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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8158220 | Cellulose acylate film, retardation film, polarizer and liquid crystal display device A cellulose acylate film comprising a cellulose acylate resin satisfying the formulae (i)-(iii) and a compound capable of forming a hydrogen bond satisfying conditions (A)-(C): (A) the compound has both a hydrogen bond donor moiety... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8153209 | Cellulose acylate film and method for producing it, and polarizer and liquid-crystal display device comprising it A cellulose acylate film having a water vapor permeability at 40° C. and 90% RH of from 100 to 400 g/(m2·day), of which the water vapor permeability change after kept at 60° C. and 95% RH for 1000 hours is from −100 g/(m2·day) to 10 g/(m | 04/10/2012 |
| 8137766 | Homeotropic alignment liquid crystal film, optical film comprising the same, and image display device A homeotropic alignment liquid crystal film is provided with a liquid crystalline substance containing a side chain liquid crystalline compound having an oxetanyl group, as a constituent, aligned homeotropically on an alignment substrate while being in a liquid crys... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8124198 | Retardation film and method for producing the same, optical functional film, polarizing film, and display device The main object of the present invention is to provide a highly reliable biaxial retardation film without the problems of peeling off of the retardation layer from the base material or the like generated in the case of forming the retardation layer, capable of enlar... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8088456 | Plastic substrate and liquid crystal display device having same A plastic substrate according to the present invention is used in optical instruments. The plastic substrate includes a composite substrate 10 in which fibers 11 are embedded in a resin matrix 12. The fibers are arranged in at least one predeter... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8021724 | Optical film, manufacturing method of the same, and polarizing plate and liquid crystal display using the optical film An optical film having an inner portion exhibiting an N value defined by the following equation smaller than an N value at a surface of the optical film: N=(nx+ny)/2−nz wherein nx represents an in-plane refractive index in... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7981488 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device comprising a liquid crystal cell and two polarizing plates disposed on the both sides thereof, wherein a protective film satisfying the specific conditions of retardation is sandwitched each between the liquid crystal cell and the pol... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7976914 | Resin film, production method thereof, polarizing plate and liquid crystal display device A resin film has a photoelastic coefficient of from 0 to 30×10−8 cm2/N; and Re satisfying the following formulae (1) to (4): 20 nm | 07/12/2011 |
| 7964254 | Optical laminate, optical element and liquid crystal display device An optical laminate having layer A having a resin having a negative intrinsic birefringence and at least one layer B having a transparent resin, having substantially no orientation and laminated at least on one face of layer A and satisfies a relation |Re(A)|>|Re(B)... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7959990 | Functionalized photoreactive compounds The present invention concerns functionalized photoreactive compounds of formula (I), that are particularly useful in materials for the alignment of liquid crystals. Due to the adjunction of an electron withdrawing group to specific molecular systems bearing an unsa... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7927672 | Optical cellulose acylate film, polarizing plate and liquid crystal display A cellulose acylate film is provided and is excellent in increasability of an in-plane retardation and a retardation in a thickness direction, from which an additive does not bleed out, and which is excellent in surface properties. The cellulose acylate film has a t... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7906184 | Optical film, method of producing the same, and image display apparatus using the optical film An object of the present invention is to provide an optical film capable of contributing to reduction in thickness, preventing uneven heating, and favorably preventing light leak in black display, and an image display apparatus using such an optical film. An optical... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7871680 | Optical film and liquid-crystal display device An optical film has a transparent film including light output portions distributed over one of opposite surfaces of the transparent film so as to make the total luminous transmittance and the haze of the optical film be set in a range of from 75 to 92% and in a rang... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7820252 | Transflective film, transflective polarizer, and polarizing light source device and liquid crystal display device using the same The present invention provides a transflective film comprising a polymer film having an in-plane phase retardation value of about 30 nm or less and a transflective layer made of an inorganic compound, wherein the transflective layer is coated on the polymer film and... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7820253 | Poly(aryletherimides) for negative birefringent films for LCDs A negative birefringence film prepared from a poly(aryletherimide) which is the reaction product of a dianhydride and a diamine, where the dianhydride is 4,4′-[4,4′-(p-phenyleneoxy)isopropylidene]bis(phthalic anhydride) (BisADA), bis(3,4-dicarboxyphenyl)ether di... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7807239 | Optical film containing polymer having naphtyl group An optical film containing a polymer having at least a repeating unit represented by following general formula (I): The optical film is excellent in heat resistance, transparency and processability because it contains a pol... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7807238 | Antiglare film and method of manufacturing the same One embodiment of the present invention is disclosed. A method of manufacturing an antiglare film comprising: forming a film by applying a coating liquid to a transparent substrate; and forming an antiglare layer by curing the film by irradiating the film with ioniz... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7794803 | Plastic substrate and liquid crystal display having same A plastic substrate according to the present invention is used in optical instruments. The plastic substrate includes a composite substrate 10 in which fibers 11 are embedded in a resin matrix 12. The fibers are arranged in at least one predeter... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7781033 | Optical film, method of producing the same, optical compensatory film, polarizing film, and liquid crystal display device An optical film comprising a layer consisting mainly of an organic compound and a layer containing inorganic fine particles wherein a content of the organic compound having a molecular weight of 1000 or less is 30% by mass or less based on a content of the inorganic... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7749577 | High strength multilayer laminates comprising twisted nematic liquid crystals Provided are multilayer laminates having one or more layers comprising twisted nematic liquid crystals and one or more layers of a polymeric sheet comprising a polymer with a modulus between 20,000 psi (138 MPa) and 100,000 psi (690 MPa). The twisted nematic liquid ... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7744970 | Multilayer laminates comprising twisted nematic liquid crystals Provided are multilayer laminates having one or more layers comprising twisted nematic liquid crystals and one or more layers of a polymeric sheet comprising a polymer with a modulus of 20,000 psi (138 MPa) or less. The twisted nematic liquid crystal layers reflect ... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7736708 | Micropattern retardation element The present invention relates to a micropattern retardation element requiring no stretch processing and no extremely high positioning accuracy in cutting films, and the like, and having the retardation region controlled in width of a micron unit, and a producing met... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7732024 | Homeotropic alignment liquid crystal film, optical film comprising the same, and image display device A homeotropic alignment liquid crystal film is provided with a liquid crystalline substance containing a side chain liquid crystalline compound having an oxetanyl group, as a constituent, aligned homeotropically on an alignment substrate while being in a liquid crys... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7727600 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device comprises a color filter substrate and an array substrate. An optical compensation film is disposed on the color filter substrate and/or the array substrate, wherein the optical compensation film comprises a polyimide, comprising the ... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7713597 | Durable optical element A durable optical film or element includes a polymerized structure having a microstructured surface and a plurality of surface modified colloidal nanoparticles of silica, zirconia, or mixtures thereof. Display devices including the durable microstructured film are a... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7704569 | Method for producing film with twisted tilted alignment, film with twisted tilted alignment, and image display using same A twist-obliquely oriented liquid crystal layer and a twist-obliquely oriented film is formed by forming an alignment layer, on a substrate, containing at least one selected from a glassy macromolecule and a silane coupling agent, performing a rubbing treatment on t... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7704570 | Polarizing plate and liquid crystal display apparatus using the same A polarizing plate includes two transparent supports A and B; and a polarizer sandwiched between the two transparent supports A and B; wherein (i) the transparent support A is a stretched cellulose ester film (a) which contains a non-phosphoric acid ester plasticize... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7691458 | Carrier substrate with a thermochromatic coating Numerous embodiments of a carrier substrate having thermochromatic materials are described. In one embodiment of the present invention, a carrier substrate has a visible surface, and a thermochromatic material is disposed near the carrier substrate. The thermochroma... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7666482 | Retardation film, polarizing plate and vertical alignment mode liquid crystal display A retardation film manufactured as a long roll film having a slow axis in a lateral direction of the long roll film, wherein an elastic modulus in an in-plane slow axis direction εs and an elastic modulus in an in-plane fast axis direction εf | 02/23/2010 |
| 7662444 | Liquid crystal microcapsule, method for producing the same, and liquid crystal display device using the same A liquid crystal microcapsule, comprising a liquid crystal and a polyurea film encapsulating the liquid crystal, wherein at least one of an alkyl group and a fluoroalkyl group is bonded directly or indirectly via a urethane bond to the polyurea. A method of p... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7625612 | Retardation film, polarizing element, liquid crystal panel, and liquid crystal apparatus There is provided a retardation film including a stretched film of a polymer film having an absolute value of photoelastic coefficient (m2/N) of 50×10−12 or less measured by using light of a wavelength of 550 nm at 23° C., which satisfies t... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7588807 | Retardation film and method of producing the same, and optical film, liquid crystal panel, and liquid crystal display apparatus all using the retardation film A retardation film which hardly causes shift or unevenness in retardation values and which has a refractive index profile of nx>nz>ny (that is, 0 | 09/15/2009 |
| 7582339 | Biaxial-optical polynorbornene-based film and method of manufacturing the same, integrated optical compensation polarizer having the film and method of manufacturing the polarizer, and liquid crystal display panel containing the film and/or polarizer Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a biaxial polynorbornene-film having a compensation film which has good light transmittance and a uniform in-plane retardation value and can function as both a negative C-plate and an A-plate. ... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7563492 | Liquid crystal composition and liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal composition having a nematic phase that includes three components, wherein the first component is at least one compound selected from the group of compounds represented by formula (1), the second component is at least one compound selected from the ... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7547468 | Optical film and lighting device using the optical film An optical film for use in a side-light type lighting device of a liquid crystal display or the like includes a plurality of tilted column-shaped transparent film cells extending from a light entrance surface to a light exit surface of the optical film. Light-reflec... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7547467 | Brightness enhancing film and methods of surface treating inorganic nanoparticles Presently described are (e.g. brightness enhancing film) optical articles comprising the reaction product of a polymerizable resin and surface modified inorganic nanoparticles, methods of surface modifying inorganic nanoparticles, and surface modified inorganic nano... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7541074 | Optical film and optical compensatory film, polarizing plate and liquid crystal display using same An optical film is provided and contains at least one of a polycarbonate copolymer and a blend containing the polycarbonate copolymer. The polycarbonate copolymer contains specific repeating units. The optical film satisfies the following formulae (1) to (4). | 06/02/2009 |
| 7527837 | Composition containing a polymerizable optically active compound The compound provided by the present invention is a polymerizable optically active compound represented by Formula (1): wherein R1 is hydrogen, chlorine or bromine; R2 is hydrogen, methyl or ethyl; A | 05/05/2009 |
| 7524543 | Durable optical element A durable optical film or element includes a polymerized structure having a microstructured surface and a plurality of surface modified colloidal nanoparticles of silica, zirconia, or mixtures thereof. Display devices including the durable microstructured film are a... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7524542 | Negative C-plate type optical anisotropic film comprising poly cycloolefin and method for preparing the same The present invention provides a negative C-plate type optical anisotropic film having negative birefringence along the thickness direction. In particular, the present invention provides a film comprising cycloolefin addition polymer, which is prepared by addition p... | 04/28/2009 |
