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US 12,618,007 B2Granted
Liquid-crystalline medium
AssigneeMerck Patent GmbH
InventorsHarald Hirschmann, Sabine Schoen
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Abstract
Liquid-crystalline (LC) media or LC materials and to energy saving liquid-crystal displays (LCDs) containing these media, especially gaming displays and AR/VR headsets addressed by an active matrix and in particular LC displays of the TN, PS-TN, STN, TN-TFT, OCB, IPS, PS-IPS, FFS, HB-FFS, XB-FFS, PS-FFS, SA-HB-FFS, SA-XB-FFS, polymer stabilised SA-HB-FFS, polymer stabilised SA-XB-FFS, positive VA or positive PS-VA type.
Claims17
A liquid-crystalline medium containing no pleochroic dyes, comprising one or more compounds of Formula I
- in which the individual substituents, on each occurrence identically or differently, and each, independently of one another, have the following meaning:
- R0 an alkyl group having 1 to 12 C atoms or an alkenyl group having 2 to 12 C atoms in which one or more CH2 groups are optionally substituted by —C═C—, —CF2O—, —OCF2—, —CH═CH—,
- —O—, —CO—O— or —O—CO— in such a way that O atoms are not linked directly to one another, and in which one or more H atoms may be substituted by a halogen atom;
- X0 a halogen atom, —CN, —SCN, —NCS or an alkyl or an alkoxy group having 1 to 6 C atoms or an alkenyl or an alkenyloxy group having 2 to 6 C atoms in which one or more H atoms is substituted by a halogen atom;
- L1 and L2 each, independently of one another, H, F or Cl, wherein L1 and L2 do not simultaneously denote H;
- Y0 H or CH3;
- one or more compounds of Formula LP2:
- in which:
- R0 denotes an alkyl or an alkoxy group having 1 to 12 C atoms or an alkenyl or an alkenyloxy group having 2 or 12 C atoms in which one or more non-adjacent CH2 groups are optionally substituted by —C≡C—, —CF2O—, —OCF2—, —CH═CH—,
- —O—, —CO—O— or —O—CO— in such a way that O atoms are not linked directly to one another, and in which one or more H atoms may be substituted by a cycloalkyl or a cycloalkoxy group having 3 to 12 C atoms;
- X0 a halogen atom, —CN, —SCN, —NCS or an alkyl or an alkoxy group having 1 to 6 C atoms or an alkenyl or an alkenyloxy group having 2 to 6 C atoms in which one or more H atoms is substituted by a halogen atom;
- Y0 denotes H or CH3;
- and
- n denotes 0 or 1,
- one or more antioxidants comprising one or more compounds of Formula ST:
- in which the individual substituents have the following meanings:
- X21 and X22 each, independently of one another, denote —O—, —CH2—, —CHR23— or —N—R23—;
- R21 and R22 each, independently of one another, denote a H atom or an alkyl- or alkoxy group having 1 to 12 C atoms, an alkenyl, alkynyl, alkenyloxy or alkoxyalkyl group having 2 to 12 C atoms or a cycloalkyl group having 3 to 12 C atoms, in which one or more non-adjacent CH2 groups are optionally substituted by —C≡C—, —CF2O—, —OCF2—, —CH═CH—,
- —O—, —CO—O— or —O—CO— in such a way that O atoms are not linked directly to one another, and in which one or more H atoms may be substituted by a halogen atom or a cycloalkyl or a cycloalkoxy group having 3 to 12 C atoms, in which one or more H atoms may be substituted by a halogen atom;
- R23 denotes a H atom, an alkyl or alkoxy group having 1 to 10 C atoms;
- r denotes 0 or 1 and, optionally,
- one or more light stabilizers comprising one or more compounds of Formula H:
- in which
- R11 each, independently of one another, denote a H atom, F, an alkyl group having 1 to 20 C atoms, in which one or more CH2 groups are optionally substituted by —C≡C—, —CF2O—, —OCF2—, —CH≡CH—,
- —O—, —CO—O—, —O—CO—, —NR13—, —CO—NR13— or —NR13—CO— in such a way that O and N atoms are not linked directly to one another and in which one H atom or a plurality of H atoms may be substituted by F, OR13, N(R13)(R14) or R15;
- R12 each, independently of one another, denote a H atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 20 C atoms, in which one or more CH2 groups are optionally substituted by —C≡C—, —CF2O—, —OCF2—, —CH≡CH—,
- —O—, —CO—O—, —O—CO—, —NR13—, —CO—NR13— or —NR13—CO— in such a way that O atoms are not linked directly to one another, a hydrocarbon group which contains a cycloalkyl or alkylcycloalkyl group and in which one or more CH2 groups are optionally substituted by —C≡C—, —CF2O—, —OCF2—, —CH═CH—,
- —O—, —CO—O—, —O—CO—, —NR13—, —CO—NR13— or —NR13—CO— in such a way that O atoms are not linked directly to one another, and in which one H atom or a plurality of H atoms may be substituted by F, OR13, N(R13)(R14) or R15, or an aromatic or heteroaromatic hydrocarbon group, in which one H atom or a plurality of H atoms may be substituted by OR13, N(R13)(R14) or R15:
- R13, R14 each, independently of one another, denote an alkyl or acyl group
- and R15 having 1 to 10 C atoms or an aromatic hydrocarbon or carboxylic acid group having 6 to 12 C atoms in which one or more CH2 groups are optionally substituted by —C≡C—, —CF2O—, —OCF2—, —CH═CH—,
- —O—, —CO—O—, —O—CO—, —NR13—, —CO—NR13— or —NR13—CO— in such a way that O atoms are not linked directly to one another;
- R16 each, independently of one another, denote a H atom, an alkyl group or an alkoxy group having 1 to 10 C atoms in which one or more CH2 groups are optionally substituted by —C═C—, —CF2O—, —OCF2—, —CH═CH—,
- —O—, —CO—O—, —O—CO—, —NR13—, —CO—NR13— or —NR13—CO— in such a way that O atoms are not linked directly to one another, O-cycloalkyl group having 3 to 12 C atoms, O′ or OH;
- R17 each, independently of one another, a H atom, an alkyl group or an alkoxy group having 1 to 10 C atoms, or an alkylene group or a single bond, wherein R17 together with S11 may form a ring structure;
- S11 and S12 each, independently of one another, denote an alkylene group having 1 to 20 C atoms, in which one or more CH2 groups are optionally substituted by —C≡C—, —CF2O—, —OCF2—, —CH═CH—,
- —O—, —CO—O—, —O—CO—, —NR13—, —CO—NR13— or —NR13—CO— in such a way that O and N atoms are not linked directly to one another and in which one H atom or a plurality of H atoms may be substituted by F, OR13, N(R13)(R14) or R15, or a single bond;
- Y11 to Y14 each, independently of one another, denote methyl or ethyl;
- X11 C;
- Z11 to Z14 each, independently of one another, denote —O—, —(C═O)—, —O—(C═O)—, —(C═O)—O—, —O—(C═O)—O—, —(NR13), —NR13—(C═O)—, —(C═O)—NR13— or a single bond and if S11 is a single bond, both Z11 and Z12 do not simultaneously denote —O—;
- if S12 is a single bond, both Z13 and Z14 do not simultaneously denote —O—;
- and, if q denotes 0, both Z12 and Z13 do not simultaneously denote —O—;
- p 1 or 2;
- q 0 or 1;
- 0 (3−p);
- n an integer from 1 to 10;
- m an integer from 0 to 8;
- wherein
- n*p an integer from 1 to 10, and
- an organic moeity having (m+n) bonding sites.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.