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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7892711 | Azo compound, composition for photo-alignment film using the same, and method for producing photo-alignment film An azo compound of the present invention is represented by the general formula (1): (wherein, R1 and R2 each independently represents a hydroxy group, or a polymerizable functional group selected from ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7867672 | Reimageable paper protected against UV light An image forming medium includes a substrate; an imaging layer including an imaging material coated on said substrate, wherein the imaging material exhibits a reversible transition between a colorless state and a colored state; and a protective layer over the imagin... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7842441 | Norbornene polymer for photoresist and photoresist composition comprising the same Disclosed herein is a photoresist composition which includes a norbornene copolymer having an epoxy group, an acid generator, and an organic solvent. The norbornene polymer shows superior mechanical and thermal properties, high transparency, excellent insulating pro... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7727686 | Method of making LC polymer film To provide a method of making a film of organic material excellent in moisture barrier property and/or oxygen barrier property and also to provide an electronic device excellent in long term stability, in which the film obtained by such film making method is utilize... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7615325 | Compositions for liquid crystal display This invention relates to compositions and an assembly process for the manufacture of liquid crystal displays. The assembly process is especially advantageous because it can be easily scalable to roll-to-roll continuous manufacturing of liquid crystal displays. The ... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7608371 | Method of modifying liquid crystal polymers A method of modifying liquid crystal polymers, which involves a step of irradiating a liquid crystal polymer with the laser beam having a pulse width of 10−12 seconds or less. Using the invention method, the physical strength of the liquid crystal polym... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7517620 | Method for fabricating array substrate having color filter on thin film transistor structure for liquid crystal display device A method for fabricating an array substrate having a color filter on a thin film transistor structure for a liquid crystal display device is disclosed in the present invention. The method for fabricating the array substrate includes forming a gate line and a data li... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7507507 | Liquid crystal display device The invention provides a liquid crystal display device in which incorporation of an organic compound into liquid crystal due to a display defect can be reduced to a great extent. In the liquid crystal display device, a film containing a hydrocarbon represented by th... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7462427 | Liquid crystal compounds with branched or cyclic end groups The use of a mesogenic compound having a terminal end chain comprising carbon, oxygen, or sulphur, which has at least one pendent C1-4alkyl, C1-4alkoxy or a cycloalkyl ring, arranged no more than 6 atoms from the end of the chain either decreas... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7442475 | Cyanopyridone derivatives as liquid crystals The invention relates to cyanopyridone derivatives, to their use in liquid crystal media, liquid crystal devices, anisotropic polymers, optical, electrooptical, decorative, security, cosmetic, diagnostic, pharmaceutic, electric, electronic, charge transport, semicon... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7439000 | High clarity cholesteric liquid crystal films Cholesteric liquid crystal compositions are disclosed that produce high clarity cholesteric liquid crystal films. The cholesteric liquid crystal compositions are a reaction product of a cholesteric liquid crystal compound of formula (I) R—R1... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7435516 | Photosensitive material for non-substrate liquid crystal display The present invention provides a photosensitive material for non-substrate liquid crystal display. This photosensitive material includes photo-initiator selected from the free-radical type or cation type photo-initiator or mixture thereof, photosensitive polymerizab... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7435357 | Polymerised liquid crystal film with retardation or orientation pattern The invention relates to a polymerised liquid crystal (LC) film comprising at least one photoisomerisable compound and having a pattern of regions with different retardation and/or different orientation of the LC material, to methods of preparing such a film, and to... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7435456 | Optical compensation film, polarizing plate and liquid crystal display An optical compensation film is provided and includes a first optically anisotropic layer and a second optically anisotropic layer. It is characterized in that the first optically anisotropic layer includes discotic liquid crystal and the second optically anisotropi... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7431971 | Retardation plate A retardation plate is provided and includes: a transparent support; and an optically anisotropic layer formed from a discotic liquid crystalline compound. The discotic liquid crystalline compound has a molecule oriented and fixed with an angle between a discotic pl... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7431972 | Optical film, and polarizing plate and liquid crystal display device using the same An optical film comprising an optically anisotropic layer including a liquid crystalline compound, wherein the optically anisotropic layer satisfies the following formulae: Re(450)/Re(650) | 10/07/2008 |
| 7429437 | Diffractive optical element and method of manufacture A diffractive optical element such as a diffuser, diffraction grating, and/or hologram, can be manufactured by using a surface relief pattern on a surface of a surface relief tool. A layer of curable material is physically contacted with the surface relief pattern o... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7427363 | Composition for forming liquid crystal film, optically anisotropic film, and production method thereof A simple technique for introducing a hybrid alignment or a homeotropic (vertical) alignment into liquid crystal films, which, by their nature, tend to have a horizontal alignment of liquid crystal molecules. The technique does not require special alignment films. | 09/23/2008 |
| 7427364 | Liquid crystal composition, liquid crystal element, and cross-linked siloxane polymer The present invention provides a liquid crystal composition obtained by dissolving a dichroic dye in a mixture of a cross-linked polymer having a liquid crystalline group in the side chains and a low molecular weight liquid crystal, and preferably the cross-linked p... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7425394 | 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 cooling proce... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7425395 | Liquid crystal display device There is disclosed a liquid crystal display device having two substrates which are placed opposite to each other with a liquid crystal material sandwiched therebetween. A phase plate is formed on the liquid-crystal side surface of one of the substrates. The phase pl... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7425282 | Polymer liquid crystal device and fabrication method thereof A polymer liquid crystal device. The polymer liquid crystal device is fabricated by the following steps. A first substrate is provided, and a coating of a photosensitive composition is formed on the first substrate. Next, a second substrate is disposed on the first ... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7422777 | N,N′-dicycloalkyl-substituted naphthalene-based tetracarboxylic diimide compounds as n-type semiconductor materials for thin film transistors A thin film transistor comprises a layer of organic semiconductor material comprising a tetracarboxylic diimide naphthalene-based compound having, attached to each of the imide nitrogen atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted alicyclic ring system, optionally substitu... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7419620 | Dichroic mixtures A mesogenic, crosslinkable mixture comprising at least one polymerisable liquid crystal and at least one polymerisable dichroic dye of the general formula I: wherein A represents a dichroic residue exhibiting at lea... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7419707 | Coating composition for the formation of low refractive index layer, antireflection film, polarizing plate and liquid crystal display device A coating composition for the formation of a low refractive index layer, comprising: a fluorine-containing olefin-based polymer that has a polysiloxane segment represented by formula 1 in its main chain, has a fluorine content of 30 mass % or more, and contains a pl... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7416683 | Liquid crystal mixed composition and retardation film using same The invention relates to a liquid crystal mixed-composition comprising one or more cellulose derivatives and one or more liquid crystal compounds (preferably low-molecular liquid crystal compound) which can be oriented in a specific direction differing from that of ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7416818 | Switchable volume hologram materials and devices A new photopolymerizable material allows single-step, fast recording of volume holograms with properties that can be electrically controlled. Polymer-dispersed liquid crystals (PDLCs) in accordance with the invention preferably comprise a homogeneous mixture of a ne... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7416682 | Photochromic liquid crystals The invention relates to novel photochromic liquid crystal materials which may be used in various electro-optic devices including liquid crystal devices. The materials can be converted into another form on irradiation by light which may make it feasible for them to ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7417111 | Liquid crystalline epoxy resins Liquid crystalline epoxy compounds, compositions including the compounds, and methods of using the compositions are disclosed. In one aspect, an epoxy compound may have a melting point that is less than 140° C. and may be liquid crystalline at a temperature greater... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7413678 | Electrically switchable polymer-dispersed liquid crystal materials A new photopolymerizable material allows single-step, fast recording of volume holograms with properties that can be electrically controlled. Polymer-dispersed liquid crystals (PDLCs) in accordance with the invention preferably comprise a homogeneous mixture of a ne... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7410677 | Organosilicon compound-containing polymerizable liquid-crystal composition An object of the invention is to provide a polymerizable liquid-crystal composition for obtaining a liquid-crystal film having good adhesiveness to supporting substrates. A polymerizable liquid-crystal layer of controlled alignment can be formed from the polymerizab... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7407603 | Liquid crystal device, compositions and method of manufacture A liquid crystal device comprises a layer of a liquid crystal material contained between two spaced-apart cell walls with electrodes for applying an electric field across at least some of the liquid crystal material. At least one of the cell walls includes an alignm... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7407692 | Chiral nematic liquid crystal composition, liquid crystal display device, and production method thereof A chiral nematic liquid crystal composition, characterized in that a self-organizing type gelling agent is contained and the phase transition temperature between liquid crystal and isotropic phases is higher than the sol-gel transition temperature, a liquid crystal ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7404993 | Liquid crystal display device and method of fabricating the same A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate; a second substrate facing the first substrate; a pixel electrode on the first substrate; a common electrodes on the second substrate; a first alignment layer on the pixel electrode; a second alignment layer... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7405778 | Liquid crystal display and fabrication method thereof An LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) includes a first panel having a first resolution; a second panel having a second resolution, the second resolution lower than the first resolution; and a compensation pattern on an array substrate of the second panel for maintaining a... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7405026 | Liquid crystal composition A nematic liquid crystal composition includes at least one of liquid crystal compounds containing a trans-4-trifluoromethoxycyclohexyl group in a backbone, in which the number of an intramolecular cyclohexane ring is 2 to 4; at least one of compounds in which Δε i... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7399427 | Liquid crystal composition and liquid crystal display element Liquid crystal compositions are provided having a high “higher limit temperature” of a nematic phase, a low “lower limit temperature” of a nematic phase, small viscosity, suitable optical anisotropy, low threshold voltage and large specific resistance. The c... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7399562 | Transition film of flat panel display and a method using the same A flat panel display comprising a liquid crystal module, a backlight module, and a transition film is disclosed. The backlight module provides light to the liquid crystal module, and the transition film is disposed above the liquid crystal module. The transition fil... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7390610 | Color forming composition The present disclosure discloses a color former phase. According to one exemplary embodiment discussed herein, an exemplary color former phase includes at least one color former, a radiation absorber, and an acrylic resin, in which the color former, the radiation ab... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7390434 | Method and apparatus for producing film from polymer solution, and optical polymer film A dope containing cellulose acylate as a main content of polymer is cast on a front surface of a moving belt in a method of producing a film from a solution. A drying apparatus is confronted to a back surface of said belt to evaporate a solvent in the gel-like film.... | 06/24/2008 |
