IP Library Granted Patent US 12,371,543
Granted Patent B2
US 12,371,543 · App. 15/545,894 · Granted Jul 29, 2025

Hard coat film

Inventors: Morio Matsuzaki (Higashimatsuyama, JP); Yasuaki Yoshida (Higashimatsuyama, JP); Hirosuke Tsunoda (Higashimatsuyama, JP); Narihiro Iio (Higashimatsuyama, JP)
Assignee: Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd.
C08J7/043B32B27/00C08J7/042C08J7/0427C08J7/046C08J2323/20C08J2365/00C08J2423/16C08J2425/08C08J2433/06
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Patent No.
US 12,371,543
App. No.
15/545,894
Granted
Jul 29, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention provides a hard coat film that is provided with a hard coat layer via an easy-bonding layer on at least one surface of a cycloolefin film, has excellent temporal adhesiveness under normal condition and under moisture and heat resistant condition, and has no crack occurrence under the heat resistant condition. A hard coat film 10 of the present invention is provided with a hard coat layer 3 via an easy-bonding layer 2 on at least one surface of a cycloolefin film 1 . The easy-bonding layer 2 includes a mixture of a polyolefin based resin and a styrene-acryl based resin, and a blending ratio thereof is in the range of, for example, from 95/5 to 40/60. Further, the hard coat layer 3 includes an ionizing radiation curable resin having a weight-average molecular weight of 700 or larger and 3600 or smaller.

Claims (19)

1. A hard coat film comprising:

a cycloolefin film; and

an easy-bonding layer and a hard coat layer provided in this order on one surface of the cycloolefin film,

wherein a thickness of the cycloolefin film is in the range of from 60 μm to 100 μm;

wherein a thickness of the easy-bonding layer is in the range of from 0.1 μm to 1.0 μm;

wherein a thickness of the hard coat layer is in the range of from 1.0 μm to 15.0 μm;

wherein the cycloolefin film comprises a film of a cycloolefin copolymer or a film of a cycloolefin polymer, which is a (co) polymer having an alicyclic structure in a molecular structure by polymerizing cycloolefin units alternately or randomly in a polymer skeleton, and containing at least one kind of compound selected from the group consisting of a norbornene-based compound, a monocyclic olefin, a cyclic conjugate diene and a vinyl alicyclic hydrocarbon;

wherein the easy-bonding layer provides an adhesiveness between the cycloolefin film and the hard coat layer,

wherein the easy-bonding layer is configured to decrease a thermal contraction difference between the easy-bonding layer and the hard coat layer under a heat resistant condition, the heat resistant condition comprising preservation at 100° C. for 5 minutes,

wherein the easy-bonding layer includes a mixture of:

(A) a polyolefin based resin that has a weight-average molecular weight of 10,000 or larger and 200,000 or smaller and consists of (1) an ethylene-propylene copolymer or (2) a propylene-butene copolymer; and

(B) a styrene-acryl based resin that has a glass transition temperature of 52° C. or larger and 63° C. or less,

wherein the hard coat layer includes an ionizing radiation curable resin having a weight-average molecular weight of 732 or larger and 2200 or smaller and containing a polyfunctional acrylate having 3 or more and 6 or less (meth)acryloyloxy groups in one molecule,

wherein a blending ratio (parts by weight) of the polyolefin based resin and the styrene-acryl based resin in the easy-bonding layer is in the range of from 95/5 to 40/60, and

wherein the easy-bonding layer further comprises inorganic or organic particles having a particle size of 0.05 μm to 0.20 μm and a blending amount (parts by weight) of the resins constituting the easy-bonding layer to the inorganic or organic particles is 99.8/0.2 to 95.0/5.0.

2. The hard coat film according to claim 1 , wherein the hard coat layer satisfies the following conditions:

(1) when a coated film is formed by forming a hard coat layer made of the ionizing radiation curable resin on a polyethylene terephthalate film, wherein the hard coat layer is cured by a UV-ray amount of from 50 to 1000 mJ/cm 2 , and wherein the coated film has a thickness of 2 μm, and

(2) when a test piece having width 15 mm×length 150 mm is prepared from said coated film and said test piece is subjected to a tensile test at a tensile speed of 50 mm/minute under an environment of temperature of 23° C. and humidity of 50% RH, an elongation rate until a crack is generated on the coated film is 8% or larger and 45% or smaller.

3. The hard coat film according to claim 1 , wherein the inorganic particles are selected from the group consisting of alumina, zinc oxide, silica, titanium oxide, and cerium oxide, and the organic particles are selected from the group consisting of acryl, a melamine/formamide condensate, polyethylene, styrene-acryl, and polyester.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 14, 2020
From: MATSUZAKI, MORIO; YOSHIDA, YASUAKI; TSUNODA, HIROSUKE; IIO, NARIHIRO
To: NIPPON PAPER INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 053201/0274 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2015-011885 · Jan 25, 2015 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20180016405A1 · Jan 18, 2018
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