Abstract:
An apparatus and a method for testing an LCD panel are provided to make it unnecessary to separate a polarizing plate when a touch testing process is performed on the LCD panel and perform the touch testing process conveniently by using a flexible polarizing plate. A testing apparatus checks whether an LCD panel(2) is good or defective while touching the LCD panel displaying a test image. A unit block(50) provides a mounting space for mounting the LCD panel in a center portion thereof. The unit block has a plurality of gate and data pogo pins(54,56), wherein the gate and data pogo pins are arranged along at least two edges of the mounting space while a plurality of probes electrically connected to the LCD panel is withdrawn. A flexible polarizing plate(60) is mounted on the unit block such that the flexible polarizing plate covers the LCD panel.
Abstract:
A lamp voltage inspection circuit and an inverter having the same are provided to protect the inverter without affecting peripheral elements by driving a shut down circuit based on a distorted output wave. An inverter includes a master and a slave, which generate driving voltages with opposite phases with respect to each other. A collector(110a) collects the outputs from the master and the slave. A comparator(110b) compares the collected voltage with a reference voltage and determines whether the inverter is defective. The collector includes first and second rectifiers(D1,D2) and an adder. The first rectifier rectifies the output voltage from the master. The second rectifier rectifies the output voltage from the slave. The adder summates the output voltages from the first and second rectifiers.
Abstract:
An array substrate, an LCD using the same and a method for fabricating the array substrate are provided to prevent a defect of data line and a line dim defect caused by static electricity by preventing static electricity introduced through a test pad formed in a display area of a liquid crystal panel from being introduced up to the data line. A substrate includes a display region(111) including a switching device, and a non-display region(112) including a driving circuit of the switching device at a peripheral portion of the display region. A gate line(122) is formed in the display area and the non-display area of right and left portions of the substrate. A data line(142) and a test pad(150) are formed in the display region and the non-display region on the substrate, and are spaced apart from each other. A data driver IC(integrated circuit)(140) has first and second output ends electrically connected to the data line and the test pad, and is formed in the non-display region on the substrate.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal panel is provided to prevent color bleeding at a peripheral area of the liquid crystal panel and maintain uniform brightness at an active region by placing a ball spacer at the active are and a column spacer at the edge region. Substrates(20,22) face each other with a liquid crystal material therebetween. A plurality of ball spacers(12) are distributed in an area used for display of an image and maintain an interval between the substrates. Column spacers(14) are distributed in a peripheral region of the image display region, and maintain an interval between the substrates. The ball spacers are formed of a material with a similar thermal expansion coefficient to the liquid crystal material.
Abstract:
An ion doping apparatus having a linear ion generator is provided to simplify the structure of an ion doping apparatus and easily accelerate a voltage by supplying driving power to an ion generator through one driving voltage source. A linear ion generator excites the gas inside a case to gas ions of a plasma state. A magnetic filter forms a magnetic field in a vertical direction to the progression direction of gas ions generated from the ion generator and filters the hydrogen ions contained in the gas ions. An electrode part accelerates the gas ions filtered by the magnetic filter toward a substrate. A driving voltage source supplies driving power to the ion generator. The ion generator includes a cathode electrode(232), an anode electrode(233), a gas supply part(235) and a magnet assembly(234). The cathode electrode is inserted and fixed to the upper surface of a housing(231). The gas supply part discharges the gas supplied from the outside to the inside of the housing. The magnet assembly forms a magnetic filed in a vertical direction to the progression direction of the gas ions excited to be a plasma stage by the electrodes and progresses the gas ions toward the substrate.
Abstract:
An LCD(Liquid Crystal Display) and an inverter PCB(Printed Circuit Board) are provided to minimize the power loss caused by absorption of a line of electric force by shielding separately a transformer as a nonmagnetic substance, thereby relieving power consumption of an inverter and preventing EMI from the outside. An LCD includes an LCD panel, a driving unit, a backlight unit, an inverter PCB, a transformer, and a shielding unit(700). The driving unit drives the LCD panel. The backlight unit supplies light to the LCD panel. The inverter PCB drives the backlight unit. The transformer is mounted on the PCB to transform a voltage supplied to the backlight unit. The shielding unit is mounted on the PCB to intercept the transformer from EMI(Electromagnetic Interference).
Abstract:
A backlight unit and an LCD including the same are provided to prevent lamp holder rolling by forming a stepped portion at a lamp holder for fixing a plurality of lamps and achieve a surface light source having high brightness by fixing the lamps at a predetermined interval. A plurality of lamps(150) is disposed in a light incidence portion of a light guide plate(170). A lamp housing(159) fixes the lamps. A lamp holder(220) includes a holder ring for fixing the lamps at a predetermined interval, and a base supporting the holder ring. The light incidence portion of the light guide plate is formed at least one corner of the light guide plate. A predetermined stepped portion connects the holder ring and the base.
Abstract:
A light emitting diode and an LCD using the same are provided to mount each light emitting diode onto the light emitting diode printed circuit board using a detachable fixing portion to replace only a defective light emitting diode without replacing the whole light emitting diode printed circuit board. A plurality of light emitting diodes(124) emits red, green and blue light and includes respective fixing portions(162) for detachable mounting. A light emitting diode printed circuit board(122) includes a fixing holes(166) in which the fixing portion of the light emitting diode is inserted. A reflective sheet is mounted on the light emitting diode and includes a through hole through which the light emitting diode passes. A transparent acrylic plate includes reflection dots respectively corresponding to the plurality of light emitting diodes. A plurality of optical sheets is mounted on the transparent acrylic plate.
Abstract:
An LCD module, a notebook computer using the same and a computer monitor are provided to hinge-couple two display panels and configure the two display panels into a display-only screen and a touch screen, respectively to allow execution or display of one operation while another operation is being performed. A first display module(50) includes a first liquid crystal panel(52) of a first display area. A coupling module(70) is formed at one end portion of the first display module, and includes a lamp(72) inside the coupling module. A second display module(60) is connected to the coupling module, and includes a second liquid crystal panel of a second display area. The first display module and the second display module include a first light guide plate(54) and a second light guide plate(64) which emit light incident from the lamp toward the first liquid crystal panel and the second liquid crystal panel, respectively.
Abstract:
An image simulation apparatus for an LCD and a method thereof are provided to estimate and analyze how an image which an observer views is changed through simulation to simulate the characteristic of the image and check the characteristic of the image on a monitor without manufacturing the LCD. An image simulation apparatus for an LCD(Liquid Crystal Display)(100) includes a first TV curve calculator(110), a reference TV curve calculator(120), a reference gradation value detector(130), a second TV curve calculator(150), an actual TV curve calculator(160), an actual TV curve converter(170), and a comparative output unit(190). The first TV curve calculator separately calculates a first TV curve indicating a transmission rate according to an applied voltage by each of RGB(Red, Green, Blue) for reference image data. The reference TV curve calculator calculates a reference TV curve normalized on the basis of a peak value by each of RGB in the first TV curve. The reference gradation value detector converts the reference TV curve into gradation data to detect a reference gradation value separately according to the applied voltage by each of RGB. The actual TV curve calculator calculates an actual TV curve by normalizing a second TV curve on the basis of the first TV curve. The comparative output unit checks an actual gradation value by matching the TV curve converted in the actual TV curve converter and a TV curve converted in the reference gradation value calculator and outputs output image data on the basis of the actual gradation value.