Abstract: A liquid crystal display is provided with a control pattern to allow liquid crystal and a sealing agent to desirably flow during a liquid crystal injection process. The liquid crystal display includes an insulating substrate, a plurality of thin film transistors formed on the insulating substrate, a liquid crystal injection opening formed in a portion outside a region where the plurality of thin film transistors is formed, a first display panel including a plurality of control patterns formed in the liquid crystal injection opening, and a second display panel disposed to face the first display panel.

Abstract: In a display apparatus that has a polymer dispersed liquid crystal material 25 encapsulated in a gap between a completed first substrate 1 and a completed second substrate 11 by using a sealing member 26 and has a display region M and a peripheral region N in a region where the polymer dispersed liquid crystal material 25 is encapsulated, a wiring electrode 19 having light shielding properties is provided in at least a part of the peripheral region N of the completed second substrate 11, and an ultraviolet ray transmitting portion 19a that transmits an ultraviolet ray therethrough is provided in the peripheral region where the wiring electrode 19 is provided. An ultraviolet ray is applied from the substrate side where the ultraviolet ray transmitting portion 19a is provided to polymerize a monomer in the peripheral region N. The ultraviolet ray transmitting portion is formed of, e.g., a plurality of small holes, and the small holes are dispersedly arranged at equal intervals.

Abstract: An encapsulant composition containing about 15 to about 50 wt % of an ethylene/ethyl acrylate/maleic anhydride copolymer containing about 20 to about 40 wt % of an ethylene/glycidyl (meth)acrylate copolymer; about 2 to about 30 wt % of an ethylene/butyl acrylate/maleic anhydride copolymer; about 5 to about 50 wt % of polyethylene, about 0.05 to about 5 wt % of an adhesion promoter; and optionally about 0.01 to about 2 wt % of at least one additive. The composition is useful for encapsulating thin film devices. The disclosure also relates to a method of encapsulating thin film devices with the composition and to devices produced by the method.

Abstract: In an active matrix substrate 10 of a liquid crystal display device in which a picture element electrode 18 on an interlayer insulator 17 and an electrode 16d located in a layer below the interlayer insulator 17 are connected electrically to each other through a contact hole 17a formed in the interlayer insulator 17 and another electrode 13 is arranged under the electrode 16d so as to be opposed to the electrode 16d with a control insulator 14 interposed for forming an auxiliary capacitor between the electrodes 16d and 13, an opening 20 is formed in a part of the electrode 13 which corresponds to a region of the contact hole 17a. With this arrangement, in the case where a defect is formed in the electrode 16d, even if a defect is formed in the control insulator 14 through the defect in the electrode 16d in forming the contact hole 17a, occurrence of leakage between the electrodes 16d and 13 can be suppressed with no lowering of the aperture ratio invited.

Abstract: A sealant dispensing apparatus and a method for manufacturing an LCD device using the same is disclosed, to decrease manufacturing time of an LCD device with low manufacturing cost, wherein the sealant dispensing apparatus comprises a roll; a sealant-receiving cavity formed inside the roll; a sealant outlet connected with the sealant-receiving cavity; and a sealant inlet connected with the sealant-receiving cavity.

Abstract: A liquid crystal sealing material comprising (a) a radiation curable resin represented by the general formula (1) below, (b) a photopolymerization initiator and (c) a filler having an average particle diameter of not more than 3 ?m. (In the formula (1), R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; R2 may be the same or different and represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a hydroxyl group, a monovalent linear, branched or cyclic alkyl group having 1-10 carbon atoms or an alkoxy group having 1-10 carbon atoms; m represents an integer of 1-4; R3 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; R4 represents a linear, branched or cyclic alkyl group having 1-10 carbon atoms; 1 represents a range of positive numbers from 1 to 5; and the repeating unit number n represents a range of positive numbers from 0 to 20.

Abstract: An attachment process for flexible substrates and a patterned sealant used therein are provided. The attachment process is mainly used to manufacture flexible liquid-crystal displays (LCDs). Firstly, a patterned sealant with an opening is applied to a first substrate, and then a liquid crystal material is filled in the patterned sealant. During a pressing process for combining the first substrate and a second substrate, bubbles can be automatically evacuated from the opening of the patterned sealant, and the patterned sealant will deform and expand to seal the opening after the pressing process. By applying the patterned sealant with an opening in the manufacturing process of flexible LCDs, bubbles are easily evacuated and the opening of the patterned sealant is directly and automatically sealed in the pressing process under the atmospheric pressure.

Abstract: A liquid crystal panel 10 includes a pair of substantially rectangular substrates 17, 18 attached to each other, a liquid crystal layer 19 provided between the substrates 17, 18, and a sealant portion 20 having a substantially frame-like shape surrounding and sealing the liquid crystal layer 19. The sealant portion 20 includes an oblique portion 34 arranged oblique to the sides of the substrate 17, 18, at each of the four corners thereof. The liquid crystal panel 10 further includes a reinforcing portion 35 fixed to both substrates 17, 18. The reinforcing portion 35 is arranged along a planar direction of the substrate 17, 18 so as to be located between the oblique portion 34 and a corner point of the substrate 17, 18.

Abstract: There are provided a liquid crystal layer; a plurality of colorant parts disposed so as to be divided for each of a plurality of pixel areas, and having mutually different wavelengths for transmitted light; a polarizing layer disposed on the light-emitting side of the liquid crystal layer; and a plurality of phase difference members disposed on the light-admitting side of the polarizing layer and disposed so as to be divided for each of the plurality of pixel areas. With each of the plurality of phase difference members, at least one of birefringence and thickness is varied for the plurality of phase difference members to adjust the retardation value so that, of the light that is incident on the polarizing layer, the polarization state of light whose wavelength allows the light to be transmitted by the colorant parts that correspond to the phase difference members is brought closer to that of linearly polarized light that oscillates in a designated direction.

Abstract: A display substrate includes a transparent plate and a liquid crystal dispersion adjuster. The display substrate includes a display area and a peripheral area surrounding the display area. The liquid crystal dispersion adjuster is formed in the peripheral area to modify the movement of the liquid crystal. The dispersion adjuster includes enhancing parts and a suppression part. The enhancing parts increase the dispersion of the liquid crystal, and the suppression part reduces the dispersion of the liquid crystal, thereby reducing non-filling area of the liquid crystal and the contamination of a seal-line.

Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a display apparatus including a TFT array substrate on which TFTs are formed in an array, a counter substrate disposed so as to face the TFT array substrate, and a sealing pattern for adhering the TFT array substrate and the counter substrate to each other, wherein the counter substrate comprises a counter electrode, and the TFT array substrate comprises a first conductive layer, a first insulating film formed on the first conductive layer, a second conductive layer disposed so as to intersect the first conductive layer via the first insulating film, a second insulating film formed on the second conductive layer and having at least two layers, and common electrode wiring provided below the sealing pattern and electrically connected to the counter electrode by the sealing pattern, and the sealing pattern overlaps the second conductive layer via the second insulating film.

Abstract: According to the present invention, the cost reduction of the liquid crystal display device can be achieved.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a sealing member. The sealing member is sandwiched between the first and second substrates, and forms a perimeter encircling a display area of the LCD device. After delivery of at least one drop of liquid crystal, any excessive liquid crystal trapped within the perimeter is discharged through a discharge port in the sealing member. The discharge port is plugged with a sealant.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a sealing member. The sealing member is sandwiched between the first and second substrates, and forms a perimeter encircling a display area of the LCD device. After delivery of at least one drop of liquid crystal, any excessive liquid crystal trapped within the perimeter is discharged through an opening broken in the sealing member. The opening is plugged to enclose an amount of liquid crystal within the perimeter.

Abstract: An LCD device for repairing to prevent gravity defects by forming a dual seal pattern in a non-display area of an LCD panel and storing surplus liquid crystal in an area between the dual seal patterns, which includes a liquid crystal panel including first and second substrates bonded to each other, and having a display area and non-display area, first and second seal patterns surrounding the display area and spaced apart from each other on the non-display area between the first and second substrates and defining a buffer space therebetween and a metal pattern formed on the first substrate under the first seal pattern, wherein the metal pattern is deformed by laser irradiation to form a path for liquid crystal to flow between the buffer space and the display area.

Abstract: A laminated article comprises a first substrate and a second substrate at least one of which is flexible, the substrates being spaced apart from each other by spacing means and enclosing a layer of a fluid material. At least some of the spacing means comprise wall structures enclosing an adhesive material which adheres the substrates together. Fluid material which is outside the wall structures is isolated from the adhesive material and any fluid material within the wall structures. Another aspect of the invention provides a method of manufacturing the article.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device has a pair of substrates disposed in opposition to one another with a liquid crystal interposed therebetween, active elements formed on one of the pair of substrates, an organic film layer formed to cover the active elements, a light-shielding film formed on another of the pair of substrates, and a sealing material which sticks the pair of substrates together. In the liquid crystal display device, the sealing material is formed integrally along the entire periphery of a display screen, and one of the light-shielding layer and the organic film layer is formed to be extended beyond an area where the sealing material is formed, and the other of the light-shielding layer and organic film layer is formed inside the area where the sealing material is formed.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel including two substrates combined together through a sealing material applied to a peripheral portion thereof. A liquid crystal is sealed between the substrates, and there is a picture-frame area on the substrates, outside a display area and inside a region where the sealing material is formed. A light-shield film is formed in the picture-frame area in the form of a frame surrounding the display area, wherein the light-shield film does not overlap the sealing material. A first conductive film is formed in the picture-frame area on either of the substrates, outside the light-shield film, in the form of a continuously connected frame surrounding the display area and in the same layer as a pixel electrode formed at each pixel in the display area. A second conductive film is formed on the other of the substrates, facing the first conductive film.

Abstract: A substrate for a liquid crystal display that includes at least a transparent substrate and a columnar spacer formed on the transparent substrate. The amount of initial deformation A of the spacer measured by a predetermined measurement method is 0.04 ?m or more and the amount of plastic deformation B is 0.7 ?m or less.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display substrate, an opposite substrate, a seal line, a driver chip, a gate insulating layer disposed on the display substrate, a first signal line disposed on a first side of the gate insulating layer, and a second signal line disposed on a second side of the gate insulating layer, wherein portions of the first signal line and the second signal line overlap each other along at least a portion of the seal line.

Abstract: An exemplary liquid crystal panel includes (1) a first substrate (11), a second substrate (12) opposite to the first substrate, a first adhesive strip (13) provided at a periphery of the liquid crystal panel between the first and second substrates, and at least one second adhesive strip (14) in direct contact with an outside of the first adhesive strip. The first and second substrates are bonded to each other by the first adhesive strip and the at least one second adhesive strip.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for resizing COTS AMLCDs or other electronic displays, as well as resized displays made using these apparatus and methods, are provided. The electronic display includes a front plate, a back plate, a perimeter seal spacing the front and back plates apart, and image-generating medium contained in an area between the front and back plates. A target portion of the display may be identified and separated from an excess portion of the display, e.g., by cutting and breaking the plates of the display, thereby creating an exposed edge along the target portion. The plates of the target portion are pressed towards one another, e.g., to stabilize or compress the target portion. An adhesive is applied to the exposed edge, and the pressure is released to draw the adhesive between the plates along the exposed edge.

Abstract: A liquid crystal cell manufacturing method includes preparing a pair of glass substrates each including an area configured to form a plurality of finished liquid crystal display apparatuses thereon, while a plurality of seal members and a plurality of pillars each including ends that respectively abut against the pair of glass substrates are interposed between the pair of glass substrates, adhering the pair of glass substrates to form a liquid crystal display apparatus forming assembly, and while the liquid crystal display apparatus forming assembly is formed, forming a plurality of scribe lines that intersect each other on surfaces of the pair of glass substrates that are opposite to surfaces of the pair of glass substrates that oppose each other. At least a part of each of the pillars is arranged to overlap at least one of regions, between the pair of glass substrates, corresponding to the plurality of scribe lines.

Abstract: In manufacturing a liquid crystal display element which includes a black matrix, in curing an ultraviolet curing sealing material after filling liquid crystal using a dropping injection method, there has been a possibility that a radiation quantity of ultraviolet rays to the sealing material is insufficient and hence, the curing is not sufficiently performed thus largely lowering the reliability of the liquid crystal display element. According to the present invention, an overlapping width of a frame-like sealing material and a black matrix on a peripheral portion along a display region is suppressed to 0.2 mm or less, or a region of the black matrix which is overlapped to the frame-like sealing member is patterned to include a light transmitting portion.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display, which can surely perform an instillation process used when liquid crystal is sealed between substrates in a cell process, and a fabrication method thereof. A liquid crystal display comprises a sealing material made of a photo-curing type material which seals liquid crystal sandwiched between substrates, and a shading film having a shading area which overlays a red-colored layer transmitting red light, a green-colored layer transmitting green light and a blue-colored layer transmitting blue light, wherein only the blue-colored layer is formed in an area of the shading film contacting with the sealing material and the photo-curing type material of the sealing material is structured to have a light reactive area for a wavelength of blue color band.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) includes a first substrate including a display area displaying images and a peripheral area surrounding the display area, a common pad formed in the peripheral area of the first substrate, an insulating layer formed on the common pad and having a common contact hole exposing the common pad, an assistance common pad formed on the insulating layer of the peripheral area and contacting the common pad through the common contact hole, a second substrate corresponding to the first substrate, and a common electrode formed on the second substrate, and a conductive sealant disposed between the assistance common pad and the common electrode of the peripheral area, the conductive sealant electrically connecting the assistance common pad and the common electrode, wherein the common contact hole is disposed between the conductive sealant and the display area.

Abstract: In a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device in which a liquid crystal layer is formed by dropping liquid crystal by a dropping method, a surface of a sealant which is formed over a first substrate is cured by a first cure treatment before dropping the liquid crystal, and then the liquid crystal is dropped. A second substrate has a plurality of projections in a sealant adhesive region. The first substrate and the second substrate are attached to each other with the liquid crystal interposed therebetween so that the plurality of projections is in contact with an uncured region in the sealant formed over the first substrate.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, and a black matrix layer. A sealant is put between the first and the second substrates and connecting them to define an enclosed space, and the liquid crystal layer is provided in the enclosed space. An overlap region is formed between the sealant and the first substrate or between the sealant and the second substrate, and only part of the overlap region is spread with the black matrix layer.

Abstract: A method for adjusting an amount of liquid crystal in a liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes injecting a liquid crystal into a liquid crystal receiving space. The liquid crystal receiving space is disposed between a first substrate, a second substrate that faces the first substrate, and a sealing member interposed between the first and second substrates. The method for adjusting an amount of liquid crystal in an LCD device further includes irradiating a light to a portion of the sealing member while varying an irradiating angle of the light so as to form a repair region at the sealing member that has a thickness smaller than that of the sealing member. The method for adjusting an amount of liquid crystal in an LCD device also comprises pressurizing the liquid crystal to form an opening in the repair region of the sealing member and discharge some of the liquid crystal from the liquid crystal receiving space through the opening formed in the repair region, and sealing the opening of the repair region.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes a color filter substrate, a TFT substrate, a loop-shaped sealant formed along the peripheries of the substrates, a loop-shaped seal barrier formed along the sealant in the interior of the sealant, and a liquid crystal layer surrounded by the seal barrier. The seal barrier includes an inclined face in the sealant side.

Abstract: A heat curing device includes supports positioned in a chamber to support a substrate, the supports having sections, and protrusion structures formed on the sections of the supports to contact a dummy area of the substrate, wherein the supports may be rotated with respect to a horizontal axis. The sections of the supports may have a polygonal structure with the protrusion structures are formed on the polygonal sections of the supports, so that a plurality of protrusion structure patterns can be formed on one support. Since the supports are rotatable, the protrusion structure patterns supporting a substrate may be readily changed.

Abstract: A fabricating method of a liquid crystal display panel provides a first substrate and a second substrate in a chamber. Liquid crystal with a predetermined weight is dropped on the first substrate at a predetermined temperature higher than room temperature. The first substrate and the second substrate are assembled at the predetermined temperature to seal the liquid crystal with the predetermined weight within a liquid crystal cavity formed between the first substrate and the second substrate.

Abstract: A liquid crystal panel includes a first substrate having thereon a display active region; an inner spacer wall disposed on the first substrate along periphery of the display active region; an outer spacer wall disposed adjacent to the inner spacer wall on the first substrate; a groove formed between the inner spacer wall and the outer spacer wall; a seal spread in the groove; a second substrate being supported by the inner spacer wall and the outer spacer wall and being glued to the first substrate via the seal, wherein the first substrate, the second substrate and the inner spacer wall define a chamber; and a liquid crystal layer filling the chamber by using one-drop-fill process.

Abstract: The display device includes: a wiring substrate 31 having wiring lines and switching elements thereon; a counter substrate 33 held so as to oppose the wiring substrate 31; a display medium layer 35 provided between the wiring substrate 31 and the counter substrate 33; and a sealing section 37 surrounding the display medium layer 35, the sealing section 37 being formed of a sealing material which contains a photocurable resin. The display device has a display region 40 in which a plurality of pixels are included. The sealing material contains light-scattering particles for scattering light which cures the photocurable resin. The counter substrate 33 has a light shielding layer 39 thereon, the light shielding layer 39 surrounding the display region 40. The sealing section 37 is formed within a region shaded by the light shielding layer 39. Deterioration of reliability due to curing failures of the sealing material is suppressed.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer formed between the first substrate and second substrate. The second substrate has an active region, a sealant surrounding the active region, and a spacer wall located between the active region and the sealant. Additionally, the spacer wall is used to prevent the liquid crystal layer from being contaminated by the sealant and to support the first substrate.

Abstract: An LCD device and a method for manufacturing the same is disclosed, to prevent a sealant from being coagulated or disconnected at a predetermined portion, the method comprising preparing lower and upper substrates; dispensing a sealant on any one of the lower and upper substrates by a dispenser; dispensing liquid crystal on any one of the lower and upper substrates; and bonding the lower and upper substrates to each other, wherein the process of dispensing the sealant includes sequential steps of dispensing a first dummy sealant in the periphery of a main sealant pattern, dispensing the main sealant pattern after forming the first dummy sealant, and dispensing a second dummy sealant pattern in the periphery of the main sealant pattern after forming the main sealant pattern.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes: a first substrate 10a made of glass; a second substrate 20a which is made of glass, is located so as to face the first substrate 10a, and has a smaller thickness than that of the first substrate 10a; a liquid crystal layer 25 provided between the first substrate 10a and the second substrate 20a; and a frame-shaped sealant 15a for bonding the first substrate 10a and the second substrate 20a to each other, and enclosing the liquid crystal layer 25 therebetween.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel and a parallax barrier bonded together with an adhesive layer made of a light-curing resin (for example, ultraviolet curing resin). The display device allows 3D display or multiple-image display. The parallax barrier includes a pattern-formed light-shielding layer on barrier glass. The parallax barrier has an area that does not include the light-shielding layer on the periphery portions thereof. Thus, with the display device including the parallax barrier and the display panel bonded together, peeling on adhesive planes of the parallax barrier and display panel is less likely to occur.

Abstract: An exemplary sealing structure of a liquid crystal panel (2) is provided. The liquid crystal panel includes a pair of substrates (21, 22) and a liquid crystal layer (23) between the substrates. The scaling structure includes: a multi-layer structure (25) having a first layer (222) formed above one of the substrates and a second layer (223) formed above the first layer; an opening structure (226) having a first opening (226a) in the first layer and a second opening (226b) in the second layer and formed at the multi-layer structure. The first opening and the second opening are aligned with each other, the first opening is larger than the second opening, and a sealant (23) is sandwiched between the substrates, including in the opening structure. The adherence of the two substrates is improved.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes lower and upper substrates facing each other; signal lines disposed on the lower substrate, a conducting sealant, including conductive balls, applied between the lower substrate and the upper substrate, and a static electricity guiding line formed in an area on the lower substrate where the conductive sealant overlaps the signal lines.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device bonding apparatus includes a chamber part for bonding substrates together, a plurality of moving elements within the chamber part, and at least one origin verifying system provided along moving paths of the moving elements.

Abstract: An apparatus for fabricating a liquid crystal display device includes a controller for providing nitrogen (N2) gas at a constant pressure, a plurality of dispensers receiving the nitrogen gas from the controller, each of the dispensers dotting a silver paste at two or more regions of a first substrate, and a plurality of flow control valves each introducing the nitrogen gas into each of the plurality of dispensers at the same pressure.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display panel where a image display cell region and a plurality of dummy cell regions are provided on a glass substrate. The dummy cells are formed to monitor the internal pressure of liquid crystal sealed in the image display cell region. Liquid crystal is dropped on the image display cell region and the dummy cell regions and the glass substrate and a second substrate are bonded together. The image display cell and the dummy cells, which have the liquid crystal sealed therein, are formed in the image display cell region and the dummy cell regions, respectively. Based on the results of monitoring states of the dummy cells thus formed, a state of the image display cell is estimated.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display panel that is adaptive for preventing a liquid crystal contamination as well as improving an adhesive strength of a sealant and an organic insulating film, and a fabricating method thereof. A liquid crystal display device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a first and a second substrate having a liquid crystal region, a sealant region, and an outer region; a wiring disposed on the first substrate, the wiring crossing the sealant region; a gate insulating film disposed on the wiring; an organic insulating film disposed on a portion of the wiring; and a sealant disposed on the sealant region of the first and second substrates, wherein the sealant is in contact with the gate insulating film.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer that is interposed between the first and second substrates, and a sealing member that is formed in peripheral portions of the first and second substrates. The sealing member includes a ring-shaped portion that seals the liquid crystal layer inboard of the sealing member and connecting portions that connect first and second regions of the sealing member to form the ring-shaped portion. The connecting portions are formed outboard of the ring-shaped portion.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes a color filter, a thin film transistor substrate in opposition to the color filter, a liquid crystal layer provided between the color filter and the thin film transistor substrate and a sealant provided corresponding to the mark regions and surrounding the liquid crystal layer. The mark regions are provided on periphery of the thin film transistor substrate and each includes a plurality of alignment marks as references for applying the frame sealant and therefore controlling the applying amount and rate of the frame sealant so that the applied frame sealant has line width of desired specification and that the distance between the substrates is desirably determined. A related method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display panel is also provided.

Abstract: A liquid crystal device of the present invention includes a pair of substrates, a liquid crystal layer that is provided between the pair of substrates, a first seal material that is arranged along the periphery of the liquid crystal layer between the pair of substrates and seals the liquid crystal layer, and a second seal material that is arranged along the periphery of the liquid crystal layer between the pair of substrates and has water-hardening properties.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing at least one device defining a volume for retaining fluid or sensitive material capable of changing physical properties, particularly optical properties, via application of voltage, or electrical properties via stress or radiation, the device including a first front substrate and a second back substrate maintained at a constant distance from each other, and joined by a sealing joint which defines the volume, wherein the method includes the steps of: structuring at least one wall, which defines, via its inner lateral face, the volume for retaining the sensitive medium or fluid, on one of the substrates; joining the second substrate to the first substrate; introducing a sealing material into a gap defined by the outer lateral face of the wall and the two superposed substrates until at least part of the gap is occupied by sealing material, and solidifying the sealing material to form the sealing frame.

Abstract: The invention provides display devices that minimize permeation of oxygen and moisture, as well as methods of manufacturing such display devices. A display device according to the present invention includes an insulating substrate, a cover substrate connected to the insulating substrate, and a display element positioned between the insulating substrate and the cover substrate. The display device further includes a first sealant along an edge of one of the insulating substrate and the cover substrate, the first sealant including a first part and a second part spaced apart from each other, a second sealant provided along the edge of the other of the insulating substrate and the cover substrate, the second sealant being arranged between the first part of the first sealant and the second part of the first sealant, and an encapsulation film interposed between the first sealants and the second sealant.

Abstract: Thermochromic liquid crystal filters are fabricated by providing two polarizers oriented at offset polarity with respect to each other; providing alignment structures adjacent the inner surfaces of the polarizers; placing a plurality of spacers between the polarizers; and filling a space created by the spacers with a thermotropic liquid crystal that acts as a wave block in an isotropic state and acts as a depolarizer in a nematic state. Alternatively, the filters can be created by encapsulating a thermochromic liquid crystal with a polymer material to form a flexible film and orienting the thermochromic liquid crystal in the polymer material to create a structure that functions as a thermochromic optical filter. Such filters can control the flow of light and radiant heat through selective reflection, transmission, absorption, and/or re-emission.