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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 22, 1997
Kenji Nakao, Osaka, JP;
Shinya Kosako, Kadoma, JP;
Tsuyoshi Uemura, Kadoma, JP;
Hirofumi Kubota, Osaka, JP;
Masao Yamamoto, Kishiwada, JP;
Kazuo Inoue, Hirakata, JP;
Seiji Nishiyama, Takatsuki, JP;
Abstract
A polymer dispersion type liquid crystal display element according to the invention is structured such that a complex of polymer and liquid crystal droplets is held between a pair of substrates. The liquid crystal droplets are deformed into a compressed structure of their being contracted in a cell gap direction and an amount of deformation of the liquid crystal droplets is set to be in range in which a phenomenon of liquid crystal molecules rising up in the cell gap direction is not caused by excluded volume effects of the liquid crystals. This construction that the amount of deformation of the liquid crystal droplets is set to be in range in which the phenomenon of liquid crystal molecules rising up in the cell gap direction is not caused by excluded volume effects of the liquid crystals can provide an increased tendency of the liquid crystal molecules to align in parallel to a phase boundary of the substrates. As a result of this, the polymer dispersion type liquid crystal display element having excellent threshold characteristics and scattering characteristics and high display characteristics can be achieved.