IP Library Granted Patent US 7,075,602
Granted Patent B2
US 7,075,602 · App. 10/166,603 · Granted Jul 11, 2006

Substrate for reflective liquid crystal display device and reflective liquid crystal display device using the same wherein the reflective surface is a wrinkled pattern of small mirrors

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Patent No.
US 7,075,602
App. No.
10/166,603
Granted
Jul 11, 2006
Kind
B2
Abstract

The invention provides a reflective liquid crystal display device being low cost, high reflectance, and high contrast in the reflective liquid crystal display device of VA system providing a diffusion reflective plate having uneven shape and using negative dielectric anisotropy liquid crystal and a substrate using for a reflective liquid crystal display device. Assuming that reflective surface of the reflective plate has plurality of small mirror surfaces, direction of normal vector In of the small mirror is constructed so that standard deviation of probability distribution existing within angle range of azimuth angle from φn to φn+1° is 0.1 or more.

Claims (17)

1. A substrate for a reflective liquid crystal display device comprising:

a light reflective plate having an uneven shape on a reflective surface thereof,

wherein the uneven shape is a wrinkled pattern having linear or curved shaped top portions when viewed in a direction vertical to the reflective surface,

wherein the reflective surface has a plurality of small mirror surfaces, each small mirror surface having a normal vector I n at a specified azimuth angle φ, there being existing probabilities that each of said normal vectors is in an azimuth angular range of φ n to φ n +1°, and

wherein a standard deviation of said existing probabilities is greater than 0.1.

2. A substrate for a reflective liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the standard deviation is 0.5 or more.

3. A substrate for a reflective liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 ,

wherein a local maximum of the random variable exists at an arbitrary azimuth angle and an azimuth angle almost intersecting to the arbitrary azimuth angle at a right angle.

4. A substrate for a reflective liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 ,

wherein a local maximum of the random variable exists only at an arbitrary azimuth angle.

5. A reflective liquid crystal display device providing liquid crystal sealed by a pair of facing substrates and having negative dielectric anisotropy, and a light reflective plate formed at one of the substrates,

wherein the substrate is the substrate for a reflective liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 .

6. A reflective liquid crystal display device according to claim 5 ,

wherein the uneven shape is a wrinkled pattern.

7. A reflective liquid crystal display device according to claim 6 ,

wherein the wrinkled pattern is reflected by a surface shape of grounding of the reflective surface.

Assignments (4)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 14, 2005
From: FUJITSU LIMITED
To: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 016345/0210 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 13, 2005
From: FUJITSU DISPLAY TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
To: FUJITSU LIMITED
Reel/Frame 016345/0310 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 18, 2002
From: FUJITSU LIMITED
To: FUJITSU DISPLAY TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 013552/0107 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 11, 2002
From: SUGIURA, NORIO; OHMURO, KATSUFUMI; TASHIRO, KUNIHIRO
To: FUJITSU LIMITED
Reel/Frame 012995/0659 →