the liquid crystal layer, the sealing part being... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070085955 - Liquid crystal display device and electronic apparatus: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal layer disposed between a first substrate and a second substrate, a pixel electrode in a reflection region and a transmission region over the first substrate, a film for adjusting a cell gap in the reflection region over... Agent: Eric Robinson

20070085956 - Multi-domain vertical alignment thin film transistor liquid crystal display, color filter substrate and polarizer film applied thereto, and fabricating method thereof: A multi-domain vertical alignment thin film transistor liquid crystal display (MVA TFT-LCD) device is disclosed. The MVA TFT-LCD comprises a MVA TFT-LCD panel, a first wide viewing film (WV film), a first polarizer film, a second WV film, and a second polarizer film. The first WV film is on the... Agent: J.c. Patents

20070085957 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display device and a method for driving the same are provided. The liquid crystal display device includes a first liquid crystal layer selectively driven by a first electric field in a first direction; and a second liquid crystal layer selectively driven a second electric field in a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070085958 - Liquid crystal display having common and pixel electrodes on both of substrates thereof: An exemplary liquid crystal display (LCD) (200) includes a first substrate (211), a second substrate (212) opposite to the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer (213) sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate, a plurality of first common electrodes (241) and first pixel electrodes (242) provided. at the... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070085959 - Liquid crystal display: A liquid crystal display includes a plurality of pixels including pixel electrodes and switching devices connected to the pixel electrodes and arrayed in a matrix, a plurality of pairs of first and second gate lines connected to the switching devices and separated from each other, and a plurality of data... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070085962 - Active matrix substrate and a liquid crystal display device including the active matrix substrate: Disclosed is an active matrix substrate which includes a display area and a terminal area located outside the display area. The terminal area includes extraction wirings connected with signal lines and scanning lines of the display area. A testing terminal for making contact with a probe of a prober and... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070085961 - Flexible flat panel display: A flexible flat panel display prevents electronic units, such as a flexible printed circuit board and a driving IC, from being separated from the flexible flat panel display even when the display unit is bent. The flexible flat panel display includes: a flexible display unit including a display area adapted... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070085960 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device with a liquid crystal layer disposed between first and second substrates in which the first substrate is divided into an active region and a pad region outside the active region that includes: gate lines and data lines crossing each other to define pixels in the... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20070085963 - Electrical connectors between electronic devices: A fan-out pattern having two or more fan-out sections is implemented between a driver IC and a display for reducing or eliminating the pathlength differences among the electrical conductors in the fan-out pattern. As such, some of the conductors between the driver IC and the display can have two or... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070085964 - Electronic device having liquid crystal display device: A display device includes a pair of substrates sandwiching a liquid crystal with a thin film transistor formed over one of the pair of substrates and a sealing material formed between the pair of substrates for sealing the liquid crystal. The thin film transistor includes a semiconductor layer and a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070085965 - Board device and liquid crystal display device: Main body groove portions are formed along the longitudinal direction on the surface of a spacer height adjusting layer provided on a margin area of a large-size glass substrate. The cross-sectional area between seal materials between image display areas is increased. An air discharge efficiency from the inside of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070085966 - Diffusing reflector and manufacture of the same and reflection type display apparatus: A display apparatus includes a first substrate, a second substrate separated from the first substrate by a predetermined gap, an electro-optical layer located within the gap, a diffusing reflection layer having a plurality of adjacent polygonal columns, and electrodes formed on at least one of the first substrate and second... Agent: Hill & Simpson A Professional Corporation

20070085967 - Liquid crystal display device and method for manufacturing the same: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other, column spacers at designated areas of the second substrate, protrusions having a first height on the first substrate corresponding to portions of the column spacers, compensation patterns having a second height on the first... Agent: Jenkens & Gilchrist, P.C.

20070085968 - Guest-host liquid crystal display panel: A guest-host liquid crystal display panel comprising a first substrate, a display medium accommodating layer, a display medium, and a second substrate is provided. The first substrate comprises a first patterned electrode layer, and the display medium accommodating layer that has a plurality of micro-cups is disposed on the first... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070081105 - Repairing manufacturing defects in flat panel displays: Apparatus and methods for repairing display devices of a type that include a first substrate having a plurality of signal lines formed thereon and/or a second substrate having a plurality of color filters formed thereon include a laser that radiates laser light having a wavelength in a range of from... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070081106 - Display substrate, method of manufacturing the same and display device having the same: A display device includes silver-molybdenum alloy electrodes having high reflectivity despite annealing temperatures. The display may have a first display substrate, a second display substrate and a liquid crystal layer. The first display substrate includes signal-applying modules (e.g., TFTs) disposed on a first substrate each including an output terminal configured... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070081107 - Active matrix display device and method of producing the same: An active matrix display device has an optical layer (7,9,11) comprising a mixture of an electro-optical material and a polymer precursor. An upper surface of the active plate comprises an array of wells (70) such that the upper surface has higher (72) and lower regions, and the optical layer mixture... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070081108 - Array substrate and its manufacturing method: An array substrate for a flat-panel display device and manufacturing method thereof, enabling a reliable repairing of a wire breakage within a pixel area, irrespective of nature of the wire breakage, especially irrespective of nature, dimensions and shape of a foreign matter causing the wire breakage. For example, when the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070081109 - Display with recording/reproducing device: Disclosed is a display with a recording/reproducing device that has a chassis supporting a disk drive. The chassis is provided with a through hole in a part thereof corresponding to the disk drive. A box holding component parts therein is formed by assembling a front case and a back case.... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070081110 - Backlight unit with linearly reduced divergence: This invention relates to a display apparatus comprising: a) a light source; b) a light guiding plate for transmitting light from the light source outward from a two-dimensional light-providing surface, one dimension of the light-providing surface defined in a width direction orthogonal to the path of incident light from the... Agent: Paul A. Leipold Patent Legal Staff

20070081111 - Double-sided backlight module and double-sided liquid crystal display with same: An exemplary double-sided liquid crystal display (300) includes two liquid crystal panels (310, 311), a single optical body, and a light source (316). The single optical body is provided between the liquid crystal panels including two light guide plates (314, 315), and a reflection layer (317). The reflection layer is... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070081112 - Back light unit for liquid crystal display device and method for manufacturing the unit: Another embodiment of the invention is that pins 25 constructed so as to break through various kind of sheets 22 and 23 on the surface of the plate are provided on the light guide plate 21, and the various kind of sheets 22 and 23 are fixed on the light... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070081113 - Wire harness, lighting device, backlight device, and liquid crystal display device: A wire harness includes a conductive member configured to connect electric members to each other for electric conduction; a covering member configured to enclose and cover the conductive member, the covering member being formed of a first insulating material; and a retaining member configured to enclose the covering member so... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070081114 - Polarization-modulating optical element: A polarization-modulating optical element (1) consisting of an optically active crystal material has a thickness profile where the thickness, as measured in the direction of the optical axis, varies over the area of the optical element. The polarization-modulating optical element (1) has the effect that the plane of oscillation of... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070081115 - Polarizing plate and image display device using the same: An image display device comprising a panel including a substrate, a foreside laminated body arranged on the viewer side of the substrate, and a backside laminated body arranged on the opposite side of the substrate, wherein the foreside laminated body comprises a polarizer, a viewer side protective film and a... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070081116 - Liquid crytsal display: A liquid crystal display includes a first insulating substrate with a top surface and a bottom surface. A pixel electrode is formed on the top surface of the first insulating substrate. The pixel electrode has a first opening pattern at each pixel area. The pixel electrode with the first opening... Agent: F. Chan & Associates, LLC

20070081117 - Display device and a circuit thereon: A display having a substrate, a plurality of pixel units, a plurality of driver chips, a group of bonding pads, a first group of wires, a second group of wires, and a flexible printed circuit film is provided. The substrate has a display area and a peripheral area. The pixel... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070081118 - Liquid crystal display device and method for fabricating the same: Disclosed is an LCD device and a method for fabricating the same, capable of preventing defects derived from a defective UV-curing of a sealant while employing one-drop fill technology. The LCD device includes an array substrate having a metal signal line, a thin film transistor and a pixel electrode, a... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

20070076133 - Projection display apparatus and three-plate type of liquid crystal projector using the same: A projection display apparatus comprises a reflective LC display device and a polarizing beam splitter having a polarizing separative plane and wired grids. The LC molecules of the device are aligned such that i) a segment on a second subtracted, produced by projecting a major axis of each LC molecule... Agent: Clark & Brody

20070076134 - Method and apparatus for variable retardation and adjusting light channel pathlengths: A variable retarder is inserted in one or more light channels of a kernel. The variable retarder is a nematic liquid crystal layer that is energized by an electric field and, for example, the voltage or frequency of the electric field dictates an amount of retardation effected by the variable... Agent: Arthur Berman

20070076135 - Light modulation element and image display device: The present invention provides a light modulation element in which a visible image is written by simultaneously conducting irradiation of the light modulation element with exposure light according to image information which corresponds to the visible image and application of a voltage, having: a pair of electrodes to which the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070076136 - Liquid crystal display device: The invention is directed to narrowing a frame of a liquid crystal display device including a display pixel region and a dummy pixel region adjacent thereto. The display pixel region including a plurality of pixels each having a pixel selection TFT and a pixel electrode connected thereto is formed on... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070076137 - Portable electronic device with power saving function: A portable electronic device (100) includes a display assembly (21) including a liquid crystal module (23) configured for showing information, a cover (24) covering the liquid crystal module and receiving and concentrating external light, and a reflector (26) receiving light transmitted through the cover and directing the light to the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070076139 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device is provided that includes a liquid crystal panel, a guide panel, a top case, and first and second brackets. The guide panel supports the liquid crystal panel and has one or more fixing protrusions on the side surfaces thereof. The top case covers the liquid... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070076138 - Liquid crystal display monitor: An LCD monitor includes a front shell, a display device, a back frame, an electrical circuit, and an EMI shield. The front shell provides the appearance and the strength of the LCD monitor. The display device is directly mounted on the back of the front shell. The front shell can... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070076140 - Liquid crystal module with light guide plate having tft array thereon: An exemplary liquid crystal module (2) includes a transparent substrate (222) having a color filter, a light guide plate (221) opposite to the transparent substrate, and a liquid crystal layer (223) sandwiched between the transparent substrate and the light guide plate. The light guide plate has a thin film transistor... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070076141 - Electroluminescent device: An electroluminescent device includes, for example, first to third optical output parts respectively corresponding to red, green, and blue colors and each having a light-emitting layer. A visibility spectrum curve has an inclination value corresponding to the first optical output part, an inclination value corresponding to the second optical output... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070076142 - Backlight module and liquid crystal display using the same: In order to solve the problem that sufficient center brightness is not always obtained in a conventional liquid crystal TV and a liquid crystal monitor, a backlight module of the invention includes a plurality of cold cathode fluorescent lamps (CFL) and a diffusing reflector below, the distance between the respective... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070076143 - Liquid crystal display panel and method for fabricating the same: A liquid crystal display panel includes first and second substrates bonded to each other, a liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween, a plurality of first polarization wire grids formed on the first substrate, and a plurality of second polarization wire grids formed on the second substrate.... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070076144 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display cell (110) includes: an opposing substrate (130) having an opposing electrode (Ecom); an array substrate (120) having a pixel electrode Dpix for each color; a liquid crystal layer (140) arranged in a bend arrangement located between the opposing substrate (120) and the array substrate (120); and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070076145 - Display panel having a reflective layer therein: A liquid crystal display panel having a plurality of pixels is provided. Each pixel may include a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a reflective layer and a cover layer. A surface of the second substrate includes a second transparent electrode. The liquid crystal layer is disposed... Agent: Liu & Liu

20070076146 - Liquid crystal device and electronic apparatus: A liquid crystal device includes a pair of substrates, a liquid crystal layer provided between the substrates, and a plurality of sub-pixels each having a transmissive display region and a reflective display region. One of the substrates includes switching elements corresponding to the sub-pixels, lines connected to the switching elements,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070076147 - Semi-transmissive liquid crystal display panel: An MVA semi-transmissive liquid crystal display panel is provided with: a first substrate divided into sections by signal lines and scan lines arranged so as to form a matrix, each section having a transmissive portion and a reflective portion, each section having a pixel electrode located in the transmissive portion... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070076148 - Thin film transistor array panel: A thin film transistor (TFT) array panel that automatically matches the gamma curves of the reflective mode and the transmissive mode is presented. The TFT array panel includes a substrate, a switching element formed on the substrate and including an input terminal, an output terminal, and a control terminal. A... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070076149 - Surface light source for emitting linearly-polarized light whose polarization plane is varied depending on emission direction and view angle changeable liquid crystal display apparatus using same: The invention has light source unit disposed at opposite side to observer side of liquid crystal display device for selectively emitting linearly-polarized light and non-polarized light, and retardation element disposed between liquid crystal display device and light source unit. Plurality of first and second layers whose slow axes are arranged... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070076154 - Active matrix type liquid crystal display: Disclosed is an in-plane switching active matrix type liquid crystal display with greater improvements on color shifting and contrast. The liquid crystal display comprises an in-plane switching type liquid crystal display panel having an active device substrate, an opposing substrate and a liquid crystal layer held sandwiched between the active... Agent: Muirhead And Saturnelli, LLC Suite 1001

20070076151 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device capable of reducing and/or preventing occurrence(s) of retardation remaining in an ECB mode liquid crystal panel may include first and second substrates, first and second orientation films respectively arranged to oppose each other on facing sides of the first and second substrates, and a liquid... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20070076152 - Liquid crystal display device: A circular polarizer structure, which is included in a liquid crystal display device, includes a uniaxial third retardation plate for optical compensation of the circular polarizer structure between a first polarizer plate and a first retardation plate, the uniaxial third retardation plate having a refractive index anisotropy of nx≃nz>ny. A... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070076150 - Low temperature nematic liquid crystal alignment material and lcd compensator incorporating the liquid crystal alignment material: An anisotropic cross-linked PVA alignment layer for aligning nematic polymeric liquid crystal compensator films, which also provides an out-of-plane retardation. The cross-linked PVA alignment layer, when applied in sufficient thickness functions as both a negative uniaxial C-plate and causes alignment of the nematic liquid crystal molecules. The combination of the... Agent: Koppel, Patrick & Heybl

20070076153 - Phase difference layer laminated body and manufacturing method thereof: A main object of the invention is to provide a phase difference layer laminated body which has a very high freedom in orienting molecules of its phase difference layer, and which is manufactured with ease. To achieve the above object, the invention provides a phase difference layer laminated body including... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070076155 - Optical film, optical compensation film, polarizing plate and liquid crystal display: m

20070076156 - Fabricating method of a pixel structure: A fabricating method of a pixel structure is disclosed. The pixel structure is disposed on a substrate. The pixel structure comprises a scan line, a data line, an active element, a capacitor electrode, a pixel electrode and an electric field shielding layer. The fabricating method of the pixel structure comprises... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070076158 - Liquid crystal display and method of manufacturing the same: A liquid crystal display device includes a substrate, liquid crystal disposed on the substrate, and a protrusion to influence on the alignment of the molecules of the liquid crystal to increase a viewing angle. The protrusion includes portions with different sizes, depending on the desired control power of the protrusion... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070076157 - Structure of liquid crystal display with a wide viewing angle: A structure of liquid crystal display (LCD) with a wide viewing angle is presented. In this invention, a slit pattern of a pixel electrode is definded by using an etching process. Thereafter, a reflection layer which defines a reflective region and a transmissive region is constructed along the top or... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070076159 - Liquid crystal display and manufacturing method thereof: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal device to which a line on glass structure and a cascade structure are both applied, and a manufacturing method thereof. The liquid crystal device includes: a liquid crystal panel including a plurality of pixels defined by gate lines and data lines that... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP Song K. Jung

20070076160 - Liquid crystal display device: An LCD device includes pixel array substrate 12, counter substrate 14, transfer members 22 to supply a power source voltage between pixel array and counter substrates 12 and 14 and sealing member 16 to assemble pixel array substrate 12 with counter substrate 14. A gap defined between pixel array substrate... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070076161 - Liquid-crystal display device and process of fabricating it: Provided is an in-plane response-type liquid-crystal display device having a sufficiently high contrast ratio enough to display high-quality images. The device is free from the problem of light leak to be caused by spacers, and is free from the problem of rough surface appearances. In the device, the surface of... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070076162 - System for manufacturing a flat panel display: A system for manufacturing a flat panel display is provided including a display panel moving unit, and a laser unit for generating a laser beam, wherein the laser unit comprises a mask for selectively passing the laser beam, a reducing lens for reducing the laser beam having passed the mask,... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070076163 - Reflective liquid crystal spatial light modulator: An optical switch uses a polarisation insensitive spatial light modulator operating by a double pass through a liquid crystal cell. The switch includes two such modulators in a cross bar arrangement. Different embodiments employing techniques for reducing cross talk are described.... Agent: Allston L. Jones Peters, Verny, Jones, Schmitt & Aston L.L.P.