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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8057868 | Composition for forming a liquid crystal alignment film, and liquid crystal display device The present invention provides: a composition for forming a liquid crystal alignment film capable of forming a liquid crystal alignment film excellent in evenness; and a liquid crystal display device. The present invention provides a composition for forming a liquid... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8025939 | Liquid crystal display and method for manufacturing same A liquid crystal display is provided which is capable of reducing the occurrence of defective display due to variations in the initial alignment direction of a liquid crystal alignment control film in a liquid crystal display of an IPS scheme, realizing the stable l... | 09/27/2011 |
| 7968158 | Liquid crystal alignment layer and methods of making thereof The present invention relates to a liquid crystal alignment layer used in a liquid crystal cell, which is capable of providing high pretilt angles. ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7959989 | Cyclic olefins compounds, polymers comprising the same and liquid crystal alignment films including the polymers The present invention relates to a novel cyclic olefin compound, a polymer including the cyclic olefin compound, a liquid crystal alignment film including the polymer, and a liquid crystal display device including the liquid crystal alignment film. Since the polymer... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7955665 | Photoalignment film composition, optically anisotropic medium and method for preparing thereof The present invention provides a photoalignment film composition containing a compound represented by general formula (1) and a compound having a hydrophilic group and a (meth)acryloyloxy group, an optically anisotropic medium using a photoalignment film comprised o... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7943210 | Phase difference plate comprising polymer film containing compound having rod-shaped molecular structure A phase difference plate which comprises one sheet of polymer film containing a compound having a rod-shaped molecular structure and exhibiting a maximum absorption wavelength (λmax) of less than 250 nm in an ultraviolet spectrum of its solution and which exhibits ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7935396 | Liquid crystal display device An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display device that has an excellent mass-productivity and gives an image improved by the reduction of the chromaticity difference between white display and black display, the reduction of coloring an... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7914863 | Liquid crystal alignment solution A liquid crystal alignment solution is provided. The liquid crystal alignment solution includes a first polyimide-polyamide acid and a second polyimide-polyamide acid. The first polyimide-polyamide acid is represented by formula (A), ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7910181 | Method for preparation of anisotropic materials Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods for manufacturing complex, anisotropic materials with desirable properties for information storage, processing, and display. Certain of these methods involve employing a magnetic field during manuf... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7758932 | Liquid crystal display device and display apparatus A disclosed liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal composition contained in a cell having a liquid crystal alignment film. The liquid crystal alignment film has a lamellar structure and includes at least one type of a triphenylene compound (I) repre... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7718234 | Liquid crystal display and method for manufacturing same A liquid crystal display is provided which is capable of reducing the occurrence of defective display due to variations in the initial alignment direction of a liquid crystal alignment control film in a liquid crystal display of an IPS scheme, realizing the stable l... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7695779 | Organic composition, liquid crystal display including the same and method of manufacturing liquid crystal display An organic composition having liquid-crystal alignment characteristics includes a photosensitive compound and a binder resin represented by Formula 1 below: wherein each R1 is independently hydrogen or a methyl group; R2 is... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7658979 | Liquid crystal alignment film composition, liquid crystal device and display apparatus To provide a liquid crystal alignment film composition including at least one type of triphenylene compound (I) represented by the following general formula (1): wherein L represents —O— or —S—, R1, R | 02/09/2010 |
| 7638175 | Alignment film, method of forming the alignment film, liquid crystal panel, and electronic equipment An alignment film for controlling orientation of liquid crystal molecules is formed of an organic silicon material which includes in its molecule an affinity imparting group for enhancing affinity to the liquid crystal molecules and an orientation characteristic imp... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7632553 | Method of treating inorganic oxide film, electronic device substrate, method of manufacturing electronic device substrate, liquid crystal panel, and electronic apparatus A method of treating an inorganic oxide film includes: dipping an inorganic oxide film having a plurality of pores therein which is formed by an oblique deposition method into a treatment liquid containing alcohol; reducing pressure of a space where the treatment li... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7625611 | Composition for liquid crystal aligning, liquid crystal aligning layer prepared from the same, and liquid crystal display comprising the same The present invention to a composition for liquid crystal aligning comprising an oligoimide or oligoamic acid, which comprises a thermocurable or photocurable functional group on at least one end of the oligoimide or oligoamic acid backbone, a liquid crystal alignin... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7615263 | Method of forming alignment layer for liquid crystal display and liquid crystal display fabricated using the same A method for forming an alignment layer for a liquid crystal display is disclosed. The method includes preparing a substrate and depositing an alignment layer on the substrate. The method also includes applying one of an electric field and a magnetic field to the al... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7604852 | Cellulose acylate film and process for producing the same, and optical film and image display device using the cellulose acylate film A process for producing a cellulose acylate film, the process comprising melt-cast filming a composition comprising a cellulose acylate that has a specific acyl substitution degree, and that has a residual sulfate in an amount equal to or less than a definite amount... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7588806 | Homeotropically aligned liquid crystal film and process for producing the same The invention includes homeotropically aligned liquid crystal films obtained by applying a polymerizable liquid crystal composition containing at least one compound selected from the group consisting of polymerizable liquid crystal compounds represented by the follo... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7575788 | Polymers for use as alignment layers in liquid crystal devices The invention relates to a polymer for use as a surface-director alignment layer in a liquid crystal device, the polymer comprising a polymeric backbone and side-chains attached thereto, wherein the polymeric backbone lacks directly coupled ring structures, and each... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7553524 | Liquid crystal display device The invention provides a liquid crystal display using a ferroelectric liquid crystal, which can give mono-domain alignment of the ferroelectric liquid crystal without forming alignment defects which is so remarkably good in alignment stability that the alignment the... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7553525 | Liquid crystal display A liquid crystal display using a ferroelectric liquid crystal, which can give mono-domain alignment of the ferroelectric liquid crystal without forming alignment defects such as zigzag defects, hairpin defects and double domains and which is so remarkably good in al... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7541073 | Alignment film for LCD using photoreactive polymer and LCD comprising the same The present invention provides a composition for forming a liquid crystal alignment film, which comprises a photoreactive polymer including a multicyclic compound having a photoreactive group on a main chain thereof. The present invention also provides a liquid crys... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7537812 | Aligning agent for liquid crystal and liquid-crystal alignment film obtained with the same To provide a liquid crystal aligning agent which gives a coating film with good uniformity regardless of drying temperature after coating, and a liquid crystal alignment film having good coating film uniformity. A liquid crystal aligning agent comprising at l... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7531223 | Optical element and method for manufacturing the same The present invention provides an optical element capable of improving the adhesive property between a refractive index anisotropic layer and an alignment property providing layer for providing alignment property to the refractive index anisotropic layer and further... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7527836 | Optical element and method for manufacturing the same The present invention provides an optical element capable of improving the adhesion between the alignment property providing layer, for providing the alignment property to the refractive index anisotropic layer, and the refractive index anisotropic layer, as well as... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7473448 | Photoalignment of liquid crystals using poly(vinylstilbazolium) polymers The present invention relates to a photoalignable material comprising a photoactive stilbazolium-containing polymer of formula I: wherein, Ma, Mb, Mc are monomer units making up... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7473449 | Liquid crystal panel and electronic apparatus A liquid crystal panel includes a first substrate; a second substrate which opposes to the first substrate; a first alignment film which is provided on the first substrate; a second alignment film which is provided on the second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7465480 | Polymer/cholesteric liquid crystal dispersion, method of producing the same liquid crystal display element using the same A polymer/cholesteric liquid crystal dispersion including a cholesteric liquid crystal dispersed in a polymer. A perpendicular aligning component that aligns the cholesteric liquid crystal in a direction perpendicular to the boundary between the cholesteric liquid c... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7445820 | Optical films comprising a UV-curable alignment film and a liquid crystal compound There is provided an optical film obtained by laminating a polarizing film protective layer and a retardation film comprising a liquid crystalline compound layer, a retardation film protective layer and a polymer film, wherein the retardation film protective layer c... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7442420 | Retardation films comprising a UV-curable alignment film and a liquid crystal compound A UV-curable resin composition for alignment film and an alignment film which is prepared by curing the composition with UV rays. The migration of a material which is present in a polymer film and capable of affecting the optical properties of a liquid crystalline c... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7443474 | Optical compensatory sheet having optically anistropic layer formed from liquid crystal molecules The optical compensatory sheet has a transparent support and an optically anisotropic layer formed from liquid crystal molecules aligned in an average inclined angle of less than 5°. The optical compensatory sheet gives the retardation value in plane (Re) in the ra... | 10/28/2008 |
| 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—R1â€... | 10/21/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7429412 | Liquid crystal display device and method for manufacturing the same A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate; a second substrate; a first alignment layer on the first substrate, the first alignment layer including a first additive; a second alignment layer on the second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer between... | 09/30/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7422778 | Photoreactive compound, liquid crystal alignment layer using the compound, method of manufacturing the alignment layer, and liquid crystal display device containing the alignment layer Provided are a photoreactive compound represented by formula (1), a liquid crystal alignment layer using the compound, a method of manufacturing the alignment layer, and a liquid crystal display device including the alignment layer: ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 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 |
