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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7678292 | Liquid crystal dopants An ionic dopant comprising a sulfur or a phosphorus containing anion with a randon cation, for use in a smectic A liquid crystal composition. The cation preferably comprises a quaternary ammonium cation. ... | 03/16/2010 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7364671 | Optical component, orientation layer, and layerable polymerisable mixture A polymerisable mixture that can be applied as a layer, an orientation layer of the mixture, and an optical component, such as a retarder or a liquid crystal display, having a layer of which the mixture is a precursor. ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7365939 | Dynamic-pressure bearing device and disk drive An ionic liquid is utilized as the dynamic-pressure fluid charged inside a bearing space formed in the gap where an axial bushing (axial component) [21] and a bearing sleeve (bearing component) [13] oppose. Designing a dynamic-pressure bearing device i... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7294370 | Aligned lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal films An aligned film comprises a dried mixture of a lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal material and a dopant selected from the group consisting of dyes having a molecular weight within one order of magnitude of the liquid crystal material and block co-polymers. An exampl... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7258902 | Chiral 3,4-dihydro-2H-pyran compounds The invention relates to chiral 3,4-dihydro-2H-pyran compounds and diastereomers thereof, and to the use of these compounds as chiral dopants for liquid-crystalline systems. The invention furthermore relates to non-polymerizable or polymerizable liquid-crysta... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7166238 | Liquid-crystalline ionic conductor and method for producing the same A novel liquid-crystalline ionic conductor, which is useful in the electric, electronic, chemical and bioengineering fields, as an anisotropic reaction solvent, ionic conductor, electric field-responsible conductor or the like, and a method for producing the same, i... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7150900 | Liquid-crystal compositions comprising chiral compounds The invention relates to a class of compounds useful as chiral dopants, which compounds are available in both enantiomeric forms, in liquid-crystal formulations. Such formulations are advantageous in displays and various other products. ... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7122227 | Chiral photoisomerizable compounds The invention relates to chiral photoisomerizable compounds of formula (I) wherein X1, X2, X3, X4, X5 and X6 have the meanings given in claim 1, to liquid crystalline mixtures and polymers cont... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7097888 | Aligned liquid crystal layer containing azolium salts and process for increasing the tilt Disclosed is a multilayer film comprising a substrate bearing an aligned liquid crystal layer wherein the aligned liquid crystal layer contains an azolium salt represented by formula (I): wherein the subscri... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7052743 | Chiral compounds and compositions containing the same The invention relates to a novel class of compounds useful as chiral dopants, which compounds are available in both enantiomeric forms. Another aspect of the invention relates to such compounds having a enantiomeric excess of one enantiomeric form, which are useful ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7014891 | Response to the negative-type liquid crystals The present invention relates to a method of improving the response times and bulk on-state alignments of negative-type liquid crystals by providing a liquid crystal material that comprises at least one negative-type mesogen comprising at least one soluble, dipolar ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6936186 | Mesomorphic compound, polymeric mesomorphic compound, and electrolyte and secondary battery including same A mesomorphic compound having an ionic conductivity is used as an electrolyte for a secondary battery, etc. The mesomorphic compound has a partial structure which includes (a) a mesomorphic mesogen group and (b) two divalent groups. Each of the two divalent groups i... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6863841 | Oxadiazole derivative and its use as charge transport and light emitting material New oxadiazole derivatives comprising one or more identical or different recurring units of formula I wherein W, M, w, m1, m2, p1, p2, and Y1 to Y4 are as defined herein are suitable for use in li... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6852248 | Dopants for liquid-crystal devices High-dielectric colorless or virtually colorless dopants for low-voltage and tunable clearing temperature liquid-crystal devices. These dopant compounds help reduce the operation voltage for both polar and non-polar liquid-crystal (LC) mixtures. Methods for making a... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6835427 | Optically active compound and liquid crystal composition containing the compound An optically active compound containing 5,5′,6,6′,7,7′,8,8′-octahydro-1,1′-bi-2-naphthol of the general formula (1) as an asymmetric source, wherein n is an integer of 1 to 10, Y is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl gr... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6723395 | Chiral compounds The invention relates to chiral compounds of formula I, to liquid crystal mixtures comprising at least one chiral compound of formula I, to chiral linear or crosslinked liquid crystal polymers obtainable by polymerizing ... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6699532 | Optically active compound and liquid crystal composition containing the compound An optically active compound of the general formula (1) useful as a chiral dopant, and use thereof for a liquid crystal composition, ##STR1## the above optically active compound having a remarkably large helical twisting power (HTP) of as large as 50 or m... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6695977 | Use of chiral, uncharged metal compounds as dopants for liquid-crystalline materials Improved liquid crystalline materials may be prepared by doping liquid crystalline materials with chiral, uncharged metal compounds of formula [(P1 --Y1 --A1 --Y2 --M1 --Y3 --)n ... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6682823 | Curable composition for polymer electrolyte It is the object of the present invention to provide a curable composition capable of giving a polymer electrolyte showing a high level of ionic conductivity and excellent mechanical strength as well. The invention provides a curable composition for polym... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6680003 | Chiral doping agents with variable spiral pitch induction and application thereof to a reflective color display The present invention concerns chiral doping agents allowing a modification to be induced in the spiral pitch of a cholesteric liquid crystal, said doping agents including a biactivated chiral unit at least one of whose functions allows a chemical link to... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6677042 | Polymer beads The invention relates to polymer beads comprising an anisotropic polymer material with helically twisted structure, to their use in reflective films, spraying or printing inks or as pigments, for optical or electrooptical, decorative or security applicati... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6673643 | Method of manufacturing a EL display device To decrease the number of layers while keeping or improving the performance of an EL element, so that the production cost is reduced. Cathodes (106, 107), a light emitting layer (108), an anode (109), and a passivation film (110) are formed on pixel elect... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6660183 | Self-doped conductive polymer, monomer for synthesizing self-doped conductive polymer, and processes of producing the same A process for producing an aromatic monomer for synthesizing a self-doped conductive polymer, the process comprising: introducing an alkoxysulfonic acid group as a self-doping group to a benzene or naphthalene derivative having a hydroxyl group bonded to a... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6649226 | Liquid crystal material and liquid crystal display A dissociating substance and its salt are added to a liquid crystal to keep the amount of ions included in the liquid crystal constant under temperature variation and to prevent alignment disorder in the liquid crystal due to static electricity and uneven... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6645576 | Active matrix type liquid crystal display and liquid crystal material An active matrix liquid crystal display device is provided, in which an after image remaining after removing an application of a direct current voltage is suppressed. The active matrix liquid crystal display device has a liquid crystal layer containing a ... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6599442 | Temperature measurement and temperature controlled switching based on helical sense dependent liquid crystal phases Helical arrays comprising structurally different chiral non-racemic molecules or molecular entities that control the helical sense of the helical array provide a method for temperature measurement with a unique characteristic in that the temperature depen... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6569504 | Mesogenic materials with anomalous birefringence dispersion and high second order susceptibility (X(2)) This invention provides LC compositions useful as birefringent materials in electrooptic devices which exhibit zero or low negatively sloped birefringence dispersioon (e.g., exhibiting positive birefringence dispersion significantly lower than that of cur... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6495066 | Dopants for improving the thermal and UV stability of high birefringence liquid crystals Specific dopants are provided that protect high birefringence liquid crystals from UV and thermal degradation. These dopants are called "amino-tolane" compounds and have a structure given by: ##STR1## where Rm and Rn are each indepen... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6495067 | Liquid crystal compound, liquid crystal mixture or composition, electrolyte comprising the same, electrochemical cell and photo-electrochemical cell containing the electrolyte A liquid crystal compound, preferably a molten iodine salt, an electrolyte comprising the same, and a photo-electrochemical cell are disclosed. The electrolyte is little volatile and excellent in charge transporting performance and provides a photo-electr... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6468443 | Colorless and low viscosity compounds for low voltage liquid crystal operation A colorless dopant is provided that has a viscosities approximately the same as that of liquid crystal compositions and supports low voltage operation. The dopants have one of three structures: (1) biphenyl; (2) diphenyl-diacetylene; and (3) double tolane... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6270652 | Organometallic containing mesophase pitches for spinning into pitch carbon fibers An improved process is disclosed for producing a unique metals-containing anisotropic pitch suitable for carbon fiber manufacture. Soluble, aromatic-organometallic compounds are added to a carbonaceous feedstock which is substantially free of mesophase pi... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6139771 | Mesogenic materials with anomalous birefringence dispersion and high second order susceptibility (X.sup.(2)). This invention provides LC compositions useful as birefringent materials in electrooptic devices which exhibit zero or low negatively sloped birefringence dispersion (e.g., exhibiting positive birefringence dispersion significantly lower than that of curr... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6099751 | Chiral compounds Chiral compounds of the formula I ##STR1## where: R1,R2,R3,R4 are hydrogen or aromatic, aliphatic or araliphatic radicals having 1 to 40 carbon atoms, R5,R6,R7,R8 are ... | 08/08/2000 |
| 5989451 | Compounds and methods for doping liquid crystal hosts This invention provides chiral thioindigo compounds for doping smectic liquid crystal hosts, wherein the compounds modulate a chiral bulk property of an induced chiral smectic liquid crystal phase upon irradiation at a wavelength in the visible range. Mod... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5985170 | Liquid crystal compositions and liquid crystal display devices A liquid crystal composition for a liquid crystal display device of supertwisted nematic mode characterized in that it comprises at least one compound selected from the group consisting of condensed heterocyclic compounds, aromatic amine compounds, alipha... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5753139 | High contrast distorted helix effect electro-optic devices and tight ferroelectric pitch ferroelectric pitch ferroelectric liquid crystal compositions useful therein Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals (FLCs) which exhibit a ferroelectric phase and a chiral nematic phase at temperatures above the ferroelectric phase are provided. The natural helix pitch of the FLC in the ferroelectric phase of these materials is sufficientl... | 05/19/1998 |
