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US 8,144,330 · App. 12/440,368 · Granted Mar 27, 2012

Evaluation method of fouling, fouling evaluation apparatus, production method of optical member, optical layered body, and display product

Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 8,144,330
App. No.
12/440,368
Granted
Mar 27, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention provides a quantitative evaluation method of fouling of antifouling properties, a fouling evaluation apparatus, and a production method of optical members, which can be applied to various members, and haves high reproducibility and enable to detect a subtle difference between fouling, and an optical layered body having a property of preventing fingerprints from adhering, an anti-contamination property and a degree of recovery from fouling, and a display product including the optical layered body. The present invention pertains to an evaluation method of fouling, wherein light is radiated to a test sample and scattered light reflected off or passing through the test sample is detected to evaluate a degree of fouling of the surface of the test sample.

Claims (13)

1. An evaluation method of fouling,

wherein light is radiated to a test sample and

scattered light reflected off or passing through the test sample is detected to evaluate a degree of fouling of the surface of the test sample; wherein the test sample is an optical layered body; wherein the surface of the test sample is artificially fouled due to fingerprint-adhering and wherein the evaluation method is carried out using a fouling evaluation apparatus that

comprises a setting table of a test sample,

a light source for radiating light to the test sample provided on the setting table,

an integrating sphere for collecting scattered light reflected off or passing through the test sample, and

a scattered light detector for detecting collected scattered light to evaluate a degree of fouling of the surface of the test sample.

2. The evaluation method of fouling according to claim 1 ,

wherein a degree of recovery from fouling of the surface is evaluated by cleaning the surface of the test sample and evaluating the degree of fouling of the test sample again after evaluating the degree of fouling of the surface of the test sample.

3. The evaluation method of fouling according to claim 2 ,

wherein the degree of fouling of the surface of the test sample is evaluated based on a L*a*b* color model specified by International Commission on Illumination (CIE).

4. The evaluation method of fouling according to claim 1 ,

wherein the degree of fouling of the surface of the test sample is evaluated based on a L*a*b* color model specified by International Commission on Illumination (CIE).

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 1, 2009
From: ITOH, KIYOSHI
To: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 022625/0083 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2006-244543 · Sep 8, 2006 · national
Continuity (1)
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