Device substrate and liquid crystal panel

• US 20090231312A1
• Filed: 04/21/2006
• Published: 09/17/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Fujikawa, Yohsuke
• Application Number:
  US11/921,898
• Publication Number:
  US 20090231312A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/206
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/1345 Conductors connecting electrodes to cell terminals
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/13452 Conductors connecting driver circuitry and terminals of panels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2300/0426 Layout of electrodes and connections
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3674 Details of drivers for scan electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3685 Details of drivers for data electrodes

Abstract

A frame size of a device substrate is reduced without a considerable change of a layout. An element side substrate 10 of a liquid crystal panel includes an element array having display elements 41, and a row control circuit 12 controlling the display elements 41 by a row, formed on a base substrate 11 monolithically. The row control circuit 12 has a configuration of arranging flip-flop circuits 13 corresponding to rows of the display elements 41 consecutively in a one-dimensional manner. An arrangement pitch P_G of the flop-flop circuits 13 is smaller than that P_G_PIX of the rows of the display elements 41, and also a difference between both of the pitches is set to be equal to or smaller than a minimum wiring width or a minimum wiring pitch allowable in the row control circuit 12. A video signal line group, a level shifter, or the like is placed in a vacant area which is obtained by a reduction of the row control circuit 12 in the longitudinal direction thereof. A column control circuit may be reduced in the longitudinal direction thereof with a similar method.

Claims

1. A device substrate having elements and a control circuit thereof formed monolithically;

comprising;

a base substrate;

an element array including elements arranged in a matrix on the base substrate; and

a control circuit being placed along a side of the element array on the base substrate for controlling the elements by a row or by a column,

the control circuit having a configuration of arranging unit control circuits corresponding to control units of the elements consecutively in a one-dimensional manner, and

an arrangement pitch of the unit control circuits being smaller than that of the control units of the elements, and a difference between both of the pitches being equal to or smaller than a minimum wiring width or a minimum wiring pitch allowable in the control circuit.

2. The device substrate according to claim 1, wherein:

the control circuit has a configuration of arranging flip-flop circuits corresponding to rows of the elements consecutively in a one-dimensional manner along a side of the element array in a column direction thereof; and

an arrangement pitch of the flip-flop circuits is smaller than that of the rows of the elements, and a difference between both of the pitches is equal to or smaller than the minimum wiring width or the minimum wiring pitch.

3. The device substrate according to claim 1, wherein:

the control circuit has a configuration of arranging flip-flop circuits corresponding to columns of the elements consecutively in a one-dimensional manner along a side of the element array in a row direction thereof; and

an arrangement pitch of the flip-flop circuits is smaller than that of the columns of the elements, and a difference between both of the pitches is equal to or smaller than the minimum wiring width or the minimum wiring pitch.

4. The device substrate according to claim 1, wherein:

the control circuit has a configuration of arranging sampling circuits corresponding to the columns of the elements consecutively in a one-dimensional manner along a side of the element array in a row direction thereof; and

an arrangement pitch of the sampling circuits is smaller than that of the columns of the elements, and a difference between both of the pitches is equal to or smaller than the minimum wiring width or the minimum wiring pitch.

5. The device substrate according to claim 1, wherein:

the control circuit is placed so as to form a vacant area near a corner of an outer peripheral part of the element array; and

a wiring group for transmitting multiple signals of the same kind simultaneously is placed in the vacant area.

6. The device substrate according to claim 5, wherein

the wiring group includes multiple video signal lines.

7. The device substrate according to claim 5, wherein

the wiring group includes multiple phase-expanded video signal lines.

8. The device substrate according to claim 5, wherein

the wiring group includes four or more video signal lines corresponding to respective color signals.

9. The device substrate according to claim 1, wherein:

the control circuit is placed so as to form a vacant area near a corner of an outer peripheral part of the element array; and

a level shifter converting a level of a signal transmitted between an external terminal and the control circuit is placed in the vacant area.

10. The device substrate according to claim 1, further comprising

a precharge circuit for precharging a column wire corresponding to a column of the elements placed along a side of the element array on the base substrate in a row direction thereof,

the control circuit being placed so as to form a vacant area near a corner of an outer peripheral part of the element array, and

a wire connecting an external terminal and the precharge circuit passing through the vacant area.

11. The device substrate according to claim 1, further comprising

another control circuit being placed along another side of the element array on the base substrate, for controlling the elements either by a row or by a column differently from the control unit.

12. The device substrate according to claim 11, wherein:

the control circuit is placed so as to form a vacant area near a corner of an outer peripheral part of the element array; and

a level shifter converting a level of a signal transmitted between an external terminal and the another control circuit is placed in the vacant area.

13. The device substrate according to claim 1, further comprising

another control circuit being divided into a first part and a second part to be placed along other two sides of the element array on the base substrate, for controlling the elements either by a row or by a column differently from the control circuit,

the control circuit being placed so as to form vacant areas near two corners of an outer peripheral part of the element array, respectively, and

a wire connecting an external terminal and the first part passing through one of the vacant areas and a wire connecting an external terminal and the second part passing through the other of the vacant areas.

14. A liquid crystal panel having a structure of bonding two substrates, comprising:

an element side substrate including a base substrate, a pixel array having display elements arranged in a matrix on the base substrate, and a control circuit being placed along a side of the pixel array on the base substrate for controlling the display elements by a row or by a column; and

an opposite substrate facing the element side substrate;

the control circuit having a configuration of arranging unit control circuits corresponding to control units of the display elements consecutively in a one-dimensional manner, and

an arrangement pitch of the unit control circuits being smaller than that of the control units of the display elements and a difference between both of the pitches being equal to or smaller than a minimum wiring width or a minimum wiring pitch allowable in the control circuit.