Abstract: An apparatus for making pressed nonwoven articles, which apparatus has first and second die members that are arranged to move towards each other. The first die has a support surface for supporting a blank material, and the second die has a press surface for pressing the blank material. The pressing step occurs when the two dies are disposed in an operation position. The support surface has a support surface material that has a first hardness, and the press surface has a press surface material that has a second hardness. The first and second hardnesses are different from each other. The apparatus and method of the invention enable blank articles to pressed and/or cut as intended without risk of having unpressed or uncut portions.

Abstract: The grayscale levels of red, green and blue display data are detected in each sub-frame, and the intensity of incident light on a liquid crystal panel and the transmittance of the liquid crystal panel are adjusted based on the detection result. The transmittance of the liquid crystal panel is adjusted to have maximum transmittance for display data that requires a maximum amount of transmitted light in each of red, green and blue sub-frames, and the intensity of incident light is reduced according to the adjustment result of the transmittance. By reducing the amount of incident light on the display element to the minimum required amount, the power consumed by a back-light is reduced as much as possible while maintaining the display images of the respective colors according to the grayscale levels.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal panel having a plurality of liquid crystal pixels and a plurality of switching elements provided to correspond to the respective liquid crystal pixels; a back-light, disposed on the rear face of the liquid crystal panel, for emitting red, green and blue lights in a time-divided manner; and a data driver and a scan driver for switching the respective switching elements according to red, green and blue data of the respective pixels, in which the light emitting area of the back-light is divided into a plurality of light emitting areas and the intensity of light to be emitted from each of the divided light emitting areas is adjusted by a back-light control circuit and drive power source so as to compensate for differences in the light transmittance of the liquid crystal panel.

Abstract: In a display device employing a field-sequential method, a judgement whether display data is motion picture data or still picture data is made, and the frame number per second is increased for the display of a motion picture during which color break easily occurs by the movement of the line of sight of a user, while the frame number is made smaller than that for the display of a motion picture, for the display of a still picture during which color break hardly occurs. Further, the temperature of a liquid crystal panel is detected, and the frame number per second is increased so as to reduce color break when the result of the detection is not lower than a predetermined temperature, while, the frame number is decreased so as to enable display at low temperature when the result of the detection is lower than the predetermined temperature.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device having uniform alignment of monostable ferroelectric liquid crystal, and a manufacturing method of the liquid crystal display device. The temperature range of a cholesteric phase or a chiral nematic phase of the phase sequence of the liquid crystal has a temperature width of not less than 3° C. After heating the liquid crystal to an isotropic phase once, the liquid crystal is cooled to room temperature (25° C.) at a cooling rate of 3, 5, 10° C./minute. An alignment treatment is performed by application of a DC voltage of not lower than 3 V, which is a sufficient voltage to obtain the effects of the alignment treatment, within a temperature range of ±3° C. from transition temperature at which the liquid crystal changes from the cholesteric phase to the chiral smectic C phase.

Abstract: The present invention provides a manufacturing method of a liquid crystal display device capable of achieving uniform alignment of monostable ferroelectric liquid crystal having spontaneous polarization, and provides the liquid crystal display device. The liquid crystal (monostable ferroelectric liquid crystal having spontaneous polarization) showing a phase sequence, either isotropic liquid phase-cholesteric phase-chiral smectic C phase, isotropic liquid phase-chiral nematic phase-chiral smectic C phase, or isotropic liquid phase-cholesteric phase-smectic A phase-chiral smectic C phase, from a high temperature side to a low temperature side, is sandwiched between two glass substrates having transparent electrodes and alignment films whose pretilt angle is not more than 2° and rubbing directions are parallel.

Abstract: When a write polarity control signal PN is “L”, both of an odd-numbered output terminal and even-numbered output terminal apply a reset voltage as negative 0 gradation to the pixel electrode in the first half of the ON period, and apply a positive data voltage to the pixel electrode in the second half of the ON period. When the write polarity control signal PN is “H”, both of the odd-numbered output terminal and even-numbered output terminal apply a reset voltage as positive 0 gradation to the pixel electrode in the first half of the ON period, and apply a negative data voltage to the pixel electrode in the second half of the ON period. It is possible to write the data voltage for display to all pixels (the entire screen) always from a fixed state.

Abstract: Color display is performed by adding data of a predetermined level to pixel data of each emission color inputted according to an image to be displayed and synchronizing an input of summed pixel data obtained by the addition with light emission timing of each of emission colors (R, G, B) from a back-light. Switching is performed between color display based on such summed pixel data and color display based on the original pixel data, according to ambient illuminance measured. Moreover, the predetermined level to be added is suitably selected based on ambient illuminace.

Abstract: A liquid crystal layer is formed by filling a space between alignment films provided on both glass substrates with a ferroelectric liquid crystal material having a spontaneous polarization. This ferroelectric liquid crystal exhibits a monostable state in which the average molecular axis of the liquid crystal molecular director is present in substantially one direction in the absence of an applied voltage. When a voltage of a first polarity is applied, the average molecular axis tilts from the monostable position to one side at an angle corresponding to the magnitude of the applied voltage, while, when a voltage of a second polarity having the opposite characteristic to the first polarity is applied, the average molecular axis tilts from the monostable position to a side opposite to the application of the voltage of the first polarity. A maximum tilt angle in the application of the voltage of the first polarity is not less than 35°, more preferably not less than 450°.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display in which: after a back-light has emitted three-color light rays of red, green and blue sequentially color by color, the back-light is turned off for a predetermined time, or the back-light is controlled so that, in three consecutive frames, the orders of light emissions of the respective colors carried out in respective sub-frames are not coincident with each other, thereby to reduce degradation in the image quality that occurs at the outline portion of an animation picture when it is displayed.

Abstract: Ferroelectric liquid crystal having spontaneous polarization is provided between two confronting substrates; pixel electrodes corresponding to liquid crystal cells, TFTs for switching connected to the pixel electrodes and storage capacitors for storing electric charge in the pixel electrodes are provided on the inner face of one of the substrates;; wherein a ratio (CS/CLC) of capacity of storage capacitor (CS) against that of liquid crystal cell (CLC) satisfies 0.2≦CS/CLC≦5. Driving voltage for liquid crystal material is maintained at a low level, and a liquid crystal material with large spontaneous polarization can be employed.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device that uses a liquid crystal material having spontaneous polarization and is actively driven by a TFT, a voltage corresponding to image data is applied twice by driving the TFT of each pixel electrode on a line by line basis of a liquid crystal panel, during writing in one frame. During erasure in one frame, voltage application to liquid crystal by batch selection of all the pixel electrodes is performed three times. With this three times of voltage application, it is possible to achieve a black display state in each pixel and make the stored charge amount at the liquid crystal in each pixel substantially zero.

Abstract: In a display device employing a field-sequential method, a judgement whether display data is motion picture data or still picture data is made, and the frame number per second is increased for the display of a motion picture during which color break easily occurs by the movement of the line of sight of a user, while the frame number is made smaller than that for the display of a motion picture, for the display of a still picture during which color break hardly occurs. Further, the temperature of a liquid crystal panel is detected, and the frame number per second is increased so as to reduce color break when the result of the detection is not lower than a predetermined temperature, while, the frame number is decreased so as to enable display at low temperature when the result of the detection is lower than the predetermined temperature.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device that uses a liquid crystal material having spontaneous polarization and is actively driven by a TFT, a voltage corresponding to image data is applied twice by driving the TFT of each pixel electrode on a line by line basis of a liquid crystal panel, during writing in one frame. During erasure in one frame, voltage application to liquid crystal by batch selection of all the pixel electrodes is performed three times. With this three times of voltage application, it is possible to achieve a black display state in each pixel and make the stored charge amount at the liquid crystal in each pixel substantially zero.

Abstract: When a photopolymerization compound (molecular weight: not less than 300) having at least two ultraviolet light sensitive portions in its molecular structure is mixed with ferroelectric liquid crystal and an exposure to ultraviolet light is performed, a continuous structure is formed over almost whole length between two glass substrates, and a continuous twisted structure is formed between the glass substrates in the state of liquid crystal molecular orientation. Before the exposure to ultraviolet light, the photopolymerization compound does not exhibit satisfactory compatibility with the ferroelectric liquid crystal to be mixed, but exhibits phase separation in the mixed state. The ferroelectric liquid crystal has a bookshelf layer structure.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device which is constructed by sealing a liquid crystal having spontaneous polarization in an active matrix panel including a coloring member and displays an image on a frame by frame basis by repeating a data writing process and a data erasing process for the active matrix panel, the frequency in the data writing process is set at least twice higher than a frame frequency and the data writing process and the data erasing process are completed within one frame time so that time taken for transmission of light through the coloring member is not more than a half of one frame time. The coloring member is in a non-light-transmitting state during a period of not shorter than a half of one frame, and the blurred outline section of a moving image is reduced.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display unit comprising a liquid crystal panel 21 having a plurality of liquid crystal pixels and a plurality of switching elements provided in response to the respective pixels; a back light 22 disposed at the back of the liquid crystal panel 21 and guides red, green, and blue light to the surface thereof; an image memory 30 for storing pixel data PD to be displayed on the respective pixels; an inverted data generating circuit 36 for generating inverted pixel data #PD of the respective pixel data PD; and a control signal generating circuit 31 and a data driver 32 wherein first scanning for writing the pixel data PD with respect to individual pixels of the liquid crystal panel 21 during each period in which red, green, and blue light are emitted in time-sharing manner, and second scanning for writing the inverted pixel data #PD with respect thereto are carried out in this order.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal panel having a plurality of liquid crystal pixels and a plurality of switching elements provided to correspond to the respective liquid crystal pixels; a back-light, disposed on the rear face of the liquid crystal panel, for emitting red, green and blue lights in a time-divided manner; and a data driver and a scan driver for switching the respective switching elements according to red, green and blue data of the respective pixels, in which the light emitting area of the back-light is divided into a plurality of light emitting areas and the intensity of light to be emitted from each of the divided light emitting areas is adjusted by a back-light control circuit and drive power source so as to compensate for differences in the light transmittance of the liquid crystal panel.

Abstract: There is provided a liquid crystal display including a panel using a liquid crystal material having spontaneous polarization, such as ferroelectroic liquid crystal (FLC); having a faster response time suitable to display dynamic images. The FLC has the disadvantage caused by the incomplete memory effect at during driving for displaying “black” in several frames, where the light transmittance is preferably desired zero. The panel in the display are driven signals so that the driving signals are applied across the picture element, where the signals are positively or negatively offset to reference voltage of the panel.

Abstract: When a photopolymerization compound (molecular weight: not less than 300) having at least two ultraviolet light sensitive portions in its molecular structure is mixed with ferroelectric liquid crystal and an exposure to ultraviolet light is performed, a continuous structure is formed over almost whole length between two glass substrates, and a continuous twisted structure is formed between the glass substrates in the state of liquid crystal molecular orientation. Before the exposure to ultraviolet light, the photopolymerization compound does not exhibit satisfactory compatibility with the ferroelectric liquid crystal to be mixed, but exhibits phase separation in the mixed state. The ferroelectric liquid crystal has a bookshelf layer structure.