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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 1985
Filed:
Nov. 19, 1982
Takao Umeda, Hitachi, JP;
Yuzuru Simazaki, Hitachi, JP;
Tatsuo Igawa, Kitaibaraki, JP;
Seikichi Tanno, Hitachi, JP;
Ken Sasaki, Mobara, JP;
Takao Miyashita, Kumagaya, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A liquid crystal display device is disclosed in which a liquid crystal material mixed with a dichroic dye is held between a pair of substrates whose facing surfaces are provided with electrodes, so that a picture element is made up of a pair of facing portions of the electrodes and a portion of the liquid crystal material sandwiched by the facing portions, in which a reflecting plate is adjacent to one of the substrates, and in which at least one of the substrates is formed of a birefringent material having slow and fast principal axes of birefringence. In the above device, an angle between the direction of the absorption axis of the dichroic dye and one of the principal axes of birefringence of the substrate is selected so that the contrast and viewing-direction characteristic of the device can be improved.