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Common electrode substrate and liquid crystal display device having the same

US6839104B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateAug 6, 2001
Grant dateJan 4, 2005
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Expiry dateMar 10, 2022

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG02F1/133512
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A common electrode substrate has a transparent insulating substrate to be arranged opposite to an array substrate having pixel electrodes formed in respective pixel regions that are defined by a plurality of gate bus lines and drain bus lines. The substrate holds a liquid crystal having negative dielectric anisotropy. A common electrode is formed on the transparent insulating substrate; alignment regulating structures having linear protrusions are formed on the common electrode; and a light shield film is formed on the transparent insulating substrate with overlap regions that overlap the pixel electrodes when viewed in the direction perpendicular to a surface of the transparent insulating substrate, so as to shield, from light, alignment defective regions of the liquid crystal formed in regions of end portions of the pixel electrodes.

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