Continuous Or Indefinite Length Patents (Class 264/1.6)
  • Patent number: 11963428
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device are disclosed. The display panel includes a display panel body and a polarizer, placed on the display panel body in a direction of outgoing light. The display panel body includes a metal layer having a reflection area corresponding to a first heading angle larger than a reflection area corresponding to a second heading angle. A light extinction of the polarizer corresponding to the first heading angle is greater than a light extinction of the polarizer corresponding to the second heading angle. This could remedy the light extinction of the polarizer in the second heading angle such that the display panel could have similar reflection rates and color shifts in all heading angles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hanning Yang
  • Patent number: 11718010
    Abstract: A method of creating a processable water soluble polymer, the method comprising the steps of: extruding a water soluble polymer composition from an extruder barrel without use of a die, wherein the extruder barrel is not vented other than via its extruder outlet, to produce an irregularly shaped polymer extrudate; directing the irregularly shaped polymer extrudate onto a chilled conveyor to cool the irregularly shaped polymer extrudate to below 60° C.; and granulating the irregularly shaped polymer extrudate to form a granulate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: PETER MORRIS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT LIMITED
    Inventor: Peter Morris
  • Patent number: 11685811
    Abstract: A high temperature resistant polyimide film and its preparation method. The present invention relates to a polyimide film and its preparation method and solves the problems of honeycomb's and skin panel's core adhesive-polyimide film with insufficient heat resistance, no climbing of bonding core structure and adhesive fillet formation. The high temperature resistant polyimide film is made by polyimide solution, inorganic filler modifier and interface coupling agent by the steps of: under specific temperature and stirring conditions, adding inorganic filler modifier and interface coupling agent to polyimide solution, stirring to obtain the adhesive agent; filtering and degassing the adhesive agent, casting to a stainless steel drum with carrier cloth and release paper to obtain a self-supporting film; then heating and annealing to obtain the final polyimide film. The present invention is applied to high temperature resistant polyimide film and its preparation method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Inventors: Changwei Liu, Wanbao Xiao, Chunyan Qu, Dezhi Wang, Kai Xu, Bo Wang, Hongfeng Li, Hao Feng, Yueyu Guan, Haidong Yang, Haimin Wang, Yang Zhang, Cheng Du, Dongpeng Zhou
  • Patent number: 11220028
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing thin, multi-bend optics includes placing an optical substrate and a protective sheet into a compression mold and closing the compression mold to deform the optical substrate and to deform the protective sheet. The optical substrate can include an optical surface and the protective sheet can be disposed between the compression mold and the optical surface of the optical substrate. The compression mold can include a mold contact surface that is characterized by a surface roughness. The compression mold can be held in a closed position for a compression time period, during which, the protective sheet contacts the mold contact surface and provides a buffer layer between the mold contact surface and the optical surface thereby mitigating against transfer of the surface roughness of the mold contact surface onto the optical surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Nelson Cardenas, Yusufu Njoni Bamaxam Sulai, Alexander Sohn, Jacques Gollier, Kurt Jenkins
  • Patent number: 11207807
    Abstract: A method includes placing an optical substrate onto a vacuum mold having a bent contact surface characterized by a surface roughness. The method further includes bending, by an applied bending force, the optical substrate and the protective sheet to cause the protective sheet to come into contact with the bent contact surface of the vacuum mold, generating a vacuum-induced holding force to hold the protective sheet against the bent contact surface of the vacuum mold. After a holding time period, the vacuum-induced holding force is released. During molding, a protective sheet provides a buffer layer between the bent contact surface of the vacuum mold and an optical surface of the optical substrate thereby mitigating against transfer of the surface roughness of the bent contact surface onto the optical surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Nelson Cardenas, Yusufu Njoni Bamaxam Sulai, Alexander Sohn, Jacques Gollier, Kurt Jenkins
  • Patent number: 11028840
    Abstract: Roll to roll processing techniques are described to produce microelectromechanical systems having releasable and movable mechanical structures. A micro-pump that includes a pump body having compartmentalized pump chambers, with plural inlet and outlet ports and valves and plural membranes enclosing the pump chambers is described as a representative example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Encite LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Alan Marsh
  • Patent number: 10723063
    Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a molded body assembly includes: a to-be-molded body holder configured to hold a to-be-molded body placed thereon; a raw material roll placement portion in which a mold raw material roll is placed; a mold holder configured to hold a leading edge portion of an uncut mold extending from the mold raw material roll, and to move relative to the to-be-molded body holder; a transfer unit configured to transfer a fine transfer pattern of the uncut mold to the to-be-molded body placed on and held by the to-be-molded body holder, a cutting unit; and a controller configured to control the to-be-molded body holder, the mold holder, the transfer unit, and the cutting unit configured to cut the uncut mold at a predetermined position in a longitudinal direction thereof, thereby manufacturing a mold body assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: TOSHIBA KIKAI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsunori Kokubo, Yuki Sugiura, Toru Suzuki, Terukatsu Kuboki
  • Patent number: 10357903
    Abstract: A roller-type depressing device that can depress an object like a die or a molding target by controlling the pressure of a roller, an imprint device, and a method utilizing the same are provided. A roller-type depressing device depresses an object like a die or a molding target by a main roller, and includes a pressure adjusting plate, a roller moving unit that moves the main roller relative to the object, a pressure adjusting unit that holds the pressure adjusting plate so that force produced by a pressure difference in fluid applied to both faces of the pressure adjusting plate acts on the main roller, a pressure receiving stage receiving pressure of the main roller, a pressure adjuster that adjusts the pressure difference in fluid applied to both faces of the pressure adjusting plate, and a pressure equalizer that equalizes pressure applied to the object by the main roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: SCIVAX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirosuke Kawaguchi, Yutaka Taniguchi, Satoru Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10197905
    Abstract: A reflective screen to display an image incident from the singlefocus projector is provided. The reflective screen may include a base layer; a fresnellens layer formed on a rear surface of the base layer and mixed with a color particle; a reflective layer formed on a rear surface of the fresnellens layer; and a rear surface protective layer coupled to a rear surface of the reflective layer. The reflective screen may provide a high quality image by reducing the layer structure to enhance the brightness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Young Sung Kim, Sung Tae Kim, Seung Gyu Lee, Jin Beom Kim
  • Patent number: 9964676
    Abstract: An optical element is provided with an optical layer in which a concavo-convex surface is formed on the surface thereof, and a wavelength-selective reflection layer formed on the concavo-convex surface. The wavelength-selective reflection layer directionally reflects light having a specific wavelength band selectively, while transmitting light having wavelength bands other than the specific wavelength band. The concavo-convex surface is provided with a plurality of first structural elements that are extended in a first direction within the surface of the optical layer and a plurality of second structural elements that are extended in a second direction within the surface of the optical layer, and placed to be spaced apart from each other, with the first direction and the second direction intersecting with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: DEXERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsutomu Nagahama, Atsushi Shibuya
  • Patent number: 9884461
    Abstract: Disclosed is a wide casting belt, and more particularly, a wide casting belt used for manufacturing a film in a gel state by casting dope used during the manufacture of a polarizing plate for a liquid crystal display, and an optical compensation film, etc. A method for manufacturing a wide film using the wide casting belt, and a wide film manufactured with the wide casting belt are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Berndorf Band GmbH
    Inventors: Hyukjun Kim, Kwangjin Chung, Cholho Lee, Yooseock Hwang, Juntae Choi, Kinam Chung
  • Patent number: 9623615
    Abstract: A linear Fresnel lens sheet includes: a lens layer having a first surface in which a linear Fresnel lens portion, having a number of lens surfaces arranged in a first direction d1, is formed, and a second surface opposite the first surface; and a diffusion layer disposed on the side of the second surface of the lens layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Sasahara
  • Publication number: 20150140536
    Abstract: A flexible, yet self-supporting, optical film processed to include at least one curable resin cured on selected areas thereof. The processed film is useful in a method for simulating one of a multiplicity of opthalmic conditions representative of a disease state or vision disorder. The resin has a surface (or interface with the film) that forms an optically active profile variation in a selected area of the film, that is responsible for refraction or transmission of light, or both, which simulates the one or more opthalmic conditions representative of the disease state. The resin optionally has an opacity variation and optionally has a color variation, each optional variation optionally assisting the film to simulate the one or more opthalmic conditions, such as metamorphopsia.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Marc Chase WEINSTEIN, Gregory R. JORDAN
  • Patent number: 9005493
    Abstract: A 3-d stereoscopic viewing lens which the retarder film is made of a PVA film. A 3-D stereoscopic viewing lens having a linear polarized film, one or more lens substrate layers, and an epoxy layer. A process of making retarder film including mounting a PVA film to an assembly line; wetting, cleaning, and washing the PVA film through said assembly line; softening, expanding and stretching the PVA film's x-axis through said assembly line; adding gap filling agent to the PVA film; stretching the PVA film's y-axis through a width frame holder and as a result transforming the PVA film into a retarder film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Inventor: Roger Wen-Yi Hsu
  • Publication number: 20150090582
    Abstract: A method of making a laser water transfer printing film contains steps of: providing a substrate material; coating a release layer on one side surface of the PET film by ways of a first coating apparatus; semi-solidifying a lacquer by using a heat solidifying apparatus; printing an ink layer on the lacquer by ways of a printing device; implanting a message layer on the ink layer by means of an implanting device; embossing geometric patterns on the message layer by using a rolling device; plating the metal layer on the embossed patterns; coating a PVA solution on the metal layer by ways of a second coating device and drying the PVA solution by means of a drying device; separating the PET film from the PVA film by using a releasing device and then rolling the PET film which has separated from the PVA film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Tien-Shui Chen, Chi-Liang Chen, Hua-Hui Chen
  • Patent number: 8993075
    Abstract: A stretched film comprised of a “B1” layer comprised of a thermoplastic resin 1, an “A” layer comprised of a styrene-based resin, and a “B2” layer comprised of a thermoplastic resin 2 stacked in that order and having a width of over 1000 mm, wherein a ratio of the “A” layer in the stretched film is 45 wt % or less, an average value of an orientation angle ? with respect to a width direction across at least 1000 mm of the width direction is 0°±1°, a variation in orientation angle ? is 0.5° or less, and a value of an Nz coefficient is ?3.5 to ?0.5 in range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Zeon Corporation
    Inventor: Tadashi Takizawa
  • Publication number: 20150076719
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a polyimide film includes: extruding a polyimide film including polyimide and a solvent; first drying the extruded polyimide film; stripping the first-dried polyimide film; second drying the stripped polyimide film to remove a residual solvent in the polyimide film; and stretching the second-dried polyimide film, wherein an amount of the residual solvent in the second-dried polyimide film is equal to or less than about 10 weight percent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Chan Jae Ahn, Sung Won CHOI, Won Suk CHANG
  • Patent number: 8974214
    Abstract: Provided is a device for manufacturing an optical film having satisfactorily reduced thickness unevenness, by using a melt-casting film forming method, which device includes a casting die for discharging a molten film-forming material including a thermoplastic resin into a film-like shape; a pair of a first rotation roll and a second rotation roll between which the discharged film-shaped molten article is pinched to be cooled and solidified to make the film-shaped molten article; and two pairs of wind shield plates each of which pairs are arranged between the shaft-direction ends of the first and second rotation rolls and an end part in the width-direction of the film-shaped molten article, wherein the wind shield plates are placed approximately perpendicular to the surface of the film-shaped molten article, and wherein each pair of the wind shield plates are placed approximately in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Advanced Layers, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenichi Kazama
  • Patent number: 8961845
    Abstract: The present invention provides an optical compensation film, which has excellent visibility such as light leakage, uneven color tone and front contrast, and can simultaneously realize retardation and wavelength dispersion. The optical compensation film is characterized by containing a cellulose ester, the following polymer (a), and the following compound (b). (a) A polymer produced by copolymerizing an ethylenically unsaturated monomer having in its molecule a partial structure represented by Formula (1) with at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer. (b) An esterified compound produced by esterifying all or a part of OH groups in a compound (A) having one furanose structure or one pyranose structure, or an esterified compound produced by esterifying all of or a part of OH groups in a compound (B) containing nor less than 2 and not more than 12 structures of at least one of a furanose structure or a pyranose structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.
    Inventor: Takashi Sera
  • Patent number: 8961166
    Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a light guide film may comprise a feed roller, a receiving roller, a separating device, a hot press printing device and a recombining device. Firstly, the separating device may separate a protective layer from a substrate layer of the light guide film. Secondly, a surface of the substrate layer to be manufactured may be impressed with light guide dots by the hot press printing device, and the recombining device recombine the peeled protective layer to the substrate layer. And lastly, the finished light guide film is recycled by the receiving roller. The apparatus may have advantages such as high output and low cost, and it may manufacture a large dimensioned product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignees: SVG Optronics Co., Ltd., Suzhou University
    Inventors: Zhihua Wu, Xiachong Zhou, Zongbao Fang, Su Shen, Guojun Wei, Donglin Pu, Linsen Chen
  • Patent number: 8945440
    Abstract: A method of determining conditioning pulse parameters for an optical element includes directing a pump pulse to impinge on the optical element and directing a probe pulse to impinge on the optical element. The method also includes determining a first time associated with an onset of electronic excitation leading to formation of an absorbing region of the optical element and determining a second time associated with expansion of the absorbing region of the optical element. The method further includes defining a turn-off time for a conditioning pulse between the first time and the second time. According to embodiments of the present invention, pulse shaping of the conditioning pulse enables laser conditioning of optical elements to achieve improvements in their laser induced damage threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC
    Inventors: Stavros G. Demos, Rajesh Raman, Raluca A. Negres
  • Patent number: 8947784
    Abstract: A variable focus lens has a housing (1) and an actuator (8) which are mutually displaceable along an optical axis (A) of the lens. A primary membrane (15) is arranged between a first chamber (24, 26) and a second chamber (30, 32), with the first and second chambers being filled with liquids of similar density but different indices of refraction. First and second auxiliary membranes (19, 17) are provided for volume compensation. The first auxiliary membrane (19) forms a wall section of the first chamber (24, 26), and the second auxiliary membrane (17) forms a wall section of the second chamber (30, 32), at least one or both of the auxiliary membranes facing environmental air at its outer side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Optotune AG
    Inventor: Thomas Kern
  • Patent number: 8926872
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an acrylic copolymer resin containing: 1) an alkyl (meth)acrylate-based monomer; 2) a (meth)acrylate-based monomer containing an aliphatic ring and/or an aromatic ring; and 3) at least an imide-based monomer or a styrene-based monomer, to a resin composition containing said acrylic copolymer resin and a resin containing an aromatic ring and/or an aliphatic ring in the main chain thereof, to an optical film comprising said resin composition, and to a liquid crystal display device comprising said optical film. The optical film according to the present invention has excellent heat resistance, optical transparency, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Su-Kyung Kim, Byoung-Il Kang, Dae-Woo Lee, Byoung-Kue Chun, Chang-Hun Han, Da-Eun Sung
  • Patent number: 8911854
    Abstract: The present invention provides an optical film and s retardation film characterized in that each of them includes: an acrylic resin; and 20-65 parts by weight of at least two graft copolymers containing a conjugated diene-based rubber, based on 100 parts by weight of the acrylic resin, wherein at least two of the graft copolymers have different particle sizes. The present invention also provides a production method therefore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Byoung-II Kang, Chang-Hun Han, Chan-Hong Lee, Dae-Woo Lee, Jae-Bum Seo, Sang-Seop Kim
  • Patent number: 8905748
    Abstract: A compact deformation-based micro-texturing apparatus and method employ flexure bearing houses for rotatably supporting opposite ends of each of a first (e.g. upper) roll and a second (e.g. lower) roll to provide a working roll gap between the rolls, wherein at least one of the rolls has one or more micro surface features to plastically deform a surface of a workpiece deformed by rolling action in the roll gap. An electrical current may be passed through the workpiece to assist micro deformation. A roll gap adjusting device is operably associated with the first and second flexure bearing houses for adjusting the roll gap dimension to the final depth of the micro surface features to be imparted to the surface of the workpiece by the rolling action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Northwestern University
    Inventors: Jian Cao, Rui Zhou, Kornel F. Ehmann
  • Publication number: 20140350166
    Abstract: An optical compensation film composition is disclosed herein wherein the optical compensation film is stretched to yield a negative A-plate having a refractive index profile of nx<ny=nz. or a biaxial polymer film having a refractive index profile of nx<ny<nz, the film having been stretched from a film cast from a polymer solution comprising a solvent and a polymer having a moiety of wherein R1, R2, and R3 are each independently hydrogen atoms, alkyl groups, substituted alkyl groups, or halogens, wherein at least one of R1, R2, and R3 is a fluorine atom, and wherein R is hydrogen or a substituent on the styrenic ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: AKRON POLYMER SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Xiaoliang Zheng, Dong Zhang, Jiaokai Jing, Frank W. Harris, Brian King, Ted Germroth, Thauming Kuo
  • Publication number: 20140349098
    Abstract: A method of preparing an optical film, preparing a coating composition including an amic acid-containing polymer represented by Chemical Formula 1 and at least one polymerization aid selected from an alkyl phosphite, an aryl phosphite, an alkyl phosphate, and an aryl phosphate; providing the coating composition on a substrate to form a coating layer; and applying heat to the coating layer to prepare a cured film: wherein, in Chemical Formula 1, are the same or different in each repeating unit, and are each independently at least one selected from an aromatic organic group, an aliphatic organic group, and an alicyclic organic group, and 0?x?1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Woo Hong, Woo-Jin BAE, Chan Jae Ahn, Won Suk CHANG, A ra JO, Sung Won CHOI
  • Publication number: 20140327963
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of producing a retardation film excellent in stretchability and capable of achieving high alignment property. The method of producing a retardation film of the present invention is the method in which a lengthy resin film is stretched in a widthwise direction thereof while being conveyed in a lengthwise direction thereof to provide a retardation film satisfying a relationship of 0.70<Re(450)/Re(550)<0.97, including: a preheating step of heating the resin film to a temperature T1; a preliminary stretching step of stretching the resin film after the preheating while cooling the film to a temperature T2; and a main stretching step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Iida, Takashi Shimizu, Nao Murakami, Kazuki Uwada, Tadashi Kojima
  • Publication number: 20140316022
    Abstract: Disclosed are an optical film and a preparation method thereof. The optical film comprises a base layer, a plurality of polymer particles disposed in the base layer, and voids formed in the base layer and enclosing the respective polymer particles, wherein the polymer particles comprise a crosslinked polymer. The optical film has uniform voids, enhanced processing and dimensional stabilities, as well as improved optical properties such as whiteness, hiding power, reflectance and the like. Thus, the optical film can be useful for a reflector sheet for a BLU of an LCD device, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: SKC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kweon Hyung Han, Seong Do Kim, Heon Jung Shin, Hyung Suk Pak
  • Patent number: 8865031
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for applying a mid-IR graded microstructure to the end of an As2S3 optical fiber are presented herein. The method and apparatus transfer a microstructure from a negative imprint on a nickel shim to an As2S3 fiber tip with minimal shape distortion and minimal damage-threshold impact resulting in large gains in anti-reflective properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph M. Owen, David P. Kelly, Michael E. Chadwick
  • Publication number: 20140309395
    Abstract: Disclosed is an optical film comprising a resin material containing a copolymer of 20 to 90% by weight of methyl methacrylate, 10 to 70% by weight of tert-butylcyclohexyl methacrylate represented by formula (I): and 0 to 20% by weight of a monomer other than methyl methacrylate and tert-butylcyclohexyl methacrylate, the optical film having been produced by drawing an undrawn film formed by melt-extruding the resin material by a factor of 1.4 to 6.0 in terms of area ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Koike, Akihiro Tagaya, Akira Matsuo, Sayako Uchizawa, Yasuo Matsumura
  • Publication number: 20140300011
    Abstract: An exemplary apparatus for manufacturing an optical film includes a feed hopper, a platen, a first pressing roller group, and a second pressing roller group. The feed hopper is configured for providing resin. The platen and the first pressing roller group are arranged adjacent to the feeding hopper and spaced a predetermined distance to define a guiding channel. A second pressing roller group is arranged below the first pressing roller group and spaced the predetermined distance thereby defining a molding channel. The melted resin flows into the guiding channel and is pressed by the platen and the first pressing roller group, and is then rolled into the molding channel with rolling of the first pressing roller group. The first and the second pressing roller group are configured for forming microstructures on opposite surfaces of the optical film, respectively. A method for manufacturing the optical film is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: JIA-MING WANG
  • Patent number: 8852470
    Abstract: A diffuser-integrated prism sheet is provided, in which diffuser layers are provided on the upper and lower surfaces of the prism sheet and prism-shaped protrusions are formed in the prism sheet. The prism sheet for backlight units includes a lower diffuser layer having a light diffusion structure, a lower layer formed on the lower diffuser layer, a first intermediate layer formed on the lower layer and having prism-shaped protrusions formed parallel to each other, a second intermediate layer formed on the first intermediate layer, an upper layer formed on the second intermediate layer, and an upper diffuser layer formed on the upper layer and having a light diffusion structure, wherein an air layer is formed between the lower surface of the second intermediate layer and the valleys of the prism-shaped protrusions of the first intermediate layer. Also, a method of manufacturing the diffuser-integrated prism sheet is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: On-Nuri Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Gi Suk Sung
  • Publication number: 20140293202
    Abstract: Disclosed is an optical film produced by a method comprising continuously discharging a molten resin on a casting roll through a die lip of an extruder, wherein the molten resin contains a copolymer of (A) 75 to 99% by weight of an (meth)acrylate monomer that, when homopolymerized, has a negative intrinsic birefringence, and (B) 1 to 25% by weight of an (meth)acrylate monomer that, when homopolymerized, has a positive intrinsic birefringence, and a velocity ratio V2/V1 of 1.2 to 15 is satisfied wherein V1 represents a discharge velocity of the molten resin from the die lip, m/min; and V2 represents a surface velocity of the casting roll, m/min.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Koike, Akihiro Tagaya, Yasuo Matsumura, Akira Matsuo, Sayako Uchizawa
  • Publication number: 20140284825
    Abstract: Various embodiments herein include utilities for generating embosser drums that are used to pre-format optical media such as optical tape with a pattern of nanostructures such as wobbled grooves. One utility includes generating a plurality of replicas from an embossing master, bonding the replicas together to form a bonded replica structure having a surface with the nanostructure pattern imprinted therein, creating a replica of the bonded replica structure and electroforming a metallic layer onto the bonded replica structure replica to create a single, one piece, metallic shim which can be used to create a weld-less embosser drum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: FARAMARZ MAHNAD, JOSEPH J. KOZAK
  • Publication number: 20140285890
    Abstract: The present application relates generally to retroreflective sheeting and the tools and methods used to make retroreflective sheeting. Microreplication tools and sheeting include controlled surface structure or haze. The surface structure or haze can be introduced, for example, by chemical etching of the tool surface and/or electroplating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: KENNETH L. SMITH, JAMES R. IMBERTSON, JOHN C. KELLIHER, JOHN A. WORRELL, SIDNEY A. ELLINGSTAD
  • Publication number: 20140239523
    Abstract: The present invention provides an optical film and a retardation film that each include an acryl resin, and 20 to 65 parts by weight of a graft copolymer including a conjugated diene rubber based on 100 parts by weight of the acryl resin, and an electronic device including the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Byoung-Il KANG, Chan-Hong LEE, Chang-Hun HAN
  • Publication number: 20140225288
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a novel tilt alignment type optical compensation film formed using a non-liquid crystal polymer material, instead of a conventional tilt alignment type optical compensation film using a liquid crystal material. The method for manufacturing including: melting a non-liquid crystal polymer to prepare a molten resin; applying a shear force to the melted non-liquid crystal polymer by a shear force application device, thereby forming a film having an optical axis that tilts with respect to a thickness direction of the film; and stretching the film. The step of forming the film is carried out under conditions where a temperature T3 of the melted non-liquid crystal polymer, a glass transition point Tg of the non-liquid crystal polymer, and a temperature T2 of the shear force application device satisfy relationships represented by the following formulae (A) and (B): T3>Tg+25° C.; and??(A) T3>T2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2012
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicants: TOYO KOHAN CO., LTD., NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Haida, Hironori Yaginuma, Nao Murakami, Motoko Kawasaki, Kunihiro Seike, Keigo Ehara, Shogo Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8728366
    Abstract: A method for making an optical plate formed with a microstructure includes: extruding a substrate material and advancing the same to pass through a first nip formed between an embossing roller and a first pressing roller, the embossing roller having a micropatterned surface formed with a plurality of protrusions and a plurality of grooves, the protrusions and the grooves cooperatively defining a microstructure-forming space; applying a photosensitive resin to the micropatterned surface and filling the same into the microstructure-forming space upstream of the first nip to form a plurality of microelements respectively in the microstructure-forming space; allowing the photosensitive resin applied to the micropatterned surface to pass through the first nip together with the substrate material, thereby bonding the microelements to the substrate material; and irradiating and curing the photosensitive resin downstream of the first nip to form the optical plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Chi Mei Corporation
    Inventors: Hsin-Hung Chen, Wei-Chan Tseng, Chung-Hao Wang, Chun-Liang Kuo
  • Patent number: 8728360
    Abstract: [Object] An apparatus and a method for producing optical sheeting with which increased productivity can be achieved while maintaining the accuracy of produced optical sheeting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Nippon Carbide Industries Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Ikuo Mimura, Chihiro Hayashi, Akihiro Mathuda, Hiroshi Hamada, Naotake Osaki
  • Publication number: 20140124966
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a treated resin film from a long resin film, the method including at least treatment steps each including treating the long resin film by bringing the long resin film into contact with a treatment liquid in a treatment tank, while feeding the long resin film, wherein at least one of the treatment steps is a one-side contact step including bringing a lower surface of the resin film into contact with a surface of the treatment liquid in the treatment tank that is filled with the treatment liquid, and nip rolls are placed downstream of at least one one-side treatment tank for the one-side treatment step. The method is capable of satisfying the properties required of the treated film and also capable of reducing the occurrence of scratches, dents, and other defects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuya Hada, Satoshi Hirata, Masakazu Mochizuki, Seiji Kondo
  • Publication number: 20140117570
    Abstract: The invention relates to an optical compensation film for IPS or FFS-mode liquid crystal display devices, having the tilt angle ?[°] not equal to zero, ?[°] being defined as ? giving the minimum value of retardation R[?] which is retardation measured for incident light coming in a direction tilted by ?° from a normal line relative to the film-plane, the direction being in a plane including the direction perpendicular to the in-plane slow axis thereof and the normal line; and having retardation along the thickness direction at a wavelength of 550 nm, Rth(550), not equal to zero.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2014
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki KAIHOKO, Tatsuho NOMURA, Ryuta TAKEGAMI
  • Publication number: 20140118835
    Abstract: A lens sheet having one or more lens arrays positioned in selected discrete areas. Each lens array includes a plurality of lenses, each having a width, a height, and a lens peak. The lens array is set below the planar surface of the lens sheet, such that lens array does not extend above the lens sheet. Furthermore, the lens array is completely bordered by or contained within planar portions of the lens sheet. One or more dimensional images are printed below each of the lens arrays, and/or one or more static images can be printed on the planar portions of the lens sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Inventors: John Tomczyk, Jonathan Van Loon, David E. Corey
  • Publication number: 20140103551
    Abstract: A method of producing an optical compensating resin film for a polarizing plate including casting a resin exhibiting a glass transition temperature of 150 to 200° C. determined via DSC via a solution casting to form a film; peeling the formed film; conveying the film at a temperature of 60° C. or less for at least 90 seconds; and stretching the film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Takahiro TAKAGI
  • Publication number: 20140087130
    Abstract: An apertured film with a reduced gloss through the use of light trap micro-pits uniformly distributed on the lands of the film in a random pattern and a method of making the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Inventors: Rickey J. Seyler, Paul Eugene Thomas, Andrew D. Maschino
  • Patent number: 8679290
    Abstract: Exfoliation of graphene from graphite using multilayer coextrusion is generally disclosed. In some example embodiments, graphite may be dispersed within a first processing material, and the first processing material and a second processing material may be co-extruded through a plurality of series coupled layer multiplication dies to exfoliate graphene from the graphite. The graphene may be separated from the resulting multi-layered material. In some example embodiments, graphite flake and/or expanded graphite may be dispersed within the first processing material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC
    Inventor: Carlos A. Cruz
  • Patent number: 8647556
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling curl in multi-layer webs. The method can include providing a coated web, curing the coating to form a multi-layer web, and stretching the web during curing of the coating. Some coatings shrink at least partially when cured such that curing the coating induces a strain in the multi-layer web. Stretching the web occurs during curing to induce an opposing strain that at least partially counteracts the strain induced by curing to form a multi-layer web having a desired curvature. The system can include a curing section configured to cure the coating, and can further include a web stretching section, which can be located proximate the curing section and can be substantially coincident with the curing section, such that the web is stretched while the coating is cured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Ronald P. Swanson, Andrew J. Henderson
  • Patent number: 8641935
    Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing light guide plate includes a coater containing UV curable glue, a first pressing roller and a second pressing roller. The first pressing roller and the second pressing roller are located nearby each other and space a predetermined distance from each other. The coater distributes UV curable glue on the surface of the first pressing roller or the second pressing roller. The first pressing roller and the second pressing roller cooperatively press the distributed UV curable glue. At least one of the first pressing roller and the second pressing roller includes a transparent shell and a UV lamp in the transparent shell. The UV lamp emits UV light to the other pressing roller. The UV lamp solidifies the UV curable glue pressed between the first pressing roller and the second pressing roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chia-Ling Hsu
  • Publication number: 20140027934
    Abstract: Optical bodies are disclosed that include an optical film and at least one rough strippable skin layer. The at least one rough strippable skin layer can include a continuous phase and a disperse phase. In some embodiments, the at least one rough strippable skin layer can include a first polymer, a second polymer different from the first polymer and an additional material that is substantially immiscible in at least one of the first and second polymers. In some exemplary embodiments, a surface of the at least one rough strippable skin layer adjacent to the optical film comprises a plurality of protrusions and the adjacent surface of the optical film comprises a plurality of asymmetric depressions substantially corresponding to said plurality of protrusions. Methods of making such exemplary optical bodies are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Timothy J. HEBRINK, Carl A. STOVER, Martin E. DENKER, Jeffery N. JACKSON, Kristopher J. DERKS, Michael F. WEBER, Anna A. WETZELS, Joan M. STROBEL, Barry S. ROSELL, John P. PURCELL, Kevin M. HAMER, Robert D. TAYLOR, William B. BLACK, Richard J. THOMPSON, Gregory L. BLUEM
  • Publication number: 20140015152
    Abstract: There is provided a method for preparing an acrylic copolymer resin for an optical film includes: suspension-polymerizing an acrylic monomer containing a benzene ring, an alkyl(meth)acrylate monomer, and a (meth)acrylic acid monomer to prepare a copolymer; and thermally treating the copolymer at a temperature ranging from 240° C. to 300° C. As the method for preparing an acrylic copolymer of the present invention, a resin having an effectively lowered CTE can be manufactured by inducing the formation of a glutaric anhydride structure by using suspension polymerization that facilitates adjustment of the molecular weight of a resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: LG Chem, Ltd
    Inventors: Eun Jung Choi, Chang- Hun Han, Jae-Bum Seo, Beom-Seok Kim, Byouung-Il Kang, Nam-Jeong Lee, Su-Kyung Kim, Jun-Geun Um, Da-Eun Sung, Joong-Hoon Lee