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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8021714 | Front-projection screen with subsurface diffusion targets An apparatus, system, and method for a front-projection screen having a subsurface diffusion target are disclosed herein. ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7288296 | Multilayer optical compensator, liquid crystal display, and process A multilayer compensator includes one or more polymeric first layers and one or more polymeric second layers. The first layers comprise a polymer having an out-of-plane (Δnth) birefringence not more negative than −0.01 and not more positive than +0.01.... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7250200 | Liquid crystal cell with compensator layer and process Disclosed is a liquid crystal cell including one or more compensator layers interposed between a constraint and liquid crystal. Each compensator layer contains a transparent amorphous polymeric birefringent material having an out-of plane birefringence more negative... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7238386 | Methods for making and using point lump-free compositions and products coated with point lump-free compositions A method is provided to manufacture a coated substrate, such as an optical fiber, without undesirable point lumps. The method filters a coating composition while controlling the filtering temperature, pressure drop across a filtering assembly, and filter pore size t... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7229663 | Display comprising a cholesteric liquid-crystal in hardened gelatin and method for making the same A method of making a liquid-crystal sheet material, useful for displays, having polymer-dispersed cholesteric liquid crystals, comprising the steps of providing a emulsion comprising dispersed cholesteric liquid crystal domain and a solution comprising gelatin and a... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7211304 | Multilayer optical compensator, liquid crystal display, and process A multilayer compensator includes one or more polymeric first layers and one or more polymeric second layers. The first layers comprise a polymer having an out-of-plane (Δnth) birefringence not more negative than −0.01 or not more positive than +0.01. ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7163724 | Multilayer optical compensator, liquid crystal display, and process A process for manufacturing a multilayer compensator comprising one or more polymeric A layers and one or more polymeric B layers, wherein said A layers comprise a polymer having an out-of-plane birefringence not more negative than −0.01, said B layers comprise an... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7011913 | Refflective film and method for making reflective film A method of making a reflective film includes the steps of: (a) preparing a cholesteric mixture that includes a cholesteric liquid crystal material and at least one type of polymerizable compound; (b) forming a cholesteric mixture layer in which the cholesteric liqu... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6933019 | Method of applying a uniform polymer coating A method of applying a polymer coating uses a nebulized aerosol of solubilized polymer solution having high-viscosity droplets and low-viscosity droplets to form a textured antireflective surface. Air or other gas is used to direct the nebulized aerosol toward the s... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6852374 | Liquid crystal display device, optical element, method of fabricating the liquid crystal display device and method of making the optical element A liquid crystal display device includes two substrates, a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the substrates and two alignment films, each being provided on one surface of associated one of the substrates so as to face the liquid crystal layer. The device defin... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6818157 | Light guiding plate manufacturing apparatus and light guiding plate manufacturing method A light guiding plate is manufactured with accuracy and at low cost. This invention comprises a cylindrical roller, which has a heater built-in, rotating while fixing a stamper having a dot pattern formed on its surface, substrate fixing means for reciprocating alon... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6623608 | Method for manufacturing an integrated display device including an OLED display and a touch screen A method of manufacturing a display device having two components, an OLED display formed on a film on one side of a substrate and a touch screen formed on a film on the other side of the substrate, the OLED display including components that are sensitive ... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6565685 | Process for manufacture of an optical ribbon conductor from several optical conductors In a process for the manufacture of an optical ribbon conductor from several optical conductors, the outer circumference of at least one optical conductor (LW2) is coated with a first coating material (FC). The optical conductor (LW2) and at least another... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6514558 | Method and device for providing a layer of coating material on the inner side of a display window for a color display tube Method and device for providing a layer (6) of a coating material on the inner side (2) of a display window (1) for a color display tube. A drop (3) of a suspension of said coating material is deposited on the inner side of the display window, its axis of... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6468378 | Rear projection screens and light filters with conformable coating and methods of making the same This invention relates to a light transmitting filter comprising (a) light absorbing layer having a first and second surface, (b) microspheres embedded in the light absorbing layer and (c) an optically clear, substantially uniform, conformable layer cover... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6451432 | Hydrophobic treatment composition, method for forming a coating and products provided with said coating An aqueous solution of a hydrophobic/oleophobic agent incorporating a primer of formula: X3 SiRSiX3 (I) in which: R represents a carbon chain, and X represents a hydrolysable functional group.... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6423368 | Method for making materials having uniform limited coalescence domains A light-modulating, electrically responsive sheet including a substrate and an electrically conductive layer formed over the substrate. The sheet further includes, in an aqueous bath, an immiscible, field responsive light-modulating material along with a ... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6412305 | Method of manufacturing opaque rib structures for display panel Plasma addressed liquid crystal display ribs are produced by introducing a glass paste which includes a curable medium into cavities formed in an intaglio collector to define rib structures, which are transferred from the collector to a surface of a subst... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6321571 | Method of making glass structures for flat panel displays An assembly of rib structures sandwiched between a dielectric glass layer and a glass substrate for use in a flat panel display, such as plasma addressed liquid crystal (PALC) displays, is formed by a number of methods. One method includes molding thermop... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6312546 | Liquid crystal device manufacturing methods In a method of manufacturing a ferroelectric liquid crystal device, the following steps are applied in order to effect spacing apart of two substrates and by spacers. The spacers are applied to a surface of a transfer member, and the transfer member is th... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6171457 | Method of fabricating low resistance, anti-reflection CRT In the method of fabricating a CRT including a sputtering method for forming an anti-static layer and a spin-coating or spray-coating method for forming an anti-reflection layer on a CRT panel, a method of fabricating a low-resistance, anti-reflection CRT... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6068738 | Method and apparatus for thin film coating an article A method, apparatus and carrier for coating a CRT screen after assembly. The method and apparatus includes isolating a surface portion of the CRT to be coated from the remaining surface to prevent or minimize coating problems resulting from outgassing or ... | 05/30/2000 |
| 5942319 | Light absorptive antireflector A light absorptive antireflector comprising a substrate, a light absorbing film formed on the substrate and a silica film formed on the light absorbing film, to reduce reflection of incident light from the silica film side, wherein the geometrical film th... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5800907 | Method of producing lens method of fabricating article with lens articles with lens resin composition for forming defining lines and lens-forming resin composition A lens body or article with lens is produced by forming lens-forming defining lines on the surface of a substrate, coating a lens-forming resin on the surface to thereby allow the lens-forming resin to swell in a convex form between the lens-forming defin... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5744198 | Method of depositing metal sulfide films from metal thiocarboxylate complexes with multidentate ligands In a method of depositing a metal sulfide film on a substrate, at least one metal compound precursor comprising at least one thiocarboxylate ligand SECR and at least one solubility-improving ligand L is dissolved in a solvent to produce a solution, wherei... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5620572 | Method and apparatus for thin film coating an article A method and apparatus for coating a CRT screen after assembly. The method and apparatus includes isolating a surface portion of the CRT to be coated from the remaining surface to prevent or minimize coating problems resulting from outgassing and to isola... | 04/15/1997 |
| 5281365 | Antistatic coating composition for non-glaring picture displaying screen An antistatic coating composition, a manufacturing process thereof, and an antistatic and non-glare picture display screen are disclosed. The manufacturing process for the antistatic coating composition comprises steps of forming a silicate solution by pa... | 01/25/1994 |
| 4295906 | Method for producing a motion picture screen In producing a motion picture screen from a workpiece by forming a surface with a number of continuously smoothly connected minute projections, a two-dimensional cutter which has a cutting edge constituted by a number of circular arcs connected together i... | 10/20/1981 |
