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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2010
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); C09K 19/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A liquid crystal display including two alignment substrates, each having, in this order, a substrate, an electrode layer and an alignment layer, with a ferroelectric liquid crystal interposed therebetween. At least one of the two alignment layers is a columnar alignment layer having a column structure with plate-like molecules laminated with the normal directions of the plate-like molecules aligned in a certain direction of the substrate.