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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8187680 | Anti-static adhesive composition, polarizing plate and surface protective film using the composition Disclosed are an anti-static adhesive composition, and a polarizing plate and/or a surface protective film fabricated using the same. More particularly, an anti-static adhesive composition for imparting enhanced anti-static properties, including a metal salt represe... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8182885 | Liquid crystal composition and liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal composition is provided that satisfies at least one characteristic among the characteristics such as a high maximum temperature of a nematic phase, a low minimum temperature of a nematic phase, a small viscosity, a large optical anisotropy, a large ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8178173 | Liquid crystal display panel A TBA-liquid crystal display panel including a liquid crystal medium with positive dielectric anisotropy, wherein the liquid crystal medium includes, in 100% by weight of the liquid crystal compounds identified by the compounds recited in formulas I through IX below... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178172 | Liquid crystal display and manufacturing method thereof A liquid crystal display includes a first display panel and a second display panel facing each other; a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first display panel and the second display panel and including pre-tilted liquid crystal molecules and a first compound ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178171 | Liquid crystal display and method of manufacturing the same The invention relates to a liquid crystal display utilizing a vertically aligned state of liquid crystal molecules when no voltage is applied and to a method of manufacturing the same. The invention is aimed at providing a liquid crystal display and a method of manu... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8158219 | Liquid crystal composition and liquid crystal display device The invention is to provide a liquid crystal composition that satisfies at least one of characteristics such as a high maximum temperature of a nematic phase, a low minimum temperature of a nematic phase, a small viscosity, a suitable optical anisotropy, a large neg... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8158218 | Process for producing optical film, optical film, polarizer, and liquid crystal display Provided is a method for producing an optical film which suffers neither flatness deterioration nor film breakage and is free from problems concerning undulating undulation and partial light leakage. The process for optical film production comprises laminating a cel... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8153208 | Liquid crystal display, a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display and a liquid crystal composition A liquid crystal display includes: a first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a field generating electrode disposed on at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substra... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8147929 | Liquid Crystal composition and liquid crystal display device The invention is to provide a liquid crystal composition that satisfies at least one characteristic among characteristics such as a high maximum temperature of a nematic phase, a low minimum temperature of a nematic phase, a small viscosity, a large optical anisotro... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8147930 | Liquid crystal composition and liquid crystal display device The invention provides a liquid crystal composition that satisfies at least one characteristic among the characteristics such as a high maximum temperature of a nematic phase, a low minimum temperature of a nematic phase, a small viscosity, a large optical anisotrop... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8142863 | Color liquid crystal display and compensation panel In one aspect of the present invention there is provided an optically anisotropic compensation panel with spectrally controllable dispersion of refractive indices. The compensation panel comprises at least one optically anisotropic layer based on an ordered guest-ho... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8142864 | Cellulose ester pellets, cellulose ester film, manufacturing method of cellulose ester film, polarizing plate, and liquid crystal display The present invention can provide cellulose ester pellets, a cellulose ester film, a manufacturing method thereof, a polarizing plate and a liquid crystal display which minimize a manufacturing load, a facility load and an environmental load, each being given by eva... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8129002 | Compounds for use in liquid crystal media The present invention is related to compounds for use in liquid crystal media, liquid crystal media comprising said compounds, the use of said media in electro-optical devices, said electro-optical devices, and the use of said compounds in mesogenic media for use in... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8124196 | Fluorobicyclo[2.2.2]octane compound, method of producing the same, and applications thereof A liquid crystal composition comprising at least one compound having a fluorobicyclo[2.2.2]octane skeleton represented by formula (I) below is disclosed. A fluorobicyclo[2.2.2]octane compound represented by formula (II) below is also disclosed. In the formulae, Y re... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8124197 | Liquid crystal composition and liquid crystal display device The subject is to provide a liquid crystal composition that satisfies at least one of characteristics such as a high maximum temperature of a nematic phase, a low minimum temperature of a nematic phase, a low viscosity, a suitable optical anisotropy, a negatively la... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8110256 | Liquid crystal composition and liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal composition is provided that satisfies at least one characteristic among the characteristics such as a high maximum temperature of a nematic phase, a low minimum temperature of a nematic phase, a small viscosity, a large optical anisotropy, a large ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8105662 | Additive components for liquid crystalline materials The present invention relates to mesogenic, cross-linkable mixtures comprising (i) a cross-linkable liquid crystalline host compound comprising at least one cross-linkable liquid crystalline compound, and (ii) at least one chiral or achiral rod shaped additive compo... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8097309 | Liquid crystal composition and liquid crystal display device The subject is to provide a liquid crystal composition that satisfies at least one characteristic among characteristics such as a high maximum temperature of a nematic phase, a low minimum temperature of a nematic phase, a small viscosity, a suitable optical anisotr... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8092871 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes: a liquid crystal layer containing a nematic liquid crystal material; a pair of electrodes opposing each other via the liquid crystal layer; a pair of alignment films respectively provided between the... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8075959 | Liquid crystal display panel and composition of liquid crystal layer thereof A liquid crystal display (LCD) panel includes a liquid crystal (LC) layer interposed between top and bottom substrates. The LC layer includes a plurality of LC compounds and a stabilization-aligned polymer polymerized from a plurality of polymerizable monomers and f... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8075960 | Liquid crystal composition and liquid crystal display device The invention provides a liquid crystal composition that satisfies at least one characteristic among the characteristics such as a high maximum temperature of a nematic phase, a low minimum temperature of a nematic phase, a low viscosity, a large optical anisotropy,... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8071181 | Metal nanoparticle and use thereof for inducing chirality in liquid crystal phases The invention provides a metal nanoparticle comprising a metal and a chiral and/or thiolate group bonded to the metal. The monolayer-protected metal nanoparticle may be used as a chiral dopant in a liquid crystal. Accordingly, the invention also provides a colloidal... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8071180 | Aligned polymer organic TFT A method for forming an electronic device having a semiconducting active layer comprising a polymer, the method comprising aligning the chains of the polymer parallel to each other by bringing the polymer into a liquid-crystalline phase. ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8071182 | Liquid crystal composition and liquid crystal display device Subject The subject is to provide a liquid crystal composition that satisfies at least one of characteristics such as a high maximum temperature of the nematic phase, a low minimum temperature of the nematic phase, a small viscosity, a large optical anisotrop... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8067068 | Liquid crystal compositions This invention relates to liquid crystal compositions, and polymer networks and articles comprising the compositions. The compositions comprise at least one compound of the group of compounds represented by the structures of each of the following Formulas (IV), (V) ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8057867 | Liquid crystal composition and liquid crystal display device Subject The subject is to provide a liquid crystal composition that satisfies at least one of characteristics such as a high maximum temperature of a nematic phase, a low minimum temperature of a nematic phase, a small viscosity, a suitable optical anisotropy... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8057866 | Liquid crystal composition and liquid crystal display device The invention provides a liquid crystal composition that satisfies at least one characteristic among the characteristics such as a high maximum temperature of a nematic phase, a low minimum temperature of a nematic phase, a small viscosity, a large optical anisotrop... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8053039 | Polymerizable dichroic azo dyes The present invention is directed towards polymerizable dichroic azo dyes comprising azo-chromophores having at least one standard mesogenic ring system attached to said chromophores and at least one polymerizable group leading to dyes having sufficient solubilty an... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8053040 | Liquid crystal composition, retardation plate, liquid crystal display device, and process for producing retardation plate A composition comprising at least one liquid crystal compound, and at least one polymer is disclosed. The polymer comprises a constitutional unit represented by a following formula (A) and a constitutional unit derived from a monomer having a fluoroaliphatic group(s... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8048495 | Cholesteric liquid crystal composition, circular polarization separator sheet and use thereof Provided are a cholesteric liquid crystal composition which contains a compound having a high Δn value and shows an orientation in a thick layer, and a circular polarization separator sheet having a wide reflection bandwidth and capable of being produced simply and... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8048496 | Polymerizable liquid crystal compound, liquid crystal composition and polymer The purpose the invention is to provide a polymerizable liquid crystal compound which has an excellent solubility with other compounds, a high homeotropic property, and a spirobiindan-backbone, and a liquid crystal composition comprising this compound. The pu... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8043671 | Liquid-crystalline medium and liquid crystal display Disclosed are a liquid-crystalline medium based on a mixture of dielectrically negative polar compounds of each of formulae I and II and the use thereof in an electro-optical display, particularly in a display with passive ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8043670 | Polymerizable mesogenic cyclohexyl derivatives The invention relates to new polymerizable mesogenic or liquid crystalline compounds comprising a terminal cyclohexylphenyl group wherein the phenyl group has polar substituents, to polymerizable mesogenic or liquid crystalline mixtures and anisotropic polymers prep... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8039064 | Compound, polymerizable liquid crystal composition, optical element and optical information writing/reading device A compound having a good durability against light and capable of producing desired liquid crystallinity after polymerization, and a polymerizable liquid crystal composition containing such a compound, are provided. Further, an optical element having a good durabilit... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8039063 | Liquid crystal display device having organic alignment layer and fabrication method thereof A method for fabricating an alignment film is provided. The method includes providing a substrate, forming a plurality of region defining strips at an interval on the substrate, and forming organic alignment strips for aligning liquid crystal molecules between the r... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8034420 | Benzotriazole compound-containing composition and light-emitting device using the composition Disclosed is a composition containing a compound having a benzotriazole ring structure and a phosphorescent compound. ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8034421 | Polymerizable composition comprising low molecular weight organic component Polymerizable compositions comprising particularly useful for brightness enhancing films. ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8029877 | Curable resin composition, curable resin composition for forming photosensitive pattern, color filter, liquid crystal panel substrate and liquid crystal panel There are provided: a curable resin composition having a high exposure sensitivity and a good developing property, and thereby capable of forming an accurate and precise pattern; a liquid crystal panel substrate on which a protective film for covering a color layer ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8029876 | Heat-conductive resin composition and plastic article including the same A thermal-conductive resin composition and a plastic article are provided. The thermal-conductive resin composition comprises about 30 to about 60% by weight of a thermoplastic resin and about 40 to about 70% by weight of a thermal-conductive filler comprising about... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8025934 | Polymerizable composition comprising low molecular weight organic component Polymerizable compositions comprising particularly useful for brightness enhancing films. ... | 09/27/2011 |
