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Granted Patent B2
US 11,009,731 · App. 16/842,358 · Granted May 18, 2021

Liquid crystal panel

Inventor: Shinichi Hirato (Sakai, JP)
Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
G02F1/133345G02F1/13394G02F1/133788
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 11,009,731
App. No.
16/842,358
Granted
May 18, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

A liquid crystal panel includes: a liquid crystal layer; a pair of substrates that hold the liquid crystal layer between the pair of substrates; a spacer that is formed so as to protrude from one substrate of the pair of substrates toward the other substrate of the pair of substrates and comes into contact with the other substrate to keep a distance between the pair of substrates; and an overcoat film that is arranged in the one substrate on a lower layer side of the spacer and is configured so that a gap between a lowest position and a highest position of fine irregularities generated in a reference range on a surface is 4 nm or less.

Claims (8)

1. A liquid crystal panel comprising:

a liquid crystal layer;

a pair of substrates that hold the liquid crystal layer between the pair of substrates;

a spacer that is formed so as to protrude from one substrate of the pair of substrates toward another substrate of the pair of substrates and comes into contact with the other substrate to keep a distance between the pair of substrates; and

an overcoat film that is arranged in the one substrate on a lower layer side of the spacer and is configured so that a gap between a lowest position and a highest position of fine irregularities generated in a reference range on a surface is 4 nm or less, wherein

the overcoat film is configured so that a surface area increase rate that is obtained by dividing an actually measured surface area in the reference range by an assumed surface area when the reference range is assumed to be a smooth surface and subtracting 1 from a value obtained by division is 0.071% or less.

2. The liquid crystal panel according to claim 1 , wherein the overcoat film is formed of an ultraviolet-curable resin material.

3. The liquid crystal panel according to claim 1 , further comprising an optical alignment film that is arranged on an upper layer side of the overcoat film and the spacer so as to face the liquid crystal layer and that is subjected to optical alignment treatment so that liquid crystal molecules included in the liquid crystal layer are aligned.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 7, 2020
From: HIRATO, SHINICHI
To: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 052334/0590 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2019-074115 · Apr 9, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
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