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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8139189 | Liquid crystal display having particular oblique vapor deposition-alignment layer with ferroelectric liquid crystal A main object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display, using a ferroelectric liquid crystal exhibiting mono-stability, which makes it possible to control the direction of the spontaneous polarization of the ferroelectric liquid crystal. The l... | 03/20/2012 |
| 7755733 | Method of forming vertical inorganic alignment layer and liquid crystal display apparatus having the same A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a first display substrate, a second display substrate and a liquid crystal layer disposed therebetween. The first and second display substrates include first and second vertical inorganic alignment layers, respectively, to... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7728935 | Liquid crystal device and method for manufacturing the same There is provided a liquid crystal device including a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal being held between the first substrate and the second substrate, a base layer having alternating linear grooves and linear protrusions on at least one of the ... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7719648 | Manufacturing apparatus for liquid crystal device, manufacturing method for liquid crystal device, liquid crystal device and electronic device A manufacturing apparatus for a liquid crystal device having a pair of substrates facing each other, an oriented film formed on an facing surface of at least one substrate in the pair of the substrates, and a liquid crystal held between the pair of substrates, inclu... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7646458 | Liquid crystal display device and method of manufacturing the same Provided is a method of manufacturing an LCD device in which alignment films are formed by a method of printing non-contact alignment films on substrates. Print control patterns are provided between a sealing member and each of display regions. Each of the print con... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7483103 | Electro-optical device, method of manufacturing the same, and electronic apparatus A method of manufacturing an electro-optical device including a pair of substrates with an electro-optical material interposed therebetween includes forming an alignment film made of an inorganic material on a substrate surface of at least one of the substrates oppo... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7474372 | Liquid crystal display having a protective alignment film and fabricating method thereof A liquid crystal display device having liquid crystal cells arranged in a matrix type, includes a gate line for receiving a scanning signal; a data line for receiving a data signal; a pixel electrode provided at an intersection of the gate line and the data line to ... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7456920 | Method of manufacturing electro-optical device, device for manufacturing the same, electro-optical device and electronic apparatus A method of manufacturing an electro-optical device, the electro-optical device having a pair of substrates with an electro-optical material interposed therebetween, the method includes forming electrodes on a substrate surface of at least one substrate of the pair ... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7430030 | Bistable nematic liquid crystal display device A bistable nematic liquid crystal display device comprises two opposed cell walls enclosing a layer of a nematic liquid crystal material. An inner surface of each cell wall is provided with an electrode for applying an electric field across at least some of the liqu... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7374798 | Method and apparatus of forming alignment film In a method of manufacturing an LCD device, an atomic beam is irradiated onto a thin film including a carbon-carbon double bond to form a polarized functional group by transforming the carbon-carbon double bond into a carbon-carbon single bond and a radical state. T... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7330230 | Reflection type liquid crystal display element, display unit, projection optical system, and projection display system A superior reflex type vertically-aligned liquid crystal display device wherein the refractive index anisotropy Δn of its liquid crystal material is controlled to be more than 0.1, and the transmissivity of the liquid crystal is saturated with facility at a low vol... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7320815 | Method for forming oriented film, oriented film, substrate for electronic device, liquid crystal panel, and electronic device A method for forming an oriented film is provided for forming an oriented film on a base material by irradiating the surface of the base material where the oriented film will be formed with an ion beam comprising nitrogen ions from a direction inclined at a prescrib... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7316831 | Tilted vertical alignment of liquid crystals employing inorganic thin film composition and ion beam treatment A liquid crystal display device includes an alignment layer with constituent materials. The constituent materials have a stoichiometric relationship configured to provide a given pretilt angle. Liquid crystal material is provided in contact with the alignment layer.... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7300688 | Alignment layer comprising a first and second sublayer The invention pertains to an alignment layer capable of aligning liquid crystal material, the alignment layer comprising: a first sublayer having regions capable of aligning the liquid crystal material in a first alignment, a second sublayer having regions capable o... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7300692 | Rubbing cloth for use in manufacturing liquid crystal display panels The present invention provides a rubbing cloth for use in manufacturing liquid crystal display panels which consists of a velvet fabric having a ground sheet texture comprising warps and wefts, and pile yarns woven to the ground sheet texture in the warp direction, ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7298429 | Photoinduced switching liquid crystal device utilizing photoisomerization A fast and highly practical photoinduced switching liquid crystal device is provided. In the photoinduced switching liquid crystal device, in-plane switching of an optical anisotropic axis of dichroic nematic liquid crystal is performed at a high speed by lig... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7295273 | Liquid crystal display device having particular drain lines and orientation control window When the orientation of liquid crystal molecules in a pixel are divided by an orientation divider, a boundary of the orientation is produced at any part of the pixel. A drain signal line (54) is formed to overlap with the boundary so that a light-shielding re... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295274 | Flower-shaped vertical alignment liquid crystal displays with wide view angle and fast response time A novel vertical alignment liquid crystal display with a structure having a flower-shaped vertical alignment (FVA) has the properties of fast response, high contrast ratio and a wide view angle. The method for making the device and structure of the FVA comprises the... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7283191 | Liquid crystal display device and electronic apparatus wherein liquid crystal molecules having particular pre-tilt angle To provide a liquid crystal device with a high contrast ratio without deteriorating the aperture ratios of the respective pixels by reducing inferior alignment in liquid crystal, which is caused by alignment films, a liquid crystal device includes an element substra... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7264851 | Bistable nematic liquid crystal display device A bistable nematic liquid crystal display device comprises two cell walls enclosing a layer of nematic liquid crystal material having finely divided solid particles dispersed therein. At least one electrode on each cell wall applies an electric field across at least... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7256848 | Method and apparatus of alligning liquid crystal In a method and apparatus of aligning liquid crystal, a first ion beam is formed. The first ion beam is transformed into a second ion beam having transformed cross-section. The second ion beam advances toward a thin film including carbon-carbon double bond. The seco... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7227604 | Reflective liquid crystal display device having first and second obliquely evaporated alignment films, for preventing burn-in In a reflective liquid crystal display device according to the invention, burn-in in a long-term drive which occurs due to asymmetric structures of side surfaces of an inter-pixel groove can be prevented, and long-term drive reliability can be achieved. A first obli... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7193671 | Reflective liquid crystal display device having obliquely evaporated alignment film on vertically evaporated film, method of manufacturing the same, and vertically aligned liquid crystal display unit In a reflective liquid crystal display device according to the invention, while maintaining alignment characteristics by an obliquely evaporated alignment film, an electrical problem due to the film structure can be solved, and ions of the like can be prevented from... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7184116 | LCD having an alignment film comprising sintered carbon To provide a liquid crystal device using carbon films capable of aligning liquid crystal molecules simultaneously with deposition, a manufacturing apparatus of the liquid crystal device, a manufacturing method of the liquid crystal device and a forming method of an ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7164459 | Method for fabricating a liquid crystal display device having inorganic alignment film made of crystalline conductive film A method for fabricating a liquid crystal display device, which includes a liquid crystal layer, a pair of electrodes for use to apply a voltage to the liquid crystal layer, and at least one inorganic alignment film. The inorganic alignment film makes direct contact... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7148939 | Liquid crystal device and electronic equipment To achieve clear image display without providing a feeling of roughness by fixing the position where disclination is generated in a liquid crystal device of a homeotropic alignment type, a conductive light shielding film provided on the side of an opposed substrate ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7139056 | Liquid crystal display device having particular orientation control window When the orientation of liquid crystal molecules in a pixel are divided by an orientation divider, a boundary of the orientation is produced at any part of the pixel. A drain signal line (54) is formed to overlap with the boundary so that a light-shielding re... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7123330 | Liquid crystal panel substrate having alignment film and method for forming alignment film by varied evaporation angle A substrate for a liquid crystal panel having an alignment film, wherein an evaporated film is formed as the alignment film on the substrate, and wherein a portion of the evaporated film corresponding to each single pixel is split into a plurality of segments, and t... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7119870 | Liquid crystal display device having particular drain lines and orientation control window When the orientation of liquid crystal molecules in a pixel are divided by an orientation divider, a boundary of the orientation is produced at any part of the pixel. A drain signal line (54) is formed to overlap with the boundary so that a light-shielding re... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7106406 | Liquid crystal displays with multi-domain effect formed by surface undulations A liquid crystal display comprising an upper substrate having the inner surface on which an upper electrode and an upper grating film having surface undulation are laminated; a lower substrate having the inner surface on which a lower electrode and a lower grating f... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7097884 | Stability of ion beam generated alignment layers by surface modification A method for preparing an alignment layer surface provides a surface on the alignment layer. The surface is bombarded with ions, and reactive gas is introduced to the ion beam to saturate dangling bonds on the surface. Another method for preparing an alignment layer... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7084946 | Method of forming inorganic alignment film, inorganic alignment film, substrate for electronic device, liquid crystal panel and electronic apparatus A method of forming an inorganic alignment film is provided comprising a first milling step of irradiating ion beams to a surface of a base substrate, on which the inorganic alignment film is to be formed, from a direction inclined at a predetermined angle θa ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7075608 | Rubbing cloth for aligning a liquid crystal, method of manufacturing the same, apparatus for manufacturing the same and method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display using the same Disclosed are a rubbing cloth for aligning a liquid crystal, method of manufacturing the same, apparatus for manufacturing the same and method of manufacturing an LCD using the same. A rubbing pile formed on a rubbing cloth fabric fabricated by interweaving a weft a... | 07/11/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7068336 | Liquid crystal display device having variable viewing angle A liquid crystal display device having variable viewing angles includes a first liquid crystal cell having first and second substrates spaced apart from and facing each other, a pixel electrode formed on an inner surface of the first substrate, a common electrode fo... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7041348 | Liquid crystalline medium and liquid crystal display The instant invention relates to liquid crystal displays of the flexoelectric type operating in the uniformly lying helix mode and in particular to the orientation of the cholesteric liquid crystalline media, which have a short pitch, in these displays by making the... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7009671 | Liquid crystal device, projection display device and, manufacturing method for substrate for liquid crystal device A liquid crystal device has inorganic alignment layers (36, 42) disposed on a surface of a liquid crystal layer side of a pair of the substrates, when the range of the average pre-tilt angle θ of liquid crystal molecules 50a of the liquid cryst... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6999148 | Apparatus, mask, and method for printing alignment layer An apparatus for printing an alignment layer of a liquid crystal display device includes a dispenser dropping an alignment material, an anilox roll receiving the dropped alignment material, a doctor roll evenly spreading the dropped alignment material coated onto th... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6995821 | Methods of reducing unbalanced DC voltage between two electrodes of reflective liquid crystal display by thin film passivation A structure (and method) for a reflective-type liquid crystal display includes a first-type electrode, a second-type electrode positioned opposite the first-type electrode and being of an opposite type than the first-type electrode and a liquid crystal material betw... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6965421 | Liquid crystal device and electronic equipment therewith A liquid crystal device, in which an orientation film does not deteriorate over time, contrast decreases slightly during longterm use, the axial orientation in the horizontal direction is high, and superior display quality is exhibited, and electronic equipment ther... | 11/15/2005 |
