Patents by Inventor Toshiaki Hoshino

Toshiaki Hoshino has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6967704
    Abstract: A reflective liquid crystal display device having high reliability and excellent display is provided by preventing degradation and peeling of an organic film provided in order to impart an uneven shape to a reflective metal film. The reflective liquid crystal display has a configuration in which a liquid crystal layer is held in the space formed by a pair of substrates arranged opposing to each other and a seal member provided on the periphery portion of the substrate pair, an organic film, a reflective metal film, color filters, an overcoat film, an electrode substrate film, electrode layers, and an orientation film are laminated in order on the liquid crystal layer side of one substrate of the substrate pair, and the organic film is formed in the neighborhood region of the end of the seal member provided on the periphery portion of the aforementioned substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2005
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Hoshino
  • Publication number: 20050248702
    Abstract: A reflective bistable nematic liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal cell and a reflector provided on a side of the liquid crystal cell opposite to an observer side, with a transmissive adhesive layer interposed therebetween. The liquid crystal cell includes a pair of substrates opposite to each other, with a nematic liquid crystal layer in which a chiral agent is added therebetween, in which one of the pair of substrates has an alignment film with strong anchoring energy and the other has an alignment film with weak anchoring energy. The alignment film having the weak anchoring energy has anchoring energy smaller than half of that of the alignment film having strong anchoring energy and has a pre-tilt angle of about 0°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2005
    Publication date: November 10, 2005
    Inventor: Toshiaki Hoshino
  • Patent number: 6958800
    Abstract: A reflective liquid crystal display device having high reliability and excellent display is provided by preventing degradation and peeling of an organic film provided in order to impart an uneven shape to a reflective metal film. The reflective liquid crystal display has a configuration in which a liquid crystal layer is held in the space formed by a pair of substrates arranged opposing to each other and a seal member provided on the periphery portion of the substrate pair, an organic film, a reflective metal film, color filters, an overcoat film, an electrode substrate film, electrode layers, and an orientation film are laminated in order on the liquid crystal layer side of one substrate of the substrate pair, and the organic film is formed in the neighborhood region of the end of the seal member provided on the periphery portion of the aforementioned substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2005
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Hoshino
  • Patent number: 6798485
    Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide a liquid crystal display device which, when a liquid crystal injection portion is sealed and stopped up with a resin, makes it possible to precisely and easily perform the operation and makes it possible to detect defective liquid crystal injection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Date, Toshiaki Hoshino
  • Publication number: 20040056998
    Abstract: A reflective liquid crystal display device having high reliability and excellent display is provided by preventing degradation and peeling of an organic film provided in order to impart an uneven shape to a reflective metal film. The reflective liquid crystal display has a configuration in which a liquid crystal layer is held in the space formed by a pair of substrates arranged opposing to each other and a seal member provided on the periphery portion of the substrate pair, an organic film, a reflective metal film, color filters, an overcoat film, an electrode substrate film, electrode layers, and an orientation film are laminated in order on the liquid crystal layer side of one substrate of the substrate pair, and the organic film is formed in the neighborhood region of the end of the seal member provided on the periphery portion of the aforementioned substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2003
    Publication date: March 25, 2004
    Inventor: Toshiaki Hoshino
  • Publication number: 20030164907
    Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide a liquid crystal display device which, when a liquid crystal injection portion is sealed and stopped up with a resin, makes it possible to precisely and easily perform the operation and makes it possible to detect defective liquid crystal injection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 1999
    Publication date: September 4, 2003
    Inventors: TAKASHI DATE, TOSHIAKI HOSHINO
  • Publication number: 20020033917
    Abstract: A reflective liquid crystal display device having high reliability and excellent display is provided by preventing degradation and peeling of an organic film provided in order to impart an uneven shape to a reflective metal film. The reflective liquid crystal display has a configuration in which a liquid crystal layer is held in the space formed by a pair of substrates arranged opposing to each other and a seal member provided on the periphery portion of the substrate pair, an organic film, a reflective metal film, color filters, an overcoat film, an electrode substrate film, electrode layers, and an orientation film are laminated in order on the liquid crystal layer side of one substrate of the substrate pair, and the organic film is formed in the neighborhood region of the end of the seal member provided on the periphery portion of the aforementioned substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2001
    Publication date: March 21, 2002
    Applicant: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Hoshino
  • Patent number: 6219122
    Abstract: In a reflective liquid crystal display device, a retardation &Dgr;ndLC of a liquid crystal cell ranges from 705 nm to 890 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuo Uchida, Mitsuo Ohizumi, Mitsuru Kano, Toshiaki Hoshino
  • Patent number: 5745204
    Abstract: A liquid crystal color display device comprises a liquid crystal cell 3 having a liquid crystal layer with an angle of twist being within a range of 180.degree. to 270.degree. and a pair of electrode substrates intervening the liquid crystal layer therebetween, a twist phase plate 4 serving as a birefringent layer, and a pair of polarizers 2,5. The value of .DELTA.n.cndot.d of the phase plate 4, wherein .DELTA.n represents a refractive index anisotropy and d represents a thickness, and that of the liquid crystal layer in voltage-free condition are substantially at the same level within a range of 1.4 to 2.0 .mu.m. The value of .DELTA.n.cndot.d of the liquid crystal layer can be continuously changed by appropriately controlling a voltage applied thereto. By this, colorization of the device is possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1998
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Hoshino