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20090147200 | VERTICAL ALIGNMENT FILM AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF, VERTICAL ALIGNMENT SUBSTRATE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A highly reliable vertical alignment film for aligning display-use liquid crystal molecules in a direction slightly tilted from the substrate normal line direction and a method of manufacturing the vertical alignment film are provided. A layer composed of a liquid crystalline monomer that has a crystalline framework, and that has characteristics to align the crystalline framework vertically to an interface with a dissimilar material and polymerizable characteristics is formed on a transparent substrate. A magnetic field is applied thereto while the liquid crystal state is maintained, and thereby the liquid crystalline framework of the liquid crystalline monomer is aligned in a direction slightly tilted from the normal line direction of the substrate. In this state, the liquid crystalline monomer is polymerized, and a hardened layer formed from a complex composed of the unreacted liquid crystalline monomer and a liquid crystalline monomer polymer is formed as a vertical alignment film. | 06-11-2009 |
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20100141908 | PROJECTING DEVICE - A rear-projection type projecting device enlarging and projecting an image displayed by a display device onto a screen, including a projecting optical system including a first optical system having a positive power and a second optical system having a reflection surface with a positive power, and a plane mirror attached to the projecting device to form a substantially right angle with respect to the screen and to reflect light emerging from the projecting optical system to the screen, wherein an effective reflection area of the reflection surface with the positive power is located at a position farther from an optical axis of the first optical system when viewed from the plane mirror. | 06-10-2010 |
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20110228558 | PLANAR LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE - Conventional planar light source devices have a problem that increasing a utilization ratio of light results in a very narrow angle distribution of light. A planar light source device of the present invention has a light source ( | 09-22-2011 |
20110242146 | LIGHTING DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A lighting device includes: a light guide plate; a light source; and a light modulation element disposed on a surface of or in the inside of the light guide plate, and adhered to the light guide plate. The light modulation element has a pair of transparent substrates, a first electrode provided on a surface of one of the transparent substrates, a second electrode provided on a surface of the other of the transparent substrates, and a light modulation layer, provided in a gap between the transparent substrates, exhibiting a light-scattering property or a light-transmitting property concerning light from the light source depending on intensity of an electric field. One or both of the first and second electrodes include partial electrodes. First partial electrodes of the partial electrodes are adjacent to second partial electrodes of the partial electrodes, and have irregular shapes on edges adjacent to the second partial electrodes. | 10-06-2011 |
20110249221 | LIGHTING DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A lighting device includes: a light guide plate; a light source disposed on a side face of the light guide plate; and a light modulation element disposed on a surface or in the inside of the light guide plate and adhered to the light guide plate. The light modulation element has a pair of transparent substrates disposed separately and oppositely, a pair of electrodes provided on respective surfaces of the pair of transparent substrates, and a light modulation layer provided in a gap between the pair of transparent substrates. The light modulation layer includes a first region, having optical anisotropy, responsive to an electric field, and a second region, having optical anisotropy, unresponsive to an electric field. The second region has a striped structure with average striped texture size of 0.05 μm to 10 μm both inclusive in a short axis direction. | 10-13-2011 |
20110310330 | THIN BACKLIGHT SYSTEM AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - According to a conventional backlight device for use in a thin full-color display device in which pixels are subjected to a color separation by colored lights, a large chromatic aberration occurs, thereby causing a deterioration in image quality. A thin backlight system in accordance with the present invention includes: a light emitting section ( | 12-22-2011 |