IP Library Granted Patent US 10,444,563
Granted Patent B2
US 10,444,563 · App. 15/124,505 · Granted Oct 15, 2019

Reflective polarizing film for liquid crystal display polarizer, polarizer for liquid crystal display comprising same, optical member for liquid crystal display, and liquid crystal display

Inventors: Tomoko Shimizu (Tokyo, JP); Taro Oya (Tokyo, JP); Takashi Nakahiro (Tokyo, JP); Koji Kubo (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: TEIJIN LIMITED
G02F1/133536G02B5/305G02B5/3033Y10T428/10Y10T428/105Y10T428/1036
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Patent No.
US 10,444,563
App. No.
15/124,505
Granted
Oct 15, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

A reflective polarizing film for a liquid crystal display polarizer that has a high polarization performance and eliminates a hue shift at an oblique azimuth of 45°, a polarizer for a liquid crystal display composed of the same, an optical member for a liquid crystal display, and a liquid crystal display are provided. In a reflective polarizing film for a liquid crystal display polarizer composed of a uniaxially stretched multi-layer laminate film in which a first layer and a second layer are alternately laminated, the reflective polarizing film has a polarization degree of 99.5% or more and an amplitude of a transmittance waveform of 2.0% or less in a wavelength range of 450 to 650 nm measured with respect to the polarized light incident at an incident angle of 60° on an incident plane including an azimuth angle of 45°, among polarized light components parallel to the transmission axis.

Claims (30)

1. A reflective polarizing film for a liquid crystal display polarizer comprising a uniaxially stretched multi-layer laminate film in which a first layer and a second layer are alternately laminated,

wherein the reflective polarizing film has a polarization degree (P) represented by the following equation (1) of 99.9% or more:

Polarization degree ( P )={( Ts−Tp )/( Tp+Ts )}×100  (1)

wherein, in the equation (1), Tp represents an average transmission for P-polarized light in a wavelength range of 400 nm to 800 nm and Ts represents an average transmission for S-polarized light in a wavelength range of 400 nm to 800 nm, and

wherein the amplitude of a transmittance waveform in a wavelength range of 450 to 650 nm is 2.0% or less, the amplitude being measured among polarized light components parallel to the transmission axis with respect to the incident polarized light at an incident angle of 60° on an incident plane including an azimuth angle of 45°, when a uniaxially stretched direction (X direction) is assigned to the extinction axis of the reflective polarizing film and a film in-plane direction (Y direction) perpendicular to the uniaxially stretched direction is assigned to the transmission axis of the reflective polarizing film, and X direction is set at an azimuth angle of 0° and Y direction is set at an azimuth angle of 90°,

wherein the first layer is a layer containing a polyester, the first layer containing a naphthalene dicarboxylic acid component as a dicarboxylic acid component that composes the polyester, in an amount of 70 mol % or less based on a total amount of dicarboxylic acid that composes the polyester,

wherein the ratio between the maximum layer thickness and the minimum layer thickness (the maximum layer thickness/the minimum layer thickness) in the first layer is 3.0 or more,

wherein the ratio between the maximum layer thickness and the minimum layer thickness (the maximum layer thickness/the minimum layer thickness) in the second layer is 2.9 or more.

2. The reflective polarizing film for a liquid crystal display polarizer according to claim 1 , wherein the first layer is a layer containing a polyester, the first layer 1) containing a naphthalene dicarboxylic acid component as a dicarboxylic acid component that composes the polyester, in an amount of 50 mol % or more and 70 mol % or less based on a total amount of dicarboxylic acid that composes the polyester, 2) containing a diol component having an alkylene group having 2 to 10 carbon atoms as a diol component, in an amount of 90 mol % or more and 100 mol % or less based on a total amount of diol that composes the polyester, and 3) having no diffraction peak of a (−110) crystal plane derived from the crystalline structure of an alkylene naphthalate in wide-angle X-ray diffraction measurement.

3. The reflective polarizing film for a liquid crystal display polarizer according to claim 1 , wherein the first layer contains a component represented by the following formula (A) as a dicarboxylic acid component, in an amount of 25 mol % or more and 50 mol % or less based on a total amount of dicarboxylic acid that composes the polyester:

wherein, in the formula (A), R A represents an alkylene group having 2 to 10 carbon atoms.

4. The reflective polarizing film for a liquid crystal display polarizer according to claim 1 , wherein the first layer contains a component represented by the following formula (B) as a dicarboxylic acid component, in an amount of 25 mol % or more and 50 mol % or less based on a total amount of dicarboxylic acid that composes the polyester:

wherein, in the formula (B), R B represents a biphenyl group.

5. The reflective polarizing film for a liquid crystal display polarizer according to claim 1 , wherein the polymer that forms the second layer is a copolymer polyethylene terephthalate containing at least one kind selected from the group consisting of isophthalic acid, 2,6-naphthalene dicarboxylic acid, and alicyclic diol as the copolymer component.

6. The reflective polarizing film for a liquid crystal display polarizer according to claim 5 , wherein the alicyclic diol is at least one kind selected from the group consisting of spiroglycol, tricyclodecane dimethanol, and cyclohexane dimethanol.

7. The reflective polarizing film for a liquid crystal display polarizer according to claim 1 , wherein the number of lamination of the uniaxially stretched multi-layer laminate film is 251 layers or more.

8. The reflective polarizing film for a liquid crystal display polarizer according to claim 1 , wherein the uniaxially stretched multi-layer laminate film contains an intermediate layer.

9. The reflective polarizing film for a liquid crystal display polarizer according to claim 1 , wherein the film is used in adjacent to a liquid crystal cell.

10. A polarizer for a liquid crystal display comprising the reflective polarizing film for a liquid crystal display polarizer according to claim 1 .

11. An optical member for a liquid crystal display comprising laminating a first polarizer composed of the polarizer for a liquid crystal display according to claim 10 , a liquid crystal cell, and a second polarizer in this order.

12. The optical member for a liquid crystal display according to claim 11 , wherein a configuration in which the first polarizer is laminated with an absorption type polarizer is excluded.

13. The optical member for a liquid crystal display according to claim 11 , wherein the second polarizer is an absorption type polarizer.

14. An optical member for a liquid crystal display comprising laminating a first polarizer, a liquid crystal cell, and a second polarizer, wherein the first polarizer and the second polarizer are composed of the polarizer for a liquid crystal display according to claim 10 .

15. A liquid crystal display comprising a light source and the optical member for a liquid crystal display according to claim 11 , wherein the first polarizer is disposed on the light source side.

16. The liquid crystal display according to claim 15 , having no additional reflective polarizer between the light source and the first polarizer.

17. The reflective polarizing film for a liquid crystal display polarizer according to claim 2 , wherein the first layer contains a component represented by the following formula (A) as a dicarboxylic acid component, in an amount of 25 mol % or more and 50 mol % or less based on a total amount of dicarboxylic acid that composes the polyester:

wherein, in the formula (A), R A represents an alkylene group having 2 to 10 carbon atoms.

18. The reflective polarizing film for a liquid crystal display polarizer according to claim 2 , wherein the first layer contains a component represented by the following formula (B) as a dicarboxylic acid component, in an amount of 25 mol % or more and 50 mol % or less based on a total amount of dicarboxylic acid that composes the polyester:

wherein, in the formula (B), R B represents a biphenyl group.

19. The optical member for a liquid crystal display according to claim 12 , wherein the second polarizer is an absorption type polarizer.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 8, 2016
From: SHIMIZU, TOMOKO; OYA, TARO; NAKAHIRO, TAKASHI; KUBO, KOJI
To: TEIJIN LIMITED
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2014-056550 · Mar 19, 2014 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20170017117A1 · Jan 19, 2017