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Flexible liquid crystal display with touch sensitive screens

Patent 5623280 Issued on April 22, 1997. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject August 23, 2015. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventor: Shattuck

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Inventor: Alexander

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Inventors

Assignee

Application

No. 538170 filed on 08/23/1995

US Classes:

345/104, Input/output liquid crystal display panel345/87, Liquid crystal display elements (LCD)349/12, Liquid crystal writing tablet349/158Substrate

Examiners

Primary: Kuntz, Curtis
Assistant: Chang, Vivian

Attorney, Agent or Firm

International Class

G09G 003/36

Abstract

A touch sensitive liquid crystal display device (70) having first, second, and third substrates, (40), (76) and (90) and a plurality of raised ribs members (46), (48), (50), (42) and (44) to maintain appropriate spacing between said substrates. Electrically conductive material is disposed on one or more surfaces of the substrates in order to effect a change in the optical characteristics of a liquid crystal material (100) disposed between said second and third substrates.

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