Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus including a sealed wiring portion connected to an electrostatic protection circuit

• US 8,334,959 B2
• Filed: 07/25/2006
• Issued: 12/18/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/02/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Japan Display West Incorporated (Japan Display Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Hirabayashi, Yukiya, Sato, Takashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Robinson, Mark
• Assistant Examiner(s): Arendt, Paisley L
• Application Number:
  US11/492,014
• Publication Number:
  US 20070030434A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,338 Days
• Field of Search: 349/139, 349/149, 349/40, 349/54, 349/152, 349/153, 345/87, 345/104, 345/205, 345/206
• US Class Current: 349/149
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/136204 Arrangements to prevent high voltage or static electricity failures
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 2202/103 a-Si
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 2202/22 Antistatic materials or arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2330/04 Display protection
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3648 using an active matrix G09G3/367 - G09G3/3696 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 27/0251 for MOS devices
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 27/12 the substrate being other than a semiconductor body, e.g. an insulating body
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 27/124 with a particular composition, shape or layout of the wiring layers specially adapted to the circuit arrangement, e.g. scanning lines in LCD pixel circuits wiring structures per se H01L23/52

Abstract

An electro-optical device having a display region in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a matrix includes: switching elements each corresponding to one the plurality of pixels; a first sealed wiring portion that is formed on an element substrate so as to surround at least three sides of the display region; and a second sealed wiring portion that surrounds the first sealed wiring portion.

Claims

1. An electro-optical device having a display region in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a matrix, comprising:

switching elements each corresponding to one of the plurality of pixels;

a first sealed wiring portion that is formed in a rectangular shape arranged outside of and surrounding the entire display region; and

a second sealed wiring portion that is formed on an element substrate so as to be arranged outside of the first sealed wiring portion and to surround only three sides of the display region, the second sealed wiring portion including a common electrode wiring line surrounding a first side of the display region, a second side of the display region, and a portion of a third side of the display region, the common electrode wiring line having a width greater than a width of the first sealed wiring portion,

wherein the first sealed wiring portion includes a fourth side other than the three sides at which the second sealed wiring portion is arranged,

wherein a data line that is connected to a data line driving circuit includes a first electrostatic protection circuit and the data line is connected to the portion of the common electrode wiring line on the second side of the display region through a second electrostatic protection circuit, and a scanning line includes a third electrostatic protection circuit and the scanning line is connected to the portion of the common electrode wiring line on the first side of the display region through a fourth electrostatic protection circuit, and

wherein the first sealed wiring portion is connected to the data line through a first connecting member, then through the common electrode wiring line, and then through the second electrostatic protection circuit and the first electrostatic protection circuit, the first sealed wiring portion is also connected to the scanning line through a second connecting member and then through the fourth electrostatic protection circuit and the third electrostatic protection circuit, and the first sealed wiring portion is not directly connected to the data line driving circuit.

2. The electro-optical device according to claim 1,

wherein the first sealed wiring portion is electrically connected to a common electrode that is formed to correspond to the plurality of pixels.

3. The electro-optical device according to claim 1,

wherein each of the switching elements includes a thin film transistor having a gate electrode formed on the element substrate, a semiconductor layer opposite to the gate electrode with a gate insulating layer interposed therebetween, and a source electrode and a drain electrode which are electrically connected to the semiconductor layer, and

any one of the first and second sealed wiring portions is formed on a same layer as the source electrode and the drain electrode by using a same material as the source electrode and the drain electrode.

4. The electro-optical device according to claim 3,

wherein any one of the first and second sealed wiring portions is formed on a same layer as the gate electrode by using a same material as the gate electrode.

5. The electro-optical device according to claim 3, further comprising:

pixel electrodes each of which is electrically connected to the corresponding switching elements through the source electrode and the drain electrode,

wherein any one of the first and second sealed wiring portions is formed on a same layer as the pixel electrodes by using a same material as the pixel electrodes.

6. The electro-optical device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a plurality of data lines formed on the element substrate; and

a plurality of scanning lines formed on the element substrate so as to intersect the plurality of data lines,

wherein the pixels are respectively formed to correspond to intersections of the data lines and the scanning lines.

7. The electro-optical device according to claim 6,

wherein at least one of the electrostatic protection circuits includes a MOS diode having a semiconductor layer that is formed on a same layer as thin film transistors which form the switching elements.

8. The electro-optical device according to claim 7,

wherein at least one of the electrostatic protection circuits is formed by connecting a first MOS diode and a second MOS diode in opposite directions, each of the first and second MOS diodes being formed by making a gate electrode and a drain electrode of the corresponding thin film transistors short-circuited.

9. The electro-optical device according to claim 8,

wherein the first MOS diode is a capacitance-coupled MOS diode in which a source electrode and a gate electrode overlap each other in plan view, and

the second MOS diode is a capacitance-coupled MOS diode in which a source electrode and a gate electrode partially overlap each other in plan view.

10. The electro-optical device according to claim 9,

wherein the capacitance-coupled MOS diode is electrically connected to the corresponding sealed wiring portion formed on a same layer as the data lines.

11. An electronic apparatus comprising the electro-optical device according to claim 1.

12. The electro-optical device according to claim 1, wherein the fourth side of the first sealed wiring portion includes one end that terminates without being electrically connected to any other portion of the electro-optical device.

13. The electro-optical device according to claim 1, wherein sides of the first sealed wiring portion on the second and third sides of the display region are connected to the common electrode wiring line through the first connecting member, and sides of the first sealed wiring portion on the first and second sides of the display region are connected to the common electrode wiring line through the second connecting member.