IP Library Patent Application 13215561
Patent Application
App. No. 13/215,561

LIQUID CRYSTAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS

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App. No.
13/215,561
Abstract

A liquid crystal device which has a first and second electrodes formed on a second substrate and which controls allows alignment of liquid crystal molecules by an electric field generated between the first and second electrodes, wherein the liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer are aligned in a first direction in a plane of the substrate, wherein a phase difference layer having molecules, which are inclined in the plane of the first or second substrate and are aligned in directions different from one another in the transmissive display portion and the reflective display portion, is formed on a surface of the first or second substrate opposed to the liquid crystal layer, and wherein a director of the molecules of the phase difference layer is aligned in a second direction parallel to the first direction at least in the plane of the transmissive display portion.

Claims (16)

1 . A liquid crystal device comprising:

a liquid crystal layer interposed between a first substrate and a second substrate;

a plurality of pixels each having a transmissive display portion and a reflective display portion;

first and second electrodes formed on the second substrate;

liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer are aligned in a first direction in a plane of the substrate; and

a phase difference layer having molecules, which are inclined in the plane of the first or second substrate and are aligned in directions different from one another in the transmissive display portion and the reflective display portion, is formed on a surface of the first or second substrate opposed to the liquid crystal layer,

wherein a director of the molecules of the phase difference layer is aligned in a second direction parallel to the first direction at least in the plane of the transmissive display portion, and

wherein the second substrate has an insulating layer between the first and second electrodes.

2 . An electronic apparatus comprising:

a liquid crystal device including

a liquid crystal layer interposed between a first substrate and a second substrate,

a plurality of pixels each having a transmissive display portion and a reflective display portion,

first and second electrodes formed on the second substrate,

liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer are aligned in a first direction in a plane of the substrate, and

a phase difference layer having molecules, which are inclined in the plane of the first or second substrate and are aligned in directions different from one another in the transmissive display portion and the reflective display portion, is formed on a surface of the first or second substrate opposed to the liquid crystal layer,

wherein a director of the molecules of the phase difference layer is aligned in a second direction parallel to the first direction at least in the plane of the transmissive display portion.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 9, 2013
From: SONY CORPORATION
To: JAPAN DISPLAY WEST INC.
Reel/Frame 030182/0522 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 8, 2013
From: EPSON IMAGING DEVICES CORPORATION
To: SONY CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 029948/0812 →