Patents by Inventor Fumikazu Shimoshikiryou

Fumikazu Shimoshikiryou 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).

  • LCD with electrodes(s) for producing transverse electric field component
    Patent number: 6717645
    Abstract: The liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes a liquid crystal cell having a liquid crystal layer including liquid crystal molecules having a positive dielectric anisotropy, and a pair of polarizers and at least one phase difference compensator that are provided outside the liquid crystal cell. The liquid crystal display device of the present invention displays an image in a normally black mode. A pair of electrodes provided so as to interpose the liquid crystal layer therebetween produce a transverse electric field component parallel to the plane of the liquid crystal layer in the presence of an applied voltage, and the orientation axis direction, which is defined by the azimuth angle of the orientation direction of the liquid crystal molecules near the center of the liquid crystal layer in the thickness direction thereof, is changed by the transverse electric field component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Fumikazu Shimoshikiryou, Keizo Watanabe, Keisuke Yoshida
  • Liquid crystal display device
    Publication number: 20020033923
    Abstract: The liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes a liquid crystal cell having a liquid crystal layer including liquid crystal molecules having a positive dielectric anisotropy, and a pair of polarizers and at least one phase difference compensator that are provided outside the liquid crystal cell. The liquid crystal display device of the present invention displays an image in a normally black mode. A pair of electrodes provided so as to interpose the liquid crystal layer therebetween produce a transverse electric field component parallel to the plane of the liquid crystal layer in the presence of an applied voltage, and the orientation axis direction, which is defined by the azimuth angle of the orientation direction of the liquid crystal molecules near the center of the liquid crystal layer in the thickness direction thereof, is changed by the transverse electric field component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2001
    Publication date: March 21, 2002
    Inventors: Fumikazu Shimoshikiryou, Keizo Watanabe, Keisuke Yoshida