Abstract: In a substrate for a liquid crystal display device, a black matrix, a transparent electroconductive film and a resin layer are formed above a transparent substrate. The black matrix is a light-shielding layer in which light-shielding pigments are dispersed in a resin, and includes openings. The resin layer is formed above the transparent substrate including the black matrix and the transparent electroconductive film, forms a convex part above the black matrix, and forms, in a region that passes through a center of each of the openings in the black matrix, a concave part.

Abstract: A counter substrate for liquid crystal display includes a transparent substrate, a black matrix, and stripe transparent electrodes. The black matrix divides a plane surface of the transparent substrate into pixel or sub-pixel unit to form a light-shielded area and openings above the plane surface. The stripe transparent electrodes are formed into the pixel unit or the sub-pixel unit above the plane surface. The black matrix includes a frame pattern including two sides facing each other in parallel in the pixel or the sub-pixel unit, and a linear central pattern which is parallel to the two sides of the frame pattern and is formed at a midsection of the pixel or the sub-pixel unit. The transparent electrodes are each parallel to the two sides of the frame pattern and the central pattern and are located symmetrically to the central pattern.

Abstract: The invention minimizes a disclination of a transflective type liquid crystal display device. The device includes a transparent substrate, a black matrix dividing rectangular pixels, a transparent electroconductive film, a resin layer having a concave region at an each pixel center, and a cell gap adjusting layer formed partially above the resin layer and forming convex regions above the black matrix. The pixels are formed symmetrically to a center and have a transmission region and a reflection region in an order that from a position near the center. In the transmission region, the resin layer is laminated above the transparent electroconductive film. In the reflection region, the resin layer and the cell gap adjusting layer are laminated above the transparent electroconductive film.

Abstract: A method of a color filter substrate for a semitransmissive type liquid crystal display device, including: forming a photosensitive coloring composition layer containing a photo-polymerizable monomer, a resinous binder, a polymerization initiator, a coloring agent and a solvent on a surface of a transparent substrate, the surface being partitioned into a large number of pixel regions; exposing the photosensitive coloring composition layer to light; and developing the photosensitive coloring composition layer to form a transmissive portion and a reflective portion, the transmissive portion being assigned to colorize a transmitted light from a light source arranged on a rear surface side of a liquid crystal display device, the reflective portion being assigned to colorize a reflected light to be derived from reflection of an external light entering from the observer's side and having a through-hole with a diameter of 10 ?m or less.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes an array substrate and a counter substrate that face each other with a liquid crystal layer therebetween. The array substrate includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an alignment sustaining layer. The first electrode has a comb-teeth shape. The second electrode has a comb-teeth shape, faces the first electrode, and includes a protruding portion protruding from the first electrode in a direction where comb teeth are arranged. The alignment sustaining layer is formed above a surface of the array substrate being in contact with the liquid crystal layer and gives liquid crystals a pre-tilt to a direction in which the second electrode protrudes from the first electrode, in a direction in which the comb teeth are arranged.

Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal cell provided with a color filter, a pair of polarizing plates arranged on both outside surfaces of the liquid crystal cell, and an optical compensation layer disposed inside of each polarizing plate, wherein, when a chromaticity (u, v) represented in CIE1960 color system is measured in a black state of the liquid crystal display device, a color difference ?uv given by equation (1) described below is 0.02 or less in an range of 0<??60: ?uv=[{u(?)?u(?)}2+[{v(?)?v(?)}2]1/2??(1) wherein (u(?), v(?)) is chromaticity as viewed from a vertical direction and (u(?), v(?)) is chromaticity as viewed from a direction inclined at an angle of ? degrees with a direction of a normal line of a display surface.

Abstract: Disclosed is a color filter substrate which exhibits color filter contrast of not less than 9000 and includes a transparent substrate, and a plurality of color pixels differing in color and formed on the transparent substrate, wherein each of the plurality of color pixels is formed of a photosensitive color composition containing two or more kinds of pigments, a birefringence ?n of a pigment dispersion represented by following equation (1) and a content of pigments contained in the photosensitive composition satisfies prescribed conditions, and, an absolute value of retardation in thickness direction (Rth) of the color pixels which is represented by following equation (2) is confined to a range of 0-3 nm.

Abstract: Disclosed a color filter for a liquid crystal display device, which exhibits a color filter contrast of 9000 or more and includes a transparent substrate, and a plurality of color layers exhibiting different color from each other and formed on the transparent substrate, wherein each of the color layers is a cured film of a color resin composition containing a polymer composition obtained through a copolymerization of styrene and an unsaturated carboxylic acid-containing monomer, a content of the styrene in the polymer composition being confined to a range of not less than 75 mol. % and less than 95 mol. %, and a retardation in a thickness direction “Rth” of each of these color layers is confined within a range of 0 nm to ?10 nm.

Abstract: A counter substrate for liquid crystal display includes a transparent substrate, a black matrix, and stripe transparent electrodes. The black matrix divides a plane surface of the transparent substrate into pixel or sub-pixel unit to form a light-shielded area and openings above the plane surface. The stripe transparent electrodes are formed into the pixel unit or the sub-pixel unit above the plane surface. The black matrix includes a frame pattern including two sides facing each other in parallel in the pixel or the sub-pixel unit, and a linear central pattern which is parallel to the two sides of the frame pattern and is formed at a midsection of the pixel or the sub-pixel unit. The transparent electrodes are each parallel to the two sides of the frame pattern and the central pattern and are located symmetrically to the central pattern.

Abstract: Disclosed is a color filter substrate for a transflective liquid crystal display device, in which a light shielding layer is arranged at a periphery of an effective display region on a transparent substrate, and color pixels of a plurality of colors including green pixels, a spacer, and a first retardation layer are formed in the effective display region, wherein a recess is formed in each of the color pixels, the first retardation layer is formed in the recess, and the first retardation layer has a function for 90 degree polarization rotation of incident light, which has been converted to linearly polarized light, in one passage of the incident light back and forth in a thickness direction of the first retardation layer.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes an array substrate and a counter substrate that face each other with a liquid crystal layer therebetween. The array substrate includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an alignment sustaining layer. The first electrode has a comb-teeth shape. The second electrode has a comb-teeth shape, faces the first electrode, and includes a protruding portion protruding from the first electrode in a direction where comb teeth are arranged. The alignment sustaining layer is formed above a surface of the array substrate being in contact with the liquid crystal layer and gives liquid crystals a pre-tilt to a direction in which the second electrode protrudes from the first electrode, in a direction in which the comb teeth are arranged.

Abstract: The antenna includes a power-feeding radiation electrode and a non-power-feeding radiation electrode are provided adjacent to each other with a gap therebetween on the flexible substrate, which also is bendable. The power-feeding radiation electrode is used to perform antenna operation in a basic mode in which resonant operation is performed at a basic frequency and antenna operation in a high-order mode in which resonant operation is performed at a frequency higher than the basic frequency. The power-feeding radiation electrode includes a loop path configured such that the power-feeding radiation electrode first extends in a direction away from a power-feeding end and an open end is bent toward the power-feeding end. The non-power-feeding radiation electrode has one end serving as a ground-side end and the other end serving as an open end.

Abstract: A color filter and a liquid crystal display device with the color filter that includes a substrate; and a color layer formed on the substrate and constituting color pixels of a plurality of colors, wherein the color layer is formed through a curing of a color composition comprising at least acrylic resin and a coloring agent, wherein the acrylic resin contains a copolymer formed of a first vinyl monomer having a benzyl group and a second vinyl monomer having a carboxyl group, the first vinyl monomer having a function of regulating a retardation of a color layer, the copolymer having a weight average molecular weight of 3000 to 11000 and an acid value of solid matter falling within the range of 30 to 85.

Abstract: Disclosed is a color composition for a color filter, which includes at least acrylic resin and a coloring agent. The acrylic resin contains a copolymer formed of a first vinyl monomer having a benzyl group and a second vinyl monomer having a carboxyl group, the copolymer having a weight average molecular weight of 3,000 to 11,000, and an acid value of solid matter of the copolymer being confined to 30 to 85.

Abstract: A color filter includes a red filter segment, a green filter segment and a blue filter segment, on a substrate, wherein when a pseudo-white LED is used, an area of a triangle defined by three chromaticity points of the red, green and blue filter segments expressed as (xR, yR), (xG, yG) and (xB, yB) on the x-y chromaticity diagram occupies 72% or more of an area standard triangle defined by defined by 3 points of red (0.67, 0.33), green (0.21, 0.71) and blue (0.14, 0.08), and the color filter has a color temperature of 6000K or more. Each of the red, green and blue filter segments has a thickness of 3.3 ?m or less. A liquid crystal display device includes such color filter and the pseudo-white LED.

Abstract: A method of a color filter substrate for a semitransmissive type liquid crystal display device, including: forming a photosensitive coloring composition layer containing a photo-polymerizable monomer, a resinous binder, a polymerization initiator, a coloring agent and a solvent on a surface of a transparent substrate, the surface being partitioned into a large number of pixel regions; exposing the photosensitive coloring composition layer to light; and developing the photosensitive coloring composition layer to form a transmissive portion and a reflective portion, the transmissive portion being assigned to colorize a transmitted light from a light source arranged on a rear surface side of a liquid crystal display device, the reflective portion being assigned to colorize a reflected light to be derived from reflection of an external light entering from the observer's side and having a through-hole with a diameter of 10 pm or less.

Abstract: A coloring composition for a color filter includes a transparent resin, an organic pigment dispersed in the transparent resin, and a retardation-regulating agent dispersed in the transparent resin and containing a compound which is capable of increasing retardation in the thickness direction to minimize the difference in retardation among colored pixels. A color filter having colored pixels formed on a transparent substrate uses this coloring composition. A liquid crystal display device using this color filter may have improved black image quality and contrast.

Abstract: A color filter includes red, green and blue filter segments and is adapted to be used in a liquid crystal display device using, as a light source, a white LED having specified spectral properties. The red filter segment has a 50% transmittance wavelength within a range of 595 to 610 nm and a transmittance of 85% or more at a wavelength of 630 nm. The blue filter segment has a maximum transmittance wavelength of 455 nm or less and a transmittance of 55% or more at a wavelength of 450 nm. A thickness of each of the red, green and blue filter segments is 3.0 ?m or less. A liquid crystal display device including this color filter and the white LED is also disclosed.

Abstract: A color filter and a liquid crystal display device with the color filter that includes a substrate; and a color layer formed on the substrate and constituting color pixels of a plurality of colors, wherein the color layer is formed through a curing of a color composition comprising at least acrylic resin and a coloring agent, wherein the acrylic resin contains a copolymer formed of a first vinyl monomer having a benzyl group and a second vinyl monomer having a carboxyl group, the first vinyl monomer having a function of regulating a retardation of a color layer, the copolymer having a weight average molecular weight of 3000 to 11000 and an acid value of solid matter falling within the range of 30 to 85.

Abstract: Disclosed a color filter for a liquid crystal display device, which exhibits a color filter contrast of 9000 or more and includes a transparent substrate, and a plurality of color layers exhibiting different color from each other and formed on the transparent substrate, wherein each of the color layers is a cured film of a color resin composition containing a polymer composition obtained through a copolymerization of styrene and an unsaturated carboxylic acid-containing monomer, a content of the styrene in the polymer composition being confined to a range of not less than 75 mol. % and less than 95 mol. %, and a retardation in a thickness direction “Rth” of each of these color layers is confined within a range of 0 nm to ?10 nm.