Hot-stamping foil and print equipped with laminated optical decoration

1. A hot-stamping foil which is transferred to a transfer target by applying a transfer thermal pressure, comprising:

a carrier that is a base film or a coated base film;

a laminated optical decoration having a laminated optical structure formed on the carrier;

a sinking control layer which contains a soft resin and a deformation limiting agent and is formed on the laminated optical structure; and

an adhesive layer which is formed on the sinking control layer,

wherein the adhesive layer contains a resin component which contains a thermoplastic resin having a glass transition temperature lower than room temperature and defines a thickness of the adhesive layer, and

spacer particles which have a particle size larger than the thickness of the adhesive layer and a portion of which protrude from the resin component, and

wherein the spacer particles sink into the sinking control layer after transfer thermal pressing.

2. The hot-stamping foil according to claim 1 ,

wherein the deformation limiting agent contains at least one of inorganic powder fillers having a particle size smaller than the thickness of the adhesive layer and a high glass transition temperature polymer.

3. The hot-stamping foil according to claim 1 ,

wherein the average particle size of the spacer particles is larger than a total thickness which is a sum of the thickness of the adhesive layer and a thickness of the sinking control layer, and is equal to or smaller than twice the total thickness.

4. The hot-stamping foil according to claim 1 ,

wherein a sinking amount of the spacer particles after the transfer thermal pressing is equal to or greater than 20% and equal to or greater than 60% of a sinking amount of the spacer particles during overload thermal pressing.

5. The hot-stamping foil according to claim 1 ,

wherein the deformation limiting agent is a vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer.

6. The hot-stamping foil according to claim 1 ,

wherein the soft resin is an acid-modified polyolefin resin.

7. The hot-stamping foil according to claim 6 ,

wherein the acid-modified polyolefin resin is a copolymer resin of polyethylene and (meth)acrylic acid.

8. The hot-stamping foil according to claim 1 ,

wherein the soft resin is an acrylic resin.

9. The hot-stamping foil according to claim 1 ,

wherein the sinking control layer contains a silanol bond.

10. The hot-stamping foil according to claim 1 ,

wherein the sinking control layer contains a urethane bond.

11. The hot-stamping foil according to claim 1 ,

wherein the deformation limiting agent contains a high glass transition temperature polymer,

wherein the high glass transition temperature polymer and the soft resin are separated into two phases, and

wherein the high glass transition temperature polymer has a continuous phase, and a glass transition temperature of the high glass transition temperature polymer is equal to or higher than a glass transition temperature of the soft resin.

12. The hot-stamping foil according to claim 1 ,

wherein the adhesive layer contains powder fillers having a smaller particle size than the thickness of the adhesive layer.

13. A hot-stamping foil which is transferred to a transfer target by applying a transfer thermal pressure, comprising:

a carrier that is a base film or a coated base film;

a laminated optical decoration having a laminated optical structure formed on the carrier;

a sinking control layer which is formed on the laminated optical structure; and

an adhesive layer which is formed on the sinking control layer,

wherein the adhesive layer contains a resin component which defines a thickness of the adhesive layer; and

spacer particles which have a particle size larger than the thickness of the adhesive layer and a portion of which protrude from the resin component, and

wherein a sinking amount of the spacer particles after the transfer thermal pressing is equal to or greater than 20% and equal to or greater than 60% of a sinking amount of the spacer particles during overload thermal pressing.

14. The hot-stamping foil according to claim 13 ,

wherein the adhesive layer contains powder fillers having a smaller particle size than the thickness of the adhesive layer.

15. The hot-stamping foil according to claim 13 ,

wherein the sinking control layer contains a vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer resin.

16. The hot-stamping foil according to claim 15 ,

wherein the sinking control layer further contains an acid-modified polyolefin resin.

17. The hot-stamping foil according to claim 15 ,

wherein the sinking control layer further contains a copolymer resin of polyethylene and (meth)acrylic acid.

18. The hot-stamping foil according to claim 13 ,

wherein the sinking control layer contains a silanol bond.

19. The hot-stamping foil according to claim 13 ,

wherein the sinking control layer contains a urethane bond.

20. The hot-stamping foil according to claim 13 ,

wherein the sinking control layer is formed of a resin having a melting point.

21. The hot-stamping foil according to claim 20 ,

wherein the melting point is equal to or smaller than 120° C.

22. The hot-stamping foil according to claim 20 ,

wherein the sinking control layer contains fillers.

23. The hot-stamping foil according to claim 20 ,

wherein the adhesive layer contains an acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive.

24. A print equipped with a laminated optical decoration in which the laminated optical decoration is thermally transferred to a print using the hot-stamping foil according to claim 1 .