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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8089606 | Reflective display panel and device A reflective display panel is provided. The reflective display panel includes a liquid crystal layer, an upper substrate including a color filter and a transparent substrate, and a lower substrate including an absorption plate which faces a color filter and a reflec... | 01/03/2012 |
| 7929106 | Liquid crystal display comprising a void region and method of manufacturing same A liquid crystal display is disclosed, including first and second opposing substrates separated by a cell gap. The cell gap has an inner liquid crystal region including a liquid crystal composition, an outer sealant region including a sealant that bonds the first an... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7920245 | Light-modulating material with transmissivity changing in electrified state and vehicle using the same A light-modulating material includes a transparent front surface layer, an intermediate layer including a liquid crystal forming an isotropic phase and a transparent back surface layer, laminated in this order. ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7898639 | Polymer dispersed liquid crystal display with light emitted layer on the substrate and method of fabricating the same There are provided a polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) display not using a backlight unit and a method of fabricating the same. The PDLC display comprises a rear substrate over which a thin film transistor (TFT), a first electrode, and a second electrode are f... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7420647 | Method for producing liquid crystal display device having a controlled parameter to obtain prescribed optical characteristics The present invention relates to a method for producing a liquid crystal display device, in which a pretilt angle and a tilt direction upon application of a voltage of liquid crystal molecules are controlled by using a polymer and is to provide a method for producin... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7402332 | Liquid crystal display A main object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display using a ferroelectric liquid crystal, showing the mono-stability operation mode using a material showing the chiral smectic C phase via the smectic A phase in the temperature lowering proc... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7381349 | Process for producing liquid crystal of desired properties by mixing together at least two rigid rodlike helical polymers with narrow molecular weight distributions and different weight-average molecular weights with chiral side chains A process to produce a polymer liquid crystalline composition having temperature dependency of desired circular polarization selective reflection wave length property by only mixing two or more kinds of starting materials having different weight-average molecular we... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7332201 | Optically functional layer, method of forming optically functional layer, and liquid crystal display element The present invention is to solve a problem that, conventionally, there is a risk of impurity elution when the optical retardation control layer obtainable by photopolymerization comes into contact with the liquid crystal layer because of the deterioration in heat r... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333255 | Laser processing device A laser condensing optical system of the present invention includes a laser beam source which emits a laser beam, a condensing optical system which is arranged between the laser beam source and a medium and condenses the laser beam in the medium, and a laser diverge... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7326451 | Rotatory polarization plate, optical element, light condensation backlight system and liquid crystal display A rotatory polarization plate capable of extracting an emission polarized light from an incident polarized light and rotating an azimuth angle of an polarization axis of the incident polarized light, wherein a rotatory polarization angle of the azimuth angle is chan... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7289178 | Liquid crystal display and method of manufacturing the same The invention relates to a liquid crystal display used as a display section of an electronic apparatus and a method of manufacturing the same, and it is aimed at providing a liquid crystal display which can achieve high viewing angle characteristics and a method of ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286387 | Reducing the effect of write disturbs in polymer memories The write disturb that occurs in polymer memories may be reduced by writing back data after a read in a fashion which offsets any effect on the polarity of bits in bit lines associated with the addressed bit. For example, each time the data is written back, its pola... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286111 | Apparatus for electro-optically writing a display A display writer for writing on a light writable display of the type having a layer of cholesteric liquid crystal material disposed between two conductors, the cholesteric liquid crystal material having multiple stable optical states at zero electrical field; and a ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7265903 | Switchable polymer-dispersed liquid crystal optical elements Transmission and reflection type holograms may be formed utilizing a novel polymer-dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) material and its unique switching characteristics to form optical elements. Applications for these switchable holograms include communications switches... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7253871 | Efficient room-temperature source of polarized single photons An efficient technique for producing deterministically polarized single photons uses liquid-crystal hosts of either monomeric or oligomeric/polymeric form to preferentially align the single emitters for maximum excitation efficiency. Deterministic molecular alignmen... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7195813 | Mixed absorber layer for displays The present invention relates to a display and a method for making the display comprising a substrate, an electrically modulated imaging layer, a first transparent conductive layer, and a dark light absorbing layer comprising a binder and a blend of nonconductive co... | 03/27/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7169449 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device produced through the steps of injecting a polymerizable monomer-containing liquid crystal composition between two substrates and, while applying a voltage between opposing transparent electrodes of the substrates, polymerizing the mon... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7169448 | Optical compensator and liquid crystal display l The invention relates to an optical compensator for liquid crystal displays comprising at least one O plate retarder, and at least one twisted A plate retarder with a twist angle φ of more than 90°, and... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7151584 | Thin film transistor liquid crystal display device for reducing color shift An LCD device (2) includes a pair of substrates (21, 22), a liquid crystal layer (27) contained between the pair of substrates, and a plurality of pixel and common electrodes (25, 26) formed on the pair of substrates, respectively. In whi... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7151581 | Liquid crystal display with light transmission regions and light reflection regions A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate; a second substrate; a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; a first polarizer provided on a surface of the first substrate which is on the opposite side to th... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7125590 | Liquid crystal film and liquid crystal display device equipped with same Liquid crystal films with excellent heat resistance and mechanical strength are provided. A liquid crystal film is obtained by fixing an aligned liquid crystal material containing at least a side chain-type polymeric liquid crystalline substance obtained by h... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7101595 | Photo-curable fluorene derivative and composition containing the same The present invention provides a compound represented by formula (1) defined in the specification. The invention further provides a liquid crystal composition comprising at least two compounds, which at least one compound out of them is the above compound. The inven... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7095474 | Patterns of electrically conducting polymers and their application as electrodes or electrical contacts Electronic devices having patterned electrically conductive polymers providing electrical connection thereto and methods of fabrication thereof are described. Liquid crystal display cells are described having at least one of the electrodes providing a bias across th... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7070711 | Polymerizable liquid crystalline composition and liquid crystal film produced from the same Liquid crystalline compositions contain no functional group the synthesis of which is difficult, such as (meth)acrylate and epoxy group and comprise (A) an oxetane compound having an optically active portion, (B) a side chain liquid crystalline polymeric substance h... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7068405 | Switchable polymer-dispersed liquid crystal optical elements Transmission and reflection type holograms may be formed utilizing a novel polymer-dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) material and its unique switching characteristics to form optical elements. Applications for these switchable holograms include communications switches... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7068345 | Optical device An optical device in which a polymerizable liquid crystal material various optical characteristics of which is stable even against heating during manufacture of an optical apparatus such as an image display is cured. The optical device has a support and an optical f... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7057680 | Liquid crystal device having discotic liquid crystal and rod-shaped liquid crystal in mutually separate phases A liquid crystal device showing performances, such as good viewing angle characteristic, high contrast, high-speed responsiveness, high resolution and high productivity is given by forming a layer of discotic liquid crystal placed in an edge-on and uniaxial alignmen... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7057687 | Method of patterning cholesteric film using a laser and optical element having the cholesteric film patterned by the method The present invention provides a method of efficiently and precisely patterning cholesteric films. A cholesteric film 13 is firstly formed on an alignment film 12 provided on a glass substrate 11. The cholesteric film 13 is then patterned... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7042549 | Tunable electronic lens and prisms using inhomogeneous nano scale liquid crystal droplets Using inhomogeneous sized liquid crystal (LC) droplets for lens and prisms. For forming a positive lens, the LC droplet size can gradually increase from the center to the side edges. For forming a negative lens, the LC droplet size can gradually decrease from the ce... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7034909 | Super broad-band polarizing reflective material Disclosed are super broadband circularly polarizing film materials and novels methods of fabricating and using the same. The circularly polarizing materials are made from a film of material, such as a CLC polymer having a cholesteric order, in which a liquid crystal... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7011870 | Liquid crystal optical element and method for its production A liquid crystal/cured composite layer is formed by sandwiching a mixture of a liquid crystal with an uncured curable compound i.e. a curable compound represented by a structure of an acryloyl group-(OR1)n—O-mesogen structural portion-O—(R | 03/14/2006 |
| 7008675 | Polymers for 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... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7009677 | LCD device implementing FLCP orientation film A liquid crystal display device having first and second substrates with an interposed liquid crystal layer that has a negative or a positive dielectric anisotropy. First and second electrodes are formed on opposing surfaces of the first and second substrates. A firs... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7006192 | Optical element The present invention provides an optical element capable of keeping the accuracy even in the case of use in an optical device such as an image display apparatus, without the risk of fluctuation of the optical characteristics even in the case a load is applied at th... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7002642 | Autostereoscopic display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same The present invention provides a three-dimension display apparatus which includes a liquid crystal display; a first polarizer on the rear surface of the liquid crystal display; a second polarizer on the front surface of the liquid crystal display; a liquid crystal p... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6995825 | Process for preparing films of polymerized liquid crystal material having a first film of a polymerized liquid crystal material with uniform orientation and a second film of a polymerized liquid crystal material with uniform orientation directly on the first film The invention relates to a process of preparing films and multilayers comprising polymerized liquid crystal material with uniform orientation, to films and multilayers obtained by said process and their use for optical and electrooptical applications. ... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6958791 | Liquid crystal display To reduce viewing angle dependence of γ characteristics in a normally black liquid crystal display. Each pixel 10 has a first sub-pixel 10a and a second sub-pixel 10b which can apply mutually different voltages to their res... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6953611 | Anisotropic polymer film An anisotropic polymer film comprising a polymeriZed chiral liquid crystal material with helically twisted structure and having areas with different helical twist sense is useful for decorative or security applications. ... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6909476 | Color polymer dispersed liquid crystal display and method for manufacture thereof A color polymer dispersed liquid crystal display includes a lower substrate, an upper substrate, color liquid crystal-polymer films, and two transparent liquid crystal driving electrodes, among others. The color liquid crystal-polymer films are formed by foaming pol... | 06/21/2005 |
