US 7,542,103 B2
Electro-optical device
Hongyong Zhang, Kanagawa (Japan); Naoaki Yamaguchi, Kanagawa (Japan); and Yasuhiko Takemura, Kanagawa (Japan)
Assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory, Atsugi-shi, Kanagawa-ken (Japan)
Filed on Apr. 16, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/735,656.
Application 11/073752 is a division of application No. 10/267526, filed on Oct. 08, 2002, granted, now 6,914,260, filed on Jul. 05, 2005.
Application 11/735656 is a continuation of application No. 11/073752, filed on Mar. 08, 2005, granted, now 7,206,053, filed on Apr. 17, 2007.
Application 10/267526 is a continuation of application No. 09/850886, filed on May 07, 2001, granted, now 6,475,837, filed on Nov. 05, 2002.
Application 09/850886 is a continuation of application No. 09/360841, filed on Jul. 22, 1999, granted, now 6,246,453, filed on Jun. 12, 2001.
Application 09/360841 is a continuation of application No. 08/881182, filed on Jun. 24, 1997, granted, now 5,982,460, filed on Nov. 09, 1999.
Claims priority of application No. 8-185638 (JP), filed on Jun. 25, 1996.
Prior Publication US 2007/0182873 A1, Aug. 09, 2007
Int. Cl. G02F 1/136 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 349—46 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An active matrix display device comprising:
a thin film transistor formed over a substrate;
a gate bus line, wherein a first portion of the gate bus line is a gate electrode of the thin film transistor;
a source bus line crossing at a second portion of the gate bus line;
a common electrode comprising a transparent conductive film, and formed over the thin film transistor; and
a pixel electrode partially overlapped with the common electrode,
wherein the gate bus line and the source bus line are overlapped with the common electode,
wherein a first width of the gate bus line at the first portion is narrower than a second width of the gate bus line at the second portion, and
wherein the first width of the gate bus line is measured along a line parallel to a line along which the second width of the gate bus line is measured.