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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:
Jul. 23, 1996
Filed:
Jul. 01, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Shirley A Marden, Dorset, GB;
David Coates, Dorset, GB;
Assignee:
Merck Patent Gesellschaft Mit Beschrankter Haftung, Darmstadt, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C09K / ; C09K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
428-1 ; 25229901 ; 25229963 ; 25229965 ; 25229966 ; 359103 ; 359105 ; 524559 ; 524205 ; 524208 ; 524285 ; 524288 ;
Abstract
The invention relates to a liquid-crystalline material in the form of an anisotropic gel consisting of a polymerized liquid-crystalline material and a low-molecular weight liquid-crystalline material, wherein the polymerized material (a) forms a permanently oriented network in the low-molecular liquid-crystalline material (b), characterized in that the low-molecular weight liquid-crystalline material (b) exhibits a cholesteric phase, and to a display cell with such a material.