Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Teruyoshi Hara

Shuichi Kozaki

Motohiro Yamahara

Koichi Miyachi

Nobuaki Yamada

Tokihiko Shinomiya

Masayuki Okamoto

Nobukazu Nagae

Shuichi Kohzaki

Fumikazu Shimoshikiryo

Toshiyuki Hirai

Wataru Horie

Kei Sasaki

A liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes: a pair of substrates; a liquid crystal layer provided between the substrates; and a transverse electric field generating electrode capable of being driven in a matrix driving manner which is provided on at least one of the pair of substrates and is connected to external control means. Each of the pair of substrates is provided with alignment means for aligning liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer so that the liquid crystal layer has spontaneous polarization generally parallel to a surface of the substrate.

Liquid crystal display device

A liquid crystal display element which includes two opposing electrodes, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between said electrodes, wherein an alignment film for aligning a liquid crystal of said liquid crystal layer in at least three different directions is disposed above a side of said liquid crystal layer of at least one of said electrodes is disclosed.

Multiple domain liquid crystal display element and a manufacturing

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

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Yamatokoriyama, Japan

Teruyoshi Hara