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| 20080220246 | Optical Compensation Sheet, Process for Producing the Same, and Polarizing Plate and Liquid Crystal Display Device Using the Same - A novel optical compensation sheet is disclosed. The sheet comprising a polymer layer formed by coating and drying a solution comprising a polymer compound and a solvent composition comprising 20% by weight or more of water; and an optically anisotropic layer formed on the surface of the polymer layer by hardening a liquid crystal layer comprising at least one liquid-crystalline compound under irradiation of ionizing radiation at a film surface temperature from 70 to 160° C.; wherein a frontal retardation (Re) value of the optically anisotropic layer is not zero, and the optically anisotropic layer gives substantially equal retardation values for light of a wavelength λ nm coming respectively in a direction rotated by +40° and in a direction rotated by −40° with respect to a normal direction of a layer plane using an in-plane slow axis as a tilt axis (a rotation axis). | 09-11-2008 |
| 20090027612 | LAMINATED STRUCTURE, PROCESS OF PRODUCING A LIQUID CRYSTAL CELL SUBSTRATE USING THE SAME, LIQUID CRYSTAL CELL SUBSTRATE, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A laminated structure comprising, at least one optically anisotropic layer formed of a liquid crystalline composition comprising a compound having two or more types of reactive groups, and at least one photosensitive polymer layer. The laminated structure is useful for forming an optically anisotropic layer inside of a liquid crystal cell. The laminated structure is also useful for forming a liquid crystal cell substrate with an optically anisotropic layer having an optically compensating ability, inside of a liquid crystal cell. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090059763 | FILTER FOR OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM, OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, OPTICAL RECORDING METHOD AND OPTICAL REPRODUCING METHOD - The present invention provides a filter for optical recording medium capable of preventing diffuse reflection of an information beam and a reference beam from a reflective layer in the optical recording medium and preventing occurrence of noise without causing shift in selective reflection wavelength, and distortion in a reproduced image even when an angle of incidence is changed, and an optical recording medium capable of recording a high density image by using the filter. Specifically, the present invention relates to the optical recording medium containing a first substrate, a recording layer which records information by utilizing holography, an optical compensation layer, a filter layer, and a second substrate, in this order, and the filter layer is a cholesteric liquid crystal layer. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090174857 | Transfer Material, and Process for Producing Liquid Crystal Cell Substrate and Liquid Crystal Display Device Using the Same - A novel transfer material is disclosed. The transfer material comprises, at least, a support, and, thereon, an optically uniaxial or biaxial anisotropic layer and a photosensitive polymer layer. A novel process for producing a liquid crystal cell substrate is also disclosed. The process comprises, at least, [1] laminating a transfer material as set forth in any one of claims | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090252898 | Transfer material, process for producing a laminated structure having a patterned optically anisotropic layer and photosensitive polymer layer, and liquid crystal display device - A transfer material comprising an optically anisotropic layer formed of a liquid crystalline composition comprising a monomer having an acidic group and/or a monomer which generates a monomer having an acidic group by an action of an acid or a base, and a photosensitive polymer layer, which is useful for forming an optically anisotropic layer in a liquid crystal cell, is provided. A process for easily producing a laminated structure having a patterned optically anisotropic layer, which comprises the following steps [1] and [2]: [1] subjecting the transfer material to patterned light exposure using photomask; and [2] removing the non-exposed parts of the transfer material by development with an aqueous alkaline solution, is also provided. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090286340 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING A LIQUID CRYSTAL CELL SUBSTRATE HAVING A TFT DRIVER ELEMENT, A LIQUID CRYSTAL CELL SUBSTRATE, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A process for easy production of a liquid crystal cell substrate having a TFT driver element which contributes to reducing viewing angle dependence of color of a liquid crystal display device is provided: a process using a transfer material, more preferably, a process which comprises the following steps [1] to [4] in this order: [1] transferring on a TFT substrate a transfer material having a photosensitive polymer layer and an optically anisotropic layer on a temporary support; [2] separating the temporary support from the transfer material on the TFT substrate; [3] subjecting the transfer material to light exposure on the TFT substrate; and [4] removing unnecessary parts of the photosensitive polymer layer and the optically anisotropic layer on the substrate. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090290102 | TRANSFER MATERIAL, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING A COLOR FILTER USING THE SAME, A COLOR FILTER AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A transfer material comprising at least one optically anisotropic layer and at least one photosensitive polymer layer on at least one support, wherein said optically anisotropic layer comprises one or more compounds having a reactive group, and said photosensitive polymer layer comprises two or more types of photopolymerization initiators having different photoreaction mechanisms to each other, and a compound having a reactive group which can react with one or more of the reactive groups present in the optically anisotropic layer by the action of the at least one of said photopolymerization initiators. By using the transfer material, a color filter which contributes to reducing viewing angle dependence of color of a liquid crystal display device, and a liquid crystal display device having less corner non-uniformities and less viewing angle dependence of color. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20100030030 | ENDOSCOPE CHANNEL TUBE AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - A forceps channel tube is composed of a tube body, a reinforcing tape and a protective layer. The reinforcing tape includes a reinforcement layer and an adhesive layer. The reinforcement layer has a plurality of strip-shaped high and low rigidity portions arranged alternately. The reinforcing tape is wrapped around an outer surface of the tube body in a manner that each of the high and low rigidity portions encircles the tube body along the circumferential direction, and fixed thereto by the adhesive layer. The reinforcing tape provides the tube body with rigidity anisotropy that increases a first rigidity against force in a radial direction of the tube body to exceed a second rigidity against bending force. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100119738 | FOIL FOR PREVENTING FORGERY - A forgery-preventing foil having a latent image and a total thickness of 20 μm or less, containing at least one patterned optically anisotropic layer having two or more regions different in birefringence property, all of the regions in the same layer being formed of the same layer-forming composition. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100157212 | METHOD OF PRODUCING LIQUID CRYSTAL CELL SUBSTRATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL CELL SUBSTRATE, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is a method of producing a liquid crystal cell substrate comprising forming an image having at least two different hues and having different thickness for the respective hue domains, and forming at least one monoaxial or biaxial optically anisotropic layer having different film thicknesses on the respective hue domains on the image. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20110019276 | METHOD OF PRODUCING A PATTERNED BIREFRINGENT PRODUCT - A method of producing a patterned birefringent product, having at least steps (I) to (III) in this order:
| 01-27-2011 |
| 20110043911 | METHOD OF PRODUCING A PATTERNED BIREFRINGENT PRODUCT - A method of producing a patterned birefringent product, containing at least steps (I) to (III) in this order:
| 02-24-2011 |
