Liquid crystal display device
AssigneeOPTREX Corporation
InventorsShigeru Kojima, Yutaka Nakagawa, Toru Tsukamoto, Kenji Gondo
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Abstract
A liquid crystal display device restraining display defects even in a structure having a potential difference between an externally-connected electrode potential and the mean potential of the drive waveform of a liquid crystal material. An electrostatic charge stored in the vicinity of a liquid crystal layer of the liquid crystal display device as a result of the potential difference between an externally-connected electrode potential and the mean potential of the drive waveform of the liquid crystal material is dispersed by employing a capacitor or an arrester connected to ground. Accordingly, discharge of the stored charge is facilitated, and occurrence of display defects is restrained.
Claims5
A liquid crystal display device comprising:
- first and second substrates that face each other;
- a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first and second substrates;
- first and second electrodes that face each other on opposite sides of the liquid crystal layer, wherein the first electrode is located on the first substrate, and the second electrode is located on the second substrate;
- a drive circuit connected to each of the first and second electrodes;
- an external electrode located on the first substrate, wherein
- the external electrode and the first electrode are located on opposite sides of the first substrate, with the first substrate and the first electrode between the external electrode and the liquid crystal layer,
- a capacitive structure is formed between the external electrode and the second electrode;
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- a capacitor connected to the external electrode, wherein
- the external electrode is grounded via the capacitor and
- the capacitor is connected in parallel with the capacitive structure.
A liquid crystal display device comprising:
- first and second substrates that face each other;
- a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first and second substrates;
- first and second electrodes that face each other on opposite sides of the liquid crystal layer, wherein the first electrode is located on the first substrate, and the second electrode is located on the second substrate;
- a drive circuit connected to each of the first and second electrodes;
- an external electrode located on the first substrate, wherein the external electrode and the first electrode are located on opposite sides of the first substrate, with the first substrate and the first electrode between the external electrode and the liquid crystal layer;
- a capacitor connected to the external electrode, wherein the external electrode is grounded via the capacitor;
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- an arrester electrically connected in parallel with the capacitor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.