Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

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Sharp Corporation

Nippon Kayaku Co., Ltd

Shuichi Kohzaki

Nobuaki Yamada

Noriaki Onishi

Masahiko Kondo

Toshiyuki Hirai

Fumiaki Funada

Kei Sasaki

Herbert Plach

Nobukazu Nagae

Hiroshi Numata

Masako Okada

Eike Poetsch

Bernhard Rieger

Volker Reiffenrath

Reinhard Hittich

Tokihiko Shinomiya

Motohiro Yamahara

Thomas Geelhaar

Tomoaki Kuratate

Kohichi Fujimori

Jonathan Harrold

Yutaka Ishii

Bernhard Scheuble

Masahiro Adachi

Edward P Raynes

Shinichi Terashita

Shinji Shimada

Hideo Ichinose

Katunobu Awane

Masako Nakamura

Takamasa Oyama

Daisaku Matsunaga

Kenji Majima

Shohei Naemura

Teruyoshi Hara

Makoto Ohue

Yasuhiro Yamamoto

Toru Ozaki

Takao Aizawa

A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal cell having a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal layer is sandwiched between the pair of substrates. A pair of polarizer elements sandwiches the liquid crystal cell. The liquid crystal display device further includes a phase difference compensation element provided between the liquid crystal cell and at least one of the pair of polarizer elements. A photoelasticity coefficient of the phase difference compensation element is 10&times;10 cm /dyne or less.

Liquid crystal display device including phase difference compensation element

This invention provides a liquid crystal display device including a display medium layer containing at least a liquid crystal material sandwiched between a pair of substrates. In this liquid crystal display device, at least one of the pair of substrates is a plastic substrate having first irregularities on a surface facing the display medium layer, and a polymer wall of a photocurable resin is formed in the display medium layer.

Liquid crystal display device and method for manufacturing the same

A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes a pair of opposing substrates and polymer dispersed liquid crystal interposed between the pair of opposing substrates, the polymer dispersed liquid crystal including a polymer matrix and a plurality of liquid crystal droplets partitioned by the polymer matrix. The polymer matrix and the plurality of liquid crystal droplets are formed by applying light and/or heat to a polymer dispersed liquid crystal precursor in which a polymer for forming the polymer matrix and liquid crystal molecules for forming the liquid crystal droplets are combined via a combining group, the combining group being cleaved by the application of light and/or heat.

Liquid crystal display device and a method for producing the same

A ferroelectric liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes: a pair of substrates disposed so as to oppose each other, at least one of the pair of substrates being transparent; electrodes formed on an inside face of each of the pair of substrates; and a display medium for displaying an image, the display medium being divided into at least one liquid crystal region composed essentially of ferroelectric liquid crystal and a polymer region composed essentially of liquid crystalline polymer, and the display medium being controlled by applying a voltage to the electrodes.

Polymer dispersed ferroelectric liquid crystal display device and a

A method for producing a liquid crystal display device, includes the steps of: attaching a first substrate having a counter electrode to a second substrate having a plurality of pixel electrodes provided in a matrix and active elements provided for the respective pixel electrodes so that a predetermined gap is kept between the counter electrode and the pixel electrodes; injecting a mixture including liquid crystal and photocurable resin into the gap; and irradiating light to the mixture with the pixel electrodes and the active elements non-irradiation regions, thereby forming a liquid crystal layer including liquid crystal regions surrounded by polymer walls in the respective pixel electrodes.

Liquid crystal display device with polymer walls and method for

A photopolymerizable resin material composition for forming a polymer used for a liquid crystal display apparatus includes at least one acrylate compound selected from the group consisting of a bifunctional acrylate compound having a fluorine substitution ratio .alpha. in the range of 0.1&lt;.alpha.&lt;0.8, a bifunctional acrylate compound having a fluorine substitution ratio .alpha. in the range of 0.ltoreq..alpha.&lt;0.8, a bifunctional acrylate compound having a fluorine substitution ratio .alpha. in the range of 0.1&lt;.alpha.&lt;0.8, a bifunctional acrylate compound having a fluorine substitution ratio .alpha. in the range of 0.1&lt;.alpha.&lt;0.8 and a bifunctional acrylate compound having a fluorine substitution ratio .alpha. in the range of 0.1&lt;.alpha.&lt;0.8 and a bifunctional acrylate compound having a fluorine substitution ratio .alpha. in the range of 0.1&lt;.alpha.&lt;0.8, and a photopolymerization delaying resin material.

Photopolymerizable resin material composition comprising fluorinated

A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes a pair of electrode substrates and a polymer dispersed liquid crystal complex film interposed between the pair of substrates. The polymer dispersed liquid crystal complex film includes a liquid crystal composition and a polymer resin composition. It is ensured that a value .DELTA.T is 25.degree. C. or less, and a glass transition temperature T.sub.g of the polymer resin composition is 60.degree. C. or more, the value .DELTA.T being defined as a difference between a phase transition temperature T.sub.CI of the liquid crystal composition between a liquid crystal phase and an isotropic liquid phase thereof and a phase transition temperature T.sub.matrix of the polymer dispersed liquid crystal complex film.

Polymer dispersed liquid crystal display device, and a method for

A liquid crystal display device includes a pair of substrates opposed to each other; a plurality of pixels for realizing display; and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the substrates and including a liquid crystal region corresponding to each of the pixels, the liquid crystal regions being surrounded by a polymer wall. At least one of the substrates is transparent and includes thereon an optical element for adjusting a transmittance of light therethrough. The optical element corresponds to each of the pixels. The optical element has a transmittance of no greater than 50% with respect to light of at least one wavelength in the range of 250 to 400 nm and has a maximum transmittance of at least 20% with respect to light of a wavelength of more than 400 nm.

A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes a pair of electrode substrates and a polymer dispersed liquid crystal complex film interposed between the pair of substrates. The polymer dispersed liquid crystal complex film includes a liquid crystal composition and a polymer resin composition. It is ensured that a value a .DELTA.T is 25.degree. C. or less, and a glass transition temperature T.sub.g of the polymer resin composition is 60.degree. C. or more, the value .DELTA.T being defined as a difference between a phase transition temperature T.sub.CI of the liquid crystal composition between a liquid crystal phase and an isotropic liquid phase thereof and a phase transition temperature T.sub.matrix of the polymer dispersed liquid crystal complex film.

A liquid crystal display comprises a nematic liquid crystal layer disposed between alignment layers. The alignment layers are formed on substrates which also carry display control electrodes connected to a drive circuit. Polarisers are provided on opposite sides of the substrates. The alignment layers are arranged such that the liquid crystal molecule pretilt angles at the surfaces of the alignment layers are parallel. The liquid crystal layer has a retardance equal to (M+1).lambda./2 at a first operating voltage and M.lambda./2 at a second operating voltage, where M is an integer greater than zero or less than minus one and .lambda. is a wavelength of visible light.

Liquid crystal display and device having a total retardance of (M+1)

An object of the invention is to improve the display uniformity of a liquid crystal display apparatus and thereby make the viewing angle less problematic. A pair of first electrodes are formed on one of a pair of light transmitting substrates and a second electrode is formed on each of the first electrodes by polymerizing a conducting polymeric material thereon by the use of constant current electro-polymerization method so as to have a thickness almost equal to the liquid crystal layer thickness. The pair of the first electrodes and the second electrode formed thereon are used as display electrodes. An orientation film is formed on each of the one light transmitting substrate on which the display electrodes are formed and the other of the pair of light transmitting substrates, and thereby a pair of substrate members are formed. A liquid crystal layer is interposed between the substrate members. A polarizing plate is arranged on a side not-facing to the liquid crystal layer of the respective substrate members.

LCD device with polymeric electrode extending into lc layer, and method

A phase difference plate capable of eliminating contrast changes due to viewing angle changes of display image, coloring phenomenon of display screen, and black and white reversal phenomenon, and a liquid crystal display device capable of displaying images of high quality are presented. A phase difference plate is a drawn and elongated material possessing optical anisotropy such as high polymer compound formed in a flat plate form, and the direction of the minimum principal refractive index na of the three principal refractive indices na, nb, nc of the index ellipsoid is parallel to the y-axis direction, and the direction of the principal refractive index nb is inclined to the normal direction of the surface.

Liquid crystal display device having a phase difference plate with one

A liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes: two substrates facing each other, at least one of the substrates being transparent; electrodes disposed on inside surfaces of the respective substrates; a display medium which is provided between the two substrates and formed of polymer walls containing a polymer as their main component and liquid crystal regions containing liquid crystal as their main component; and a plurality of pixels, wherein the liquid crystal regions are partitioned by the polymer walls and are close to the substrates, portions of the liquid crystal regions close to the substrates being in parallel with the substrates, an interval a between the center of one liquid crystal region and the center of an adjacent liquid crystal region in a direction along the surface of the substrate is within a width of one pixel along the direction, and 80% or more of the intervals a satisfy the relationship: 3b/2&gt;a&gt;b/2, where b is an average of the intervals a.

Liquid crystal display device with a polymer between liquid crystal

Polymer dispersed liquid crystal with polymer glass transition above

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