# US 2019/0318702 A1 · Display device > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2019/0318702 A1 - Document ID: US20190318702A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 16/377,324 - Filed: 2019-04-08 - Published: 2019-10-17 - Earliest claimed: 2018-04-12 - Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha - Applicants: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha - Inventors: Masahiro YOSHIDA - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20190318702A1 ## CPC - G02F 1/136259: {Repairing; Defects} - G02F 1/1309: {Repairing; Testing} - G02F 1/136286: {Wiring, e.g. gate line, drain line} - G06F 3/0412: {Digitisers structurally integrated in a display} - G09G 3/3648: {using an active matrix (G09G3/367 - G09G3/3696 take precedence)} - G02F 1/136263: {Line defects} - G02F 1/136272: {Auxiliary lines} - G02F 2201/506: Repairing, e.g. with redundant arrangement against defective part - G09G 2330/08: Fault-tolerant or redundant circuits, or circuits in which repair of defects is prepared - G02F: OPTICAL DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF LIGHT BY MODIFICATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIA OF THE ELEMENTS INVOLVED THEREIN; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; FREQUENCY-CHANGING OF LIGHT; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - G09G: ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION (arrangements for transferring data between digital computers and displays G06F3/14; static indicating arrangements comprising an association of a number of separate sources or light control cells G09F9/00; static indicating arrangements comprising integral associations of a number of light sources H01J, H01K, H10H, H05B33/12; scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission, details thereof H04N1/00) ## Abstract A display device includes a pixel electrode, signal lines, lines, and inter-line connections. The signal lines supply an image signal to the pixel electrode. The lines are arranged such that the lines at least partly overlap the signal lines, respectively, via an insulating film but do not overlap the pixel electrode. The inter-line connections interconnect the lines. The inter-line connections are arranged at intervals in a direction of extension of the lines. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A display device comprising: a pixel electrode; signal lines that supply an image signal to the pixel electrode; lines arranged such that the lines at least partly overlap the signal lines, respectively, via an insulating film but do not overlap the pixel electrode; and inter-line connections interconnecting the lines, the inter-line connections being arranged at intervals in a direction of extension of the lines. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The display device according to claim 1, further comprising: a common electrode disposed such that the common electrode at least partly overlaps the pixel electrode via in insulating film; and position detection electrodes formed by dividing the common electrode, the position detection electrodes creating capacitance between the position detection electrodes and a position input object that makes position input and detecting a position of input made by the position input object, wherein the lines are connected to the position detection electrodes and to supply a position detection signal and a common signal to the position detection electrodes in a time-division manner, and the common signal is for setting the position detection electrodes to a reference potential. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The display device according to claim 2, wherein some of the lines interconnected through the inter-line connections are connected to one of the position detection electrodes. ### Claim 4 (depends on 2) The display device according to claim 2, wherein at least one of the signal line and the line includes a line body and a wider portion wider than the line body. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The display device according to claim 4, wherein the position detection electrode has an opening encircling the wider portion. ### Claim 6 (depends on 2) The display device according to claim 2, wherein the inter-line connection includes at least one first connection portion and at least one second connection portion connecting the first connection portion to the line, and the at least one second connection portion is narrower than the at least one first connection portion. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The display device according to claim 6, wherein the position detection electrode has an opening encircling the at least one second connection portion. ### Claim 8 (depends on 6) The display device according to claim 6, wherein the line includes divided lines arranged such that the inter-line connection is sandwiched between the divided lines in a direction of extension of the line, and the at least one second connection portion includes second connection portions connected to the divided lines adjacent to the inter-line connection in the direction of extension of the line, respectively. ### Claim 9 (depends on 6) The display device according to claim 6, wherein the line includes: divided lines arranged such that the inter-line connection is sandwiched between the divided lines in a direction of extension of the line; and a divided line connection interconnecting the divided lines adjacent to each other, and the second connection portions are connected to the divided line connection. ### Claim 10 (depends on 2) The display device according to claim 2, wherein the position detection electrodes are arranged at intervals, and the inter-line connections are each disposed between the position detection electrodes adjacent to each other such that the inter-line connections do no overlap the position detection electrodes. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The display device according to claim 10, further comprising scanning lines extending to intersect the signal lines and the lines, wherein the scanning lines are arranged at intervals such that at least the pixel electrode is sandwiched between the scanning lines, the inter-line connections are arranged such that each of the inter-line connections is sandwiched between a pair of the pixel electrode and the scanning line, the display device further includes an electrode overlapping dummy connection portion connected to the line, the electrode overlapping dummy connection portion is disposed to overlap the position detection electrode and to be sandwiched between the pixel electrode and the scanning line. ### Claim 12 (depends on 2) The display device according to claim 2, wherein lines of the position detection electrodes are arranged at intervals, and the inter-line connections are arranged to overlap the position detection electrodes and a group of inter-line connections each disposed between a pair of the position detection electrodes adjacent to each other such that the inter-line connections do not overlap the position detection electrodes. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The display device according to claim 12, further comprising scanning lines extending to intersect the signal lines and the lines, wherein the scanning lines are arranged at intervals such that at least the pixel electrode is sandwiched between each the scanning lines, the pixel electrodes are arranged at intervals in a direction of extension of the signal lines, and the inter-line connections are arranged such that each of the inter-line connections is sandwiched between a pair of the pixel electrode and the scanning line and that a series of the pixel electrode, the inter-line connection, and the scanning line appear repeatedly in a direction of extension of the signal lines. ### Claim 14 (depends on 2) The display device according to claim 2, further comprising scanning lines extending in such a way as to intersect the signal lines and the lines, wherein the scanning lines are arranged at intervals such that at least the pixel electrode is sandwiched between each pair of the scanning lines, the inter-line connections are arranged such that each of the inter-line connections is sandwiched between a pair of the pixel electrode and the scanning line, the lines include two lines adjacent to each other and interconnected through the inter-line connection and a pair of lines adjacent to each other but not interconnected, and the display device further includes a dummy connection portion connected to one of the pair of lines adjacent to each other but not interconnected, the dummy connection portion being disposed in such a way as to be sandwiched between a pair of the pixel electrode and the scanning line. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The display device according to claim 14, wherein the dummy connection portions are arranged such that a series of the pixel electrode, the dummy connection portion, and the scanning line appear repeatedly in a direction of extension of the signal lines.