Patents Assigned to Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
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Publication number: 20010051306Abstract: A resin composition for a color filter is provided which can surely prevent the occurrence of display failures (unacceptable display phenomena) of color liquid crystal display devices, can broaden a range of selection of usable constituent materials, and does not incur increased cost. The resin composition for a color filter comprises a combination of a volatile component with a nonvolatile component, wherein: not less than 50% by weight of the nonvolatile component is accounted for by a first constituent, which, after the impurity extraction of a liquid crystal, permits the liquid crystal to have a voltage retention of not less than 60% and to have a residual DC (&Dgr;E) of not more than 0.6 V; and when less than 50% by weight of the nonvolatile component is accounted for by a second constituent, which, after the impurity extraction of a liquid crystal, cannot permit the liquid crystal to have a voltage retention of not less than 60% and to have a residual DC (&Dgr;E) of not more than 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2001Publication date: December 13, 2001Applicant: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.Inventors: Takehide Kishimoto, Hideaki Yamagata
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Patent number: 6329041Abstract: The present invention relates to a hard coat film used for various types of displays, wherein cracking and peeling of the hard coat layer is prevented, hardness reduction of the hard coat film is suppressed and the pencil hardness of the hard coat film is in the range of 4H-8H. The hard coat film includes a buffer layer (2) with a thickness of 3-50 &mgr;m, formed on at least one side of a plastic base film (1), which has a buffer function against deformation of the hard coat layer in response to deformation of the plastic base film (1), and a hard coat layer (3) with a thickness of 3-15 &mgr;m additionally formed over the buffer layer. The hard coat film (9) is designed so that the pencil hardness of the plastic base film (1), the pencil hardness of the buffer layer and the pencil hardness of the hard coat layer increase in that order.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 1999Date of Patent: December 11, 2001Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuru Tsuchiya, Takahiro Niimi
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Patent number: 6330129Abstract: A cartridge consists of a case and a disk housed therein. The case has a case body in which a head access window and a drive spindle access window are formed. The case has a shutter to open and close the head access window and the drive spindle access window. The case body has in its rear side an opening through which the disk is taken out of and put into the case body. The opening is fitted with a lid that can be taken out of and put into the opening in the direction in which the disk is taken out of and put into the case body. One of the halves constituting the case body has a stopper removal hole, a stopper rest linked to the inner surface of the hole through thin bridges and formed seamlessly therewith, and a stopper whose one end is fixed on the inner surface of the stopper rest and which stops the lid from sliding.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 1999Date of Patent: December 11, 2001Assignees: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd., Pioneer Video Corporation, Pioneer Electronic CorporationInventors: Osamu Takekoh, Hiroshi Kishida
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Publication number: 20010049022Abstract: A decorative material is provided which possesses excellent surface properties, such as excellent staining resistance, marring resistance, scratch resistance, abrasion resistance, and anti-transferability to a cellophane pressure-sensitive adhesive tape, and can be produced at low cost. This decorative material comprises: a substrate having at least on its surface an active hydrogen-containing polar functional group; and, provided on the substrate, a two-component cured urethane resin layer and a surface resin layer of a crosslinked coating formed from a ionizing radiation curable acrylate resin, the two-component cured urethane resin layer having a structure of at least three layers, the crosslinking density of the intermediate layer being lower than that of each layer provided on both sides of the intermediate layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2001Publication date: December 6, 2001Applicant: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.Inventors: Hajime Takeuchi, Kouji Katou
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Patent number: 6327009Abstract: In a reflection-type liquid crystal display panel (10) provided with reflective electrodes (13a), a reflective metal film (13a) is formed on an insulating layer (12) having a surface provided with minute irregularities (17) to form the reflective metal electrodes having surfaces of a shape substantially complementary to the minute irregularities. Since the surfaces of the electrodes (13a) are provided with minute irregularities, external light incident on the liquid crystal display panel is not reflected in a specular reflection mode, so that images are displayed on the liquid crystal display panel in satisfactory visibility. The insulating layer is formed by forming a positive photosensitive resin layer on a back substrate (10a), exposing the positive photosensitive resin layer to light through a transparent sheet (18) having a surface provided with minute irregularities, and subjecting the exposed positive photosensitive resin layer to a developing process.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 1999Date of Patent: December 4, 2001Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventor: Koji Ichimura
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Patent number: 6326074Abstract: A synchronously embossed decorative sheet is provided which has excellent three-dimensional effect in sharp tune with a pattern layer and, at the same time, has good scratch resistance. The synchronously embossed decorative sheet comprises: a substrate; a pattern layer provided on the substrate; a penetrable layer provided on the substrate at least in its portions not having thereon the pattern layer, the penetrable layer comprising a coating composition penetrable by an ionizing radiation curing resin; a nonpenetrable layer provided, on or above the pattern layer, in tune with the pattern in the pattern layer, the nonpenetrable layer comprising a coating composition nonpenetrable by an ionizing radiation curing resin; and a top coat provided so as to cover the layers on the substrate and to conform to the shape of concaves and convexes in the pattern layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 1999Date of Patent: December 4, 2001Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kazuhiro Takahashi
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Patent number: 6325607Abstract: A decoration sheet is fed on a mold and then is heated to a temperature above a heat distortion temperature thereof, is conformed to the surface of a cavity of the mold by vacuum drawing. Then the molds are clamped, and a resin is injected to adhere the decoration sheet to the resin. The decoration sheet is preheated to a temperature below the heat distortion temperature by sheet preheating means before fed onto the mold. The decoration sheet preheated by the sheet preheating means is fed to the mold by sheet feeding means.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 1999Date of Patent: December 4, 2001Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroyuki Atake
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Patent number: 6327088Abstract: A light diffusing film is produced by preparing a paint by adding a light transmissive diffusing material comprising resin beads to a light transmissive resin, and coating the paint on one or both of the surfaces of transparent film substrate made of TAC, to produce a light diffusing layer. In the light diffusing film, the haze value on the surface of light diffusing layer is three or more, the difference between the haze value along the normal and that along the lines ±60° apart from the normal is four or less, and the surface is practically smooth whose roughness is so adjusted as to give a surface roughness Ra of Ra≦0.2 &mgr;m. Application of such a light diffusing film onto a display panel inhibits scattering reflection which would otherwise cause the display to be whitish, reduces the variation of haze values which vary depending on the viewed angle, and thus improves display quality.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2000Date of Patent: December 4, 2001Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yukimitsu Iwata, Fumihiro Arakawa
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Patent number: 6325902Abstract: In a sputtering process of forming a transparent electrode film (13) on a color filter (14), the dielectric breakdown of a peripheral portion of the color pattern film (10)due to abnormal discharge is prevented. A metal mask (8) has a mask body (8b) provided with openings (8a) having a shape corresponding to that of the color pattern films (10) formed on a glass substrate (9) Stepped portions (8d) are formed by recessing brim portions (8c) of the openings (8a) facing the color filters (14). Gaps (11) are formed between the mask body (8b) and peripheral portions of the color pattern films (10) of the color filters (14). The mask body (8b) is provided on the stepped portions (8d) with conductive projections (12). The conductive projections (12) come into electrical contact with black shading strips (10b) formed in the peripheral portions of the color pattern films (10) of the color filters (14).Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2000Date of Patent: December 4, 2001Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira Shishido, Atsutoshi Yamada
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Patent number: 6325880Abstract: A lenticular lens sheet for use as a rear projection screen, comprises a base lenticular lens sheet having a surface provided with a plurality of lenticular elements, and a surface diffusing part having minute diffusing elements. The surface diffusing part is combined with the base lenticular lens sheet by laminating a plastic film having one surface provided with the minute diffusing elements to the base lenticular lens sheet so that the minute diffusing elements lie on the surfaces of the lenticular elements or by embossing the minute diffusing elements in the surfaces of the lenticular elements of the base lenticular lens sheet with an embossing plastic film having a surface of a shape complementary to the minute diffusing elements.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2000Date of Patent: December 4, 2001Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiyuki Yamashita, Hitomu Watanabe
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Publication number: 20010046134Abstract: A directional diffusing film of the invention includes a base film, and a plurality of convex directionality-providing elements regularly arranged on at least one surface of the base film. A section of a first directionality-providing element in a first plane including a top of the directionality-providing element has a shape of a substantially triangle, and a section of the directionality-providing element in a second plane including the top of the directionality-providing element and perpendicular to the first plane has a top of a second directionality-providing element and a shape of a continuous wave. The directional diffusing film having characteristics specified by the invention can diffuse light in proper directionally diffused light, while maintaining high light-diffusing ability. The directional diffusing film utilizes light highly efficiently as compared with conventional diffusing films.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2001Publication date: November 29, 2001Applicant: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.Inventors: Tadahiro Masaki, Fumihiro Arakawa
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Publication number: 20010046071Abstract: The invention relates to a process capable of fabricating a variety of transmission holograms having a simple structure, a wide visible range and a large area and comprising the first stage of recording the wavefront to be finally reconstructed in the form of the first hologram that is a reflection hologram with a wide visible range, the second stage of using the first hologram to record the second hologram that is a combined reflection and transmission hologram, and the third stage of recording in the third hologram photosensitive material only a transmission hologram for reconstructing only the wavefront recorded in the second hologram and desired to be reconstructed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2001Publication date: November 29, 2001Applicant: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTDInventors: Nobuhiko Ichikawa, Masachika Watanabe
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Publication number: 20010046822Abstract: A soft, meshed, electromagnetic shielding textile sheet is placed in a mold, and the mold is clamped. The soft, meshed electromagnetic shielding textile sheet is shaped so as to conform with the inner surface of the mold when the mold is clamped. Therefore, it is not necessary to fabricate beforehand any insert of a shape corresponding to that of the inner surface of the mold. Since the meshed, electromagnetic shielding textile sheet is impregnated with part of a resin injected into the mold to form an injection-molded resin body, the adhesion of the electromagnetic shielding textile sheet to the injection-molded resin body is improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2001Publication date: November 29, 2001Applicant: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.Inventors: Masahiro Yoshikawa, Katsumi Kameda
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Patent number: 6319594Abstract: A low reflective antistatic film is provided which can prevent electrostatic deposition of foreign materials on the surface thereof, has hardness enough high not to cause a deterioration in transparency derived from a scratch or the like created upon being rubbed, and can prevent reflection of outdoor daylight from the surface of a transparent substrate. The low reflective antistatic film comprises: a transparent substrate film; and, provided on the transparent substrate film in the following order, a transparent conductive layer, a hardcoat layer, and a low refractive layer, the low refractive layer having a lower refractive index than the hardcoat.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 1999Date of Patent: November 20, 2001Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroko Suzuki, Takahiro Niimi
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Patent number: 6318554Abstract: An uncrumpling and cutting apparatus cuts a predetermined length of an end portion of a heat transfer recording sheet of a sheet roll obtained by winding the heat transfer recording sheet around an outer periphery of a shaft roll, and a lead sheet sticking apparatus sticks an end of a lead sheet to the end portion of the heat transfer recording sheet. A subshaft sticking apparatus sticks a subshaft to the lead sheet, and a lead sheet winding apparatus winds up the lead sheet to wrap-the sheet roll and the subshaft. A tying portion ties a combination of a sheet roll with a subshaft with a strip, thereby bundling the combination. Then the combination thus tied is packed in a package bag by a packaging portion. A transferring and mounting portion lays an even number of combinations as alternately reversing orientations thereof, and an encasing portion encases the combinations thus laid in a container.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 1997Date of Patent: November 20, 2001Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yoshikimi Semba
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Patent number: 6320751Abstract: A frame sheet comprises a core sheet, and oversheets. A recess is formed in the sheet frame. The oversheet is left in the recess in the sheet frame, and an IC carrier is mounted in the recess. The IC carrier is held, adhered to the oversheet left in the recess.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 1998Date of Patent: November 20, 2001Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mitsunori Takeda, Eiichi Igarashi, Hideyo Yoshida
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Aperture grille having parallel slits with larger cross-sectional area grids at a peripheral portion
Patent number: 6320304Abstract: An aperture grille, in which tensile strength applied on the aperture grille after it is mounted on a frame body is made uniform to eliminate rupture of grid and variations in elongation caused by heat. The width of each slit on a display surface side and a rear side of the aperture grille is constant in longitudinal direction, and the width of each slit on the display surface side is designed smaller on peripheral portion than at the central portion so that cross-sectional area of each grid of the aperture grille is made larger on the peripheral portion than at the central portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 1998Date of Patent: November 20, 2001Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira Mikita, Yasuhiko Ishii -
Patent number: 6317148Abstract: The invention relates to a thermal transfer sheet including a thermally transferable ink layer on one surface of a substrate film, wherein said ink layer contains a coloring agent, and a decoloring agent that prevents thermal color-developing paper from color development or makes the color, once developed thereby, invisible; a thermal transfer sheet including on one surface of a substrate film a first thermally transferable ink layer containing a decoloring agent that prevents thermal color-developing paper from color development or makes the color, once developed thereby, invisible, wherein at least one second thermal transfer ink layer is interposed between said ink layer and said substrate film; and a thermal transfer recording method that uses these thermal transfer sheets.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 1999Date of Patent: November 13, 2001Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masafumi Hayashi, Shunichi Ebihara
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Patent number: 6317560Abstract: A photographing system comprises a photographing box (16) capable of accommodates a user (17) and of allowing the user (17) to change a pose, a lighting means (2) installed in the photographing box (16), and a photographing means (3) installed in the photographing box (16). A printing means (8) prints out pictures on the basis of photographic data provided by the photographing means (3). The lighting means (2), the photographing means (3) and the printing means (8) are controlled by a synchronizing control means (9).Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 1998Date of Patent: November 13, 2001Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kazuhiro Kawabata
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Patent number: 6315801Abstract: An electrode plate for a secondary battery with a nonaqueous electrolyte composed of a collector and an active material layer which is formed of at least an active material and a binder disposed on the collector, and the electrode plate is provided with a terminal mounting portion provided with a collector surface exposed to mount a terminal. In such electrode plate, the exposed collector surface of the terminal mounting portion has the same shape and size substantially as those of an area to which the terminal is actually mounted. The electrode plate may further be provided with an identification mark made by forming the active material layer in shape of pattern on an area at which the collector surface is exposed or by exposing the collector surface in the shape of pattern on an area at which the collector is covered with the active material layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 1999Date of Patent: November 13, 2001Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuichi Miyazaki, Shin Miyanowaki, Hidetake Takahara