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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189138 | Transfer material, process for producing a color filter using the same, a color filter and liquid crystal display device A transfer material comprising at least one optically anisotropic layer and at least one photosensitive polymer layer on at least one support, wherein said optically anisotropic layer comprises one or more compounds having a reactive group, and said photosensitive p... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8111355 | Polymer-dispersed liquid crystal transflective LCD and method for designing the same A method for designing a polymer-dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) transflective liquid crystal display (LCD) is provided. The method includes mixing liquid crystal (LC) molecules and polymer monomers to obtain a mixture. The method further includes injecting the mixt... | 02/07/2012 |
| 7859615 | Display device having ultraviolet ray transmitting small holes included in a wiring electrode disposed in the peripheral region of the display but not where a seal member is disposed In a display apparatus that has a polymer dispersed liquid crystal material 25 encapsulated in a gap between a completed first substrate 1 and a completed second substrate 11 by using a sealing member 26 and has a display region M and a p... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7843531 | Liquid crystal display device and manufacturing method therefor To provide a liquid crystal display device of high image quality, and a manufacturing method therefor. A polymerizable compound in a liquid crystal composition is polymerized in a state that liquid crystal molecules present in a gap between a pixel electrode and at ... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7643108 | Liquid crystal display panel A liquid crystal display panel is provided. The panel comprises a first substrate and a second substrate which have a display area and a non-display area, which is located around the display area. The panel comprises a plurality of dummy pixel structures in the non-... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7586561 | Liquid crystal display and method of manufacturing the same The invention has an object to provide a liquid crystal display in which a wide angle of view is obtained and a response time at a halftone can be shortened by regulating an alignment orientation of a liquid crystal by the use of a polymer fixation system in which a... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7561227 | Liquid crystal display device and fabrication method thereof A liquid crystal display device comprises a liquid crystal layer formed between first and second substrates, the liquid crystal layer being divided into at least two layers. ... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7446830 | Method for aligning polymer network liquid crystal Disclosed is a method for aligning polymer network liquid crystal. In the method, alignment of liquid crystal in a bulk state is controlled by means of an orientation power of polymer material itself which is formed by irradiating linearly polarized ultraviolet rays... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7423700 | Liquid crystal device for compensating for aberration, optical pickup including liquid crystal device, and optical recording and/or reproducing apparatus employing optical pickup Provided are an aberration-compensating liquid crystal device, a method of manufacturing the same, an optical pickup including the liquid crystal device, and an optical recording and/or reproducing apparatus employing the optical pickup. The method of manufacturing ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7408601 | Electronically tunable polarization-independent micro lens using polymer network twisted nematic liquid crystal Inhomogeneous concentrated polymer network with approximately 90° twisted nematic liquid crystal (TN-LC) is used for fabricating lens and prisms. For forming a positive lens, the approximately 90° TN-LC polymer network concentration can gradually decrease from the... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7372535 | Liquid crystal display and method of fabricating the same An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display, which can surely perform an instillation process used when liquid crystal is sealed between substrates in a cell process, and a fabrication method thereof. A liquid crystal display comprises ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372533 | Substrate for liquid crystal display and liquid crystal display utilizing the same It is an object of the invention to provide a substrate for a liquid crystal display having optical transmittance improved without reducing the speed of a response to a tone change and a liquid crystal display utilizing the same. There is provided a drain bus line f... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7361389 | Smectic liquid crystal device and process for producing the same A smectic liquid crystal device and process for producing the same are provided to realize uniform orientation of a smectic liquid crystal with no nematic phase in a phase sequence represented by an antiferroelectric liquid crystal; and a process for producing the s... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7345719 | Liquid crystal display device's substrate, liquid crystal display device including the same, and manufacturing method of the same The invention relates to a manufacturing method of a liquid crystal display device in which an alignment direction of a liquid crystal molecule at the time of driving is regulated by using a polymer, and has an object to provide a manufacturing method of a liquid cr... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7329906 | Semiconductor device and method for forming the same A low temperature process for fabricating a high-performance and reliable semiconductor device in high yield, comprising forming a silicon oxide film as a gate insulator by chemical vapor deposition using TEOS as a starting material under an oxygen, ozone, or a nitr... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7227603 | Liquid-crystal electro-optical apparatus and method of manufacturing the same A liquid crystal device comprising: a pair of substrates having an electrode arrangement thereon; an orientation control means provided on at least one of said substrates; and a ferroelectric or an... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7176992 | Methods of fabricating PDLC optical devices A method of fabricating an optical device by providing a nematic liquid crystal; providing a photo-curable pre-polymer mixture; mixing the nematic liquid crystal with the photo-curable pre-polymer mixture to form a homogeneous nematic/pre-polymer mixture, with the n... | 02/13/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7139055 | Liquid crystal display device having liquid crystal domains with radially-inclined orientation The liquid crystal display device of this invention includes a vertical alignment type liquid crystal layer between a first substrate and a second substrate. A picture element region is defined by a first electrode provided on the surface of the first substrate faci... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7123320 | Electro-optical device A liquid crystal electro-optical device comprising a pair of substrates at least one of them is light-transmitting, electrodes being provided on said substrates, and an electro-optical modulating layer being supported by said pair of substrates, provided that said e... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7123319 | Liquid crystal display laminate and method of manufacturing such comprising a stratified-phase-separated composite A liquid crystal display laminate comprises a liquid crystal layer and a single substrate for confining that layer, allowing the liquid crystal layer to be provided using a wet deposition method such as printing or coating. To improve mechanical stability and provid... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7113241 | Liquid crystal display and method of manufacturing the same The invention has an object to provide a liquid crystal display in which a wide angle of view is obtained and a response time at a halftone can be shortened by regulating an alignment orientation of a liquid crystal by the use of a polymer fixation system in which a... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7102706 | Method for aligning polymer network liquid crystal Disclosed is a method for aligning polymer network liquid crystal. In the method, alignment of liquid crystal in a bulk state is controlled by means of an orientation power of polymer material itself which is formed by irradiating linearly polarized ultraviolet rays... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7079203 | Electrically tunable polarization-independent micro lens using polymer network twisted nematic liquid crystal Inhomogeneous concentrated polymer network with approximately 90° twisted nematic liquid crystal (TN-LC) is used for fabricating lens and prisms. For forming a positive lens, the approximately 90° TN-LC polymer network concentration can gradually decrease from the... | 07/18/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7002537 | Method of driving electrooptic device, driving circuit, electrooptic device, and electronic apparatus To provide a highly versatile device which can produce a gray-scale display by applying two-level signals to data lines. When producing an 8-level gray-scale display, a single frame (1f) is divided into a first time period T1 to apply two-level ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6970211 | Bistable nematic liquid crystal device A bistable liquid crystal device is made from a cell having first and second opposed spaced-apart cell walls enclosing a layer of nematic liquid crystal material having a photopolymerisable polymer precursor dissolved therein. Electrodes for applying an electric fie... | 11/29/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6942906 | Resin sheets containing dispersed particles, processes for producing the same, and liquid crystal displays A resin sheet containing dispersed particles which is thin and lightweight, and has excellent mechanical strength and light-diffusing properties. The resin sheets may be used in liquid crystal displays. A resin sheet having a hard coat layer, an epoxy resin layer co... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6937300 | Liquid crystal display device and method of fabricating the same When radiating light onto a liquid crystal composition containing a photosensitive material, the alignment of liquid crystal molecules is adjusted by applying a voltage to the liquid crystal composition layer, to achieve substantially orderly alignment of the liquid... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6936313 | Resin sheets containing dispersed particles, processes for producing the same, and liquid crystal displays A resin sheet containing dispersed particles which is thin, lightweight, and has excellent mechanical strength and light-diffusing properties. The resin sheets may be used in liquid crystal displays. A resin sheet having a hard coat layer, an epoxy resin layer conta... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6933013 | Vacuum deposition of dielectric coatings on volatile material In order to allow application of any coating under a vacuum over a volatile gelatinous layer, such as polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) on an optical glass substrate with a transparent electrode, such as indium tin oxide (ITO) on its surface, a layer of an int... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6909478 | Method for producing cholesteric liquid crystal color filters The present invention provides a method for producing a cholesteric liquid crystal color filter having excellent color pixel resolution. The method features forming a liquid crystal layer which includes a cholesteric liquid crystal composition containing at least a ... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6906768 | Multi-domain liquid crystal display device with particular dielectric structures The present multi-domain liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates facing each other; a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates; a first dielectric frame on one side of the pixel region; a second dielectric frame on anot... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6903787 | Liquid crystal display device's substrate, liquid crystal display device including the same, and manufacturing method of the same The invention relates to a manufacturing method of a liquid crystal display device in which an alignment direction of a liquid crystal molecule at the time of driving is regulated by using a polymer, and has an object to provide a manufacturing method of a liquid cr... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6894742 | Liquid crystal display device and method of fabricating the same A method of fabricating a liquid crystal display device including the steps of forming a liquid crystal layer by filling a liquid crystal composition containing a polymerizable monomer into a gap between a pair of substrates having electrodes; and polymerizing the m... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6894741 | Liquid crystal display device and method of fabricating the same When radiating light onto a liquid crystal composition containing a photosensitive material, the alignment of liquid crystal molecules is adjusted by applying a voltage to the liquid crystal composition layer, to achieve substantially orderly alignment of the liquid... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6825892 | Liquid crystal display device and method of fabricating the same When radiating light onto a liquid crystal composition containing a photosensitive material, the alignment of liquid crystal molecules is adjusted by applying a voltage to the liquid crystal composition layer, to achieve substantially orderly alignment of the liquid... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6788360 | Stacked liquid cell with liquid-polymer stratified phase separated composite A stacked liquid cell, such as a stacked liquid crystal cell, comprises a stack of liquid layers and substrate layers between which the liquid layers are dispersed. The stack comprises a liquid and polymeric substrate layers made from a stratified-phase-separated co... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6778229 | Liquid crystal display device and method of fabricating the same When radiating light onto a liquid crystal composition containing a photosensitive material, the alignment of liquid crystal molecules is adjusted by applying a voltage to the liquid crystal composition layer, to achieve substantially orderly alignment of the liquid... | 08/17/2004 |
