Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Nobuyuki Sekimura

Masaru Kamio

Hideaki Takao

Tatsuo Murata

Miki Tamura

Masaki Fukaya

Toshiyuki Komatsu

Tatsumi Shoji

Junichiro Kanbe

Yoshiki Kikuchi

Osamu Kamiya

Taiko Motoi

Yuichi Masaki

Akio Yoshida

Masaki Kuribayashi

Katsumi Nakagawa

Eiji Sakamoto

Katsunori Terada

Teruhiko Furushima

Keijiro Nishida

Seiji Kakimoto

Satoshi Yoshihara

Hirofumi Iwamoto

Susumu Itoh

Shinichi Seitoh

Mitsuo Kakei

A ferroelectric liquid crystal device, comprises: a plurality of pixel portions having a pair of opposite electrodes, and a plurality of non-pixel portions where a pair of opposite electrodes are not disposed, respectively arranged two-dimensionally; and a ferroelectric liquid crystal disposed between the opposite electrodes and extending over the pixel portions and the non-pixel portions. The non-pixel portions further comprise a colored film having a light-interruption function and a protective film disposed between and preventing direct contact between the colored film and the ferroelectric liquid crystal.

Ferroelectric liquid crystal apparatus having negative dielectric

Surface Stability Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Device having color filters assembled avoids, generation of alignment defect ocurring in the initial alignment control step by providing space of 0-5 microns between adjacent trapezoidal color filters having prescribed taper angle and thickness.

Liquid crystal display having trapezoidal color filters formed from a

A surface stability ferroelectric liquid crystal device has color filters with adjacent resin films. The resin films are provided by a first resin film and a second resin film, wherein the second resin film is formed with a resin solution having a viscosity higher than that of the first resin film.

Liquid crystal device having two resins films formed from solutions of

Surface Stability Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Device having color filters assembled therein avoids generation of alignment defect ocurring in the initial alignment control step by providing space of 0-5 microns between adjacent color filters.

Ferroelectric liquid crystal color filter surrounded by a heat fusible

Ferroelectric liquid crystal device having colored film and protective

Surface Stability Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Device having color filters assembled therein avoids, generation of alignment defect ocurring in the initial alignment control step by providing space of 0-5 microns between adjacent color filters.

Ferroelectric color liquid crystal device lacking alignment defects

A chiral smectic liquid crystal color display device has plural non-overlapping color filters arranged at intervals such that 0.ltoreq.l/d.ltoreq.5 wherein l (.mu.m) is the interval between color filters and d (.mu.m) is the color filter film thickness.

Chiral smectic color display device with interval between color filters:

A liquid crystal device comprises a pair of substrates and a ferroelectric liquid crystal disposed between the substrates. At least one of the substrates has thereon a color filter layer and a protection layer for preventing direct contact between the color filter and the ferroelectric liquid crystal. Particulate spacers are preferably disposed between the substrates. The protection layer preferably comprises a film having a pencil hardness of HB or harder (JIS K 5401).

FLC device with color filter and insulating protection layer with pencil

By use of specific color filters in Surface Stability Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Device having color filters assembled therein, generation of alignment defect ocurring in the initial alignment control step could be avoided.

Liquid crystal device

Disclosed is a color liquid crystal device comprising a pair of substrates having electrodes, a color filter disposed between at least one of the pair of substrates and the electrodes or on the electrodes, and a liquid crystal disposed between the pair of substrates. The color filter is composed of a resin and a coloring material, and V and P have a relationship of 1/3.ltoreq.P/V.ltoreq.3/2, where V (gr) and P (gr) are the respective contents of the resin and the coloring material that forms the color filter.

Color liquid crystal device

A liquid crystal device is provided which comprises a liquid crystal provided between a pair of substrates each having a transparent electrode formed thereon, and a color filter provided on at least one of the substrates, wherein the color filter comprises a film formed from a polyamino resin containing a coloring material.

Liquid crystal device having color filters wherein the color filters

There is a photosensor comprising: a photoconductive layer containing amorphous silicon provided on a substrate in which this photoconductive layer consists of laminated films of two or more layers having different refractive indexes and the refractive index of the lowest layer of the laminated films is not larger than 3.2 for the incident light of a wavelength of 6328 .ANG.; a pair of electrodes provided in electrical contact with the photoconductive layer; and a photo sensing section. A long size image sensor unit is constituted by a plurality of such photosensors arranged like an array, a matrix drive circuit to matrix-drive each photosensor, and a light source such as light emitting diodes or a fluorescent lamp to illuminate an original to be read. With this image sensor unit, it is possible to provide a low-cost image reading apparatus which can read an image on the original at a high speed in which: the uniformity of the characteristic of each photosensor is improved; a variation in signal between the bits is reduced; a correction circuit for such a variation is unnecessary; and the peel-off of the photoconductive layer does not occur. A method of manufacturing such photosensors is also disclosed.

Method of manufacturing photosensors

A photosensor array includes a plurality of common electrodes and a plurality of separate electrodes disposed facing the common electrodes, both electrodes being disposed on a substrate, wherein the electrical connection terminals for the common electrodes are disposed collectively on a marginal portion along the array disposal direction on the substrate.

Photosensor array having grouped electrodes

A color filter comprises a substrate and colored resin films, disposed on the support, including a blue resin film containing blue colorant particles dispersed therein, a green resin film containing green colorant particles dispersed therein and a red resin film containing red colorant particles dispersed therein. Scattering characteristic from the respective colored resin films is uniformized by satisfying the following conditions. The average particle volume V.sub.B, V.sub.G and V.sub.R of the blue, green and red colorants, respectively, are set to satisfy V.sub.B &lt;V.sub.G &lt;V.sub.R. The surface roughness of or the colorant content in the colored resin films is set to successively increase in the order of the blue resin film, the green resin film and the red resin film.

Color filter having different primary color pigment densities, inter alia

A process for producing a color filter having plural number of colorant layer patterns by repeating, for each of a plural number of starting materials for colorant layer, the steps of subjecting a substrate having a photoresist laminated thereon to pattern exposure to effect patterning of said photo-resist, laminating a colorant layer from said photoresist above and removing the layer of said photoresist having said colorant layer laminated thereon by dissolution to form a colorant layer pattern, comprises forming an alignment mark on said substrate with the same starting material as a first colorant layer pattern simultaneously with formation of said first colorant layer pattern and performing registration of the mask during formation of a second colorant layer pattern et seq. through said alignment mark.

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Kawasaki, Japan

Nobuyuki Sekimura