The present invention relates to a liquid crystal alignment composition that not only exhibits high degree of imidization and excellent film strength when manufacturing a liquid crystal alignment film, but also can realize improved alignment property and electrical properties, a method for preparing a liquid crystal alignment film using the same, a liquid crystal alignment film and a liquid crystal display using the same.

The present invention relates to a liquid crystal alignment agent composition including a copolymer for liquid crystal alignment agent containing two types of repeating units classified according to the types of diamine-derived functional groups, and a crosslinker compound in which the protecting group having a specific structure was introduced, a method for preparing a liquid crystal alignment film using the same, and a liquid crystal alignment film and a liquid crystal display device using the same.

The present application relates to a liquid crystal aligning agent, a liquid crystal alignment film and a method for producing the same, as well as a liquid crystal display device. The liquid crystal aligning agent comprises (i) a first polyamic acid having a photoreactive group without a liquid crystal group; (ii) a second polyamic acid having a liquid crystal group without a photoreactive group; (iii) a third polyamic acid having both a liquid crystal group and a photoreactive group; (iv) a fourth polyamic acid having neither a photoreactive group nor a liquid crystal group. The liquid crystal display device using the liquid crystal alignment film formed by the liquid crystal aligning agent provided by the present disclosure has a high display contrast and an improved AC residual image.

A liquid crystal display including: a first substrate; a second substrate configured to overlap the first substrate and to be separate from the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and including a liquid crystal molecule; a first alignment layer disposed between the first substrate and the liquid crystal layer; a second alignment layer disposed between the second substrate and the liquid crystal layer; and a plurality of protrusions disposed between the first alignment layer and the liquid crystal layer, wherein at least one protrusion of the plurality of protrusions includes an orientation polymer including a polymerized reactive mesogen, the first alignment layer includes a photo-reactive group, and the liquid crystal layer includes a photoreaction initiator.

A photo-alignment polymer has a repeating unit represented by Formula (1), in Formula (1), R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, X represents —O—, —S—, or —NR.sup.2—, in which R.sup.2 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, L.sup.1 represents a single bond or a divalent linking group, P represents a photo-aligned group, and A represents an acid-cleavage group which is decomposed by an action of acid to produce a polar group

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A liquid crystal photo-alignment agent includes a polyimide copolymer including a first structure unit represented by the described Chemical Formula 1 and a second structure unit represented by the described Chemical Formula 2, and, based on a 100 mole % sum total of the first structure unit and the second structure unit, the first structure unit is included in an amount of 70 to 95 mole % and the second structure unit is included in an amount of 5 to 30 mole %. A liquid crystal photo-alignment film may be manufactured using the same, and a liquid crystal display may include the liquid crystal photo-alignment film.

The present disclosure provides a display panel, a manufacturing method thereof, and a transfer printing device. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, at least one groove is defined in a transfer printing plate of the transfer printing device, through holes corresponding to blind holes can be formed in an area corresponding to the grooves, thereby preventing blocking effect of an original alignment film on light passing through the blind holes, increasing light transmittance of the blind holes, and improving an overall performance of devices with the blind holes.

An alignment layer composition including a copolymer of a dianhydride compound and a diamine compound, wherein the copolymer includes a repeating unit represented by Formula 1:

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wherein each of Ar.sub.1 and Ar.sub.2 is independently a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic group comprising 6 to 30 carbon atoms, X is an electron donating group, and

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is an ester group, wherein “*” indicates a point of attachment to the aromatic groups Ar.sub.1 and Ar.sub.2.

A material from which a cured film exhibiting high solvent resistance, liquid crystal-alignment performance, heat resistance and high transparency can be formed. A composition for forming a thermoset film having photo alignment properties, the composition comprising: a component (A) that is an acrylic copolymer having a photodimerizing moiety and a thermal cross-linking moiety; a component (B) that is an acrylic polymer having at least one of a C.sub.2-5 alkyl ester group and a C.sub.2-5 hydroxyalkyl ester group and at least one of a carboxy group and a phenolic hydroxy group; and a component (C) that is a cross-linking agent.

A photo-aligning liquid crystal alignment layer formed by using a photo-aligning liquid crystal aligning agent containing polyamic acid or a derivative thereof which is synthesized by using tetracarboxylic acid dianhydride having no photoreactive structure having a specific structure and diamine having no photoreactive structure having a specific structure together with at least one of tetracarboxylic acid dianhydride having a photoreactive structure and diamine having a photoreactive structure can reduce storage of residual DC in a liquid crystal display device. Further, the above alignment layer can shorten the relaxation time and can prevent afterimages from being generated.