Product category:
LCD Modules
News Release from: Hitachi Europe - Display Products Group | Subject: 12.3in landscape LCD
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 09 August 2007
LCD module is bright choice for
automotive designs
High-definition wide-screen TFT LCD module offers enhanced visibility with improved brightness and contrast for automotive instrument panels.
Hitachi Displays has developed a 12.3in high-definition (equivalent to SXGA) wide-screen TFT LCD module offering enhanced visibility with improved brightness and contrast for use in automotive instrument panels The company will commence shipment of the product from September 2007
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 18 Aug 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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In recent years LCDs have been used increasingly in automotive instrument panels to house displays and indicators such as the tachometer, torque meter and information panels.
In addition to an extremely high level of reliability, LCDs for use in instrument panels must provide high visibility in bright outdoor conditions, good operability at low temperatures and environmentally friendly low energy, mercury-free design.
Hitachi Displays has focused on in-vehicle LCDs as one of its major product suites and in 2006 developed landscape LCDs using IPS technology.
This offered superlative picture quality and wide viewing angles, which were highly rated by companies that purchased the product..
The latest product is a 12.3in landscape LCD (with a 294 x 110mm screen) for use in instrument panels, using a TN (twisted nematic) type TFT display featuring high permeability and productivity.
The drawback of conventional TN type TFT LCDs is their relatively poor visibility due to insufficient contrast compared with other types of display.
In the latest product, however, due to a higher voltage drive for liquid crystals and greater permeability, superior brightness and contrast are achieved for improved visibility.
Picture quality has been improved by using a dot inversion drive, as well as meeting customer demands for improved response speed at low temperatures, lower power consumption with better permeability, and mercury-free design with an LED backlight.
Hitachi Displays has expanded its business by adding this product to its in-vehicle LCD lineup to satisfy increasingly diverse customer needs.
LCDs for instrument panels are required to provide high visibility from the driver and front passenger seats in bright outside conditions during daytime driving.
This product provides brightness of approximately 650cd/m2 and a contrast ratio of 800:1 with the increased drive voltage and improved permeability, in turn enhancing screen visibility.
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