Patents by Inventor Geo San LIM

Geo San LIM 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: 11958953
    Abstract: A hard coating film may include a substrate and a hard coating layer provided on at least one surface of the substrate, in which, when the hard coating film is folded and unfolded 200,000 times with a bending radius of 1 mm in the direction in which the hard coating layer is oriented inwards under 60° C. and 90% relative humidity (RH), breakage does not occur, and the amount of change in transmission b* (chromaticity) of the film after UV irradiation for 100 hr using a 15 W UV-B lamp is 1.5 or less. The hard coating film may exhibit superior anti-curling properties, superior bending resistance under high-temperature and high-humidity conditions, and high light resistance, and can thus be applied not only to an image display device but also to a window for a flexible display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: DONGWOO FINE-CHEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Geo San Lim, Seung Hee Kim, Hye Lin Kim
  • Patent number: 11760898
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a hard coating film including a substrate and a hard coating layer provided on at least one surface of the substrate, in which the hard coating layer includes a fluorine-based UV-curable-functional-group-containing compound, a conductive polymer, and a solvent, the conductive polymer being included in a specific amount, and the surface roughness (Ra) value of the hard coating layer is 1 nm or less, whereby the hard coating film can simultaneously exhibit hard coating performance and antifouling performance even in the form of a single layer not including a separate antifouling layer, and is remarkably improved in an antifouling effect based on the low surface roughness thereof due to the absence of inorganic fine particles, and the improved antifouling effect can be effectively maintained even in the presence of variously changing environmental conditions, and to a window and an image display device using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: DONGWOO FINE-CHEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Geo-San Lim, Min-Kyung Kang, Seung-Hee Kim, Hye-Lin Kim
  • Patent number: 11718722
    Abstract: A hard coating film comprises a substrate, and a hard coating layer formed on at least one surface of the substrate, wherein the hard coating layer is formed from a hard coating composition comprising a hydroxyl group-containing light-transmitting resin, a fluorine-based UV-curable functional group-containing compound, a photoinitiator, and a solvent, and when measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) on a surface of the hard coating layer, atomic percent of elemental fluorine (F) on the surface of the hard coating layer is 10 to 55 at %. The hard coating film uses a hard coating composition including a hydroxyl group-containing light-transmitting resin and a fluorine-based UV-curable functional group-containing compound to control the atomic percent of the elemental fluorine (F) on the surface of the hard coating layer to a specific range, thereby providing excellent antifouling properties together with good wear resistance, scratch resistance, and bending resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: DONGWOO FINE-CHEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min Kyung Kang, Seunghee Kim, Geo San Lim, Jonghan Choi
  • Patent number: 11618828
    Abstract: A flexible window stack structure includes a substrate, a first hard coating layer formed on a surface of the substrate and a second hard coating layer formed on an opposite surface of the substrate. The first hard coating layer has a curing contraction greater than that of the second hard coating layer, and the second hard coating layer is disposed at an elongated side when the window stack structure is folded. Cracks may be prevented by a curl property of the first hard coating layer when being bent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: DONGWOO FINE-CHEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Geo San Lim, Seung Hee Kim
  • Patent number: 11613658
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a hard coating film including a substrate and a hard coating layer provided on at least one surface of the substrate, in which the hard coating layer includes a cured product of a hard coating composition containing a fluorine-based UV-curable-functional-group-containing compound, dendritic acrylate, a conductive polymer, and a solvent, the conductive polymer being included in a specific amount, whereby the hard coating film is applicable to a flexible display device and can simultaneously exhibit hard coating performance and antifouling performance even in the form of a single layer that does not include a separate antifouling layer, and in particular, the high antifouling effect can be maintained even in the presence of variously changing environmental conditions, and to a window and an image display device using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: DONGWOO FINE-CHEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Geo-San Lim, Min-Kyung Kang, Seung-Hee Kim, Hye-Lin Kim
  • Publication number: 20230067520
    Abstract: A hard coating film according to an embodiment includes a substrate layer, a first hard coating layer formed on the substrate layer and satisfying a predetermined elastic recovery rate, and a second hard coating layer formed on the first hard coating layer and satisfying a predetermined water contact angle. The hard coating film according to embodiments may provide improved press resistance, scratch resistance, and flexibility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Jong Han CHOI, Hyeong Wan NOH, Geo San LIM
  • Publication number: 20230051118
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a hard coating film capable of providing excellent durability, elastic recovery rate, and abrasion resistance, by including a base layer; a first hard coating layer formed on at least one surface of the base layer and including a fluorine-based UV-curable functional group-containing compound; and a second hard coating layer formed between the base layer and the first hard coating layer and including inorganic particles; and an image display device including the hard coating film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Seung-Hee KIM, Hye-Lin KIM, Min-Kyung KANG, Geo-San LIM
  • Patent number: 11364712
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a hard coating film and an image display apparatus comprising same, the hard coating film having a hard coating layer formed on at least one surface of a polyimide-based substrate, the hard coating layer comprising the cured product of a hard coating composition, wherein the hard coating composition comprises a solvent for swelling a polyimide-based resin, and the hard coating film is configured such that when the reflectivity thereof is measured in the range of 400 nm to 800 nm, the maximum amplitude difference in the oscillations of the reflectivity is controlled at 0.5% or less, and thus can prevent an interference pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: DONGWOO FINE-CHEM CO., LTD
    Inventors: Geo San Lim, Min Kyung Kang, Seung Hee Kim
  • Publication number: 20220164050
    Abstract: Provided are a window film for a flexible display. The window film, even if using a polyimide film having high yellowness index, can have a high transmittance as well as low yellowness index by adjusting the color of the entire window film to be neutral. Also disclosed are an optical laminate and a display device containing the optical laminate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: DONGWOO FINE-CHEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Geo San LIM, Min Kyung KANG, Seunghee KIM
  • Publication number: 20220081524
    Abstract: A hard coating film comprises a substrate, and a hard coating layer formed on at least one surface of the substrate, wherein the hard coating layer is formed from a hard coating composition comprising a hydroxyl group-containing light-transmitting resin, a fluorine-based UV-curable functional group-containing compound, a photoinitiator, and a solvent, and when measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) on a surface of the hard coating layer, atomic percent of elemental fluorine (F) on the surface of the hard coating layer is 10 to 55 at %. The hard coating film uses a hard coating composition including a hydroxyl group-containing light-transmitting resin and a fluorine-based UV-curable functional group-containing compound to control the atomic percent of the elemental fluorine (F) on the surface of the hard coating layer to a specific range, thereby providing excellent antifouling properties together with good wear resistance, scratch resistance, and bending resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: DONGWOO FINE-CHEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min Kyung KANG, Seunghee KIM, Geo San LIM, Jonghan CHOI
  • Publication number: 20210206933
    Abstract: A hard coating film may be configured such that a hard coating layer including a cured product of a hard coating composition is formed on at least one surface of a substrate, in which the hard coating composition includes an ionic antistatic agent and a photopolymerization initiator containing a hydroxyethoxy group, the surface resistance of the hard coating layer is 1E+9 to 1E+12 ?/?, and the total transmittance thereof is 89.0% or more, thus exhibiting superior antistatic performance, superior optical performance such as high transmittance and the like, improved durability such as scratch resistance and the like, and superior bending resistance, making it applicable to a flexible image display device and to a window and an image display device including the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2019
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Geo San Lim, Min Kyung Kang, Seung Hee Kim
  • Publication number: 20210206934
    Abstract: A hard coating film may include a substrate and a hard coating layer provided on at least one surface of the substrate, in which, when the hard coating film is folded and unfolded 200,000 times with a bending radius of 1 mm in the direction in which the hard coating layer is oriented inwards under 60° C. and 90% relative humidity (RH), breakage does not occur, and the amount of change in transmission b* (chromaticity) of the film after UV irradiation for 100 hr using a 15 W UV-B lamp is 1.5 or less. The hard coating film may exhibit superior anti-curling properties, superior bending resistance under high-temperature and high-humidity conditions, and high light resistance, and can thus be applied not only to an image display device but also to a window for a flexible display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2019
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Geo San Lim, Seung Hee Kim, Hye Lin Kim
  • Publication number: 20210139735
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a hard coating film including a substrate and a hard coating layer provided on at least one surface of the substrate, in which the hard coating layer includes a fluorine-based UV-curable-functional-group-containing compound, a conductive polymer, and a solvent, the conductive polymer being included in a specific amount, and the surface roughness (Ra) value of the hard coating layer is 1 nm or less, whereby the hard coating film can simultaneously exhibit hard coating performance and antifouling performance even in the form of a single layer not including a separate antifouling layer, and is remarkably improved in an antifouling effect based on the low surface roughness thereof due to the absence of inorganic fine particles, and the improved antifouling effect can be effectively maintained even in the presence of variously changing environmental conditions, and to a window and an image display device using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Geo-San Lim, Min-Kyung Kang, Seung-Hee Kim, Hye-Lin Kim
  • Publication number: 20210096281
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a hard coating film including a substrate and a hard coating layer provided on at least one surface of the substrate, the hard coating layer including a cured product of a hard coating composition containing a fluorine-based UV-curable-functional-group-containing compound, a light-transmissive resin, and a fluorine-based solvent, and the fluorine-based solvent is contained in an amount of 0.1 to 40 wt % based on a total of 100 wt % of the hard coating composition, and to a window and an image display device using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Seung-Hee Kim, Geo-San Lim, Min-Kyung Kang, Hye-Lin Kim
  • Publication number: 20210094266
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a hard coating film including a substrate and a hard coating layer provided on at least one surface of the substrate, the hard coating layer having a surface resistance of 108 to 1012 ?/? and a water contact angle of 100° or more, and to a window and an image display device using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Min-Kyung Kang, Geo-San Lim, Seung-Hee Kim, Hye-Lin Kim
  • Publication number: 20210095137
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a hard coating film including a substrate and a hard coating layer provided on at least one surface of the substrate, in which the hard coating layer includes a cured product of a hard coating composition containing a fluorine-based UV-curable-functional-group-containing compound, dendritic acrylate, a conductive polymer, and a solvent, the conductive polymer being included in a specific amount, whereby the hard coating film is applicable to a flexible display device and can simultaneously exhibit hard coating performance and antifouling performance even in the form of a single layer that does not include a separate antifouling layer, and in particular, the high antifouling effect can be maintained even in the presence of variously changing environmental conditions, and to a window and an image display device using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Geo-San Lim, Min-Kyung Kang, Seung-Hee Kim, Hye-Lin Kim
  • Publication number: 20200377735
    Abstract: A hard coating film, including a transparent substrate; and a hard coating layer formed on at least one surface of the transparent substrate, wherein the hard coating film has a pencil hardness of 4H or more as measured by a load of 1 kg and satisfies the physical property defined by the following mathematical formula 1, and an image display device using the same are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: DONGWOO FINE-CHEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Geo San Lim, Kwanwook Song
  • Patent number: 10816701
    Abstract: The present invention provides an anti-glare film for touch-mode displays, which has good blackness and touch feel, and a polarizing plate and an image display device comprising the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: DONGWOO FINE-CHEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Geo San Lim, Songhee Park
  • Publication number: 20200061981
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a hard coating film and an image display apparatus comprising same, the hard coating film having a hard coating layer formed on at least one surface of a polyimide-based substrate, the hard coating layer comprising the cured product of a hard coating composition, wherein the hard coating composition comprises a solvent for swelling a polyimide-based resin, and the hard coating film is configured such that when the reflectivity thereof is measured in the range of 400 nm to 800 nm, the maximum amplitude difference in the oscillations of the reflectivity is controlled at 0.5% or less, and thus can prevent an interference pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Geo San Lim, Min Kyung Kang, Seung Hee Kim
  • Publication number: 20190383973
    Abstract: An optical stack structure includes a window, and a polarizing layer and a touch sensor layer on a surface of the window. The optical stack structure has improved flexibility and mechanical reliability so that the optical stack structure may be applied as a window substrate of an image display device including a flexible display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: So Eun JANG, Ko Eun KIM, Dong Hwi KIM, Geo San LIM