Patents by Inventor Noriaki Onishi

Noriaki Onishi 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: 5583673
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes a pair of electrode substrates and a polymer dispersed liquid crystal complex film interposed between the pair of substrates. The polymer dispersed liquid crystal complex film includes a liquid crystal composition and a polymer resin composition. It is ensured that a value a .DELTA.T is 25.degree. C. or less, and a glass transition temperature T.sub.g of the polymer resin composition is 60.degree. C. or more, the value .DELTA.T being defined as a difference between a phase transition temperature T.sub.CI of the liquid crystal composition between a liquid crystal phase and an isotropic liquid phase thereof and a phase transition temperature T.sub.matrix of the polymer dispersed liquid crystal complex film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1996
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noriaki Onishi, Nobuaki Yamada, Masahiko Kondo, Nobukazu Nagae, Toshiyuki Hirai, Shuichi Kohzaki
  • 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
  • Patent number: 5450220
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes a pair of electrode substrates and a polymer dispersed liquid crystal complex film interposed between the pair of substrates. The polymer dispersed liquid crystal complex film includes a liquid crystal composition and a polymer resin composition. It is ensured that a value .DELTA.T is 25.degree. C. or less, and a glass transition temperature T.sub.g of the polymer resin composition is 60.degree. C. or more, the value .DELTA.T being defined as a difference between a phase transition temperature T.sub.CI of the liquid crystal composition between a liquid crystal phase and an isotropic liquid phase thereof and a phase transition temperature T.sub.matrix of the polymer dispersed liquid crystal complex film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1995
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noriaki Onishi, Nobuaki Yamada, Masahiko Kondo, Nobukazu Nagae, Toshiyuki Hirai, Shuichi Kohzaki
  • Patent number: 5394256
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display comprises transparent electrodes formed on opposite surfaces of a pair of transparent substrates and a liquid crystal layer filled between the transparent substrate, in which the liquid crystal layer is formed of at least two kinds of liquid crystals which are separated each other and provided in the form of a layer in the direction horizontal to the substrate, a first kind of liquid crystal includes at least one kind of liquid crystal (liquid crystal I) showing that dielectric constant anisotropy .DELTA..epsilon.>0 and refractive index anisotropy .DELTA.n>0 and a second kind of liquid crystal includes at least one kind of liquid crystal (liquid crystal II) showing that the dielectric constant anisotropy .DELTA..epsilon.<0 and the refractive index anisotropy .DELTA.n>0 or liquid crystal (liquid crystal III) showing that the dielectric constant anisotropy .DELTA..epsilon.>0 and the refractive index anisotropy .DELTA.n<0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1995
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuaki Yamada, Toshiyuki Hirai, Noriaki Onishi, Shuichi Koozaki
  • Patent number: 5342545
    Abstract: A polymer dispersion type liquid crystal display element includes two layers of polymer dispersion type liquid crystal layers being overlaid and having liquid crystal drops positive in dielectric anisotropy dispersed in a polymer in which light scattering and transmission are controlled electrically, a transparent support element for scattering light between the polymer dispersion type liquid crystal layers, being interposed and a liquid crystal display device having a colored reflector plate disposed on the back of one polymer dispersion type liquid crystal layer. In one of the two layers of polymer dispersion type liquid crystal layers, a liquid crystal layer containing a dichroic dye is dispersed, and coloring and light transmission are electrically controlled, and a white reflector plate is disposed on the back side of one of the polymer dispersion type liquid crystal layers to realize the liquid crystal display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1994
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuaki Yamada, Toshiyuki Hirai, Noriaki Onishi, Shuichi Kohzaki