Liquid crystal display device and method of producing the same
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKimiaki Nakamura, Hideo Chida, Shingo Kataoka, Hidefumi Yoshida, Yoshio Koike
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Abstract
A liquid crystal display device, in which a liquid crystal layer is supported by a liquid crystal substrate, in which an orientation-controlling layer is formed on a surface of the liquid crystal substrate to regulate an orientation of liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer in the predetermined direction, and the orientation-controlling layer is formed by an incorporated additive added to the liquid crystal.
Claims56
A liquid crystal display device in which a liquid crystal layer is supported by a liquid crystal substrate, comprising:
- an orientation-controlling layer formed on and chemically bonded to a surface of the liquid crystal substrate to regulate an orientation of liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer in a predetermined direction, said orientation-controlling layer being formed by an incorporated additive added to the liquid crystal.
A method of producing a liquid crystal display device in which a liquid crystal layer is supported by liquid crystal substrates, comprising:
- injecting, between liquid crystal substrates, a liquid crystal having added thereto an additive having a property of controlling an orientation of liquid crystal molecules in a predetermined direction, thereby to form a liquid crystal layer on a surface layer of said liquid crystal substrates, said liquid crystal layer having orientation-controlling layers consisting of said additive chemically bonded to a surface of said liquid crystal substrates.
A liquid crystal display device having a panel structure, comprising:
- a pair of substrates arranged opposed to each other;
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- liquid crystals sealed between these substrates;
- wherein a resin layer is interposed in the interface between said liquid crystals and a liquid crystal panel-constituting element in contact with said liquid crystals, said resin layer being formed by curing a curable additive that comprises a monofunctional monomer and a polyfunctional monomer, and vertical orientation-expressing functional groups of the monomer contained in said curable additive are derived from the surface of said resin layer.
A method of producing a liquid crystal display device having a panel structure comprising a pair of substrates arranged being opposed to each other and liquid crystals sealed between these substrates, which method comprises the steps of:
- injecting a mixture of said liquid crystals and a curable additive comprising a monofunctional monomer and a polyfunctional monomer into between said substrates;
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- applying energy for curing said curable additive to thereby selectively form a resin layer in the interface between said liquid crystals and a liquid crystal panel-constituting element in contact with said liquid crystals and to derive, from a surface of said resin layer, vertical orientation-expressing functional groups of the monomer contained in said curable additive.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.