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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid crystal aligning agent giving a liquid crystal aligning film having a high voltage retention and good burn-in property. SOLUTION: The liquid crystal aligning agent has amic acid repeating units including 2,7-diaminofluorene as a diamine component, wherein the amic acid repeating units occupy 50-90 wt.% of the sum of the amic acid repeating units and imide repeating units. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vertically orientated liquid crystal orientating agent which has a high voltage retention and exhibits good applicability to a substrate. SOLUTION: The agent comprises a polymer which has an amic acid repeating unit and/or an imide repeating unit, wherein the group derived from the diamine in the repeating unit comprises, for example, a group derived from both at least one of a specific diamine such as dodecanoxy-2,4-diaminobenzene or having a steroid skeletal, and another specific diamine such as 1,4-bis(aminomethyl)-bicyclo[2,2,1]heptane. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vertical liquid crystal aligning agent which is excellent in characteristics related to after image and image persistence. SOLUTION: The vertical alignment type liquid crystal aligning agent is constructed with an imide polymer composed of ≤35 mol% amic acid repeat units and ≥75 mol% imide repeat units and contains ≥50 mol% units originating from 2,3,5-tricarboxycyclopentylacetic acid dianhydride or 1,3,3a,4,5,9b-hexahydro-5(tetrahydro-2,5-dioxo-3-furanyl)-naphtho[1,2-c]-furan-1,3-diones as units originating from tetracarboxylic acid dianhydride of the repeat units, or ≥8 mol% units originating from diaminobenzene with a substituent group such as a 10-20C alkyl group or bis-(aminobenzene) with a 4-40C alicyclic skeleton as units originating from diamine. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid crystal aligning agent capable of forming a liquid crystal alignment layer which can stably develop a high pretilt angle and of having superior printing characteristics, even with respect to a substrate having a large surface level difference. SOLUTION: The liquid crystal aligning agent contains a polyamic acid, obtained by using phenylenediamine having a steroid skeleton, such as cholestanyloxy methyldiaminobenzene as diamine, or imidized polymers of the polyamic acid. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid crystal alignment layer improving stability of liquid crystal alignment and giving a liquid crystal display element of a high voltage holding ratio and low afterimage type. SOLUTION: The liquid crystal alignment layer is composed of a laminated body and a first layer coming in contact with a liquid crystal consists of a polymer of a compound represented by formula (1). In formula (1), ring structures A and B mutually independently denote a cyclohexane ring or a benzene ring, these rings may be substituted by an alkoxyl group or a halogen, X and Z mutually independently denote bond groups selected from the group consisting of a single bond, a methylene group, a 2-10C alkylene group, a 2-10C alkylidene group, -(CH 2 ) n O-, -(CH 2 ) n COO- and -(CH 2 ) n OCO-, n denotes an integer of 1 or more, and R denotes a hydrogen atom or a methyl group. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid crystal aligning agent with which charge storage and lowering of a voltage holding ratio are suppressed and a high-quality transverse electric field type liquid crystal display element with no image persistence or afterimage is provided. SOLUTION: The liquid crystal aligning agent is a polymer which contains a polyamic acid polymer and a polyimide polymer, and which is obtained from a diamine and a tetracarboxylic acid dianhydride, wherein 50 mol% or more of total diamine components of the polyamic acid is p-phenylene diamine compounds and 30 mol% or more of total tetracarboxylic acid dianhydride is cyclobutanetetracarboxylic acid compounds. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid crystal aligning agent which shows a good shelf stability, is excellent in resistance to rubbing and is capable of forming a liquid crystal alignment film showing a good liquid crystal alignment. SOLUTION: The liquid crystal aligning agent contains (1) 100 pts.wt. at least one chosen from the group consisting of (a) a polyamic acid which is a reaction product of a tetracarboxylic acid dianhydride and a diamine compound, (b) an imidized polymer of the polyamic acid and (c) a mixture of the polyamic acid and the imidized polymer and (2) 0.1-30 pts.wt. glycidyl amine low-molecular-weight compound with a molecular weight of ≤1,000 containing at least six epoxy groups within a molecule. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a radiation-sensitive resin composition which is safe for a living body, which has favorable coating property even for a large substrate, high sensitivity, sufficient development margin, high solvent resistance, high heat resistance and high transmittance, and in particular, which is useful for forming an interlayer insulating film and a microlens, and to provide an interlayer insulating film and a microlens formed from the composition, and a method for forming them. SOLUTION: The radiation-sensitive resin composition contains (A) an alkali-soluble resin, (B) a radiation-sensitive acid generating agent and (C) an organic solvent represented by 1-methoxy-2-(2-methoxypropoxy)propane, 1-methyl-2-methoxyethyl propionate, 2-n-propoxypropyl acetate or the like. The method for forming an interlayer insulating film and a microlens includes the steps of: (i) forming a coating film of the above composition on a substrate; (ii) exposing to radiation; (iii) developing; and (iv) heating. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a refractive index-variable composition of which the refractive index largely varies by the irradiation of radiation. SOLUTION: The radiation-sensitive refractive index-variable composition includes an inorganic oxide particle (A), a polymerizable compound (B), a radioactivity-sensitive decomposing agent (C) and a fugitive compound (D). A refractive index pattern is formed by irradiating the composition with radiation through a pattern mask and subjecting the composition to heat treatment to polymerize the polymerizable compound (A) and to confine the fugitive compound (D) with crosslinking in the exposed area and to decompose the fugitive compound (D) in the unexposed area. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hardenable resin composition meeting requirements of desired transparency, heat resistance, surface hardness and adhesion, having good storage stability and excellent load resistance under heating conditions and permitting formation of a protective film for optical devices having excellent performance of flattening level differences of color filters formed on a substrate. SOLUTION: The composition contains [A] (a) a polymer having at least one of epoxy-containing alicyclic skeletons of formulae (1), (2) and (3) and [B] a cation-polymerizable compound other than the ingredient [A]. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI