Nippon Oil Company

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Shigeki Iida

Takehiro Toyooka

Hajime Hara

Tomohiro Toya

Tetsuo Satoh

Yasuyuki Takiguchi

Shingo Orii

Hiroyuki Itoh

Akihiko Kanemoto

Haruo Iimura

Takamichi Enomoto

Yoshihiro Kobori

Takafumi Ishii

Hiroyuki Ito

Tadahiro Kaminade

Iwane Shiozaki

Satoh Tetsuo

Itoh Hiroyuki

A compensator for an active matrix type liquid crystal display using a thin film transistor is provided. The compensator is made by a film of a liquid crystalline polymer which exhibits a twisted nematic orientation in a liquid crystal state and assumes a glassy state at temperatures below a liquid crystal transition point thereof, the constituent molecules of the liquid crystalline polymer film having a helical structure with a helical axis wherein the twist angle is in the range of 70 to 150 degrees, and the product .DELTA.n.multidot.d of birefringence .DELTA.n of the liquid crystalline polymer film and film thickness,d, being in the range of 0.2 to 3.0 .mu.m.

Compensator for liquid crystal display

Provided is a phase plate comprising a light transmitting base, an alignment layer formed on said base, and a film formed on said alignment layer by a liquid crystalline polymer which exhibits a nematic orientation in the state of liquid crystal and assumes a glassy state at a temperature below the liquid crystal transition point of the polymer.

Phase plate and liquid crystal display using same

A compensator for liquid crystal display which is composed of:

The present invention provides a compensator for liquid crystal display comprising a light transmitting base, an alignment layer formed on the base, and a film formed on the alignment layer by a liquid crystalline polymer which contains as a main component a polyester consisting essentially of structural units (A) and (B) represented by the following formulae: ##STR1## (B) --O--R--O-- where R represents a straight chain or branched, divalent, aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 2 to 20 carbon atoms in which the hydrogen atoms may be substituted by halogen, phenyl, or alkoxy.

Method for polarizing light

The present invention discloses a liquid crystal color display device comprising;

Liquid crystal color display device provided with a color filter film

An optical rotator comprising a light transmitting base, an alignment film layer formed on said base, and a film layer formed of a liquid crystalline polymer. The film layer exhibits a twisted nematic orientation in the state of liquid crystal and assumes a glassy state at a temperature below a liquid crystal transition point of the polymer. The polymer is a polyester which includes an ortho-substituted aromatic unit.

Optical rotator formed of a twisted nematic liquid crystal polyster

A compensator for liquid crystal display is produced by transferring a compensating layer formed by a liquid crystalline polymer on an orientating base onto a light transmitting base.

Method for producing compensator for liquid crystal display

Disclosed herein is a method of orienting a liquid crystal polymer which comprises coating and drying a solution of a polymeric compound showing a thermotropic liquid crystal property on the surface of a plastic substrate applied with a rubbing treatment, and subjecting to a heat-treatment at a temperature that the liquid crystal polymer exhibits a liquid crystal phase.

Method for orienting a liquid crystal polymer

A highly orientated, liquid crystalline polymer having a light controlling function and suitable for use in the optoelectronic field is prepared by applying a solution of a polymer which exhibits a thermotropic liquid crystallinity onto a stretched polymer film, drying the applied solution, and thereafter heat-treating the thus-coated film at a temperature at which said liquid crystalline polymer exhibits a liquid crystal phase, for a time sufficient for the molecules of the liquid crystalline polymer to be orientated.

Method for orienting a liquid crystalline polymer

A rewritable or repeatedly employable recording medium having a base and a recording layer film provided on said base, characterized in that said recording layer film is formed by a thermotropic cholesteric liquid crystal polyester.

Method of recording

A nonlinear optical material obtained by blending 50-99% by weigth of a polypeptide and 1-50% by weight of a compound exerting a nonlinear optical response has a very large nonlinear optical constant, exterts a high and stable SHG activity and easily undergoes phase matching.

Nonlinear optical materials of polypeptides

Disclosed herein is a substrate with a liquid crystal polymeric thin film comprising a substrate, an orientation film formed on said substrate and a thermotropic liquid crystal polymeric thin film formed on said orientation film, in which the orientation film comprises a polyimide having a glass transition point of higher than 300.degree. C. obtained by cyclizing a polyamic acid or its derivative coated on said substrate and applying a rubbing treatment.

Substrate with a liquid crystal polymeric thin film and method for

Provided is a wholly aromatic polyester superior in melt processability and tenacity which consists essentially of the following structural units (A), (B) and (C) and wherein 0.2 to 40 mole % of the total of said units are of ortho configuration; ##STR1## where Ar.sup.1 and Ar.sup.2 each represent a divalent aromatic hydrocarbon group having 6 to 20 carbon atoms, the hydrogen atoms of said aromatic hydrocarbon group may be substituted with a halogen atom, an alkyl or alkoxy group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or phenyl; Z is ##STR2## --O--, or --SO.sub.2 --; m is 0 or 1, at least 60 mole % of Ar.sup.1 being constituted by a group selected from 1,4-phenylene, substituted 1,4-phenylenes, naphthyl and 4,4'-biphenyl.

Wholly aromatic polyesters

Recording medium

A cholesteric liquid crystal polyester comprising the following structural units (A), (B) and (C): ##STR1## wherein Ar.sup.1 and Ar.sup.2 represent each independently a divalent aromatic hydrocarbon group having 6 to 20 carbon atoms, of which one or more hydrogen atoms may be substituted by one or more halogen atoms, alkyl or alkoxy groups having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, provided that at least 60 mol % of Ar.sup.1 in the polymer is constituted by at least one group selected from 1,4-phenyl group, 2,6-naphthyl group and 4,4'-biphenyl group.

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