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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7864280 | Liquid crystal display device It is to provide a liquid crystal display device capable of readily obtaining bend alignment across an entire liquid crystal display panel of the liquid crystal display device, with obtaining brightness while obtaining a high speed responsiveness, a feature of an OC... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7675596 | Liquid crystal device and information terminal device provided with the same A semi-transparent homogeneous-alignment LCD device including a transmission part and a reflection part, a first linear dielectric protrusion disposed between a common electrode and a liquid crystal layer so as to extend over a plurality of pixels in a short side di... | 03/09/2010 |
| 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 |
| 7394517 | Liquid crystal panel A liquid crystal panel including a driving substrate and a counter substrate, the two substrates having a liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween. The driving substrate has pixel electrodes and transistors connected to the pixel electrodes on a surface thereof,... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7379144 | Chevron-free FLC device An optical device includes a ferroelectric liquid crystal material. This optical device has a first and a second substrate. A first alignment treatment is applied to a surface of the first substrate, the first alignment treatment being intended to induce an orientat... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7372480 | Non-lithographic photo-induced patterning of polymers from liquid crystal solvents with spatially modulated director fields A liquid crystal device comprises a first and second cell wall structure; at least one liquid crystal material disposed within a space between the first and second cell wall structures; and polymer micro-structures, wherein the micro-structures are formed by polymer... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7336250 | Method and apparatus for driving liquid-crystal optical-modulation device For statically driving a liquid-crystal optical-modulation device, an alternating electric field produced by a drive signal is applied to a liquid crystal included therein. In a first period in which the alternating electric field has a first polarity, the drive sig... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7326449 | Liquid crystal device A liquid crystal device comprises first and second opposed spaced-apart cell walls enclosing a layer of a liquid crystal material. Electrodes are provided on at least one cell wall for applying an electric field across at least some of the liquid crystal material. T... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327421 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention comprises a first polarizer (1), a second polarizer (17), a liquid crystal cell (20) having a liquid crystal layer (6) provided between a first substrate (1) and a ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7316831 | Tilted vertical alignment of liquid crystals employing inorganic thin film composition and ion beam treatment A liquid crystal display device includes an alignment layer with constituent materials. The constituent materials have a stoichiometric relationship configured to provide a given pretilt angle. Liquid crystal material is provided in contact with the alignment layer.... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7312794 | Methods for driving electro-optic displays, and apparatus for use therein A bistable electro-optic display has a plurality of pixels, each of which is capable of displaying at least three gray levels. The display is driven by a method comprising: storing a look-up table containing data representing the impulses necessary to convert an ini... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7283191 | Liquid crystal display device and electronic apparatus wherein liquid crystal molecules having particular pre-tilt angle To provide a liquid crystal device with a high contrast ratio without deteriorating the aperture ratios of the respective pixels by reducing inferior alignment in liquid crystal, which is caused by alignment films, a liquid crystal device includes an element substra... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7193667 | Liquid crystal display panel implementing bistable liquid crystal and method of fabricating the same A liquid crystal display panel implementing a bistable liquid crystal and fabricating the same is disclosed in the present invention. Specifically, a method of fabricating a liquid crystal display panel having first and second substrates, the method includes forming... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7190008 | Electro-optic displays, and components for use therein An electro-optic display comprises a substrate (100), non-linear devices (102) disposed substantially in one plane on the substrate (100), pixel electrodes (106) connected to the non-linear devices (102), an electro-optic medium ( | 03/13/2007 |
| 7179509 | Polymers for control of orientation and stability of liquid crystals An electro-optically active polymer gel material comprising a high molecular weight alignment polymer adapted to be homogeneously dispersed throughout a liquid crystal to control the alignment of the liquid crystal molecules and/or confer mechanical stability is pro... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7173842 | Metal heater for in situ heating and crystallization of ferroelectric polymer memory film An embodiment of the invention provides an on-chip heating system to both initially anneal and revive cycle-fatigued polymer ferroelectric materials utilized in memory devices. By heating the polymer ferroelectric material above its Curie temperature, the polymer fe... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7148941 | Compensator with photochemically cured barrier layer and process Disclosed is an optical compensator for a liquid crystal display having improved optical properties, comprising a transparent polymeric support bearing an orientation layer and a photochemically cured optically anisotropic layer, in that order, wherein a photochemic... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7123330 | Liquid crystal panel substrate having alignment film and method for forming alignment film by varied evaporation angle A substrate for a liquid crystal panel having an alignment film, wherein an evaporated film is formed as the alignment film on the substrate, and wherein a portion of the evaporated film corresponding to each single pixel is split into a plurality of segments, and t... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7106410 | Bistable nematic liquid crystal device comprising an array of upstanding alignment posts A bistable nematic liquid crystal device includes an array of upstanding features (10) on at least one cell wall (2). The features (10) have a shape and/or orientation to induce the liquid crystal director adjacent the features (10) to ad... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7010211 | Fiber optical attenuator A fiber optical attenuator utilizing the cut-off phenomenon for single mode propagation of an optical wave down a single mode fiber, comprising an element such as a pixelated liquid crystal element, capable of spatially changing the phase across the cross section of... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6967340 | Ion beam irradiation device and operating method thereof An ion beam irradiation device includes a vacuum chamber and a stage on which at least two substrates may be mounted such that each substrate has an inclination angle to a horizontal plane of the vacuum chamber. The stage moves in one direction. An ion gun provided ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6963322 | Liquid-crystal display device In a liquid-crystal display device, one of substrates has pixel electrodes and TFTs for driving the pixel electrodes, and the other substrate has opposing electrodes formed thereon. The orientation of the liquid crystal is controlled to exhibit bistability in which ... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6961107 | Transflective display device with different pretilt angles and fabrication method for thereof A method of forming a transflective display device having a single cell gap in which a liquid crystal molecule has at least two pretilt angles. A transparent electrode is formed on the inner surface of the lower substrate, and a reflective electrode is formed on a p... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6947116 | Method of manufacturing a liquid crystal device to prevent non-uniform illuminance A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display includes forming a liquid crystal cell having first and second substrates, at least one alignment layer disposed on one of the first and second substrates and liquid crystal material disposed between the first and s... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6903790 | Bistable nematic liquid crystal device A bistable nematic liquid crystal device includes an array of upstanding features (10) on at least one cell wall (2). The features (10) have a shape and/or orientation to induce the liquid crystal director adjacent the features (10) to ad... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6900870 | Liquid crystal display having wide viewing angle Disclosed is a liquid crystal display comprising first and second substrates provided opposing one another; a liquid crystal layer made of liquid crystal material that is injected between the first and second substrates; pixel electrodes and a common electrode forme... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6867837 | Liquid crystal device and manufacturing method A liquid crystal cell having a first substrate with a plurality of parallel columns of director alignment material disposed on a surface of the first substrate. Each one of the columns has a longitudinal axis disposed at an oblique angle with respect the surface of ... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6862065 | Transflective display device with different pretilt angles and fabrication method for thereof A transflective display device having a single cell gap in which a liquid crystal molecule has at least two pretilt angles. A transparent electrode is formed on the inner surface of the lower substrate, and a reflective electrode is formed on a portion of the transp... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6852374 | Liquid crystal display device, optical element, method of fabricating the liquid crystal display device and method of making the optical element A liquid crystal display device includes two substrates, a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the substrates and two alignment films, each being provided on one surface of associated one of the substrates so as to face the liquid crystal layer. The device defin... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6806500 | Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus An electro-optical device includes a TFT array substrate, pixel electrodes, thin film transistors electrically connected to the pixel electrodes, scanning lines and data lines connected thereto, and a nitride film disposed at least on surfaces of the data lines prov... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6800338 | Electro-optical liquid-crystal display To provide an electro-optical liquid-crystal displays with low addressing voltages and low to moderate multiplex ratios, in particular STN displays, organic alignment layers of low layer thickness are utilized. ... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6760088 | Ferroelectric liquid crystal display A ferroelectric liquid crystal display having alignment films with different surface polarities. The alignment films induce an internal electric field through the liquid crystal. Because of the induced internal electric field, initial liquid crystal alignment, and s... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6757045 | Liquid crystal device and liquid crystal apparatus including same A liquid crystal device is constituted by a layer of a chiral smectic liquid crystal, a pair of substrates oppositely disposed to sandwich the liquid crystal and each provided with an electrode for applying a voltage to the liquid crystal, at least one of the substr... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6738119 | Liquid crystal display and method for manufacturing the same A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate; a second substrate cohered to the first substrate with a separation from the first substrate; a first orientation film formed on an inner surface of the first substrate; a second orientation film formed on an inne... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6714273 | Bistable nematic liquid crystal device A bistable nematic liquid crystal device cell is provided with a surface alignment grating on at least one cell wall and a surface treatment on the other wall. Such treatment may be a homeotropic alignment or a planar alignment with or without an alignment direction... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6700635 | Liquid crystal display panel A pixel electrode is located in a pixel area defined by the intersections of the two adjacent gate lines and the two adjacent data lines, and has two linear openings extending in the transverse direction, which divide the pixel electrodes into three recta... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6693696 | Electro-optical device A liquid-crystal electro-optical device is offered which can operate at high speeds and easily oriented. The value of the surface tension of liquid crystal-orienting layers is 40 dynes/cm or more, and these layers are rubbed in antiparallel directions to ... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6678035 | Liquid crystal display and method for fabricating the same A liquid crystal display includes a bottom substrate with a gate wire, a data wire and thin film transistors, and a top substrate with color filters. In a method for fabricating the liquid crystal display, a pixel electrode is formed on the bottom substra... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6674501 | Cone protrusion in multi-domain vertically aligned liquid crystal display A pixel unit included in a multi-domain vertically aligned liquid crystal display is provided. The pixel unit includes a first insulating substrate having a first side and a second side, a second insulating substrate having a third side and a fourth side,... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6645603 | Laser processing method to a glass substrate and an optical diffraction element obtained thereby, and a method for manufacturing optical elements In a laser processing method for accurately forming a convexo-concave structure on the surface of a glass substrate, a periodic optical intensity distribution of a laser beam is obtained by an interference between diffracted light beams of +1 degree and -... | 11/11/2003 |
