Patent ID: 7068247

Claim:
A display device, comprising: a substrate; and a display region that serves for display and a non-display region not for display disposed on the substrate, the display region and the non-display region each being aligned in a predetermined matrix pattern of barriers and recesses spaced from each other with the barriers adjacent thereto, the display region including at least a first electrode layer, an essential display layer with a substance switchable for display or non-display therein and a second electrode layer that are aligned around a bottom of each recess in a recess region thereof, in that order, from a side of the substrate; the non-display region including at least the essential display layer and the second electrode layer around the bottom of each recess of the recess region in that order from the side of the substrate; the substrate being provided thereon with a switch unit connected to the first electrode layer to control electric conduction to the first electrode layer, an operation control unit connected to the switch unit to control the switch unit operation, and a drive control signal conduction element through which a drive control signal passes to drive the operation control unit; and the drive control signal conduction element being so aligned as to be at least partly in the non-display region, and in plan view of the substrate, so as to be at least partly superimposed on the barrier region.