Method for producing light diffusion film and light diffusion film

• US 9,523,799 B2
• Filed: 12/20/2012
• Issued: 12/20/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lintec Corporation
• Original Assignee: Lintec Corporation
• Inventors: Kusama, Kentaro, Orui, Tomoo, Tomioka, Kenta, Shoshi, Satoru
• Primary Examiner(s): Won, Bumsuk
• Assistant Examiner(s): PARBADIA, BALRAM T
• Application Number:
  US14/372,260
• Publication Number:
  US 20140340752A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,461 Days
• Field of Search: 428/156, 428/167, 428/169, 428/172, 359/599, 359/601, 359/609, 359/613
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 5/0268 characterized by the fabrication or manufacturing method
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133504 Diffusing, scattering, diffracting elements associated to illuminating devices G02F1/133606

Abstract

A method for producing a light diffusion film having first and second louver structure regions includes the following steps (a) to (d): (a) preparing a composition for light diffusion film; (b) applying the composition for light diffusion film, and forming a coating layer; (c) performing first active energy ray irradiation, and forming a first louver structure region in the lower part of the coating layer, while leaving a louver structure-unformed region in the upper part of the coating layer; and (d) performing second active energy ray irradiation, and forming a second louver structure region in the louver structure-unformed region.

Claims

1. A method for producing a light diffusion film having a first louver structure region and a second louver structure region, wherein comprise plural plate-shaped regions having different refractive indices alternately arranged in parallel along any one direction along the film plane, and the 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 light diffusion film when the 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;

the method comprising the following steps (a) to (d);

(a) preparing a composition for light diffusion film containing two polymerizable compounds having different refractive indices;

(b) applying the composition for light diffusion film on a process sheet, and forming a coating layer;

(c) subjecting the coating layer to first active energy ray irradiation in an oxygen-containing atmosphere, and forming the first louver structure region in the lower part of the coating layer, while leaving a louver structure-unformed region in the upper part of the coating layer; and

(d) subjecting the coating layer to second active energy ray irradiation in a non-oxygen atmosphere, and forming the second louver structure region in the louver structure-unformed region.

2. The method for producing a light diffusion film according to claim 1, wherein regarding the first and second active energy ray irradiation, the upper surface of the coating layer is linearly irradiated with active energy radiation.

3. The method for producing a light diffusion film according to claim 1, wherein the absolute value of the difference between the irradiation angle for the first active energy ray irradiation and the irradiation angle for the second active energy ray irradiation is adjusted to a value of 1°

or more.

4. The method for producing a light diffusion film according to claim 1, wherein the illuminance at the surface of the coating layer for the first active energy ray irradiation is adjusted to a value in the range of 0.1 mW/cm² to 3 mW/cm².

5. The method for producing a light diffusion film according to claim 1, wherein the amount of light at the surface of the coating layer for the first active energy ray irradiation is adjusted to a value in the range of 5 mJ/cm² to 100 mJ/cm².

6. The method for producing a light diffusion film according to claim 1, wherein the illuminance at the surface of the coating layer for the second active energy ray irradiation is adjusted to a value in the range of 0.1 mW/cm² to 20 mW/cm².

7. The method for producing a light diffusion film according to claim 1, wherein the amount of light at the surface of the coating layer for the second active energy ray irradiation is adjusted to a value in the range of 5 mJ/cm² to 300 mJ/cm².

8. The method for producing a light diffusion film according to claim 1, wherein in the step (d), the upper surface of the coating layer is subjected to the second active energy ray irradiation, while having an active energy ray transmitting sheet laminated thereon.