Flexible & Robust Liquid Crystal Displays

Liquid crystal device resistant to external pressure

Overview

・In a conventional liquid crystal display(LCD), when a large pressure is applied from the outside or a steep bending deformation is forced, the display image is disorderd cause of thickness variation of the liquid crystal layers, and the substrate spacer is damaged.
・Therefore, liquid crystals are difficult to apply to flexible displays because of such problems.
・The invention packs a liquid crystal material into robust microtubes and arranges them in a plurality to form a liquid crystal layer.
・Using such a structure, pressure force can be dispersed even when pressure is applied from the outside.
・It is expected to be applied to a robust and flexibile liquid crystal display.

Features・Outstandings

*1 Fujikake Laboratory https://www.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/fujikake/menu.htm

Product Application

□Displays requiring flexibility and robustness
・Rollable, flexible smartphones, tablets
・Large rollable LCD display for advertising
・Table-surface display on which various things can be placed, and floor-top display that doesn’t disturb when a people rides on it

IP Data

IP No.　 ： Not published
Inventor ： FUJIKAKE Hideo, SUGAYA Yuto, NAKATANI Masakazu
keyword ： Liquid crystal, Display, Flexible, Robust