OPTICAL FILM AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE COMPRISING SAME

• US 20110279752A1
• Filed: 12/18/2009
• Published: 11/17/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company Limited
• Inventors: Miyamoto, Tomonori, Yamahara, Motohiro, Haba, Yasuhiro
• Application Number:
  US13/141,273
• Publication Number:
  US 20110279752A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 349/64
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 5/02 Diffusing elements; Afocal elements
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 5/0242 by means of dispersed particles
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 5/0278 used in transmission
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133504 Diffusing, scattering, diffracting elements associated to illuminating devices G02F1/133606

Abstract

The present invention provides an optical film which is capable of impeding the occurrence of a failure of display quality at wide view angles, impeding the occurrence of the degradation of the front contrast, achieving a high transmission image definition, and impeding the occurrence of scintillation, and a liquid crystal display device comprising the same. On a substrate film 71, an anti-glare layer 72 in which translucent fine particles 722 are dispersed and mixed in a translucent resin 721 is laminated. The average particle size of the translucent fine particles 722 is set at 0.5 μm or more and less than 5 μm, and the content of the translucent fine particles 722 is set at 35 parts by weight or more and 60 parts by weight or less in relation to 100 parts by weight of the translucent resin. The layer thickness of the anti-glare layer 72 is set at one or more and three or less times the average particle size of the translucent fine particles 722. It is preferable to make the refractive index of the translucent fine particles 722 larger than the refractive index of the translucent resin 721, and the difference between the refractive index of the translucent fine particles 722 and the refractive index of the translucent resin 721 is preferably 0.04 or more and 0.1 or less.

Claims

1. An optical film comprising:

a substrate film; and

an anti-glare layer in which translucent fine particles are dispersed and mixed in a translucent resin,

wherein an average particle size of the translucent fine particles is 0.5 μ

m or more and less than 5 μ

m,

a content of the translucent fine particles is 35 parts by weight or more and 60 parts by weight or less in relation to 100 parts by weight of the translucent resin, and

a layer thickness of the anti-glare layer is one or more and three or less times the average particle size of the translucent fine particles.

2. The optical film according to claim 1, wherein a refractive index of the translucent fine particles is larger than a refractive index of the translucent resin.

3. The optical film according to claim 2, wherein a difference between the refractive index of the translucent fine particles and the refractive index of the translucent resin is 0.04 or more and 0.1 or less.

4. A liquid crystal display device, comprising, in sequence:

a backlight device;

a light deflecting means;

a first polarizing plate;

a liquid crystal cell having a liquid crystal layer provided between a pair of substrates;

a second polarizing plate; and

an optical film,

wherein the first polarizing plate and the second polarizing plate are arranged such that transmission axes thereof are in crossed Nicol relation, and

the optical film is the optical film according to claim 1.

5. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 4,

wherein the light deflecting means has two sheets of prism films provided on a light-exiting surface with a plurality of linear prisms having a polygonal and tapered cross-section and an endmost vertex angle of 90 to 110°

at predetermined intervals, and

one of the prism films is arranged such that ridge line directions of the linear prisms thereof are approximately parallel to the transmission axis of the first polarizing plate, and the other prism film is arranged such that ridge line directions of the linear prisms thereof are approximately parallel to the transmission axis of the second polarizing plate.

6. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 5, wherein a light diffusing means is further arranged between the backlight device and the light deflecting means.