Patent ID: 8681090

Claim:
An electrophoretic display panel comprising: a first substrate; a second substrate which faces the first substrate with a predetermined interval; at least one partition wall configured to form a boundary of a plurality of pixel spaces, the pixel spaces being surrounded by the partition wall, the first substrate, and the second substrate; a plurality of first electrodes formed on the first substrate, each of the pixel spaces including two first electrodes; at least one second electrode formed on the second substrate, the second electrode facing the first electrodes; a dispersant contained in each of the pixel spaces; positively-charged particles suspended in the dispersant and contained in each of the pixel spaces; negatively-charged particles suspended in the dispersant and contained in each of the pixel spaces; weakly-charged particles suspended in the dispersant and contained in each of the pixel spaces, the weakly-charged particles having charges whose absolute value is smaller than absolute values of charges of the positively-charged particles and the negatively-charged particles; a plurality of switching thin film transistors each including a source electrode, a drain electrode, and a gate electrode; scanning lines configured to supply, to the gate electrodes of the switching thin film transistors, scanning signals for selectively turning the switching thin film transistors to ON states; and signal lines each connected to one of the source electrode and the drain electrode of each of the corresponding switching thin film transistors, the other of the source electrode and the drain electrode being connected to a corresponding one of the first electrodes, and configured to input a data signal to the switching thin film transistors in the ON state so as to cause the positively-charged particles, the negatively-charged particles, and the weakly-charged particles to migrate; wherein adjacent and opposite sides of the two first electrodes included in each of the pixel spaces are curved in an S-shape and are parallel to each other with a predetermined interval therebetween.