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| 2H192 | LIQUID CRYSTALS 5-2 (SWITCHING ELEMENTS) | |
| G02F1/136 -1/1368 | ||
| G02F1/136-1/1368 | AA | AA00 DISPLAY SYSTEMS |
AA01 | |||||||||
| . Segment display | ||||||||||||
| AA11 | AA12 | |||||||||||
| . Matrix display | . . Simple matrices | |||||||||||
| AA22 | AA23 | AA24 | AA25 | |||||||||
| . . Active matrices | . . . Two-terminal elements | . . . Three-terminal elements | . . . Active elements or wiring for active elements between substrates | |||||||||
| AA32 | AA33 | |||||||||||
| . . Split matrices | . . Multiple matrices | |||||||||||
| AA42 | AA43 | AA44 | AA45 | AA46 | ||||||||
| . . Structures different by pixel | . . . Display electrodes different by pixel | . . . Active elements different by pixel | . . . Capacitive elements different by pixel | . . . Multi gaps (excluding transmittance reflective multi) | ||||||||
| AA51 | ||||||||||||
| . Multiple display regions (excluding split matrices) | ||||||||||||
| AA61 | AA62 | AA63 | ||||||||||
| . Multiple panels | . . Laminating multiple panels and liquid crystal layers | . . Plane arrangement of multiple panels (enlarging screens) | ||||||||||
| BA | BA00 DISPLAY ELECTRODES (VERTICAL ELECTRIC FIELD) |
BA01 | BA02 | |||||||||
| . characterized by display electrodes (pixel electrodes, counter electrodes) | . . characterized by the sectional shapes of display electrodes (excluding scattering reflection) | |||||||||||
| BA12 | BA13 | BA14 | BA15 | BA16 | BA17 | |||||||
| . . characterized by the planar shapes of display electrodes (excluding orientation regulation) | . . . characterized by the shapes of pixel electrodes | . . . characterized by the shapes of common or segment wiring | . . . characterized by the shapes of counter wiring for two-terminal elements | . . . characterized by the shapes of counter electrodes for three-terminal elements | . . . . Divided counter electrodes | |||||||
| BA22 | BA23 | BA24 | BA25 | |||||||||
| . . Shapes of electrodes for orientation regulation | . . . Openings or slits | . . . . Dot-shaped openings | . . . . Linear openings or slits | |||||||||
| BA32 | ||||||||||||
| . . Counter electrodes not positioned opposed to pixel electrodes or oblique electric fields | ||||||||||||
| BA42 | ||||||||||||
| . . Display electrodes being multilayer electrodes (excluding transmitted reflection) | ||||||||||||
| BA51 | ||||||||||||
| . Wiring for display electrodes (auxiliary wiring) | ||||||||||||
| BB | BB00 DISPLAY ELECTRODES (HORIZONTAL ELECTRIC FIELD) |
BB01 | BB02 | BB03 | BB04 | |||||||
| . Horizontal electric fields between linear electrodes | . . Display electrodes formed at the upper layer than counter electrodes | . . Counter electrodes formed at the same layer as counter electrodes | . . Display electrodes formed at the lower layer than counter electrodes | |||||||||
| BB11 | BB12 | BB13 | ||||||||||
| . Horizontal electric fields composed of linear electrodes and planar electrodes | . . Pixel electrodes being planar electrodes | . . Counter electrodes being planar electrodes | ||||||||||
| BB21 | ||||||||||||
| . Horizontal electric fields composed of three electrodes or more | ||||||||||||
| BB31 | BB32 | BB33 | ||||||||||
| . Electrodes also provided at counter substrates | . . Electrodes for applying horizontal electric fields also provided at counter substrates | . . Combination of vertical electric fields combined and horizontal electric fields | ||||||||||
| BB41 | BB42 | |||||||||||
| . characterized by display electrodes (pixel electrodes, counter electrodes) | . . Sectional shapes of display electrodes (excluding scattering reflection) | |||||||||||
| BB52 | BB53 | BB54 | BB55 | |||||||||
| . . characterized by the planar shapes of display electrodes | . . . Horizontal electric field direction division << = ll | . . . . dividing into three or more directions, curved electrodes | . . . . characterized by the shapes of the electrodes at the boundary of division regions | |||||||||
| BB63 | BB64 | BB66 | ||||||||||
| . . . having different gaps between pixel electrodes and counter electrodes | . . . . having different widths/gaps of parallel electrodes | . . . characterized by the shapes of the electrodes at the end of display electrodes | ||||||||||
| BB72 | BB73 | |||||||||||
| . . Display electrodes being multilayer electrodes | . . Linear display electrodes being transparent electrodes | |||||||||||
| BB81 | BB82 | BB83 | BB84 | BB86 | ||||||||
| . characterized by wiring for counter electrodes | . . characterized by the shapes of wiring for counter electrodes | . . . redundant, parallel (excluding grid-like wiring) | . . . Wiring parallel to signal wiring, grid-like wiring | . . Multilayer wiring structures | ||||||||
| BB91 | ||||||||||||
| . Counter electrodes connected to active elements | ||||||||||||
| BC | BC00 DISPLAY ELECTRODES (COMMON) |
BC01 | BC02 | |||||||||
| . characterized by pixel arrays | . . Delta arrays | |||||||||||
| BC11 | BC12 | BC13 | BC14 | |||||||||
| . Sub-pixels | . . Sub-pixels to which the same voltage is applied | . . . connecting island-shaped sub-pixel electrodes | . . . Redundancy configuration | |||||||||
| BC22 | BC23 | BC24 | BC26 | |||||||||
| . . Sub-pixels to which different voltages are applied | . . . Capacitive coupling between sub-pixel electrodes | . . . Active elements by sub-pixel | . . changing voltages of sub-pixels after the same voltage is applied to them | |||||||||
| BC31 | BC32 | BC33 | BC34 | BC35 | ||||||||
| . Display electrodes connecting through contact holes | . . characterized by contact holes | . . . characterized by the shapes of contact holes | . . . characterized by the structure of upper layers of contact holes | . . . characterized by the structure of lower layers of contact holes | ||||||||
| BC42 | BC44 | |||||||||||
| . . characterized by connection electrodes between pixel electrodes and active elements | . . . forming pixel electrodes at a layer lower than active elements | |||||||||||
| BC51 | ||||||||||||
| . Electrodes regulating orientation | ||||||||||||
| BC61 | BC62 | BC63 | BC64 | |||||||||
| . Reflection types or transmissive reflection types (excluding photoconductor layers) | . . Transmissive reflection display | . . . Transmissive regions and reflective regions | . . . . Multi gaps | |||||||||
| BC72 | BC74 | BC75 | BC77 | |||||||||
| . . Display electrodes being reflective electrodes | . . Reflective electrodes different from display electrodes | . . . Dielectric multilayer films or reflection increasing films | . . Reflective layers or reflective electrodes at counter substrates | |||||||||
| BC82 | BC83 | BC85 | ||||||||||
| . . Scattering reflection (omni-directional) | . . . characterized by the shape of reflective surfaces | . . Directional reflection | ||||||||||
| CA | CA00 TWO-TERMINAL ELEMENTS |
CA01 | CA02 | CA03 | ||||||||
| . Types of two-terminal elements | . . MIM elements | . . Semiconductor elements (excluding photoconductor elements) | ||||||||||
| CA11 | CA12 | |||||||||||
| . Multiple active elements arranged at a single (sub-) pixel electrode | . . Back-to-back, diode rings | |||||||||||
| CA21 | ||||||||||||
| . characterized by the shapes of two-terminal elements | ||||||||||||
| CA31 | CA32 | CA33 | ||||||||||
| . characterized by scan wiring | . . . characterized by the shapes of scan wiring | . . Multilayer wiring structures | ||||||||||
| CB | CB00 THREE-TERMINAL ELEMENTS (ELEMENT STRUCTURES) |
CB01 | CB02 | CB03 | CB05 | CB06 | CB08 | |||||
| . Types of three-terminal elements | . . Top gate (gate on semiconductors) | . . . Sequential staggered types (S.D under semiconductors) | . . Bottom gate (gate under semiconductors) | . . . Inverted coplanar types (S.D under semiconductors) | . . Top and bottom gate (gate at the top and bottom of semiconductors) | |||||||
| CB11 | CB12 | CB13 | CB14 | |||||||||
| . Multiple active elements arranged at a single (sub-) pixel electrode | . . Multiple active elements for pixel switching | . . . Serial arrangement | . . . Parallel arrangement | |||||||||
| CB22 | CB23 | CB24 | CB26 | |||||||||
| . . Circuits in pixels for liquid crystal control | . . . Memory circuits | . . . having complementary transistors | . . Circuits for non liquid crystal control (excluding sensor circuits) | |||||||||
| CB31 | CB32 | CB33 | CB34 | CB35 | CB36 | CB37 | ||||||
| . characterized by semiconductor layers or impurity semiconductor layers | . . characterized by materials of semiconductors | . . . characterized by single crystal semiconductors | . . . characterized by polycrystalline semiconductors | . . . characterized by amorphous semiconductors | . . . Organic semiconductors | . . . Oxide semiconductors | ||||||
| CB42 | CB44 | CB45 | CB46 | |||||||||
| . . characterized by the sectional shape of (impurity) semiconductor layers | . . characterized by the planar shape of (impurity) semiconductor layers | . . . characterized by the planar shapes of elements | . . . forming (impurity) semiconductor layers at signal wiring regions | |||||||||
| CB52 | CB53 | CB54 | CB56 | |||||||||
| . . characterized by channel regions | . . characterized by impurity regions or LDD | . . characterized by impurity semiconductor layers | . . Multilayer semiconductors or multilayer impurity semiconductors | |||||||||
| CB61 | ||||||||||||
| . Low resistance layers (excluding impurity semiconductor layers) | ||||||||||||
| CB71 | CB72 | |||||||||||
| . Channel protective films | . . characterized by the shapes of channel protective films | |||||||||||
| CB81 | CB82 | CB83 | ||||||||||
| . characterized by gate insulating films | . . characterized by the shape of gate insulating films | . . Multilayer gate insulating films (excluding anodized films) | ||||||||||
| CC | CC00 TERMINAL ELEMENTS (ELECTRODES OR WIRING STRUCTURES) |
CC01 | CC02 | CC04 | CC05 | CC07 | ||||||
| . characterized by gate electrodes or scan wiring | . . characterized by the shape of gate electrodes | . . Gate electrodes as a part of the scan wiring | . . . at the intersection between a scan wiring and a signal wiring | . . Gate electrodes and scan wiring having different structures | ||||||||
| CC12 | CC14 | CC15 | CC16 | CC17 | ||||||||
| . . characterized by the sectional shape of scan wiring | . . characterized by the planer shape of scan wiring | . . . Meandering or bent shapes (excluding delta arrays) | . . . Redundant or parallel shapes (ladder, ring) | . . . changing widths or branches (other than G, capacitance) | ||||||||
| CC22 | CC24 | CC26 | ||||||||||
| . . Scan wiring connected to multiple arrays of pixel electrodes | . . arranging multiple lines of scan wiring adjacently | . . arranging scan wiring at the section other than those around pixel electrodes | ||||||||||
| CC32 | CC33 | |||||||||||
| . . . Multilayer electrode or multilayer wiring structures | . . . Wiring connected through contact holes | |||||||||||
| CC41 | CC42 | CC44 | ||||||||||
| . characterized by source or drain electrodes or signal wiring | . . characterized by the shapes of source or drain electrodes | . . Connection electrodes between signal wiring and active elements | ||||||||||
| CC52 | CC54 | CC55 | CC56 | CC57 | CC58 | |||||||
| . . characterized by the sectional shape of signal wiring | . . characterized by the planar shape of signal wiring | . . . Meandering or bent shapes (excluding delta arrays) | . . . Redundant or parallel shapes (ladder, ring) | . . . changing widths or branches (other than S, D) | . . . parallel to scan wiring | |||||||
| CC62 | CC64 | CC66 | ||||||||||
| . . Signal wiring connected to multiple arrays of pixel electrodes | . . arranging multiple lines of signal wiring adjacently | . . arranging signal wiring at the section other than those around pixel electrodes | ||||||||||
| CC72 | CC73 | CC75 | ||||||||||
| . . . Multilayer electrode or multilayer wiring (excluding semiconductor layers) | . . . Wiring connected through contact holes | . . Signal wiring containing transparent conductive films | ||||||||||
| DA | DA00 CAPACITANCE OR RESISTANCE |
DA01 | DA02 | |||||||||
| . Arrangement of auxiliary capacitance | . . Scan wiring (Cs on gate) | |||||||||||
| DA12 | DA13 | DA14 | DA15 | |||||||||
| . . capacitance wiring (Cs on common) | . . . Shapes of capacitance wiring (excluding capacitance section) | . . . . redundant, parallel (excluding grid-like wiring) | . . . . Wiring parallel to signal wiring, grid-like wiring | |||||||||
| DA23 | DA24 | |||||||||||
| . . . Multilayer wiring structures | . . . containing transparent conductive films | |||||||||||
| DA32 | ||||||||||||
| . . Wiring for counter electrodes for applying horizontal electric fields | ||||||||||||
| DA41 | DA42 | DA43 | DA44 | |||||||||
| . characterized by element structures of auxiliary capacitance | . . capacitance electrodes connected to pixel electrodes | . . . Connection electrodes between active elements and pixel electrodes | . . . Semiconductor layers | |||||||||
| DA52 | ||||||||||||
| . . capacitance electrodes connected to capacitance wiring or the like | ||||||||||||
| DA62 | DA63 | DA65 | DA67 | |||||||||
| . . characterized by capacitance insulating films | . . . characterized by thinning of capacitance insulating films | . . Multiple auxiliary capacitance at a single pixel electrode | . . Three-dimensional auxiliary capacitance or auxiliary capacitance in the horizontal direction | |||||||||
| DA71 | DA72 | DA73 | DA74 | |||||||||
| . characterized by parasitic capacitance | . . Structures for reducing parasitic capacitance | . . . between display electrodes and scan wiring (active elements) | . . . between display electrodes and signal wiring | |||||||||
| DA81 | DA82 | |||||||||||
| . Other capacitance elements (excluding capacitance between sub-pixels) | . . Capacitance elements in peripheral regions | |||||||||||
| DA91 | ||||||||||||
| . Resistive elements (excluding mere wiring resistance) | ||||||||||||
| EA | EA00 LIGHT SHIELDING FILMS, COLORED LAYERS OR INSULATING FILMS |
EA01 | EA02 | EA03 | EA04 | EA06 | EA07 | |||||
| . Light shielding films | . . Light shielding films on the active substrate side | . . . characterized by conductive light shielding films | . . . . Light shielding films consisting of electrodes or wiring | . . . characterized by non-conductive light shielding films | . . . . Light shielding films consisting of colored layers | |||||||
| EA13 | EA14 | EA15 | EA17 | |||||||||
| . . . characterized by light shielding films on the upper layer of active elements | . . . characterized by light shielding films on the side surface of active elements | . . . characterized by light shielding films on the lower layer of active elements | . . . characterized by light shielding films between pixel electrodes | |||||||||
| EA22 | EA23 | EA25 | EA26 | EA28 | ||||||||
| . . Light shielding films on the counter substrate (non-active substrate) side | . . . characterized by conductive light shielding films | . . . characterized by non-conductive light shielding films | . . . . Light shielding films consisting of colored layers | . . . characterized by light shielding films for active elements | ||||||||
| EA32 | EA34 | |||||||||||
| . . Light shielding films in peripheral regions | . . Multilayered light-shielding-film structures (excluding laminated color layers) | |||||||||||
| EA41 | EA42 | EA43 | EA44 | |||||||||
| . Color layers (color filters) | . . Color layers at the active substrate side | . . Color layers at the counter substrate (non-active substrate) side | . . Light shielding films in peripheral regions | |||||||||
| EA52 | EA53 | EA54 | EA56 | |||||||||
| . . characterized by colors | . . . Color layers with four or more colors (excluding white pixels) | . . . Color layers containing white pixels | . . Color layers characterized by overcoat layers | |||||||||
| EA61 | EA62 | EA64 | EA66 | EA67 | EA68 | |||||||
| . characterized by insulating layers (excluding alignment members) | . . characterized by insulating layers on display electrodes | . . characterized by insulating layers on display electrodes | . . characterized by insulating layers under display electrodes | . . . Flattening films | . . . Textured films (excluding scattering reflection and gap adjustment) | |||||||
| EA72 | EA74 | EA76 | ||||||||||
| . . characterized by insulating layers on or under wiring | . . characterized by insulating layers on active elements | . . characterized by insulating layers under active elements | ||||||||||
| FA | FA00 ELECTRODES OR WIRING IN PERIPHERAL REGIONS ON LIQUID CRYSTAL SUBSTRATES |
FA01 | FA02 | |||||||||
| . Dummy pixels in the peripheral regions | . . Dummy pixels with dummy active elements | |||||||||||
| FA11 | FA12 | FA13 | FA14 | FA15 | ||||||||
| . characterized by transfer (conduction part between substrates) | . . Transfer at the inner regions of seal | . . . Transfer in the display regions | . . Transfer at the seal regions | . . Transfer at the outer regions of seal | ||||||||
| FA22 | FA24 | FA26 | ||||||||||
| . . characterized by transfer electrodes or wiring | . . characterized by conduction members | . . characterized by structures around transfer | ||||||||||
| FA31 | FA32 | FA34 | FA35 | FA37 | FA39 | |||||||
| . characterized by drawn wiring | . . characterized by the shape of drawn wiring | . . Layer structures different from wiring in cells | . . . Wiring connected through contact holes | . . characterized by the resistance or capacitance of drawn wiring | . . characterized by the structures around drawn wiring | |||||||
| FA42 | FA44 | FA46 | FA48 | |||||||||
| . . Drawn wiring in the display region | . . Wiring drawn to both sides of the peripheral region, e.g. scan wiring (excluding split matrices) | . . characterized by wiring drawn for capacitance or horizontal electric fields | . . characterized by drawn wiring of counter electrodes for three-terminal elements | |||||||||
| FA52 | FA54 | |||||||||||
| . . characterized by wiring between an internal drive circuit and an external terminal | . . Drawn wiring between external drive circuits | |||||||||||
| FA61 | FA62 | FA64 | FA65 | |||||||||
| . characterized by external terminal (excluding inspection terminals) | . . characterized by the shapes of external terminals | . . characterized by the layer structures of external terminals | . . . connecting to drawn wiring through contact holes | |||||||||
| FA72 | FA73 | FA74 | FA76 | |||||||||
| . . characterized by the arrangement of external terminals | . . . External terminals arranged only at one side of a substrate | . . . External terminals arranged at the side or on the back of substrates | . . characterized by the structures around external terminals | |||||||||
| FA81 | ||||||||||||
| . Protection structures of the peripheral regions (including drive circuits) | ||||||||||||
| FB | FB00 DRIVE CIRCUITS |
FB01 | FB02 | FB03 | FB05 | FB06 | FB07 | FB09 | ||||
| . characterized by internal drive circuits | . . integrally formed on liquid crystal substrate (monolithic) | . . . characterized by scan-wiring (three-terminal) drive circuits | . . . characterized by scan-wiring (three-terminal) drive circuits | . . . . characterized by sampling circuits | . . . . characterized by reset circuits or precharge circuits | . . . characterized by other (three-terminal) wiring drive circuits | ||||||
| FB13 | FB15 | |||||||||||
| . . . Circuits other than wiring drive circuits (power-supply circuits or the like) | . . . Drive circuits having different active elements from those in display regions | |||||||||||
| FB22 | FB23 | FB25 | FB27 | |||||||||
| . . arranging a chip on substrates (COG) | . . . Circuits other than wiring drive circuits (power-supply circuits or the like) | . . . characterized by chip terminals | . . . combined with an integrally formed circuit and a chip | |||||||||
| FB32 | FB33 | FB34 | ||||||||||
| . . characterized by the arrangement of internal drive circuits | . . . arranging a drive circuit in the seal regions or inside a seal | . . . Drive circuits arranged only at one side of a substrate | ||||||||||
| FB41 | FB42 | FB43 | FB44 | FB46 | FB48 | |||||||
| . characterized by external drive circuits | . . characterized by flexible printed circuits (FPC) | . . . characterized by the shapes of flexible printed circuits | . . . . Notches or openings | . . . FPC on which circuits are mounted (COF, TAB) | . . . Multilayer wiring or back-side wiring | |||||||
| FB52 | ||||||||||||
| . . characterized by printed circuit boards (PCB) | ||||||||||||
| FB62 | ||||||||||||
| . . characterized by the arrangement of external drive circuits | ||||||||||||
| FB71 | FB72 | FB73 | FB74 | FB75 | FB76 | |||||||
| . characterized by connection means for drive circuits | . . characterized by anisotropic conductive resins (ACF or the like) | . . characterized by solder | . . characterized by connectors | . . . characterized by conductive rubber or lead pins | . . characterized by wire-bonding | |||||||
| FB81 | FB82 | |||||||||||
| . characterized by connection methods or devices for drive circuits | . . Alignment marks for connecting drive circuits | |||||||||||
| GA | GA00 DEFECT PREVENTION |
GA01 | GA02 | GA03 | GA04 | GA06 | ||||||
| . Shield electrodes | . . Shield electrodes inside panels | . . . using electrodes or wiring as shield electrodes | . . . Shield electrodes in the peripheral region | . . Shield electrodes outside panels | ||||||||
| GA11 | GA12 | GA13 | GA14 | GA15 | ||||||||
| . Short rings | . . Short rings directly connected | . . Short rings via resistance or capacitance elements | . . Short rings via discharge regions | . . Short rings via active elements | ||||||||
| GA21 | ||||||||||||
| . Ion trapping electrodes | ||||||||||||
| GA31 | ||||||||||||
| . Other structures as electrostatic charge or static electricity countermeasures | ||||||||||||
| GA41 | GA42 | GA43 | ||||||||||
| . Structures for preventing disconnection (excluding multilayers and parallel shapes) | . Structures for preventing short circuiting | . Structures for preventing element defects | ||||||||||
| GB | GB00 SENSORS |
GB01 | GB02 | GB03 | GB04 | GB05 | GB07 | |||||
| . Sensors integrally combined with panels (image sensors) | . . Optical sensors | . . . characterized by optical-sensor elements | . . . . characterized by the arrangement of optical sensors | . . . . . Optical sensor elements in the peripheral region | . . . . Inspection through the cooperative operation of multiple optical sensors | |||||||
| GB13 | GB14 | GB15 | GB16 | |||||||||
| . . . Control elements for optical sensors | . . . . Optical sensors connected to S. D of TFT | . . . . Optical sensors connected to the gate of TFT | . . . . Multiple control elements at a single optical sensor | |||||||||
| GB23 | GB24 | GB25 | ||||||||||
| . . . characterized by optical elements of optical sensors | . . . . characterized by BM or CF of optical sensors | . . . . characterized by the light sources of optical sensors | ||||||||||
| GB32 | GB33 | GB34 | GB36 | |||||||||
| . . Electric or magnetic sensors | . . . Electromagnetic sensors working only by the electrodes of one of the substrates | . . . Electromagnetic sensors working by the electrodes of both substrates | . . . Control elements for electromagnetic sensors | |||||||||
| GB42 | GB43 | |||||||||||
| . . integrally forming sensor drive circuits on substrates | . . characterized by the methods of driving sensors | |||||||||||
| GB51 | GB52 | GB53 | ||||||||||
| . Other sensors integrally combined with panels | . . Optical sensors (detecting external light or the like) | . . Temperature sensors | ||||||||||
| GB61 | ||||||||||||
| . Touch (image) sensors not integrally combined with panels | ||||||||||||
| GB71 | GB72 | GB73 | ||||||||||
| . Other sensors not integrally combined with panels | . . Optical sensors (detecting external light or the like) | . . Temperature sensors | ||||||||||
| GC | GC00 PHOTOCONDUCTOR LAYERS OR DIELECTRIC LAYERS |
GC01 | GC02 | GC04 | GC05 | |||||||
| . Photoconductor layers (excluding optical sensors) | . . characterized by photoconductor layers | . . characterized by light shielding films or light absorption films | . . characterized by reflection films or dielectric multilayer films | |||||||||
| GC12 | GC13 | GC15 | GC16 | |||||||||
| . . characterized by the structures of electrodes | . . . Active matrices | . . characterized by the driving methods | . . . characterized by controlling writing light and reading light | |||||||||
| GC21 | GC22 | |||||||||||
| . Dielectric layers | . . Active matrices | |||||||||||
| GD | GD00 OTHER CONSTITUTIONS |
GD01 | GD02 | GD03 | GD04 | GD06 | ||||||
| . characterized by mechanical elements (excluding insulating layers) | . . characterized by substrates | . . . Semiconductor substrates | . . . . Permeable semiconductor substrates | . . . Resin substrates at the active element side | ||||||||
| GD12 | GD13 | GD14 | ||||||||||
| . . characterized by alignment members | . . . Alignment division (excluding those by electrodes) | . . . . Alignment division by convexes or recesses | ||||||||||
| GD22 | GD23 | GD25 | GD26 | |||||||||
| . . characterized by spacers | . . . characterized by columnar spacers | . . characterized by sealing members (excluding transfers) | . . . characterized by inlets | |||||||||
| GD32 | ||||||||||||
| . . characterized by means for supporting panels | ||||||||||||
| GD41 | GD42 | GD43 | GD44 | GD45 | GD46 | GD47 | ||||||
| . characterized by optical elements (excluding BM, CF and reflection) | . . characterized by polarizers | . . characterized by retardation plates | . . characterized by scattering and diffusion plates | . . characterized by antireflection elements | . . characterized by prisms or lenses | . . characterized by illuminating devices | ||||||
| GD51 | GD52 | GD53 | GD54 | |||||||||
| . Electric elements not otherwise provided for | . . Heater electrodes | . . Electrodes for transferring liquid crystals | . . Electrodes for polymer stabilization (PS). | |||||||||
| GD61 | ||||||||||||
| . characterized by the methods of driving liquid-crystal panels | ||||||||||||
| GD71 | GD72 | GD73 | GD74 | GD75 | ||||||||
| . Marks | . . Alignment marks (excluding those for connecting drive circuits) | . . . Alignment marks for patterning | . . . Alignment marks for bonding substrates | . . . Alignment marks for cutting substrates | ||||||||
| GD81 | ||||||||||||
| . characterized by other supplemental elements | ||||||||||||
| HA | HA00 MANUFACTURING METHODS |
HA01 | HA02 | |||||||||
| . characterized by treatments before deposition | . . Hydrophilic or hydrophobic treatments | |||||||||||
| HA11 | HA12 | HA13 | HA14 | HA15 | ||||||||
| . characterized by deposition methods | . . characterized by vapor deposition (physical vapor deposition and chemical vapor deposition) | . . . characterized by physical vapor deposition (sputtering methods or the like) | . . . characterized by chemical vapor deposition (plasma CVD or the like) | . . . characterized by vapor deposition masks | ||||||||
| HA22 | HA23 | HA24 | HA26 | HA27 | ||||||||
| . . characterized by application or printing | . . . Application or printing to metal layers or semiconductor layers | . . . . Transfer of semiconductor layers | . . characterized by plating or electrodeposition | . . . Plating, electrodeposition to metal layers or semiconductor layers | ||||||||
| HA31 | HA32 | HA33 | HA35 | HA36 | ||||||||
| . characterized by patterning | . . characterized by photolithography | . . . directly forming patterns on photosensitive films | . . . characterized by photomasks (excluding half masks) | . . . . using other members as photomasks | ||||||||
| HA43 | HA44 | HA45 | HA47 | HA49 | ||||||||
| . . . Multiple patternings by single resist | . . . . Half-tone masks | . . . . Multiple exposure | . . . Others or reducing the number of process steps | . . . Exposure by dividing substrates into multiple regions | ||||||||
| HA53 | HA54 | HA55 | ||||||||||
| . . . characterized by processes other than exposure processes | . . . . characterized by pre-baking or post baking | . . . . characterized by development or rinse | ||||||||||
| HA62 | HA63 | HA64 | HA65 | HA66 | HA70 | |||||||
| . . characterized by etching | . . . characterized by dry etching | . . . characterized by wet etching | . . . Resistless etching (excluding repair) | . . . Combination of multiple etchings | . . Lift-off | |||||||
| HA72 | HA80 | |||||||||||
| . . Imprint lithography | . . Removal of residue | |||||||||||
| HA81 | HA82 | HA84 | HA86 | HA88 | HA90 | |||||||
| . characterized by treatments after deposition (excluding patterning) | . . characterized by crystallization | . . characterized by doping of impurities | . . characterized by anodization | . . Mechanical polishing (CMP) | . . characterized by other heating treatments | |||||||
| HA91 | HA93 | HA95 | ||||||||||
| . characterized by manufacturing devices | . Chamfering | . Organic conductive materials (excluding organic semiconductors) | ||||||||||
| HB | HB00 DEFECT INSPECTION OR REPAIR |
HB01 | HB02 | HB03 | HB04 | HB05 | ||||||
| . Defect inspection | . . Types of inspections | . . . Lighting inspection | . . . Inspection by electric detection | . . . having multiple inspections | ||||||||
| HB12 | HB13 | HB14 | ||||||||||
| . . characterized by structures for inspections | . . . integrally forming inspection circuits on liquid crystal substrates | . . . characterized by inspection terminals | ||||||||||
| HB22 | HB23 | HB25 | ||||||||||
| . . characterized by inspection methods | . . . characterized by inspection signals | . . characterized by inspection devices | ||||||||||
| HB31 | HB32 | HB33 | HB34 | HB36 | HB37 | HB38 | HB40 | |||||
| . Defect repair | . . Defects to be repaired | . . . Repairing defects of active elements | . . . Repairing defects of display electrodes | . . . Repairing defects of wiring sections | . . . . Repairing disconnection as defects | . . . . Repairing short circuits as defects (excluding those with display electrodes) | . . . Repairing defects of drive circuits | |||||
| HB42 | HB43 | HB44 | HB46 | HB48 | HB49 | HB50 | ||||||
| . . Methods of defect repair | . . . Repair by electric connection | . . . . connecting active elements for repair | . . . . connecting electrodes or wiring to defective display electrodes | . . . . connecting detours | . . . . . Wiring exclusively for repair in display regions | . . . . . Wiring exclusively for repair in peripheral regions | ||||||
| HB54 | ||||||||||||
| . . . . connecting new wiring to defective sections | ||||||||||||
| HB63 | HB64 | HB65 | ||||||||||
| . . . characterized by repair by electric disconnection | . . . . characterized by structures for disconnection | . . . . Cutting methods other than those using laser | ||||||||||
| HB73 | HB75 | |||||||||||
| . . . Repair by driving methods | . . . Optical repair | |||||||||||
| HB82 | ||||||||||||
| . . characterized by defect repair devices | ||||||||||||
| HB91 | ||||||||||||
| . Reuse | ||||||||||||
| JA | JA00 OPERATION PRINCIPLES OF LIQUID CRYSTALS |
JA01 | JA02 | JA03 | JA05 | JA06 | JA07 | |||||
| . based on alignment effects | . . Vertical electric field drive | . . . Horizontal alignment | . . . Twist alignment | . . . . 90 degrees (TN) | . . . . 180 degrees to 360 degrees (STN) | |||||||
| JA13 | JA15 | JA17 | JA18 | |||||||||
| . . . Vertical alignment (VA) | . . . Hybrid alignment (HAN) | . . . Bend alignment (OCB) | . . . . Transfer types | |||||||||
| JA23 | JA24 | JA25 | JA28 | |||||||||
| . . . using ferroelectric liquid crystal | . . . . ferroelectric (bistable) | . . . . antiferroelectric | . . . Other alignment states | |||||||||
| JA32 | JA33 | JA34 | JA35 | |||||||||
| . . Horizontal electric field drive | . . . Horizontal alignment | . . . Vertical alignment | . . . Twist, HAN, OCB, ferroelectric liquid crystals, or the like | |||||||||
| JA42 | ||||||||||||
| . . Color display by birefringent chromatic dispersion | ||||||||||||
| JA51 | JA52 | JA53 | ||||||||||
| . not based on alignment effects | . . Controlling selective reflection or interference (FC or the like) | . . controlling scattering properties (polymer dispersion or the like) | ||||||||||
| JA61 | JA62 | JA63 | JA64 | |||||||||
| . Characteristics assigned to operation principles | . . containing polychromatic dyes | . . bistable (excluding ferroelectric liquid crystals and FC) | . . Blue phases or nonlinear effect (Kerr effect) | |||||||||
| JA71 | ||||||||||||
| . Operation principles other than electric effects | ||||||||||||
| JB | JB00 SPECIAL USE |
JB01 | JB02 | JB03 | JB04 | JB05 | ||||||
| . Display (excluding general display) | . . Projectors | . . Two-sided displays | . . Multi-view or three-dimensional display | . . Variable viewing angle display | ||||||||
| JB11 | JB12 | JB13 | ||||||||||
| . Use other than display | . . Light quantity adjustment | . . Light modulation (polarization, phase modulation, or the like) |