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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8187681 | Transparent film and optical compensatory film, polarizing plate and liquid-crystal display device employing it A novel transparent film is disclosed. Re (λ) and Rth (λ) of the film defined by the following formulae (I) and (II) satisfy the following formulae (III) and (IV): Re(λ)=(nx−ny)×d, (I) Rth(λ)={(nx+ny... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8147931 | Cellulose-film modifier, cellulose composition, and optical cellulose film, polarizing plate-protecting film, polarizing plate, and liquid crystal display device, produced by using the same A cellulose-film modifier, having a compound represented by the following Formula (1): wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or an aliphatic or aromatic acyl group; R2, R3 and R4 ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8057870 | Composition for forming gate insulating layer of organic thin-film transistor and organic thin film transistor using the same The present invention relates to a composition for forming a gate insulating layer of an organic thin film transistor comprising polyarylate, and an organic thin film transistor comprising a gate insulating layer, which is formed using the composition, in contact wi... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8025940 | Laminate improving slippage of hardcoat layer There is provided a laminate comprising a hard coat layer having the outermost surface to which slipperiness has been imparted. The laminate comprises a transparent substrate and a hard coat layer provided on said transparent substrate. The hard coat layer is... | 09/27/2011 |
| 7981489 | Optical compensation sheet and liquid crystal display device An optical compensation sheet, which contains a cellulose acylate film that contains 1 to 20 parts by mass of a retardation controlling agent, to 100 parts by mass of a cellulose acylate, wherein the retardation controlling agent comprises at least two compounds dif... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7955666 | Cellulose acylate film and method for producing same, and retardation film, polarizing plate and liquid crystal display device comprising the film A Cellulose acylate film, in which X-ray diffraction intensity satisfies following formulae and a half-value width of the peak at 2θ2 is 3° or less: 0.40≦Ic/(Iam+Ic)≦0.85; Iam=I1+{(I3 | 06/07/2011 |
| 7947342 | Polarizer protective film, manufacturing method thereof, polarizing plate and liquid crystal display A polarizer protective film comprising: a cellulose ester; a saccharide ester having an ester of compound (A), the compound (A) having one furanose structure or one pyranose structure in the molecule, wherein all or a part of OH groups in the compound (A) are esteri... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7875328 | Optical film and information technology apparatus comprising the same The present invention relates to an optical film comprising an aromatic based unit having chain having the hydroxy group containing portion and aromatic moiety; and a styrene-based unit comprising one or more styrene-based derivatives, and has absolute values of in-... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7854971 | Cellulose ester film, production method of the same, polarizing plate and liquid crystal display A cellulose ester film comprising a cellulose ester and a compound containing: an acrylate group or a methacrylate group; and a phenolic hydroxyl group, in the molecule. ... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7790249 | Stretched cellulose ester film, polarizing plate and liquid crystal display employing the same A stretched cellulose ester film produced by stretching after film forming employing a cellulose ester including a polyester polyol obtained from (a) a glycol having an average carbon atom number of 2 to 3.5 and (b) a dibasic or an anhydrous dibasic acid having an a... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7749578 | Cellulose ester film, polarizing plate and liquid crystal display An object of the present invention is to provide a polarizing plate protective film exhibiting a reduced variation value retardation, which is highly stable against polarizing plate degradation, polarizing plate dimension, and polarizing plate curl. Disclosed is a c... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7749579 | Rolled optical film A rolled optical film includes a cellulose ester film which has a width of from 1 m to 3 m and a length of 500 m or more and is shaped in a rolled film. The cellulose ester film includes streaks from 1 line to 20 lines per 10 mm in a lateral direction thereof in whi... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7740919 | Cellulose ester film, its manufacturing method, optical retardation film, optical compensation sheet, elliptic polarizing plate, and image display A manufacturing method of a cellulose ester film satisfying the relationships, Nx>Ny>Nz, and 0.8≦Rt/R0≦3.5, the method comprising casting a cellulose ester dope containing a solvent of a good solvent and a poor solvent on a support to form ... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7722935 | Retardation film, use of said retardation film, and novel modified polymer A modified polymer which can serve as a raw material of novel reverse dispersion retardation films is provided, the modified polymer having no need to select a plurality of monomers or polymers in order to realize a reverse dispersion and having no problems concerni... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7709067 | Cellulose ester film, polarizing plate and liquid crystal display A cellulose ester film comprising a compound represented by Formula (1): Formula (1) B-(G-A)n-G-B, wherein B represents a benzene monocarboxylic acid residue; G represents an alkylene glycol residue having 2-12 carbon atoms, an aryl glycol residue having 6-12 carbon... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7682672 | Negative C-type compensation film and method of preparing the same Disclosed are a negative C-type compensation film and a method of preparing the same. The negative C-type compensation film includes a) a base layer, and b) a polymer layer comprising polyarylate prepared by a method comprising the step of copolymerizing divalent ph... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7662446 | Polarizing plate A polarizing plate has a polarizer and a protective film formed on at least one surface of the polarizer. The protective film is formed by curing an energy ray-curable composition that contains at least one of a first energy ray-polymerizing compound having a bisphe... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7655284 | Multi-functional monomer having a photoreactive group, alignment film for LCD using the monomer, and LCD comprising the alignment film Disclosed is a multi-functional monomer including a heat-curable functional group as well as a typical photoreactive group. In the multi-functional monomer, the photoreactive group is not chained to a main chain of a polymer. Thus, since it is possible to perform de... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7651743 | Cellulose acylate film, manufacturing method of cellulose acylate film, optically compensatory sheet, polarizing plate and liquid crystal display device A cellulose acylate film that has a crystallization index expressed by expression (A) as defined in the specification of from 0.70 to 1.02 and a modulus of elasticity in every arbitrary direction of an in-plane of the cellulose acylate film of from 3,800 MPa to 6,00... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7635506 | Stretched cellulose ester film, hard coat film, antireflective film, and optical compensation film, and polarizing plate, and display device using them In a stretched cellulose ester film containing a plasticizer, the plasticizer includes at least an aromatic terminal ester type plasticizer expressed by the following general formula (1): and stretched cellulose ester film includes a cellulose ester having a total a... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7615264 | Cellulose acylate film, polarizing plate, and liquid crystal display device A cellulose acylate film comprising a compound having a hydrogen-donating group capable of forming a hydrogen bond and an aromatic ring, and a compound represented by the following formula: wherein R2, R4 | 11/10/2009 |
| 7611760 | Cellulose acylate film, optical compensation film, polarizing plate and liquid crystal display A cellulose acylate film is provided and has an elasticity modulus of 4,800 MPa to 10,000 MPa in at least either a machine direction MD at film-formation time or a direction TD perpendicular to the machine direction. ... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7597945 | Polymerizable liquid crystal composition containing fluorine-substituted (meth) acrylate derivatives The present invention relates to a polymer satisfying at least two characteristics among the characteristics such that it has orientation of homeotropic and so forth; it has an orientation having no (or less) defects; it has a large optical anisotropy; it is tightly... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7569259 | Plasticizer, cellulose ester film, polarizing plate, and liquid crystal display A plasticizer comprising an ester compound produced by a condensation reaction of an organic acid represented by Formula (1) with a polyhydric alcohol having at least 3 hydroxyl groups in the molecule, ... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7550182 | Polarizing plate and display device A polarization plate comprising a polarizer and polarizing plate protective films A and B provided on both surfaces of the polarizer, wherein (i) a thickness of each of the polarizing plate protective films A and B is 30 to 60 μm; (ii) in-plate retardation value Ro... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7501167 | Cellulose acylate film, polarizing plate, and liquid crystal display device A cellulose acylate film comprising cellulose acylate which has a degree of crystallinity represented by the following expression (I) of 0.9 or more, and satisfies the following expressions (II) and (III): Degree of crystallinity=(X-ray diffraction intensi... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7479312 | Retardation film, polarizing plate, and liquid crystal display device A retardation film which contains a cellulose derivative and a plasticizer wherein the thickness of the film is 10 to 50 μm, Ro in Equation (i) is in the range of 30 to 100 nm, Rt in Equation (ii) is in the range of 100 to 300 nm, and S in Equation (iii) is 0.0002 ... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7462382 | Optical compensating sheet, production method thereof, optical film, and polarizing plate and liquid crystal display device using the same The present invention provides a method for producing an optical compensating sheet, comprising a step of simultaneously coating at least two coating solutions on a transparent support, wherein at least one of the coating solutions simultaneously coated in that step... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7435458 | Optical film and liquid crystal display using the same An optically anisotropic film is disclosed. The film comprises a fatty acid cellulose ester film support having an acetyl group and a propionyl group, and a liquid crystal layer containing a liquid crystal compound, or a resin layer containing polyimide, polyamidoim... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7416765 | Polymerizable liquid crystalline composition and liquid crystal film made from the composition A polymerizable liquid crystalline composition comprises a side chain liquid crystalline polymer obtained by radical-copolymerizing a (meth)acrylic compound has an optically active site and a (meth)acrylic compound having an oxetanyl group, and a cation generator an... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7410680 | Retardation film made by using cellulose derivatives The present invention relates to a retardation film obtained by subjecting a film formed from a cellulose derivative to an orientation treatment, wherein a hydroxyl group of cellulose is substituted by at least one kind of aliphatic acyl group having 5 to 20 carbon ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7396571 | Polymeric fluorescent substance and polymer light-emitting device Provided is a polymeric fluorescent substance showing fluorescence in solid state, which has a specific carrier drift mobility, a specific repeating unit, and specific number-average molecular weight. The polymeric fluorescent substance is excellent in solubility to... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7378136 | Optical film coating A low fringing film coating includes a transparent polymeric layer having a surface, and a plurality of projections extending away from the surface. The projections have a mean height of 0.05 to 1 μm and a mean distance between projections of 0.5 to 2 mm. The coati... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7354964 | Method and apparatus for producing dope The mixture solvent of dichlorimethane type, the TAC and the plasticizer are supplied into a dissolution tank, and stirred therein with a stirrer to obtain a dispersing solution. The dispersing solution is fed into a storing tank and further stirred therein. Then th... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7306832 | Cellulose ester film, its manufacturing method, optical retardation film, optical compensation sheet, elliptic polarizing plate, and image display A manufacturing method of a cellulose ester film satisfying the relationships, Nx>Ny>Nz, and 0.8≦Rt/R0≦3.5, the method comprising casting a cellulose ester dope containing a solvent of a good solvent and a poor solvent on a support to form ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7307107 | Photopolymerizable composition and use thereof A photopolymerizable composition comprising a polymerizable compound and a photopolymerization initiator, wherein the polymerizable compound is characterized by comprising (a) a bifunctional (meth)acrylic acid (thio)ester compound containing a sulfur atom in the mol... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7250201 | Production method of cellulose film, cellulose film, protective film for polarizing plate, optical functional film, polarizing plate, and liquid crystal display A production method of cellulose film wherein cellulose film is produced by preparing a polymer solution through dissolving cellulose ester in a solvent containing a prescribed organic solvent as the main component, forming a filmy object from the prepared polymer s... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7220460 | Thin film forming method, optical film, polarizing film and image display method A method of forming a layer or layers are disclosed which comprises the steps of transporting a substrate having a first surface and a second surface on the side opposite the first surface to a gap formed between a first electrode and a second electrode opposing eac... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7211316 | Optical multilayer Disclosed is an optical multilayer comprising a polymeric substrate having a non-zero out-of plane birefringence and an amorphous polymeric overlayer that comprises an amorphous polymer having a Tg value above 160° C. and having the sign of its out-of-plane birefri... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7208205 | Optical film and liquid crystal display using the same A film for a liquid crystal display comprising a fatty acid cellulose ester film having an acetyl group and a propionyl group is disclosed. Sum of degree of acetyl substitution (DSac) and degree of propionyl substitution (DSpr) of the fatty acid cellulose ester film... | 04/24/2007 |
