Polarized plate

• US 20070172686A1
• Filed: 06/26/2006
• Published: 07/26/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 01/24/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Optima Technology Corporation
• Original Assignee: Optima Technology Corporation
• Inventors: Lee, Kuang-Rong, Wang, Tan-Ching, Chuang, Yu-Hwey, Tzeng, Ying-Da, Lin, Yi-Jen
• Application Number:
  US11/474,808
• Publication Number:
  US 20070172686A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 428/523
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 5/305 including organic materials, e.g. polymeric layers
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/31938 Polymer of monoethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbon

Abstract

A polarized plate includes a polarized layer, a first optical film located on a upper side of the polarized layer and a second optical film located on a lower side of the polarized layer. At least one of the first and second optical films is made from Polymethyl Methacrylate (PMMA). The optical films are formed by dispensing a mixed solution on a substrate, then bonding to the polarized layer and processed through a heat treatment. The optical films may also be formed by dispensing the mixed solution on the surface of the polarized layer and processed through a heat treatment.

Claims

1. A polarized plate, comprising:

a polarized layer;

a first optical film located on a upper side of the polarized layer; and

a second optical film located on a lower side of the polarized layer;

wherein at least one of the first optical film and the second optical film is made from Polymethyl Methacrylate (PMMA).

2. The polarized plate of claim 1, wherein the first optical film is a PMMA film, the second optical film is made from the group consisting of triacetate (TAC), polycarbonate (PC) and cycloolefin (COP);

wherein the PMMA optical film is made from a PMMA, a PMMA having its functional group being substituted or a PMMA mixing with a selected material and a solvent corresponding to the selected PMMA, the PMMA having its functional group being substituted and the PMMA mixing with a selected material that are mixed according to a selected ratio to meet a requirement to become a mixed solution which is processed through a heat treatment to form the optical film.

3. The polarized plate of claim 2, wherein the PMMA, the PMMA with a substituted functional group or the PMMA mixing with a selected material is mixed with the solvent at a ratio of 20% to 40% by weight.

4. The polarized plate of claim 2, wherein the finctional group in the PMMA to be substituted is methyl, the functional group to substitute the methyl of the PMMA is selected from the group consisting of ethyl, propyl, isopropyl, butyl, isobutyl, tert-butyl, hexyl, isohexyl and cyclohexyl and combinations thereof.

5. The polarized plate of claim 2, wherein the solvent is selected from the group consisting of aromatics, cycloparaffin group, ether group, ester group and ketone group;

wherein the aromatics comprise methylbenzene or o-, m-, p-xylene;

the aromatics is selected from one of methylbenzene and o-, m-, p-xylene;

the cycloparaffin group is selected from Cyclohexane;

the ether group is selected from Diehtyl ether or Tetrahydrofuran (THF);

the ester is selected from Methyl acetate or Ethyl acetate; and

the ketone group is selected from Acetone, methylethylketone (MEK) or 1-methylpyrrolidone (NMP).

6. The polarized plate of claim 1, wherein the optical films are formed at a thickness between 20 um and 200 um.

7. The polarized plate of claim 1, wherein the optical films include an additive which is selected from the group consisting of a PMMA, a PMMA with a substituted functional group and PMMA elastic rubber particles formed by mixing the PMMA with an elastic rubber material.

8. The polarized plate of claim 7, wherein the elastic rubber material is selected form the group consisting of butyl acrylate, methyl methacrylate, styrene and polymers thereof.

9. The polarized plate of claim 7, wherein the particles of the elastic rubber material are smaller than 10 um.

10. The polarized plate of claim 7, wherein the particles of the elastic rubber material are at a dimension of nanometer.

11. The polarized plate of claim 7, wherein the content of the additive of the PMMA, the PMMA with substituted functional group or the PMMA elastic rubber particles formed by mixing PMMA with an elastic rubber material is at ratio of 2.5% to 5% by weight.

12. The polarized plate of claim 2, wherein the optical films contain silica.

13. The polarized plate of claim 12, wherein the silica content is ranged from 0.5% to 15% of the optical films by weight.

14. The polarized plate of claim 12, wherein the silica is mixed with the solvent in advance before being mixed with the PMMA.

15. The polarized plate of claim 12, wherein the silica is mixed with the PMMA particles while the solvent is added.

16. The polarized plate of claim 12, wherein the silica is added and mixed after the PMMA has been mixed.

17. The polarized plate of claim 2, wherein the optical films are formed by solvent-casting process and dispensing the mixed solution on a substrate to bond the polarized layer that are processed through a heat treatment.

18. The polarized plate of claim 17, wherein the mixed solution is dispensed on the substrate through a scraper, the solvent-casting process of film being accomplished through a group of methods consisting of a scraper, a winding rod, coating through a positive turning roller or an inverse turning roller, coating by air curtain, coating by a wheel, coating by an embossed barrel, coating by submerging, rotary coating, slit coating, squeeze coating, shower coating, compression forming and injection forming;

the substrate being selected from the group consisting of a glass plate, a plastic plate, a steel plate with a mirror plane, a steel belt with a mirror plane and a synthetic polymer with an even surface;

the synthetic polymer being selected from the group consisting of PET, PEN, PES, PI, PAR, PC and natural fibers;

the natural fibers being selected from the group consisting of CA, DAC and TAC.

19. The polarized plate of claim 18, wherein the heat treatment is performed by projecting a UV light to the mixed solution on the substrate.

20. The polarized plate of claim 1, wherein the optical films have a PVA internal shrinkage alteration rate smaller than 2%.