161 |
MEDICAL DEVICE EMPLOYING LIQUID CRYSTAL BLOCK COPOLYMERS AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME |
US13467642 |
2012-05-09 |
US20120220932A1 |
2012-08-30 |
John J. Chen |
A medical device, at least a portion of which is formed from a polymer composition including at least one liquid crystal block copolymer having at least one A block and at least one B block wherein the A block is formed of mesogenic repeat units and the B block is a soft block. |
162 |
POLYMERIZABLE COMPOSITION, COLOR FILTER, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME, SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, AND PLANOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE PRECURSOR, AND NOVEL COMPOUND |
US13395849 |
2010-08-10 |
US20120176571A1 |
2012-07-12 |
Masaomi Makino |
Disclosed is a photopolymerizable composition which contains a photopolymerization initiator (A) that has a partial structure represented by the following Formula (1) and a polymerizable compound (B). In General formula (1), R3 and R4 each independently represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, an aryl group, a heteroaryl group or an alkoxy group; R3 and R4 may form a ring with each other; and X represents OR5, SR6, or NR17R18. The photopolymerizable composition is capable of forming a cured film that has high sensitivity, excellent intra-membrane curability and excellent adhesion to a support. The cured film is able to maintain a patterned shape even during post-heating after development and has good pattern formability, while coloring due to heating with passage of time being suppressed. |
163 |
Medical device employing liquid crystal block copolymers and method of making the same |
US12974467 |
2010-12-21 |
US08187492B2 |
2012-05-29 |
John J. Chen |
A medical device, at least a portion of which is formed from a polymer composition including at least one liquid crystal block copolymer having at least one A block and at least one B block wherein the A block is formed of mesogenic repeat units and the B block is a soft block. |
164 |
Liquid crystal compositions comprising mesogen containing compounds |
US12489843 |
2009-06-23 |
US07910020B2 |
2011-03-22 |
Meng He; Anil Kumar; Jiping Shao; Xiao-Man Dai; Ruisong Xu |
Liquid crystal compositions comprising compounds including at least one mesogenic substructure and at least one long flexible segment and a compound selected from a photochromic compound, a dichroic compound and a photochromic-dichroic compound and methods of synthesizing the same and their use in articles of manufacture and ophthalmic devices are disclosed. |
165 |
MEDICAL DEVICE EMPLOYING LIQUID CRYSTAL BLOCK COPOLYMERS AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME |
US12706463 |
2010-02-16 |
US20100145269A1 |
2010-06-10 |
John J. Chen |
A medical device, at least a portion of which is formed from a polymer composition including at least one liquid crystal block copolymer having at least one A block and at least one B block wherein the A block is formed of mesogenic repeat units and the B block is a soft block. |
166 |
FOIL FOR PREVENTING FORGERY |
US12614690 |
2009-11-09 |
US20100119738A1 |
2010-05-13 |
Satomi SUZUKI; Hideki KANEIWA; Ichiro AMIMORI |
A forgery-preventing foil having a latent image and a total thickness of 20 μm or less, containing at least one patterned optically anisotropic layer having two or more regions different in birefringence property, all of the regions in the same layer being formed of the same layer-forming composition. |
167 |
Method of producing liquid crystal emulsion compositions |
US11560766 |
2006-11-16 |
US07696254B2 |
2010-04-13 |
Takashi Suzuki; Kenji Nakamura |
A process of producing a highly stable liquid crystal emulsion composition with improved qualities, in which a conventional complicated and costly process that requires specific equipment is streamlined into a simple and less costly process. A method of producing a liquid crystal emulsion composition having liquid crystal structure, comprising the steps of admixing 3 to 8 parts by weight of a hydrophilic surfactant which is a polyoxyethylene polyoxypropylene alkyl ether having an HLB of 10 to 20 with 2 to 6 parts by weight of a lipophilic surfactant; admixing 5 to 10 parts by weight of the resulting admixture with 5 to 30 parts by weight of an oil component; admixing the obtained admixture with a mixture of 40 to 80 parts by weight of a water-soluble polyvalent alcohol and 8 to 40 parts by weight of water; and heating, homogeneously mixing and then cooling the thus obtained admixture. |
168 |
MEDICAL DEVICE EMPLOYING LIQUID CRYSTAL BLOCK COPOLYMERS AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME |
US12549743 |
2009-08-28 |
US20100016941A1 |
2010-01-21 |
John J. Chen; Joseph Delaney, JR. |
A medical device, at least a portion of which is formed from a polymer composition including at least one liquid crystal block copolymer having at least one A block and at least one B block wherein the A block is a liquid crystal polymer block formed of repeating units comprising mesogenic groups and the B block is a non-liquid crystal polymer block. |
169 |
LIQUID CRYSTAL COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING MESOGEN CONTAINING COMPOUNDS |
US12489843 |
2009-06-23 |
US20090323012A1 |
2009-12-31 |
Meng He; Anil Kumar; Jiping Shao; Xiao-Man Dai; Ruisong Xu |
Liquid crystal compositions comprising compounds including at least one mesogenic substructure and at least one long flexible segment and a compound selected from a photochromic compound, a dichroic compound and a photochromic-dichroic compound and methods of synthesizing the same and their use in articles of manufacture and ophthalmic devices are disclosed. |
170 |
NANOPOROUS PARTICLE WITH A RETAINED TARGET |
US12541737 |
2009-08-14 |
US20090297493A1 |
2009-12-03 |
David Anderson |
Porous nanostructured materials, such as porous nanostructured liquid and liquid crystalline particles or materials, incorporate a target substantially within the material which selectively binds a chemical of interest, which can diffusion within the porous nanostructured material and be bound by the target. The porous nanostructured materials can be dispersed as particles in a medium in which said chemical of interest is located with low turbidity. Markers which detect binding of said chemical of interest can be maintained in the medium separate and apart from the target, and any active compound (e.g., an enzyme) associated therewith by the porous nanostructured material, such that detectable changes in the marker only result when the active compounds diffuse out of the porous nanostructured materials after the chemical of interest binds to the target. |
171 |
Method of producing liquid crystal emulsion compositions |
US11560291 |
2006-11-15 |
US07534369B2 |
2009-05-19 |
Takashi Suzuki; Kenji Nakamura |
A method of producing a liquid crystal emulsion composition which has a viscosity of 30,000 mPa·sec or more at a 2-hold dilution and an improved stability, includes admixing a hydrophilic surfactant which is a polyoxyethylene polyoxypropylene alkyl ether having an HLB of 10 to 20 with a hydrophilic surfactant having an HLB of 13 or more which is comprised of a polyoxyethylene fatty acid derivative; admixing the resulting admixture with a mixture of 5 to 10 parts by weight of the thus combined surfactants with 5 to 30 parts by weight of an oil component; admixing the resulting admixture with a mixture of 40 to 80 parts by weight of a water-soluble polyvalent alcohol and 8 to 40 parts by weight of water; and heating, homogeneously mixing and then cooling the thus obtained admixture. |
172 |
Sucking and Chewing Article for Babies or Small Children |
US11994117 |
2006-06-15 |
US20080208254A1 |
2008-08-28 |
Steffen Berger; Alexander DuChesne; Gunter Marr |
The invention relates to a suction or chewing article for babies or small children comprising at least one mouthpiece made of a substantially elastomer material containing at least one elastomer component. According to said invention, the elastomer material contains at least one type of liquid crystal pigment (LC-pigment). |
173 |
Flakes comprising non-chiral liquid crystal material |
US10520063 |
2003-06-06 |
US07297292B2 |
2007-11-20 |
Robert Hammond-Smith; Rodney Riddle; John Patrick |
The invention relates to liquid crystal flakes, to methods of their preparation and to their use as pigments for security or decorative applications or optical elements. |
174 |
Organic semiconductor material |
US10787895 |
2004-02-26 |
US07259390B2 |
2007-08-21 |
Jun-Ichi Hanna; Hiroaki Iino; Hiroki Maeda |
There is provided a liquid crystalline material, suitable for use as an organic semiconductor material, in which, even when the charge transport distance is long, the charge transport capability is satisfactory, the charge mobility is high, and the dependence of the charge transport properties upon field strength is small. The organic semiconductor material having rodlike low-molecular weight liquid crystallinity comprises: a core structure comprising L 6 π electron rings, M 8 π electron rings, N 10 π electron rings, O 12 π electron rings, P 14 π electron rings, Q 16 π electron rings, R 18 π electron rings, S 20 π electron rings, T 22 π electron rings, U 24 π electron rings, and V 26 π electron rings, wherein L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, and V are each an integer of 0 (zero) to 6 and L+M+N+O+P+Q+R+S+T+U+V=1 to 6; and a terminal structure attached to at least one end of the core structure, the terminal structure being capable of developing liquid crystallinity. |
175 |
Medical device employing liquid crystal block copolymers and method of making the same |
US11353606 |
2006-02-14 |
US20070191813A1 |
2007-08-16 |
John Chen |
A medical device, at least a portion of which is formed from a polymer composition including at least one liquid crystal block copolymer having at least one A block and at least one B block wherein the A block is formed of mesogenic repeat units and the B block is a soft block. |
176 |
Optical elements and method of making the same using liquid crystal materials |
US11527131 |
2006-09-26 |
US20070076167A1 |
2007-04-05 |
Anil Kumar; Peter Foller |
Provided is a method for making a customized lens including applying a customizable material onto a surface of an ophthalmic substrate; and writing index-change information to the material to form a variable-index layer on the substrate surface. Also provided is a customized ophthalmic element including an ophthalmic substrate; and a variable-index layer of a liquid crystal material connected to at least a portion of the substrate. Further provided is an ophthalmic element having a pair of complementary substrates, each of which has a complementary surface and being positioned such that their complementary surfaces are spaced apart and facing each other, an alignment layer of a patterned alignment material connected to at least one of the complementary surfaces of the pair of substrates, and a variable-index coating interposed between the pair of substrates, such that the liquid crystal material of the variable-index coating is aligned with the patterned alignment material. |
177 |
Visual changing ornament |
US11205092 |
2005-08-17 |
US20070042133A1 |
2007-02-22 |
Yi-Ching Needham |
The present invention provides a visual changing ornament structure, wherein one layer of a chemical raw material layer filled with chemical agents is disposed between a shell and a protective film. A property of the chemical agents enables morphological physical changes produced in the chemical agents to transform the original morphological appearance of the chemical agents, thereby imparting a change in visual impact to the ornament structure. Changing the chemical agents within the chemical raw material layer to ones having different properties enables producing alternative visual changes. |
178 |
Liquid-crystalline ionic conductor and method for producing the same |
US11225000 |
2005-09-14 |
US20060011887A1 |
2006-01-19 |
Takashi Kato; Kiyoshi Kanie; Masafumi Yoshio; Hiroyuki Ohno; Masahiro Yoshizawa |
A novel liquid-crystalline ionic conductor, which is useful in the electric, electronic, chemical and bioengineering fields, as an anisotropic reaction solvent, ionic conductor, electric field-responsible conductor or the like, and a method for producing the same, is provided. The liquid-crystalline ionic conductor is obtained by mixing an organic molten salt with a-liquid-crystalline organic molecule or a liquid-crystalline inorganic molecule, which comprises a moiety miscible to the organic molten salt and a moiety that shows liquid-crystalline orientation, thereby forming a liquid-crystalline ionic conductor, wherein the organic molten salt is assembled to the liquid-crystalline molecule. |
179 |
Laser gain medium for solid state dye lasers |
US10525796 |
2002-08-29 |
US20050249257A1 |
2005-11-10 |
Reinhold Leyrer; Holger Schopke; Christoph Hamers |
The present invention relates to a laser gain medium comprising at least one active species adapted to be stimulated to emit laser light within a predetermined wavelength range and optical feedback means defining a resonator for said laser light. The feedback means comprise at least one substantially solid cholesteric layer having a substantially planar texture exhibiting selective reflection of light defined by a reflection band tuned to said predetermined wavelength range. |
180 |
Electro-optical glazing structures having total-reflection and transparent modes of operation for use in dynamical control of electromagnetic radiation |
US10601761 |
2003-06-23 |
US06912018B2 |
2005-06-28 |
Sadeg M. Faris; Le Li |
Electro-optical glazing structures having total-reflection and semi-transparent and totally-transparent modes of operation which are electrically-switchable for use in dynamically controlling electromagnetic radiation flow in diverse applications. |