Light control sheet and liquid crystal display device comprising the same

• US 5,767,935 A
• Filed: 08/29/1996
• Issued: 06/16/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company Limited
• Inventors: Honda, Masaru, Ueda, Kayoko, Yasunori, Yukio
• Primary Examiner(s): Sikes, William L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Duong, Tai V.
• Application Number:
  US08/697,774
• Time in Patent Office: 656 Days
• Field of Search: 349/104, 349/112, 349/63, 349/64, 349/66, 359/599, 359/454, 430/4, 430/14, 430/20, 430/290, 362/355
• US Class Current: 349/112
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 5/0252 using holographic or diffractive means
• 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

An optical filter for a liquid crystal display device, consisting of a polymer film which has two types of layers having different refractive index which exist alternately in a laminated state, in which a difference of refractive index between two types of layers is in the range between 0.01 and 0.1, an average thickness of each layer is at least 0.8 μm and less than 2 μm, and a thickness of the polymer film is in the range between 10 to 300 μm, which filter can widen an angle of view of the liquid crystal display is greatly without the improvement of the liquid crystal cell, change of an addressing system or modification of the liquid crystal itself.

Claims

1. A light control sheet or film for a liquid crystal display device, consisting of a polymer film which comprises two types of layers having different refractive indices which exist alternately in a laminated state, wherein the difference between the refractive indices of the two types of layers is between 0.01 and 0.1, each layer having an average thickness of at least 0.8 μ

m and less than 2 μ

m, and the polymer film having a thickness of 10 to 300 μ

m.

2. The light control sheet or film according to claim 1, wherein said average thickness of each layer is between 0.8 and 1.99 μ

m.

3. The light control sheet or film according to claim 1, wherein said polymer film is obtained by irradiating a film form body of a composition comprising at least two photopolymerizable compounds having different refractive indices which differ by 0.01 to 0.1 with UV light having a wavelength of 400 nm or less from one direction.

4. The light control sheet or film according to claim 3, wherein said composition comprises at least two compounds selected from the group consisting of monomers and oligomers each having a photopolymerizable double bond.

5. The light control sheet or film according to claim 4, wherein said composition comprises at least one monomer having a photopolymerizable double bond and at least one oligomer having a photopolymerizable double bond.

6. The light control sheet or film according to claim 5, wherein said monomer having a photopolymerizable double bond is a (meth)acrylate monomer, and said oligomer having a photopolymerizable double bond is a (meth)acrylate oligomer.

7. The light control sheet or film according to claim 6, wherein said (meth)acrylate monomer is at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of tetrahydrofurfuryl acrylate, ethylcarbitol acrylate, dicyclopentenyloxyethyl acrylate, phenylcarbitol acrylate, nonylphenoxyethyl acrylate, 2-hydroxy-3-phenoxypropyl acrylate, ω

-hydroxyhexanoyloxyethyl acrylate, acryloyloxyethyl succinate, acryloyloxyethyl phthalate, tribromophenoxyethyl acrylate, isobornyl acrylate, 2-ethylhexyl acrylate, lauryl acrylate, 2,2,3,3-tetrafluoropropyl acrylate, phenoxyethyl acrylate, and methacrylates corresponding to those acrylates, N-vinylpyrrolidone and Nacryloylmorpholine.

8. The light control sheet or film according to claim 6, wherein said oligomer is at least one oligomer selected from the group consisting of polyol polyacrylate, modified polyol polyacrylate, polyacrylate comprising a isocyanuric acid backbone, melamine acrylate, polyacrylate having a hydantoin backbone, polybutadiene acrylate, epoxy acrylate and urethane acrylate.

9. A liquid crystal display device comprising a light source member, a back polarization plate, a liquid crystal cell plate, a front polarization plate and a light control sheet or film as claimed in claim 1 which is provided in front of the liquid crystal cell plate.

10. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 9, wherein said light control sheet or film is provided between the liquid crystal cell plate and the front polarization plate, or in front of the front polarization plate.

11. A method for enlarging an angle of view of a liquid crystal display device which comprises a light source member, a back polarization plate, a liquid crystal cell plate and a front polarization plate, comprising providing a light control sheet or film as claimed in claim 1 in front of the liquid crystal cell plate.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein said light control sheet or film is provided between the liquid crystal cell plate and the front polarization plate, or in front of the front polarization plate.