IP Library Granted Patent US 10,234,599
Granted Patent B2
US 10,234,599 · App. 15/668,437 · Granted Mar 19, 2019

Anti-reflective film

Inventors: Jin Seok Byun (Daejeon, KR); Jae Young Kim (Daejeon, KR); Yeong Rae Chang (Daejeon, KR); Boo Kyung Kim (Daejeon, KR); Seok Hoon Jang (Daejeon, KR)
Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
G02B1/111C08F20/18C08J5/18C08J7/04C08L33/06C08L33/10C08L83/06C09D4/00G02B1/11G02B1/14
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Patent No.
US 10,234,599
App. No.
15/668,437
Granted
Mar 19, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed herein is an anti-reflective film comprising: a hard coating layer; and a low-refractive layer containing a binder resin and hollow inorganic nanoparticles and solid inorganic nanoparticles which are dispersed in the binder resin, wherein a ratio of an average particle diameter of the solid inorganic nanoparticles to an average particle diameter of the hollow inorganic nanoparticles is 0.26 to 0.55, and wherein at least 70 vol % of the entire solid inorganic nanoparticles are present within a distance corresponding to 50% of an entire thickness of the low-refractive layer from the interface between the hard coating layer and the low-refractive layer, and an anti-reflective film comprising: a hard coating layer containing a binder resin containing a photocurable resin, and organic or inorganic fine particles dispersed in the binder resin; and a low-refractive layer containing a binder resin and hollow inorganic nanoparticles and solid inorganic nanoparticles which are dispersed in the binder resin, wherein a ratio of an average particle diameter of the solid inorganic nanoparticles to an average particle diameter of the hollow inorganic nanoparticles is 0.15 to 0.55, and wherein at least 70 vol % of the entire solid inorganic nanoparticles are present within a distance corresponding to 50% of an entire thickness of the low-refractive layer from the interface between the hard coating layer and the low-refractive layer.

Claims (35)

1. An anti-reflective film comprising:

a hard coating layer; and

a low refractive layer containing a binder resin and hollow inorganic nanoparticles and solid inorganic nanoparticles which are dispersed in the binder resin,

wherein a ratio of an average particle diameter of the solid inorganic nanoparticles to an average particle diameter of the hollow inorganic nanoparticles is 0.26 to 0.55,

wherein the low-refractive layer includes the hollow inorganic nanoparticles in a higher amount by weight than the solid inorganic nanoparticles, and

wherein at least 70 vol % of the entire solid inorganic nanoparticles are present within a distance corresponding to 50% of an entire thickness of the low-refractive layer from the interface between the hard coating layer and the low-refractive layer.

2. The anti-reflective film of claim 1 , wherein: at least 30 vol % of the entire hollow inorganic nanoparticles are present in a region of the low-refractive layer at a distance exceeding 50% of the entire thickness of the low-refractive layer from the interface between the hard coating layer and the low-refractive layer.

3. The anti-reflective film of claim 1 , wherein: the average particle diameter of the hollow particles is in a range of 40 nm to 100 nm, and a particle diameter of the hollow particles is in a range of 10 nm to 200 nm.

4. The anti-reflective film of claim 1 , wherein: the average particle diameter of the solid particles is in a range of 1 nm to 30 nm, and a particle diameter of the solid particles is in a range of 0.1 nm to 100 nm.

5. The anti-reflective film of claim 1 , wherein: the solid inorganic nanoparticles are further distributed in a region close to an interface between the hard coating layer and the low-refractive layer than the hollow inorganic nanoparticles.

6. The anti-reflective film of claim 1 , wherein: at least 70 vol % of the entire solid inorganic nanoparticles are present within a distance corresponding to 50% of an entire thickness of the low-refractive layer from an interface between the hard coating layer and the low-refractive layer.

7. The anti-reflective film of claim 1 , wherein: at least 30 vol % of the entire hollow inorganic nanoparticles are present at a distance farther than that of the entire solid inorganic nanoparticles from an interface between the hard coating layer and low-refractive layer in a thickness direction of the low-refractive layer.

8. The anti-reflective film of claim 1 , wherein: at least 70 vol % of the entire solid inorganic nanoparticles are present within a distance corresponding to 30% of an entire thickness of the low-refractive layer from an interface between the hard coating layer and the low-refractive layer.

9. The anti-reflective film of claim 8 , wherein: at least 70 vol % of the entire hollow inorganic nanoparticles are present at a distance exceeding 30% of an entire thickness of the low-refractive layer from an interface between the hard coating layer and the low-refractive layer.

10. The anti-reflective film of claim 1 , wherein: the low-refractive layer includes a first layer containing at least 70 vol % of the entire solid inorganic nanoparticles and a second layer containing at least 70 vol % of the entire hollow inorganic nanoparticles, the first layer being positioned to be closer to an interface between the hard coating layer and the low-refractive layer than the second layer.

11. The anti-reflective film of claim 1 , wherein: each of the solid inorganic nanoparticles and the hollow inorganic nanoparticles contains one or more reactive functional groups selected from the group consisting of a hydroxyl group, a (meth)acrylate group, an epoxide group, a vinyl group, and a thiol group on a surface thereof.

12. The anti-reflective film of claim 1 , wherein: the binder resin contained in the low-refractive layer contains a cross-linked (co)polymer between a (co)polymer of a photopolymerizable compound and a fluorine-containing compound including a photoreactive functional group.

13. The anti-reflective film of claim 12 , wherein: the low-refractive layer contains 10 to 400 parts by weight of the hollow inorganic nanoparticles and 10 to 400 parts by weight of the solid inorganic nanoparticles, based on 100 parts by weight of the (co)polymer of the photopolymerizable compound.

14. The anti-reflective film of claim 1 , wherein: the low-refractive layer further contains a silane based compound including one or more reactive functional groups selected from the group consisting of a vinyl group and a (meth)acrylate group.

15. The anti-reflective film of claim 14 , wherein: the silane based compound including one or more reactive functional groups selected from the group consisting of the vinyl group and the (meth)acrylate group has a weight average molecular weight of 100 to 5,000.

16. The anti-reflective film of claim 14 , wherein the silane based compound contains 100 to 1000 g/mol equivalent weight of the reactive functional group.

17. The anti-reflective film according to claim 1 , wherein the hard coating layer contains a binder resin containing a photocurable resin, and organic or inorganic fine particles dispersed in the binder resin.

18. The anti-reflective film according to claim 1 , wherein the hard coating layer contains a binder resin containing a photocurable resin, and organic fine particles having a particle diameter of 1 to 10 μm or inorganic fine particles having a particle diameter of 1 nm to 500 nm.

19. The anti-reflective film according to claim 1 , wherein the film has a reflectance of 0.70% or less in a wavelength region from 380 nm to 780 nm.

20. An anti-reflective film comprising:

a hard coating layer containing a binder resin containing a photocurable resin, and organic or inorganic fine particles dispersed in the binder resin; and

a low-refractive layer containing a binder resin and hollow inorganic nanoparticles and solid inorganic nanoparticles which are dispersed in the binder resin,

wherein a ratio of an average particle diameter of the solid inorganic nanoparticles to an average particle diameter of the hollow inorganic nanoparticles is 0.15 to 0.55,

wherein the low-refractive layer includes the hollow inorganic nanoparticles in a higher amount by weight than the solid inorganic nanoparticles, and

wherein at least 70 vol % of the entire solid inorganic nanoparticles are present within a distance corresponding to 50% of an entire thickness of the low-refractive layer from the interface between the hard coating layer and the low-refractive layer.

21. The anti-reflective film according to claim 20 , wherein at least 30 vol % of the entire hollow inorganic nanoparticles are present at a distance exceeding 50% of an entire thickness of the low-refractive layer from an interface between the hard coating layer and the low-refractive layer.

22. The anti-reflective film according to claim 20 , wherein the organic fine particles have a particle diameter of 1 to 10 μm, and the inorganic fine particles have a particle diameter of 1 nm to 500 nm.

23. The anti-reflective film according to claim 20 , wherein the film has a reflectance of 0.70% or less in a wavelength region from 380 nm to 780 nm.

24. The anti-reflective film of claim 20 , wherein: the low-refractive layer further contains a silane based compound including one or more reactive functional groups selected from the group consisting of a vinyl group and a (meth)acrylate group.

25. The anti-reflective film of claim 24 , wherein the silane based compound contains 100 to 1000 g/mol equivalent weight of the reactive functional group.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 24, 2025
From: LG CHEM, LTD.
To: XINMEI FONTANA HOLDING (HONG KONG) LIMITED
Reel/Frame 070608/0517 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 23, 2025
From: LG CHEM, LTD
To: XINMEI FONTANA HOLDING (HONG KONG) LIMITED
Reel/Frame 070609/0245 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 3, 2017
From: BYUN, JIN SEOK; KIM, JAE YOUNG; CHANG, YEONG RAE; KIM, BOO KYUNG; JANG, SEOK HOON
To: LG CHEM, LTD.
Reel/Frame 043191/0079 →
Priority Claims (2)
KR 10-2016-0089377 · Jul 14, 2016 · national
KR 10-2017-0051842 · Apr 21, 2017 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTKR2017007245 · Jul 6, 2017
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