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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 1993
Filed:
Jan. 05, 1993
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a DAP type-ECB system liquid crystal display device comprising (1) a liquid crystal cell in which a liquid crystal layer is sandwiched between a pair of substrates each having at least one electrode, (2) a birefringent layer sandwiched between a substrate and the liquid crystal cell and (3) a pair of polarizers disposed on outer surfaces of the substrates. The birefringent layer comprises a liquid crystal compound showing a cholesteric liquid crystal phase or a polymer film obtained by quenching a polymer showing a cholesteric phase to fix the aligning direction of the polymer molecules, and refractive indexes n.sub.x, n.sub.y within a plane of the birefringent layer and the refractive index n.sub.z in the direction perpendicular to the plane have a relationship: