Chisso Corporation

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Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Hamamatsu-photonics K.k.

Iinuma Gauge Mfg. Co., Ltd

Shizuo Murata

Satoshi Tanioka

Minoru Nakayama

Toshiya Sawai

Itsuo Shimizu

Yukino Abe

Masaharu Hayakawa

Kenji Furukawa

Masayuki Hirano

Makoto Kono

Ryuji Kobayashi

Haruo Kato

Hiroshi Ono

Masaaki Yazawa

Kumiko Fukui

Etsuo Nakagawa

Takashi Kato

Hideo Sato

Shinichi Sawada

Masami Tanaka

Kouichi Kunimune

Hideo Saito

Nobuyuki Itoh

Naoyoshi Emoto

Kumiko Hara

Nobuyuki Otsuka

Kazumi Ito

Seiji Oikawa

Hiroki Takahashi

Toyoshiro Isoyama

Masami Kido

Takahiro Mori

Susumu Nishida

An object of the present invention is to provide a varnish composition which can achieve totally and with good balance the improvement in various properties including electrical properties such as residual charge, a voltage holding ratio and image sticking, a pre-tilt angle, coating property, alignment property, and so on, which are desired for a liquid crystal aligning film formed. The varnish composition comprises polymer ingredients containing polyamic acid B represented by formula (1), polyamic acid A represented by formula (2) having a side chain of not less than 3 carbon atoms and N-substituted polyamide represented by formula (3), and a solvent for dissolving the polymer ingredients. The varnish composition contains 0.1 to 40% by weight of the polymer ingredients

Varnish composition and liquid-crystal display element

The present invention provides a liquid crystal display element having an adequate pre-tilt angle for preventing the reverse domain, as well as excellent electrical properties by preparation of the polyamic acid composition for the liquid crystal display element comprises a polyamic acid A that excels in electrical properties and a polyamic acid B that has side chains, mixed in the ratio A/B of 50/50 to 95/5 (by weight).

Polyamic acid composition, liquid crystal aligning film, and liquid crystal display element

A varnish composition which comprises a solvent and a polymer component comprising a polyamic acid (B) (having residues which are derived from tetracarboxylic acids and a diamine respectively and which are residues having no side chains or residues having a pendant C alkyl group or are residues having a composition comprising a mixture of these), a polyamic acid (A) (having residues which are derived from tetracarboxylic acids and a diamine respectively and at least either of which is a residue having a pendant C alkyl group or is a residue having a composition containing that residue), and a soluble polyimide, and in which the proportion of the polyamic acid (A) to the soluble polyimide is 1/99 to 99/1 by weight, the, sum of the polyamic acid (A) and the soluble polyimide accounts for 1 to 80 wt. % of the polymer component, the polyamic acid (B) accounts for 99 to 20 wt. % of the polymer component, and the proportion of the polymer component in the whole varnish composition is 0.1 to 40 wt. %. Also provided is a liquid-crystal display element having an alignment film formed from this varnish composition.

Provided is a varnish composition which can achieve well-balanced electrical characteristics such as a residual charge, a voltage-holding ratio and image sticking and various characteristics such as a pretilt angle, a coating property and an aligning property, which are desired to a liquid crystal alignment film which is prepared therefrom. The above varnish composition comprises a polymer component comprising a polyamide acid represented by Formula (1), a polyamide represented by Formula (2) or the polyamide represented by Formula (2) and a soluble polyimide represented by Formula (3), and a solvent, wherein the above polymer component contains 1 to 60% by weight of the polyamide represented by Formula (2), and the above varnish composition contains 0.1 to 40% by weight of the polymer component:

Disclosed is a method for producing liquid crystal display devices comprising a step for forming a transparent electrode and a circuit element of semiconductor on the surface of a pair of transparent substrates, and various steps for applying a photoresist, exposing to the light, etching, releasing the photoresist, inspecting the electrodes and circuit elements of semiconductor, forming an insulating film, forming an alignment film, rubbing the alignment film, spreading spacers, applying a sealing agent, fabricating a cell, filling a liquid crystal, pasting a polarizing plate, and connecting a driver IC characterized in that a soft X-ray is irradiated to the substrate in at least one step prior to the rubbing of the alignment films to produce liquid crystal display devices, at a high yield, in which devices number of pixel defect is small.

Method for producing liquid crystal display device

The present invention provides a polyimide alignment film having excellent electrical properties and excellent reliability for use in the field of electronic materials which comprises a polyimide resin produced from a polyamic acid composition comprising a polyamic acid forming a polyimide resin of a low residual voltage and a high voltage holding ratio, and a polyamic acid forming a polyimide resin of a large pre-tilt angle, blended them in the ratio of the former to the latter of 50/50 to 95/5 (weight ratio), a polyamic acid composition for providing such a polyimide aligning film and a liquid crystal display element produced from such an aligning film.

Diamino compound and production process for the same

Thin film coater and coating method

The present invention provides a liquid crystal display element having an adequate pre-tilt angle for preventing the reverse domain, as well as excellent electrical properties by preparation of the polyamic acid composition for the liquid crystal display element which comprises a polyamic acid A that excels in electrical properties and a polyamic acid B that has side chains, mixed in the ratio A/B of 50/50 to 95/5 (by weight).

This invention relates to a diamino compound represented by the formula &lsqb;1&rsqb;:

Diamino compounds, polyamic acids, polyimides, liquid crystal aligning films using said polyimide films and liquid crystal display devices using said aligning films

Disclosed is an aligning film having good liquid crystal orientation, which can be obtained by irradiating polyimide comprising N-(2-(3,5-diaminobenzoyl)oxyethyl)-.alpha.-phenylmaleimide and 1,2,3,4-cyclobutanetetracarboxylic dihydride with polarized UV-rays without employing such methods as rubbing treatment and oblique deposition.

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