Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited

Kayoko Ueda

Masayoshi Minai

Takayuki Higashii

Koichi Fujisawa

Naoyuki Takano

Yukari Fujimoto

Chizu Sekine

Takeshi Tani

Yukio Yasunori

Yoshiaki Tsubata

Shoji Toda

Kyoko Endo

Toshihiro Ohnishi

Masato Kuwabara

Akiko Shimizu

Satoshi Honda

Masaru Honda

Hajime Kuwahara

Toshiya Inoue

Haruyoshi Sannou

Hakaru Miyakita

Masakazu Shirakawa

A front panel for a plasma display panel having at least one transparent resin plate and a conductive mesh placed on the transparent resin plate, in which a part of the conductive mesh is exposed on the plate in a sheet form on at least one side of the marginal surface of the front panel. The front panel may have uneven patterns on at least one side of the surfaces of the front panel, and may also include an intermediate synthetic resin plate between the conductive mesh and the transparent resin plate, as well as a decorative portion between the intermediate synthetic resin plate and the transparent resin plate. In addition, the front panel may contain a conductive film, which is in contact with the conductive mesh in a sheet form on at least one side of the marginal surface of the front panel.

Front panel board for plasma display

An electromagnetic shield plate comprising a geometric pattern having a line width of 10 &mgr;m to 80 &mgr;m and a line interval of 50 to 250 mesh on a surface of a transparent substrate, provides good visibility and excellent electromagnetic shielding, and is easy to manufacture and permits the fabrication of a large-size plate in a simple manner.

Electromagnetic shield plate

The present invention relates to trans-olefin compounds represented by the general formula (1) useful as an ingredient of liquid crystal composition, trans-olefin compounds useful as intermediate of pesticides, medical drugs, liquid crystal materials and the like, a process for producing those trans-olefin compounds, a liquid crystal composition containing the trans-olefin compound as an active ingredient, and a liquid crystal element using the liquid crystal composition. ##STR1## (In the general formula (1), R.sup.1, A.sup.1, A.sup.2, A.sup.3, Z and R.sup.2 are same as defined in the specification. Also, m, p, q, n, r, s and t are each an integer as defined in the specification.)

Trans-olefin compounds, method for production thereof, liquid crystal

The present invention provides a plasma display front panel comprising a transparent substrate which is produced by molding a resinous composition containing the following components (a) to (c), and has a 50% or more transmittance of light with a wavelength in the range of 450 nm to 650 nm, and a 30% or less transmittance of light with a wavelength in the range of 800 nm to 1000 nm;

Plasma display front panel

A microlens-array containing a mesh-like sheet and an optically-transparent resin formed at apertures of the mesh-like sheet, wherein the resin formed at each aperture has a concave lens shape; and method for production thereof. A liquid crystal display device using the aforementioned microlens-array.

Microlens-array, production method thereof, and liquid crystal display

An optical filter for a liquid crystal display device, consisting of a polymer film which has two types of layers having different refractive index which exist alternately in a laminated state, in which a difference of refractive index between two types of layers is in the range between 0.01 and 0.1, an average thickness of each layer is at least 0.8 .mu.m and less than 2 .mu.m, and a thickness of the polymer film is in the range between 10 to 300 .mu.m, which filter can widen an angle of view of the liquid crystal display is greatly without the improvement of the liquid crystal cell, change of an addressing system or modification of the liquid crystal itself.

Light control sheet and liquid crystal display device comprising the same

An optically anisotropic film comprising a liquid crystal composition having twisted nematic alignment, characterized in that the helical axis of twisted nematic alignment is substantially parallel to the direction normal to the film plane, and the liquid crystal composition shows a cholesteric phase, contains at least one liquid crystal oligomer selected from the linear or cyclic liquid crystal oligomers (A) such as obtained from reaction of a vinyl monomer having a specific cholesterol group and pentamethylcyclopentasiloxane, and is defined by the fact that when the thickness of the film is represented by d (.mu.m) and the helical pitch of the twisted nematic phase is represented by P (.mu.m), d.gtoreq.3.times.P and P.ltoreq.0.3 .mu.m or P.gtoreq.0.8 .mu.m, wherein when the numbers of the recurring units (I) and (II) in one molecule of the liquid crystal oligomer (A) are supposed to be n and n', respectively, n and n' are each an integer of 1 to 20 and satisfy the relations of 4.ltoreq.n+n'.ltoreq.21 and n: n'=20:1 to 1:20, and the terminal group of the recurring unit (II) of the liquid crystal oligomer (A) is polymerized. This optically anisotropic film is capable of providing a liquid crystal display device with smaller viewing angle dependency of contrast or display color.

Optically anisotropic film

A compound having an unsaturated side chain represented by the formula: ##STR1## in which A and B are the same and different and represent an aromatic or heterocyclic group or either one of A and B represents a single bond; X.sub.1, X.sub.2 and X.sub.3 are the same or different and represent a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group; R.sub.1 represents a saturated or unsaturated alkyl group which may be substituted with a halogen atom or an alkoxyalkyl group which may be substituted with a halogen atom; X represents --CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 --, --CH.dbd.CH--, --C.tbd.C-- or a single bond; n is an integer of 0 to 6; q is an integer of 1 to 15; p and s are each 0 or 1; and the asterisk * indicates an asymmetric carbon atom, which is useful as an intermediate of a liquid crystal or a monomer of a liquid crystalline polymer.

Compound having unsaturated side chain, process for preparing the same,

A compound having an unsaturated side chain represented by the formula: ##STR1## in which A and B are the same and different and represent an aromatic or heterocyclic group or either one of A and B represents a single bond; X.sub.1, X.sub.2 and X.sub.3 are the same or different and represent a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group; R.sub.1 represents a saturated or unsaturated alkyl group which may be substituted with a halogen atom or an alkoxyalkyl group which may be substituted with a halogen atom; X represents --CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 --, --CH.dbd.CH--, --C.ident.C-- or a single bond; n is an integer of 0 to 6; q is an integer of 1 to 15; p and s are each 0 or 1; and the asterisk * indicates an asymmetric carbon atom, which is useful as an intermediate of a liquid crystal or a monomer of a liquid crystalline polymer.

A ferroelectric chiral smectic liquid crystal mixture comprising a compound of the formula (I): ##STR1## and at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a compound of the formula (II): ##STR2## and a compound of the formula (III): ##STR3##

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Tsukuba, Japan

Kayoko Ueda