Liquid Crystal Process, Composition, Or Product Patents (Class 430/20)
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Patent number: 6103431Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 22, 1999Date of Patent: August 15, 2000Assignee: Director-General of Agency of Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Nobuyuki Tamaoki, Hiroo Matsuda, Soyoung Song
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Patent number: 6099994Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 8, 1999Date of Patent: August 8, 2000Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Jeffrey C. Chang, John S. Staral, William A. Tolbert, Martin B. Wolk, Claire A. Jalbert, Hsin-hsin Chou
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Patent number: 6093510Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 11, 1998Date of Patent: July 25, 2000Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Margaret J. Helber, William J. Harrison, Kevin W. Williams, Steven W. Kortum
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Patent number: 6090508Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 27, 1997Date of Patent: July 18, 2000Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Kyoji Tsutsui, Akio Kojima, Masafumi Ohta, Ryohei Miyake
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Patent number: 6046791Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 9, 1997Date of Patent: April 4, 2000Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hidekazu Kobayashi, Shuhei Yamada
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Patent number: 6013339Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 10, 1997Date of Patent: January 11, 2000Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Yamada, Hideki Matsukawa
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Patent number: 6010809Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 10, 1998Date of Patent: January 4, 2000Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Fumio Ishii, Shinichi Daiba, Tomohiro Oshiyama, Shigeto Hirabayashi, Yoshiko Iwai
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Patent number: 6001519Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 2, 1998Date of Patent: December 14, 1999Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Arnold Chang Mou Yang, Yung-Shi Lin, Ming-Fa Hsieh, Shih-Tung Cheng, Min-Chieh Chou
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Patent number: 5989758Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 30, 1998Date of Patent: November 23, 1999Assignee: Nippon Oil Company, LimitedInventors: Shinichi Komatsu, Suzushi Nishimura, Akira Takagi, Shinichiro Suzuki
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Patent number: 5989752Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 29, 1996Date of Patent: November 23, 1999Inventor: Tzu-Yin Chiu
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Patent number: 5976775Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 10, 1997Date of Patent: November 2, 1999Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yoshio Ishii
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Patent number: 5934780Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 12, 1997Date of Patent: August 10, 1999Assignee: Ushiodenki Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yoneta Tanaka
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Patent number: 5928819Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 19, 1996Date of Patent: July 27, 1999Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Gregory P. Crawford, Thomas G. Fiske, Louis D. Silverstein
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Patent number: 5908720Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 11, 1996Date of Patent: June 1, 1999Assignee: Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kiyoshi Uchikawa, Masaru Shida, Junichi Onodera, Hiroshi Komano
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Patent number: 5888681Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 23, 1997Date of Patent: March 30, 1999Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Thaddeus S. Gula, Peter T. Aylward, Robert P. Bourdelais, Douglas N. Haydock
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Patent number: 5885343Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 30, 1997Date of Patent: March 23, 1999Assignee: Shipley Company, L.L.C.Inventors: George J. Cernigliaro, Egon Matijevic, Daniel Y. Pai, Todd A. Richardson
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Patent number: 5871879Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 23, 1997Date of Patent: February 16, 1999Assignee: AGFA-Gevaert, N.V.Inventors: Bartholomeus Verlinden, Pascale Steenhoudt
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Patent number: 5858585Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 28, 1997Date of Patent: January 12, 1999Assignee: Bayer AktiengesellschaftInventors: Dietrich Haarer, Thomas Bieringer, Claus Dieter Eisenbach, Karl Fischer, Ralf Ruhmann, Roland Wuttke, Joachim Stumpe, Thomas Fischer, Lutz Laser, Michael Rutloh, Uwe Claussen
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Patent number: 5851710Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 3, 1997Date of Patent: December 22, 1998Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masayuki Iijima, Masato Okabe
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Patent number: 5851700Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 28, 1997Date of Patent: December 22, 1998Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, LimitedInventors: Masaru Honda, Shigeo Hozumi, Shinichiro Kitayama
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Patent number: 5837374Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 14, 1996Date of Patent: November 17, 1998Assignees: Nippon Oil Co., Ltd., Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takayuki Hirayama, Yoshifumi Morita, Haruyoshi Sato, Yutaka Otsuki, Masayuki Ando
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Patent number: 5821277Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 1, 1996Date of Patent: October 13, 1998Assignees: Nippon Oil Co., Ltd., Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takayuki Hirayama, Haruyoshi Sato, Yutaka Otsuki, Masayuki Ando
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Patent number: 5800952Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 23, 1996Date of Patent: September 1, 1998Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical CorporationInventors: Toshiyuki Urano, Ryuichiro Takasaki, Jiro Kamimura, Shingo Ikeda, Noriko Endo, Yuzuru Chika, Tameichi Ochiai
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Patent number: 5773179Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 22, 1997Date of Patent: June 30, 1998Assignee: The Secretary of State for Defence Defence Evaluation & Research AgencyInventors: Georg H. R. Mehl, John W. Goodby, David Lacey
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Patent number: 5773178Abstract: A process for producing a patterned anisotropic polymeric film using an ac field and photopolymerizable liquid crystalline monomers.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 1996Date of Patent: June 30, 1998Assignees: Japan Synthetic Rubber Co, Ltd., Cornell Research Foundation, Inc.Inventors: Atsushi Shiota, Christopher K. Ober
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Patent number: 5750049Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 16, 1996Date of Patent: May 12, 1998Assignee: Hayes Soloway, Hennessey, Grossman & HageInventor: Mark M. Green
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Patent number: 5718996Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 27, 1996Date of Patent: February 17, 1998Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masayuki Iijima, Kyoji Dantani, Hiroyuki Obata, Makoto Matsuo, Minoru Utsumi, Seiji Take
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Patent number: 5718993Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 5, 1996Date of Patent: February 17, 1998Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hironori Kamiyama, Tomoyuki Idehara, Hironori Kobayashi
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Patent number: 5714286Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 6, 1996Date of Patent: February 3, 1998Assignee: Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kiyoshi Uchikawa, Masaru Shida, Hiroshi Komano
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Patent number: 5712065Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 28, 1996Date of Patent: January 27, 1998Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventor: Jeen-Yuan Chiang
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Patent number: 5712066Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 22, 1995Date of Patent: January 27, 1998Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuo Yoshinaga, Shuzo Kaneko, Kazuo Isaka, Yoshio Takasu
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Patent number: 5700608Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 19, 1996Date of Patent: December 23, 1997Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Lyn Marie Eshelman, David Darrell Miller, David Howard Levy
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Patent number: 5700860Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 27, 1996Date of Patent: December 23, 1997Assignee: Japan Synthetic Rubber Co., Ltd.Inventors: Michinori Nishikawa, Tsuyoshi Miyamoto, Shigeo Kawamura, Kyouyu Yasuda, Yasuaki Mutsuga, Yasuo Matsuki
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Patent number: 5691092Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 19, 1995Date of Patent: November 25, 1997Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masanobu Ninomiya, Ryojiro Akashi, Takashi Morikawa, Takashi Uematsu
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Patent number: 5683838Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 29, 1995Date of Patent: November 4, 1997Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masayuki Iijima, Seiji Take, Hironori Kamiyama, Masato Okabe, Hiroyuki Obata, Minoru Utsumi
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Patent number: 5681675Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 17, 1995Date of Patent: October 28, 1997Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Shoichi Kurauchi, Hitoshi Hatoh
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Patent number: 5679493Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 2, 1995Date of Patent: October 21, 1997Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Takanobu Kai
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Patent number: 5664982Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 17, 1995Date of Patent: September 9, 1997Assignee: Shipley Company, L.L.C.Inventors: Shigeki Nakano, Kenji Takano, Akira Awaji, Takeshi Masuyama
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Patent number: 5663020Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 30, 1995Date of Patent: September 2, 1997Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Satoshi Yamaue, Masahiro Adachi, Hiroshi Morimoto, Masaru Yoshida, Yasuyoshi Kaise
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Patent number: 5660958Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: August 26, 1997Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masayuki Iijima, Seiji Take, Hironori Kamiyama, Masato Okabe, Hiroyuki Obata, Minoru Utsumi
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Patent number: 5658699Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 24, 1995Date of Patent: August 19, 1997Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masayuki Iijima, Masato Okabe
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Patent number: 5656401Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 12, 1994Date of Patent: August 12, 1997Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Masafumi Ohta, Yohta Sakon, Toshihiko Takahashi, Chihaya Adachi, Kazukiyo Nagai
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Patent number: 5645963Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 20, 1995Date of Patent: July 8, 1997Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing CompanyInventor: Jeffrey C. Chang
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Patent number: 5645962Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 19, 1996Date of Patent: July 8, 1997Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert, N.V.Inventors: Luc Vanmaele, Jean-Pierre Tahon, Raymond Roosen
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Patent number: 5641595Abstract: 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 aType: GrantFiled: January 16, 1996Date of Patent: June 24, 1997Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Pao-Ju Hsieh, Hsien-Kuang Lin, Jim-Chyuan Shieh, Chao-Wen Niu, Chao-Huei Tseng, Hwa-Chi Cheng
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Patent number: 5635317Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 4, 1995Date of Patent: June 3, 1997Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yukio Taniguchi, Minoru Utsumi
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Patent number: 5626995Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 30, 1995Date of Patent: May 6, 1997Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Mayumi Teruya, Hideo Takano, Yukito Saitoh, Hiroyuki Kamiya, Masaki Hasegawa
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Patent number: 5624775Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 10, 1995Date of Patent: April 29, 1997Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Alain R. E. Carre, Bernard Eid, Ronald E. Johnson
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Patent number: 5620756Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 6, 1995Date of Patent: April 15, 1997Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Volker Bach, Karl-Heinz Etzbach, Karl Siemensmeyer, Gerhard Wagenblast
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Patent number: 5605727Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: February 25, 1997Assignee: Thomson-CSFInventor: Laurent Bouteiller