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Liquid crystal display device

Granted 11 Jan 2011 · 2 office actions

Current assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha · originally Sharp Corporation

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Inventors: Yohei Nakanishi, Yoji Taniguchi, Hiroyasu Inoue, Kenichi Nagaoka +5 · Examiner: James A Dudek · AU 2871 · TC 2800

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Abstract

A liquid crystal display device including a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the pair of substrates, as well as a source electrode, a Cs intermediate electrode, and a pixel electrode formed on one of the pair of substrates. The liquid crystal display device also includes vertical alignment films formed on the pair of substrates and polymer layers formed on the vertical alignment films, wherein a contact hole, which connects the source electrode and the pixel electrode, and another contact hole, which connects the pixel electrode and the Cs intermediate electrode, are both formed at a liquid crystal domain boundary.

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Classifications

3 codes
IPC · International Patent Classification
Section G — Physics
  • G02F1/1337
USPC · US Patent Classification
349/129349/130

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Pendency
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Examiner
James A Dudek
art unit 2871 · TC 2800
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related publicationUS 20080316406 A125 Dec 2008

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