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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 1989
Filed:
Jan. 17, 1989
Yasushi Suzuki, Tanashi, JP;
Citizen Watch Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A display device including a liquid crystal cell which comprises first and second transparent substrates spaced apart substantially in parallel from each other to form a gap therebewteen, a body of twisted-nematic liquid crystal filing the gap between the substrates, orientation means urging the liquid crystal molecules in the gap to orient in a first direction in the vicinity of the inner face of the first substrate and in a second direction in the vicinity of the inner face of the second substrate, the first direction being substantially perpendicular to the second direction, a pair of polarizer films one overlying the first substrate and the other underlying the second substrate, and at least one phase-shift film intervening between one of the first and second substrates and one of the polarizer films.