Flat panel type display apparatus

• US 7,187,427 B2
• Filed: 02/13/2004
• Issued: 03/06/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/05/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Original Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Inventors: Ide, Shigeo, Oguchi, Tomihiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Ho; Tan
• Assistant Examiner(s): AL NAZER, LEITH A
• Application Number:
  US10/777,142
• Publication Number:
  US 20040183484A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,117 Days
• Field of Search: 349149-152
• US Class Current: 349/150
• 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 3/20 for presentation of an assembly of a number of characters, e.g. a page, by composing the assembly by combination of individual elements arranged in a matrix no fixed position being assigned to or needed to be assigned to the individual characters or partial characters
• CPC Class Codes: H01J 2211/46 Connecting or feeding means, e.g. leading-in conductors
• CPC Class Codes: H01J 5/50 Means forming part of the tube or lamps for the purpose of providing electrical connection to it
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/62 connecting to rigid printed circuits or like structures
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/7076 for connection between PCB and component, e.g. display

Abstract

It is an object of the invention to provide an improved flat panel type display apparatus allowing a low cost and a simplified wiring process. First and second terminal groups adjacent to each other as well as a third terminal group separated from the first and second terminal groups and are formed on the outside edge of a rear glass substrate of display section main body of the display apparatus. The first terminal group is comprised of connection terminals formed with wiring patterns connected to display electrodes. The second and third terminal groups and are connected to each other by predetermined wiring patterns. On connection end of TCP equipped with a driver IC, there are formed connecting terminals corresponding to the first and second terminal groups.

Claims

1. A flat panel type display apparatus, comprising:

a display section main body having a plurality of display electrodes arranged thereon; and

a tape carrier package connected to the display electrodes, wherein one end of the display section main body is formed with;

i) a first terminal group connected to the plurality of display electrodes,

ii) a second terminal group positioned adjacent to the first terminal group, wherein the second terminal group comprises a first plurality of connecting terminals, and

iii) a third terminal group comprising a second plurality of connecting terminals,

wherein only each of the first plurality of connecting terminals are directly connected to a corresponding one of the second plurality of connecting terminals via at least one wire on a common substrate,

wherein a connection end of the tape carrier package is connected to the first terminal group and the second terminal group, and

wherein a flat cable for external wiring is connected with the third terminal group.

2. The flat panel type display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the flat cable is formed by FPC or FFC.

3. The flat panel type display apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the first and second terminal groups are collected in a predetermined area at one end of the display section main body, the connection end of the tape carrier package is connected through one operation to the first and second terminal groups formed and collected in the predetermined area.

4. The flat panel type display apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the first and second terminal groups are formed by being arranged in one column in the predetermined area at one end of the display section main body.

5. The flat panel type display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the tape carrier package is formed having connecting terminal groups to be connected to the first and second terminal groups located in a connecting terminal section, and an electronic device is connected between the connecting terminal group to be connected to the first terminal group and the connecting terminal group to be connected to the second terminal group.

6. The flat panel type display apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the electronic device is an integrated circuit device for supplying an electric power for display to the plurality of display electrodes.

7. The flat panel type display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the flat cable is connected between a circuit board and the third terminal group.

8. The flat panel type display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein an interval between the first, second terminal groups and the third terminal group is larger than a length of the tape carrier package.

9. The flat panel type display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first and second terminal groups are separate and distinct from each other.