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Color filter and method of manufacturing the same

US4846556A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMay 11, 1988
Grant dateJul 11, 1989
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Expiry dateMay 11, 2008

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S359/90
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A color filter useful for a color liquid crystal display device, wherein an opaque metal layer is used as a light-shielding layer, and formed on a transparent substrate in a matrix form. A black photoresist layer is left unremoved on the light-shielding layer and color filter layers are formed thereover to fill the matrix spaces of the light-shielding layer. A method of manufacturing such a color filter by means of photolithography is also disclosed.

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