Liquid Crystal Process, Composition, Or Product Patents (Class 430/20)
  • Patent number: 6103431
    Abstract: A rewritable, color image recording medium composed of a pair of opposed substrates at least one of which is transparent, and an intermediate layer interposed between the substrates. The intermediate layer contains at least one cholesteric liquid crystal compound having a molecular weight of not greater than 2,000 and a glass transition point of at least 35.degree. C., and a photochromic compound. By irradiating the intermediate layer imagewise with the light through the transparent substrate, while maintaining the intermediate layer at such a temperature that the cholesteric liquid crystal compound assumes a cholesteric liquid crystal phase, an image is formed. The image may be fixed by rapidly cooling the recording medium to a temperature lower than the glass transition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2000
    Assignee: Director-General of Agency of Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Tamaoki, Hiroo Matsuda, Soyoung Song
  • Patent number: 6099994
    Abstract: A thermal transfer donor element is provided which comprises a support, a light-to-heat conversion layer, an interlayer, and a thermal transfer layer. When the above donor element is brought into contact with a receptor and imagewise irradiated, an image is obtained which is free from contamination by the light-to-heat conversion layer. The construction and process of this invention is useful in making colored images including applications such as color proofs and color filter elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2000
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Jeffrey C. Chang, John S. Staral, William A. Tolbert, Martin B. Wolk, Claire A. Jalbert, Hsin-hsin Chou
  • Patent number: 6093510
    Abstract: A dispersion comprises a solvent having dispersed therein a liquid-crystal forming dye of structural Formula I, II or III: ##STR1## wherein the substituent are as defined in the specification. The dispersion is particularly useful in imaging and photographic elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2000
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Margaret J. Helber, William J. Harrison, Kevin W. Williams, Steven W. Kortum
  • Patent number: 6090508
    Abstract: An optically anisotropic recording medium and a method of recording and erasing method using the recording medium are disclosed, which comprises the steps of applying heat or light to the recording medium which comprises a recording layer made of optically anisotropic organic thin-film-shaped crystals to raise the temperature of an organic material or which comprises the optically anisotropic organic thin-film-shaped crystals to a recording temperature at which the crystals are fused, performing partial changing of the crystalline state of the crystals by rapidly cooling the recording layer, thereby recording information in the recording layer; and heating the recording layer to an erasing temperature which is lower than the recording temperature, at which the crystals are not fused, but the molecules thereof can be thermally moved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2000
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyoji Tsutsui, Akio Kojima, Masafumi Ohta, Ryohei Miyake
  • Patent number: 6046791
    Abstract: A polymer dispersed liquid crystal electro-optical device comprising a liquid crystal polymer complex layer having a liquid crystal and a polymer, wherein said liquid crystal and said polymer are aligned in the same direction when no electric field is applied, and an electrode structure formed on each side of said liquid crystal polymer complex layer for applying an electric field to said liquid crystal polymer complex layer to align said liquid crystal along the electric field so as to render said liquid crystal polymer complex layer in a light-scattering state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2000
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hidekazu Kobayashi, Shuhei Yamada
  • Patent number: 6013339
    Abstract: This invention relates to a liquid crystal display apparatus formed by sealing a liquid crystal between two substrates having electrodes and an alignment film with a seal material, the production process comprising the steps of attaching two substrates in a vacuum, compressing under atmospheric pressure to provide a uniform cell gap, a temporary hardening process of the seal material by ultraviolet ray irradiation and a main hardening process of the seal material by heating, wherein a radically polymerizable curing resin is used in the liquid crystal seal material. The method provides a liquid crystal display panel having a uniform cell gap, without dislocation of the alighnment between substrates, or discharge of uncured component of a seal material to the liquid crystal, capable of having a seal material firmly attached to the substrates even at panel corner portions, and having an excellent straightness and moisture resistance of the seal material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2000
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Yamada, Hideki Matsukawa
  • Patent number: 6010809
    Abstract: A silver halide light-sensitive color photographic material is disclosed. The material comprises thermotropic low molecular crystal. The material is improved in light fastness of a dye image and dye-forming efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2000
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Fumio Ishii, Shinichi Daiba, Tomohiro Oshiyama, Shigeto Hirabayashi, Yoshiko Iwai
  • Patent number: 6001519
    Abstract: An information recording medium including a substrate, an intermediate conductive layer, and a high molecular weight layer. When the high molecular weight layer is heated to close to its glass (transition) temperature by applying an AC field in order to induce thermal motion in molecular electric coupling poles present in the high molecular weight layer, the coupling poles are polarized by an external electric field applied between a microscopic probe tip and the intermediate conductive layer, the polarization becoming fixed when the temperature of the layer drops.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1999
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Arnold Chang Mou Yang, Yung-Shi Lin, Ming-Fa Hsieh, Shih-Tung Cheng, Min-Chieh Chou
  • Patent number: 5989758
    Abstract: There are provided liquid crystalline polyesters comprising 4'-hydroxy-4-stilbenecarboxylic acid type units, dicarboxylic acid units acting as a mesogen such as 4,4'-stilbenecarboxylic acid and catechol units as essential ingredients, and a liquid crystalline polyester composition comprising said polyesters and optically active liquid crystalline polyesters consisting essentially of 4,4'-stilbenedicarboxylic acid type units and aliphatic diol units having asymmetric carbons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1999
    Assignee: Nippon Oil Company, Limited
    Inventors: Shinichi Komatsu, Suzushi Nishimura, Akira Takagi, Shinichiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 5989752
    Abstract: A reconfigurable mask for forming erasable patterns is disclosed. The mask includes material having optical properties manipulated by nonphysical means. In a preferred embodiment, the mask includes a liquid crystal array formed by materials that are transparent to the exposure light. A phase-shift mask can also be formed by controlling the refractive index of each cell. The mask can be used to form mask patterns that compensate for overexposure at corners of a mask pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1999
    Inventor: Tzu-Yin Chiu
  • Patent number: 5976775
    Abstract: In a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material having each at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer (RL), green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer (GL) and blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer (BL) on a support and further having a hydrophilic colloidal layer (AH-1) containing black colloidal silver between the support and the nearest light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the light-sensitive material further has a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer (DL) between the hydrophilic colloidal layer (AH-1) and the support, wherein the silver halide emulsion layer (DL) comprises at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion, and optical information is recorded by an exposure to light through the support, and the light-sensitive emulsion layer (DL) or its adjacent layer has a color-forming coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1999
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshio Ishii
  • Patent number: 5934780
    Abstract: A polarized light irradiation device in which formation of an alignment layer of a liquid crystal cell element is enabled by optical alignment is obtained by the fact that light which contains UV light and which is emitted from a discharge lamp is focused by an oval focusing mirror and is reflected by a first flat mirror. This light is incident via a shutter on an integrator lens. The light emerging from the integrator lens is reflected by a second flat mirror and is converted into parallel light by a collimation lens, and is incident in the polarization element. In the polarization element, there are several glass plates spaced parallel to one another and inclined by the Brewster angle relative to the incident light. The polarization element transmits the P-polarized light and reflects the S-polarized light for the most part. The P-polarized light which has emerged from the polarization element irradiates a workpiece via a mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Assignee: Ushiodenki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoneta Tanaka
  • Patent number: 5928819
    Abstract: Methods for making plates which have columnar features approximately in the direction of light propagation which are capable of total internal reflection, a controllable numeric aperture (NA) at input and output surfaces, rotational azimuthal averaging and translation of the object plane from a back surface of the plate to a front surface of the plate and are optical equivalent of a FOFP. These plates are made from a range of materials including a variety of monomer or polymer networks. The resultant plates contain adjacent areas with differing refractive indices which result in a substrate containing a plurality of cylindrical features whose boundaries are defined by a discontinuity of refractive indices wherein the index of refraction within the cylindrical features is greater than the index of refraction at the boundaries and external to the cylindrical features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1999
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory P. Crawford, Thomas G. Fiske, Louis D. Silverstein
  • Patent number: 5908720
    Abstract: A photosensitive resin composition for forming light shielding films comprising a mixture of; 10 to 60 parts by weight of a high molecular weight polymeric binder; 15 to 50 parts by weight of a photopolymerizable monomer; 0.1 to 30 parts by weight of a photopolymerization initiator; and at least 20 parts by weight of a light shielding pigment comprising carbon black coated with resin for forming black matrices such as CRT displays and liquid crystal panels; a black matrix made from by said photosensitive resin composition; and a method for producing said black matrix comprising the steps of coating said photosensitive resin composition comprising a high molecular weight polymeric binder, a photopolymerizable monomer, a photopolymerization initiator, and a light shielding pigment consisting of carbon black coated with resin on a substrate, selectively radiating an activated beam, and developing the coating using an alkaline aqueous solution to form a pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1999
    Assignee: Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Uchikawa, Masaru Shida, Junichi Onodera, Hiroshi Komano
  • Patent number: 5888681
    Abstract: The invention relates to a photographic element comprising a paper base, at least one photosensitive silver halide layer, a layer of microvoided polymer sheet between said paper base and said silver halide layer, wherein said microvoided polymer sheet comprises a series of microvoids separated by polymer matrix in the vertical direction such that said microvoided polymer sheet when reflecting light has an opalescent appearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Thaddeus S. Gula, Peter T. Aylward, Robert P. Bourdelais, Douglas N. Haydock
  • Patent number: 5885343
    Abstract: The adsorption of cationic dyes on nanosize negatively charged silica particles to form colored pigments is disclosed. The dyes are chemisorbed and their uptake is controlled by the strong chemical reaction between the negative surface of the adsorbent silica particles preferably with sodium counter ions and the positive charge of the dyes. The prepared pigments are useful in the formation of color films and their optical properties are described. Photoresists using nanosized pigments are also disclosed herein which are useful in making color filters for liquid crystal displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1999
    Assignee: Shipley Company, L.L.C.
    Inventors: George J. Cernigliaro, Egon Matijevic, Daniel Y. Pai, Todd A. Richardson
  • Patent number: 5871879
    Abstract: According to the present invention an element comprising a layer on a glass support characterised in that: (i) the thickness of said glass support is less than 1.2 mm, (ii) said glass support has a failure stress (under tensile stress) equal to or higher than 5.times.10.sup.7 Pa and (iii) the sides in the longitudinal direction have a rounded border with a radius in the order of magnitude of half of the thickness of the glass support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1999
    Assignee: AGFA-Gevaert, N.V.
    Inventors: Bartholomeus Verlinden, Pascale Steenhoudt
  • Patent number: 5858585
    Abstract: The light-induced modification in a side-chain polymer containing at least one side group whose configuration can be modified induced by light and at least one permanently shape-anisotropic side group can be amplified by warming to a temperature between the glass transition temperature and the clearing point. This effect opens up new aspects for optical data storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1999
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dietrich Haarer, Thomas Bieringer, Claus Dieter Eisenbach, Karl Fischer, Ralf Ruhmann, Roland Wuttke, Joachim Stumpe, Thomas Fischer, Lutz Laser, Michael Rutloh, Uwe Claussen
  • Patent number: 5851710
    Abstract: As shown in FIG. 1a, the information recording medium of the present invention includes an information recording layer on an electrode layer (13), said recording layer made up of a resin system (11) having liquid crystal phases (12) dispersed and fixed therein. In said recording layer, the refractive index of light through said resin system is such chosen as to be substantially coincident with the refractive index of light through the liquid crystal material which is being oriented by an electric field, whereby electrostatic information can be recorded and stored on the recording medium as visible information and the recorded and stored information can be reproduced at any desired time. The present recording medium can also be recycled, if the information recorded on it is erased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Iijima, Masato Okabe
  • Patent number: 5851700
    Abstract: A filter for a liquid crystal display device, having a light diffusing plate which is obtained by forming a composition in the form of a film which contains at least two photopolymerizable oligomers or monomers having refractive indexes which differ from each other by at least 0.01 and irradiating UV light on the composition. When the filter is fitted to a light emitting side of a liquid crystal display device, an angle of view of the liquid crystal display face plane is widened, shadows due to opaque parts of the device are reduced, and a Moire fringe is hardly formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Masaru Honda, Shigeo Hozumi, Shinichiro Kitayama
  • Patent number: 5837374
    Abstract: A light-shielding layer including a light-shielding material containing a grafted carbon material, light-shielding material being electrodeposited to form the light-shielding layer, a method for producing a light-shielding layer including a step of electrodepositing a coating material containing a grafted carbon material on a electrode, and a method for producing a substrate having a light-shielding layer including the steps of (1) forming a photosensitive coating film on a transparent electrically conductive layer formed on a transparent substrate, (2) exposing a predetermined area of the photosensitive coating film to light, (3) removing and developing the photosensitive coating film for exposing the transparent electrically conductive layer, and electrodepositing a coating material containing a grafted carbon material on the exposed transparent electrically conductive layer for forming the light-shielding layer, and (4) heating said substrate thus obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1998
    Assignees: Nippon Oil Co., Ltd., Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Hirayama, Yoshifumi Morita, Haruyoshi Sato, Yutaka Otsuki, Masayuki Ando
  • Patent number: 5821277
    Abstract: A thermosetting composition containing a carbonaceous material (1-1) and a thermosetting resin (1-2), the carbonaceous material (1-1) being obtained by reacting by contacting a carbon material (a) with a polymer (b) having in the molecule thereof at least one particular reactive group such as aziridine group, oxazoline group, N-hydroxyalkylamido group, epoxy group, or hydroxyl group, and an alkoxycarbonyl group represented by the formulaR.sup.1 R.sup.2 R.sup.3 C--O--CO-- (1)wherein each of R.sup.1, R.sup.2, and R.sup.3 stands for a hydrogen atom or an organic residue selected from an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl group having 5 to 8 carbon atoms, an alkylcycloalkyl group having 6 to 16 carbon atoms, or an aryl group having 6 to 16 carbon atoms, wherein at least two of R.sup.1, R.sup.2, and R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignees: Nippon Oil Co., Ltd., Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Hirayama, Haruyoshi Sato, Yutaka Otsuki, Masayuki Ando
  • Patent number: 5800952
    Abstract: A photopolymerizable composition for a color filter, which comprises a photopolymerization initiator system, a compound having at least one ethylenically unsaturated double bond, a colorant, and a phosphoric (meth)acrylate compound and/or an organic carboxylic anhydride having a molecular weight of at most 800, wherein the content of the colorant is from 20 to 90 wt % based on the total solid content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1998
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Urano, Ryuichiro Takasaki, Jiro Kamimura, Shingo Ikeda, Noriko Endo, Yuzuru Chika, Tameichi Ochiai
  • Patent number: 5773179
    Abstract: Materials of formula (I) are provided, wherein X.sub.1 -X.sub.5 are independently selected from H, F, Cl, NO.sub.2, CF.sub.3, OR, R, SR, .paren open-st.CO-- or .paren open-st.CO-- where R is C.sub.1-15 branched or straight chain alkyl; provided that one of X.sub.1 -X.sub.5 is selected from .paren open-st.CO-- or .paren open-st.OC--; p is at least 2; W=single bond, phenyl, fluorinated phenyl, .dbd., .tbd., cyclohexyl, thiophene, CO, OC; T.sub.1, T.sub.2, T.sub.3, T.sub.4 are independently selected from H, F, Cl, NO.sub.2, CF.sub.3, OR, R, SR, where R is C.sub.1-15 branched or straight chain alkyl; g=0 or 1; X is selected from CO.sub.2 and OOC; n is selected from 1-5; m is selected from 1-20, Y is selected from O, S, CH.sub.2, CO.sub.2, OOC; Q is CH.sub.2 and when m is greater than 1 then non-adjacent CH.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1998
    Assignee: The Secretary of State for Defence Defence Evaluation & Research Agency
    Inventors: Georg H. R. Mehl, John W. Goodby, David Lacey
  • Patent number: 5773178
    Abstract: A process for producing a patterned anisotropic polymeric film using an ac field and photopolymerizable liquid crystalline monomers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1998
    Assignees: Japan Synthetic Rubber Co, Ltd., Cornell Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Atsushi Shiota, Christopher K. Ober
  • Patent number: 5750049
    Abstract: An optical information storage material which can reversibly store said information comprising a polymeric material with a dependence of optical activity on temperature characterized in that the optical activity is substantially invariant at temperatures below Tg of said polymer, and variant at a temperatures at or near or above the Tg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1998
    Assignee: Hayes Soloway, Hennessey, Grossman & Hage
    Inventor: Mark M. Green
  • Patent number: 5718996
    Abstract: The electrostatic information recording medium according to the present invention comprises an electrode layer and an electric charge retaining layer. By improving the laminating method of electric charge retaining layer or by improving the layer arrangement or by converting electrostatic information to the visible information or position information, high information retaining property can be obtained and the accumulated electrostatic information can be maintained for long period.In the electrostatic information recording method according to the present invention, an electrostatic information recording medium is placed face-to-face to a photosensitive member having photoconductive layer on an electrode. The image exposure is performed by applying voltage between two electrodes, and the electrostatic information corresponding to the image exposure is recorded on the electrostatic information recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1998
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Iijima, Kyoji Dantani, Hiroyuki Obata, Makoto Matsuo, Minoru Utsumi, Seiji Take
  • Patent number: 5718993
    Abstract: An information recording medium having an information recording layer comprising a liquid crystal phase and a resin phase is protected against deterioration due to a long-term storage. An information recording medium having an information recording layer comprising a liquid crystal phase and a resin phase and located in opposition to a photoelectric sensor having a photoconductive layer has been packed in a moisture- and light-resistant laminate formed of a synthetic resin and an aluminum foil, and filled therein with a dried, moisture-free inert gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1998
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironori Kamiyama, Tomoyuki Idehara, Hironori Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 5714286
    Abstract: A photosensitive resin composition for forming light shielding films is of particular utility in forming a black matrix for use in display elements such as of a CRT display, a liquid crystal panel, a plasma display and the like. The photosensitive resin composition is comprised of a photopolymerizable compound, a photopolymerization initiator, and light shielding materials composed of an oxide of copper and an oxide or oxides of at least one metal selected from iron, manganese, chromium, cobalt and nickel. The black matrix so obtained is conducive to high heat resistance, greatly light shielding and sharp image contrast as well as to excellent electrical insulation resistance. For use in the plasma display in particular, a black matrix is producible by coating of the photosensitive resin composition on a given substrate, followed by exposure of the coat to selective irradiation with active light rays to form a pattern therein and by subsequently burning of the pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1998
    Assignee: Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Uchikawa, Masaru Shida, Hiroshi Komano
  • Patent number: 5712065
    Abstract: A process is described for the fabrication of a multicolor filter intended for use as part of a colored LCD system. A particular feature of the process is that no mask is needed for the formation of the final set of miniature color filters, thereby saving on mask costs as well as reducing processing time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1998
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventor: Jeen-Yuan Chiang
  • Patent number: 5712066
    Abstract: Provided an image forming method comprising the steps of;forming electric charges on a recording layer by charging the recording medium comprising a conductive substrate and, provided thereon a photoconductive layer and a recording layer containing a polymeric liquid crystal compound, in this order;irradiating, after the step of charging, said recording medium with a light corresponding to an image information to move electric charges to said photoconductive layer; andwriting said image information by means of changing a birefringence of the recording layer caused by said movement of electric charges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1998
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuo Yoshinaga, Shuzo Kaneko, Kazuo Isaka, Yoshio Takasu
  • Patent number: 5700608
    Abstract: A photographic element is described which comprises a silver halide emulsion having incorporated therein a latent image forming unit, said unit being comprised of an agglomeration of silver halide in conductive contact with a light absorbing center, wherein the center is comprised of:(i) an amorphous or liquid crystalline spectral sensitizing dye; or(ii) a plurality of spectral sensitizing dye crystals.Also described is a process for forming a silver halide emulsion and the emulsion prepared by such process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1997
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Lyn Marie Eshelman, David Darrell Miller, David Howard Levy
  • Patent number: 5700860
    Abstract: A liquid crystal aligning agent, which contains (1) at least one polymer selected from a polyamic acid and an imidized polymer therefrom; (2) at least one first solvent selected from the group consisting of N-alkyl-2-pyrrolidones, lactones and 1,3-dialkyl-2-imidazolidinones; (3) at least one second solvent from (a) a phenyl ether solvent of the formula (I): ##STR1## and (b) an ester ether solvent of the formula (II) ##STR2## wherein R.sup.1 -R.sup.6, a, b and c are as defined herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1997
    Assignee: Japan Synthetic Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Michinori Nishikawa, Tsuyoshi Miyamoto, Shigeo Kawamura, Kyouyu Yasuda, Yasuaki Mutsuga, Yasuo Matsuki
  • Patent number: 5691092
    Abstract: A method for producing an optical element, the method comprising the steps of: forming a liquid crystal polymer layer on a sheet-form substrate; forming a surface protective layer on the liquid crystal polymer layer; and carrying out a heat-treatment for crosslinking the liquid crystal polymer, or the method comprising the steps of: forming a liquid crystal polymer layer on a sheet-form substrate; carrying out a first heat-treatment for controlling the multidomain structure of the liquid crystal polymer layer; forming a surface protective layer on the liquid crystal polymer layer; and carrying out a second heat-treatment for crosslinking the liquid crystal polymer layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1997
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanobu Ninomiya, Ryojiro Akashi, Takashi Morikawa, Takashi Uematsu
  • Patent number: 5683838
    Abstract: Information recording media enable images to be recorded and reproduced with high resolution, wherein oozing of liquid crystal material thereof is prevented and the information is recorded without unevenness. A first recording medium has an information recording layer comprising a liquid crystal phase and an ultraviolet curing resin phase. The information recording layer is stacked on an electrode layer provided on a substrate by coating a mixed solution of liquid crystal and ultraviolet curing resin material on the surface of the electrode layer and then irradiating the coating by irradiation with ultraviolet rays, thereby forming a cured skin layer of the resin material on the outer surface of the information recording layer. A second recording medium has a transparent electrode layer additionally provided on the information recording layer of the first recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1997
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Iijima, Seiji Take, Hironori Kamiyama, Masato Okabe, Hiroyuki Obata, Minoru Utsumi
  • Patent number: 5681675
    Abstract: Ultraviolet light is selectively radiated onto a portion corresponding to each pixel on a color accepting base layer and only this portion is activated. Thus, the accepting ability (coloring ability or absorbing ability) of the coloring material for a color filter in this portion is higher than that of the other portions to which the ultraviolet light is not radiated. Alternatively, with an ultraviolet light hardening resin as the material of the color accepting base layer, the accepting layer to which the ultraviolet light is radiated and hardened is formed in an island shaped pattern. The other portions are not hardened and can be removed. The coloring material of the color filter is projected to the accepting layer formed corresponding to each pixel and only this portion can be selectively colored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1997
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shoichi Kurauchi, Hitoshi Hatoh
  • Patent number: 5679493
    Abstract: A packaging glass mask is used for local exposure to light on a photo conductive layer which is insulative and becomes conductive upon exposure to light. This results in elimination of charge on the exposed surface of the photo conductive layer to form a charged pattern in accordance with a packaging pattern. Each conductive particle consisting of a core insulator coated with plating of a conductive material is then distributed on the surface of the photo conductive layer. The conductive particles are deposited in a concentrated manner on charged sections of the photo conductive layer. An insulating resin is then laid on the conductive particles by application or transfer to complete an anisotropic conductive film with the conductive particles selectively distributed therein in accordance with the packaging pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 21, 1997
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Takanobu Kai
  • Patent number: 5664982
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a color liquid crystal display device is available where light-blocking layers are provided for the color filter stripes on a pixel-by-pixel basis by inserting the light-blocking layers between stripes of transparent conductive films that are already striped as scanning electrodes. The manufacturing method is characterized by the steps of the formation of a transparent conductive film on a first transparent substrate, patterning of the transparent conductive film by coating the transparent conductive film with a colored, positive resist, exposure and development, coating of patterned transparent conductive films with a blackened, negative resist, formation of black stripes of the negative resist between the patterned transparent conductive films by performing back exposure through the first transparent substrate and development, and the removing the positive resist remaining on the patterned transparent conductive films.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1997
    Assignee: Shipley Company, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Shigeki Nakano, Kenji Takano, Akira Awaji, Takeshi Masuyama
  • Patent number: 5663020
    Abstract: A display apparatus including a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix on a first substrate; a scanning line for sending a signal to the plurality of pixel electrodes for driving the plurality of pixel electrodes; a switching device for receiving the signal from the scanning line and switching each of the plurality of pixel electrodes into one of a conductive state and a non-conductive state in accordance with the signal; a counter electrode on a second substrate opposed to the first substrate; and a display medium layer sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate. The switching device includes a two-terminal element having a first electrode which is a part of the scanning line; the zinc sulfide layer on the first electrode, said zinc sulfide layer having an I-V characteristic expressed by a continuous curve; and a second electrode located on the zinc sulfide layer and electrically connected to the pixel electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 2, 1997
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Yamaue, Masahiro Adachi, Hiroshi Morimoto, Masaru Yoshida, Yasuyoshi Kaise
  • Patent number: 5660958
    Abstract: Information recording media enable images to be recorded and reproduced with high resolution, wherein oozing of liquid crystal material thereof is prevented and the information recorded without unevenness. A first recording medium has an information recording layer comprising a liquid crystal phase and an ultraviolet curing resin phase. The information recording layer is stacked on an electrode layer provided on a substrate by coating a mixed solution of liquid crystal and ultraviolet curing resin material on the surface of the electrode layer and then irradiating the coating by irradiation with ultraviolet rays, thereby forming a cured skin layer of the resin material on the outer surface of the information recording layer. A second recording medium has a transparent electrode layer additionally provided on the information recording layer of the first recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1997
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Iijima, Seiji Take, Hironori Kamiyama, Masato Okabe, Hiroyuki Obata, Minoru Utsumi
  • Patent number: 5658699
    Abstract: As shown in FIG. 1a, the information recording medium of the present invention includes an information recording layer on an electrode layer (13), said recording layer made up of a resin system (11) having liquid crystal phases (12) dispersed and fixed therein. In said recording layer, the refractive index of light through said resin system is such chosen as to be substantially coincident with the refractive index of light through the liquid crystal material which is being oriented by an electric field, whereby electrostatic information can be recorded and stored on the recording medium as visible information and the recorded and stored information can be reproduced at any desired time. The present recording medium can also be recycled, if the information recorded on it is erased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1997
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Iijima, Masato Okabe
  • Patent number: 5656401
    Abstract: An electroluminescent device is composed of a negative electrode, a positive electrode, and an organic compound layer which is interposed between the negative electrode and the positive electrode and includes at least one oxadiazole compound with a plurality of aryl oxadiazole structures. Novel oxadiazole compounds for use in the electroluminescent device and a method of producing the oxadiazole compounds are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 12, 1997
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masafumi Ohta, Yohta Sakon, Toshihiko Takahashi, Chihaya Adachi, Kazukiyo Nagai
  • Patent number: 5645963
    Abstract: Color filter elements are prepared by sequentially laminating, exposing and developing colored photoresist materials to form planar images on a transparent, non-birefringent substrate such as glass or polymeric film. Color filter elements are useful for elements in color displays such as liquid crystal display devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1997
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Jeffrey C. Chang
  • Patent number: 5645962
    Abstract: A method is provided for manufacturing a multicolor filter array element, firmly associated with a transparent electrode layer in a multicolor liquid crystal display device, comprising the steps of:(i) exposing a silver halide color photographic (print) material comprising a plurality of differently spectrally sensitive silver halide emulsion layers on a glass support, with a single step multicolor pixelwise exposure,(ii) color processing said exposed print material producing thereby in each silver halide emulsion layer a differently colored pixel pattern,(iii) coating said color processed print material at its silver halide emulsion layer assemblage side with a hydrophobic water-impermeable organic resin layer(iv) curing said organic resin layer by heating said layer at temperatures between 100.degree. C. and 250.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1997
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert, N.V.
    Inventors: Luc Vanmaele, Jean-Pierre Tahon, Raymond Roosen
  • Patent number: 5641595
    Abstract: A method for making color filters containing a color matrix with at least three desired colored layers comprising the steps of: (a) forming a positive energy-accumulable photoresist layer on a transparent electrically conductive substrate; (b) pre-conditioning the energy-accumulable photoresist layer to form at least three regions of different initial levels of exposure energy, from a highest to a lowest; (c) using a developer solution to develop and remove the region of the photoresist layer with the highest level of initial exposure energy to thereby cause a corresponding area of the electrically conductive substrate underlying the photoresist to be uncovered; (d) electrodepositing a photo-curable resin of a desired color and a predetermined exposure energy required for curing onto the uncovered area of the substrate; (e) overall-exposing the photoresist layer to a light source so as to impart an incremental exposure energy to all regions of the photoresist layer; (f) using a developer solution to develop a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 24, 1997
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Pao-Ju Hsieh, Hsien-Kuang Lin, Jim-Chyuan Shieh, Chao-Wen Niu, Chao-Huei Tseng, Hwa-Chi Cheng
  • Patent number: 5635317
    Abstract: A filter photographic material is produced by laminating together, in opposite relation, a first laminate obtained by laminating a filter layer and an adhesive layer successively on a support and a second laminate obtained by laminating a photoconductive layer and a transparent electrode layer successively on a carrier film through a release layer, followed by removal of the carrier film. Thus, it is possible to prevent the discoloration, fading, etc. of the filter layer and its preparation is made more efficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 3, 1997
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Taniguchi, Minoru Utsumi
  • Patent number: 5626995
    Abstract: A soluble polyimide solution is applied to the color filter substrate and the TFT substrate of a liquid crystal display. The lower half of the pixels in the color filter substrate and the upper half of the pixels in the TFT substrate are dried by heating by irradiating it with a laser beam. The remaining sections are thereafter dried naturally. The pretilt angle of the molecules of the liquid crystal material in contact with the sections dried by heating with the laser beam is small and the pretilt angle of the molecules which are in contact with the section dried naturally is large, enabling the viewing angle to be widened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 6, 1997
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mayumi Teruya, Hideo Takano, Yukito Saitoh, Hiroyuki Kamiya, Masaki Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 5624775
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for making color filters for liquid crystal display panels. A transfer layer is formed on a collector roll, and a raised pattern corresponding to the desired black matrix pattern is formed on the transfer layer by an embossing means. A plurality of colored ink patterns is formed in the appropriate location within the boundaries formed by the raised pattern, thereby forming the multicolor image that will become the color filter. This multicolored image is then transferred to the substrate. Preferably, the inks are deposited into the black matrix pattern using typographic imaging pins which are smaller than the cells of the black matrix pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1997
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Alain R. E. Carre, Bernard Eid, Ronald E. Johnson
  • Patent number: 5620756
    Abstract: The process according to the invention is a process for the production of aligned, ferroelectrically or ferrielectrically or antiferroelectrically ordered materials which solidify in a glass-like manner. In these layer structures with polar order, the molecular dipole moments are uncompensated, partially compensated or fully compensated, so that a dipole moment corresponding to the degree of compensation, acts externally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 15, 1997
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Volker Bach, Karl-Heinz Etzbach, Karl Siemensmeyer, Gerhard Wagenblast
  • Patent number: 5605727
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for obtaining composite material comprising a network of cross-linked polymer and fluid molecules. Such materials, using molecules of liquid crystal, are notably used in display screens. The originality of the disclosure lies in the drying, in supercritical phase, of the molecules that have enabled the preparation of the network. Generally, the operation of evaporation drying of the solvent leads to a deterioration of the network structure. With the method according to the invention, the network keeps its initial structure, making it possible to obtain high performance characteristics in scattering of light. Application to display screens and protection for detectors.No abstract figure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1997
    Assignee: Thomson-CSF
    Inventor: Laurent Bouteiller