Multilayer optical interference film

• US 20070070494A1
• Filed: 09/27/2005
• Published: 03/29/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company (3M Company)
• Original Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company (3M Company)
• Inventors: Lu, Ying-Yuh, Brott, Robert, Liu, Yaoqi, Schaffer, Kevin, Cernohous, Jeffrey, Moshrefzadeh, Robert
• Application Number:
  US11/236,337
• Publication Number:
  US 20070070494A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 359/357
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 1/111 using layers comprising organic materials
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 5/287 comprising at least one layer of organic material

Abstract

A multilayer optical film is disclosed. The multilayer film includes at least two adjacent optically transmissive tacky adhesive layers. Each tacky adhesive layer reflects light by optical interference.

Claims

1. A multilayer optical interference film comprising at least two adjacent optically transmissive tacky adhesive layers, each tacky adhesive layer reflecting light by optical interference.

2. The multilayer optical film of claim 1, wherein at least one tacky adhesive internal layer is a pressure sensitive adhesive layer.

3. The multilayer optical film of claim 1, wherein each tacky adhesive layer reflects light by optical interference in a wavelength range from about 400 nm to about 700 nm.

4. The multilayer optical film of claim 1, wherein each tacky adhesive layer reflects light by optical interference in a wavelength range from about 700 nm to about 3000 nm.

5. The multilayer optical film of claim 1, wherein the optical thickness of each tacky adhesive layer is less than about 0.5 microns at at least one wavelength in a wavelength range from about 400 nm to about 700 nm.

6. The multilayer optical film of claim 1, wherein the optical thickness of each tacky adhesive layer is less than about 0.2 microns at at least one wavelength in a wavelength range from about 400 nm to about 700 nm.

7. The multilayer optical film of claim 1, wherein the optical thickness of each tacky adhesive layer is less than about 0.1 microns at at least one wavelength in a wavelength range from about 400 nm to about 700 nm.

8. The multilayer optical film of claim 1, wherein the optical thickness of each tacky adhesive layer is less than about 4 micron at at least one wavelength in a wavelength range from about 700 nm to about 3000 nm.

9. The multilayer optical film of claim 1, wherein the optical thickness of each tacky adhesive layer is less than about 2 microns at at least one wavelength in a wavelength range from about 700 nm to about 3000 nm.

10. The multilayer optical film of claim 1, wherein the optical thickness of each tacky adhesive layer is less than about 1 micron at at least one wavelength in a wavelength range from about 700 nm to about 3000 nm.

11. The multilayer interference film of claim 1 comprising at least 5 adjacent tacky adhesive layers, each reflecting light by optical interference.

12. The multilayer interference film of claim 1 comprising at least 7 adjacent tacky adhesive layers, each reflecting light by optical interference.

13. The multilayer interference film of claim 1 comprising at least 9 adjacent tacky adhesive layers, each reflecting light by optical interference.

14. The multilayer interference film of any of claim 11, wherein each tacky adhesive layer that reflects light by optical interference has an optical thickness that is a fraction of a wavelength in a wavelength range from about 400 nm to about 700 nm.

15. The multilayer interference film of any of claim 12, wherein each tacky adhesive layer that reflects light by optical interference has an optical thickness that is a fraction of a wavelength in a wavelength range from about 400 nm to about 700 nm.

16. The multilayer interference film of any of claim 13, wherein each tacky adhesive layer that reflects light by optical interference has an optical thickness that is a fraction of a wavelength in a wavelength range from about 400 nm to about 700 nm.

17. The multilayer interference film of any of claim 11, wherein each tacky adhesive layer that reflects light by optical interference has an optical thickness that is a fraction of a wavelength in a wavelength range from about 700 nm to about 3000 nm.

18. The multilayer interference film of any of claim 12, wherein each tacky adhesive layer that reflects light by optical interference has an optical thickness that is a fraction of a wavelength in a wavelength range from about 700 nm to about 3000 nm.

19. The multilayer interference film of any of claim 13, wherein each tacky adhesive layer that reflects light by optical interference has an optical thickness that is a fraction of a wavelength in a wavelength range from about 700 nm to about 3000 nm.

20. The multilayer interference film of claim 1, wherein each layer of the multilayer film reflects light by optical interference.

21. The multilayer interference film of claim 1 having a first outermost layer and a second outermost layer, at least one of the first and second outermost layers being a tacky adhesive.

22. The multilayer interference film of claim 1 having a first outermost layer and a second outermost layer, at least one of the first and second outermost layers reflecting light by optical interference.

23. The multilayer interference film of claim 1, wherein at least one tacky adhesive layer is anisotropic.

24. The multilayer interference film of claim 1 having a first outermost layer, a second outermost layer, and removal release layers disposed on at least one of the first and second outermost layers.

25. A multilayer optical interference film comprising two or more optically transmissive tacky adhesive layers, at least two tacky adhesive layers being adjacent to each other, each of the at least two adjacent tacky adhesive layers reflecting light by optical interference.