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Granted Patent B2
US 8,804,074 · App. 13/309,064 · Granted Aug 12, 2014

Liquid crystal display device

Inventors: Yoshihisa Kurosaki (Kawasaki, JP); Toshiaki Yoshihara (Kawasaki, JP); Takuto Kato (Seto, JP)
Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
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Patent No.
US 8,804,074
App. No.
13/309,064
Granted
Aug 12, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

A liquid crystal display device including: a liquid crystal display element that includes a liquid crystal layer, and an upper substrate and a lower substrate opposed to each other via the liquid crystal layer, a plurality of liquid crystal display elements being stacked; wherein a condensing direction of a reflected light by directional control in at least one of the liquid crystal display elements is different from a condensing direction of a reflected light by directional control in at least one of another liquid crystal display elements.

Claims (15)

1. A liquid crystal display device comprising:

a liquid crystal display element that includes a liquid crystal layer, and an upper substrate and a lower substrate opposed to each other via the liquid crystal layer, a plurality of liquid crystal display elements being stacked;

wherein a condensing direction of a reflected light by directional control in at least one of the liquid crystal display elements is different from a condensing direction of a reflected light by directional control in at least one of another liquid crystal display elements.

2. The liquid crystal display device as claimed in claim 1 , where the liquid crystal layer is a cholesteric liquid crystal layer in which a dominant wavelength of selective reflection is a visible light domain.

3. The liquid crystal display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the directional control is performed by rubbing processes to the upper substrate and the lower substrate.

4. The liquid crystal display device as claimed in claim 3 , wherein a direction of the rubbing process to the upper substrate is different from a direction of the rubbing process to the lower substrate by 90 degrees.

5. The liquid crystal display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the condensing direction of the reflected light by the directional control in at least one of the liquid crystal display elements is different from the condensing direction of the reflected light by the directional control in at least one of another liquid crystal display elements by 45 degrees.

6. The liquid crystal display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein optical rotations of the reflected lights of both liquid crystal display elements are different from each other, the condensing directions of the reflected lights by the directional control in the both liquid crystal display elements being different from each other.

7. The liquid crystal display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the liquid crystal display elements of two layers are stacked,

one of the liquid crystal display elements includes a red liquid crystal portion that reflects a red light, and a first green liquid crystal portion that reflects a green light,

another one of the liquid crystal display elements includes a blue liquid crystal portion that corresponds to the red liquid crystal portion and reflects a blue light, a second green liquid crystal portion that corresponds to the first green liquid crystal portion and reflects the green light, and

the optical rotations of the reflected lights of the red and the blue liquid crystal portions are the same as each other, and the optical rotations of the reflected lights of the first and the second green liquid crystal portions are different from each other.

8. The liquid crystal display device as claimed in claim 7 , wherein an area ratio between the red and the first green liquid crystal portions in the one of the liquid crystal display elements, and an area ratio between the blue and the second green liquid crystal portions in the another one of the liquid crystal display elements are each 2:1.

9. The liquid crystal display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the liquid crystal display elements include a blue liquid crystal display element that reflects a blue light, a green liquid crystal display element that reflects a green light, and a red liquid crystal display element that reflects a red light, and

the condensing directions of the reflected lights by the directional control in the blue and the red liquid crystal display elements are different from each other.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 14, 2016
From: FUJITSU LIMITED; FUJITSU FRONTECH LIMITED
To: IRIS OPTRONICS, INC.
Reel/Frame 040311/0740 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 2, 2011
From: KUROSAKI, YOSHIHISA; YOSHIHARA, TOSHIAKI; KATO, TAKUTO
To: FUJITSU LIMITED
Reel/Frame 027473/0001 →
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTJP2009061131 · Jun 18, 2009
Related Publication 20120092600A1 · Apr 19, 2012