US4029392A
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Liquid crystal display
Assignee: Panasonic Holdings Corp
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Filing: 1974-07-11
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Granted: 1977-06-14
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Expires: 1994-07-11
Abstract
Abstract A liquid crystal display comprising a glass substrate and an opaque ceramic substrate both provided with electrodes, and a nematic liquid crystal contained in the gap between the substrates, in which the orientation of the nematic liquid crystal molecules is controlled by applying an electric voltage between the electrodes to achieve colored display against the color of the ceramic substrate.
Inventors
- 👤 Akio Moriyama
- 👤 Masakazu Fukai
- 👤 Katsuji Hattori
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-22 21:57
CPC Classifications
G; G02; G02F; G02F1/00; G02F1/01; G02F1/13; G02F1/137; G02F1/13725; C; C09; C09K; C09K19/00; C09K19/52; C09K19/60; C09K19/601; G02F1/133; G02F1/1333
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 6
Claim 1
Independent Claim
93 words
A liquid crystal display device comprising two spaced plates one of which is a transparent front glass plate and the other of which is a white opaque ceramic rear plate, electrodes selectively disposed on the inner surfaces by said two plates, a nematic liquid crystal composition containing a pleochroic dye filled in the space between said two plates, and means for selectively applying an electric field across said nematic liquid crystal composition through said electrodes to thereby modulate light absorption in said liquid crystal composition when the electric field exceeds a threshold value.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
93 words
A liquid crystal display device comprising two spaced plates one of which is a transparent front glass plate and the other of which is a white opaque ceramic rear plate, electrodes selectively disposed on the inner surfaces by said two plates, a nematic liquid crystal composition containing a pleochroic dye filled in the space between said two plates, and means for selectively applying an electric field across said nematic liquid crystal composition through said electrodes to thereby modulate light absorption in said liquid crystal composition when the electric field exceeds a threshold value.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
40 words
A liquid crystal display device as set forth in claim 1, wherein said nematic liquid crystal composition has a negative dielectric anisotropy with all the molecules being nonelectrically aligned perpendicular to the surfaces of said plates in the quiescent state.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
59 words
A liquid crystal display device as set forth in claim 2, wherein said nematic composition comprises 1. 85 to 99 weight percent of a mixture consisting of equal weight percent of p-anisylidene-p'-n-heptylaniline, p-ethoxybenzylidene-p'-n-butylaniline and p-n-propoxybenzylidene-p'-n-pentylaniline, 2. 0.5 to 10 weight percent of sorbitan monolaurate, 3. 0.5 to 5 weight percent of Solvent Black 3 represented by the formula ##STR2##
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
44 words
A liquid crystal display device as set forth in claim 1, wherein said nematic liquid crystal composition has a positive dielectric anisotropy with all the molecules being noneelectrically aligned parallel to the surfaces of said plates in a predetermined direction in the quiescent state.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
62 words
A liquid crystal display device as set forth in claim 4, wherein said nematic composition comprises 1. 75 to 98 weight percent of a mixture consisting of equal weight percent of p-anisylidene-p'-n-heptylaniline, p-ethoxybenzylidene-p'-n-butylaniline and p-n-propoxybenzylidene-p'-n-pentylaniline, 2. 1.5 to 20 weight percent of p-nitrobenzylidene-p'-aminotoluene, and 3. 0.5 to 5 weight percent of a dye giving a color corresponding to C.I. Solvent Violet 21.
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