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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:
Mar. 12, 1996
Filed:
May. 17, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ken Eguchi, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
428-1 ; 359 75 ; 359 76 ;
Abstract
A ferroelectric liquid crystal device is constituted by a pair of substrates each having thereon an electrode and an alignment film, and a ferroelectric liquid crystal disposed between the substrates. The alignment film on at least one substrate comprises laminated layers of at least two species of electroconductive polymers having mutually different optical band gaps Eq.sup.opt. The ferroelectric liquid crystal device can effectively remove undesirable reverse electric field effect even when a liquid crystal having a large spontaneous polarization is used, and exhibits little change in threshold characteristic with time.