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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 1991
Filed:
May. 22, 1990
Masaaki Matsunaga, Sayama, JP;
Citizen Watch Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There is disclosed a ferroelectric liquid crystal device which sandwiches a ferroelectric liquid crystal between a pair of substrates having transparent electrodes on opposing surfaces thereof, and in which the ferroelectric liquid crystal can take three stable states of a twisted aligned state, and two uniform aligned states, wherein alignment films are formed by oblique deposition of an inorganic insulating member so that inclination direction of each substrate is opposing, and a thickness of a liquid crystal layer between the substrates is set to fall within a range of 1.5 .mu.m to 4 .mu.m. There is also disclosed a method of driving the ferroelectric liquid crystal device.