Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 13
Claim 1
Independent Claim
83 words
A liquid crystal display element having a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer held between the pair of substrates, the liquid crystal layer including a chiral nematic liquid crystal or nematic liquid crystal, wherein the orientation of liquid crystal molecules of said liquid crystal layer is macroscopically omnidirectional in the substrate in-plane direction with the equal probability at each direction, and said liquid crystal molecules provide generally a constant twist angle in the direction perpendicular to the planes of said substrates.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
83 words
A liquid crystal display element having a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer held between the pair of substrates, the liquid crystal layer including a chiral nematic liquid crystal or nematic liquid crystal, wherein the orientation of liquid crystal molecules of said liquid crystal layer is macroscopically omnidirectional in the substrate in-plane direction with the equal probability at each direction, and said liquid crystal molecules provide generally a constant twist angle in the direction perpendicular to the planes of said substrates.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
39 words
A liquid crystal display element according to claim 1, wherein said liquid crystal layer has a number of micro domains in the substrate in-plane direction, and the orientation of liquid crystal molecules in each said micro domain is unidirectional.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
39 words
A liquid crystal display element according to claim 2, wherein said liquid crystal layer includes domains having liquid crystal molecules successively changing the orientation in the substrate in-plane direction, said domains being distributed among said number of micro domains.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
30 words
A liquid crystal display element according to claim 1, wherein the orientation of liquid crystal molecules in said liquid crystal layer generally successively changes microscopically, in the substrate in-plane direction.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
23 words
A liquid crystal display element according to claim 1, wherein said pair of substrates has no intentional orientation structure for liquid crystal molecules.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
24 words
A liquid crystal display element according to of claim 1, wherein said pair of substrates has an intentional orientation structure for liquid crystal molecules.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
49 words
A liquid crystal display element according to claims 1, wherein said pair of substrates are spaced apart by a gap d, and the following condition is satisfied, 0 (or nearly 0) < d/p < 0.75 (or nearly 0.75), where p is the chiral pitch of said liquid crystal layer.
Claim 9
Independent Claim
53 words
A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display element, comprising the steps of: preparing a pair of substrates and a chiral nematic liquid crystal or nematic liquid crystal to be held between said pair of transparent substrates; and injecting said chiral nematic liquid crystal or nematic liquid crystal between said pair of substrates.
Claim 10
Independent Claim
53 words
A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display element, comprising the steps of: preparing a pair of substrates and a chiral nematic liquid crystal or nematic liquid crystal to be held between said pair of transparent substrates; and injecting said chiral nematic liquid crystal or nematic liquid crystal between said pair of substrates.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
37 words
A method according to claim 8, wherein said chiral nematic liquid crystal or nematic liquid crystal is injected while maintaining said liquid crystal at a temperature at least equal to an N-I point of said liquid crystal.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
39 words
A method according to claim 8, wherein said chiral nematic liquid crystal or nematic liquid crystal is injected while maintaining said pair of transparent substrates at a temperature at least equal to an N-I point of said liquid crystal.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
56 words
A method according to claim 8, wherein the following condition is satisfied, 0 (or nearly 0) < d/p < 0.75 (or nearly 0.75), where d is a chiral pitch of said chiral nematic liquid crystal or nematic liquid crystal, and p is the thickness of the liquid crystal layer held between said pair of transparent substrates.