IP Library Granted Patent US 8,715,448
Granted Patent B2
US 8,715,448 · App. 13/521,868 · Granted May 6, 2014

Method for producing laminate for configuring image display device, and image display device using the same

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Patent No.
US 8,715,448
App. No.
13/521,868
Granted
May 6, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method for producing a laminate for configuring an image display device is provided, capable of realizing simultaneously unevenness followability and anti-bubble reliability. A method for producing a laminate for configuring an image display device is proposed, comprising the following steps (1) and (2): (1) The step of forming an adhesive composition into the form of a monolayer or a multilayer sheet, and by UV-crosslinking, primary-curing this thereby forming a pre-secondary curing transparent double-sided adhesive sheet. (2) The step of layering two image display device-constituting members via the pre-secondary curing transparent double-sided adhesive sheet and then irradiating ultraviolet light from at least a first image display device-constituting member side, UV-crosslinking through this member and secondary-curing the pre-secondary curing transparent double-sided adhesive sheet.

Claims (22)

1. A method for producing a laminate, the method comprising:

forming an adhesive composition into a form of a monolayer or a multilayer sheet on a transparent release sheet;

irradiating the adhesive composition with ultraviolet light through the transparent release sheet;

primary-curing the monolayer or multilayer sheet by UV-crosslinking to obtain a pre-secondary curing transparent double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet;

peeling the release sheet;

layering two image display device-constituting members via the pre-secondary curing transparent double-sided adhesive sheet; and then

irradiating ultraviolet light from a side of an image display device-constituting member, thereby UV-crosslinking and secondary-curing the pre-secondary curing transparent double-sided adhesive sheet through the member.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the pre-secondary curing transparent double-sided adhesive sheet has a wavelength absorption for starting a UV-crosslinking reaction of from 315 nm to 400 nm.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein an indentation hardness (b) of the transparent double-sided adhesive sheet after the secondary curing is 33≦(b)≦80.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein an indentation hardness (a) of the pre-secondary curing transparent double-sided adhesive sheet after the primary-curing and an indentation hardness (b) of the transparent double-sided adhesive sheet after secondary curing satisfy a relation (b)−(a)≧2.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the irradiating ultraviolet light from a side of an image display device-constituting member comprises irradiating ultraviolet light through a member with a light transmittance of 20% or greater in a wavelength range of 315 to 400 nm.

6. The method of claim 1 ,

wherein, the image display device-constituting members are each laminates comprising a touch panel, an image display panel, a surface protection panel, a polarization film, or any combination thereof.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the adhesive composition comprises a (meth)acrylic acid ester series polymer.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the adhesive composition is a solvent-free system that does not contain a solvent and is hot-melt formable.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein a thickness of the monolayer or multilayer sheet is from 50 μm to 1 mm.

10. The method of claim 1 ,

wherein the monolayer or multilayer sheet is a multilayer sheet comprising outermost layers and an intermediate layer, and

a ratio of a thickness of each of the outermost layers to a thickness of the intermediate layer is from 1:1 to 1:20.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein an indentation hardness of the pre-secondary curing transparent double-sided adhesive sheet after the primary-curing is from 10 to 50.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the forming an adhesive composition comprises forming the adhesive composition into a monolayer sheet.

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein the forming an adhesive composition comprises forming the adhesive composition into a multilayer sheet.

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Sep 5, 2017
From: MITSUBISHI RAYON CO., LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 043750/0834 →
MERGER Recorded Aug 31, 2017
From: MITSUBISHI PLASTICS, INC
To: MITSUBISHI RAYON CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 043746/0912 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 22, 2012
From: NIIMI, KAHORU; INENAGA, MAKOTO; UCHIDA, TAKAHISA
To: MITSUBISHI PLASTICS, INC.
Reel/Frame 028830/0586 →