JP5121648B2 - Manufacturing method of liquid crystal display device - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device having a circular display region.

  Liquid crystal display devices are widely used as display devices for various devices. In recent years, a liquid crystal display device having a circular display area such as a perfect circle or an ellipse as described in Patent Document 1 has also been used. In Patent Document 1, a polygonal display substrate is used, but the frame around the display region is smaller when a circular display substrate along the display region is used.

The liquid crystal display device has a structure in which a liquid crystal layer is sandwiched between two substrates. When manufacturing a liquid crystal display device, a seal provided with an inlet is disposed around the substrate and the substrates are bonded together. Then, liquid crystal is injected from the injection port, and the injection port is sealed. In order to prevent the liquid crystal from flowing outside the seal when the liquid crystal is injected, the seal is extended from the injection port to prevent the liquid crystal from flowing around.
JP 2006-276359 A

  Here, the case where the method of extending the seal and preventing the liquid crystal from flowing is applied to a liquid crystal display device having a circular display region will be described. FIG. 3 shows a part of one mother substrate of the pair of mother substrates from which the plurality of liquid crystal substrates 1 are cut out. The main seal 2 is arranged along the shape of the liquid crystal substrate 1. The seal 2 is arranged so as to have an injection port 3 on one side of the mother substrate. The main seal 2 extends from the injection port 3 to the injection port 3 of another adjacent liquid crystal substrate 1 to form an auxiliary seal 102. After the main seal 2 and the auxiliary seal 102 are arranged, another mother substrate on the other side is bonded, and liquid crystal is vacuum-injected from the injection port 3. After injecting the liquid crystal, the injection port 3 is sealed with a sealing material, and then the liquid crystal substrate 1 is cut along the cutting line 11.

  When liquid crystal is injected by a vacuum injection method, the liquid crystal wraps around in a slight gap between one mother substrate and the other mother substrate due to capillary action. However, by placing the auxiliary seal 102, it is surrounded by the main seal 2. The liquid crystal is prevented from sneaking out of the area.

  However, since the liquid crystal substrate 1 has a circular shape corresponding to the display area, when the auxiliary seal 102 is extended from the main seal 2 in the vicinity of the inlet 3 of the liquid crystal substrate 1, A sharp angle is formed with the auxiliary seal 102. For this reason, when a mother board | substrate is bonded together, a sealing material concentrates and there exists a problem which becomes a seal lump. In addition, since the cutting line 11 largely crosses the auxiliary seal 102 obliquely, when the liquid crystal substrate 1 is cut out, there is a problem that burrs and soges are generated on the liquid crystal substrate 1 due to the influence of the hard sealing material and the quality is affected. There is. Since the cutting line 11 has a curvature along the shape of the liquid crystal substrate 1, there is a high possibility that burrs and sedges will occur if the portion for cutting the hard sealing material is long.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above, and an object of the present invention is to provide a method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device that suppresses the amount of liquid crystal to be used and suppresses the generation of burrs and soges on the liquid crystal substrate. It is in.

A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device according to the present invention is a method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device having a circular display region and a liquid crystal substrate having an end surface along the display region, and the circular shape follows the shape of the liquid crystal substrate. A plurality of seals having an injection port in the shape portion are arranged in parallel on the first mother substrate so that the injection ports are in the same direction, and along the side edge of the first mother substrate excluding the injection port portion. The auxiliary seal main body and a connecting body connected to the auxiliary seal main body and connected in the direction of the main seal side surface in the first mother substrate in the direction of the main seal side surface of the circular portion adjacent to the injection port. A step of disposing an auxiliary seal on the first mother substrate for suppressing the wraparound of the liquid crystal, and the first mother substrate and the second mother substrate are bonded to each other through the main seal and the auxiliary seal from the injection port. Inject liquid crystal And extent, sealing the injection port after injecting the liquid crystal, and a step of cutting out the liquid crystal substrate along the seal, characterized by having a.

  In the first embodiment of the method of manufacturing the liquid crystal display device, the auxiliary seal is arranged at right angles to a cut line indicating a position for cutting the liquid crystal substrate.

  In the second embodiment of the method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device, the auxiliary seal is not in contact with a cutting line indicating a position for cutting out the liquid crystal substrate.

  In the third embodiment of the manufacturing method of the liquid crystal display device, the auxiliary seal is provided with a bent portion on the inlet side.

  According to the present invention, the auxiliary seal is arranged so as not to form an acute angle with the main seal, thereby suppressing the amount of extra liquid crystal when the liquid crystal is injected, and the main seal and the auxiliary seal are united and sealed. It can prevent becoming a lump.

  According to the first embodiment of the present invention, when the liquid crystal substrate is cut out by arranging the auxiliary seal at a substantially right angle with respect to the cut-out line, the portion for cutting the hard seal material is shortened. Occurrence can be suppressed.

  According to the second and third embodiments of the present invention, since the auxiliary seal is not brought into contact with the cutting line, it is not necessary to cut the hard sealing material when cutting the liquid crystal substrate. It can be lost.

  Thus, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide a method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device that can suppress the amount of liquid crystal to be used and suppress the generation of burrs and soges on the liquid crystal substrate.

[First Embodiment]
FIG. 1 is a plan view for explaining the manufacturing method of the liquid crystal display device according to the first embodiment. The figure shows a part of one mother substrate 10 of the pair of mother substrates before cutting out the plurality of liquid crystal substrates 1. The liquid crystal substrate 1 has a substantially keyhole shape having both a circular portion 12 and a rectangular portion 13. The circular portion 12 becomes a circular display region, and various circuits are arranged in the rectangular portion 13 or used as a terminal portion for connection to an external circuit. The liquid crystal substrate 1 is arranged in a vertical shape in the figure so that the apex portion of the circular portion 12 facing the rectangular portion 13 is in contact with the side edge (one side) 14 of the mother substrate 10. A plurality of them are arranged side by side along the side edge 14 with a predetermined interval. Moreover, it continued along the shape of the liquid crystal substrate 1 and excluding the injection port 3 so that the injection port 3 was provided at the apex portion of the circular portion 12 in contact with the side edge 14 (one side) of the mother substrate 10. The main seal 2 is arranged. Since various circuits are arranged in the rectangular portion 13 or a connection substrate is connected, the liquid crystal injection port 3 is formed at the apex portion of the circular portion 12 close to one side 14 of the mother substrate 10. Further, an auxiliary seal 4 is arranged outside the seal 2 to prevent excess liquid crystal from entering the gap between the two mother substrates 10 when liquid crystal is injected. The auxiliary seal 4 contacts the main seal 2 at a position away from the injection port 3 so as to be perpendicular to the cutting line 11 for cutting out the glass liquid crystal substrate 1.

  The auxiliary seal 4 has a main body of the auxiliary seal 4 disposed along the side edge 14 of the mother substrate 10 between the adjacent liquid crystal substrates 1, and from both ends of the main body toward the central portion of the circular portion 12 of each liquid crystal substrate 1, that is, The connecting body 6 is bent inward of the mother substrate 10.

  In the present embodiment, the auxiliary seal 4 is arranged so that the position where the auxiliary seal 4 contacts the main seal 2 is 45 degrees with respect to a line extending from the center of the circular display region to the injection port 3. As a result, the connecting body 6 of the auxiliary seal 4 and the cutting line 11 are in contact with each other at an angle of 90 °, and cross the cutting line 11 with a minimum cross-sectional area. In addition, with respect to the outermost liquid crystal substrate 1 disposed on both side end surface portions of the mother substrate 10, the auxiliary seal 4 is disposed along both side end surfaces of the mother substrate 10.

  Next, a method for manufacturing the liquid crystal display device in the present embodiment will be described.

  First, as shown in FIG. 1, the main seal 2 is disposed on the mother substrate 10. The main seal 2 is arranged so as to have an injection port 3 along the shape of the liquid crystal substrate 1 to be cut out.

  Subsequently, the auxiliary seal 4 is arranged so as to be perpendicular to the cutting line 11 of the liquid crystal substrate 1 without forming an acute angle with the main seal 2. The main seal 2 and the auxiliary seal 4 are described as being formed separately for convenience of explanation, but it is convenient to form the auxiliary seal 4 together when forming the main seal 2.

  Subsequently, one mother substrate 10 shown in FIG. 1 and another opposing mother substrate (not shown) are brought into contact with each other, and both are heated and pressed to be bonded together by the main seal 2 and the auxiliary seal 4, and the injection port 3. The side is immersed in a liquid crystal tank, and liquid crystal is injected into the region surrounded by the main seal 2 from the inlet 3 by vacuum injection, and the inlet 3 is sealed. At this time, the liquid crystal enters the region other than the region surrounded by the main seal 2, but the auxiliary seal 4 suppresses the wraparound of the liquid crystal and the amount thereof is suppressed. In addition, since the contact portion between the main seal 2 and the auxiliary seal 4 is contacted at a right angle of approximately 90 °, an acute angle is not formed, and therefore, no seal lump is formed when the mother substrate 10 is bonded.

  Subsequently, the mother substrate 10 is cut along the cutting line 11 to cut out the liquid crystal substrate 1. By disposing the sticker 2 along the circular display region, the liquid crystal substrate 1 can be cut out near the circular display region, so that the frame around the display region can be narrowed. Further, since the auxiliary seal 4 is arranged so as to be substantially perpendicular to the cutting line 11, the portion for cutting the hard auxiliary seal 4 is shortened, and the generation of burrs and soges can be suppressed.

  Therefore, according to the present embodiment, the tip of the auxiliary seal 4 is disposed in contact with the outside of the main seal 2 other than the injection port 3, thereby suppressing the amount of excess liquid crystal entering between the mother substrates 10, and -The generation of soge can be suppressed.

  According to the present embodiment, since the contact portion between the main seal 2 and the auxiliary seal 4 does not form an acute angle, a seal lump in which the main seal 2 and the auxiliary seal 4 are mixed and integrated when the mother substrate 10 is bonded. In addition, it is possible to suppress the generation of burrs and sogs when the liquid crystal substrate 1 is cut out.

  According to the present embodiment, since the auxiliary seal 4 is arranged so as to be substantially perpendicular to the cutting line 11, the hard auxiliary seal 4 is cut when the liquid crystal substrate 1 is cut out along the cutting line 11. The portion is shortened, and the generation of burr and soge can be suppressed.

[Second Embodiment]
FIG. 2 is a plan view for explaining the method of manufacturing the liquid crystal display device according to the second embodiment. The figure shows a part of one mother substrate 10 of the pair of mother substrates before cutting out the plurality of liquid crystal substrates 1. The liquid crystal substrate 1 has a substantially keyhole shape having both a circular portion 12 and a rectangular portion 13. The circular portion 12 becomes a circular display region, and various circuits are arranged in the rectangular portion 13 or used as a terminal portion for connection to an external circuit. The liquid crystal substrate 1 is arranged in a vertical shape in the figure so that the apex portion of the circular portion 12 facing the rectangular portion 13 is in contact with the side edge (one side) 14 of the mother substrate 10. A plurality of them are arranged side by side along the side edge 14 with a predetermined interval. Moreover, it continued along the shape of the liquid crystal substrate 1 and excluding the injection port 3 so that the injection port 3 was provided at the apex portion of the circular portion 12 in contact with the side edge 14 (one side) of the mother substrate 10. The main seal 2 is arranged. The liquid crystal injection port 3 is formed at the apex of the circular portion 12 close to one side 14 of the mother substrate 10. Further, an auxiliary seal 5 for suppressing excess liquid crystal entering the gap between the two mother substrates 10 is disposed outside the main seal 2. The auxiliary seal 5 is provided with the main body of the auxiliary seal 4 along the side edge 14 of the mother substrate 10 between the adjacent liquid crystal substrates 1, and the circular portion from the middle part on both sides of the main body to the inward side of the mother substrate 10. 12 has a connecting body 6 which is inclined in the direction of the central portion and has a portion whose tip is bent toward the inlet 3 side. Both the main body of the auxiliary seal 5 and the connecting body 6 are arranged at a predetermined distance from the main seal 2 so as not to contact the main seal 2 and to the cutting line 11 for cutting the liquid crystal substrate 1 made of glass.

  Since the main body and the connecting body 6 of the auxiliary seal 5, that is, the auxiliary seal 5 does not contact the cutting line 11, the generation of burrs and soges is further suppressed when the liquid crystal substrate 1 is cut out as compared with the first embodiment. Is done. In addition, when liquid crystal is injected, liquid crystal that enters between the mother substrates 10 through the gap between the mother substrates 10 is first suppressed by the main body of the auxiliary seal 5. The liquid crystal that further penetrates through the gap between the main body of the auxiliary seal 5 and the main seal 2 is then restrained again by the connecting member 6, and the liquid crystal hardly wraps around an unnecessary gap between the two mother boards 10. It becomes possible to block. Furthermore, since the liquid crystal that flows around is captured by disposing the tip of the connecting body 6 in the direction toward the injection port 3, the space portion between the connecting body 6 and the auxiliary seal 5 main body functions as a liquid crystal reservoir for extra liquid crystal. Therefore, it is possible to suppress the amount of extra liquid crystal that enters the outside of the seal 2.

  Since the manufacturing method of the liquid crystal display device in the second embodiment is the same as the manufacturing method of the liquid crystal display device in the first embodiment except for the arrangement shape of the auxiliary seal 5, the description thereof is omitted here.

  Therefore, according to the present embodiment, since the auxiliary seal 5 for suppressing the wraparound of the liquid crystal is not in contact with the cutting line 11, there is no place to cut the hard seal material. No burr or soge occurs.

  According to the present embodiment, by arranging the connecting body 6 having a bent portion on the side of the inlet 3 in the main body of the auxiliary seal 5, the liquid crystal that the connecting body 6 wraps around is captured, so that the amount of excess liquid crystal is suppressed. can do.

  In the above description, the case where the liquid crystal substrates 1 are juxtaposed in a row in the horizontal direction along the side edge (one side) 14 of the mother substrate 10 is described. Not only can this be applied when the strip-shaped mother substrate 10 is arranged in two rows in the opposite direction, but the shapes of the auxiliary seals 4 and 5 can be changed as appropriate without being restricted by the illustrated ones. It is.

It is a top view for demonstrating the manufacturing method of the liquid crystal display device in 1st Embodiment. It is a top view for demonstrating the manufacturing method of the liquid crystal display device in 2nd Embodiment. It is a top view for demonstrating the manufacturing method of the conventional liquid crystal display device.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Liquid crystal substrate 2 ... This seal | sticker 3 ... Injection port 4 ... Auxiliary seal 5 ... Auxiliary seal 6 ... Connecting body 10 ... Mother board 11 ... Cutting line 12 ... Circular part 13 ... Rectangular part

Claims (4)

A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device having a circular display region and a liquid crystal substrate having an end surface along the display region,
Arranging a plurality of seals in parallel with the shape of the liquid crystal substrate on the first mother substrate so that the injection ports are in the same direction on the first mother substrate;
An auxiliary seal main body along a side edge of the first mother substrate excluding the injection port portion, and the first seal in the main seal side surface direction of the circular portion connected to the auxiliary seal main body and adjacent to the injection port. A step of disposing an auxiliary seal on the first mother substrate for suppressing the wraparound of the liquid crystal composed of the corresponding connecting body in the mother substrate toward the central portion of the display area .
A step of injecting liquid crystal from the injection port by bonding the first mother substrate and the second mother substrate through the main seal and the auxiliary seal;
Sealing the injection port after injecting liquid crystal, and cutting out the liquid crystal substrate along the main seal;
A method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device, comprising: The method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein a tip of the connecting body is disposed substantially at right angles to a cutting line indicating a position for cutting out the liquid crystal substrate. Manufacturing method of the preceding SL any liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein it does not contact the cut line indicating the position of cutting out the liquid crystal substrate of the auxiliary seal.   4. The method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device according to claim 3, wherein a tip of the connecting body of the auxiliary seal is bent toward the injection port.

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