Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd.

Kiyoshi Shohara

Takeshi Yamamoto

Nobuko Fukuoka

Hitoshi Hatoh

Shoichi Matsumoto

Yoshihiro Kinoshita

Natsuko Maya

Katsuyuki Naito

Muneharu Akiyoshi

Daisuke Miyazaki

Hiroyuki Nagata

Hoko Hirai

Atsuyuki Manabe

Kisako Ninomiya

Norihisa Nakao

Takashi Doi

Masumi Manabe

Yoshinori Kato

Minako Hamamoto

A color filter layer is formed on a glass substrate of a counter substrate. A bank pattern is formed of the same material as a red color-filter portion, a green color filter portion and a blue color filter portion of the color filter layer at the outside of the color filter layer on the glass substrate in the same step. A light shielding material is coated in a bank between the bank pattern and the color filter layer to form a light shielding layer. The light shielding layer can be formed so as to be continuous with the peripheral edge of the color filter layer. The light shielding layer is less likely to overlap with the inside of a display frame portion of the liquid crystal panel, and the aperture ratio is less likely to be reduced. The number of manufacturing steps of the light shielding layer is reduced.

Liquid crystal display device with partition walls made of color filter layers as a dam for the light shielding material

There is provided a liquid crystal display including a first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer intervening between the first and second substrates and containing liquid crystal substances different from each other, a sum of values each calculated from a formula: X (RTlogP &plus;HE ) for all the liquid crystal substances in the liquid crystal layer being 32 kJ/mol or higher, wherein X denotes a molar fraction of a component &agr; in the liquid crystal layer, P denotes a distribution ratio of the component &agr; between an aqueous phase and a 1-octanol phase, HE denotes a hydration energy for 1 mol of the component &agr;, R denotes a gas constant of 8.3 J/K&middot;mol, and T denotes a temperature of 300 K.

Liquid crystal composition, liquid crystal display and method of manufacturing liquid crystal display

Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device, comprising two substrates each having an alignment film, a sealing member arranged in the outer peripheries of the two substrates to permit the outer peripheries of these two substrates, which are arranged such that the alignment films of these two substrates face each other, to be bonded to each other except a liquid crystal filling port, a spacer for keeping the two substrates a predetermined distance apart from each other, a liquid crystal layer formed by filling a liquid crystal material through the liquid crystal filling port into the clearance between the two substrates, and an end-sealing material for sealing the liquid crystal filling port, wherein total amounts of an alkyl acid, phenyl carboxylic acid or a phenyl carboxylic acid derivative, phenylene dicarboxylic acid or a phenylene dicarboxylic acid derivative, an alkyl amine, aniline or an aniline derivative, phenylene diamine or a phenylene diamine derivative, phenyleneamine carboxylic acid or a phenyleneamine carboxylic acid derivative, an alkyl imide, a phthalimide derivative, a cyano benzene derivative, and a dicyano benzene derivative contained in the sealing member, the end-sealing material and the spacer is not larger than 3%.

Liquid crystal display device

A liquid crystal display device has a birefringence control type liquid crystal display unit including a pair of substrates having electrodes on their first major surfaces and arranged with a predetermined distance therebetween such that the electrodes face each other, a liquid crystal material having a negative dielectric anisotropy, the material being disposed between the substrates, liquid-crystal molecules of the liquid crystal material being aligned vertically such that longitudinal axes of said molecules are inclined at a slight pretilt angle in respect of an axis vertical to the substrates when no voltage is applied to the electrodes, a pair of polarizing plates arranged on second major surfaces of the substrates, and a device circuit for driving the liquid crystal device in a multiplex manner. This device is characterized in that the liquid crystal material has a helical pitch in the state wherein the material is not disposed between the substrates, and the relationships of d.ltoreq.p and 50.ltoreq.f.multidot.d.sup.2 /p are satisfied, where d=the distance (.mu.m) between the substrates, p=the helical pitch of liquid crystal material disposed between the substrates, and f=the frame frequency (Hz) in the drive mode of the device.

In a liquid crystal device, liquid crystal molecules are twisted at a predetermined angle .theta. within the range of 180.degree. to 360.degree. between a pair of substances. Molecular alignment films are formed on the inner surfaces of the pair of substrates such that an angle .alpha. between the axes of the adjacent liquid crystal molecules falls within the range of 0.degree. to 40.degree.. A liquid crystal composition having a twist abilities falling within the range of .theta.-(2500/.theta.)+.sqroot..alpha. (degrees) to .theta.-(12500/.theta.)+.sqroot..alpha. (degrees) is filled between the substrates, thereby eliminating a memory phenomenon and alignment defects such as reverse twisting alignment defects and at the same time improving multiplexing drive characteristics.

Liquid crystal device having different natural and induced twists

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Kiyoshi Shohara