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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 1986
Filed:
Jun. 29, 1983
Masaharu Kaneko, Yamato, JP;
Tomio Yoneyama, Kawasaki, JP;
Junko Iwanami, Yamato, JP;
Shuji Imazeki, Hitachi, JP;
Akio Mukoh, Mito, JP;
Mikio Sato, Hitachi, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Mitsubishi Chemical Industries, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The description is concerned with a liquid crystal composition of the guest-host type which contains a pleochroic dye dissolved therein. The dye molecule has an end group or end groups in the molecule represented by the general formula: ##STR1## where Ro designates a straight chain of alkyl group, in which methylene group not adjacent to the nitrogen atom may be substituted by oxygen atom or sulfer atom; R1 designates an alkyl group having a chain length different from that of the alkyl group of Ro or a group ##STR2## in R1 a methylene group not adjacent to the nitrogen atom may be substituted by oxygen atom or sulfur atom, and R2 designates hydrogen atom, alkyl group, alkoxy group, cycloalkyl group or dialkylamino group.