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Thin film transistor panel for liquid crystal display

Granted 6 Nov 2012 · 4 office actions

Current assignee: Samsung Display · originally Samsung Electronics

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Inventors: Hee-Seob Kim, Jong-Lae Kim, Young-Chol Yang, Sung-Kyu Hong +1 · Examiner: Mansour M Said

Application
12/889,001
filed 23 Sep 2010
Publication
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US RE43785
granted 6 Nov 2012

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Abstract

A thin film transistor array panel is provided, which includes: an insulating substrate; a first signal wire formed on the insulating substrate; a second signal wire formed on the insulating substrate and intersecting the first signal wire in an insulating manner; first and second pixel electrodes formed in a pixel area defined by the intersections of the first and the second signal wires and including a plurality of subareas partitioned by cutouts; a direction control electrode formed in the pixel area and including a portion overlapping at least one of the cutouts; and a first thin film transistor connected to the direction control electrode, the first signal wire, and the second signal wire.

Claims

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Classifications

3 codes
IPC · International Patent Classification
Section G — Physics
  • G09G3/36
USPC · US Patent Classification
345/87345/92

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Pendency
2.1 y
775 days filing → grant
Office actions
2
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Responses
3
2 RCE
Interviews
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Examiner
Mansour M Said
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