Patents by Inventor Takashi Kuroda

Takashi Kuroda 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: 12292373
    Abstract: The present disclosure addresses the problem of providing an optical plastic film such that rainbow unevenness when viewed with naked eyes and blackout when viewed with polarized sunglasses can be suppressed without any axis alignment or increase in the in-plane phase difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiko Tanaka, Shosei Kubota, Takashi Kuroda, Akinobu Ushiyama
  • Publication number: 20250130359
    Abstract: Provided is an optical film that can suppress rainbow unevenness when viewed with the naked eyes without increasing the in-plane phase difference. The optical film has a low-refractive index layer on a plastic film, the plastic film is a biaxially stretched plastic film with an in-plane phase difference of 2500 nm or less, the low-refractive index layer is located on the outermost surface, and the optical film has a region in which ?Eab satisfies specific conditions, wherein the ?Eab is calculated from the differences between the L* value, the a* value, and the b* value obtained by measuring a laminate 1 including the optical film, the polarizer, and the surface light source under specific conditions and the L* value, the a* value, and the b* value obtained by measuring a laminate 2 including the polarizer and the surface light source under specific conditions, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2024
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Inventors: Shosei KUBOTA, Yoshiko TANAKA, Norio ISHII, Takashi KURODA, Hiroaki SEGAWA, Akinobu USHIYAMA
  • Patent number: 12242095
    Abstract: Provided is an optical film that, when being incorporated into an image display device, can suppress the image display device from appearing pale. An optical film including a UV-absorbing layer containing a UV-absorbing agent B on a plastic film containing a UV-absorbing agent A, wherein fluorescence emission when the plastic film side is irradiated with excitation light having a wavelength of 365 nm and fluorescence emission when the UV-absorbing layer side is irradiated with excitation light having a wavelength of 365 nm satisfy a specific condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiichi Isojima, Junya Eguchi, Takashi Kuroda, Hiroki Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 12216302
    Abstract: Provided is an optical film that can suppress rainbow unevenness when viewed with the naked eyes without increasing the in-plane phase difference. The optical film has a low-refractive index layer on a plastic film, the plastic film is a biaxially stretched plastic film with an in-plane phase difference of 2500 nm or less, the low-refractive index layer is located on the outermost surface, and the optical film has a region in which ?Eab satisfies specific conditions, wherein the ?Eab is calculated from the differences between the L* value, the a* value, and the b* value obtained by measuring a laminate 1 including the optical film, the polarizer, and the surface light source under specific conditions and the L* value, the a* value, and the b* value obtained by measuring a laminate 2 including the polarizer and the surface light source under specific conditions, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shosei Kubota, Yoshiko Tanaka, Norio Ishii, Takashi Kuroda, Hiroaki Segawa, Akinobu Ushiyama
  • Patent number: 12210176
    Abstract: An optical plastic film can suppress rainbow unevenness when viewed with naked eyes and blackout when viewed with polarized sunglasses without high in-plane retardation. The film has an average of in-plane retardations of 600 nm or less and satisfies: when a sample with a size of 50 mm in length×50 mm in width is cut out of the film, slow axis directions are measured at a total of five points including four points 10 mm advanced from the four corners of the sample toward the center and the center of the sample, and angles formed by any one side of the sample with the slow axis directions at the measurement points are respectively defined as D1 to D5, the difference between the maximum value and the minimum value of D1 to D5 is 5.0 degrees or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiichi Isojima, Takashi Kuroda
  • Patent number: 11971567
    Abstract: Provided is an optical film that can eliminate rainbow unevenness when viewed with the naked eyes and provide favorable color tone uniformity when viewed at an oblique angle. This optical film has a low-refractive index layer on a plastic film, the plastic film has a slow axis that is an axis with the largest refractive index in a plane, and a fast axis that is an axis orthogonal to the slow axis in the plane of the plastic film, and the low-refractive index layer is located on the surface of the optical film. Linearly polarized light is incident, under predetermined conditions, from a surface on a side opposite to the low-refractive index layer of the optical film, and transmitted light of the linearly polarized light is used to measure the a* value and b* value of the L*a*b* color system at 11 measurement points with different angles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shosei Kubota, Hikaru Hotta, Yoshiko Tanaka, Takashi Kuroda, Akinobu Ushiyama
  • Patent number: 11953710
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display panel in which deterioration of color tone may be suppressed regardless of the reflectance of the display element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Emori, Takashi Kuroda
  • Publication number: 20240110860
    Abstract: The present disclosure addresses the problem of providing an optical plastic film such that rainbow unevenness when viewed with naked eyes and blackout when viewed with polarized sunglasses can be suppressed without any axis alignment or increase in the in-plane phase difference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshiko TANAKA, Shosei KUBOTA, Takashi KURODA, Akinobu USHIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11885734
    Abstract: The present disclosure addresses the problem of providing an optical plastic film such that rainbow unevenness when viewed with naked eyes and blackout when viewed with polarized sunglasses can be suppressed without any axis alignment or increase in the in-plane phase difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiko Tanaka, Shosei Kubota, Takashi Kuroda, Akinobu Ushiyama
  • Publication number: 20240019619
    Abstract: Provided is an optical film that can eliminate rainbow unevenness when viewed with the naked eyes and provide favorable color tone uniformity when viewed at an oblique angle. This optical film has a low-refractive index layer on a plastic film, the plastic film has a slow axis that is an axis with the largest refractive index in a plane, and a fast axis that is an axis orthogonal to the slow axis in the plane of the plastic film, and the low-refractive index layer is located on the surface of the optical film. Linearly polarized light is incident, under predetermined conditions, from a surface on a side opposite to the low-refractive index layer of the optical film, and transmitted light of the linearly polarized light is used to measure the a* value and b* value of the L*a*b* color system at 11 measurement points with different angles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Shosei KUBOTA, Hikaru HOTTA, Yoshiko TANAKA, Takashi KURODA, Akinobu USHIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11877473
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical laminate capable of providing a display panel in which worsening of visibility owing to reflected colors is suppressed. Furthermore, the present invention provides a display panel including the aforementioned optical laminate; a display device including the foregoing optical laminate; and an antireflection layer, a circular polarizing plate, a retardation plate, and a polarizing plate, each of which is used for the aforementioned display panel. The optical laminate includes a circular polarizing plate having a retardation plate and a polarizer, and an antireflection layer having a surface reflectance of 2% or less, wherein the antireflection layer is provided on the polarizer side of the circular polarizing plate; and L* of light incident from the antireflection layer side in the SCI mode is 20 or less, and a saturation is 20 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Fujita, Takashi Kuroda
  • Publication number: 20230417956
    Abstract: The present disclosure addresses the problem of providing a polyester film having favorable pencil hardness without an increase in the thickness. Disclosed is a polyester film having an average Martens hardness of 140.0 N/mm2 or more at a polyester film surface, wherein a standard deviation 36 of Martens hardness at the polyester film surface is 9.0 N/mm2 or more and 36.0 N/mm2 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Yoshiko TANAKA, Hikaru HOTTA, Shosei KUBOTA, Takashi KURODA, Akinobu USHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230341591
    Abstract: The present disclosure addresses the problem of providing an optical plastic film having favorable pencil hardness without an increase in the in-plane phase difference. Disclosed is an optical plastic film comprising a first surface and a second surface that is a surface on a side opposite to the first surface, wherein the plastic film has an in-plane phase difference of 300 nm or more and 1,450 nm or less, and in a region within a depth of 20 ?m from the first surface in a direction from the first surface to the second surface, an average of an erosion rate is 1.4 ?m/g or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Yoshiko TANAKA, Shosei KUBOTA, Hidemasa ATOBE, Takashi KURODA, Akinobu USHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230333287
    Abstract: Provided is an optical laminate that is excellent in terms of adhesion between a polyester film having a high degree of plane orientation ?P and an easy adhesive layer and suppresses a local defect without using an easy adhesive layer of a specific material. The easy adhesive layer, an uneven layer, and an antifouling layer are provided on the polyester film, when a refractive index in a slow axis direction in a plane of the polyester film is defined as nx, a refractive index in a direction orthogonal to the slow axis in the same plane is defined as ny, and a refractive index in a thickness direction of the polyester film is defined as nz, the polyester film satisfies the following formula 1-2, and, regarding the uneven layer, when a three-dimensional skewness of a surface of the uneven layer is defined as Ssk, and a three-dimensional arithmetic average roughness of the surface of the uneven layer is defined as Sa, Ssk and Sa satisfy the following formula 2-1. 0.140 ? ? P ­­­(1-2) 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Shosei KUBOTA, Yoshiko TANAKA, Takashi KURODA, Akinobu USHIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11726247
    Abstract: There is provided a display device exhibiting a good color reproducibility, even when observed through polarized sunglasses. A display device comprises a polarizer a and an optical film X on a surface on a light emitting surface side of a display element, wherein L1, which is the light incident vertically on the optical film X, among light incident on the optical film X from the display element side, satisfies a specific condition, and L2, which is the light emitting vertically from the light emitting surface side of the optical film X, and passing through a polarizer b having the absorption axis parallel to the absorption axis of the polarizer a, satisfies a specific condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignees: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Kuroda, Yasuhiro Koike
  • Patent number: 11673395
    Abstract: An ink-jet printer includes: a base material transport mechanism for transporting a base material along a transport path in a transport direction; an ink ejection head having a lower surface opposed to the transport path, and an ink ejection port for ejecting ink toward the transport path; and a base plate having a lower surface opposed to the transport path over the transport path, and a mounting hole open in the lower surface, the ink ejection head being mounted in the mounting hole. The base plate includes an air flow hole that is a though hole penetrating through the base plate. The air flow hole has an air outlet open in a location downstream of the ink ejection port in the lower surface. Air passing through the air flow hole is ejected from the air outlet toward the transport path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: SCREEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tamio Fukui, Takashi Kuroda, Kazutaka Ikeuchi, Norimasa Matsui
  • Publication number: 20230126652
    Abstract: The present disclosure addresses the problem of providing an optical plastic film such that rainbow unevenness when viewed with naked eyes and blackout when viewed with polarized sunglasses can be suppressed without any axis alignment or increase in the in-plane phase difference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Yoshiko TANAKA, Shosei KUBOTA, Takashi KURODA, Akinobu USHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230124385
    Abstract: Provided is an anti-glare antireflection member capable of suppressing coloring in viewing in an oblique direction, and suppressing visual recognition of local luminescent spots. The anti-glare antireflection member comprises an anti-glare layer and a low refractive index layer on a substrate. The average of ?d is 7.0 nm or more and 40.0 nm or less, where ?d is a thickness difference of the low refractive index layer in an arbitrary 2 mm×2 mm region of the anti-glare anti refractive index layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Shosei KUBOTA, Yoshiko TANAKA, Takashi KURODA, Akinobu USHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220365265
    Abstract: Provided is an optical film that can suppress rainbow unevenness when viewed with the naked eyes without increasing the in-plane phase difference. The optical film has a low-refractive index layer on a plastic film, the plastic film is a biaxially stretched plastic film with an in-plane phase difference of 2500 nm or less, the low-refractive index layer is located on the outermost surface, and the optical film has a region in which ?Eab satisfies specific conditions, wherein the ?Eab is calculated from the differences between the L* value, the a* value, and the b* value obtained by measuring a laminate 1 including the optical film, the polarizer, and the surface light source under specific conditions and the L* value, the a* value, and the b* value obtained by measuring a laminate 2 including the polarizer and the surface light source under specific conditions, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Shosei KUBOTA, Yoshiko TANAKA, Norio ISHII, Takashi KURODA, Hiroaki SEGAWA, Akinobu USHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220357486
    Abstract: Provided is an optical plastic film that can have good scratch resistance against both a hard material and a soft material. An optical plastic film has a first surface and a second surface located on the opposite side to the first surface, wherein the indentation hardness of the cross section on the first surface side, the indentation hardness of the cross section on the second surface side, and the indentation hardness of the cross section in the middle in the thickness direction satisfy a predetermined relationship in the conveyance direction and the transverse direction of the plastic film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Seiichi ISOJIMA, Takashi KURODA