Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Naoya Nishida

Kazuya Ishiwata

Takashi Enomoto

Toshifumi Yoshioka

Masaaki Suzuki

Yasuyuki Watanabe

Tatsuo Murata

Noriyuki Nakai

Masayuki Shimamune

Mutsuo Mitsui

Hideaki Takao

Akira Unno

Shinjiro Okada

Akira Tsuboyama

Takashi Moriyama

Yasufumi Asao

Koji Noguchi

Hirohide Munakata

Ryuichiro Isobe

A conductive organic compound device structure suitable for constituting an electronic device, such as an organic EL device, is formed by including a pair of oppositely spaced electrodes, and a carrier transporting layer disposed between the electrodes and in contact with one of the electrodes. The carrier transporting layer comprises a conductive organic compound having a &#x3c0;-electron resonance structure in its molecule. In the device, the &#x3c0;-electron resonance structure plane of the conductive organic compound in the carrier transporting layer is aligned substantially parallel to surfaces of the electrodes. The conductive organic compound is preferably a conductive liquid crystal, such as a discotic liquid crystal or a smectic liquid crystal, and a layer thereof is included in the device, preferably by vacuum deposition.

Conductive organic compound device, conductive liquid crystal device, and organic electroluminescence device

A chiral smectic liquid crystal device includes chiral smectic liquid crystal exhibiting a phase transition series on temperature decrease of (a) Iso, Ch and SmC* or (b) Iso and SmC*, a pair of oppositely disposed substrates which sandwich the liquid crystal to form a plurality of pixels, each substrate provided with an electrode for applying a voltage to the liquid crystal and a uniaxial alignment axis for aligning the liquid crystal, and means for providing a difference in potential between the substrates of at least 100 mV when no external electric field is applied in a temperature range of Tc&plusmn;2&deg; C. where Tc denotes a phase transition temperature from Ch to SmC* or from Iso to SmC. At least one substrate is provided with a polarizer, and each pixel is provided with an active element connected to an associated electrode on at least one substrate.

Chiral smectic liquid crystal device

Disclosed herein is a process for producing a color filter, which comprises the steps of:

Production process of color filter for LCD employing black matrix as

A liquid crystal device is formed by disposing a liquid crystal between a pair of substrates each having thereon an electrode pattern. At least one of the substrates is provided with an insulating film comprising a first insulating layer formed by wet-coating and baking, and a second insulating layer formed by vacuum deposition closer to the liquid crystal than the first insulating layer. The insulating film stably has an excellent dielectric strength, so that the productivity and production yield of the liquid crystal device can be improved. Further, the insulating film allows less strict control of production environment and time after the formation, so that the production cost can be reduced.

Liquid crystal device and process for production thereof having plural

A photosensitive colored material mainly composed of an aromatic polyamide or polyimide resin having a photosensitive group in its molecule, a coloring matter, and a solvent, wherein; said solvent comprises a first solvent component capable of independently dissolving said resin alone and a second solvent component having a smaller surface tension than said first solvent component and incapable of independently solving said resin; and the content of said first solvent component is larger than the content of said second solvent component.

Photosensitive material, color filter and liquid crystal device having

Process for producing a color filter

A color filter is produced through the steps of: forming a layer of a color filter material including a colorant dispersed in a photosensitive resin on a substrate; and pre-baking, exposing and developing the color filter material layer to leave a color filter pattern on the substrate. In the developing step, a developer liquid is applied in the form of a curtain onto the exposed color filter material layer on the substrate, the substrate is allowed to stand in a substantially still state and then the substrate is supplied with an ultrasonic wave projected perpendicularly to the substrate while being in contact with the developer liquid. The ultrasonic wave is preferably uniformized by at least two rotating reflection or diffusion plates before it is projected onto the substrate. As a result, the color filter pattern can be developed with little development irregularity even on a large-size substrate.

Process for producing color filter

A large-sized liquid crystal panel uniformly filled with a liquid crystal material may be produced through a process including the steps of: fixing a pair of substrates with a sealing member disposed therebetween to form a blank panel having an injection port, reducing a pressure within the panel, applying a liquid crystal material onto the injection port, heating the liquid crystal material to its isotropic temperature, injecting the liquid crystal material into the panel under a pressure, and filling the panel with the liquid crystal material under heating and pressurization from the injection port toward the panel inside. The pressure within the panel before the injection is reduced at a rate not exceeding 25 torr/min. The pressure for injection is increased at varying rates, e.g., with an intermediate constant pressure period. In the filling step, a portion of the liquid crystal material near the injection port is held in its isotropic phase and the liquid crystal material except for the portion is transformed at least once into a smectic phase.

Process for injecting liquid crystal into a liquid crystal panel

Process for producing color filter comprising an ultrasonic wave

Process for producing liquid crystal panel including reducing the

A liquid crystal device is formed by disposing a liquid crystal between a pair of oppositely disposed electrodes, at least one of which has a laminated structure including a first layer of ITO (indium tin oxide), a second layer of Mo (molybdenum) or its alloy, and a third layer of Al (aluminum) or its alloy, disposed in the order named. Because of the Mo-based second layer, the ITO layer is protected during development of a photoresist layer formed on the Al-based third layer even if some pinholes are present in the Al-based third layer. The Mo-based second layer can be etched by an etchant for the Al-based third layer so that the entire process is not complicated because of the provision of the Mo-based second layer.

Liquid crystal device and display apparatus with multilayer electrodes

Increasing temperature injection methods for a liquid crystal cell

A color filter plate suitable for inclusion in a color liquid crystal display panel is produced through a process including the steps of (a) forming a color filter pattern on a transparent substrate, (b) forming a light-interrupting mask layer over the color filter pattern, (c) abrading the mask layer with an abrasive to expose the color filter pattern and leave a patterned mask layer contiguous with the color filter pattern, and (d) coating the color filter pattern and the patterned mask layer with a protective layer. As a result, it becomes possible to omit a step of patterning the mask layer and an exposure mask for the patterning, so that the process is simplified, the production cost is lowered and the latitude of the mask-forming material is increased.

Process for producing color filter plate and color filter plate thus

An electrode plate structure for a liquid crystal color display is produced by forming a color filter layer of a photosensitive polyamide resin containing a colorant dispersed therein; disposing a protective layer of a photosensitive polyamide resin on the color filter layer; forming an ITO (indium-tin-oxide) film on the protective layer, preferably at an elevated temperature of at most 270.degree. C.; post-annealing the ITO film at a temperature of 200.degree.-300.degree. C. for improving the crystallinity of the ITO film suitable for etching; and selectively etching the ITO film patternwise with an etchant of hydroiodic acid or a hydroiodic acid-ferric chloride aqueous solution mixture to leave an ITO electrode pattern.

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Naoya Nishida