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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:
Oct. 15, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C09K 1/936 ; C09K 1/932 ; G03C 1/73 ; G11B 7/24 ; B41M 5/26 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C09K 1/936 ; C09K 1/932 ; G03C 1/73 ; G11B 7/24 ; B41M 5/26 ;
Abstract
Cholesteric liquid crystal compositions and a recording medium which includes cholesteric liquid crystal composition are disclosed. The cholesteric liquid crystal composition has a characteristic, in a cholesteric phase, of reflecting visible light in accordance with temperature. By rapidly cooling the display from a cholesteric phase, the material can be solidified in a reflection state. The cholesteric material also has the characteristic during a transition from a solid phase to a cholesteric phase of having of an enthalpy &Dgr;Hch at a substantially constant value during a time when a temperature thereof increases during one of differential thermal analysis and differential scanning calorimetry.