Including Fully Saturated Ring Patents (Class 252/299.63)
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Patent number: 8273420Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal composition suitable for producing a liquid crystal electrooptical element which can be driven at a low voltage in a wide temperature range and has high display quality. Also disclosed is a liquid crystal electrooptical element produced by using the liquid crystal composition. Further disclosed is a liquid crystal compound represented by the formula [R1-(A1)a-Z1-(A2)b-Z2-(A7)e-Z5-A3-CF?CFCF2O-A4-Z3-(A5)c-Z4-(A6)d-R2].Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2011Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: AGC Seimi Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Atsushi Kawamata, Tomoyuki Asai, Hidemasa Koh
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Patent number: 8273421Abstract: The invention is to provide a liquid crystal composition that satisfies at least one of characteristics such as a high maximum temperature of a nematic phase, a low minimum temperature of a nematic phase, a small viscosity, a suitable optical anisotropy, a large negative dielectric anisotropy, a large specific resistance, a high stability to ultraviolet light and a high stability to heat, or that is suitably balanced regarding at least two of the characteristics; and is to provide a AM device that has a short response time, a large voltage holding ratio, a large contrast ratio, a long service life and so forth; wherein the liquid crystal composition has negative dielectric anisotropy and includes a specific compound having tertahydropyran-2,5-diyl as a first component and a specific four-ring compound having a high maximum temperature as a second component, and the liquid crystal display device contains this composition.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2009Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignees: JNC Corporation, JNC Petrochemical CorporationInventors: Masayuki Saito, Norikatsu Hattori
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Publication number: 20120236246Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal composition satisfying at least one of characteristics such as high maximum temperature of a nematic phase, low minimum temperature of the nematic phase, small viscosity, suitable optical anisotropy, large negative dielectric anisotropy, large specific resistance, high stability to ultraviolet light and high stability to heat, or having a suitable balance regarding at least two of the characteristics. Also provided is an AM device having a short response time, a large voltage holding ratio, a large contrast ratio, a long service life and so forth. The liquid crystal composition contains a specific compound having a polymerizable group as a first component, a specific compound having a large negative dielectric anisotropy and a low minimum temperature as a second component, or a specific compound having a small viscosity or a large maximum temperature as a third component, and a liquid crystal display device contains the composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2010Publication date: September 20, 2012Applicants: JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION, JNC CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshimasa Furusato, Eriko Kurihara, Maiko Ito
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Patent number: 8268191Abstract: The present invention relates to dielectrically positive liquid-crystalline media comprising one or more compounds of the formula I in which the parameters have the meaning indicated in the specification, and optionally one or more compounds selected from the group of the compounds of the formulae II and III in which the parameters have the meaning indicated in the specification, and optionally one or more compounds of the formula IV in which the parameters have the meaning indicated in the specification, and to liquid-crystal displays containing these media, especially to active-matrix displays and in particular to TN, IPS and FFS displays.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2009Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: Merck Patent GmbHInventors: Markus Czanta, Harald Hirschmann, Michael Wittek, Volker Reiffenrath, Renate Bender, Christian Hock, Brigitte Schuler
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Publication number: 20120228549Abstract: Disclosed are a liquid-crystalline medium of negative dielectric anisotropy based on a mixture of polar compounds, which contains at least one compound of formula IA and at least one compound of formulae IB, IC and/or ID and the use thereof for an active-matrix display, in particular based on the ECB, PALO, FFS or IPS effect.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2012Publication date: September 13, 2012Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBHInventors: Melanie KLASEN-MEMMER, Matthias BREMER
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Publication number: 20120229751Abstract: The invention is to provide an AM device containing a liquid crystal composition satisfying at least one of characteristics such as a high maximum temperature of a nematic phase, a low minimum temperature of the nematic phase, a small viscosity, a large optical anisotropy, a large positive dielectric anisotropy, a large specific resistance, a high stability to ultraviolet light and a high stability to and heat, or having a suitable balance regarding at least two of the characteristics, and the AM device having a short response time, a large voltage holding ratio, a large contrast ratio, a long service life and so forth; wherein a liquid crystal display device contains a liquid crystal composition having a positive dielectric anisotropy and containing a specific compound having a large positive dielectric anisotropy as a first component and a specific compound having a small viscosity as a second component.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2010Publication date: September 13, 2012Applicants: JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION, JNC CORPORATIONInventors: Takayoshi Yanai, Masayuki Saito
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Publication number: 20120224245Abstract: The invention relates to a polymerisable LC material with negative optical dispersion, a polymer film with negative optical dispersion obtainable from such a material, and the use of the polymerisable LC material and polymer film in optical, electrooptical, electronic, semiconducting or luminescent components or devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2010Publication date: September 6, 2012Applicant: MERCK PATENT GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCRANKTER HAFTUNGInventors: Kevin Adlem, Owain Parri, David Wilkes, Patricia Eileen Saxton
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Patent number: 8259273Abstract: A liquid crystal includes about 60 wt % to about 80 wt % of a first compound material, about 2 wt % to about 15 wt % of a second compound material, and a neutral compound material. The first compound material has a dielectric anisotropy of a first polarity, and the second compound material has a dielectric anisotropy of a second polarity.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2011Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyun-Wuk Kim, Jae-Jin Lyu, Yong-Kuk Yun
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Patent number: 8257611Abstract: A compound of formula (1): wherein A1 and A2 are —O—, —NR—, —S—, or —CO—, in which R is a hydrogen atom or substituent; Z is one or two atoms selected from a carbon atom or a non-metal atom of Group 14, 15 or 16 in the Periodic Table, and forms a five- or six-membered ring with the C—C?C—C or C?C—C?C; R1, R2, and R3 each are a substituent; m is an integer of 0 to 4; L1 and L2 are a single bond or divalent linking group; X is a non-metal atom of Group 14, 15 or 16 in the Periodic Table, and may have a hydrogen atom or R4; and at least one of R, R1, R2, R3, and R4 is substituted with a polymerizable group; a liquid crystal composition, an optical film, a retardation sheet, a polarizing plate, and a liquid crystal display.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2007Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Shigeki Uehira, Michitaka Matsuumi, Shinichi Morishima, Mitsuyoshi Ichihashi, Kotaro Yasuda, Hiroshi Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20120217438Abstract: The invention is to provide a liquid crystal composition that satisfies at least one of characteristics such as a high maximum temperature of a nematic phase, a low minimum temperature of a nematic phase, a small viscosity, a large optical anisotropy, a large positive dielectric anisotropy, a large specific resistance, a large elastic constant, a high stability to ultraviolet light and heat, or that is suitably balanced between at least two of the characteristics. And to provide an AM device that has a short response time, a large voltage holding ratio, a large contrast ratio, a long service life and so forth. The liquid crystal composition includes a specific two-ring compound having a high maximum temperature and a large elastic constant as a first component, a specific compound having a large dielectric anisotropy as a second component, and has a nematic phase. The liquid crystal display device contains this composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2010Publication date: August 30, 2012Applicants: JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION, JNC CORPORATIONInventors: Norikatsu Hattori, Takashi Hiraoka, Taketo Maeda, Masayuki Saito
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Patent number: 8252202Abstract: A nematic liquid crystal composition of the present invention includes at least 20% by weight of one, or two or more compounds selected from compound group A; and 5 to 50% by weight of one, or two or more compounds selected from compound group B, wherein the relative proportions of the above-mentioned compounds used in the nematic liquid crystal composition is determined to simultaneously obtain the specific physical characteristics for the composition, and an anchoring breaking voltage U?/4 is less than or equal to 25 V when the product (?n·d) of the refractive index anisotropy (?n) at 20° C. and the thickness (d) is 140 nm and the liquid crystal composition is confined between two substrates for a bistable nematic liquid crystal display in which at least one of the substrates have a weak zenithal anchoring force.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2008Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignees: DIC Corporation, NemopticInventors: Hidetoshi Nakata, Kiyofumi Takeuchi, Haruyoshi Takatsu, Daniel Stoenescu, Ivan Dozov, Jean-Claude Dubois
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Patent number: 8252389Abstract: The invention relates to novel mesogenic dimeric compounds which are especially suitable for use in birefringent films with negative optical dispersion, to novel liquid crystal (LC) formulations and polymer films comprising them, and to the use of the dimers, formulations and films in optical, electrooptical, electronic, semiconducting or luminescent components or devices.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2008Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Merck Patent Gesellschaft mit Beschränkter HaftungInventors: Kevin Adlem, Owain Llyr Parri, Karl Skjonnemand, David Wilkes
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Patent number: 8252201Abstract: The present invention relates to low viscosity, broad range nematic media having large birefringence and moderately large dielectric anisotropy. The nematic media are useful in a variety of electrooptical devices, including electronic lenses.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2009Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Military University of TechnologyInventors: Roman Dabrowski, Jerzy Dziaduszek, Przemyslaw Kula
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Patent number: 8246855Abstract: A polymerizable liquid crystal composition is provided that has a wide range where a liquid crystal phase is exhibited, has excellent solubility in an organic solvent, and is facilitated in control of an alignment state. The use of the polymerizable liquid crystal composition provides a polymerizable liquid crystal composition that has good solubility in a solvent with high safety, such as PGMEA, and can control various alignment states. The polymerizable liquid crystal composition in one aspect contains a fluorenone derivative represented by the formula (1) and a compound having a bisphenol skeleton represented by the formula (2).Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2009Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignees: JNC Corporation, JNC Petrochemical CorporationInventor: Yoshiharu Hirai
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Publication number: 20120205583Abstract: The present invention relates to bistolans of the formula I where one or more of the radicals L1 to L3 denote an Rx, where Rx denotes cyclopropyl, cyclobutyl, cyclopentyl or cyclohexyl, and the other parameters are as defined in Claim 1. The invention also encompasses liquid-crystalline media which comprise the title compounds, to components for high-frequency technology which comprise these media, in particular phase shifters and microwave array antennae.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2010Publication date: August 16, 2012Applicant: MERCK PATENT GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCHRANKTER HAFTUNGInventors: Elvira Montenegro, Christian Jasper, Detlef Pauluth, Volker Reiffenrath, Atsutaka Manabe
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Publication number: 20120200794Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal composition formed by including a polymerizable compound represented by general formula (I) in a nematic liquid crystal composition with negative dielectric anisotropy (??). In the formula, ring C1 represents a benzene-1,2,4-triyl group, or the like; rings C2 to C4 represent a 1,4-phenylene group, a naphthalene-2,6-diyl group, or the like; M1 to M3 represent a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; Z1 and Z2 are a direct coupling, -L1-, -L1O—, -L1O—CO—, or the like; Z6 is a direct coupling, -L2-, -OL2-, —O-COL2-, or the like; at least one of Z1, Z2, and Z6 is not a direct coupling; L1 and L2 represent a C1-10 alkylene group; Z3 to Z5 represent a direct coupling, an ester bond, or the like; and p, q, and r are 0 or 1, wherein 1?p+q+r?3.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2010Publication date: August 9, 2012Applicant: ADEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Ken Matsumoto, Masatomi Irisawa
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Patent number: 8236197Abstract: The subject is to provide a liquid crystal composition that satisfies at least one characteristic of characteristics such as a high maximum temperature of a nematic phase, a low minimum temperature of a nematic phase, a small viscosity, a suitable optical anisotropy, a negatively large dielectric anisotropy, a large specific resistance, a high stability to ultraviolet light and a high stability to heat, or that is suitably balanced regarding two characteristics thereof. The subject is to provide an AM device that has a short response time, a large voltage holding ratio, a large contrast ratio, a long service life and so forth.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2009Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignees: JNC Corporation, JNC Petrochemical CorporationInventors: Shigeru Kibe, Masayuki Saito
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Patent number: 8236390Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid-crystalline medium based on a mixture of polar compounds, characterized in that it comprises one or more compounds of the formula I in which R1, X1, L1-5 have the meanings indicated in Claim 1, and to the use thereof for electro-optical purposes, in particular TN monitor applications.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2008Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: Merck Patent Gesellschaft mit beschränkter HaftungInventors: Harald Hirschmann, Michael Wittek, Sabine Schoen
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Publication number: 20120193577Abstract: The invention provides a liquid crystal compound having a high stability to heat, light or the like, a wide temperature range of a nematic phase, a small viscosity, a suitable optical anisotropy, a large elastic constant K33, a large negative dielectric anisotropy and an excellent compatibility with other liquid crystal compounds. The invention provides a liquid crystal composition having characteristics similar to these of the compound. The invention provides a liquid crystal display device having a short response time, low electric power consumption, a low driving voltage, a large contrast and a wide temperature range in which the device can be used. The compound is a 2,3-difluorobenzene derivative (1) having a combination of a cyclohexane ring, a cyclohexene ring or a benzene ring phenyl and a butene bonding group. The liquid crystal composition includes this compound, and the liquid crystal display device contains this composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2012Publication date: August 2, 2012Applicants: JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION, JNC CORPORATIONInventor: Masahide KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 8231806Abstract: The present invention relates to dielectrically positive liquid-crystalline media comprising in each case one or more compounds of the formula I in which the parameters have the respective meanings indicated in the specification, and optionally one or more further dielectrically positive compounds and optionally one or more further dielectrically neutral compounds, and to liquid-crystal displays containing these media, especially to active-matrix displays and in particular to TN, IPS and FFS displays.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2009Date of Patent: July 31, 2012Assignee: Merck Patent Gesellschaft mit beschränkter HaftungInventors: Markus Czanta, Michael Wittek, Lars Lietzau, Marcus Reuter, Brigitte Schuler
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Publication number: 20120190897Abstract: The invention provides a liquid crystal compound having general physical properties necessary for the liquid crystal compound, namely, stability to heat, light and so forth, a small viscosity, a refractive index anisotropy having a suitable magnitude value, a dielectric anisotropy having a suitable magnitude value, steep electrooptical characteristics, a wide temperature range of a nematic phase, and an excellent compatibility with other liquid crystal compounds, in particular, a liquid crystal compound having a wide temperature range of the nematic phase; a compound represented by formula (i): wherein, for example, R1 and R2 are alkyl having 1 to 8 carbons or alkenyl having 2 to 8 carbons; ring A1 is trans-1,4-cyclohexylene or 1,4-phenylene; ring A2 is trans-1,4-cyclohexylene or 2,3-difluoro-1,4-phenylene; Q1 and Q2 are fluorine or chlorine; and h is 0, 1 or 2.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2010Publication date: July 26, 2012Applicants: JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION, JNC CORPORATIONInventors: Junichi Yamashita, Masahide Kobayashi, Sayaka Fujimori
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Publication number: 20120182516Abstract: The present invention relates to polymerisable compounds, to processes and intermediates for the preparation thereof, and to the use thereof for optical, electro-optical and electronic purposes, in particular in liquid-crystal (LC) media and LC displays, especially in LC displays of the PS (“polymer sustained”) or PSA (“polymer sustained alignment”) type.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2010Publication date: July 19, 2012Applicant: MERCK PATENT GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCHRANKTER HAFTUNGInventors: Andreas Taugerbeck, Achim Goetz
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Publication number: 20120182200Abstract: The present invention relates to a component for high-frequency technology or for the microwave range and millimetre wave range of the electromagnetic spectrum, characterised in that it contains a liquid-crystal compound of the formula I in which the parameters have the respective meanings given in the claims or in the text, or a liquid-crystal medium which itself comprises one or more compounds of this formula I, and to the corresponding, novel liquid-crystal media, to the use and preparation thereof, and to the production and use of the components. The components according to the invention are particularly suitable as phase shifters in the microwave and millimetre wave range, for microwave and millimetre wave array antennae and very particularly for so-called tuneable reflectarrays.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2010Publication date: July 19, 2012Applicant: MERCK PATENT GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCHRANKTER HAFTUNGInventors: Atsutaka Manabe, Mark Goebel, Dagmar Klass, Elvira Montenegro, Detlef Pauluth
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Publication number: 20120181479Abstract: A liquid crystal composition satisfying at least one of characteristics such as a high maximum temperature of a nematic phase, a low minimum temperature of the nematic phase, a small viscosity, a large optical anisotropy, a large negative dielectric anisotropy, a large specific resistance, a high stability to ultraviolet light, a high stability to heat and a short helical pitch is provided, wherein the liquid crystal composition has a negative dielectric anisotropy and contains a specific optically active compound as a first compound, a specific compound having a large negative dielectric anisotropy as a second component, and may contain a specific compound having a high maximum temperature or a small viscosity as a third component, a specific compound having a large negative dielectric anisotropy as a fourth component and a specific optically active compound as a fifth component, and a liquid crystal display device that contains the composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2010Publication date: July 19, 2012Applicants: JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION, JNC CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshimasa Furusato, Takashi Hiraoka, Masayuki Saito
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Publication number: 20120181478Abstract: A subject is to provide a liquid crystal composition that has a negative dielectric anisotropy and contains a specific 3-ring compound having a large optical anisotropy as a first component and a compound having a large negative dielectric anisotropy and containing a methyleneoxy group or pyran ring as a second component, and may contain a specific compound having a small viscosity as a third component and a specific compound having a large negative dielectric anisotropy as a fourth component, respectively, and a liquid crystal display device that contains the composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2010Publication date: July 19, 2012Applicants: JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION, JNC CORPORATIONInventors: Norikatsu Hattori, Shuichi Goto, Eiji Okabe
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Patent number: 8221854Abstract: The present invention relates to dielectrically positive liquid-crystalline media comprising a dielectrically positive component, component A, comprising a dielectrically positive compound of the formula I in which the parameters have the meaning indicated in the specification, and optionally a second dielectrically positive component, component B, comprising one or more dielectrically positive compounds having a dielectric anisotropy of great than 3, and optionally a dielectrically neutral component, component C, and to liquid-crystal displays containing these media, especially active-matrix displays and in particular TN, IPS and FFS displays.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2008Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: Merck Patent Gesellschaft MIT Beschränkter HaftungInventors: Markus Czanta, Andreas Taugerbeck, Renate Bender, Lars Lietzau
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Patent number: 8216489Abstract: The invention provides a liquid crystal compound represented by the following formula having stability to heat, light and so forth, a wide temperature range of a nematic phase, a small viscosity, a large optical anisotropy and a suitable elastic constant K33 (K33: bend elastic constant), and further having a suitable and negative dielectric anisotropy and an excellent compatibility with other liquid crystal compounds, and provides a liquid crystal composition including the compound, wherein R1 and R2 are hydrogen, alkyl or the like, ring A1 is trans-1,4-cyclohexylene, 1,4-phenylene or the like, L1 to L4 are hydrogen or fluorine, and at least three of them are fluorine; when the ring A1 is trans-1,4-cyclohexylene or the like, Z1 is a single bond, —(CH2)2— or the like, when ring A1 is 1,4-phenylene, Z1 is —(CH2)2— or the like.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2009Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignees: JNC Corporation, Chisso Petrochemical CorporationInventor: Masahide Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20120168677Abstract: A liquid crystal compound represented by formula (1-1). For example, R1 and R2 are independently hydrogen, alkyl having 1 to 10 carbons, alkenyl having 2 to 10 carbons, alkoxy having 1 to 9 carbons, alkoxyalkyl having 2 to 9 carbons or alkenyloxy having 2 to 9 carbons; the ring A1 is trans-1,4-cyclohexylene, 1,4-cyclohexenylene, 1,3-dioxane-2,5-diyl, pyrimidine-2,5-diyl or pyridine-2,5-diyl; L1 and L2 are independently hydrogen or fluorine, and at least one of them is fluorine; and Z1, Z2 and Z3 are independently a single bond, —(CH2)2—, —CH?CH—, —C?C—, —CH2O—, —OCH2—, —COO— or —OCO—.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2010Publication date: July 5, 2012Applicants: JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION, JNC CORPORATIONInventors: Masahide Kobayashi, Junichi Yamashita
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Patent number: 8211512Abstract: The subject is to provide a liquid crystal composition that satisfies at least one characteristic among characteristics such as a high maximum temperature of a nematic phase, a low minimum temperature of a nematic phase, a low viscosity, a suitable optical anisotropy, a negatively large dielectric anisotropy, a large specific resistance, a high stability to ultraviolet light and a high stability to heat, or that is suitably balanced regarding two or more characteristics. The subject is to provide an AM device that has a short response time, a high voltage holding ratio, a high contrast ratio, a long service life and so forth. The invention provides a liquid crystal composition having a negative dielectric anisotropy that contains a specific compound having a negatively large dielectric anisotropy as a first component, and a specific two-ring compound having a low viscosity as a second component, and provides a liquid crystal display device containing the composition.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2010Date of Patent: July 3, 2012Assignees: JNC Corporation, Chisso Petrochemical CorporationInventor: Masayuki Saito
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Patent number: 8211332Abstract: The subject is to provide a liquid crystal composition that satisfies at least one characteristic among characteristics such as a high maximum temperature of a nematic phase, a low minimum temperature of a nematic phase, a low viscosity, a suitable optical anisotropy, a negatively large dielectric anisotropy, a large specific resistance, a high stability to ultraviolet light and a high stability to heat, or that is suitably balanced regarding two or more characteristics. The subject is to provide an AM device that has a short response time, a high voltage holding ratio, a high contrast ratio, a long service life and so forth.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2009Date of Patent: July 3, 2012Assignees: JNC Corporation, Chisso Petrochemical CorporationInventors: Norikatsu Hattori, Subaru Kawasaki
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Publication number: 20120161072Abstract: The invention is to provide a liquid crystal composition satisfying at least one of characteristics such as a high maximum temperature of a nematic phase, a low minimum temperature of the nematic phase, a small viscosity, a suitable optical anisotropy, a large negative dielectric anisotropy, a large specific resistance, a high stability to ultraviolet light and heat, or a liquid crystal composition having a suitable balance regarding at least two of the characteristics; and an AM device having a short response time, a large voltage holding ratio, a large contrast ratio, a long service life and so forth; wherein a liquid crystal composition has a negative dielectric anisotropy and contains a specific compound having a large negative dielectric anisotropy as a first component and a specific two-ring compound having a large optical anisotropy and a low viscosity as a second component, and a liquid crystal display device contains the composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2011Publication date: June 28, 2012Applicants: JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION, JNC CORPORATIONInventors: MASAYUKI SAITO, NORIKATSU HATTORI
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Publication number: 20120161073Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid-crystalline medium based on a mixture of polar compounds having negative dielectric anisotropy, which contains at least one compound of the formula I and at least one compound of the formula II in which R1, R2, R3, R4, ring A, Z1, Z2 and m are as defined in Claim 1, and to the use thereof for an active-matrix display based on the ECB, VA, PS-VA, FFS, PALO or IPS effect.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 29, 2012Publication date: June 28, 2012Applicant: Merck Patent Gesellschaft Mit Beschrankter HaftungInventors: Norihiko TANAKA, Makoto Murakami, Shinji Nakajima
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Publication number: 20120164355Abstract: A liquid crystal compound of Formula (1) is provided. In Formula (1), R is hydrogen, linear or branching C1-15 alkyl, linear or branching C1-15 alkyl (wherein any one of —CH2— is replaced by —O—, —S—, —CO—, —CO—O—, or —O—CO—), linear or branching C2-15 alkenyl, or linear or branching C2-15 alkenyl (wherein any one of —CH2— is replaced by —O—, —S—, —CO—, —CO—O—, or —O—CO—), A and B are, independently, cyclohexane, cyclohexane (wherein any one of —CH2— is replaced by —O— or —NH—), benzene, or benzene (wherein any one of —CH2? is replaced by —N?), X is a single bond, —CO—O—, —O—CO—, —CH2O—, —OCH2—, —CH2CH2—, —C?C—, —C?C—, —CF2O—, or —OCF2—, Q is oxygen or CH2, Y is CF3, CF2H, or CFH2, L1, L2, and L3 are, independently, hydrogen or fluorine, and m is 0, 1, or 2.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2011Publication date: June 28, 2012Inventors: Pei-Chen Huang, Kuo-Chang Wang, Kuo-Liang Yeh, An-Cheng Chen, Kung-Lung Cheng, Shyue-Ming Jang
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Publication number: 20120162595Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of LC (liquid-crystal) compounds and LC media comprising them in LC displays of the PS (polymer stabilised) or PSA (polymer sustained alignment) type.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2010Publication date: June 28, 2012Inventors: Seung-Eun Lee, Eun Young Kim, Dong-Mee Song, Eun-Kyu Lee
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Patent number: 8206610Abstract: A liquid crystal composition is provided that satisfies at least one of characteristics such as a high maximum temperature of a nematic phase, a low minimum temperature of a nematic phase, a small viscosity, a suitable optical anisotropy, a negatively large dielectric anisotropy, a large specific resistance, a high stability to ultraviolet light and a high stability to heat, or that is suitably balanced regarding at least two of the characteristics. The crystal liquid display device using the composition is suitable for an AM device that has a short response time, a large voltage holding ratio, a large contrast ratio, a long service life and so forth, and can be used for a liquid crystal projector, a liquid crystal television and so forth.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2009Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignees: JNC Corporation, Chisso Petrochemical CorporationInventors: Norikatsu Hattori, Masayuki Saito
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Patent number: 8206795Abstract: A liquid crystal composition is provided that satisfies at least one characteristic among the characteristics such as a high maximum temperature of a nematic phase, a low minimum temperature of a nematic phase, a small viscosity, a suitable optical anisotropy, negatively large dielectric anisotropy, a large specific resistance, a high stability to ultraviolet light and a high stability to heat, or is properly balanced regarding at least two characteristics. An AM device is provided that has a short response time, a large voltage holding ratio, a large contrast ratio, a long service life and so forth. The liquid crystal composition contains tetrahedropyrene-2,5-diyl as the first component, a specific compound having negatively large dielectric anisotropy as the second component, and a negatively dielectric anisotropy. The liquid crystal display device contains the liquid crystal composition.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2009Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignees: JNC Corporation, Chisso Petrochemical CorporationInventors: Masayuki Saito, Norikatsu Hattori
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Patent number: 8202584Abstract: Disclosed are a dielectrically negative, liquid-crystalline medium which contains a (first) dielectrically negative component (component A), which contains one or more dielectrically negative compounds of formula I and a further (second) dielectrically negative component (component B), and the use thereof in an electro-optical display, particularly in an active-matrix display based on the VA, ECB, PS-VA, FFS or IPS effect, and displays of this type.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2010Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: Merck Patent GmbHInventors: Melanie Klasen-Memmer, Axel Jansen, Detlef Pauluth
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Publication number: 20120145961Abstract: Providing a liquid crystal composition satisfies at least one of characteristics like high maximum temperature of a nematic phase, low minimum temperature of the nematic phase, small viscosity, suitable optical anisotropy, large negative dielectric anisotropy, large specific resistance, high stability to ultraviolet light and high stability to heat or has a suitable balance regarding at least two of the characteristics. Providing an AM device has a short response time, a large voltage holding ratio, a large contrast ratio, a long service life and so forth. The liquid crystal composition has a negative dielectric anisotropy and contains a specific compound having large negative dielectric anisotropy as a first component, a specific two-ring compound having low minimum temperature and negative dielectric anisotropy as a second component and a specific two-ring compound having low viscosity as a third component. The liquid crystal display device contains the composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2010Publication date: June 14, 2012Applicants: JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION, JNC CORPORATIONInventor: Masayuki Saito
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Publication number: 20120145960Abstract: Providing a liquid crystal composition satisfies at least one of characteristics like a high maximum temperature of a nematic phase, a low minimum temperature of the nematic phase, a small viscosity, a suitable optical anisotropy, a large negative dielectric anisotropy, a large specific resistance, a high stability to ultraviolet light and a high stability to heat or has a suitable balance regarding at least two of the characteristics. Providing an AM device has a short response time, a large voltage holding ratio, a large contrast ratio, a long service life and so forth. The liquid crystal composition has a negative dielectric anisotropy and contains a specific compound having large negative dielectric anisotropy as a first component, a specific three-ring compound having large optical anisotropy as a second component and a specific two-ring compound having low viscosity as a third component, and a liquid crystal display device contains the composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2010Publication date: June 14, 2012Applicants: JNC Petrochemical Corporation, JNC CorporationInventor: Masayuki Saito
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Patent number: 8197709Abstract: The present invention relates to chemical compounds containing five or more benzene rings arranged in a linear manner and two bridging units between these rings, where at least one of these units represents a —CF2O— bridge. The invention additionally relates to liquid-crystalline media and to high-frequency components comprising these media, in particular antennae, especially for the gigahertz range.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2010Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: Merck Patent Gesellschaft mit berschrankter HaftungInventors: Lars Lietzau, Werner Binder, Atsutaka Manabe, Helmut Haensel
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Publication number: 20120138852Abstract: A liquid crystal composition that satisfies at least one characteristic, such as, high maximum temperature of a nematic phase, low minimum temperature of a nematic phase, small viscosity, suitable optical anisotropy, large dielectric anisotropy, large specific resistance, large elastic constant, high stability to ultraviolet light and high stability to heat, or that is suitably balanced between at least two of the characteristics; and provides an AM device that has short response time, large voltage holding ratio, large contrast ratio, long service life and so forth. A liquid crystal composition is provided that has a nematic phase and includes a specific three-ring compound having a large dielectric anisotropy as a first component, a specific four-ring compound having a high maximum temperature and a large dielectric anisotropy as a second component, and a liquid crystal display device containing the composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2011Publication date: June 7, 2012Applicants: JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION, JNC CORPORATIONInventors: Takayoshi YANAI, Norikatsu HATTORI
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Publication number: 20120132855Abstract: To provide a liquid crystal composition exhibiting a blue phase, which enables higher contrast, and a liquid crystal display device including the liquid crystal composition. The liquid crystal composition contains a chiral agent and liquid crystal containing a compound having three electron-withdrawing groups as end groups of a structure where a plurality of rings including at least one aromatic ring is linked to each other directly or with a linking group laid therebetween. The peak of the diffracted wavelength on the longest wavelength side in the reflectance spectrum of the liquid crystal composition is less than or equal to 450 nm, preferably less than or equal to 420 nm. Further, a liquid crystal display device can be provided using the liquid crystal composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2011Publication date: May 31, 2012Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.Inventors: Tetsuji Ishitani, Sachiko Kawakami, Yuko Kawata, Manabu Kobayashi, Momoko Kato, Satoshi Seo
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Patent number: 8187494Abstract: The invention provides a liquid crystal compound having stability to heat, light and so forth, a wide temperature range of a nematic phase, a small viscosity, a suitable optical anisotropy, and a suitable elastic constant K33, and further having a suitable and negative dielectric anisotropy and an excellent compatibility with other liquid crystal compounds, and a liquid crystal composition having stability to heat, light and so forth, a low viscosity, a large optical anisotropy, a suitable and negative dielectric anisotropy, and a suitable elastic constant K33, a low threshold voltage, a high maximum temperature (phase-transition temperature on a nematic phase-isotropic phase) of a nematic phase, and a low minimum temperature of the nematic phase. The liquid crystal compound which has a specific structure having fluorine at a lateral position and also having phenylene in which hydrogen on the benzene ring is replaced by fluorine, and a liquid crystal composition containing the compound are prepared.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2008Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignees: JNC Corporation, Chisso Petrochemical CorporationInventors: Masahide Kobayashi, Teru Shimada
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Patent number: 8182885Abstract: A liquid crystal composition is provided that satisfies at least one characteristic among the characteristics such as a high maximum temperature of a nematic phase, a low minimum temperature of a nematic phase, a small viscosity, a large optical anisotropy, a large dielectric anisotropy, a large specific resistance, a high stability to ultraviolet light and a high stability to heat, or is properly balanced regarding at least two characteristics. An AM device is provided that has a short response time, a large voltage holding ratio, a large contrast ratio, a long service life and so forth. A liquid crystal composition having a nematic phase, wherein the first component contains a specific five ring compound having a large optical anisotropy and a large dielectric anisotropy, the second component contains a specific compound having a small viscosity, and the third component contains a specific four ring compound having a high maximum temperature.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2008Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignees: JNC Corporation, Chisso Petrochemical CorporationInventors: Masayuki Saito, Shigeru Kibe
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Patent number: 8182717Abstract: A liquid crystal composition is provided that satisfies at least one of the characteristics such as a high maximum temperature of a nematic phase, a low minimum temperature of a nematic phase, a small viscosity, a large optical anisotropy, a large dielectric anisotropy, a large specific resistance, a high stability to ultraviolet light and a high stability to heat, or is properly balanced regarding at least two characteristics. An AM device is provided that has a short response time, a large voltage holding ratio, a large contrast ratio, a long service life and so forth. The liquid crystal composition having a negative dielectric anisotropy contains a first component having especially negatively large dielectric anisotropy, a second component having a large negative dielectric anisotropy and a low minimum temperature, a third component having a high maximum temperature or a small viscosity. The liquid crystal display device contains the liquid crystal composition.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2009Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignees: JNC Corporation, Chisso Petrochemical CorporationInventor: Masayuki Saito
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Patent number: 8182716Abstract: Disclosed is a novel liquid crystal compound, a liquid crystal composition comprising the same, and an optical film using the same liquid crystal composition. More particularly, there is provided a liquid crystal material of a viewing angle compensation film with high quality characteristics, which can improve a contrast ratio and minimize variations in color with viewing angles in a black state, a liquid crystal composition comprising the same liquid crystal material, and a compensation film obtained from the same liquid crystal composition.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2008Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.Inventors: Jae-Ho Cheong, Min-Jin Ko, Myung-Sun Moon, Bum-Gyu Choi, Dae-Ho Kang, Ki-Youl Lee, Yun-Bong Kim
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Patent number: 8178173Abstract: A TBA-liquid crystal display panel including a liquid crystal medium with positive dielectric anisotropy, wherein the liquid crystal medium includes, in 100% by weight of the liquid crystal compounds identified by the compounds recited in formulas I through IX below: wherein, R1, R3, R3*, R5, R6, R7, R8, and R9 independently denote C2-5 linear alkyl, preferably propyl or pentyl, R2 denote C4-6 linear alkyl, preferably butyl or pentyl; and R4 denotes C1-3 linear alkyl, preferably methyl.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2010Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Merck Patent GmbHInventors: Toshihiro Matsumoto, Mitsuhiro Murata, Yuichi Kawahira, Masayuki Kanehiro, Takanori Takeda, Norihiro Tanaka, Hideo Ichinose
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Publication number: 20120105791Abstract: A system having a vertically-aligned negative delta E nematic liquid crystal host material and a small amount of liquid crystal polymer is provided. The liquid crystal polymer improves the switching speed of a vertically aligned nematic system without sacrificing contrast or viewing angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2011Publication date: May 3, 2012Inventors: Julia A. Kornfield, Michael Wand, Zuleikha Kurji
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Patent number: 8168081Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid-crystalline medium based on a mixture of dielectrically negative, polar compounds which comprises at least one compound of the formula I in which the parameters have the meanings indicated in claim 1, to the use thereof in an electro-optical display, particularly in an active-matrix display based on the VA, ECB, PALC, FFS or IPS effect, and to displays of this type.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2007Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: Merck Patent Gesellschaft mit beschrankter HaftungInventors: Melanie Klasen-Memmer, Georg Bernatz, Izumi Saito, Matthias Bremer, Lars Lietzau, Volker Reiffenrath
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Patent number: 8168083Abstract: The present invention relates to an electro-optical light-modulation element of the FFS type, and to electro-optical displays and display systems, such as, for example, television screens and computer monitors, which contain elements of this type. The light-modulation elements according to the invention contain a liquid-crystalline modulation medium which has optimised elastic constants and are distinguished, in particular, by high contrast and/or optimised transmission in addition to good contrast, a low viewing-angle dependence, short response times and low addressing voltages. The present invention likewise relates to the liquid-crystalline modulation media used in the electro-optical light-modulation elements.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2008Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: Merck Patent Gesellschaft MIT Beschraenkter HaftungInventors: Mark Goebel, Markus Czanta