Patents by Inventor Norie Tanihara

Norie Tanihara 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: 9563075
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal device having no wrinkles and distortion between a hard coat layer and a base material film, and no peeling of the hard coat layer. This method stacks a sealing layer having an ultraviolet curable adhesive; a front plate composed of a glass or an acrylic resin; an adhesive layer; and a base material film, which has a resin layer containing an adhesion improving agent, and a hard coat layer on the film surface. The resin layer contains 0.005-0.5 parts of the per 100 parts of a binder resin. The adhesive improving agent has an absorption maximum peak at a wavelength of 260-400 nm at the time of curing the sealing layer by applying ultraviolet rays from the hard coat layer side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Norie Tanihara, Takashi Murakami
  • Patent number: 9535201
    Abstract: The retardation film has a slow axis with an angle of 10 to 80° with respect to a longitudinal direction thereof and contains cellulose acylate having a degree of acyl substitution of 2.0 to 2.7 and a regulating agent. The retardation film has an in-plane retardation, measured at a wavelength of 550 nm, Ro550, of 115 to 260 nm. The retardation film has a ?Ro is 3 to 30 nm, where ?Ro is Ro550?Ro450, where Ro450 is the in-plane retardation of the film measured at a wavelength of 450 nm. The retardation film without the regulating agent has an in plane retardation, measured at a wavelength of 550 nm, Rc550, and ?Rc(Rc550?Rc450) equal to or greater than 0, where Rc450 is the in-plane retardation measured a wavelength of 450 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Rieko Ren, Yukihito Nakazawa, Norie Tanihara, Kenji Mishima, Midori Kogure, Kouji Tashiro
  • Publication number: 20160062020
    Abstract: A retardation film includes a cellulose ether derivative and a compound having a negative intrinsic birefringence, wherein the retardation film includes: a transmittance at a wavelength of 320 to 400 nm of 89% or more; an in-plane retardation Ro550 at a wavelength of 550 nm of 115 to 160 nm; and a ratio (Ro450/Ro550) of an in-plane retardation Ro450 at a wavelength of 450 nm to the Ro550 of 0.72 to 0.94.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Midori KOGURE, Yukihito NAKAZAWA, Norie TANIHARA, Kenji MISHIMA, Rieko REN, Kouji TASHIRO
  • Publication number: 20160003995
    Abstract: An optical film includes a cellulose derivative, the film having an in-plane retardation Ro550 within 120 to 160 nm measured at 550 nm wavelength, and a ratio Ro450/Ro550 of in-plane retardations Ro450 and Ro550 within 0.65 to 0.99, respectively, measured at 450 and 550 nm wavelengths, under a 23° C. atmosphere with a relative humidity of 55%, wherein, substituents of glucose skeletons of the cellulose derivative satisfy: part of the substituents have multiple bonds, and the average degree of substitution of the substituents having multiple bonds is within 0.1 to 3.0 per glucose skeleton unit; the maximum absorption wavelength of the substituents having multiple bonds is within 220 to 400 nm; and at least part of the substituents in the glucose skeletons form ether bonds with the glucose skeletons, and the average degree of substitution of the substituents having ether bonds is within 1.0 to 3.0 per glucose skeleton unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Yukihito NAKAZAWA, Midori KOGURE, Norie TANIHARA, Kenji MISHIMA, Rieko REN
  • Publication number: 20150253480
    Abstract: Disclosed is a retardation film which has a slow axis with an angle of 10 to 80° with respect to a longitudinal direction thereof, wherein the retardation film contains cellulose acylate having a degree of acyl substitution of 2.0 to 2.7, and wherein: Ro550 is 115 to 160 nm; ?Ro is 3 to 30 nm; each of ?Rc, ?Ra, and Rc and Ra at a wavelength of 550 nm is equal to or greater than 0; a retardation share ratio of Ra550 to Ro550 is 10 to 80; and a wavelength-dispersion share ratio of ?Ra to ?Ro is 0 to 80.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Rieko Ren, Yukihito Nakazawa, Norie Tanihara, Kenji Mishima, Midori Kogure, Kouji Tashiro
  • Patent number: 8947621
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device with a front plate including a step of providing, on a surface on a viewing side of a liquid crystal panel having polarizing plates on both sides, a ?/4 plate having a hard coat layer and composed of mainly a thermoplastic resin, an adhesive layer, a front plate composed of glass or acrylic, and a sealing layer containing a UV-curable tacky agent, all being stacked in this order from the viewing side; and a step of curing the sealing layer by irradiating with ultraviolet radiation from a hard coat layer side. The ?/4 plate having the hard coat layer contains 0.005 to 0.5 parts by mass of a compound which shows an absorption peak (?max) in a wavelength range of 260 nm to 400 nm per 100 parts by mass of the thermoplastic resin composing the ?/4 plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Advanced Layers, Inc.
    Inventors: Norie Tanihara, Takashi Murakami
  • Publication number: 20140319508
    Abstract: In order to provide an organic electroluminescent display device which does not exhibit redness in reflected external light, and exhibits little fluctuation in the hue of a black image as a result of changes in environmental temperature and differences in the light emitting state, the organic electroluminescent display device according to the present invention comprises, in order from the viewing side, a protective film, a polarizer, a ?/4 phase difference film, and an organic electroluminescent element, and is characterized in that the ?/4 phase difference film satisfies formulas (1) and (2) below. Ro(450)<Ro(550)<Ro(650)??Formula (1) 0.90<photoelastic coefficient ratio(450/650)value<1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventors: Norie Tanihara, Rieko Ren, Koji Tasaka, Yukihito Nakazawa, Kenji Mishima, Midori Kogure
  • Publication number: 20130222720
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal device having no wrinkles and distortion between a hard coat layer and a base material film, and no peeling of the hard coat layer. This method stacks a sealing layer having an ultraviolet curable adhesive; a front plate composed of a glass or an acrylic resin; an adhesive layer; and a base material film, which has a resin layer containing an adhesion improving agent, and a hard coat layer on the film surface. The resin layer contains 0.005-0.5 parts of the per 100 parts of a binder resin. The adhesive improving agent has an absorption maximum peak at a wavelength of 260-400 nm at the time of curing the sealing layer by applying ultraviolet rays from the hard coat layer side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA , INC.
    Inventors: Norie Tanihara, Takashi Murakami
  • Publication number: 20130169897
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device with a front plate including a step of providing, on a surface on a viewing side of a liquid crystal panel having polarizing plates on both sides, a ?/4 plate having a hard coat layer and composed of mainly a thermoplastic resin, an adhesive layer, a front plate composed of glass or acrylic, and a sealing layer containing a UV-curable tacky agent, all being stacked in this order from the viewing side; and a step of curing the sealing layer by irradiating with ultraviolet radiation from a hard coat layer side. The ?/4 plate having the hard coat layer contains 0.005 to 0.5 parts by mass of a compound which shows an absorption peak (?max) in a wavelength range of 260 nm to 400 nm per 100 parts by mass of the thermoplastic resin composing the ?/4 plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA ADVANCED LAYERS, INC.
    Inventors: Norie Tanihara, Takahashi Murakami