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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.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2002

Filed:

Apr. 05, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:

Masaya Mizunuma, Kikuchi-gun, JP;

Akira Tamatani, Kikuchi-gun, JP;

Ken Nakashima, Kikuchi-gun, JP;

Assignee:

Advanced Display Inc., Kikuchi-gun, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02F 1/1335 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02F 1/1335 ;
Abstract

A liquid crystal display of the present invention includes: a pair of substrates, at least one of which is transparent; a liquid crystal layer being interposed between said pair of substrates; electrodes for applying an electric field to liquid crystals molecules in said liquid crystal layer; active switching elements connected with said electrodes; an alignment film being formed on a surface of at least one of said pair of substrates, said surface being contacted with said liquid crystal layer; and an optical device for controlling a transmission of light in cooperation with alignment of said liquid crystal molecules in each pixel, said means being located on at least one said pair of substrates; wherein an aligning direction of each liquid crystal molecule in each pixel is ranged between −2 degrees to +2 degrees with respect to an average aligning direction &thgr; of said liquid crystal layer.


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