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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2005
Applicants:
Masato Okabe, Tokyo, JP;
Naoko Sawatari, Tokyo, JP;
Makoto Ishikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd., Tokyo-to, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02F 1/1337 (2006.01); G02F 1/141 (2006.01); G02F 1/13 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A liquid crystal display including two alignment substrates having a base material, an electrode layer and alignment layer, with a ferroelectric liquid crystal interposed therebetween. One of the two alignment layers for controlling the alignment of the ferroelectric liquid crystal has a column structure with plate-like molecules having the photo dichroism in the visible light range laminated with the normal directions of the plate-like molecules oriented in a certain direction, and it is provided a columnar alignment layer having the alignment function and the polarizing function.