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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7733452 | Materials for promoting alignment of liquid crystals on SiOand other substrates The present invention relates to a liquid crystal alignment agent, a liquid crystal device produced by using the liquid crystal alignment agent thereof, and a method for alignment of liquid crystal molecules by using the liquid crystal alignment agent. In more detai... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7499135 | Liquid crystal display A method of controlling the alignment of a ferroelectric liquid crystal without the need of an alignment process, such as a rubbing process and a photo alignment process, in a liquid crystal display using a ferroelectric liquid crystal. The method uses a columnar al... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7430033 | Liquid crystal display device treated by UV irradiation A liquid crystal display device includes a pair of substrates, a liquid crystal between substrates and alignment layers disposed on the inner surface sides of the substrates. The alignment layer is made from a material including polyamic acid containing a diamine co... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7429412 | Liquid crystal display device and method for manufacturing the same A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate; a second substrate; a first alignment layer on the first substrate, the first alignment layer including a first additive; a second alignment layer on the second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer between... | 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 |
| 7396572 | Alignment layer and liquid crystal display with the same A liquid crystal display includes; a first and a second display panel facing each other, an alignment layer formed on at least one of the first and the second display panels and including a polyamic acid moieties and a polyimide moieties which form a block copolymer... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7357965 | Liquid crystal alignment layer A method of making a liquid crystal alignment layer comprising the steps of: (i) providing a layer on a substrate, the layer comprising a polythiophene according to formula (I): wherein R1 and R2 each ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7324182 | Object rotating mechanism using liquid crystal flow In a rotating mechanism including a pair of members 11 and 11 having opposed surfaces B which are opposed to each other and provided to be relatively movable in a state in which the opposed surfaces B are opposed to each other, a liquid crystal LC prov... | 01/29/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7295272 | Liquid crystal device, a method for producing a liquid crystal device and method for controlling a liquid crystal device The invention relates to a liquid crystal device, comprising a liquid crystal bulk layer and chiral dopants being inhomogeneously distributed in the bulk layer as a result of being permanently attached to at least one surface, termed chiral surface. The invention al... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7259813 | Liquid crystal display apparatus having insulated reflective layer and manufacturing method thereof On a first substrate are formed a TFT provided to each pixel, an insulating film which covers the TFT, and a reflective layer which is provided on the insulating film so as to be insulated from the TFT and reflects light incident from a second substrate side. The re... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7251001 | Liquid crystal display device treated by UV irradiation A liquid crystal display device includes a pair of substrates, a liquid crystal between substrates and alignment layers disposed on the inner surface sides of the substrates. The alignment layer is made from a material including polyamic acid containing a diamine co... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7220467 | Photo-alignment material and liquid crystal display device and its manufacturing method using the same A photo-alignment material, a liquid crystal display device using the photo-alignment material, and a manufacturing method. The photo-alignment material is a polymer having a photo-reactive ethenyl group on a main chain. When used as a photo-alignment layer, the pho... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7214405 | Method of making a liquid crystal alignment layer A method of making a liquid crystal alignment layer comprising the steps of: (i) providing a layer on a substrate, the layer comprising a polythiophene according to formula (I): wherein R1 and R2 ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7195719 | High polarization ferroelectric liquid crystal compositions The invention relates to chiral nonracemic liquid crystal compounds having achiral tails comprising a perfluoroalkyl terminal portion which are useful as components in liquid crystal to impart high polarization to the mixture. The materials of this invention can be ... | 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 |
| 7182982 | All-optically prepared and controlled nematic liquid crystal light valve The present invention provides a device that acts as an optical switch to control the intensity of a light beam through the action of a second control beam. This behavior is achieved through photoinduced anisotropy that develops in a monomolecular layer coating the ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7170575 | Homeotropically aligned liquid crystal layer and process for the homeotropic alignment of liquid crystals on plastic substrates Homeotropically oriented layers and films of liquid crystals especially on polymeric substrates. The layers and films, which also can be multi-layered films comprising a homeotropically aligned anisotropic film, are preparable by application of an orientation layer ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7166161 | Anisotropic film manufacturing The present invention relates to an anisotropic films and method for obtaining the same. The film comprises substrate and at least one modified conjugated aromatic crystalline layer deposited onto said substrate. The said layer is characterized by globally ordered c... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167155 | Color electrophoretic displays Novel addressing schemes for controlling electronically addressable displays include a scheme for rear-addressing displays, which allows for in-plane switching of the display material. Other schemes include a rear-addressing scheme which uses a retroreflecting surfa... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7132678 | Electronic device including a self-assembled monolayer, and a method of fabricating the same An electronic device includes a source region and a drain region, a self-assembled monolayer disposed adjacent to the source region and the drain region, the self-assembled monolayer including at least one conjugated molecule, and a conductive substrate disposed adj... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7118787 | Liquid crystal alignment layer There is provided a liquid crystal alignment layer comprising an alignment layer; and chemically bound to said alignment layer, a transport material. Also provided are methods for forming the liquid crystal alignment layer and the use thereof in displays for electro... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7105211 | Liquid crystal aligning agent, liquid crystal aligning films, and liquid crystal display devices A liquid crystal alignment treating agent for optical alignment treatment, whereby it is possible to obtain a liquid crystal alignment film which presents a high and stable tilt angle of liquid crystal and which is excellent in an accumulated charge property by a DC... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7090900 | Liquid crystal aligning agent for vertical alignment, alignment layer for liquid crystal, and liquid crystal displays made by using the same A liquid crystal alignment treating agent containing a polyamic acid which is represented by the following formula (I) and exhibits a reduced viscosity of from 0.05 to 5.0 dl/g (in N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone at 30° C. at a concentration of 0.5 g/dl) or a polyimide obta... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7081935 | Liquid crystal display device with alignment layer including a diamine component and treated by UV irradiation A liquid crystal display device includes a pair of substrates, a liquid crystal between substrates and alignment layers disposed on the inner surface sides of the substrates. The alignment layer is made from a material including polyamic acid containing a diamine co... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7075607 | Liquid crystal cell and method of manufacture A liquid crystal cell having a first substrate with a rubbed layer provided thereon, a second substrate with a photo-aligned layer provided thereon, and a liquid crystal material provided between the substrates. ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7014892 | Alignment layer for a 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 (spacer S is oxygen, m=10˜10,... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7005165 | Photosensitive polyimides for optical alignment of liquid crystals The present invention provides novel polyamic acids and polyimide optical alignment layers for inducing alignment of a liquid crystal medium. The novel compositions comprise reactive diamines containing a C3–C20 linear or branched hydrocarbon... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6991834 | Materials for inducing alignment of liquid crystals and liquid crystal optical elements The present invention provides novel polyamic acids and polyimide optical alignment layers for inducing alignment of a liquid crystal medium. The novel compositions comprise crosslinking diamines containing a C3–C22 linear or branched hydroca... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6905906 | Solution processed devices A method for forming a transistor, comprising: depositing a first material from solution in a first solvent to form a first layer of the transistor, and subsequently whilst the first material remains soluble in the first solvent, forming a second layer of the transi... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6867835 | In-plane switching LCD panel having different alignment layers The present invention discloses an IPS LCD device including a first and second substrate opposing with each other, a common electrode on an inner surface of the first substrate, a pixel electrode parallel to the common electrode, a first alignment layer covering the... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6864949 | Method of manufacturing flat display element In a method of manufacturing a flat display element, an electrode pattern is formed on each of a pair of substrates, and a product seal surrounding the electrode pattern and an outside seal having an air vent and surrounding the outside of the product seal are forme... | 03/08/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6844905 | Alignment film, method for fabricating the alignment film, liquid crystal device, and projection type display device The invention provides an alignment film that is provided with a high alignment control force to a target molecule and less likely to cause problems to an element during the formation of the alignment film. An alignment film has a configuration in which, on a first ... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6797096 | Photo-alignment material and liquid crystal display device and its manufacturing method using the same A photo-alignment material, a liquid crystal display device using the photo-alignment material, and a manufacturing method. The photo-alignment material is a polymer having a photo-reactive ethenyl group on a main chain. When used as a photo-alignment layer, the pho... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6764724 | Alignment layer for a 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 (spacer S is oxygen, m=10˜10,0... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6762538 | Electroluminescence element with mixture of electroluminescence material and orientating material A polarized electroluminescence element used for a display is disclosed. The polarized electroluminescence element includes a substrate, an orientation-inducing layer situated on the substrate and in a first direction of orientation, and a light-emitting layer situa... | 07/13/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6756089 | Active-matrix liquid crystal display An active-matrix liquid crystal display device having a pair of substrates at least one of which is transparent, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the pair of substrates, a group of electrodes for applying to the liquid crystal layer an electric field substant... | 06/29/2004 |
