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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6567148 | Electrode substrate having particular projecting portion, manufacturing method thereof, and liquid crystal display element On a transparent substrate, a photosensitive resin layer, which is made of an acrylic positive photosensitive resin layer, is formed so as to cover stripe-shaped conductive wires and a portion between the conductive wires. In this case, at least a part of... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6559919 | Liquid crystal device manufacturing methods of controlling a partial switching In the manufacture of a ferroelectric liquid crystal cell, alignment layers provided on the inside surfaces of the substrate structures for imparting a preferred alignment to the molecules of the liquid crystal layer in the vicinity of the layers are form... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6519030 | Flame photometer detector A flame photometer detector is described which uses flame emission spectroscopy as the detection method, computer control and data acquisition, pulsed sampling and a rotating reference filter wheel to eliminate the effects of background chemical species. ... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6480253 | LCD device having electrodes comprising conductive resin or conductive color filter and manufacturing method of the same To manufacture at a good yield a large-screen display having low resistivity of wires and excelling in flatness of substrates, a metal material, a transparent electrode material, and a conductive resin are used for forming either scanning electrodes or si... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6451338 | Liposomes containing particulate materials A method is provided for the formation of liposomes of 0.1 μm to 50 μm in diameter having unilamella or multilamella structure and containing water insoluble or undissolved particulate materials comprising (a) forming liposomes and removing substantiall... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6436312 | Liquid crystal composition and liquid crystal shutter A liquid crystal composition comprises a host material capable of exhibiting a smectic C phase, and a chiral dopant material which imparts or enhances chirality in the host material. The composition exhibits ͌-Vmin curves. The chiral dopant ma... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6417864 | Light modulating devices When a ferroelectric liquid crystal display (FLCD) panel is addressed in such a manner as to cause adjacent or successive pixels to display different levels of greyscale, the viewer may perceive a pseudo edge effect caused by the perceived error in the tr... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6417826 | Liquid crystal device and method of addressing liquid crystal device A method of addressing a liquid crystal device having a plurality of scanning electrodes and a plurality of data electrodes defining a plurality of pixels at the intersections between at least one of the plurality of scanning electrodes and at least one o... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6414667 | Liquid crystal device and method addressing liquid crystal device A liquid crystal device is addressed in a multiplexed manner by a scanning signal applied in turn to a first set of electrodes together with data signals applied to a second set of electrodes. The first and second sets of electrodes define a plurality of ... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6403094 | Clostridium perfringens vaccines The present invention provides proteins for use in vaccines which are capable of inducing protective antibodies directed against C. perfringens epsilon toxin when administered to animals or man and thereby providing prophylaxis or therapy against infectio... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6383669 | Chemical vapor deposition precursors Zirconium precursors for use in depositing thin films of or containing zirconium oxide using an MOCVD technique have the following general formula: Zrx (OR)y L, wherein R is an alkyl group; L is a ଲ-diketonate group; x=1 or 2; ... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6380550 | Electroluminescent device comprising porous silicon An electroluminescent device (10) comprises a porous silicon region (22) adjacent a bulk silicon region (20), together with a top electrical contact (24) of transparent indium tin oxide and a bottom electrical contact (26) of aluminum. The device includes... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6357439 | Gas containment apparatus A gas containment and supply apparatus is described consisting of a gas reservoir vessel (1) capable of pressurised gas containment fitted with a gas supply aperture (8) provided with supply means connectable to the gas supply aperture to provide for supp... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6353224 | Millimeter wave imaging apparatus Millimeter wave imaging apparatus for use, in articular, as an indoor security system to identify objects concealed under the clothing of a person in a background scene, including means for generating a millimetric temperature contrast between the person ... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6351256 | Addressing method and apparatus The invention relates to multiplex addressing of a liquid crystal device comprising applying a strobe signal to one of a first plurality of electrodes of the device and a data signal to one of a second plurality of electrodes of the device. The strobe and... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6341179 | Method and apparatus for imaging artefact reduction The invention relates to a method and apparatus for reducing imaging artifacts in physiological images, such as magnetic resonance imaging images. A model of a physical cause for the image artifact is modelled and the effects of perturbing this model on a... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6337420 | Liquid crystal compounds, mixtures and devices An electroclinic device having two spaced cell walls each bearing electrode structures and treated on at least one facing surface with an alignment layer, a layer of a smectic liquid crystal material enclosed between the cell walls, where the liquid cryst... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6334019 | Single mode optical fiber A large core photonic crystal fiber for transmitting radiation having a core comprising a substantially transparent core material and having a core diameter of at least 5 μ. The fiber also comprises a cladding region surrounding the length of core materi... | 12/25/2001 |
| 6322809 | Liposomes containing particulate materials A method is provided for the formation of liposomes of 0.1 μm to 50 μm in diameter having unilamella or multilamella structure and containing water insoluble or undissolved particulate materials comprising (a) forming liposomes and removing substantiall... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6320179 | Device noise measurement system A system and method for determining noise power levels across a range of frequencies of the optical signal output from a device operating at a specified optical power and drive current and, in particular, for determining relative intensity noise values (R... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6312770 | Liquid crystal elastomers This invention describes a method for the loading and alignment of elastomers in electro-optic and electro-active devices. It comprises the in-situ polymerization between substrates of liquid crystal monomers in the presence of cross-linking reagents. It ... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6310595 | Liquid crystal display element and driving method thereof A plurality of signal electrodes and scanning electrodes are provided on each of a pair of glass substrates facing each other, and pixels are formed at intersections of the signal electrodes and the scanning electrodes, and a liquid crystal layer is forme... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6307610 | Alignment of ferroelectric liquid crystal devices A liquid crystal device comprises a liquid crystal cell including a layer of ferroelectric smectic liquid crystal material contained between two walls bearing electrodes and surface treated to give both an alignment and a surface tilt to liquid crystal mo... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6301420 | Multicore optical fibre An optical fiber for transmitting radiation comprising two or more core regions, two or more core regions, each core region comprising a substantially transparent core material and having a core refractive index, a core length, and a core diameter, wherei... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6291034 | Naphthyl organic compounds Liquid crystal compounds of formula (I) are described, where formula (I) is given as R1 --A--(X)m --(B)n --R2 where A is selected from naphthyl, fluorinated naphthyl, brominated naphthyl, B is selected from phen... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6292775 | Speech processing system using format analysis A speech processing system (10) incorporates an analogue to digital converter (16) to digitize input speech signals for Fourier transformation to produce short-term spectral cross-sections. These cross-sections are compared with one hundred and fifty refe... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6288766 | Manufacturing method of liquid crystal element for injecting the liquid crystal into the cell and liquid crystal injecting device A liquid crystal injecting device has a jig which seals an opening used as a liquid crystal inlet of the cell and another opening used as an air outlet of the cell separately. When obtaining a liquid crystal element by injecting liquid crystal into the ce... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6285345 | Liquid crystal display A liquid crystal display of the UV-phosphor type comprises a light source 1 for producing activation light at a predetermined narrow range of UV wavelengths, a collimator 3 for directing the activation light in parallel in a predetermined direction, a LC ... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6277451 | Liquid crystal materials and devices Materials of formula (I): [G]g (SiO1/2)x are described where G is R3 SiR1 R2 (O)k ; R1, R2, R3 are independently a C1-16 alkyl which may be... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276205 | Micro-machining A method of fabricating a micro-mechanical sensor (101) comprising the steps for forming an insulating layer (6) onto the surface of a first wafer (4) bonding a second wafer (2) to the insulating layer (6), patterning and subsequently etching either the f... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6275180 | Collision warning system A collision warning system (10) discriminates between objects which pose a threat of collision from those which do not by measuring the relative sightline rate of the object, this being a measure of the rate of change of angular position of the object if ... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6271899 | Tunable nano-phase polymer dispersed liquid crystal filter A tunable filter in particular for use in the visible or near infrared wavelength region, comprising a nano dispersed composite material contained within a resonant cavity structure comprising dielectric mirrors (15, 16), where the material is polarizable... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6262943 | Signal processing system for sensing a periodic signal in noise A method and an apparatus for distinguishing systematic artifacts from noise involves localizing functional noise in the vicinity of predicted functional peaks. The method is particularly relevant to detection and tracking of time-varying signals. An appa... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6259497 | Large area liquid crystal displays A large area liquid crystal display comprises a layer of liquid crystal material between two cell walls. One cell wall has a common sheet electrode. The other cell walls comprise a plurality of addressing tiles electrically connected together. Driver circ... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6247551 | Panel-form loudspeaker A panel-form loudspeaker has a resonant multi-mode radiator panel which is excited at frequencies above the fundamental frequency and the coincidence frequency of the panel to provide high radiation efficiency through multi-modal motions within the panel,... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6249332 | Bistable nematic liquid crystal device A bistable nematic liquid crystal device cell (1) is provided with a surface alignment grating on at least one cell wall (3) and a surface treatment on the other wall (4). Such treatment may be a homeotropic alignment or a planar alignment with or without... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6215543 | Ferroelectric liquid crystal device comprising a polymer and exhibiting a minimum in a response time verses voltage curve In order to reduce the effects of impact on liquid crystal devices a polymer network is introduced into ferroelectric liquid crystal cells. A liquid crystal device comprises two spaced cell walls each bearing electrode structures and treated on at least o... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6204941 | Optical filtering device An optical filtering device incorporates first and second prisms, the latter prism counteracting the angular dispersion of the former prism. A spatial light modulator provides a positionally variable optical stop located to block radiation within a wavele... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6198110 | Method and apparatus for the real-time characterization of particles suspended within a fluid medium This invention describes a method by which microparticles, typically in the size range from 0.3 μm to 100 μm, which are carried in a fluid suspension, may be rapidly detected and characterized. The method primarily relates to the measurement of atmosphe... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6184322 | Metal-containing side chain liquid crystal polymers A group fo liquid crystalline compounds defined by formulas (1) and (2) ##STR1## including polymers, monomers, oligomers and intermediates for their preparation. Also included are symmetric and non-symmetric poly(dimethylsiloxy) compounds having end group... | 02/06/2001 |
