Kuraray Co., Ltd.

Toagosei Company, Ltd.

Atsushi Nagasawa

Katsuya Fujisawa

Takahiro Kitano

Junichi Tanaka

Tatsufumi Watanabe

Yasuyuki Sanai

Keiji Kubo

Shinji Hiramatsu

Yasyuki Sanai

To provide a method of bonding two materials directly with each other, at least one of which is made of a plastic material, which method is applicable to bonding two materials, with no need to use any bonding agent and without allowing the materials to be exposed to high temperature and/or high pressures. In this method in which a first member made of a plastic material and a second member are bonded together, one surface of the first member to be bonded with the second member is irradiated with energy rays having a quantity of energies not lower than 4 eV, followed by directly bonding the first and second members together without any bonding agent being used.

Plastic bonding method

To provide a light diffusion film that contributes lightweight with reduction in thickness, a planar light source element utilizing the light diffusion film, and a liquid crystal display device utilizing the light diffusion film and/or the planar light source element. A light diffusion film () having a plurality of projections () of a specific shape is at least partly formed from a composition containing a mixture of a photocurable compound and a particulate material. A light guide plate (), provided with one or more light sources () at one side face thereof, is bonded to vertexes of the projections () to provide a planar light source element, which is thin and lightweight and capable of emitting non-glaring light uniformly from the entire surface thereof.

Light diffusion film and planar light source element and liquid crystal display device utilizing the same

An active energy beam-curable composition is provided, which is excellent in coatability to films and safety, and particularly suitable for use in a light diffusion film since a light diffusion film made of a cured product of the composition is excellent in both haze and total light transmittance. The active energy beam-curable composition comprises an ethylenically unsaturated group-containing compound (A) that contains, as an essential component thereof, a compound having an ethylenically unsaturated group and an aromatic group, and a granular substance (B) that is insoluble in the component (A), in which the subtraction of the refractive index of the component (B) from the refractive index of a cured product of the component (A) alone is not less than 0.03 and not more than 0.18.

Active energy beam-curable composition

The invention relates to a lens sheet applicable to a screen for a pixel type projection TV characterized in high quality and definition and a simple producing method thereof. The inventive lens sheet has a shielding layer without any axial misalignment at front and rear sides. The lens sheet comprises a lens portion with a plurality of lens elements arranged in at least one side and a shielding layer provided in a non-transmitting portion of a light radiation plane, in which the shielding layer is provided on a layer made of a cured photo-curing composition (A). The photo-curing composition (A) is composed of 100 weight parts of photo-curing resin composition (a) having a surface free energy of 30 mN/m or more and 0.01 to 10 weight parts of compound (b) having a surface free energy of 25 mN/m or less.

Lens sheet and method for producing it

This invention aims to make it possible to obtain curing surfaces with different surface free energies, and to provide a method of curing an ionizing radiation curing resin composition which can be used as a coating material. Further, it aims to provide a surface modification method which permits surfaces of different surface free energy to be obtained. The above object is achieved by a method of curing a mixture comprising an ionizing radiation curing resin, characterized in that at least part of a mixture comprising 0.01-10 weight parts of a compound (b) having a surface free energy not exceeding 25 mN/m relative to 100 weight parts of an ionizing radiation curing resin composition (a) having a surface free energy of at least 30 mN/m, is cured by irradiating it with ionizing radiation in contact with a medium having a surface free energy higher than that of the ionizing radiation curing resin composition (a).

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Tsukuba, Japan

Atsushi Nagasawa