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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2018
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Sakai, JP;
Masanobu Mizusaki, Sakai, JP;
Tomonori Itoh, Sakai, JP;
SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Sakai, JP;
Abstract
The present invention is a liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal layer containing a liquid crystal material, a sealing member surrounding the liquid crystal layer in a plan view, a pair of substrates sandwiching the liquid crystal layer, and an alignment control layer being in contact with the liquid crystal layer in a region surrounded by the sealing member in a plan view. The alignment control layer aligns a liquid crystal compound in the liquid crystal material in a direction horizontal to faces of the substrates, and contains a polymer formed by polymerization of at least one monomer, and the at least one monomer contains a monomer represented by the following Chemical formula (1): wherein at least one hydrogen atom of the phenylene group may be the same or different and may be substituted with a halogen atom, a methyl group, an ethyl group, or a propyl group.