IP Library Granted Patent US 9,348,066
Granted Patent B2
US 9,348,066 · App. 14/200,914 · Granted May 24, 2016

Film for improving color display and method of manufacturing the same

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Patent No.
US 9,348,066
App. No.
14/200,914
Granted
May 24, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided are a color display film and a method for manufacturing the same, and a display apparatus. The color display film includes a base material layer, a high-refractive resin layer on which an optical pattern is formed, and a low-refractive light diffusion layer including a light diffuser in a stacked configuration. The optical pattern is formed in one surface of the high-refractive resin layer facing the low-refractive light diffusion layer. The method of manufacturing a color display film includes forming a high-refractive resin layer by coating a high-refractive transparent resin on one surface of a base material layer and forming an imprinted optical pattern on the coated high-refractive transparent resin, forming a low-refractive light diffusion layer by dispersing a light diffuser into a low-refractive transparent resin, and bonding one surface of the low-refractive light diffusion layer on a surface on which the optical pattern is formed.

Claims (44)

1. A color display film comprising:

a base material layer;

a high-refractive resin layer having an optical pattern, the high-refractive resin layer not including any light diffuser; and

a low-refractive light diffusion layer comprising a light diffuser,

wherein the base material layer, the high-refractive resin layer, and the low-refractive light diffusion layer are in a stacked configuration,

the optical pattern is in a surface of the high-refractive resin layer facing the low-refractive light diffusion layer,

wherein the high-refractive resin layer and the low-refractive light diffusion layer are configured so as to include a plurality of air cavities configured by a lower surface of the low-refractive light diffusion layer and the surface of the high-refractive resin layer.

2. The color display film of claim 1 , wherein the high-refractive resin layer comprises an ultraviolet hardening transparent resin having a refractive index of 1.50 to 1.60.

3. The color display film of claim 1 , wherein the low-refractive light diffusion layer comprises an ultraviolet hardening transparent resin having a refractive index of 1.35 to 1.45.

4. The color display film of claim 1 , wherein the optical pattern is constituted by a plurality of lenticular concave lenses, and each of the lenticular concave lenses has a width of 1 um to 1,000 um, a depth of 1 um to 2,000 um, and an aspect ratio of 1 to 3.

5. The color display film of claim 4 , wherein:

each of the plurality of lenticular concave lenses are spaced apart by a distance, and a ratio of the distance to the width of the lenticular at least one concave lens is less than or equal to 3.0.

6. The color display film of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the high-refractive resin layer and the low-refractive resin layer comprises an ultraviolet hardening resin having an acrylate-based functional group.

7. The color display film of claim 1 , wherein:

the light diffuser is one of an organic-based light diffuser, an inorganic-based light diffuser, and a mixture thereof,

the organic-based light diffuser comprises at least one of acrylic-based particles, siloxane-based particles, melamine-based particles, polycarbonate-based particles, and styrene-based particles, and

the inorganic-based light diffuser comprises at least one of calcium carbonate, barium sulfate, titanium dioxide, aluminum hydroxide, silica, glass, talcum, mica, white carbon, magnesium oxide, and zinc oxide.

8. The color display film of claim 7 , wherein the organic-based light diffuser has an average particle size of 2 um to 20 um.

9. The color display film of claim 8 , wherein:

the organic-based light diffuser comprises polymer particles that are coated with a black dye, and non-coated particles,

the polymer particles that are coated with the black dye comprise poly methyl methacrylate (PMMA) particles, and

the non-coated particles comprise one of silicon particles, acrylic-based particles, and a mixture thereof.

10. The color display film of claim 9 , wherein the organic-based light diffuser comprises the polymer particles that are coated with the black dye and the non-coated particles, mixed at a weight ratio of 1:4 to 4:1.

11. The color display film of claim 1 , wherein the light diffusion layer comprises the light diffuser at a concentration of 0.1 weight % to 10 weight %.

12. The color display film of claim 1 , wherein:

the base material layer has a thickness of 30 um to 100 um, the high-refractive resin layer has a thickness of 5 um to 80 um, and the low-refractive light diffusion layer has a thickness of 5 um to 50 um.

13. The color display film of claim 1 , wherein an adhesive layer is further stacked on one surface of the low-refractive light diffusion layer.

14. The color display film of claim 1 , wherein the base material layer comprises triacetate cellulose (TAC), polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polycarbonate (PC), or polyvinyl chloride (PVC).

15. An organic light-emitting device display apparatus comprising:

a first electrode;

a second electrode facing the first electrode;

an organic light emission film disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode; and

the color display film of claim 1 disposed on a light emission surface of the second electrode,

wherein the organic light-emitting device display apparatus has a resonant structure to display an image by using a color reflected from each pixel of the organic light emission film.

16. The apparatus of claim 15 , wherein the organic light emission film comprises a stacked configuration of a hole injection layer (HIL), a hole transport layer (HTL), an emission layer (EML), an electron transport layer (ETL), and an electron injection layer (EIL).

17. A method for manufacturing a color display film, the method comprising:

forming a high-refractive resin layer by coating a high-refractive transparent resin on one surface of a base material layer and forming an imprinted optical pattern on the coated high-refractive transparent resin, wherein the high-refractive resin layer not including any light diffuser;

forming a low-refractive light diffusion layer by dispersing a light diffuser into a low-refractive transparent resin;

bonding one surface of the low-refractive light diffusion layer on a surface of the high-refractive resin layer on which the imprinted optical pattern is formed; and

the imprinted optical pattern is in a surface of the high-refractive resin layer facing the low-refractive light diffusion layer, and

the high-refractive resin layer and the low-refractive light diffusion layer are configured so as to include a plurality of air cavities configured by a lower surface of the low-refractive light diffusion layer and the surface of the high-refractive resin layer.

18. The method of claim 17 , further comprising forming an adhesive layer by coating an adhesive on another surface of the low-refractive resin layer.

19. The method of claim 17 , wherein:

the high-refractive transparent resin comprises an ultraviolet hardening transparent resin having a refractive index of 1.50 to 1.60, and the low-refractive transparent resin comprises an ultraviolet hardening transparent resin having a refractive index of 1.35 to 1.45.

Assignments (4)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jan 16, 2015
From: SAMSUNG CORNING PRECISION MATERIALS CO., LTD.
To: CORNING PRECISION MATERIALS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 034774/0676 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 21, 2014
From: SHIM, HONG-SHIK; JEONG, CHUL-HO
To: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 033584/0061 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 21, 2014
From: SHIN, YOU-MIN; CHO, EUN-YOUNG
To: SAMSUNG CORNING PRECISION MATERIALS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 033584/0161 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 21, 2014
From: OH, YOUNG; KIM, HYUN-MIN; JU, YOUNG-HYUN; CHOI, SEUNG-MAN
To: CHEIL INDUSTRIES INC.
Reel/Frame 033584/0226 →