Containing Nonchiral Aligning Agents Patents (Class 252/299.4)
  • Patent number: 11531223
    Abstract: To prevent arcing discharge of a liquid crystal device. Provided is a liquid crystal device including a liquid crystal layer, a first substrate, a second substrate and an insulating film, wherein the liquid crystal layer is arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate, the first substrate includes electrode 1, the second substrate includes electrode 2, the insulating film is arranged between electrode 1 and electrode 2, and the insulating film is a cured product of a thermosetting polymer composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: JNC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chien Cheng Liu, Yi Cheng Lan, Yi Pin Lee, Ren Lung Chen, Kuie Hua Hsieh, Chun Hung Chiang, Hiroaki Fujita
  • Patent number: 11319488
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes an element substrate, a counter substrate, a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the element substrate and the counter substrate, reflective electrodes placed on a surface of the element substrate that is located on the liquid crystal layer side, and a pair of alignment films each of which is placed on a corresponding one of a surface of the element substrate that is located on the liquid crystal layer side and a surface of the counter substrate that is located on the liquid crystal layer side. A liquid crystal composition contained in the liquid crystal layer contains a compound containing an alkoxy group. The alignment films contain a polymer including polyimide. The polyimide is derived from a polyamic acid and contains a side chain represented by Formula (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masanobu Mizusaki, Tomonori Itoh, Takashi Satoh
  • Patent number: 11286348
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a polymer having excellent liquid crystal alignment and electrical properties and thus is suitable for use as a liquid crystal alignment agent, a liquid crystal alignment agent containing the same, a liquid crystal aligning film formed from the liquid crystal alignment agent, and a liquid crystal display device containing the liquid crystal aligning film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Soon Ho Kwon, Kichul Koo, Jung Ho Jo, Sung Joon Min, Sang Mi Lee, Jun Young Yoon, Hyeong Seuk Yun, Yoon Bin Lim
  • Patent number: 11279881
    Abstract: A liquid crystal aligning agent composition for preparing a liquid crystal alignment film having enhanced stability and exhibiting excellent electrical characteristics, a method for preparing a liquid crystal alignment film using the same, and a liquid crystal alignment film and a liquid crystal display device using the liquid crystal alignment film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Soon Ho Kwon, Jung Ho Jo, Hang Ah Park, Jun Young Yoon, Hyeong Seuk Yun
  • Patent number: 11268028
    Abstract: A liquid crystal alignment agent composition for producing a liquid crystal alignment film having enhanced alignment property and stability and a high voltage holding ratio, a method of producing a liquid crystal alignment film using the same, and a liquid crystal alignment film and a liquid crystal display device using the same, are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Soon Ho Kwon, Sung Joon Min, Hang Ah Park, Hoonseo Park, Hyeong Seuk Yun, Jung Ho Jo
  • Patent number: 11236271
    Abstract: The present invention relates to liquid crystalline (LC) medium, to a method of its production and to the use of such LC media in polymer network liquid crystalline (PNLC) light modulation elements operated in the normally transparent mode. Furthermore, the present invention relates to such light modulation elements, as such, to the use of such light modulation elements as light shutters for transparent OLED displays, to the use of such light modulation elements in smart windows, and to a method of production of such light modulation elements according to the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Dong-Mee Song, Hyun-Woo Bae, Jung-Min Lee, Yong-Kuk Yun
  • Patent number: 11180661
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a binder composition which is excellent in upper layer coatability after being formed as a binder layer and can improve liquid crystal aligning properties, a binder layer, an optical laminate, and an image display device. A binder composition according to the embodiment of the present invention is a binder composition containing: a binder; a polymerization initiator; a surfactant; and a photo-alignment agent, in which the surfactant and the photo-alignment agent include functional groups capable of hydrogen bonding with each other, and the functional group capable of hydrogen bonding included in any one of the surfactant or the photo-alignment agent is a proton-donating functional group, and the functional group included in the other of the surfactant or the photo-alignment agent is a proton-accepting functional group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hideyuki Nishikawa, Kunihiro Atsumi
  • Patent number: 11156873
    Abstract: The present invention provides an alignment film capable of reducing generation of bubbles in a liquid crystal layer, a liquid crystal panel including the alignment film, and a method for producing the liquid crystal panel. The alignment film contains at least one selected from the group consisting of a polyamic acid containing a bisaniline fluorene skeleton and a polyimide containing a bisaniline fluorene skeleton. Preferably, the bisaniline fluorene skeleton of the polyamic acid is contained in a diamine unit of the polyamic acid and the bisaniline fluorene skeleton of the polyimide is contained in a diamine unit of the polyimide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masanobu Mizusaki, Hiroshi Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 11078423
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display device. The liquid crystal display device of the present invention comprises a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal composition disposed between said first substrate and said second substrate, wherein said first substrate and said second substrate are disposed in parallel and opposite to each other, with the distance between said first substrate and said second substrate being 2.5 ?m to 3.2 ?m; alignment layers are disposed on the sides of said first and second substrates that are close to said liquid crystal composition; and said alignment layers are provided with vertical alignment films that allow liquid crystal molecules in said liquid crystal composition to be arranged roughly perpendicular to said first or second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Shijiazhuang Chengzhi Yonghua Display Material Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiaming Li, Zhian Liang, Guoliang Yun, Sumin Kang, Xuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11008516
    Abstract: A liquid crystal material and a liquid crystal display panel includes a liquid crystal material including liquid crystal molecules, a polymerizable monomer, and an auxiliary alignment agent. A structural formula of the auxiliary alignment agent is: The A group includes at least one oxygen atom, at least one nitrogen atom, or at least one oxygen atom and at least one nitrogen atom, the Sp group essentially is a —(CH2)n— group, the Z group is selected from: and any combination thereof, the R group is a straight or branched first alkyl group containing 5 to 20 carbon atoms, and the L group is selected from: and any combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Song Lan
  • Patent number: 10865344
    Abstract: A liquid crystal composition without requiring an alignment film or alignment treatment on a substrate. The problem is solved by a low molecular weight polar compound capable of homogeneously aligning a liquid crystal medium relative to the substrate, for example, a low molecular weight polar compound represented by formula (1): M-P??(1) In formula (1), M is a nonpolar group having 1 or more carbons, and P is a polar group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignees: JNC CORPORATION, JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Yano, Fumitaka Kondou, Shin-ichi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10759997
    Abstract: Disclosed is a polymerizable compound having a structural formula as represented by the following formula I: The polymerizable compound disclosed in the present invention has a plurality of ring systems, and the entire molecular structure thereof is curved and twisted. The present invention further discloses a liquid crystal medium comprising the polymerizable compound, the polymerizable compound provided by the present invention has an appropriate polymerization rate in the liquid crystal medium, and the liquid crystal medium can be well applied to a PS-(polymer stabilized)- or PSA-(polymer stabilized alignment)-type liquid crystal display device. Further disclosed is a liquid crystal display device prepared from the liquid crystal medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: SHIJIAZHUANG CHENGZHI YONGHUA DISPLAY MATERIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinsong Meng, Zhiliang Shi, Lei Zhao, Ming Li, Wei Zhang, Xing Zhang, Guoliang Yun
  • Patent number: 10759998
    Abstract: To provide a polar compound having high chemical stability, a high ability to align liquid crystal molecules, and high solubility in a liquid crystal composition, and a high voltage holding ratio of a liquid crystal display element. A compound represented by Formula (1): R1 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group that may be substituted; a is 2 to 12; and R2 is Formula (1-a), Formula (1-b), and Formula (1-c); Sp1 to Sp3 are a single bond or an alkylene group that may be substituted; M1 and M2 are H, F, Cl, or an alkyl group that may be substituted; and X1 is —OH, —NH2, —OR3, —N(R3)2, —COOH, —SH or —Si(R3)3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignees: JNC CORPORATION, JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10752820
    Abstract: Provided are a novel surface-modified inorganic nitride, a composition, a thermally conductive material, a device with a thermally conductive layer, and a method for manufacturing a surface-modified inorganic nitride. The surface-modified inorganic nitride of the embodiment of the present invention contains an inorganic nitride and an onium salt adsorbed onto a surface of the inorganic nitride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Keita Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10707426
    Abstract: A charge transporting, liquid crystal photoalignment material comprising a charge transporting moiety connected through covalent chemical bonds to a surface derivatising moiety, and a photoalignment moiety connected through covalent chemical bonds to a surface derivatising moiety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Lomox Limited
    Inventor: Gene Carl Koch
  • Patent number: 10689576
    Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal composition that contains a polar compound having a polymerizable group, in which vertical alignment of liquid crystal molecules can be achieved by action of the compound (or polymer), and a liquid crystal display device including the composition. The composition satisfies at least one of characteristics such as high maximum temperature, low minimum temperature, small viscosity, suitable optical anisotropy, large negative dielectric anisotropy, large specific resistance, high stability to ultraviolet light and heat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignees: JNC CORPORATION, JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masayuki Saito
  • Patent number: 10634954
    Abstract: Disclosed is a manufacturing method of a liquid crystal display device which is a manufacturing method of a liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal alignment film to which an alignment regulating force is imparted by a photo-alignment treatment, including: a film forming step of forming a film containing a polymer whose main chain is cleaved by irradiation with light; a photo-alignment step of imparting an alignment regulating force to the film formed in the film forming step by irradiation of the film with light in an atmosphere of a temperature lower than 100° C.; and a removing step of removing a low-molecular weight component generated by cleaving the main chain of the polymer through the light irradiation after the light irradiation. Also disclosed is a liquid crystal display device manufactured by the manufacturing method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoichi Uchino, Noboru Kunimatsu, Hidehiro Sonoda, Chikae Matsui, Yuko Matsumoto, Tomio Yaguchi, Toshiki Kaneko, Jun Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10544366
    Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal composition satisfying at least one of characteristics including a high maximum temperature, a low minimum temperature, small viscosity, suitable optical anisotropy and large negative dielectric anisotropy, or the liquid crystal composition having a suitable balance regarding at least two of the above characteristics; and an AM device including the composition. The liquid crystal composition contains a specific compound having large negative dielectric anisotropy as a first component, and a specific compound having small viscosity as a second component, and may contain a specific component having high maximum temperature or small viscosity as a third component, a specific component having negative dielectric anisotropy as a fourth component, or a specific compound having a polymerizable group as an additive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignees: JNC CORPORATION, JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masayuki Saito
  • Patent number: 10377851
    Abstract: A resin does not need to incorporate a fluorescent substance and exhibits fluorescence itself. Also, a liquid crystal polymer is provided which does not contain a bleeding out substance such as hydrophobic silica and barium sulfate and which has an effect of suppressing fibrillation in the resin itself. A liquid crystal polymer includes a copolymer of a polymerizable monomer (A) selected from the group consisting of pyromellitic acid or anhydride thereof and a reactive derivative thereof and a polymerizable monomer (B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: UENO FINE CHEMICALS INDUSTRY, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinobu Ishizu, Hisanari Fujiwara, Akihito Ota
  • Patent number: 10061161
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present disclose provides a method for manufacturing alignment film, including: providing a mixture of a liquid crystal material and an alignment film precursor material; filling the mixture of the liquid crystal material and the alignment film precursor material between an upper substrate and a lower substrate to form a mixed liquid crystal layer; sealing the mixed liquid crystal layer in a liquid crystal cell; aligning the liquid crystal material in the mixed liquid crystal layer in a first predetermined direction; gathering the alignment film precursor material in the mixed liquid crystal layer onto at least one the upper substrate and the lower substrate; and curing the alignment film precursor material gathered on the at least one of the upper substrate and the lower substrate to form an alignment film, wherein an alignment channel in a second predetermined direction is formed in the alignment film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kun Jiang, Wei Zhao, Jian Wang
  • Patent number: 10041001
    Abstract: A liquid crystal composition including: a liquid crystal compound and a liquid crystal aligning agent containing at least one compound represented by Formula 1: wherein in the Formula 1, X—*, *-L1-*, *-L2-*, *-L3-*, *—C—*, *—R—*, Y—*, n1, n2, and m is the same as defined in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ho Lim, Hyun Ku Ahn, Jae Jin Lyu
  • Patent number: 9840589
    Abstract: A polyimide precursor composition includes a mixed solvent and a polyimide precursor dissolved in the mixed solvent, and the mixed solvent contains at least one organic solvent A and at least one organic solvent B, wherein the organic solvent A is selected from the group consisting of an aprotic polar solvent which contains a nitrogen atom and a lactone solvent, and the organic solvent B is selected from the group consisting of a non-aqueous solvent which has a carbonyl structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Miyamoto, Tomoya Sasaki, Kana Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 9798209
    Abstract: A display device according to an exemplary embodiment includes: a substrate, a thin film transistor on the substrate, a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor, a common electrode on the pixel electrode to be spaced apart from the pixel electrode while a plurality of microcavities are interposed between the common electrode and the pixel electrode, a roof layer on the common electrode, an alignment layer on the pixel electrode and beneath the common electrode and including a photosensitive material, a liquid crystal layer filling the microcavities, and an encapsulation layer on the roof layer to seal the microcavities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seon Uk Lee, Nam Seok Roh, Hee-Keun Lee, Seok-Joon Hong
  • Patent number: 9745513
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal composition having negative dielectric anisotropy, large refractive index anisotropy, and low viscosity and containing as a first component, one or two or more compounds represented by general formula (I) and, as a second component, one or two or more compounds represented by general formula (II), wherein dielectric anisotropy (??) at 25° C. is ?2.0 or less. Also, provided is a liquid crystal display device having high contrast, fast response, and excellent display quality without causing image sticking and display defects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: DIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Kuriyama, Joji Kawamura
  • Patent number: 9720282
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a first alignment layer on the first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a second alignment layer on the second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate and including liquid crystal molecules. The first alignment layer and the second alignment layer include a polymer including at least of polyamic acid, polyimide, and a combination including at least one of the foregoing polymers, and a compound including an epoxy cross-linker represented by Chemical Formula 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Heungshik Park, Jooyoung Yoon, Dong-Chul Shin, Kichul Shin, Sung-Jae Yun, Hyeokjin Lee
  • Patent number: 9640594
    Abstract: A transparent organic light emitting display device having a pixel region on which an image is displayed and a transparent region through which external light passes. The transparent organic light emitting display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate opposing the first substrate, a display unit disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, the display unit including an organic light emitting diode. A sealing unit is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate to surround the display unit and to bond the first substrate to the second substrate. A filling unit is disposed in an inner side of the sealing unit to cover the display unit, the filling unit including a silicon filling material and a photochromic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eon-Seok Oh, Sang-Yeol Kim, Il-Seok Park
  • Patent number: 9598640
    Abstract: To form an optical alignment film having large anchoring strength and suppress an AC afterimage of a liquid crystal display device, in a liquid crystal display device of an IPS mode. In an alignment film material subjected to optical alignment processing, polyimide which becomes a rigid high molecule and polyimide which becomes a flexible high molecule are mixed and used. The material of the present invention can easily rotate oligomer after irradiating polarized ultraviolet rays and improve a UV-absorbed two-color ratio of an alignment film. Accordingly, an anchoring strength for liquid crystals by the alignment film is large to suppress an AC afterimage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Shoichi Uchino, Noboru Kunimatsu
  • Patent number: 9588378
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a display panel having a display region and a non-display region, comprising: a first substrate and a second substrate oppositely provided and a layer of liquid crystal molecule located between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the first substrate and the second substrate each are provided with an alignment film at a position corresponding to the display region, and each are provided with a sealant region for applying sealant at a position corresponding to the non-display region, wherein: the sealant region on a surface of the first substrate facing the liquid crystal molecule layer is provided with a first raised layer by which the sealant region of the first substrate is higher than the display region thereof; and the sealant region on a surface of the second substrate facing the liquid crystal molecule layer is provided with a second raised layer by which the sealant region of the second substrate is higher than the display region thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhenxia Chen, Ni Jiang, Junrui Zhang, Junhwan Lim
  • Patent number: 9556094
    Abstract: Disclosed are a monomer represented by the following Chemical Formula 1 for a hardmask composition, a hardmask composition including the monomer, and a method of forming patterns using the hardmask composition. In the above Chemical Formula 1, A1 to A3, X1 to X3, L1, L2, n and m are the same as described in the detailed description.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Cheil Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Yun-Jun Kim, Hyo-Young Kwon, Hea-Jung Kim, Chung-Heon Lee, Youn-Jin Cho, Yoo-Jeong Choi
  • Patent number: 9405152
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display is provided which is capable of reducing the occurrence of defective display due to variations in the initial alignment direction of a liquid crystal alignment control film in a liquid crystal display of an IPS scheme, realizing the stable liquid crystal alignment, providing excellent mass productivity, and having high image quality with a higher contrast ratio. The liquid crystal display has a liquid crystal layer disposed between a pair of substrates, at least one of the substrates being transparent, and an alignment control film formed between the liquid crystal layer and the substrate. At least one of the alignment control films 109 comprises photoreactive polyimide and/or polyamic acid provided with an alignment control ability by irradiation of substantially linearly polarized light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignees: JAPAN DISPLAY INC., PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasushi Tomioka, Hidetoshi Abe, Katsumi Kondo
  • Patent number: 9389478
    Abstract: A display device according to an exemplary embodiment includes: a substrate, a thin film transistor on the substrate, a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor, a common electrode on the pixel electrode to be spaced apart from the pixel electrode while a plurality of microcavities are interposed between the common electrode and the pixel electrode, a roof layer on the common electrode, an alignment layer on the pixel electrode and beneath the common electrode and including a photosensitive material, a liquid crystal layer filling the microcavities, and an encapsulation layer on the roof layer to seal the microcavities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seon Uk Lee, Nam Seok Roh, Hee-Keun Lee, Seok-Joon Hong
  • Patent number: 9120971
    Abstract: The invention discloses a polymerizable mixture and a liquid crystal composition for polymer stabilized vertical alignment. The polymerizable mixture comprises one or more types of the reactive monomers and a photo initiator. structure of the reactive monomer comprises a single benzene ring, two benzene rings, or a naphthalene ring, wherein the two benzene rings are formed by direct connection of two single benzene rings or indirect connection with a substituent group therebetween, the benzene ring and the naphthalene ring are directly connected with at least one polymerizable group. The liquid crystal composition includes a negative type liquid crystal material, a stabilizer, and the polymerizable mixture. The reaction rate and the conversion rate of the reactive monomer can be improved by adding the photo initiator, so that the residues of the reactive monomers can be reduced after UV irradiation to solve the panel quality problems effectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Xinhui Zhong
  • Patent number: 9091870
    Abstract: The provides an illuminance adjusting method of a liquid crystal photo alignment irradiation machine, including (1) providing a liquid crystal photo alignment irradiation machine, which includes UV lamps, an illuminance collecting device, and a stage for supporting a liquid crystal panel; (2) the illuminance collecting device collecting information of illuminance and illuminance homogeneity of a surface of the stage; (3) calculating distance for the UV lamps to descend according to the information of illuminance and illuminance homogeneity of the surface of the stage; and (4) lowering down altitude of the UV lamps according to the descending distance. The method uses the illuminance collecting device to completely and intensively collect the information of illuminance and illuminance homogeneity of the stage surface and to automatically adjust the altitude of the UV lamps according to the information of illuminance and illuminance homogeneity so as to adjust the illuminance of the stage surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shengpeng Mo, Wenpin Chiang
  • Publication number: 20150116617
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a TFT substrate having a first alignment film and an opposing substrate having a second alignment film with liquid crystals sandwiched therebetween. One of the first and second alignment films, comprises a first polyimide produced via polyamide acid ester containing cyclobutane as a precursor and a second polyimide produced via polyamide acid as a precursor. The polyamide acid has a higher polarity than that of the polyamide acid ester. The one of the first and second alignment films is responsive to photo-alignment. A first side of the one of the first and second alignment films is adjacent to the liquid crystals, and a second side thereof is closer to one of the TFT substrate and the counter substrate than the first side. The first side contains more of the first polyimide and less of the second polyimide than the second side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Noboru Kunimatsu, Chikae Matsui, Hidehiro Sonoda, Yuko Matsumoto, Shoichi Uchino, Masaki Matsumori, Yosushi Tomioka
  • Publication number: 20150108401
    Abstract: A subject is to provide a polymerizable liquid crystal composition from which an optically anisotropic substance having twist alignment that is excellent in chemical strength (chemical resistance) and has only a small amount of alignment defects can be obtained. A solution is a polymerizable liquid crystal composition containing an optically active compound having a binaphthol moiety, an achiral polymerizable liquid crystal compound and a photopolymerization initiator having oxime ester.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicants: JNC CORPORATION, JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiharu HIRAI, Nagahisa MIYAGAWA, Daisuke OOTSUKI
  • Publication number: 20150102259
    Abstract: An object is to provide a liquid crystal compound having high polymerization reactivity, a high conversion ratio and high solubility in a liquid crystal composition, a polymerizable composition containing the compound, a liquid crystal composite prepared using the composition, and a liquid crystal display device having the composite. A solution is a polymerizable compound represented by formula (1). In formula (1), P1 and P2 are identically group (P-1), (P-2) or (P-3), and in formula (P-1), M is hydrogen, fluorine, —CH3 or —CF3; S1 and S2 are a single bond, alkylene having 1 to 6 carbons or the like; a1, a2 and b1 are 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4, and a sum of al and a2 is 4; ring A1 is naphthalene, anthracene or phenanthrene; and ring A2 is cyclohexyl, phenyl, naphthyl, anthracenyl or phenanthrenyl; and Z1 is a single bond, —CO—, —COO— or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Applicants: JNC CORPORATION, JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuyuki GOTOH, Takahiro KUBO
  • Patent number: 8993076
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal additive, a liquid crystal composition and a liquid crystal panel thereof. The liquid crystal additive of the present invention has a higher clear point, so that adding the liquid crystal additive into a liquid crystal composition of a liquid crystal panel can omit the process of forming alignment films to reduce manufacturing costs and time of liquid crystal panels; meanwhile, the MURA phenomenon due to the different effects of liquid crystal molecules and liquid crystal reactive monomers on alignment films is avoided, so as to improve the uniformity of liquid crystal panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Houng-Chieh Lu
  • Publication number: 20150085241
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal horizontal orientation agent, a horizontal orientation type liquid crystal composition, a horizontal orientation type LCD device and a method of fabricating the horizontal orientation type LCD device. In one embodiment, the liquid crystal molecule is horizontally oriented by the liquid crystal horizontal orientation agent without the rubbed orientation layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicants: YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY, LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Momoi YUICHI, Mu-Sun KWAK, Koda TOMONORI, Yonetake KOICHIRO, Haba OSAMU
  • Publication number: 20150076404
    Abstract: The invention discloses a polymerizable mixture and a liquid crystal composition for polymer stabilized vertical alignment. The polymerizable mixture comprises one or more types of the reactive monomers and a photo initiator. structure of the reactive monomer comprises a single benzene ring, two benzene rings, or a naphthalene ring, wherein the two benzene rings are formed by direct connection of two single benzene rings or indirect connection with a substituent group therebetween, the benzene ring and the naphthalene ring are directly connected with at least one polymerizable group. The liquid crystal composition includes a negative type liquid crystal material, a stabilizer, and the polymerizable mixture. The reaction rate and the conversion rate of the reactive monomer can be improved by adding the photo initiator, so that the residues of the reactive monomers can be reduced after UV irradiation to solve the panel quality problems effectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xinhui Zhong
  • Publication number: 20150069296
    Abstract: A liquid crystal composition of the present invention is used for a liquid crystal display device of an active matrix driving method, which requires fast response. The liquid crystal composition has negative dielectric anisotropy and a large absolute value thereof, and low viscosity. The liquid crystal composition is chemically stable to heat, light, water, and the like, and is suitable as a liquid crystal composition capable of low-voltage driving and practicable and having high reliability. A liquid crystal display device using the liquid crystal composition can be preferably used for a liquid crystal display device of a VA mode, a PASV mode, a PSA mode, or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Kuriyama, Go Sudo, Shinichi Hirata, Shotaro Kawakami
  • Publication number: 20150072086
    Abstract: The present application relates to a liquid crystal composition, a liquid crystal cell, a liquid crystal film, and methods of preparing the same. As an exemplary liquid crystal composition, according to the present application can provide a liquid crystal layer aligned without a special alignment layer. According to the liquid crystal composition, all of the liquid crystal cell, in which the liquid crystal layer is maintained in a non-polymerized state, and the liquid crystal film prepared by polymerizing the liquid crystal layer can be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventors: Sin Young KIM, Moon Soo PARK, Dae Hee LEE, Da Mi LEE
  • Patent number: 8969486
    Abstract: Disclosed are a liquid crystal alignment agent, a liquid crystal alignment film manufactured using the same, and a liquid crystal display including the liquid crystal alignment film. The liquid crystal alignment agent includes a polymer comprising a polyamic acid including a repeating unit represented by Chemical Formula 1, polyimide including a repeating unit represented by Chemical Formula 2, or a combination thereof: wherein Y1 and Y2 are each independently a divalent organic group derived from diamine, wherein the diamine includes photodiamine represented by Chemical Formula 3 and functional diamine represented by Chemical Formula 5: and wherein the other substituents are the same as defined in the detailed description.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Cheil Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Jae-Deuk Yang, Yong-Sik Yoo, Guk-Pyo Jo
  • Publication number: 20140327865
    Abstract: In an aspect, an liquid crystal display including a first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and including liquid crystals, a first alignment polymer, and a second alignment polymer is provided, In an aspect, the first alignment polymer is formed by radiating electromagnetic radiation on a first alignment aid photoreactive in a first wavelength region, the second alignment polymer is formed by radiating electromagnetic radiation on a second alignment aid photoreactive in a second wavelength region, and the first wavelength region and the second wavelength region are different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keun Chan Oh, Jun Hyup Lee
  • Patent number: 8877303
    Abstract: To form an optical alignment film having large anchoring strength and suppress an AC afterimage of a liquid crystal display device, in a liquid crystal display device of an IPS mode. In an alignment film material subjected to optical alignment processing, polyimide which becomes a rigid high molecule and polyimide which becomes a flexible high molecule are mixed and used. The material of the present invention can easily rotate oligomer after irradiating polarized ultraviolet rays and improve a UV-absorbed two-color ratio of an alignment film. Accordingly, an anchoring strength for liquid crystals by the alignment film is large to suppress an AC afterimage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Shoichi Uchino, Noboru Kunimatsu
  • Publication number: 20140319420
    Abstract: The invention provides a nanoparticle, a process, a liquid crystal display panel and a display device for inducing liquid crystal alignment in an advanced super dimension switch mode. The nanoparticle is a silicon dioxide nanoparticle modified using the organic silicon compound of Formula (1), wherein R can be the same or different and is —H or —OC2H5; M contains rigid groups such as benzene ring, biphenyl, and/or cyclohexane. In the invention, the organic silicon compounds, which share similar structures with the nematic liquid crystal molecules in the ADS mode, are employed for modifying the silicon dioxide nanoparticles, facilitating the even dispersion of the modified silicon dioxide nanoparticles in liquid crystals; and the organic silicon compound contains rigid groups that can effectively induce the directional alignment of the liquid crystals, thereby helping improve the display effect of the ADS mode liquid crystal display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventors: Renwei Guo, Dong Chen, Jianyun Xie
  • Patent number: 8758871
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display is provided which is capable of reducing the occurrence of defective display due to variations in the initial alignment direction of a liquid crystal alignment control film in a liquid crystal display of an IPS scheme, realizing the stable liquid crystal alignment, providing excellent mass productivity, and having high image quality with a higher contrast ratio. The liquid crystal display has a liquid crystal layer disposed between a pair of substrates, at least one of the substrates being transparent, and an alignment control film formed between the liquid crystal layer and the substrate. At least one of the alignment control films 109 comprises photoreactive polyimide and/or polyamic acid provided with an alignment control ability by irradiation of substantially linearly polarized light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushi Tomioka, Hidetoshi Abe, Katsumi Kondo
  • Patent number: 8753537
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mixture for liquid crystal medium and a liquid crystal display using the same. The mixture for liquid crystal medium comprises: at least one anisotropic liquid crystal material and a polymerizable monomer which will polymerize under UV irradiation. The weight percentage of the polymerizable monomer accounts for 0.1% to 1% of the total mixture for liquid crystal medium. In the mixture for liquid crystal medium and a liquid crystal display using the same according to the present invention, by using a polymerizable monomer which will polymerize under UV irradiation and the appropriate content ratio, the polymer bump with small size and good uniformity can be obtained within the mixture for liquid crystal medium after the polymerization, which avoids the bad liquid crystal alignment and the light spot occurred at the dark state of the liquid crystal panel, and then increases the response rapid of the liquid crystal panel to obtain high contrast ratio and stable mass production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xing Feng, Xinhui Zhong
  • Patent number: 8741397
    Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display element which is composed of a pair of substrates (1) at least one of which is transparent. The liquid crystal display element comprises, between the pair of substrates, a transparent electrode (2), an aligning agent (3) that contains at least reactive monomers and/or oligomers (5), and a liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal display element is characterized in that an alignment layer is obtained by polymerizing the reactive monomers or oligomers contained in the aligning agent, and the liquid crystal layer is composed of a liquid crystal composition that contains a compound (4) having at least one benzene ring in each molecule, said benzene ring containing at least one fluorine atom and being disubstituted by halogen atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignees: JNC Corporation, JNC Petrochemical Corporation
    Inventors: Norikatsu Hattori, Atsuko Fujita
  • Patent number: 8722158
    Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal photo-alignment agent and a liquid crystal photo-alignment film manufactured using the same. The liquid crystal photo-alignment agent includes an epoxy compound represented by Chemical Formula 1, and a polymer including a polyamic acid, a polyimide, or a mixture thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Cheil Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Hyo-Ju Seo, Tae-Hyoung Kwak, Dong-Seon Uh, Jae-Deuk Yang
  • Publication number: 20140085589
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mixture for liquid crystal medium and a liquid crystal display using the same. The mixture for liquid crystal medium comprises: at least one anisotropic liquid crystal material and a polymerizable monomer which will polymerize under UV irradiation. The weight percentage of the polymerizable monomer accounts for 0.1% to 1% of the total mixture for liquid crystal medium. In the mixture for liquid crystal medium and a liquid crystal display using the same according to the present invention, by using a polymerizable monomer which will polymerize under UV irradiation and the appropriate content ratio, the polymer bump with small size and good uniformity can be obtained within the mixture for liquid crystal medium after the polymerization, which avoids the bad liquid crystal alignment and the light spot occurred at the dark state of the liquid crystal panel, and then increases the response rapid of the liquid crystal panel to obtain high contrast ratio and stable mass production.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2012
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xing Feng, Xinhui Zhong