Patents by Inventor Kohichi Fujimori

Kohichi Fujimori 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: 5771084
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes: a pair of substrates at least one of which is transparent; a liquid crystal layer interposed between the substrates and including a plurality of liquid crystal regions substantially surrounded by polymer walls; a sealing agent surrounding a periphery of the liquid crystal layer except for a portion where an injection hole is formed to seal the liquid crystal layer and secure the substrates together; and a sealant for sealing the injection hole, wherein the polymer walls include an ultraviolet light curable resin, and the sealant includes a visible light curable resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1998
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kohichi Fujimori, Tokihiko Shinomiya, Shinji Yamagishi, Shuichi Kozaki
  • Patent number: 5729312
    Abstract: The liquid crystal display device of the invention includes; a pair of substrates disposed so as to be opposed to each other; and a display medium interposed between the pair of substrates, the display medium having liquid crystal regions comprising one or a plurality of pixels, and the liquid crystal regions being surrounded by polymer walls, wherein a number of substrate gap control materials which are disposed in a gap between the pair of substrates is larger in the polymer walls rather than in the liquid crystal regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1998
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinji Yamagishi, Tokihiko Shinomiya, Kohichi Fujimori, Kenji Nishiguchi
  • Patent number: 5726728
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device including a pair of substrates, at least one of which bears plural areas formed by using a uniform arrangement of surface free energy; a polymeric wall made of a polymeric material formed by polymerizing a polymerizable material, sandwiched between the substrates and formed in part of the plural areas having a first surface free energy; and a plurality of liquid crystal regions made of a liquid crystal material substantially surrounded by the polymeric wall, sandwiched between the substrates, and formed in another part of the plural areas having a second surface free energy. In this liquid crystal display device, positions of the areas having the first surface free energy, the areas having the second surface free energy, the polymeric wall and the liquid crystal region are determined so that the first surface free energy .gamma..sub.P, the second surface free energy .gamma..sub.E, surface free energy .gamma..sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1998
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiko Kondo, Nobuaki Yamada, Wataru Horie, Makoto Shiomi, Masayuki Okamoto, Shuichi Kozaki, Tokihiko Shinomiya, Kohichi Fujimori
  • Patent number: 5539546
    Abstract: A ferroelectric liquid crystal display device comprises a pair of substrates having respective electrodes formed on opposed surfaces thereof, a ferroelectric liquid crystal sandwiched between the pair of substrates, a pixel formed between the opposed electrodes, and partition walls formed on the electrodes and dividing the pixel into differently-sized partition areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1996
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Koden, Akira Tagawa, Kazuhiko Tamai, Tokihiko Shinomiya, Tomoaki Kuratate, Kohichi Fujimori
  • Patent number: 5473450
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes: two substrates facing each other, at least one of the substrates being transparent; electrodes disposed on inside surfaces of the respective substrates; a display medium which is provided between the two substrates and formed of polymer walls containing a polymer as their main component and liquid crystal regions containing liquid crystal as their main component; and a plurality of pixels, wherein the liquid crystal regions are partitioned by the polymer walls and are close to the substrates, portions of the liquid crystal regions close to the substrates being in parallel with the substrates, an interval a between the center of one liquid crystal region and the center of an adjacent liquid crystal region in a direction along the surface of the substrate is within a width of one pixel along the direction, and 80% or more of the intervals a satisfy the relationship: 3b/2>a>b/2, where b is an average of the intervals a.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1995
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuaki Yamada, Tomoaki Kuratate, Tokihiko Shinomiya, Toshiyuki Hirai, Kohichi Fujimori, Masahiko Kondo, Noriaki Onishi, Shuichi Kohzaki, Kenji Majima, Katunobu Awane