Patents by Inventor Emi SHIMANO

Emi SHIMANO has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9284426
    Abstract: A curable resin composition for a hard coat layer capable of forming a hard coat layer having high hardness even with thin thickness and/or excellent in abrasion resistance and hardness, and a hard coat film using the curable resin composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Horio, Takashi Kuroda, Emi Shimano, Kana Yamamoto, Yoshiko Kiyohara, Keiko Tasaki
  • Patent number: 9158044
    Abstract: An optical film having an optically-transparent substrate, and a low refractive index layer having a thickness d on one side of the optically-transparent substrate, a polarizing plate and a display panel provided with the same, and a display provided with the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kentaro Akiyama, Seiji Shinohara, Emi Shimano, Hiroshi Nakamura, Mayu Yoki
  • Patent number: 8597780
    Abstract: A hard coat film excellent in abrasion resistance and saponification resistance. A hard coat layer includes a cured product of a curable resin composition containing a reactive inorganic fine particle having an average particle diameter of 5 nm to 30 nm, and has a skin layer, wherein the reactive inorganic fine particles are localized, in its surface region being an interface and its vicinity on a side opposite to a transparent substrate film side of the hard coat layer. Alternatively, the reactive inorganic fine particle has an average particle diameter of 30 nm to 100 nm, and has density distribution in a thickness direction of the hard coat layer lowest at an interface on a side opposite to a transparent substrate film side of the hard coat layer while the density is highest at an interface and its vicinity on the transparent substrate film side of the hard coat layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Emi Shimano, Toshio Yoshihara
  • Publication number: 20120251778
    Abstract: A hard coat film excellent in abrasion resistance and saponification resistance. A hard coat layer includes a cured product of a curable resin composition containing a reactive inorganic fine particle having an average particle diameter of 5 nm to 30 nm, and has a skin layer, wherein the reactive inorganic fine particles are localized, in its surface region being an interface and its vicinity on a side opposite to a transparent substrate film side of the hard coat layer. Alternatively, the reactive inorganic fine particle has an average particle diameter of 30 nm to 100 nm, and has density distribution in a thickness direction of the hard coat layer lowest at an interface on a side opposite to a transparent substrate film side of the hard coat layer while the density is highest at an interface and its vicinity on the transparent substrate film side of the hard coat layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Emi SHIMANO, Toshio YOSHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20120200933
    Abstract: An optical film having an optically-transparent substrate, and a low refractive index layer having a thickness d on one side of the optically-transparent substrate, a polarizing plate and a display panel provided with the same, and a display provided with the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2010
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kentaro Akiyama, Seiji Shinohara, Emi Shimano, Hiroshi Nakamura, Mayu Yoki
  • Publication number: 20110217541
    Abstract: A hard coat film excellent in abrasion resistance and saponification resistance. A hard coat layer includes a cured product of a curable resin composition containing a reactive inorganic fine particle having an average particle diameter of 5 nm to 30 nm, and has a skin layer, wherein the reactive inorganic fine particles are localized, in its surface region being an interface and its vicinity on a side opposite to a transparent substrate film side of the hard coat layer. Alternatively, the reactive inorganic fine particle has an average particle diameter of 30 nm to 100 nm, and has density distribution in a thickness direction of the hard coat layer lowest at an interface on a side opposite to a transparent substrate film side of the hard coat layer while the density is highest at an interface and its vicinity on the transparent substrate film side of the hard coat layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2008
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Applicant: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Emi Shimano, Toshio Yoshihara
  • Publication number: 20100143674
    Abstract: The invention provides a hard coat film with transparency and mar-proofness, obtained by coating, drying and curing on a transparent base film a curable resin composition for a hard coat layer comprising (1) reactive inorganic fine particles A, (2) hydrophilic fine particles B and (3) a curable reactive matrix containing a binder component C that has a reactive functional group c with crosslinking reactivity for the reactive inorganic fine particles A, wherein the content of the hydrophilic fine particles B is 0.1-5.0 wt % with respect to the total solid content, and desired irregularities are formed in the hard coat layer surface, preferably with raised sections having heights of from 3 nm to 50 nm, and spacings between the raised sections of 50 nm-5 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2008
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Inventors: Toshio Yoshihara, Emi Shimano
  • Publication number: 20100124631
    Abstract: The main object of the present invention is to provide an optical sheet having excellent abrasion resistance and hardness, and a method for producing the same. The present invention provides an optical sheet in which a hard coat layer is provided on one surface of a substrate, wherein the hard coat layer comprises a cured product of a curable resin composition for a hard coat layer, which comprises reactive inorganic fine particles and a binder component, and wherein fine protrusions are provided on an interface on the side opposite to the substrate side of the hard coat layer, in which the minimum angle of each of the fine protrusions making angles with a virtual plane that is parallel to the hard coat layer is an acute angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2009
    Publication date: May 20, 2010
    Applicant: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki HORIO, Makoto HONDA, Keiko TASAKI, Takashi KURODA, Emi SHIMANO, Kana YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20100124656
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide an optical sheet having excellent abrasion resistance and hardness, and a method for producing the same. The object of the present invention was accomplished by an optical sheet in which a hard coat layer is provided on one surface of a substrate, wherein the hard coat layer comprises a cured product of a curable resin composition for a hard coat layer, which composition comprising reactive, irregularly shaped silica fine particles and a binder component, and wherein at least part of the irregularly shaped silica fine particles have a specific three-dimensional configuration and are present on an interface on the side opposite to the substrate side of the hard coat layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2009
    Publication date: May 20, 2010
    Applicant: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki HORIO, Makoto HONDA, Keiko TASAKI, Takashi KURODA, Emi SHIMANO, Kana YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20100104858
    Abstract: A curable resin composition for a hard coat layer capable of forming a hard coat layer having high hardness even with thin thickness and/or excellent in abrasion resistance and hardness, and a hard coat film using the curable resin composition are provided. A hard coat film in which a hard coat layer is provided on one side of a transparent substrate film, wherein the hard coat layer comprises a matrix in a crosslinked state and an aggregate in which 3 to 100 silica fine particles having an average primary particle diameter of 1 to 100 nm are aggregated, and wherein the aggregate is cross-linked to the matrix, and an irregularly shaped silica fine particle constituted with 3 to 20 silica fine particles having an average primary particle diameter of 1 to 100 nm connected to each other by inorganic chemical bonding is contained as a part of the aggregates. The hard coat layer further contains a silica fine particle preferably.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2009
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Inventors: Tomoyuki HORIO, Takashi KURODA, Emi SHIMANO, Kana YAMAMOTO, Yoshiko KIYOHARA, Keiko TASAKI