3m Innovative Properties Company

E Ink Corporation

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Corning Incorporated

Michael L Steiner

William D Coggio

Encai Hao

Karl Raymond Amundson

Gregg Michael Duthaler

John D Le

John James Stradinger

John E Ritter

Mark J Pellerite

Timothy L Wong

Michael Benton Free

Andrew L Loxley

Marc Dudley Radcliffe

Libing Zhang

Richard J Paolini, Jr

William Blake Kolb

Zhisheng Yun

Thomas Henry Whitesides

Erin A McDowell

Scott Melvyn Tapio

Lan Hong Liu

Marie A Boulos

Daniel W Hennen

John Allen Wheatley

Gilles J Benoit

Robert Waverly Zehner

Charles Howie Honeyman

John P Baetzold

Kui Chen-Ho

Jo Anne Etter

Alberto Goenaga

Andrew John Ouderkirk

Kenneth L Smith

Adam D Haag

Robert F Kamrath

Susan L Kent

Glen Crossley

Audrey A Sherman

Brant Ulrick Kolb

Barrett Comiskey

Evan L Schwartz

David J Kinning

Paul Edward Humpal

Peiwang Zhu

John S Huizinga

Brian W Ostlie

Thomas R Hoffend, Jr

Richard M Webber

Brett J Sitter

Maria A Appeaning

Georgiy Teverovskiy

Michael D Walls

Robert F Watkins

Michael F Weber

Paul Stephen Drzaic

Jonathan D Albert

Olester Benson, Jr

Gary Timothy Boyd

Chetan P Jariwala

Guy Danner

David Darrell Miller

Tao Liu

Russell J Wilcox

Barrett O Comiskey

Michael D McCreary

Vivian Wynne Jones

Charles David Hoyle

William F Edmonds

Fei Lu

Michael E Lauters

Lan Cao

Soemantri Widagdo

Seungman Sohn

Justin J Abramson

Jacques Gollier

Stephen A Johnson

Mikhail L Pekurovsky

Ramesh C Kumar

Kevin R Schaffer

Nicholas A Johnson

James Andrew West

Holly G Gates

Kristopher J Derks

Kevin W Gotrik

Stephen P Maki

Suman K Patel

Kanta Kumar

Steven J McMan

David J W Aastuen

Thomas J Ludemann

Anthony Edward Pullen

Jeffrey A Peterson

James E Lockridge

William R Dudley

Qingbing Wang

Stephen J Etzkorn

Lin Zhao

Michael L Ruegsegger

Ellen Marie Kosik Williams

Kazuta Saito

A bi-focal prescription eyewear lens includes a substrate and a reflective polarizer, or a partial reflector, bonded to the substrate. A reflective polarizer substantially transmits light having a first polarization state and substantially reflects light having an orthogonal second polarization state. The bi-focal optical lens has a first focal length for light having the first polarization state and a second focal length for light having the second polarization state. The first focal length is longer than the second focal length. Without the reflective polarizer or partial reflector, the bi-focal optical lens would have a single focal length. Eyeglasses can include the bi-focal prescription eyewear lens.

Bi-focal eyewear lens and eyeglasses including same

A display includes a plurality of blue, green, and red light emitting elements having respective blue, green, and red emission spectra including respective blue, green, and red emission peaks at respective blue, green, and red peak wavelengths with respective blue, green, and red full width at half maxima (FWHMs). The display includes a display panel and an optically collimating film. For a substantially collimated incident light and for each of mutually orthogonal polarization states, an optical transmittance of the optically collimating film includes substantially distinct blue, green, and red transmission bands having respective blue, green, and red FWHMs that overlap at least 30% of the respective blue, green, and red FWHMs at a first incident angle of less than about 10 degrees and overlap less than 15% of the respective blue, green, and red FWHMs at a second incident angle of greater than about 30 degrees.

Display and display system

An optical assembly including a first optical substrate including a first major surface; a multilayer polymeric optical film disposed on the first major surface of the first optical substrate and including a plurality of polymeric layers numbering greater than about 50 in total; and a first optical bonding layer having an average thickness of less than about 0.5 microns and disposed between, and making physical contact to, the first major surface of the first optical substrate and the multilayer polymeric optical film, the first optical bonding layer bonding the first optical substrate to the multilayer polymeric optical film and including a silanated amine.

Low wave-front error optical filter film

An optical system including one or more optical lenses, at least one retarder layer, a reflective polarizer, and a partial reflector is provided. The at least one retarder layer may include first and second retarder layers having different wavelength dispersion curves. The at least one retarder layer may include a first retarder layer having a non-uniform fast axis orientation and/or a non-uniform retardance.

Optical system

The present disclosure provides a display system. The display system includes a backlight configured to emit substantially collimated polarized light from an emission surface thereof. The emitted polarized light is polarized along a polarization direction. The display system further includes a display panel configured to receive an illumination light and form an image. The display system further includes a grating system substantially coextensive in length and width with the display panel and the emission surface. The grating system includes a plurality of substantially parallel elongated features extending along an in-plane first direction and arranged along an orthogonal in-plane second direction. The grating system is configured to receive and transmit an incident polarized light as a first transmitted light having different first and second polarization states in response to different respective first and second signals applied to the grating system.

Display system

An optical element includes an optical surface configured to receive light at a predetermined wavelength in a range from about 400 nm to about 1000 nm. The optical surface is defined by a vertical axis and a horizontal axis defining four Cartesian quadrants sequentially numbered in a counter-clockwise direction. A first longitudinal section of the optical surface is centered on the vertical axis and a second longitudinal section of the optical surface is centered on the horizontal axis. The first and second longitudinal section each extend across opposite edges of the optical surface and have a same substantially uniform retardance for substantially normally incident light. The optical element includes four discrete retarder sections. Each retarder section is disposed on a respective Cartesian quadrant of the optical surface and has a retardance difference from the substantially uniform retardance of the optical surface that is greater than zero.

Optical retarder segments

A patterned optical retarder including non-overlapping first () and second () regions with respective first and second major surfaces having different RMS surface roughnesses. For substantially normally incident light over a wavelength range from about 400 nm to about 1000 nm, the optical retarder has different retardances in the respective first and second regions.

Patterned optical retarders and methods for making thereof

The invention provides an electrophoretic medium comprising at least two types of particles having substantially the same electrophoretic mobility but differing colors. The invention also provides article of manufacture comprising a layer of a solid electro-optic medium, a first adhesive layer on one surface of the electro-optic medium, a release sheet covering the first adhesive layer, and a second adhesive layer on an opposed second surface of the electro-optic medium.

Method of forming an electrophoretic display having a color filter array

Optical constructions are disclosed. A disclosed optical construction includes a reflective polarizer layer, and an optical film that is disposed on the reflective polarizer layer. The optical film has an optical haze that is not less than about 50%. Substantial portions of each two neighboring major surfaces in the optical construction are in physical contact with each other. The optical construction has an axial luminance gain that is not less than about 1.2.

Optical construction and display system incorporating same

Optical retarder segements

A front plane laminate useful in the manufacture of electro-optic displays comprises, in order, a light-transmissive electrically-conductive layer, a layer of an electro-optic medium in electrical contact with the electrically-conductive layer, an adhesive layer and a release sheet. This front plane laminate can be prepared as a continuous web, cut to size, the release sheet removed and the laminate laminated to a backplane to form a display. Methods for providing conductive vias through the electro-optic medium and for testing the front plane laminate are also described.

Components and methods for use in electro-optic displays

An optical lens including first and second polarizers, a partial reflector disposed between the first and second polarizers, a first phase retarder disposed between the first polarizer and the partial reflector, and a second phase retarder disposed between the partial reflector and the second polarizer is described. The optical lens is a single piece configured for use in an eyewear. Eyewear including at least one of the optical lenses is also described.

Optical lens and eyewear including same

Optical system for displaying an object to a viewer

Surface-modified adhesives may be prepared by contacting an adhesive layer to an at least partially discontinuous layer on a releasing substrate and removing the adhesive layer such that at least a portion of the at least partially discontinuous layer adheres to the adhesive surface. The modified adhesive surface remains an adhesive surface. The modified adhesive layer can be used to prepare adhesive articles, including articles containing multiple surface-modified adhesive layers.

Surface-modified adhesives

A method of making an adhesive article comprises three steps. First, a backing is provided having first and second opposed major surfaces with respective first and second silicone release layers disposed thereon. The second silicone release layer further comprises a compound represented by the formula: Rrepresents a divalent hydrocarbon radical having from 2 to 40 carbon atoms or covalent bond. Rrepresents a monovalent or divalent poly(dimethylsiloxane) moiety. X represents &#x2014;NH&#x2014; or a covalent bond. Rrepresents a perfluorinated group having from 3 to 5 carbon atoms. y is 1 or 2. Second, an adhesive layer is disposed onto the first silicone release layer. Third, the adhesive layer is exposed to E-beam radiation within a process chamber containing oxygen to provide a crosslinked adhesive layer. An adhesive article made by the method and the compound are also disclosed. 

Compound, adhesive article, and methods of making the same

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New Richmond, WI, United States of America

Michael L Steiner