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US 6,333,081 B1Granted
Liquid crystal device
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTomonari Horikiri, Hiroyuki Kitayama
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Abstract
A liquid crystal device is constituted by a pair of substrates each provided with an axis for aligning liquid crystal molecules in a uniaxial aligning direction, and a liquid crystal composition disposed between the pair of substrates and comprising at least a liquid crystal and an aligned gel-forming compound forming a gel with the liquid crystal. The gel-forming compound is aligned in a direction substantially parallel or perpendicular to the uniaxial aligning direction.
Claims6
A liquid crystal device, comprising:
- a pair of substrates each provided with an axis for aligning liquid crystal molecules in a uniaxial aligning direction, and
- a liquid crystal composition disposed between the pair of substrates and comprising at least a liquid crystal and an aligned gel-forming compound forming a gel with the liquid crystal, wherein
- said gel-forming compound is aligned in a particular direction defined relative to the uniaxial aligning direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.