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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8168271 | Optical film assembly and display device Microstructured optical films, assemblies of films including at least one microstructured optical film, and (e.g. illuminated) display devices including a single microstructured optical film or assembly. ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8092872 | Optical film, antireflection film, and polarizing plate and display device using the same An optical film includes a transparent support; and a hardcoat layer that is a layer formed by curing a coating solution containing (A) an octa- to pentadeca-functional urethane (meth)acrylate-based compound having a molecular weight of 800 to 2,000 and having two o... | 01/10/2012 |
| 7951434 | Polarizing plate and liquid crystal display device A polarizing plate is provided and is excellent in characteristics of optical compensation, small in a change of polarization performance over time and excellent in moisture and heat resistance. The polarizing plate contains a polarizing film and two transparent pro... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7820254 | Near infrared-absorbing dye-containing curable composition A curable composition containing a lake dye having an absorption maximum in the wavelength region of from 700 nm to 1100 nm and a thermosetting compound and/or a photo-setting compound; a solid imaging device installing therein a filter prepared using the curable co... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7799392 | Color filter substrate and fabricating method thereof A color filter substrate includes a substrate, a black matrix that defines cell areas on a substrate and prevents light leakage, a color filter formed in the cell areas defined by the black matrix, and a conductive thin film formed on the rear surface of the substra... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7771802 | Optical compensation film, polarizing plate and liquid crystal display apparatus An optical compensation film having: a retardation value Re in a film plane of the optical compensation film; and a retardation value Rth in a thickness direction of the optical compensation film, the retardation value Re and Rth being reduced by an elongation, sati... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7763331 | Optical film assembly and display device Microstructured optical films, assemblies of films including at least one microstructured optical film, and (e.g. illuminated) display devices including a single microstructured optical film or assembly. ... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7763330 | Dichroic guest-host polarizer comprising an oriented polymer film A dichroic guest-host polarizer comprises an oriented polymerized liquid crystal host and aligned therewith a dichroic guest. The dichroic ratio of the polarizer is about 15 or more. The polarizer may have a small thickness, be manufactured using a wet deposition me... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7695780 | Optical film, optical compensation sheet, polarizing plate, and liquid crystal display device An optical film, which contains a cellulose acylate, at least one compound of formula (I) in an amount of 0.01 to 20 mass parts, and at least one cyclic compound having at least three substituents in an amount of 0.01 to 20 mass parts, to 100 mass parts of the cellu... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7662445 | Cyclic olefin-based copolymer, film, and polarizing plate and liquid crystal display device including the same A copolymer contains 10 to 69 mol % of a structural unit derived from propylene, 1 to 50 mol % of a structural unit derived from at least one α-olefin having a carbon number of from 4 to 20 and 30 to 89 mol % of a structural unit derived from at least one cyclic ol... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7622168 | Polarizing plate with pressure-sensitive adhesive type optical compensation layer and image display The present invention relates to a polarizing plate with pressure-sensitive adhesive type optical compensation layer, comprising a polarizing plate with optical compensation layer (1) and an optical compensation film (2) bonded to each other via a pres... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7622167 | Polarizer, method for manufacturing the same, optical film and image display A polarizer of the present invention is composed of a film comprising a structure in which fine metallic particles is dispersed in a polymer matrix is characterized in that a polymer forming the polymer matrix is a translucent polymer having a transmittance of 88% o... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7611759 | Polarizer, method of manufacturing the polarizer, apparatus for manufacturing the polarizer, and display apparatus having the polarizer The present invention provides a polarizer that includes a supporting member and a liquid crystal polarizing layer that is coated on the supporting member. The liquid crystal polarizing layer includes liquid crystal molecules that are arranged in a predetermined dir... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7534475 | Liquid crystal compound comprising two condensed and substituted rings A new liquid crystal compound comprises two condensed and substituted rings. The ring preferably is a five-membered heterocyclic ring. The heterocyclic ring is preferably condensed with benzene ring or an aromatic six-membered heterocyclic ring. The benzene ring or ... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7514129 | Azo compound and polarizing film and polarizing plate each containing the same A polarizing film or polarizing plate containing, as a dichroic dye, an azo compound whose free acid form is represented by the following formula (1): wherein R1 and R2 each independently represents sulfo, carboxy, lower al... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7479311 | Optically anisotropic film and method for making Anisotropic film could be used for manufacturing devices of various purposes including information liquid crystal displays, illuminating equipment, decorative products, for manufacturing trademarks and service signs, etc. Essence of the invention: optically anisotro... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7476425 | Wide-viewing angle compensation film and transmission type liquid-crystal display employing the same A wide-viewing angle compensation film contains a polarizing plate and an optical compensation film which exhibits negative birefringence and has an in-plane retardation (Re1) of 60-220 nm and an orientation parameter (Nz) in the range of 0±0.05, the optical... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7445822 | Azo compounds and dye-type polarizing films or plates containing the same Azo compounds whose free acid forms are represented by the general formula (1) are extremely useful as the dichroic dye to be used in polarizing plates which are excellent in polarization performance and endurance and reduced in the color cross-talk within the visib... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7435461 | Cellulose acylate film A cellulose acylate film is provided that includes a cellulose acylate that satisfies the degrees of substitution below, and a hydrolysis-condensation product of a hydrolyzable and polycondensable reactive metal compound. 2.5≦A+B≦3.0 0... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7390864 | Norbornene-based polymer, film, polarizing plate and liquid crystal display device A norbornene-based polymer, which is formed by addition polymerization of a composition comprising at least one norbornene derivative represented by formula (1): wherein R1, R2... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7390540 | 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... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7378135 | Polymerizable liquid crystal composition and optically anisotropic thin film In order to obtain such a liquid crystal thin film having optical anisotropy that suffers less change in optical characteristics thereof under heating to 200° C., the following polymerizable liquid crystal composition is provided as a raw material therefor. The com... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7364670 | Liquid crystalline compound, liquid crystalline composition and retardation film To provide a liquid crystalline composition, which can be obtained by mixing a plurality of liquid crystalline compositions each of which can exhibit different liquid crystal phases from one another, being capable of exhibiting a biaxial liquid crystal phase, a liqu... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7361252 | Methods for laminating films for SPD light valves and SPD light valves incorporating such laminated films The invention is directed to a method for laminating a suspended particle device (SPD) film which comprises forming a suspended particle device film; positioning the suspended particle device film within an unlaminated stack of components for forming a laminated sus... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359021 | Display panel and method for fabricating the same The display panel of this invention includes a pair of glass substrates each with a thickness not less than 0.15 mm and not more than 0.3 mm and a sealing material for bonding the pair of glass substrates to each other. A resin layer is formed on the outer face of a... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359017 | Optical compensation film, polarizing plate, displaying apparatus, method for producing optical compensation film and method for producing polarizing plate A method for producing a roll of an optical compensation film, in the effective width of which an angle of the slow axis in the film face with the width direction of the film is within the range of ±1° and an angle of the fast axis in the film face with the length... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355663 | Polarizing plate and liquid crystal display using the same A polarizing plate excellent in polarization performance in all wavebands from a short wavelength region to a long wavelength region and a liquid crystal display using such a polarizing plate. The polarizing plate including a polarizer has a portion having a polariz... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356229 | Reflective polarizers containing polymer fibers A polarizer is formed with an arrangement of polymer fibers substantially parallel within a polymer matrix. The polymer fibers are formed of at least first and second polymer materials. At least one of the polymer matrix and the first and second polymer materials is... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7344763 | Display medium A rewritable display containing a substrate having thereon one or more constitution layers, one of the constitution layers being a liquid crystal layer containing a liquid crystal composition which is dispersed in a binder, and one of the constitution layers contain... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7335324 | Color filter manufacturing method for a plastic substrate A color filter manufacturing method for a plastic substrate uses an extrusion process to form a plastic substrate with multiple grooves. Then, it uses inkjet printing method to jet photo resists into the groove of the plastic substrate after defining the primary col... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7326955 | Stacked organic photosensitive devices A device is provided having a first electrode, a second electrode, a first photoactive region having a characteristic absorption wavelength λ1 and a second photoactive region having a characteristic absorption wavelength λ2. The photoactive r... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7326451 | Rotatory polarization plate, optical element, light condensation backlight system and liquid crystal display A rotatory polarization plate capable of extracting an emission polarized light from an incident polarized light and rotating an azimuth angle of an polarization axis of the incident polarized light, wherein a rotatory polarization angle of the azimuth angle is chan... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7318950 | Chiral compounds II The invention relates to chiral compounds of formula (I) R1—X1-(A1-Z1)m-G-(Z2-A2)n-X2—R2, wherein R1, R2, X1, X2 | 01/15/2008 |
| 7317499 | Multilayer plate and display panel with anisotropic crystal film and conducting protective layer A multilayer plate is provided comprising an optically transparent substrate, a protective layer, a conducting layer, and at least one anisotropic thin crystal film. The anisotropic thin crystal film is made of a substance containing aromatic rings and possessing a ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7314580 | Compound, liquid-crystal composition and optical material Disclosed is a liquid-crystal composition capable of providing a functional film that exhibits useful optical properties. The composition comprises a compound of the following formula (1) that exhibits a smectic liquid-crystal phase. R1—(Ar | 01/01/2008 |
| 7311952 | Liquid crystalline film with broadened reflection bandwidth and process for preparation thereof Reflective liquid crystalline polymer films having increased bandwidth have a single layer of liquid crystalline material with short, long, and medium pitch of the helical molecular structure of the liquid crystalline polymer. The films are easily produced by a read... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7311953 | Colored composition for color filter and display using color filters formed of the colored composition An object of the present invention is to obtain color filters having a high contrast, a high color purity and an improved transmittance for blue color, and a display using the color filters. In the present invention, there is used a colored composition for color fil... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7311950 | Composition, optical compensatory film and liquid crystal display A composition comprising at least one compound having a fluoro-aliphatic group and at least one hydrophilic group selected from the group consisting of a carboxyl group (—COOH), a sulfo group (—SO3H), a sulfato group (—OSO3H), a phosphono... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7311949 | Composition, optical film, polarizing plate and liquid crystal display A novel optical film is disclosed. The film comprises an optically anisotropic layer formed of a composition comprising at least one liquid crystal compound and at least one polymer having a fluoro-aliphatic group and a hydrophilic group selected from the group cons... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7300604 | Tetrahydroxybenzene tetraester derivative and polymer thereof The invention includes compounds represented by Formula (1): wherein R1 is an alkyl having 1 to 20 carbon atoms; A1 and A2 are a 1,4-cyclohexylene or 1,4-phenylene; X is a single ... | 11/27/2007 |
