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Image display medium and image display device using the image display medium

US6590696B2 · kind B2 · utility

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20Claims
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Filing dateJun 5, 2001
Grant dateJul 8, 2003
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Expiry dateJan 8, 2022

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG02F1/167
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An image display medium including a pair of electroconductive layers, at least one of which is light-transmissive and which are opposed each other to form a cell; and a dispersion contained in the cell, wherein the dispersion includes a colored particulate material having at least one of an acidic group and a basic group; a hydrocarbon solvent; a resin soluble in the hydrocarbon solvent and having at least one of a basic group and an acidic group; and a compound having a nonionic polar group, and wherein when the particulate material has an acidic group, the resin has a basic group, and when the particulate material has a basic group, the resin has an acidic group.

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