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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:
Feb. 27, 1990
Filed:
Dec. 01, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:
Hiroyuki Sakayori, Machida, JP;
Ippei Kobayashi, Atsugi, JP;
Assignee:
Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd., Atsugi, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
350333 ; 3503 / ;
Abstract
A liquid crystal device can be driven by application of unipolar electric field to a ferroelectric liquid crystal layer. Without application of electric field, isotropic characteristics is observed because of a spiral arrangement of liquid crystal molecules. Under application of electric field, a birefringence is observed because of liquid crystal molecules aligned in one direction. The device can be driven by applying an electric field in one direction and removing the electric field, by using a rectifier in series with each pixel.