| 摘要 |
A liquid crystal shutter construction, suitable for glass shields and automatically darkening welding glass filters, which shutter construction is switchable between a first state with high transmission of light and a second state with low transmission of light, and vice versa, in response to an electric control signal, the shutter construction having a nematic type liquid crystal cell disposed between transparent plates having electrodes for providing an electric field in response to the control signal, said plates having mutually facing surfaces, each of which is provided with alignment means for defining a respective molecule alignment direction for molecules in the proximity of said alignment means in the absence of said electric field, said liquid crystal cell being mounted between polarisers, wherein a retardation film is disposed between the polarisers in order to reduce remaining retardation in the liquid crystal cell when in an electrically activated state, said retardation film being arranged such that the fast axis of the retardation film differs from the fast axis of the inherent retardation of said cell.
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