Liquid crystal display device and a method of manufacturing the same

• US 8,686,971 B2
• Filed: 02/10/2009
• Issued: 04/01/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/20/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Japan Display West Incorporated (Japan Display Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Japan Display West Incorporated (Japan Display Incorporated)
• Inventors: Kunii, Masafumi, Ito, Ryoichi, Ikeda, Masanobu
• Primary Examiner(s): Lao, Lun-Yi
• Assistant Examiner(s): Sadio, Insa
• Application Number:
  US12/368,632
• Publication Number:
  US 20090207153A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,876 Days
• Field of Search: 345173-180, 345/104, 349/115, 349/116, 178 1801- 1811
• US Class Current: 345/175
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/1345 Conductors connecting electrodes to cell terminals
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/1354 having a particular photoconducting structure or material
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/1362 Active matrix addressed cells G02F1/134336, G02F1/134363 take precedence

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal panel having a first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, and first and second electrodes formed on a surface side, of the first substrate, facing the second substrate, a transverse electric field being applied to the liquid crystal layer through the first and second electrodes, thereby displaying an image in a pixel area; wherein the first substrate includes: a light receiving element provided on the surface, of the first substrate, facing the second substrate, for receiving an incident light on a light receiving surface thereof, thereby forming data on the received light; and a planarizing film provided on the surface side, of the first substrate, facing the second substrate so as to cover the light receiving element.

Claims

1. A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal panel comprising the steps of:

providing (a) a first substrate, (b) a second substrate facing said first substrate, (c) a liquid crystal layer disposed between said first substrate and said second substrate, (d) providing a pixel area on a surface side of said first substrate facing said second substrate, and (e) providing first and second electrodes each configured to apply a transverse electric field to said liquid crystal layer in said pixel area;

forming a light receiving element configured to (a) receive an incident light from a side of said second substrate to a side of said first substrate through said liquid crystal layer in said pixel area on a light receiving surface thereof, and (b) form data on the light receiving surface;

forming a planarizing film over said light receiving element in said pixel area, said planarizing film comprising an organic layer over an inorganic layer; and

forming an insulating film between said first and second electrodes in said pixel area on the surface of said first substrate facing said second substrate,

wherein,

in the step of forming said insulating film, said insulating film is formed on a surface of said planarizing film in an area corresponding to a sensor area having said light receiving element provided therein, and an etching processing for removing said insulating film formed on the surface of said planarizing film in said sensor area is not carried out.