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7431971 Retardation plate  
A retardation plate is provided and includes: a transparent support; and an optically anisotropic layer formed from a discotic liquid crystalline compound. The discotic liquid crystalline compound...
7431972 Optical film, and polarizing plate and liquid crystal display device using the same  
An optical film comprising an optically anisotropic layer including a liquid crystalline compound, wherein the optically anisotropic layer satisfies the following formulae:
7429411 Chroman compound, liquid crystal composition including the compound and liquid crystal display element including the liquid crystal composition  
The compound (1) according to the invention has general solid-state properties necessary for a compound, stability against heat, light and the like, a suitable optical anisotropy, a suitable...
7427363 Composition for forming liquid crystal film, optically anisotropic film, and production method thereof  
A simple technique for introducing a hybrid alignment or a homeotropic (vertical) alignment into liquid crystal films, which, by their nature, tend to have a horizontal alignment of liquid crystal...
7427364 Liquid crystal composition, liquid crystal element, and cross-linked siloxane polymer  
The present invention provides a liquid crystal composition obtained by dissolving a dichroic dye in a mixture of a cross-linked polymer having a liquid crystalline group in the side chains and a...
7425395 Liquid crystal display device  
There is disclosed a liquid crystal display device having two substrates which are placed opposite to each other with a liquid crystal material sandwiched therebetween. A phase plate is formed on...
7425354 Photopolymerizable liquid crystal composition, its polymer or polymer composition, and optical compensation element  
The present invention provides a photopolymerizable liquid crystal composition comprising at least a compound having oxiranyl as a first component and at least a compound having oxetanyl as a...
7425281 Liquid crystal compositions comprising an organogermanium compound and methods for using the same  
The present invention provides organogermanium compounds and liquid crystal compositions comprising such a compound.
7425282 Polymer liquid crystal device and fabrication method thereof  
A polymer liquid crystal device. The polymer liquid crystal device is fabricated by the following steps. A first substrate is provided, and a coating of a photosensitive composition is formed on...
7419620 Dichroic mixtures  
A mesogenic, crosslinkable mixture comprising at least one polymerisable liquid crystal and at least one polymerisable dichroic dye of the general formula I: wherein A represents a dichroic...
7419707 Coating composition for the formation of low refractive index layer, antireflection film, polarizing plate and liquid crystal display device  
A coating composition for the formation of a low refractive index layer, comprising: a fluorine-containing olefin-based polymer that has a polysiloxane segment represented by formula 1 in its main...
7416818 Switchable volume hologram materials and devices  
A new photopolymerizable material allows single-step, fast recording of volume holograms with properties that can be electrically controlled. Polymer-dispersed liquid crystals (PDLCs) in accordance...
7417111 Liquid crystalline epoxy resins  
Liquid crystalline epoxy compounds, compositions including the compounds, and methods of using the compositions are disclosed. In one aspect, an epoxy compound may have a melting point that is less...
7416765 Polymerizable liquid crystalline composition and liquid crystal film made from the composition  
A polymerizable liquid crystalline composition comprises a side chain liquid crystalline polymer obtained by radical-copolymerizing a (meth)acrylic compound has an optically active site and a...
7410677 Organosilicon compound-containing polymerizable liquid-crystal composition  
An object of the invention is to provide a polymerizable liquid-crystal composition for obtaining a liquid-crystal film having good adhesiveness to supporting substrates. A polymerizable...
7407692 Chiral nematic liquid crystal composition, liquid crystal display device, and production method thereof  
A chiral nematic liquid crystal composition, characterized in that a self-organizing type gelling agent is contained and the phase transition temperature between liquid crystal and isotropic phases...
7407603 Liquid crystal device, compositions and method of manufacture  
A liquid crystal device comprises a layer of a liquid crystal material contained between two spaced-apart cell walls with electrodes for applying an electric field across at least some of the...
7407691 Photopolymerizable oxetane derivative and liquid-crystal composition containing it  
Provided are a liquid-crystal compound and a liquid-crystal composition containing the compound, of which the advantages are that they show nematic hybrid orientation on a rubbed TAC substrate,...
7404993 Liquid crystal display device and method of fabricating the same  
A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate; a second substrate facing the first substrate; a pixel electrode on the first substrate; a common electrodes on the second substrate; a...
7405026 Liquid crystal composition  
A nematic liquid crystal composition includes at least one of liquid crystal compounds containing a trans-4-trifluoromethoxycyclohexyl group in a backbone, in which the number of an intramolecular...
7402331 Liquid crystal element  
A liquid crystal element in which a liquid crystal layer containing at least two types of dual frequency addressable smectic liquid crystal compositions having different threshold voltage are...
7399562 Transition film of flat panel display and a method using the same  
A flat panel display comprising a liquid crystal module, a backlight module, and a transition film is disclosed. The backlight module provides light to the liquid crystal module, and the transition...
7399505 Fluorinated phenanthrenes and their use in liquid-crystal mixtures  
Compounds of the formula (I) are described in which M 1 is, for example, —CO—O— or a single bond A 1 is, for example, 1,4-phenylene, R 5 has the same possible definitions...
7399426 Liquid crystalline organic semiconductor material and organic semiconductor structure using the same  
There is provided a liquid crystalline organic semiconductor material that can effectively develop electron conductive properties which a liquid crystal system inherently has. The liquid...
7396486 Polymerizable mixtures  
A mixture which is polymerizable to polymers exhibiting a high optical anisotropy which is stable during polymerization. The mixture contains a first monomer or (and/or) oligomer having two or more...
7396573 Liquid crystal display element and light-modulating material  
The invention provides a liquid crystal display element and a light-modulating material each containing at least one low molecular weight gelling agent, at least one dichroic dye having a...
7397530 Method for encapsulation of liquid crystals with a narrow capsule size range  
This invention relates to a method for encapsulation of liquid crystals to form spherical particles with a narrow size distribution. More specific, this invention relates to a method for...
7393569 Polymerizable liquid crystal composition and polymer thereof  
A polymerizable liquid crystal composition containing compounds represented by the formula (1-1) and the formula (1-2), compounds represented by the formula (2-1) and the formula (2-2), and a...
7393568 Liquid crystal composition and liquid crystal element employing the composition  
A novel liquid crystal composition and a novel liquid crystal element are disclosed. They comprise at least one compound represented by a formula (1), wherein R 1 to R 7 respectively represent a...
7393570 Broad-band-cholesteric liquid-crystal film, process for producing the same, circularly polarizing plate, linearly polarizing element, illiminator, and liquid-crystal display  
A broad band cholesteric liquid crystal film of the present invention is a cholesteric liquid crystal film obtained by coating a liquid crystal mixture containing a polymerizable mesogen compound...
7393467 Wholly aromatic liquid-crystalline polyester and method for preparing the same  
Provided is a liquid-crystalline polyester with good properties obtainable by subjecting a prepolymer consisting of the repeating units represented by formulae (I), (II), (III) and (IV): to...
7390434 Method and apparatus for producing film from polymer solution, and optical polymer film  
A dope containing cellulose acylate as a main content of polymer is cast on a front surface of a moving belt in a method of producing a film from a solution. A drying apparatus is confronted to a...
7387856 Display comprising liquid crystal droplets in a hydrophobic binder  
The present invention relates to a display comprising at least one substrate and at least one electronically modulated imaging layer and at least one electrically conductive layer, wherein the...
7387858 Reflective display based on liquid crystal materials  
The present invention relates to a high contrast reflective display comprising at least one substrate, at least one electrically conductive layer and at least one close-packed, ordered monolayer of...
7387857 Liquid crystalline di(meth)acrylate compound, phase difference film, optical film, polarizing plate, liquid crystal panel and liquid crystal display device  
A phase difference film characterized in that said film is obtained by orienting and fixing, on a substrate, a composition containing a polymerizable liquid crystal monomer represented by the...
7381348 Optical device  
The invention relates to optical devices for producing and/or transforming polarized electromagnetic emission by means of anisotropic absorption and/or optical rotation effects and/or birefringence...
7381507 Photo-patterned light polarizing films  
This invention relates to methods for preparing photo-patterned mono- or polychromatic, polarizing films. The polarizer can be pixelated into a number of small regions wherein some of the regions...
7381350 Fluorene derivatives and polymers thereof  
The compound (1) or (2), a composition containing the compound and a polymer obtained by polymerizing the composition. R 1 is fluorine, cyano, alkyl, and so forth; R 2 is hydrogen, alkyl, and...
7381349 Process for producing liquid crystal of desired properties by mixing together at least two rigid rodlike helical polymers with narrow molecular weight distributions and different weight-average molecular weights with chiral side chains  
A process to produce a polymer liquid crystalline composition having temperature dependency of desired circular polarization selective reflection wave length property by only mixing two or more...
7378135 Polymerizable liquid crystal composition and optically anisotropic thin film  
In order to obtain such a liquid crystal thin film having optical anisotropy that suffers less change in optical characteristics thereof under heating to 200° C., the following polymerizable...
7374948 Methods and apparatus for detection of molecular chirality  
The disclosure provides methods for the determination of the enantiomeric excess of chiral compounds. The methods involve doping a chiral analyte into an achiral liquid crystal host to form a...
7365359 Organic semiconductor material and organic semiconductor element  
An organic semiconductor material having high charge mobility characteristics and an organic semiconductor element is provided. The organic semiconductor material has rodlike low-molecular liquid...
7364671 Optical component, orientation layer, and layerable polymerisable mixture  
A polymerisable mixture that can be applied as a layer, an orientation layer of the mixture, and an optical component, such as a retarder or a liquid crystal display, having a layer of which the...
7364776 Display device  
A novel display device is disclosed. The display device comprises a plural of liquid crystal layers disposed between a pair of electrodes respectively, wherein each of the liquid crystal layers...
7361389 Smectic liquid crystal device and process for producing the same  
A smectic liquid crystal device and process for producing the same are provided to realize uniform orientation of a smectic liquid crystal with no nematic phase in a phase sequence represented by...
7357964 Liquid-crystalline vinyl ketone derivatives and their polymers  
Provided is a liquid-crystalline, polymerizable vinyl ketone compound of formula (1): Preferably, R 1 is hydrogen, halogen, —CN, —CF 3 , —CF 2 H, —CFH 2 , —OCF 3 , —OCF 2 H, or...
7354887 High temperature LCP for wear resistance  
A high temperature liquid crystalline polyester (LCP) composition, and articles made therefrom, that provides “good” to “excellent” wear resistance at PVs (pressure×velocity) of at least...
7351451 Anthraquinone compound, liquid crystal composition, cell and display device employing the same  
A liquid crystal composition comprising at least one liquid crystal compound and at least one anthraquinone compound represented by formula (1) below: Formula (1) (wherein R 2 to R 8 each...
7351506 Polymerization-encapsulated cholesteric liquid crystal for bistable reflective displays  
A liquid crystal polymer dispersion is formed where liquid crystal encapsulation is produced by a process in which a reactive additive formulation is mixed and photo-polymerized. The polymerizable...
7347955 Heat conducting polymer mold products  
A mold product comprising liquid crystal composition for conducting heat. The liquid crystal composition contains liquid crystal polymer having an orientation degree α obtained by equation 1...