Abstract: An oil-in-water type emulsion coating composition having an aqueous phase and an oil phase, the oil-in-water type emulsion coating composition containing: an active energy ray-curable polyfunctional (meth)acrylate having three or more (meth)acryloyl groups within a molecule; and an organic solvent, in the oil phase, the organic solvent having a solubility of 30 g or less in 100 g of water and having a property capable of swelling or dissolving a substrate.

Abstract: An optical film is provided and includes: a support; a hard coat layer formed by hardening a hard coat layer-coating composition; and a overcoat layer formed by hardening an overcoat layer-coating composition, in this order. Each of the hard coat layer-coating composition and the overcoat layer-coating composition contains a compound having a plurality of polymerizable functional groups in one molecule, and the compound in the overcoat layer-coating composition contains a compound having at least three polymerizable functional groups.

Abstract: A method for producing an optical film is provided and includes: simultaneously coating at least two coating solutions over a transparent support, the at least two coating solutions each containing a solvent and a solute; and drying the solvent in each of the at least two coating solutions to provide at least two coating layers. When the at least two coating layers are 1, 2, . . . n?1 and n layers in sequence from the outermost surface of the at least two coating layers toward the transparent support, n being an integer of 2 or more, the main component of the solute in the n-th layer is insoluble or sparingly soluble in the main component of the solvent in the (n?1)-th layer.

Abstract: An optical film, which comprises: a transparent support; and at least one layer of functional layer formed from a coating composition, wherein the at least one layer of functional layer is formed by curing the coating composition by a heat energy and a light energy.

Abstract: An optical film, which comprises: a transparent support; and an optical layer on or above the transparent support, wherein the optical layer contains a thickening agent which shows a viscosity of 10 mPa·sec or more when added to 2-butanone in a content of 3% by mass, and the optical layer has a thickness of 5 ?m or more.

Abstract: A polarizer-protective film includes: a film including a polyester resin as the essential ingredient thereof, and having a moisture permeability of at most 700 g/m2·day and an in-plane retardation Re of at least 500 nm; and a light-scattering layer provided on at least one surface of the film.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for producing an antireflection film comprising applying, using a slot die, a coating solution onto a web which is backed up by a back-up roller and runs continuously to form at least one layer which has a thickness of 200 nm or less in a dried state and has a refractive index lower than that of the web. The slot die has an edge lip downstream of the running web which has a land length along the running web is 30 to 100 ?m, and the space between the edge lip of the slot die upstream of the running web and the surface of the web is set to be 30 to 120 ?m larger than the space between the edge lip of the slot die downstream of the running web and the surface of the web.

Abstract: A producing method of a coated film is provided and includes: coating a coating solution that contains a light-transmitting resin and a solvent on a support and, subsequently applying first and second drying steps for drying a coated coating solution. The first drying step is carried out in a drying zone where the maximum wind speed on a surface of a coated layer is 1 m/sec or more, and the second drying step is carried out in a drying zone having a temperature of 50° C. or more higher than a temperature in a zone where the first drying step is carried out.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device comprising: a first protective film; a first polarizing film; an optical compensation region; a liquid crystal cell comprising a liquid crystal layer and a pair of substrates sandwiching the liquid crystal layer; a second polarizing film; and a second protective layer, in this order, wherein at a black display, liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer are aligned in parallel with surfaces of said pair of substrates, an antiglare layer is provided to at least one of the first protective film and the second protective layer, and the antiglare layer has a haze value attributable to internal scattering of from 5 to 35%, and a haze value attributable to surface scattering of from 1 to 10%.

Abstract: A coating composition comprises: a fluoroaliphatic group-containing copolymer comprising a repeating unit A corresponding to a fluoroaliphatic group-containing monomer and a repeating unit B corresponding to at least one monomer, wherein a material obtained by polymerization of only the repeating unit B exhibits a glass transition point of 300K or more. A coating composition comprises: a fluoroaliphatic group-containing copolymer comprising a repeating unit A corresponding to a fluoroaliphatic group-containing monomer and a repeating unit B corresponding to at least one monomer, wherein the fluoroaliphatic group-containing copolymer exhibits a glass transition point of 273K or more.