IP Library Granted Patent US 7,379,246
Granted Patent B2
US 7,379,246 · App. 11/379,427 · Granted May 27, 2008

Light-diffusing film

Assignee: Toray Saehan Inc.
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Patent No.
US 7,379,246
App. No.
11/379,427
Granted
May 27, 2008
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed herein is a light-diffusing film for a backlight unit of a thin film transistor-liquid crystal display. Specifically, the current invention provides a light-diffusing film, including a transparent base sheet, a light-diffusing layer, which is laminated on any one surface of the base sheet and includes a light-diffusing resin and light-diffusing particles, and an antiblocking layer, which is laminated on the other surface of the base sheet and includes an antiblocking resin and antiblocking particles, in which the light-diffusing particles satisfy a predetermined relation between a specific surface area and a radius thereof. Accordingly, the light-diffusing film of the current invention can uniformly diffuse light transmitted from a light source lamp positioned at the side surface or back surface of a display device, thus realizing vivid and distinct display images.

Claims (11)

1. A light-diffusing film, consisting of:

a transparent base sheet;

a light-diffusing layer, which is laminated on a surface of the base sheet and includes a light-diffusing resin and light-diffusing particles that satisfy the relation A >3/r, where A is a specific surface area of a light-diffusing particle and r is a radius of a light-diffusing particle; and

an antiblocking layer, which is laminated on the other surface of the base sheet and includes an antiblocking resin and antiblocking particles,

wherein said light-diffusing particles or antiblocking particles are formed of at least one resin selected from the group consisting of acryl, polyurethane, polyvinyl chloride, polystyrene, polyacrylonitrile, polyamide, and polymethylmethacrylate, and said light-diffusing particles or antiblocking particles have a diameter ranging from 0.1 to 100 km.

2. The light-diffusing film as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the light-diffusing particles are mixed in an amount of 0.1˜1000 parts by weight based on 100 μparts by weight of polymer in the light-diffusing resin.

3. The light-diffusing film as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the light-diffusing layer is 0.2˜500 μm thick.

4. The light-diffusing film as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the antiblocking particles are mixed in an amount of 0.01˜500 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of polymer in the antiblocking resin.

5. The light-diffusing film as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the antiblocking layer is 0.1˜100 μm thick.

6. The light-diffusing film as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the light-diffusing particles and antiblocking particles are formed of at least one resin selected from the group consisting of acryl, polyurethane, polyvinyl chloride, polystyrene, polyacrylonitrile, polyamide, and polymethylmethacrylate.

7. The light-diffusing film as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the specific surface area of the light-diffusing particle is a total surface area of the light-diffusing particle divided by the volume of the light-diffusing particle.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jul 23, 2010
From: TORAY SAEHAN INC.
To: TORAY ADVANCED MATERIALS KOREA INC.
Reel/Frame 024766/0623 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 17, 2006
From: KIM, SANG PIL; LEE, MUN BOK; JUNG, IN SIK; PARK, JUN SANG
To: TORAY SAEHAN INC.
Reel/Frame 017951/0109 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2005-0082207 · Sep 5, 2005 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20070053064A1 · Mar 8, 2007