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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vertical orientation agent with which a vertical liquid crystal orientation film having superior coating properties and free of a defect such as coating unevenness can stably be obtained. SOLUTION: Disclosed are a mixed solvent consisting of a 1st organic solvent which has surface tension of ≥39 dyne/cm and contains a nitrogen atom in a molecule, a 2nd organic solvent which has surface tension of ≥39 dyne/cm and does not contain a nitrogen atom in a molecule, and a 3rd organic solvent which has surface tension of ≤32 dyne/cm and the vertical liquid crystal orientation agent which contains a partially imidized polymer of polyamic acid and/or polyimide dissolved in the mixed solvent. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain good display characteristics such as aligning property of liquid crystal molecules and afterimage characteristics without rubbing treatment by irradiating an org. thin film containing a soluble polyimide having an alicyclic structure on a substrate with ion beams. SOLUTION: The liquid crystal alignment film is produced by irradiating an org. thin film containing a soluble polyimide having an alicyclic structure formed on a substrate with ion beams. In the alignment treatment with ion beams, characteristics required for the alignment film are that the film is easily etched with ion beams and that the formed grooves are not deformed. The polyimide having an alicyclic structure satisfies the requirement above described. As the agent for the liquid crystal alignment film, two or more kinds of polymers may be mixed to be used. In this case, the soluble polyimide having an alicyclic structure or an imide structural unit having an alicyclic structure is preferably included at least by >=10 wt.% of the solid content in the agent.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a resin composition which retains desirable transparency, heat resistance, and mechanical properties inherent in a cyclic olefin resin, and also exhibits excellent flame retardancy when molded. SOLUTION: The resin composition includes: 75-99 pts.wt. of cyclic olefin resin (A); and 1-25 pts.wt. of a compound (B) containing a phosphorus atom and a nitrogen atom and expressed by formula (1) (wherein R 1 is independently a 1-10C hydrocarbon group which may have a substituent, a 3-10C alicyclic hydrocarbon group which may have a substituent or a 6-20C aromatic hydrocarbon group which may have a substituent). In the resin composition, the total content of the phosphorus atom and the nitrogen atom is 0.1-5 wt.%. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid crystal aligning agent capable of producing a liquid crystal alignment film that excels in vertical alignment property, a voltage retention rate, and sealing agent adhesiveness. SOLUTION: A vertical alignment type liquid crystal aligning agent comprises a polyamic acid which is the product of a reaction of a combination of 1,3-diaminobenzene with which specific steroid skeletons are bound through an oxygen atom in the fourth position, and other diamines, and aliphatic tetracarboxylic dianhydride, or an imidized polymer which is the product of dehydration reaction of the polyamic acid. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid crystal alignment layer by which a liquid crystal display device having high contrast, a high voltage retention ratio and low residual DC voltage can be manufactured, and to provide its manufacturing method. SOLUTION: In the method of manufacturing the liquid crystal alignment layer, a liquid crystal and a compound which has a group having an ethylenic unsaturated bond and a hydrophobic group are encapsulated between two substrates where a film of a polyamic acid and polyimide is interposed on the surfaces in contact with the liquid crystal of the substrates. The compound is then irradiated with a radiation or heated to be polymerized on the polyamic acid or the polyimide film. The stacked body thus obtained is the liquid crystal alignment layer. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid crystal aligning agent capable of forming such a liquid crystal alignment film as to exhibit good alignment characteristics and to be shortened in a time in which an after-image is removed after release of an applied voltage in a liquid crystal display element, to provide a polymer used for forming the agent, and to provide a diamine compound used as a monomer for forming the polymer. SOLUTION: This diamine compound which contains an alicyclic radical, for example, methyl lithocholate (3,5-diaminobenzoate), a polyamic acid which is a reaction product of the diamine compound and a tetracarboxylic acid anhydride, an imidized polymer which is formed out of the polyamic acid, the liquid crystal aligning agent which contains the polymer, and the liquid crystal display element which has the liquid crystal alignment film formed out of the agent are provided, respectively. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress deterioration of an alignment film against light while suppressing manufacturing costs by forming the specified alignment film on a liquid crystal layer side surface of a substrate in a liquid crystal device having liquid crystal interposed between a pair of substrates opposedly disposed. SOLUTION: This liquid crystal device is provided with a TFT array substrate 10 constituting a sample of one transparent substrate and an counter substrate 20 disposed being opposed to the substrate 10 and constituting a sample of the other transparent substrate. And the TFT array substrate 10 is provided with a picture element electrode 9a and an alignment film 16 subjected to a prescribed alignment treatment such as the rubbing treatment is provided on an upper side of the picture element electrode. On the other hand, the counter substrate 20 is provided with a counter electrode 21 over all the surface thereof and an alignment film 22 subjected to a prescribed alignment treatment such as the rubbing treatment is provided on the lower side of the counter electrode 21. Polyimide as an alignment material is applied on the surfaces to film-form the films 16 and 22 and then they are subjected to the rubbing treatment. At this time, aromatic group concentration in the polyimide is specified to be 0-30 wt.%, more preferably 2-25 wt.%.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a polyamic acid good in liquid crystal aligning when made into a liquid crystal film, and useful as a liquid crystal aligning agent with a wide pretilt angle by reaction between a specific tetracarboxylic acid dianhydride and a specific diamine compound. SOLUTION: This polyamic acid is obtained by reaction between (A) a tetracarboxylic acid dianhydride including a compound of formula I (R1 is a 5-30C alkyl, halogen, 1-30C haloalkyl or a univalent organic group having steroidal skeleton; X is a single bond or bivalent bond group; R2 and R3 are each H or a univalent organic group; (a) is 1-4; (b) is 0-3) and (B) a diamine compound of the formula H2N-R4-NH2 (R4 is a bivalent organic group). By the way, the compound of formula I is prepared by ene reaction between maleic anhydride and the reaction product formed by Diels-Alder reaction between maleic anhydride and a styrene derivative of formula II.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cyclic olefin-based copolymer comprising a structural unit derived from a cyclic olefin compound having an aromatic ring and a structural unit derived from a cyclic olefin compound having no aromatic ring with little uneven distribution of the structural units and a method for producing the same, that is the cyclic olefin-based copolymer excellent in transparency, heat resistance, solubility in organic solvents, strengths and processability and expressing specific birefringence characteristics and wavelength dependence when an oriented film is produced, and a method for producing the same.SOLUTION: The cyclic olefin-based copolymer comprises a structural unit (a) derived from the cyclic olefin-based compound having a norbornene skeleton and an aromatic structure and a structural unit (b) derived from the cyclic olefin-based compound having a norbornene skeleton and no aromatic ring, and has ≤1 degree of uneven distribution of the aromatic cyclic structures.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide resin which can be satisfactorily fluidized by heating and a method of Selective Laser Sintering using the resin. SOLUTION: In the method of Selective Laser Sintering using powder of the specific resin, the resin is made to be an elliptic column-shaped pellet in which the long diameter of the ellipse is 2-5 mm, the short diameter is 1-4 mm, and the height is 1-5 mm. The pellet is heated for 30 minutes at temperature t(K), in which T, defined by a formula of T=t/Tg, is within a range from 1.10 to 1.40 to glass transition temperature Tg(K) of the resin. a2 denotes the maximum projected area of the object obtained by heating which is deformed from the pellet before being heated, a1 denotes the maximum projected area of the pellet before being heated, and A denotes a ratio of a2 and a1 (a2/a1). Within the range of T from 1.10 to 1.40, three or more values of A corresponding to optional T are obtained. When A is expressed as a linear function of T by linear regression based on a relationship between the obtained A and T, the linear function satisfies specific conditions, which characterizes the specific resin. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT