Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Shingo Fujita

Tetsu Ogawa

Hiroaki Mizuno

Hisanori Yamaguchi

Takayuki Hatanaka

Isao Ota

Hiroshi Yamazoe

Masaki Nishinaka

Tsuyoshi Uemura

Hiroshi Mizuno

Naohide Wakita

Katsuhiko Kumagawa

Shigeru Yoshida

Yoshio Iwai

Toshio Tatsumichi

Hiroyuki Ohnishi

Shinji Hisamitsu

Noriko Ohba

Isako Kikuchi

A reflection liquid crystal display device comprises an upper substrate; a transparent electrode formed into an electrode pattern on one side of the upper substrate; an alignment film formed on the transparent electrode; a lower substrate opposed to the upper substrate; a reflective metal electrode including Al-alloy electrodes formed into an electrode pattern and opposed to the upper substrate; a protective insulation film formed on the reflective metal electrode; an alignment film formed on the protective film; and liquid crystal filled between the upper substrate and the lower substrate. The protective insulation film has a volume resistivity of small than 1&times;10 &OHgr;-cm. The defects due to the charges stored in the protective insulation film are alleviated, and a uniform display is achieved.

Reflective liquid crystal display apparatus

A reflective liquid crystal display element including a liquid crystal cell filling between an upper transparent substrate and lower substrate with liquid crystal, a polarizing film disposed at the upper transparent substrate side of the liquid crystal cell, a birefringent film layer disposed between the polarizing film and liquid crystal, cell and light reflecting means disposed at the lower substrate side of the liquid crystal cell. The display element further includes an undulated layer, which is not formed in the connection terminal between the lower substrate side of the liquid crystal cell and the external circuit board. Preferably, the sectional shape of the transparent electrode in the connection terminal between the display area and external circuit is formed in three stair steps.

Reflective liquid crystal display element and image display device using the same

An electrode width of intermediate connection wiring which connects terminal electrode and common electrode is made narrower than an electrode width of terminal electrode at forming an electrode pattern on one of substrates configuring a liquid crystal display device. This enables the prevention of detrimental effect of cutting and polishing the periphery of a liquid crystal cell onto the terminal electrode. A laser irradiation process required for removing the common electrode is eliminated, and thus manufacturing cost may be reduced.

Liquid crystal display and manufacture therefore

A reflective liquid crystal display device of the present invention has the following construction. A transparent electrode is provided via color filter layer on a transparent substrate positioned at the upper side of the device. A metallic reflective electrode is provided on a substrate positioned at the lower side of the device. An alignment layer is provided on the transparent electrode and on the metallic reflective electrode respectively. The transparent substrate positioned at the upper side and the substrate positioned at the lower side are arranged parallel to each other with alignment films provided on the transparent electrode and on the metallic reflective electrode facing each other. A liquid crystal layer is provided between the alignment films. A scattering film is provided on a surface of the transparent substrate positioned at the upper side opposite to the surface where the transparent electrode is provided. A polymer film and a polarization film are provided in that sequential order on the scattering film. The present reflective liquid crystal display device can express a black and white display in achromatic color having bright white display and with high contrast, and has low visual angle dependency and excellent optical characteristics.

Reflective liquid crystal display device

A reflection-type liquid crystal display device comprises a liquid crystal cell, a polarizing film, a birefringent film, a scattering layer, and a light reflection means, in which a diffuse reflection factor &ldquo;R&rdquo; of the scattering layer is designed to be 7% or greater, but 110% or less when an incident angle of light is in the range of 25&deg; or greater and 45&deg; or smaller. Here the diffuse reflection factor &ldquo;R&rdquo; is defined by the formula of R&equals;R1/R2&times;100 (where R1 is a reflection factor irradiated at an incident angle of 0&deg;, and R2 is a reflection factor irradiated at an incident angle of 25&deg;). This structure is able to provide a reflection-type LCD which is bright in White display, capable of producing a high contrast, and reducing blur of an image.

Reflection liquid crystal display

Reflective LCD device with low visual angle dependency and high contrast

A reflector electrode is provided with hills and valleys thereon, and the reflector electrode is formed on an inside face of a transparent substrate having a transparent electrode and an opposite substrate. Light-scattering-liquid-crystal is provided with forward-scattering component and back-scattering component, so that scattering of reflected light from the reflector electrode is increased when the light-scattering-liquid-crystal is transparent. As a result, contrast is less dependent on a viewing angle, and a brighter quality display with higher color purity can be obtained.

Reflection type liquid crystal display device

A reflective liquid crystal display device employing only one sheet of polarizer film, the liquid crystal display device comprising: a liquid crystal cell comprising liquid crystal sealed between a pair of substrates, a polarizer film, two sheets of retardation film, a scattering film, and a specular reflector. The twisting angle of the liquid crystal is between 220.degree. and 260.degree.. The retardation .DELTA.nLC.multidot.dLC of the liquid crystal is between 700 nm and 1000 nm, and the retardation of the retardation films is .vertline.Rfilm(2)-Rfilm(1).vertline..ltoreq.200 nm. A specific angular relationship is established among the alignment of the liquid crystal molecules, the slow axis of the two sheets of retardation film, and the absorption axis of the polarizer. This configuration provides the reflective liquid crystal display device with a bright white display, an achromatic black and white display with high contrast, and less dependence on viewing angle.

A reflective liquid crystal display device comprising a polarizer, a retardation film, a front scattering film layer, and a liquid crystal cell having a mirror reflector, in which the front scattering film layer includes at least one film of which scattering angle range is asymmetrical to the normal direction of film. A plural front scattering films of which scattering angle range is asymmetrical to the film normal are laminated so that the projection direction onto the film surface in the central angle direction of the scattering angle range may be different. At least one of the scattering films for composing the scattering film layer is a front scattering film for scattering more strongly the transmission light from the second incident angle region not containing the film normal direction than the transmission light from the first incident angle region containing the film normal direction.

Reflective liquid crystal display device having front scattering films

A reflective liquid crystal display device comprises a substrate, a transparent substrate facing the substrate, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the substrate and the transparent substrate, and further comprises first transparent electrodes, an electrically insulating separating layer and a reflective film formed in that order from the liquid crystal layer side at the inward-facing surface of the substrate, and also comprises a second transparent electrode included in the inward-facing surface of the transparent substrate. The electrically insulating separating layer physically and electrically separates the reflective film made of Al from the first transparent electrodes, so that durability against chemicals at processing and reliability are improved.

Liquid crystal display device with color filters between reflector and

A color liquid crystal display device comprises a liquid crystal cell and a polymer film. The liquid crystal cell comprises a liquid crystal layer positioned between a pair of transparent substrates, on whose innersides transparent electrodes are provided. The polymer film is positioned at one side of the liquid crystal cell. The liquid crystal layer and the polymer film are sandwiched by a pair of polarization films. A twist angle of the liquid crystal layer is set to be a predetermined value. The product of birefringence of the nematic liquid crystal, .DELTA.n.sub.LC, and a thickness of liquid crystal layer, d.sub.LC, .DELTA.n.sub.LC .multidot.d.sub.LC is set to be a predetermined value. The birefringence difference .DELTA.(R)=R.sub.Film -.DELTA.n.sub.LC .multidot.d.sub.LC, which is defined by using the .DELTA.n.sub.LC .multidot.d.sub.LC and retardation of the polymer film, R.sub.Film, is set to be a value between 0.0 .mu.m and 0.1 .mu.m. The present color liquid crystal device can express a black and white display in achromatic color having bright white and with high contrast, and a red display with high color purity.

Color liquid crystal display device using polymer and polarization films

A reflection type liquid crystal display apparatus has a liquid cell having an upper substrate having an electrode pattern formed with transparent electrodes, a lower substrate opposed to the upper substrate and having an electrode pattern formed with metallic reflecting electrodes, an orientation film formed on each of the two electrode patterns, and containing liquid crystal put between the upper and lower substrates, and an electronic part connected to the liquid crystal cell and used to drive the liquid crystal cell, wherein each of the metallic reflecting electrodes is a two-layer film composed of Ti and Al alloy and formed on the lower substrate.

Liquid crystal display with a metallic reflecting electrode having a two

Liquid crystal display device capable of displaying color without a

A liquid crystal display comprises as liquid crystal panel having a liquid crystal layer disposed between electrode layers, polarizers disposed at both sides of the panel, and a solid birefringent film having the maximum refractive index direction varying with its depth and disposed at at least one side of the liquid crystal panel between the polarizers. The solid birefringent film conpensates the dependence of the polarization characteristic on wave length, thus being capable of obtaining either a monochrome display or a display having an extremely low coloration.

Liquid crystal display with compensation means of multiaxially elongated

A nonlinear diode which is easy to manufacture and has sharply nonlinear voltage-current characteristic and a matrix display unit in which it is used has a diode structure in which an amorphous semiconductor layer is disposed between a bus bar and a pixel electrode formed on a substrate so as to thereby provide an electrical connection therebetween. The amorphous semiconductor layer is made of a compound of arsenic and at least one of selenium and sulphur; a compound of nitrogen and at least one of boron; silicon; aluminium and gallium, a compound of carbon and silicon; or boron.

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Ishikawa, Japan

Shingo Fujita