Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Blakely Kokoloff Taylor & Zafman
  • Bistable liquid crystal display device in which nematic liquid crystal has monostable anchorings
    Patent number: 6327017
    Abstract: A display device including two parallel transparent plates (10, 12) having transparent electrodes on the inner surfaces thereof and containing a liquid crystal material (20). The device includes means defining a monostable anchoring for each plate (10, 12), means (40) controllable to break at least one of the anchorings, and means for thereafter inducing volume bistability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: Nemoptic S.A.
    Inventors: Ricardo Barberi, Ivan Dozov, Georges Durand, Philippe Martinot-Lagarde, Maurizio Nobili, Eric Polossat, Ioannis Lelidis, Michele Giocondo