IP Library Granted Patent US 9,199,403
Granted Patent B2
US 9,199,403 · App. 12/921,982 · Granted Dec 1, 2015

Laminated film

Inventors: Takayuki Uto (Otsu, JP); Syunichi Osada (Otsu, JP)
Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
B29C47/30B29C47/0021B29C47/062B29C47/065B29C47/145G02B5/0242G02B6/124G02B6/1221B29C47/0019B29K2025/00B29K2033/12B29K2067/043B29K2067/046B29K2069/00G02F1/13363
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Patent No.
US 9,199,403
App. No.
12/921,982
Granted
Dec 1, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

A width-direction multilayer laminated film having a large area and uniform optical properties is provided. A light guide, a light diffusion film, a light collecting film, a viewing angle control film, and an optical waveguide film, which are low cost and have excellent optical properties, as well as an illuminating device, a communication device, and a display using these films. The laminated film may include at least a structure in which a layer made of resin A (layer A) and a layer made of resin B (layer B) are alternately laminated in the width direction, wherein the width of the film is 400 mm or more and the number of layer Bs, each having a cross-sectional width from 0.1 μm to 10,000 μm, is 10 or larger.

Claims (8)

1. A laminated film comprising a layer A made of resin A and a layer B made of resin B that are alternately laminated in the width direction, wherein the width of said film is 400 mm or more and the number of layer Bs, each having a cross sectional width from 0.1 μm to 10,000 μm, is 10 or more, wherein a distance P between adjacent layer Bs is 0.90 times to 1.10 times as large as a distance Pc between adjacent layer Bs at the center in the width direction, adjacent layer Bs exist continuously in a width direction for 300 mm or more, and the shape of said layer B is asymmetric relative to the center axis of said layer B in the thickness direction in the film thickness direction—width direction cross-section, and S 1 is not more than 0.8 times as large as S 2 , and wherein said S 1 and said S 2 are cross-sectional areas of said layer B halved by the center axis in the thickness direction and S 1 <S 2 , wherein said laminated film is used as a light diffusion film, a light collecting film, or a viewing angle control film.

2. The laminated film according to claim 1 , wherein a cross-sectional area A of said layer Bs is 0.90 times to 1.10 times as large as a cross-sectional area Ac of said layer B, said cross-sectional area Ac being located at the center in the film width direction.

3. The laminated film according to claim 1 , wherein resin B is a thermoplastic resin and more than half of said layer Bs are covered with resin.

4. The laminated film according to claim 1 , wherein one of said resins A and B is soluble to a solvent to which the other is insoluble.

5. The laminated film according to claim 1 , wherein the cross-sectional width of more than half of said layer Bs is in a range of an average cross sectional width of ±10 μm.

6. A film roll made of the laminated film according to claim 1 .

7. The film roll according to claim 6 , wherein the winding hardness variation in the width direction is from 0.0001 to 6.

8. A display using the film according to claim 1 .

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 13, 2010
From: UTO, TAKAYUKI; OSADA, SYUNICHI
To: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2008-065317 · Mar 14, 2008 · national
Continuity (1)
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