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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2003
Shigeomi Chono, Nankoku, JP;
Tomohiro Tsuji, Kami-gun, JP;
Shigeomi Chono, Nankoku, JP;
Tomohiro Tsuji, Kami-gun, JP;
Kochi University of Technology, Kochi, JP;
Abstract
In a rotating mechanism including a pair of membersandhaving opposed surfaces B which are opposed to each other and provided to be relatively movable in a state in which the opposed surfaces B are opposed to each other, a liquid crystal LC provided between the opposed surfaces B and B of the membersand, and liquid crystal molecule rotating means for rotating a liquid crystal molecule m of the liquid crystal LC in a crossing surface crossing one of the opposed surfaces B and B, the liquid crystal molecule rotating means includes a pair of orientation filmsandformed on the opposed surfaces B and B, and the orientation filmsandare subjected to a rubbing treatment in which directions of a rotation around an identical crossing line crossing the membersandare reverse to each other along a circumference of a circle having a center on the crossing line.