[54] REFLECTIVE LCD HAVING ORIENTATION FILM FORMED ON QUARTER WAVELAYER AND PLANARIZING FILM FORMED ON REFLECTOR LAYER
[75] Inventors: Hideo Kataoka; Tetsuo Urabe;
Nobuyuki Shigeno, all ol Kanagawa,
Japan
[73] Assignee: Sony Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
[ * ] Notice: -phis patent issued on a continued prosecution application filed under 37 CFR 1.53(d), and is subject to the twenty year patent term provisions ol 35 U.S.C. 154(a)(2).
[21] Appl. No.: 08/757,329
[22] Filed: Nov. 27, 1996
[30] Foreign Application Priority Data
Nov. 30, 1995 [JP] Japan 7-335773
Nov. 30, 1995 [JP] Japan 7-335774
Oct. 2, 1996 [JP] Japan 8-281351
[51] Int. CI.7 G02F 1/1335; G02F 1/1333;
C09K 19/60
[52] U.S. CI 349/113; 349/122; 349/165
[58] Field of Search 349/113, 183,
349/165, 75, 95, 117, 122
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