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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 1987
Filed:
Jan. 16, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3503 / ; 3503 / ; 350336 ; 3503 / ;
Abstract
An image-forming apparatus, comprising: a liquid crystal cell comprising an electroconductive member, an electric charge-accepting member, and a ferroelectric liquid crystal interposed therebetween; charging means for imparting an electric charge to the electric charge-accepting member sufficient to form an electric field exceeding the threshold voltage of the ferroelectric liquid crystal; and a multi-color optical filter disposed in the neighborhood of the electroconductive member and comprising a plurality of filter elements of which adjacent ones have mutually different spectral characteristics.