Anisotropic light diffusion film

• US 9,519,086 B2
• Filed: 12/20/2012
• Issued: 12/13/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lintec Corporation
• Original Assignee: Lintec Corporation
• Inventors: Kusama, Kentaro, Tomioka, Kenta, Orui, Tomoo, Shoshi, Satoru
• Primary Examiner(s): Won, Bumsuk
• Assistant Examiner(s): PARBADIA, BALRAM T
• Application Number:
  US14/372,269
• Publication Number:
  US 20140340753A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,454 Days
• Field of Search: 359/599, 359/601, 359/609, 359/613, 428/156, 428/167, 428/169, 428/172
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 1/04 made of organic materials, e.g. plastics G02B1/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 26/023 comprising movable attenuating elements, e.g. neutral density filters
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 5/021 the diffusion taking place at the element's surface, e.g. by means of surface roughening or microprismatic structures
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 5/0236 the diffusion taking place within the volume of the element
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 5/0257 creating an anisotropic diffusion characteristic, i.e. distributing output differently in two perpendicular axes
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133504 Diffusing, scattering, diffracting elements associated to illuminating devices G02F1/133606

Abstract

An anisotropic light diffusion film includes increased uniformity of the intensity of diffused light in the light diffusion angle region, and the light diffusion angle region has been effectively expanded. An anisotropic light diffusion film includes a first louver structure region and a second louver structure region, in which plural plate-shaped regions having different refractive indices are alternately arranged in parallel along any one direction along the film plane, sequentially from the lower side along the film thickness direction, and the anisotropic light diffusion film includes an overlapping louver structure region in which the upper end of the first louver structure region and the lower end of the second louver structure region overlap each other.

Claims

1. An anisotropic light diffusion film comprising a first louver structure region and a second louver structure region sequentially from the lower side along the film thickness direction, wherein each of the first louver structure region and the second louver structure region comprise plural plate-shaped regions having different refractive indices alternately arranged in parallel along any one direction along the film plane,

wherein the anisotropic light diffusion film comprises an overlapping structure region in which the upper end of the first louver structure region extends into the lower end of the second louver structure region so that the upper end of the first louver structure region and the lower end of the second louver structure region overlap each other in a cross-section of the anisotropic light diffusion film when the anisotropic light diffusion film is cut at a plane perpendicular to the plate-shaped regions in the first louver structure region and the second louver structure region.

2. The anisotropic light diffusion film according to claim 1, wherein the overlapping structure region is formed such that the tips of any one side of the plate-shaped regions respectively originating from the first louver structure region and the second louver structure region are in contact with the vicinity of the tips of the plate-shaped regions originating from the other louver structure region.

3. The anisotropic light diffusion film according to claim 1, wherein the thickness of the overlapping structure region has a value in the range of 1 μ

m to 40 μ

m.

4. The anisotropic light diffusion film according to claim 1, wherein the thickness of the overlapping structure region has a value in the range of 0.1% to 10% relative to 100% of the film thickness.

5. The anisotropic light diffusion film according to claim 1, wherein in the overlapping structure region, the absolute value of the difference in the inclination angle of the plate-shaped regions having different refractive indices and respectively originating from the first louver structure region and the second louver structure region, is adjusted to a value of 1°

or more.

6. The anisotropic light diffusion film according to claim 1, wherein in the overlapping structure region, the absolute value of the inclination angle of the plate-shaped regions originating from the second louver structure region is adjusted to be a value larger than the absolute value of the inclination angle of the plate-shaped regions originating from the first louver structure region.

7. The anisotropic light diffusion film according to claim 1, wherein the widths of the plate-shaped regions in the first louver structure region and the second louver structure region are respectively adjusted to a value in the range of 0.1 μ

m to 15 μ

m.

8. The anisotropic light diffusion film according to claim 1, wherein the plate-shaped regions in the first louver structure region are bent in the upper part or in the lower part along the film thickness direction.

9. The anisotropic light diffusion film according to claim 1, wherein among the plate-shaped regions in the first louver structure region and the second louver structure region, a main component of the plate-shaped regions having a higher refractive index is a (meth)acrylic acid ester polymer containing plural aromatic rings, and a main component of the plate-shape regions having a lower refractive index is a polymer of urethane (meth)acrylate.

10. The anisotropic light diffusion film according to claim 1, wherein the thickness of the first louver structure region is adjusted to a value in the range of 50 μ

m to 500 μ

m, and the thickness of the second louver structure region is adjusted to a value in the range of 10 μ

m to 200 μ

m.

11. The anisotropic light diffusion film according to claim 1, wherein the value obtained by subtracting the thickness of the overlapping structure region from the sum of the thicknesses of the first louver structure region and the second louver structure region, is adjusted to a value of 80% or more relative to 100% of the film thickness.