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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8018560 | Method and system for improving ion beam alignment for liquid crystal displays by forming an alignment layer over grooved surface profile A liquid crystal display (LCD) device comprises a first substrate having a grooved surface profile; an alignment film layer of inorganic material formed on the grooved surface and having the grooved surface profile, the alignment film of inorganic material being ali... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7956970 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device provides, on the internal side of one substrate of a pair of substrates a plurality of pixel electrodes, a plurality of TFTs, a plurality of scan lines and signal lines, and a plurality of convex sections each formed on the internal s... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7884908 | Liquid crystal display device Each pixel has a transmissive area and a reflective area. A first alignment process area and a second alignment process area are placed such that an overlapping region is created in part of the reflective area. A region where the liquid crystal alignment direction s... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7880847 | Liquid crystal display with group of interdigitated electrodes A high resolution, wide viewing angle, low power consumption liquid crystal display device which utilizes nematic liquid crystal and which can attain both the memory effect and wide-viewing-angle display characteristic. A liquid crystal display device that utilizes ... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7570333 | Method and system for improving ion beam alignment for liquid crystal displays by a grooving under layer A liquid crystal display (LCD) device comprises a first substrate having a grooved surface profile; an alignment film layer of inorganic material formed on the grooved surface and having the grooved surface profile, the alignment film of inorganic material being ali... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7430030 | Bistable nematic liquid crystal display device A bistable nematic liquid crystal display device comprises two opposed cell walls enclosing a layer of a nematic liquid crystal material. An inner surface of each cell wall is provided with an electrode for applying an electric field across at least some of the liqu... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7420638 | Liquid crystal display device with mask for alignment A method of fabricating a liquid crystal display device including vertical alignment layers formed on the substrates. The alignment layer having a polymer realizing vertical alignment is formed on the substrate an unpolarized ultraviolet light is then irradiated in ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7397526 | Liquid crystal device comprising alignment posts having a random or pseudorandom spacing therebetween A liquid crystal device has a surface alignment structure comprising an array of alignment features (10) which are shaped and/or orientated to produce a desired alignment. Depending on the geometry and spacing of the features (10), the liquid crystal m... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7375784 | Control of liquid crystal alignment in an optical device A method is provided that allows simultaneous control of macroscopic azimuthal and zenithal liquid crystal alignment (φ, θ) across a liquid crystal layer by controlling the area ratios between first, second and third different types of alignment region (T1,... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7338715 | Low temperature cure polyimide compositions resistant to arc tracking and methods relating thereto The polyimides of the present invention are derived from aliphatic diamines and show advantageous arc tracking performance (i.e., low arc tracking). These polyimides can be cured at low temperatures making them suitable as coverlay compositions in electronic circuit... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336331 | Pixel structure in liquid crystal display A pixel structure for a liquid crystal display has a first substrate with respect to a pixel region. A W-like extruding structure composed of two V-like is formed on a surface of the substrate. A second substrate with several openings is also provided in parallel to... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7317499 | Multilayer plate and display panel with anisotropic crystal film and conducting protective layer A multilayer plate is provided comprising an optically transparent substrate, a protective layer, a conducting layer, and at least one anisotropic thin crystal film. The anisotropic thin crystal film is made of a substance containing aromatic rings and possessing a ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7311951 | Phoretic display A phoretic display having a liquid crystal suspension medium and a relief structure alignment layer comprising a relief structure surface incorporating a plurality of indentations. The relief structure alignment layer is adapted to generate a preferred alignment of ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7253861 | Liquid crystal optical element comprising a resin layer having a surface hardness of b or less On substrates 2a, 2b of a chiral nematic liquid crystal optical element 1, transparent electrodes 3a, 3b and electrical insulation layers 4a, 4b are formed, and further, resin... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7242484 | Apparatus and methods for surface contour measurement Apparatus and methods of measuring three-dimensional position information of a onto a surface of an object including two sources of radiation separated by a distance, each source having a spectral distribution, and being coherent with respect to the other of the sou... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7230666 | Liquid crystal display with nonconductive portions in specific areas The present invention relates to a liquid crystal element wherein a liquid crystal having a liquid crystal molecule is held between two substrates. An information for aligning a liquid crystal molecule 103 in two or more directions phasedly or graduall... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7196758 | Method of alignment of liquid crystals comprising exposing an alignment material to an interference pattern A method includes exposing an alignment material to an interference pattern to cause a chemical reaction in the alignment material and exposing the alignment material to a liquid crystal, where the liquid crystal aligns relative to the alignment material based on th... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7189439 | Active matrix type liquid crystal display apparatus An active matrix type liquid crystal display apparatus has a pair of substrates, at least one of the substrates being transparent; a liquid crystal layer arranged between the pair of substrates; and electrode structure for generating an electric field having a domin... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7135705 | High aperture LCD with insulating color filters overlapping bus lines on active substrate A high aperture active matrix liquid crystal display (AMLCD) includes pixel electrodes in respective pixels which overlap adjacent address lines. The color filters are formed on the active substrate in a manner such that the filters also overlap the address lines an... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7102719 | In-plane switching mode thin film transistor liquid crystal display device with alternating pixel and common electrode bones An LCD device (2) includes two substrates (21, 22), a liquid crystal layer (27) therebetween, and gate lines (24) and data lines (23) formed on one substrate thereby defining pixel regions. A set of pixel electrodes (26) and... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7075109 | Electro-optical having a configuration to prevent generation and trapping of material residues An electro-optical device for a liquid-crystal apparatus includes TFTs provided above a substrate, pixel electrodes that are provided above the TFTs and that are connected to corresponding relay electrodes via contact holes, a protection insulating film that is prov... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7074344 | Liquid crystal aligning agent and liquid crystal display element The present invention provides a liquid crystal aligning agent which provides a liquid crystal alignment film having surface anchoring force and pretilt angle development stability by an optical aligning method. The liquid crystal aligning agent comprises a polymer ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7046425 | Multi-stage optical switching device An optical switching device contains an active stage coupled to a passive stage. The index of refraction in the active stage is variable to change the entry direction of a light beam into the passive stage, which has a fixed index of refraction. Because the light be... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7038754 | Liquid crystal electro-optical device A brighter active matrix type liquid crystal electro-optical device with a higher contrast, yet having a wider visual angle is realized, said liquid crystal electro-optical device comprises a liquid crystal layer and means for applying an electric field to the liqui... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7018687 | Liquid crystal display device The liquid crystal display device of the present invention comprises first and second substrates, a first alignment layer on the first substrate, wherein the first alignment layer includes polyethyleneimine, and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second su... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7016003 | In-plane switching liquid crystal display device including common electrode comprising black matrix In a liquid crystal display device which performs image display by controlling a liquid crystal layer by a lateral electric field that is parallel with a substrate, the lateral electric field is formed by a black matrix and a pixel electrode. That is, a common elect... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7009664 | Liquid crystal display device with organic protective film which structure connecting around sealing material There is provided a TFT liquid crystal display device in which the adhesion strength of a sealing material is high and the reliability of its terminals is high. In a peripheral area of the liquid crystal display device, an organic protective film underlying the area... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7009026 | Method for producing a liquid crystalline polyester and the liquid crystalline polyester The object is to provide liquid crystalline polyester which gives molded articles without generating acetic acid gas, and a method for producing the liquid crystalline polyester. This object is achieved by a method for producing a liquid crystalline polyester compri... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7005164 | Liquid crystal material, electro-optical device, liquid crystal display cell, and liquid crystal display A conduction inhibitor including an epoxy resin or the like is mixed into a liquid crystal material. Specifically, the conduction inhibitor is formed by a bisphenol F epoxy resin, and mixing proportion is set to 0.1 wt % to 10 wt %. When such a conduction inhibitor ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6998351 | Method for forming a micro pattern Disclosed is a method for forming a micro pattern. After a dual photoresist film having different glass transition temperatures is coated, an exposure process and a wet development process are implemented to form a dual photoresist film pattern. A RFP is then implem... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6992741 | Bistable nematic liquid crystal device A bistable nematic liquid crystal device includes an array of holes (8) in an alignment layer (6) on at least one cell wall (2). The alignment layer (6) induces a substantially planar local alignment of liquid crystal molecules. The holes... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6987549 | Fast response in-plane-switching pi-cell liquid crystal displays Transmissive liquid crystal displays having response time that can be approximately 2 to approximately 3 times faster than conventional displays. The displays adjust the rubbing angles to above approximately 20 degrees and preferably between approximately 30 and app... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6977705 | Structure for reducing the diffraction effect in periodic electrode arrangements and liquid crystal device including the same Structure for reducing the diffraction effect in periodic electrode arrangements and liquid crystal device including the same. The invention relates to a structure for reducing the diffraction effect in periodic electrode arrangements. The structure is used in a ref... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6958799 | Liquid crystal display A liquid crystal display includes a pair of substrates having a first substrate and a second substrate, at least one of the first and second substrate being transparent, a liquid crystal layer and a color filter layer both provided between the pair of substrates, a ... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6954248 | Liquid crystal displays having multi-domains and a manufacturing method thereof A black matrix and a color filter are formed on a substrate, a indium-tin-oxide (ITO) common electrode are deposited thereon and then protrusion pattern made of sensitive material such as photoresist are formed on the common electrode with 3 to 20 micron width. A ve... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6947110 | Liquid crystal display device A semi-transparent type liquid crystal display device includes circuit array substrate AR, counter substrate CT and liquid crystal layer LQ held between circuit array and counter substrates AR and CT. The alignment of liquid crystal layer LQ is also controlled by ci... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6933098 | Process for roll-to-roll manufacture of a display by synchronized photolithographic exposure on a substrate web This invention relates to an electrophoretic display or a liquid crystal display and novel processes for its manufacture. The electrophoretic display (EPD) of the present invention comprises microcups of well-defined shape, size and aspect ratio and the microcups ar... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6927818 | Transflective liquid crystal device having light-transmitting films overlapping light reflective films and method of manufacturing such a device A liquid crystal device 1 includes a liquid crystal 23 arranged between a first substrate 2 and a second substrate 3. The liquid crystal device has a reflecting conductive film 18 formed on the first substrate 2, a light tra... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6912020 | Electro-optical apparatus, electronic device, substrate for use in an electro-optical apparatus, method of producing a substrate for use in an electro-optical apparatus, and light shielding film The invention provides a light shielding film having excellent capability of shielding light. The light shielding film includes a barrier layer formed of a material selected from the group including a refractory nitride compound, silicon compound, tungsten compound,... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6903713 | Liquid crystal display device and driving method A liquid crystal panel includes a cell formed between substrates and disposed to face each other and severally including alignment films and, liquid crystal molecules held inside the cell, and an electrode for applying a driving electric field in a parallel directio... | 06/07/2005 |
