Liquid Crystal Compositions Patents (Class 252/299.01)
  • Patent number: 10544365
    Abstract: A liquid crystal composition that has a positive dielectric anisotropy and a sufficiently low viscosity and that causes no display defects when used in liquid crystal display devices is provided without decreasing or increasing the refractive index anisotropy or nematic phase-isotropic liquid phase transition temperature. This liquid crystal composition contains at least one compound selected from compounds represented by general formula (LC0) and at least one compound selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by general formulas (LC1) to (LC5). This liquid crystal composition can be used to provide a reliable liquid crystal display device capable of maintaining a high voltage-holding ratio at high temperatures. This liquid crystal display device is highly practical as a liquid crystal display and is effective in achieving quick response without significantly decreasing the cell gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: DIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masakazu Kaneoya, Kiyofumi Takeuchi, Masashi Osawa, Kenta Tojo, Tetsuo Kusumoto
  • Patent number: 10538477
    Abstract: Provided are a production method for compound (II) including reacting compound (I) with a halogenating agent in the presence of at least 0.5 equivalents, relative to compound (I), of a nitrogen atom-containing polar aprotic solvent; a composition containing compound (II), a halogenating agent or the like, and at least 0.5 equivalents, relative to compound (II), of a nitrogen atom-containing polar aprotic solvent; a stabilization method for compound (II); and compound (II).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kumi Okuyama, Kei Sakamoto, Kanako Sanuki
  • Patent number: 10533107
    Abstract: A composition set according to the invention includes a first composition which contains a cellulose derivative having a liquid crystalline functional group, and a second composition which contains a liquid crystalline compound having a reactive functional group and can be in a liquid state. The first composition preferably contains particles whose surfaces are at least partially constituted by the cellulose derivative. Further, the first composition preferably contains a liquid component which functions as a dispersion medium for dispersing the particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Toshihiro Otake
  • Patent number: 10529674
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide a device for characterizing a thin film, including a conducting or insulating substrate, an active layer on the conducting or insulating substrate to be characterized, and a plurality of stripline electrodes on the active layer. The plurality of stripline electrodes include a pitch width of a same order as the thickness of the active layer and strip width smaller than the thickness of the active layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Northwestern University
    Inventors: Matthew Grayson, Yang Tang
  • Patent number: 10519374
    Abstract: The present invention provides a polymerizable composition containing at least two types of polymerizable compounds represented by Formula (I), in the formula, A represents a phenylene group or a trans-1,4-cyclohexylene group, L represents —OC(?O)—, —OC(?O)O—, and the like, m represents 3 to 12, Sp1 and Sp2 represent a linking group, and Q1 and Q2 represent a polymerizable group, and the like, in which in a case where a number obtained by dividing the number of trans-1,4-cyclohexylene groups by m is set to mc, mc's for the two types of polymerizable compounds are different from each other, at least one of the two types of the polymerizable compounds satisfies 0.5<mc<0.7, and at least the other of the two types of the polymerizable compounds satisfies 0.5<mc; and a polymerizable compound in which m in Formula (I) is 6 to 12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shunya Katoh, Yuki Nakazawa, Masaru Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 10519335
    Abstract: A composition according to the invention contains a cellulose derivative having a liquid crystalline functional group and a liquid crystalline solvent having a reactive functional group. The reactive functional group preferably contains a carbon-carbon double bond. The reactive functional group is preferably a (meth)acryloyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Toshihiro Otake
  • Patent number: 10514484
    Abstract: A compound having a maximum absorption in a wavelength range of 350 nm to 550 nm that functions as a dichroic dye is provided. In particular, a compound represented by formula (1) is provided. In the compound of formula (1), R1 represents a hydrogen atom or the like; R2 represents a hydrogen atom or the like; R3 represents a hydrogen atom or the like; Z represents —CO— or the like; and Y represents a group of formula (Y1). In the group of formula (Y1), * represents a bonding site with N, or a group of formula (Y2); and in the group of formula (Y2), * represents a bonding site with N; P1 and P2 each independently represent —S— or the like; and Q1 and Q2 each independently represent ?N— or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Noriyuki Hida, Haruki Okawa
  • Patent number: 10513483
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of a class of molecules, namely bicyclo[1.1.1]pentanes and derivatives thereof by reaction of [1.1.1]propellane with a variety of reagents under irradiation and/or in the presence of radical initiators to obtain bicyclo[1.1.1]pentanes asymmetrically substituted at position 1 and 3, which are useful as intermediates for the preparation of asymmetrically 1,3-disubstituted bicyclo[1.1.1]pentane derivatives and various physiologically active substances or materials containing these structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: SPIROCHEM AG
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Suzuki, Daniel Jimenez-Teja, Christophe Salomé, Thomas Fessard
  • Patent number: 10513658
    Abstract: A reactive perpendicular aligned organosilicon material is provided, having a general structural formula in the form of A-R, where A is —SiCl3 and R represents a linear chained or a branched chained alkyl group with 5-20 carbon atoms. A CH2 group in the alkyl group is substituted by a phenyl group, a naphthenic base, —CONH—, —COO—, —O—CO—, —S—, —CO—, or —CH?CH—, or an F atom or a Cl atom substitutes an H atom in the alkyl group. A Cl atom in the reactive perpendicular aligned organosilicon material and —OH on a surface of a substrate having no PI thereon form a hydrogen bond, leading to vertical arrangement of liquid crystal molecules between two opposite substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Song Lan
  • Patent number: 10509309
    Abstract: A polyarylate resin is represented by general formula (1) shown below. In general formula (1), R1 represents a hydrogen atom or methyl group. R2 and R3 each represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having a carbon number of at least 1 and no greater than 4. R2 and R3 are not the same as one another. When R1 represents a hydrogen atom, R2 and R3 are not bonded to one another. When R1 represents a methyl group, R2 and R3 are optionally bonded to one another to form a ring. r and s each represent a number greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 49. t and u each represent a number greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to 50. r+s+t+u=100. r+t=s+u.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Jun Azuma
  • Patent number: 10503015
    Abstract: A light-modulated quantum dot (QD) color display according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a light source, a light modulator positioned above the light source to control the intensity of light generated from the light source, and a QD light-emitting element positioned above the light modulator and including a plurality of QD patterns having different emission properties in the visible light region by means of light intensity that has passed through the light modulator. According to an embodiment, the QD pattern is configured to accomplish light emission with uniformity and high color purity by uniform distribution of QDs in a matrix using aligned polymer, thereby simultaneously achieving the features of uniform emission of light over the entire pixel, intensity-tunability giving analog grey levels, and high color purity and wide color gamut without using a color filter beyond the limitation of existing QD color display technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Sin-Doo Lee, Se-Um Kim, Jeng-Hun Suh
  • Patent number: 10487165
    Abstract: A polymer having a partial structure formed by performing radical polymerization with respect to a compound having a mesogenic group derived from at least one type of liquid crystal compound selected from a rod-like liquid crystal compound and a disk-like liquid crystal compound, and two or more polymerizable groups, in which the polymer is a branched polymer, and a composition containing the polymer, an optical film, and a liquid crystal display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Akio Tamura, Jun Takeda, Yuki Matsuda, Nobuyuki Akutagawa
  • Patent number: 10479844
    Abstract: The present invention provides a polymerizable composition containing a specific polymerizable compound and a fluorosurfactant having a specific polyoxyalkylene skeleton and having specific molecular weight. The invention also provides an optically anisotropic body, a retardation film, an antireflective film, and a liquid crystal display device that are produced using the polymerizable composition of the present invention. The present invention is useful because, when an optically anisotropic body is produced by photo-polymerization of the polymerizable composition, three features including the leveling properties of the surface of the optically anisotropic body, offset onto the substrate, and liquid crystal alignment can be improved simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: DIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouichi Endo, Toru Ishii, Yasuhiro Kuwana, Kazuaki Hatsusaka, Mika Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10472569
    Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid-crystalline medium comprising at least one compound of the formula I, in which R1 and R2 have the meanings indicated in Claim 1, and to the use thereof in electro-optical liquid-crystal displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Harald Hirschmann, Volker Reiffenrath
  • Patent number: 10459290
    Abstract: A film of 15 to 45 ?m thick containing a cellulose acylate and an aromatic ester oligomer having a repeating unit derived from a dicarboxylic acid and a repeating unit derived from a diol, in which the repeating unit derived from a dicarboxylic acid has a ratio m/n of from 0/10 to 3/7, m and n represent a molar proportion of a repeating unit derived from an aliphatic dicarboxylic acid and an aromatic dicarboxylic acid, respectively, and the film satisfies |Rth(590)|?50 nm; has a good appearance and is free of deterioration in display performance when the film with a thin thickness is produced in the form of a roll, achieves a high pencil hardness by imparting a high Knoop hardness to the film, even with a hard coat layer provided, and is free of display unevenness on installing the film in a liquid crystal display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Hisakado, Masato Nagura, Yu Naito, Rikio Inoue, Yutaka Adegawa
  • Patent number: 10457868
    Abstract: A liquid crystal composition, including at least one of: a first compound represented by Chemical Formula 1 below, a second compound represented by Chemical Formula 2 below; and a third compound represented by Chemical Formula 2? below: The definitions of A, Z, n, R, and R? are provided herein. Also provided is a liquid crystal display, including: a first display panel including a thin film transistor; a second display panel facing the first display panel; and a liquid crystal layer including at least one of a first compound represented by Chemical Formula 1, a second compound represented by Chemical Formula 2, and a third compound represented by Chemical Formula 2? and a reactive mesogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kyung Hee Lee
  • Patent number: 10457870
    Abstract: Disclosed are a chiral compound, a liquid crystal composition containing the chiral compound, an optically anisotropic body and a liquid crystal display device. The structural formula of said chiral compound is as represented by the following formula I: The chiral compound has a high HTP value and a good solubility; a highly helical, twisted liquid crystal composition can be prepared by adding a small amount of the chiral compound; reducing the addition amount of the chiral compound can reduce the negative effect of the chiral compound on the parameters of the liquid crystal composition; under the conditions of the same addition ratio and the same helical pitch, the chiral compound can reduce the response time of the liquid crystal composition; in addition, the chiral compound has a simple structure and greatly reduces the synthesis cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: SHIJIAZHUANG CHENGZHI YONGHUA DISPLAY MATERIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongfeng Bao, Guoliang Yun, Jinsong Meng, Ming Li, Hubo Zhang, Lei Zhao, Zhian Liang
  • Patent number: 10450509
    Abstract: Mesogenic media comprising one or more compounds of formulae I or II preferably mesogenic media showing a blue phase, preferably stabilized by a polymer, and their use in electro-optical light modulation elements and their respective use in displays, as well as such devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Michael Wittek, Norihiko Tanaka, Malgorzata Rillich, Volker Reiffenrath, Axel Jansen
  • Patent number: 10441936
    Abstract: Shown is a method for producing a liquid crystal capsule having a particle diameter of 30 to 150 nanometers, and a method for producing a liquid crystal capsule without using a homogenizer. The disclosure concerns a method for producing a liquid crystal capsule, including a step of preparing an emulsion by performing phase inversion emulsification of a mixed material obtained by mixing a liquid crystal composition, a monomer, a surfactant, and a polymerization initiator; and a step of producing a liquid crystal capsule by applying a coacervation method to the emulsion. The disclosure also concerns a liquid crystal capsule having a liquid crystal composition, a surfactant and a capsule wall, wherein the capsule wall has a closed curved shape, the liquid crystal composition and a hydrophobic moiety of the surfactant are arranged inside the capsule wall, and a hydrophilic moiety of the surfactant is arranged outside the capsule wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignees: JNC CORPORATION, JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION CHIBA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Tatsuo Taniguchi, Sho Hidaka, Eiji Okabe, Fumitaka Kondo
  • Patent number: 10435627
    Abstract: The subject is to show a liquid crystal display device that has characteristics such as a short response time, a large voltage holding ratio, a low threshold voltage, a large contrast ratio, a long service life and a small flicker rate. The disclosure relates to a liquid crystal display device including an electrode group formed on one or both of a pair of substrates that are opposed to each other, and a plurality of active devices connected to the electrode group, and a liquid crystal alignment film formed on the opposing surfaces of the pair of substrates, and a liquid crystal composition sandwiched in between the pair of substrates, and the liquid crystal composition includes at least one compound selected from the group of compounds represented by formula (1) as a first component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignees: JNC CORPORATION, JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Furusato, Masayuki Saito
  • Patent number: 10437107
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid-crystal display element using a liquid-crystal composition having negative dielectric anisotropy, capable of realizing excellent display characteristics by being used in a liquid-crystal display element provided with a photo-alignment film, without deteriorating various characteristics as a liquid-crystal display element such as dielectric anisotropy, viscosity, a nematic phase upper limit temperature, nematic phase stability at low temperatures, and ?1, and burn-in characteristics of a display element. A liquid-crystal display element using a liquid-crystal composition containing at least one compound selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by the following General Formula (I) is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: DIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinori Iwashita, Shinji Ogawa, Hiroshi Hasebe, Masanao Takashima
  • Patent number: 10428273
    Abstract: Shown are a liquid crystal compound satisfying at least one of physical properties such as high stability to heat and light, a high clearing point (or high maximum temperature), low minimum temperature of a liquid crystal phase, small viscosity, suitable optical anisotropy, large negative dielectric anisotropy, a suitable elastic constant and satisfactory compatibility with other liquid crystal compounds, a liquid crystal composition containing the compound and a liquid crystal display device including the composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignees: JNC CORPORATION, JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuo Okumura, Tokifumi Masukawa, Keiji Kimura
  • Patent number: 10392562
    Abstract: Provided is a polymerizable liquid crystal compound represented by formula (1). An aspect can be exemplified, in which, in formula (1), W1 is hydrogen or a substituent, A1 is 1,4-phenylene, 1,4-cyclohexylene or naphthalene-2,6-diyl, Z1 and Y1 are a connecting group, m and n each are an integer from 0 to 7, in which an expression: 3?m+n?8 holds, Q1 is a spacer, and PG is a polymerizable group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignees: JNC CORPORATION, JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Ootsuki, Nagahisa Miyagawa
  • Patent number: 10396329
    Abstract: A battery comprises a separator membrane comprising an ion-conducting polymeric composition comprising a copolymer of Ra-Rs and Rb. Ra and Rb are each selected from the group consisting of linear alkyls, branched alkyls, cyclic alkyls, heteroalkyls, aryls, heteroaryls, alkylaryls, and heteroalkylaryls. Rs is a positively charged amine group or a positively charged phosphene group. The copolymer comprises at least 3% of each Ra and Rb by weight. Ra and Rb are different chemical constituents, and Ra-Rs is not vinylpyridine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Dioxide Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard I. Masel, Zengcai Liu
  • Patent number: 10385270
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a liquid crystal composition, comprising: at least a first compound selected from the group consisting of a compound of general Formula I-1, a compound of general Formula I-2, and a combination thereof, and at least a second compound selected from the group consisting of a compound of general Formula II-1, a compound of general Formula II-2, a compound of general Formula II-3, a compound of general Formula II-4 and a combination thereof. The liquid crystal composition provided in the present invention has the properties of appropriate optical and dielectric anisotropies, high clearing point, existence of a nematic phase over a wide range of temperature, low viscosity and good high-temperature stability. The liquid crystal composition is applicable to a liquid crystal display (LCD) device, to enable the LCD device to have such properties as short response time, excellent display effect at high temperature, and others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: JIANGSU HECHENG DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenming Han, Haibin Xu, Dingfu Ma, Qi Liu
  • Patent number: 10370591
    Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal device, a composition capable of forming a liquid crystal layer, a method of manufacturing the liquid crystal device, a system for manufacturing the liquid crystal device, and a use of the liquid crystal device. The liquid crystal device is a device capable of exhibiting, for example, a normally white or black mode, exhibiting a high contrast ratio, driven with a low driving voltage, and exhibiting excellent durability such as thermal stability. Such a liquid crystal device may be applied to various optical modulators such as a smart window, a window protective film, a flexible display device, an active retarder for displaying 3D images, or a viewing angle control film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Joon Min, Jung Sun You, Dong Hyun Oh
  • Patent number: 10358600
    Abstract: A polymerizable LC material comprising at least one di- or multireactive mesogenic compound selected from the group of compounds of formula I, at least one monoreactive mesogenic compound selected from the group of compounds of formula II, wherein the parameter A11 to A21, L21, p, P11 to P22, R21, Sp11 to Sp21, X11 to X21, and Z11 to Z21 have one of the meanings as given in claim 1, and at least one carbazole oxime ester photoinitiator. Furthermore, a method for preparation of the polymerizable LC material, a polymer film with improved thermal durability obtainable from the corresponding polymerizable LC material, a method of preparation of such polymer film, and the use of such polymer film and said polymerizable LC material for optical, electro-optical, decorative or security devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Stephen Mulcahy, Iain Gardiner, Jack Bradford, Eduardo Beltran Gracia, Graham Smith
  • Patent number: 10359627
    Abstract: An apparatus for use in replicating an image associated with an input-pupil to an output-pupil includes a planar optical waveguide including a bulk-substrate, and also including an input-coupler, an intermediate-component and an output-coupler. The input-coupler couples light corresponding to the image into the bulk-substrate and towards the intermediate-component. The intermediate-component performs horizontal or vertical pupil expansion and directs the light corresponding to the image towards the output-coupler. The output-coupler performs the other one of horizontal or vertical pupil expansion and couples light corresponding to the image, which travels from the input-coupler to the output-coupler, out of the waveguide. The apparatus further includes an adjacent planar optical component to provide a more uniform intensity distribution compared to if the adjacent planar optical component were absent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: R. Andrew Wall, Scott Woltman, Steven John Robbins, Xinye Lou, Gangok Lee, Yarn Chee Poon, Tuomas Vallius, Pasi Kostamo, Tapani Levola, Yijing Fu
  • Patent number: 10344213
    Abstract: Provided are a reactive mesogen that may improve display quality of a liquid crystal display, and a liquid crystal composition including the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ho Lim
  • Patent number: 10336938
    Abstract: A liquid crystal composition containing a polymerizable liquid crystal compound (A) having 5 or more ring structures in its main chain and a polymer (B) of the polymerizable liquid crystal compound (A) having 5 or more ring structures in its main chain, which inhibits occurrence of an orientation defect of a liquid crystal compound and exhibits excellent storage stability when dissolved in a solvent is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Shinnosuke Yoshioka, Haruki Okawa, Daichi Fujimoto, Tatsuaki Kasai
  • Patent number: 10329247
    Abstract: The present invention relates to: a polymerizable compound represented by a formula (I); a polymerizable composition comprising the polymerizable compound and an initiator; a polymer obtained by polymerizing the polymerizable compound or the polymerizable composition; and an optically anisotropic article comprising the polymer [in the formula, Y1 to Y8 are a chemical single bond, —O—, —O—C(?O)—, —C(?O)—O—, or the like; G1 and G2 are a divalent aliphatic group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, or the like; Z1 and Z2 are an alkenyl group having 2 to 10 carbon atoms, or the like; A1 is a tetravalent aromatic group, or the like; A2 and A3 are a divalent alicyclic hydrocarbon group having 3 to 30 carbon atoms, or the like; A4 and A5 are a divalent aromatic group having 4 to 30 carbon atoms, or the like; Ax1 and Ax2 are an organic group having 2 to 30 carbon atoms that includes an aromatic ring, or the like; Ay1 and Ay2 are a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, or the like; Q1 and Q2 are a hydrogen
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kei Sakamoto, Satoshi Kiriki, Kumi Okuyama
  • Patent number: 10299996
    Abstract: Active ingredient capsules are proposed which are obtainable by, with the input of mechanical and thermal energy, (a) dissolving and/or dispersing proteins, polysaccharides and cellulose derivatives in water, (b) adding the active ingredients to be encapsulated, (c) hardening the resulting coacervates with the addition of tannins and optionally (d) then subjecting them to a spray drying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Symrise AG
    Inventors: Jenny Weissbrodt, Frank Aickele, Ralf Bertram
  • Patent number: 10303000
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel including a display surface, which displays an image by selectively reflecting light entering the display surface, and an illuminating device including an optical modulator provided on a display surface side of the display panel and including a plurality of portions in a major surface thereof and a light source provided on a side surface of the optical modulator, and the illuminating device illuminates the display panel at a predetermined brightness specific for each respective portion with the light entering the optical modulator from the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY, INC.
    Inventor: Kentaro Okuyama
  • Patent number: 10294425
    Abstract: To show a liquid crystal composition having at least one or a suitable balance regarding at least two of characteristics such as a short response time, a large voltage holding ratio, a low threshold voltage, a large contrast ratio, a long service life and a small flicker rate; and an AM device having characteristics such as a short response time, a large voltage holding ratio, a low threshold voltage, a large contrast ratio and a long service life. The liquid crystal composition has a negative dielectric anisotropy and contains a specific compound having a large negative dielectric anisotropy as a first component, and the composition may contain a specific compound having a high maximum temperature or a small viscosity as a second component, a specific compound having a large negative dielectric anisotropy as a third component, and a specific compound having a polymerizable group as an additive component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignees: JCN CORPORATION, JCN PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Furusato, Masayuki Saito
  • Patent number: 10273409
    Abstract: The present invention relates to liquid-crystalline media (LC media) having negative or positive dielectric anisotropy comprising self-aligning mesogens (SAMs) which effect homeotropic (vertical) alignment of the LC media at a surface or the cell walls of a liquid-crystal display (LC display). The invention therefore also encompasses LC displays having homeotropic alignment of the liquid-crystalline medium (LC medium) without conventional imide alignment layers. The LC media may be supplemented by a polymerizable or polymerized component, which serves for stabilization of the alignment, for adjustment of the tilt angle and/or as passivation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCHRANKTER HAFTUNG
    Inventors: Archetti Graziano, Andreas Taugerbeck
  • Patent number: 10272418
    Abstract: Methods for producing mesoporous zeolites are provided. In some embodiments, the method includes mixing a silicon-containing material, an aluminum-containing material, or both, with a quaternary amine and at least one base to produce a zeolite precursor solution. The zeolite precursor solution is combined with nanocellulose to form a zeolite precursor gel, from which volatiles are removed. The zeolite precursor gel is crystallized to produce a crystalline zeolite intermediate. The crystalline zeolite intermediate is calcined to form the mesoporous zeolite. The nanocellulose mesopores template may include cellulose nanocrystals, nanocellulose fibers, or combinations thereof. The quaternary amine may include tetraethylammonium hydroxide, tetraethylamonnium alkoxide, tetrapropylammonium alkoxide, other alkaline materials comprising ammonium, or combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventor: Tatiana Pilyugina
  • Patent number: 10254576
    Abstract: There is provided a light control device that solves various practical problems, including the adhesive strength between layers, of a light control device comprising a polymer/liquid crystal composite derived from a polymerizable composition comprising an acrylic monomer and ITO layers. In the light control device, ITO layers are respectively bonded to both surfaces of a polymer/liquid crystal composite material layer in which a liquid crystal material is dispersed in a polymer material obtained by polymerizing an acrylic monomer, an amount of the acrylic monomer is in the range of 30 to 45% by weight based on a total amount of the acrylic monomer and the liquid crystal material, and silane coupling agent layers are respectively interposed between the polymer/liquid crystal composite material layer and the ITO layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masamitsu Tanaka, Kazutoshi Yoshida, Nobutake Konishi
  • Patent number: 10241359
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device, whereby transparency when no voltage is applied and scattering properties when a voltage is applied, are good, adhesion between a liquid crystal layer and a vertical liquid crystal alignment film is high, and its lifespan is long even in a severe environment. The liquid crystal display device has a liquid crystal layer formed by disposing a liquid crystal composition containing a liquid crystal and a polymerizable compound between a pair of substrates provided with electrodes, and irradiating and curing the composition with ultraviolet rays by an ultraviolet irradiation apparatus, and at least one substrate is provided with a liquid crystal alignment film to vertically align a liquid crystal, wherein the ultraviolet irradiation apparatus is an ultraviolet irradiation apparatus capable of controlling the irradiation light intensity and wavelength of the ultraviolet rays to be irradiated and the surface temperature of the pair of the substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignees: Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd., Kyusyu Nanotec Optics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Hosaka, Noritoshi Miki, Hiroyuki Omura, Jun Hashimoto, Junichi Baba, Shota Yoshida
  • Patent number: 10241353
    Abstract: A device with switchable, chiral optical characteristics, has a first chiral arrangement with a first arrangement layer with at least one first nanostructure and a second arrangement layer with at least one second nanostructure. The first nanostructure and the second nanostructure are arranged relative to one another such that the chiral arrangement is chiral. A switching material with switchable dielectric characteristics is arranged between the first arrangement layer and the second arrangement layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: BADEN-WURTTEMBERG STIFFUNG GMBH
    Inventors: Harald Giessen, Xinghui Yin
  • Patent number: 10228591
    Abstract: A liquid crystal polymer composition comprising a liquid crystal, acrylic monomers including an acrylic monomer group (A) including a cyclic ring and an acrylic monomer group (B) including a chain structure or a cyclohexanol, and a photo initiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wonjin Choi, Geesung Chae, Dongcheon Shin, Jinki Kim, Hyesun Son, Sejin Jang
  • Patent number: 10208248
    Abstract: The disclosure shows a liquid-crystal composition having at least one or suitable balance regarding at least two of characteristics such as high maximum temperature of nematic phase, low minimum temperature thereof, small viscosity, suitable optical-anisotropy, large dielectric-anisotropy, large specific resistance, high stability to ultraviolet light and heat; and an AM device including the composition and having short response time, large voltage holding ratio, large contrast ratio or long life.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignees: JNC CORPORATION, JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masayuki Saito
  • Patent number: 10202470
    Abstract: The present invention provides a polymerizable composition containing a specific polymerizable compound and a fluorosurfactant having a specific polyoxyalkylene skeleton and having specific molecular weight. The invention also provides an optically anisotropic body, a retardation film, an antireflective film, and a liquid crystal display device that are produced using the polymerizable composition of the present invention. The present invention is useful because, when an optically anisotropic body is produced by photo-polymerization of the polymerizable composition, three features including the leveling properties of the surface of the optically anisotropic body, offset onto the substrate, and liquid crystal alignment can be improved simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: DIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouichi Endo, Toru Ishii, Yasuhiro Kuwana, Kazuaki Hatsusaka, Mika Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10189052
    Abstract: Methods and devices are described for driving ferroelectric perovskite oxide crystals to achieve polarization inversion with reduced coercivity. In some embodiments, the anisotropy in the potential energy surface of a ferroelectric material is employed to drive polarization inversion and switching with a reduced coercive field relative to uniaxial excitation. In some embodiments, polarization inversion with reduced coercivity is produced via the application of an electric field that exhibits a time-dependent orientation, in contrast with conventional uniaxial electrical excitation, thereby causing the central ion (and the crystal structure as a whole) to evolve along a lower-energy path, in which the central ion is driven such that it avoids the potential energy maximum. This may be achieved, for example, by applying at least two non-parallel time-dependent voltages (e.g. bias, potential) such that orientation of the electric field changes with time during the switching cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: THUNDER BAY REGIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Oleg Rubel, Samuel Pichardo, Laura Curiel, Sheikh Jamil Ahmed, Jeremy Cole
  • Patent number: 10190050
    Abstract: A liquid crystal composition including: a liquid crystal compound and a liquid crystal aligning agent including at least one compound represented by Formula 1: wherein in the Formula 1, X—*, *-L1-*, *-L2-*, *-L3-*, *—C—*, *—R—*, *—Y, n1, n2, and m are the same as defined in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ho Lim, Hyun Ku Ahn, Jae Jin Lyu
  • Patent number: 10184080
    Abstract: The present application provides a liquid crystal material, a method of fabricating a liquid crystal display panel, and a liquid crystal display panel. The liquid crystal material of the present application includes liquid crystal molecules, polymerizable monomers and a reactive vertical alignment material, the polymerizable monomers and the reactive vertical alignment material can occur a polymerization under ultraviolet irradiation to form a polymer, while the polymer deposits on a substrate to form a polymer film capable of replacing the PI alignment film, the reactive vertical alignment material includes a polymerizable group L that strengthens polymerization ability of the reactive vertical alignment material, increases compactness of forming the polymer film, improves morphology of the polymer film, and enhances panel quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Song Lan
  • Patent number: 10175538
    Abstract: The subject is to shown a liquid crystal display device that has characteristics such as a short response time, a large voltage holding ratio, a low threshold voltage, a large contrast ratio, a long service life and a small flicker rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignees: JNC CORPORATION, JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Furusato, Masayuki Saito
  • Patent number: 10160930
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electro-rheological fluid comprising particles of at least one inorganic or organic material suspended in a polar liquid crystalline medium, the use of such electro-rheological fluid in an haptic device, an haptic device itself, a method of the production of such haptic device and the use of such haptic device in electro-optical devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Simon Siemianowski, Rachel Tuffin, Roger Kemp, Ian Charles Sage
  • Patent number: 10155905
    Abstract: A compound is represented by formula (1). In formula (1), R1 is hydrogen, fluorine, alkyl or the like; ring A1 and ring A2 are independently 1,4-cyclohexylene, 1,4-phenylene or the like; Z1, Z2 and Z3 are independently a single bond, —COO— or the like; X1 is hydrogen, fluorine, —CF3, or —OCF3; L1 and L2 are independently hydrogen or fluorine; and a is 0 or 1, and b is 0 or 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignees: JNC CORPORATION, JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Gotoh, Keiji Kimura
  • Patent number: 10155876
    Abstract: Various embodiments include apparatus and methods of forming an apparatus using a solution shearing process. An example method includes providing a shearing blade on a portion of a substrate coated with a polymeric conductor material and controlling generation of a transparent and conductive polymer film on the substrate by moving the shearing blade in a direction, to generate shear stress to the polymeric conductor material, and according to shearing deposition parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Zhenan Bao, Sean C. Andrews, Brian J. Worfolk, Stefan C. B. Mannsfeld
  • Patent number: 10150917
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid-crystalline medium based on a mixture of polar compounds having negative dielectric anisotropy (??), which is distinguished by the fact that it has a value for the ratio ?1/?n2 in the range 6-45 with a clearing point of >60° C. and a ?? of ??2.3. Media of this type are particularly suitable for electro-optical displays having active-matrix addressing based on the ECB, PA LCD, FFS or IPS effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Melanie Klasen-Memmer, Sabine Schoen