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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2000
Hirofumi Kubota, Osaka, JP;
Shinya Kosako, Kadoma, JP;
Kenji Nakao, Osaka, JP;
Noriko Naito, Ishikawa-gun, JP;
Tsuyoshi Uemura, Kadoma, JP;
Masao Yamamoto, Kishiwada, JP;
Abstract
A method of making a polymer dispersion type liquid crystal display element including a phase separation step. The method calls for placing a liquid crystal polymer precursor compatible solution having a liquid crystal and a polymer precursor between a pair of substrates, each having an inside electrode, and irradiating a substrate surface with ultraviolet. The radiation causes a phase separation of the liquid crystal and the polymer precursor as well as polymerization and curing of the precursor. The method forms a polymer dispersion type liquid crystal having liquid crystal droplets dispersed and held in a continuous matrix phase or a three-dimensional network matrix. During the phase separation step, the irradiation time is controlled from the beginning of irradiation to the completion of phase separation to influence any of the degree of polymerization of the precursor in the solution, the rate of phase separation, and the generating density of the separated liquid crystal nuclei so that the dispersed liquid crystal droplets have even particle sizes.