Fujifilm Corporation

Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Hiroyuki Yoneyama

Jun Watanabe

Shin Soejima

Yasuhiro Shimada

Takato Suzuki

Kiyoshi Takeuchi

Nobuo Seto

Yasuaki Deguchi

Naoto Matsuda

Akira Ikeda

Yasuhiro Okamoto

Toshiyuki Makuta

Kazuaki Yoshida

Kenichi Fukuda

Katsuyuki Takada

Hidekazu Sakai

Naohiro Matsunaga

Tetsuya Asakura

Hiroyuki Mifune

Nobutaka Ohki

Naoto Ohshima

Masaki Noro

Yasuyuki Sasada

Rikio Inoue

Daiki Wakizaka

Tatsuya Oba

Takeshi Nakamine

Koushin Matsuoka

Nobuyuki Akutagawa

Katsumi Inoue

Ryo Satake

Shinichi Nakahira

Daisaku Abiru

Yoshiro Ochiai

Hideaki Satoh

Shinya Kato

Takayuki Ito

Takatoshi Ishikawa

Masakazu Morigaki

Osamu Takahashi

Masaaki Suzuki

Yasuhiro Yoshioka

Hisashi Mikoshiba

Hidetoshi Kobayashi

Yujiro Yanai

Yoshio Ishii

Masahiro Asami

Naoyoshi Yamada

Shigeki Uehira

Satoshi Sano

Shigeaki Nimura

Hideyasu Ishibashi

Naoya Shibata

Yuta Takahashi

Ryuji Saneto

Shuntaro Ibuki

Katsuhisa Ohzeki

Yuuichi Fukushige

Hideaki Ito

Naoya Nishimura

Kentaro Okazaki

Tokuju Oikawa

Fumitaka Ueda

Shunichi Kondo

Yusuke Ohashi

Shigeaki Otani

Shigeru Yamazaki

Masafumi Yoshida

Satomi Suzuki

Hirokazu Nishimura

Tomonori Ichinose

Yukihiko Kanazawa

A wavelength conversion member, is provided with a wavelength conversion layer that includes quantum dots and is interposed between two barrier layers. The wavelength conversion member includes a light scattering layer that is provided between the barrier layers and the wavelength conversion layer, in which one of the barrier layers closest to the light scattering layer is formed of an inorganic component, the light scattering layer includes a binder, which is formed of either a compound having a hydrogen bonding functional group and a polymerizable group in a molecule or an organic metal coupling agent, and scattering particles having a diameter R of 0.2 to 5 &#x3bc;m, a thickness d of the light scattering layer is 0.2 to 4 &#x3bc;m, a thickness D of the wavelength conversion layer is 10 to 100 &#x3bc;m, and a ratio of d to D is 0.2% to 10%.

Wavelength conversion member, backlight unit, image display device, and method of manufacturing wavelength conversion member

The backlight unit includes a light source unit, and a wavelength conversion member disposed on an optical path of light emitted from the light source unit. The light source unit includes a light source allocated to each of the areas, a control of the backlight brightness for each area is performed by controlling a light emission intensity of each light source allocated to each area independently of a light emission intensity of a light source allocated to a different area, and a light source allocated to at least one area includes a light source group including two or more kinds of light sources having different light emission maximum wavelengths, and a light emission intensity of at least one kind of light source included in the light source group is capable of being controlled independently of a light emission intensity of a different light source included in the light source group.

Backlight unit and image display device

A wavelength conversion member is provided. The wavelength conversion member includes: a wavelength conversion layer including at least one kind of quantum dots that are excited by excitation light to emit fluorescence and an antioxidant; at least one interposing layer that is formed to be adjacent to the wavelength conversion layer; and a barrier layer that is formed on at least one surface of the wavelength conversion layer, in which at least one layer of the interposing layers is an antioxidant-containing interposing layer including the antioxidant.

Wavelength conversion member, backlight unit including wavelength conversion member, and liquid crystal display device

The method for producing an antireflection film is provided. The method includes, a step of coating a coating composition including the following components (A) to (D) on a base material to form a coating film, a step of volatilizing the solvent from the coating film for drying the coating film, and a step of curing the coating film to form a cured layer, in which a multilayer structure having different refractive indices from the coating composition is formed: (A) a fluorine-containing polymer with a specific structure, having a polyalkylene oxide group in the molecule, (B) non-surface-modified inorganic fine particles, or inorganic fine particles that are surface-treated with a silane coupling agent having a molecular weight of 600 or less, (C) a curable binder having no fluorine atom in the molecule, and (D) a solvent, provided that the mass ratio of [component (A)+component (B)]/[component (C)] is from 1/199 to 60/40.

Method for producing antireflection film, antireflection film, and coating composition

An optical laminate includes a support and an antistatic layer formed from a composition containing the following (A) to (C) and having an average thickness of from 0.03 to 0.40 &#x3bc;m: (A) a hydrophobilized conductive polymer composition containing a &#x3c0;-conjugated system conductive polymer and an anion group-containing polymer dopant; (B) an inorganic particle having an average particle size of from 1 to 300 nm; and (C) an ionizing radiation curable compound.

Optical laminate

A laminate having: a support; and an antistatic layer, wherein the antistatic layer is provided on the support and is made with a composition comprising at least (A) an electrically conductive polymer, and (B) a binder component, the antistatic layer has regions having local concentration of the electrically conductive polymer (A) of 1.5 times or more higher than the average value of the concentration of the electrically conductive polymer (A) in the antistatic layer and the regions are in contact with each other to form a three-dimensional connection structure in the antistatic layer, and a common logarithmic value of the surface resistivity of which unit is &#x3a9;/sq of the antistatic layer is 3.0 or more and 13.0 or less.

Antistatic laminate, optical film, polarizing plate, and image display device

An optical film having: a hard coat layer; an optically anisotropic layer; and a transparent support, wherein the optically anisotropic layer contains a liquid crystalline compound and a binder, the hard coat layer, the transparent support, and the optically anisotropic layer are laminated in this order, a surface of the optically anisotropic layer contains a fluorine-containing compound not forming covalent bond with the binder of the optically anisotropic layer, a surface of the optical film on the hard coat layer-formed side contains a fluorine-containing or silicone series compound being fixed by covalent bond, and a topmost surface properties of the optical film on hard coat layer-formed side satisfies the specific conditions.

Optical film, polarizing plate, and image-forming display device

A surface light source unit includes, in the following order: a light source; a light collecting sheet having light collection portions on at least one side of the light collecting sheet; and a light transmissive substrate having a flat portion and recesses on at least one side of the light transmissive substrate.

Light transmissive substrate, method of making transmissive substrate, surface light source unit, polarizing plate, and liquid crystal device

An antiglare film is provided, the antiglare film including a transparent plastic film substrate; an antiglare layer having fine recesses and projections on the surface thereof; and an abrasion resistant layer provided at an uppermost surface of the antiglare film, the abrasion resistant layer having an average film thickness of from 0.03 to 0.4 &#x3bc;m, wherein the abrasion resistant layer is formed from a curable composition containing at least following components (A), (B), and (C): (A) an inorganic fine particle containing silicon oxide as a main component and having an average particle size of from 1 to 300 nm; (B) an ionizing radiation-curable resin; and (C) a polymer thickener.

Antiglare film, polarizing plate, and image display device

A method of manufacturing an anti-reflection film, the method forming a multi-layer structure with different refractive indices from a coating composition in which the following (A) to (F) components are mixed. (A) Fluorine-containing polymer including a fluorine-containing hydrocarbon structure and a constituent unit derived from a compound having at least one group selected from a polyalkylene oxide group and a basic functional group, (B) Low refractive index inorganic fine particles which are not surface-modified or low refractive index inorganic fine particles which are surface-treated with a silane coupling agent having the molecular weight of 600 or less, (C) A curable binder containing no fluorine atoms in the molecule, (D) A solvent, (E) A polyfunctional fluorine-containing curable compound, and (F) High refractive index inorganic fine particles treated with a specific surface modifying agent.

Method of manufacturing anti-reflection film, anti-reflection film and coating composition

A light-scattering substrate having an irregular shape on one surface thereof is provided, the light-scattering substrate including: a thermoplastic resin; and at least one kind of transparent particles having a mean primary particle size of 3 &#x3bc;m or more and not more than 12 &#x3bc;m, wherein the light-scattering substrate contains a first region having a thickness of &#xbd; or more times and not more than 4 times the mean primary particle size of the transparent particles from the surface having an irregular shape; and a second region having a thickness of 3/2 or more times the mean primary particle size of the transparent particles from a surface on back side of the surface having an irregular shape, and the first region and the second region have a region not substantially containing the transparent particle.

Light-scattering substrate, method for manufacturing light-scattering substrate, polarizing plate and image display device

An antireflective film is provided and includes: a transparent substrate; at least one conductive layer formed from a composition including at least one transparent conductive polymeric material and a compound forming a cross-liking site, the compound having a plurality of cross-linking reactive groups, at least one of which cross-links with the transparent conductive polymeric material; and at least one low refractive index layer.

Antireflective film, polarizing plate and image display device

A hardcoat laminate including: a support formed from a thermoplastic resin composition; and a hardcoat layer formed from a hardcoat layer forming coating composition, wherein the thermoplastic resin composition contains a polymer having a lactone ring unit or a glutaric anhydride unit, and the hardcoat layer forming coating composition contains at least a component (a), a component (b) and a component (c) and contains substantially no organic solvent: (a) a curable compound having three or more polymerizable groups within one molecule, (b) a polymerization initiator, and (c) a diluent having from one to three polymerizable groups within one molecule.

Hardcoat laminate

A hard coating film is provided and includes a transparent plastic substrate film, and a hard coating layer. The transparent plastic substrate film has mutually independent microscopic pits in at least one surface thereof, the microscopic pits each independently have a depth of 3 &#x3bc;m or below, the microscopic pits have an average length of major diameters of from 0.5 &#x3bc;m to 20 &#x3bc;m, and the number of the microscopic pits is from 25 to 3,000 per mm.

Hard coating film, manufacturing method thereof, antireflective film, polarizing plate and image display unit

A method for producing an optical film is provided and includes: simultaneously coating at least two coating solutions over a transparent support, the at least two coating solutions each containing a solvent and a solute; and drying the solvent in each of the at least two coating solutions to provide at least two coating layers. When the at least two coating layers are, . . . n&#x2212;1 and n layers in sequence from the outermost surface of the at least two coating layers toward the transparent support, n being an integer of 2 or more, the main component of the solute in the n-th layer is insoluble or sparingly soluble in the main component of the solvent in the (n&#x2212;1)-th layer.

Production method of optical film, optical film and image display

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Hiroyuki Yoneyama