Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid-crystalline medium which comprises at least one compound of the formula I, wherein the radicals R11, L1, L2, n and A are as defined herein, and to the use thereof for an active-matrix display, in particular based on the VA, PSA, PS-VA, PA-VA, PALC, FFS, PS-FFS, IPS or PS-IPS effect.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 21, 2015
Date of Patent:
September 13, 2022
Assignee:
MERCK PATENT GMBH
Inventors:
Harald Hirschmann, Martina Windhorst, Monika Bauer, Volker Reiffenrath, Matthias Bremer
Abstract: A dielectric negative liquid crystal composition, a liquid crystal display element and a liquid crystal display containing the liquid crystal composition belong to the field of liquid crystal display. The liquid crystal composition of the present disclosure includes a compound represented by formula I, a compound represented by formula II, two or more compounds represented by formula III and one or more compounds represented by formula IV. The liquid crystal composition of the present invention has high dielectric anisotropy, high elastic constant K, low rotational viscosity, can be used to develop large dielectric, fast response liquid crystal display elements or liquid crystal displays.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 3, 2020
Date of Patent:
September 13, 2022
Assignee:
SHIJIAZHUANG CHENGZHI YONGHUA DISPLAY MATERIAL CO., LTD.
Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device that, with photo-alignment films, can maintain a favorable voltage holding ratio for a long period of time and prevent generation of image sticking and stains on the display screen. The liquid crystal display device includes: an active-matrix liquid crystal panel; and a backlight, the liquid crystal panel including a liquid crystal layer, paired substrates holding the liquid crystal layer in between, and alignment films disposed on the liquid crystal layer side surfaces of the respective substrates, the alignment films each being a photo-alignment film formed from a material exhibiting photo-alignment performance, the liquid crystal layer containing a liquid crystal material and a radical scavenger.
Abstract: Liquid-crystalline media comprising one or more compounds of formula T as defined in claim 1, and high-frequency components comprising these media, especially microwave components for high-frequency devices, such as devices for shifting the phase of microwaves, tunable filters, tunable metamaterial structures, and electronic beam steering antennas, e.g. phased array antennas.
Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a light-absorbing anisotropic film having an excellent degree of alignment of a dichroic azo coloring agent; an optical laminate including the same; and an image display device using the same. The light-absorbing anisotropic film according to an embodiment of the present invention is a light-absorbing anisotropic film which is formed of a liquid crystal composition containing a dichroic azo coloring agent compound, a liquid crystalline compound, and a compound represented by Formula (1) and has a front transmittance of 60% or less, and in which a content mass ratio of the dichroic azo coloring agent compound to the liquid crystalline compound is 5% to 35% by mass.
Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal composition, containing: one kind or two or more kinds of a first monomer having a first mesogenic skeleton, at least one polymerizable group represented by the general formula (PG1) linked to the first mesogenic skeleton, and at least one polar group linked to the mesogenic skeleton or the polymerizable group; and one kind or two or more kinds of a second monomer having a second mesogenic skeleton and a polymerizable group represented by the general formula (PG2) linked to the second mesogenic skeleton, and having a chemical structure different from that of the first monomer, in an amount of more than 0.4% by mass, which is excellent in vertical alignment, burn-in characteristics (change with time of pretilt angle), and compatibility, and provides a liquid crystal display element using the liquid crystal composition.
Abstract: The present disclosure provides a side chain liquid crystal epoxy monomer (S-LCEM) and a preparation method thereof, and a side chain liquid crystal epoxy resin (S-LCER) with high intrinsic thermal conductivity, and belongs to the technical field of epoxy resin materials. There are biphenyl mesogenic groups with strong rigidity in a molecular structure of the S-LCEM provided in the present disclosure and there are also flexible connections among chain segments, which promotes the ordered arrangement of S-LCEM molecular chains during a curing process. The highly-ordered arrangement of such mesogenic units is conducive to the formation of a local crystalloid structure, so that a heat flow is transferred along a direction of the ordered molecular chain, which effectively inhibits the scattering of phonons in the S-LCER with high intrinsic thermal conductivity and greatly improves the intrinsic thermal conductivity of the S-LCER with high intrinsic thermal conductivity.
Abstract: A polymerizable liquid crystal compound represented by Chemical Formula 1, a liquid crystal composition for an optical element comprising the same, a polymer polymerized from the same, an optically anisotropic body comprising a cured material or polymerized reactant of the liquid crystal composition or the polymer, and an optical element for a display device comprising the optical anisotropic body are disclosed herein.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 23, 2019
Date of Patent:
June 21, 2022
Inventors:
Minyoung Kang, Hyok Joon Kwon, Sung In Lee
Abstract: A black liquid-crystal polymer film that contains a black pigment and a liquid crystal polymer and the black liquid-crystal polymer film has a lightness of 45 or less, a dielectric loss tangent of 0.0035 or less, a minimum dielectric breakdown strength of 60 kV/mm or more, and a maximum-to-minimum ratio of in-plane thermal linear expansion coefficient in the range of 1.0 to 2.5.
Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal film for a vehicle, including a first electrode, a liquid crystal molecular layer provided on the first electrode, and a second electrode provided on the liquid crystal molecular layer. The liquid crystal molecular layer includes a pre-polymer, a liquid crystal material, and a crosslinking agent.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 21, 2018
Date of Patent:
June 14, 2022
Assignees:
Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, LIVICON
Abstract: A liquid-crystalline medium, preferably having a nematic phase and dielectric anisotropy of 0.5 or more, which comprises one or more compounds of each of formulae T and L in which the parameters have the meanings given in the claims and in the text. The use thereof in an electro-optical display, particularly in an active-matrix display based on the IPS or FFS effect, to displays of this type which contain a liquid-crystalline medium of this type. Also, the compounds of formulae T and L and their use for the improvement of the transmission and/or response times of a liquid-crystalline medium which comprises one or more additional mesogenic compounds.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 18, 2020
Date of Patent:
June 14, 2022
Assignee:
Merck Patent GmbH
Inventors:
Atsutaka Manabe, Constanze Brocke, Sebastian Hofmeyer
Abstract: Disclosed are a liquid crystal composition and a liquid crystal display device. The liquid crystal composition comprises at least one compound of general formula I, at least one compound of general formula II, at least one compound of general formula III, and at least one compound of general formula IV. By compounding the four compounds, the composition can have advantages of a wide temperature range of nematic phase, a low viscosity and a low threshold voltage, and the liquid crystal display element can have a short response time and great power saving performance.
Abstract: The invention relates to a compound of formula I, wherein R11, R21, A11, A, Z, X11, X21, Y11, Y12, Sp11, Sp21, o and p have one of the meanings as given in claim 1. The invention further relates to method of production of a compound of formula I, to the use of said compounds in LC media and to LC media comprising one or more compounds of formula I. Further, the invention relates to a method of production of such LC media, to the use of such media in LC devices, and to LC device comprising a LC medium according to the present invention. The present invention further relates to a process for the fabrication such liquid crystal display and to the use of the liquid crystal mixtures according to the invention for the fabrication of such liquid crystal display.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 18, 2019
Date of Patent:
June 7, 2022
Assignee:
Merck Patent GmbH
Inventors:
Lars Lietzau, Simon Siemianowski, Izumi Saito
Abstract: A liquid crystal dielectric applicable to high-frequency electromagnetic wave modulation has a clearing point of the liquid crystal dielectric higher than 110° C., a low-temperature storage temperature lower than ?20° C., and an optical anisotropy greater than 0.35. The liquid crystal dielectric includes: one or more compounds selected by general formula I, which occupy 30-80% of the total weight of the liquid crystal dielectric, and one or more compounds selected by general formula II and/or general formula III, which occupy 20-70% of the total weight of the liquid crystal dielectric.
Abstract: A liquid crystal composition includes at least one compound of general Formula I, at least one compound of general Formula II and at least one compound of general Formula M. The polymerizable liquid crystal composition provides a higher VHR (especially an excellent VHR after UV irradiation), a lower surface roughness of the polymer layer, a faster polymerization rate, a lower residual amount of the polymerizable compound and a better pretilt angle stability, which enables the production of a liquid crystal display device with a better voltage stability and a faster response speed, and can effectively reduce or prevent the occurrences of problems such as “burn-in”, “image sticking”, “Zara Particle” and “uneven display” in the liquid crystal display device. A liquid crystal display includes the liquid crystal composition.
Abstract: A first object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal composition capable of forming a reflective layer having excellent diffuse reflectivity. A second object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a reflective layer having excellent diffuse reflectivity and a reflective layer having excellent diffuse reflectivity. A third object of the present invention is to provide a cured product and an optically anisotropic body, each of which is formed of the liquid crystal composition.
Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid-crystalline medium, preferably having a nematic phase and dielectric anisotropy of 0.5 or more, which comprises one or more compounds of formula YX in which the parameters have the meanings given in the text, to the use thereof in an electro-optical display, particularly in an active-matrix display based on the IPS or FFS effect, to displays of this type which contain a liquid-crystalline medium of this type, and to the use of the compounds of formula YX for the improvement of the transmission and/or response times of a liquid-crystalline medium which comprises one or more additional mesogenic compounds.
Abstract: The invention relates to a compound of formula I, wherein R11, R21, A11, A, Z, X11, X21, Y11, Y12, Sp11, Sp21, o and p have one of the meanings as given in claim 1. The invention further relates to method of production of a compound of formula I, to the use of said compounds in LC media and to LC media comprising one or more compounds of formula I. Further, the invention relates to a method of production of such LC media, to the use of such media in LC devices, and to LC device comprising a LC medium according to the present invention. The present invention further relates to a process for the fabrication such liquid crystal display and to the use of the liquid crystal mixtures according to the invention for the fabrication of such liquid crystal display.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 18, 2019
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2022
Assignee:
Merck Patent GmbH
Inventors:
Lars Lietzau, Simon Siemianowski, Izumi Saito
Abstract: A liquid crystal polyester resin composition including a liquid crystal polyester resin, 15 parts by mass or more and 100 parts by mass or less of a carbon fiber with respect to 100 parts by mass of the liquid crystal polyester resin, and 0.001 parts by mass or more and 0.02 parts by mass or less of a fullerene with respect to 100 parts by mass of the carbon fiber.
Abstract: The present invention relates to a mixture comprising a not fully aromatic polymerisable compound and a polymerisable photoinitiator, to liquid-crystal (LC) media comprising them, and to the use of the polymerisable compounds and LC media for optical, electro-optical and electronic purposes, in particular in LC displays, especially in LC displays of the polymer sustained alignment type.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 26, 2018
Date of Patent:
April 12, 2022
Assignee:
Merck Patent GmbH
Inventors:
Qiong Tong, Dmitry Ushakov, Helga Haas, Steffen Gnauck, Thorsten Rachor, Sven Schuepfer, Simon Mundinger