Liquid crystal display cell
First Claim
1. In a liquid crystal display cell composed of two transparent supporting substrates arranged parallel to one another, sealed together peripherally to form an enclosed chamber containing a liquid crystal material, and having a transparent display electrode formed on an inner face of at least one of said transparent supporting substrates composed of a thin film of an electrically conductive substance and a lead electrode provided on said inner substrate face for providing electrical connection between said transparent display electrode and external drive means, the improvement comprising a multi-layer construction for said lead electrode for thereby reducing the electrical resistance thereof, said multi-layer lead electrode construction comprising a metallic electrode layer of a metallic substance formed on said inner substrate face and a lead electrode layer formed over said metallic electrode layer, said lead electrode layer being formed integrally with said display electrode and having a width which is substantially equal to the width of said metallic electrode layer, measured in a direction parallel to the substrate plane.
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Abstract
In the lead electrodes which connect to the display electrodes of a liquid crystal display device having lead electrodes which are of extremely narrow width and are spaced very closely together, the resistance of each lead electrode is reduced by means of a multi-layer structure of relatively low resistance, and leakage current is prevented from flowing between adjacent lead electrodes by providing a transparent insulating layer over and between the lead electrodes, thereby eliminating the deleterious effects upon display appearance of a high lead electrode resistance and leakage currents between lead electrodes.
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- 1. In a liquid crystal display cell composed of two transparent supporting substrates arranged parallel to one another, sealed together peripherally to form an enclosed chamber containing a liquid crystal material, and having a transparent display electrode formed on an inner face of at least one of said transparent supporting substrates composed of a thin film of an electrically conductive substance and a lead electrode provided on said inner substrate face for providing electrical connection between said transparent display electrode and external drive means, the improvement comprising a multi-layer construction for said lead electrode for thereby reducing the electrical resistance thereof, said multi-layer lead electrode construction comprising a metallic electrode layer of a metallic substance formed on said inner substrate face and a lead electrode layer formed over said metallic electrode layer, said lead electrode layer being formed integrally with said display electrode and having a width which is substantially equal to the width of said metallic electrode layer, measured in a direction parallel to the substrate plane.
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