摘要:
A process for producing a liquid composition containing polymeric pigment fine particles including a pigment and a polymeric compound which is soluble in an aprotic solvent and hardly soluble in a poor solvent for the pigment is constituted by a step of preparing a solution of the pigment and the polymeric compound in the aprotic solvent in the presence of alkali; and a step of mixing the solution with the poor solvent for the pigment to precipitate the polymeric pigment fine particles comprising the pigment and the polymeric compound in a dispersion state.
摘要:
An image forming process provides an excellent ink fixation effect for high speed, low energy consumption printing. Two-valued or multi-valued gradation expression of a picture element, or the smallest output unit, is realized by controlling the number of liquid droplets impacting on a recording medium for each dot formed on the recording medium. The liquid droplets are subjected to physical or chemical modification so as to be fixed to the recording medium. The present invention is also directed to an image forming apparatus, an ink for liquid droplet recording and a liquid droplet ejection and projection method that can use the image forming process.
摘要:
A method for producing a pigment dispersion, including the steps of: preparing a fluid in a supercritical or subcritical state in which a pigment is dissolved; and introducing into a microreactor the fluid in a supercritical or subcritical state in which the pigment is dissolved and a solution containing a dispersant for dispersing the pigment in a dispersing medium, precipitating the pigment in the microreactor, and dispersing the precipitated pigment in the dispersing medium using the dispersant.
摘要:
An aligning method of a chiral smectic liquid crystal includes the steps of: disposing a chiral smectic liquid crystal between a pair of electrode plates, the chiral smectic liquid crystal having a layer spacing-changing characteristic providing a layer spacing which increases on temperature decrease in a first temperature range in smectic A phase; and subjecting the chiral smectic liquid crystal to a heat treatment including a sequence of cooling from a higher temperature phase to a second temperature range in smectic A phase including at least a portion of the first temperature range, at least one cycle of heating and cooling within the second temperature range, and further cooling to a smectic phase lower than smectic phase. The heat treatment, particularly at least one cycle of heating and cooling in smectic A phase, is effective in suppressing an alignment (orientation) irregularity due to the presence of two regions different in characteristics, thus improving a drive margin.
摘要:
A ferroelectric liquid crystal device of a cell structure having a suppressed increase of cell thickness along a cell side is constituted by disposing a ferroelectric liquid crystal between a pair of electrode plates each sequentially provided with an electrode, an insulating film and an alignment film on a substrate. The alignment film is provided with a surface unevenness for suppressing a liquid crystal movement causing the increase in cell thickness. The surface unevenness is provided to the alignment film directly or to the insulating film below the alignment film, e.g., by wet forming the relevant film by using at least two solvents having different boiling points or dispersing fine particles within the relevant film, optionally followed by removal of the fine particles.
摘要:
A chiral smectic liquid crystal device with good planar homogeneity in a layer normal direction can be constituted by disposing a chiral smectic liquid crystal having no cholesteric phase between a pair of substrates having mutually different characters, particularly in terms of Iso-SmA phase transition temperature. The liquid crystal may preferably have a layer spacing-changing characteristic such that it provides a layer spacing d.sub.A at a first transition point where the layer spacing of the liquid crystal begins to decrease on temperature decrease in the vicinity of a transition temperature from SmA phase to SmC* phase and a layer spacing d.sub.min at a second transition point where the layer spacing of the liquid crystal begins to increase on further temperature decrease from the first transition point, satisfying 0.96.ltoreq.d.sub.min /d.sub.A.
摘要:
A ferroelectric liquid crystal device is constituted by a pair of substrates disposed parallel to each other and each having on its inner surface an electrode, an insulating film and an alignment control film, and a ferroelectric liquid crystal disposed between the substrates. The alignment control films on the pair of substrates are provided with uniaxial alignment axes in directions which are substantially parallel and opposite to each other. The ferroelectric liquid crystal is placed in an alignment state showing a pretilt angle .alpha. of 5 degrees
摘要:
There is provided a ferroelectric liquid crystal device wherein the yellowing due to a cell thickness increase or occurrence of voids is suppressed. The ferroelectric liquid crystal device includes a pair of substrates each having thereon a group of electrodes for liquid crystal drive, and a layer of ferroelectric liquid crystal disposed between the substrates, wherein thermosetting adhesive particles and thermoplastic polymer particles having a diameter which is 1.5-5 times the liquid crystal layer thickness are dispersed and pressed between the substrates. The polymer particles preferably have a glass transition temperature of at most -20.degree. C.
摘要:
A liquid crystal device is constituted by a pair of substrates each provided with a transparent electrode, and a liquid crystal disposed between the substrates; at least one of said pair of substrates having thereon an alignment film comprising (i) a polyimide including principally a recurring unit of the following structural formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.11 denotes a tetravalent organic group, and R.sub.12 and R.sub.13 denote the same or different alkyl or perfluoroalkyl groups having 1-10 carbon atoms, and also at most 20 mol. % of a recurring monoamine unit of the following structural formula (II): ##STR2## wherein R.sub.21 and R.sub.22 denote the same or different alkyl or perfluoroalkyl groups having 1-10 carbon atoms, and X denotes an aromatic group, a heterocyclic group or a derivative group thereof; or (ii) a polyimide obtained through a reaction of at least two species of tetracarboxylic anhydrides of the following formula (III): ##STR3## wherein R.sub.31 denotes a tetravalent organic group, and a diamine of the following formula (IV): ##STR4## wherein R.sub.41 and R.sub.42 denote the same or different alkyl or perfluoroalkyl groups having 1-10 carbon atoms.
摘要:
A liquid crystal device improved in contrast and freeness from flickering and after image is formed by disposing a liquid crystal between a pair of substrates, at least one of which has an alignment film of a polyimide having a fluoroalkyl chain group as a side chain. The fluoroalkyl chain group may be contained in a diamine-originated moiety or a carboxylic acid-originated moiety of the polyimide.