Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki HAGIO
Hiroyuki HAGIO 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).
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Patent number: 11966008Abstract: The present invention provides an optical film having a liquid crystal layer having excellent durability, and a liquid crystal film. The optical film of the present invention has an organic base material and a liquid crystal layer disposed on the organic base material, the liquid crystal layer contains a photo-alignment compound, and in the liquid crystal layer, the photo-alignment compound is unevenly distributed on a side of the organic base material.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Kazushige Nakagawa, Hideyuki Nishikawa, Masato Nakao, Shunya Katoh, Hiroyuki Hagio, Yutaka Nozoe, Kunihiro Kasezawa, Yuki Nakamura
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Patent number: 11860338Abstract: Provided is an optical film with a resin substrate adhered to an optically anisotropic layer and suppression of occurrence of optical defects in the optically anisotropic layer. The optical film has a resin substrate having an alignment regulating force and an optically anisotropic layer arranged thereon, in which the optically anisotropic layer contains a liquid crystal compound and a compound having a heteroatom different from the liquid crystal compound, and in a case where a surface of the optical film on an optically anisotropic layer side thereof is a first surface and a surface of the optical film on a resin substrate side thereof is a second surface, and components of the optical film in a depth direction are analyzed by time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry while irradiating the optical film with an ion beam from the first surface toward the second surface, the obtained profile satisfies a predetermined requirement.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Akira Maruyama, Keisuke Kodama, Tetsuro Otsuka, Hiroyuki Hagio, Yuta Takahashi, Shinpei Yoshida, Satoshi Yanokuchi
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Patent number: 11834600Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal composition capable of forming an optically anisotropic layer, and method thereof, in which a variation in a twisted angle of liquid crystal compound in an in-plane direction is suppressed an optical film, and a circularly polarizing plate for an organic EL display. The liquid crystal composition contains a liquid crystal, optically active compound A which is a photosensitive optically active compound whose helical twisting power changes upon irradiation with light and has a molar absorption coefficient of 5,000 M?1·cm?1 or more with respect to light having a wavelength of 365 nm, and an optically active compound B having a molar absorption coefficient with respect to light having a wavelength of 365 nm smaller than the molar absorption coefficient of the optically active compound A, in which a mass content ratio of the optically active compound A to the liquid crystal compound is less than 0.01.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Keisuke Kodama, Yuki Fukushima, Shunya Katoh, Yuta Takahashi, Shinpei Yoshida, Satoshi Yanokuchi, Akira Maruyama, Hiroyuki Hagio
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Publication number: 20230135489Abstract: A fluorine-containing polymer includes at least one repeating unit represented by any of General Formulae (I) to (III):Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Akio TAMURA, Hiroyuki HAGIO, Reiko INUSHIMA, Mayumi NOJIRI, Nobuyuki AKUTAGAWA, Yuta FUKUSHIMA
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Publication number: 20220381953Abstract: The present invention provides an optical film having a liquid crystal layer having excellent durability, and a liquid crystal film. The optical film of the present invention has an organic base material and a liquid crystal layer disposed on the organic base material, the liquid crystal layer contains a photo-alignment compound, and in the liquid crystal layer, the photo-alignment compound is unevenly distributed on a side of the organic base material.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2022Publication date: December 1, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Kazushige NAKAGAWA, Hideyuki NISHIKAWA, Masato NAKAO, Shunya KATOH, Hiroyuki HAGIO, Yutaka NOZOE, Kunihiro KASEZAWA, Yuki NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20220204855Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal composition capable of forming an optically anisotropic layer, and method thereof, in which a variation in a twisted angle of liquid crystal compound in an in-plane direction is suppressed an optical film, and a circularly polarizing plate for an organic EL display. The liquid crystal composition contains a liquid crystal, optically active compound A which is a photosensitive optically active compound whose helical twisting power changes upon irradiation with light and has a molar absorption coefficient of 5,000 M?1·cm?1 or more with respect to light having a wavelength of 365 nm, and an optically active compound B having a molar absorption coefficient with respect to light having a wavelength of 365 nm smaller than the molar absorption coefficient of the optically active compound A, in which a mass content ratio of the optically active compound A to the liquid crystal compound is less than 0.01.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2022Publication date: June 30, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Keisuke KODAMA, Yuki FUKUSHIMA, Shunya KATOH, Yuta TAKAHASHI, Shinpei YOSHIDA, Satoshi YANOKUCHI, Akira MARUYAMA, Hiroyuki HAGIO
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Publication number: 20220171109Abstract: Provided is a method for producing an optically anisotropic layer, with a polarizer, which has a plurality of regions in which alignment states of a liquid crystal compound are fixed and different from one another; laminate, with a polarizer; and a composition. The method includes: 1) forming a composition layer containing a chiral agent containing at least a photosensitive chiral agent and a polymerizable liquid crystal compound on a substrate, 2) subjecting the composition layer to a heat treatment, 3) subjecting the composition layer to light irradiation under oxygen concentration of 1% by volume or more, after step 2), and 4) subjecting the composition layer to a curing treatment to form an optically anisotropic layer, and 5) carrying out step 3) under heating conditions, or subjecting the composition layer to a heat treatment between step 3) and step 4), with a predetermined amount of chiral agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2022Publication date: June 2, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yuta TAKAHASHI, Shinpei YOSHIDA, Satoshi YANOKUCHI, Akira MARUYAMA, Keisuke KODAMA, Yuta FUKUSHIMA, Shunya KATOH, Yuki FUKUSHIMA, Hiroyuki HAGIO
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Publication number: 20220171096Abstract: Provided is an optical film with a resin substrate adhered to an optically anisotropic layer and suppression of occurrence of optical defects in the optically anisotropic layer. The optical film has a resin substrate having an alignment regulating force and an optically anisotropic layer arranged thereon, in which the optically anisotropic layer contains a liquid crystal compound and a compound having a heteroatom different from the liquid crystal compound, and in a case where a surface of the optical film on an optically anisotropic layer side thereof is a first surface and a surface of the optical film on a resin substrate side thereof is a second surface, and components of the optical film in a depth direction are analyzed by time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry while irradiating the optical film with an ion beam from the first surface toward the second surface, the obtained profile satisfies a predetermined requirement.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2022Publication date: June 2, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Akira MARUYAMA, Keisuke KODAMA, Tetsuro OTSUKA, Hiroyuki HAGIO, Yuta TAKAHASHI, Shinpei YOSHIDA, Satoshi YANOKUCHI
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Patent number: 10782567Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an optical film having an optically-anisotropic layer having excellent durability, a polarizing plate and an image display device in which the optical film is used, a polymerizable compound used in the optical film, and a method for manufacturing a 1,4-cyclohexanedicarboxylic acid monoaryl ester. The optical film of the present invention is an optical film having at least an optically-anisotropic layer, in which the optically-anisotropic layer is a layer obtained by polymerizing a polymerizable liquid crystal composition containing a polymerizable compound which has a specific structure, a liquid crystal compound which has a specific structure, and a polymerization initiator.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2018Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Keita Takahashi, Hiroshi Matsuyama, Naozumi Shiraiwa, Taiji Katsumata, Yuuta Fujino, Hiroshi Sato, Kiyoshi Takeuchi, Hiroyuki Hagio, Aiko Yoshida, Hiroaki Nakatsugawa
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Publication number: 20180267368Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an optical film having an optically-anisotropic layer having excellent durability, a polarizing plate and an image display device in which the optical film is used, a polymerizable compound used in the optical film, and a method for manufacturing a 1,4-cyclohexanedicarboxylic acid monoaryl ester. The optical film of the present invention is an optical film having at least an optically-anisotropic layer, in which the optically-anisotropic layer is a layer obtained by polymerizing a polymerizable liquid crystal composition containing a polymerizable compound which has a specific structure, a liquid crystal compound which has a specific structure, and a polymerization initiator.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Keita TAKAHASHI, Hiroshi MATSUYAMA, Naozumi SHIRAIWA, Taiji KATSUMATA, Yuuta FUJINO, Hiroshi SATO, Kiyoshi TAKEUCHI, Hiroyuki HAGIO, Aiko YOSHIDA, Hiroaki NAKATSUGAWA
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Patent number: 10001584Abstract: An optical film is provided containing cellulose acylate and at least one type of a compound denoted by the following Formula (I). R1 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an aryl group, a heterocyclic group, an acyl group, an alkoxy carbonyl group, a carbamoyl group, an alkyl sulfonyl group, or an aryl sulfonyl group, R2 represents an alkyl group or an aryl group, L represents a single bond or a bivalent or more connecting group, and n represents 1 when L is a single bond and n represents an integer of the valence of L?1 when L is a bivalent or more connecting group. s and t each independently represent 1 to 3, and X represents —O— or —N(Ra)-. Ra represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2016Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Hagio, Shinichi Ichikawa, Masaki Noro, Yu Naito, Nobutaka Fukagawa, Yutaka Nozoe
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Patent number: 9644083Abstract: A cellulose acylate film, containing: at least two or more of chelating agents having different pKa values from one another, wherein the chelating agents comprise: a chelating agent A having at least one functional group whose acid dissociation constant pKa, measured at 25° C. in a mixed solvent having a mixing ratio of tetrahydrofuran 60 ml/water 40 ml, is 6 or less; and a chelating agent B having at least one functional group of a conjugate acid whose pKa, measured at the same condition, is 7 or more; and a cellulose acylate, and wherein the number of bright spots of the cellulose acylate film is equal to or less than 500/cm2; a polarizing plate protective film, a polarizing plate and a liquid crystal display using the same.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2015Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATIONInventors: Nobutaka Fukagawa, Yu Naito, Mayumi Nojiri, Hiroyuki Hagio, Aiko Yoshida, Hideyuki Nishikawa
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Publication number: 20160187537Abstract: An optical film is provided containing cellulose acylate and at least one type of a compound denoted by the following Formula (I). R1 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an aryl group, a heterocyclic group, an acyl group, an alkoxy carbonyl group, a carbamoyl group, an alkyl sulfonyl group, or an aryl sulfonyl group, R2 represents an alkyl group or an aryl group, L represents a single bond or a bivalent or more connecting group, and n represents 1 when L is a single bond and n represents an integer of the valence of L?1 when L is a bivalent or more connecting group. s and t each independently represent 1 to 3, and X represents —O— or —N(Ra)-. Ra represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2016Publication date: June 30, 2016Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki HAGIO, Shinichi ICHIKAWA, Masaki NORO, Yu NAITO, Nobutaka FUKAGAWA, Yutaka NOZOE
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Publication number: 20160124123Abstract: A cellulose acylate film, containing at least: a cellulose acylate; and a compound represented by the following Formula (I): wherein R1, R3 and R5 each independently designate a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an alkenyl group, or an aromatic group, which groups may have a further substituent; with the proviso that at least one of R1, R3 and R5 is an alkyl group substituted with a group having a ring structure or a cycloalkyl group, and the total number of the ring structures existing in R1, R3 and R5 is 3 or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2016Publication date: May 5, 2016Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Masaki NORO, Yutaka NOZOE, Hiroshi INADA, Naoya SHIMOJU, Hisato NAGASE, Hiroyuki HAGIO, Yu NAITO, Nobutaka FUKAGAWA
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Publication number: 20150252178Abstract: A cellulose acylate film, containing: at least two or more of chelating agents having different pKa values from one another, wherein the chelating agents comprise: a chelating agent A having at least one functional group whose acid dissociation constant pKa, measured at 25° C. in a mixed solvent having a mixing ratio of tetrahydrofuran 60 ml/water 40 ml, is 6 or less; and a chelating agent B having at least one functional group of a conjugate acid whose pKa, measured at the same condition, is 7 or more; and a cellulose acylate, and wherein the number of bright spots of the cellulose acylate film is equal to or less than 500/cm2; a polarizing plate protective film, a polarizing plate and a liquid crystal display using the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2015Publication date: September 10, 2015Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATIONInventors: Nobutaka FUKAGAWA, Yu NAITO, Mayumi NOJIRI, Hiroyuki HAGIO, Aiko YOSHIDA, Hideyuki NISHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20150185368Abstract: An optical film containing a cellulose acylate, and a compound represented by formula (I); a polarizing plate and a liquid crystal display device using the optical film; and a compound represented by formula (I): wherein R1a and R1a each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, a cycloalkyl group, a cycloalkenyl group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group; R5a represents a halogen atom, a cyano group, or a substituent, via a heteroatom or the carbon atom, which has a specific unsaturated moiety in an a-position; R5b represents a substituent; and each group of R1a, R3a and R5b may be substituted with a substituent.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2014Publication date: July 2, 2015Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATIONInventors: Hisato NAGASE, Hiroyuki HAGIO, Hiroyuki ISHIKAWA, Naoya SHIMOJU, Aiko YOSHIDA, Yu NAITO
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Publication number: 20110236603Abstract: A cellulose acylate film comprising at least one cellulose acylate, at least one sterol derivative represented by formula (1), and at least one saccharide derivative and/or at least one oligomer plasticizer is disclosed. R1, R2 and R3 represents a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group or a substituent represented by -L-R*, provided that at least one of them represents the substituent represented by -L-R*; L represents a single bond or a divalent connecting group selected from the group consisting of —O—, —CO—, —CONR6—, —CH2— and a combination thereof, R* represents a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic ring group, heterocyclic group or alkyl group; R4 represents a carboxyl group or —CHR7—CH(CH3)2; R5 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2011Publication date: September 29, 2011Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki HAGIO, Aiko YOSHIDA, Nobutaka FUKAGAWA