Minolta Company, Ltd.

Takeshi Kitahora

Hideaki Ueda

Akihito Hisamitsu

Fumie Motoori

Keiichi Furukawa

Yoshihisa Terasaka

Tsuyoshi Nozaki

Nobuyuki Kobayashi

Mitsuyo Matsumoto

Shoji Kotani

Disclosed is a liquid crystal display apparatus comprising a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer provided between the substrates, the liquid crystal layer containing a liquid crystal composition that exhibits a cholesteric phase. The liquid crystal composition contains a mixture of a chiral material and nematic liquid crystal. The liquid crystal display layer is configured to satisfies the following conditions:

Liquid crystal display element

An organic electro-luminescence display element comprising at least a positive electrode, an organic luminescent film and a negative electrode, wherein the positive electrode is formed of an electrically conductive film having transparency, the negative electrode is formed of a metal film containing metal having a low work function, and the negative electrode is connected to a power supply lead portion made of a transparent and conductive film.

Organic electro-luminescence display element, finder screen display device, finder and optical device

A chiral nematic liquid crystal composition that exhibits a cholesteric phase, said chiral nematic crystal composition comprising 55 wt % to 90 wt % of a nematic liquid crystal composition that comprises, as main components thereof, a liquid crystal ester compound and a liquid crystal pyrimidine compound, wherein said liquid crystal ester compound does not include a tolan skeleton therein and said liquid crystal pyrimidine compound includes a fluorine atom therein; and 10 wt % to 45 wt % of at least one chiral agent. A liquid crystal light modulating apparatus comprising a pair of substrates at least one of which is transparent; and the chiral nematic liquid crystal composition disposed between the substrates.

Liquid crystal composition and liquid crystal light modulating apparatus

Disclosed is a liquid crystal display element which comprises a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer held between the pair of substrates and including liquid crystal that exhibits a cholesteric phase. At least one of the substrates has an orientation film that comprises a polyimide having a mesogenic group therein and has not undergone rubbing.

A chiral nematic liquid crystal composition which contains a nematic liquid crystal mixture and a chiral agent, which exhibits a cholesteric phase at room temperature and which selectively reflects light of a specified wavelength, wherein the chiral agent has an anisotropy of dielectric constant within a range from 12 to 60. Such a chiral nematic liquid crystal composition may have a larger anisotropy of dielectric constant than the nematic liquid crystal mixture before being mixed with the chiral agent. Alternatively, in such a chiral nematic liquid crystal composition, the anisotropy of dielectric constant of the chiral agent may be larger than that of the nematic liquid crystal mixture. By filling such a chiral nematic liquid crystal composition between transparent substrates, a liquid crystal cell is fabricated, and by stacking such liquid crystal cells in three layers, a reflective type full-color liquid crystal display can be produced.

Liquid crystal composition and reflective type liquid crystal display

A liquid crystal display which carries out matrix driving of a chiral nematic liquid crystal composition, which is capable of displaying an image theron continuously after an electric field applied thereto is turned off, by applying an electric field to the liquid crystal composition through a plurality of scan electrodes and a plurality of data electrodes which face and cross each other with the liquid crystal composition in-between. The nematic liquid crystal which is the main element of the liquid crystal composition mainly contains a liquid crystalline ester compound, a liquid crystalline stilbene compound, a liquid crystalline terphenyl compound or a liquid crystalline tolane compound. A driving section of the liquid crystal display drives the liquid crystal composition by a driving method which comprises a reset step of applying a reset pulse to cause the liquid crystal composition to come to a homeotropic state, a selection step of applying a selection pulse to select a final state of the liquid crystal composition and an evolution step of applying an evolution pulse to cause the liquid crystal composition to evolve to the selected final state and in which the selection of the final state of the liquid crystal composition is carried out by modulating the selection pulse.

Liquid crystal display

An organic electroluminescent element includes at least a positive electrode, an electron injection layer, and a negative electrode, wherein the electron injection layer is formed of an alkali metal organic salt, an alkaline earth metal organic salt, an alkali metal organometallic complex or an alkaline earth metal organometallic complex.

Organic electroluminescent element

An organic electroluminescent display element has at least a positive electrode, an organic luminescent film, an electron injection layer and a negative electrode. Each of the positive and negative electrodes is formed of a transparent conductive film, the electron injection layer is formed of a thin transparent film made of a halogenide of an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal, or an organic metal complex containing an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal as a metal, and the organic metal complex is at least one complex selected from the group consisting of acetylacetonate complexes, &agr;-nitroso-&bgr;-naphthol complexes, salicylaldoxime complexes, cupferron complexes, benzoinoxime complexes, bipyridine complexes, phenanthroline complexes, crown complexes, proline complexes and benzoylacetone complexes.

Organic electroluminescent display element, finder screen display device, finder and optical device

The present invention relates to a styryl polymer, represented by the following formula (I) or (II), a production method thereof and use thereof to a photosensitive member and a electroluminescence element: ##STR1## in which Ar.sub.11 is an arylene group which may have a substituent; Ar.sub.12 is an aryl group, a polycondensed ring group or a heterocyclic ring group; n.sub.1 is a natural number; ##STR2## in which Ar.sub.21, Ar.sub.22, and Ar.sub.24 are respectively an arylene group which may have a substituent; Ar.sub.25 is an arylene group or a bivalent polycondensed ring group, which may have a substituent; Ar.sub.23 and Ar.sub.26 are respectively an alkyl group, an aralkyl group or an aryl group, which may have a substituent; m.sub.2 is 0, 1, 2 or 3; n.sub.2 is a natural number.

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Osaka, Japan

Takeshi Kitahora