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Liquid crystal display devices

US4032219A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateOct 17, 1975
Grant dateJun 28, 1977
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Expiry dateOct 17, 1995

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG02F2202/043
  • WIPO fieldBasic materials chemistry
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A liquid crystal guest-host display device includes a dye dissolved in the liquid crystal material. The invention is characterized in that the dye comprises three colored dye compounds mixed together to provide gray in the absence of an applied electric field. The compounds may be Sudan Black, Sudan Red and .beta.-carotene. The liquid crystal material preferably includes at least one 4'-alkyl- or -alkoxy-4'-cyanobiphenyl compound.

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