IP Library Granted Patent US 12,596,205
Granted Patent B2
US 12,596,205 · App. 16/964,715 · Granted Apr 7, 2026

Anti-reflective film, polarizing plate, and display apparatus

Inventors: Jinseok Byun (Daejeon, KR); So Young Kim (Daejeon, KR); Yeongrae Chang (Daejeon, KR); Jung Hyun Seo (Daejeon, KR); Kwangseok Seo (Daejeon, KR)
Assignee: Xinmei Fontana Holding (Hong Kong) Limited
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Patent No.
US 12,596,205
App. No.
16/964,715
Granted
Apr 7, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention relates to an anti-reflective film that comprises a low moisture permeable polymer film, a hard coating layer and a low refractive index layer and that has low reflectance deviation and light transmittance deviation, can simultaneously realize high scratch resistance and anti-fouling property, and can increase screen sharpness of a display apparatus, a polarizing plate and a display apparatus comprising the same.

Claims (21)

1 . An anti-reflective film comprising

a low moisture permeable polymer film; a single hard coating layer; and a low refractive index layer,

wherein the anti-reflective film has a mean of intervals between peaks of 173 to 195° in an azimuthal angle distribution curve calculated from an azimuthal scan of diffraction pattern obtained by transmission mode X-ray diffraction (XRD), at 2θ of 17 to 18°,

wherein the hard coating layer comprises a binder resin and organic fine particles and inorganic fine particles both dispersed in the binder resin,

wherein the low refractive index layer comprises a binder resin, and inorganic fine particles dispersed in the binder resin, wherein the binder resin comprises 30% by weight of copolymer of photopolymerizable compounds,

wherein the binder resin of the hard coating layer consists of dipentaerythritol hexaacrylate, pentaerythritol triacrylate, urethane acrylate polymer, and urethane acrylate, a reaction product of toluene diisocyanate and pentaerythritol triacrylate,

the molecular weight of the urethane acrylate is 1,000 to 10,000 and the number average molecular weight of the urethane acrylate polymer is 13,000 or more, and

wherein the anti-reflective film has an average reflectance deviation of 0.07% p or less, and a light transmittance deviation of 0.08% p or less,

wherein the binder resin of the low refractive index layer further comprises a crosslinked polymer of a photopolymerizable compound, a fluorine-containing compound comprising a photoreactive functional group, and a polysilsesquioxane substituted with one or more reactive functional groups,

wherein the fluorine-containing compound comprising a photoreactive functional group comprises one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of i) aliphatic compounds or alicyclic compounds substituted with one or more photoreactive functional groups, in which at least one carbon is substituted with one or more fluorine atoms; ii) heteroaliphatic compounds or heteroalicyclic compounds substituted with one or more photoreactive functional groups, in which at least one hydrogen is substituted with fluorine, and at least one carbon is substituted with silicon; iii) polydialkyl siloxane-based polymer substituted with one or more photoreactive functional groups, in which at least one silicon is substituted with one or more fluorine atoms; and iv) polyether compounds substituted with one or more photoreactive functional groups, in which at least one hydrogen is substituted with fluorine,

wherein the low moisture permeable polymer film has a thickness direction Retardation (Rth) measured at a wavelength of 550 nm, of 5,000 nm or more,

wherein the anti-reflective film has an average reflectance in the wavelength region of 380 nm to 780 nm, of 2.0% or less.

2 . The anti-reflective film according to claim 1 ,

wherein the azimuthal angle distribution curve contains at least 3 peaks.

3 . The anti-reflective film according to claim 1 , wherein the reactive functional group substituted at polysilsesquioxane includes one or more functional groups selected from the group alcohol, amine, carboxylic acid, epoxide, imide, (meth)acrylate, nitrile, norbornene, olefin, polyethyleneglycol, thiol and vinyl groups.

4 . The anti-reflective film according to claim 1 ,

wherein the inorganic fine particles include one or more nanoparticles selected from solid inorganic nanoparticles having an average diameter of 0.5 to 100 nm, and hollow inorganic nanoparticles having an average diameter of 1 to 200 nm.

5 . The anti-reflective film according to claim 1 ,

wherein the low moisture permeable polymer film is a polyethylene terephthalate film.

6 . A polarizing plate comprising the anti-reflective film according to claim 1 , and a polarizer.

7 . A display apparatus comprising the anti-reflective film according to claim 1 .

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 Jul 24, 2020
From: BYUN, JINSEOK; KIM, SO YOUNG; CHANG, YEONGRAE; SEO, JUNG HYUN; SEO, KWANGSEOK
To: LG CHEM, LTD.
Reel/Frame 053301/0805 →
Priority Claims (4)
KR 10-2018-0123703 · Oct 17, 2018 · national
KR 10-2018-0123704 · Oct 17, 2018 · national
KR 10-2019-0128927 · Oct 17, 2019 · national
KR 10-2019-0128928 · Oct 17, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
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