Teijin Limited

Satoshi Kitazawa

Masayuki Fukuda

Hideshi Kurihara

Tetsuo Ichihashi

Manabu Kimura

Shinji Yano

Tetsuo Yoshida

Hiroshi Tomita

Akihiko Uchiyama

Yuhei Ono

Jyuhou Matsuo

Takashi Saigo

Shin-ichiro Okada

The present invention provides a retardation film which can remarkably improve the controllability of retardation, and can also sufficiently control the wavelength dependency of retardation. The retardation film of the present invention can achieve a widening of the viewing angle at a high degree, when it is applied to a liquid crystal display device. Further, the present invention provides a laminated polarizing which comprises the retardation film and enables widening the viewing angle. Furthermore, the present invention provides a liquid crystal display device having high performance, especially a widened viewing angle. The retardation film of the present invention comprises a structural body which simultaneously has form birefringence and molecular-orientation birefringence. Specifically, the retardation film comprises a periodic structure () having a unit of at least two layers () having different average refractive indices from each other, and at least one of the at least two layers is a layer having optical anisotropy due to molecular-orientation birefringence.

Retardation film, laminated polarizing film, and liquid crystal display device

A white biaxially oriented polyester film for use as a base film for receiving an ink jet printer image and a base film for receiving an ink jet printer image which satisfy the following requirements (1) to (4): The base film for receiving an ink jet printer image of the present invention is excellent in adhesion, glossiness, opacifying properties and transportability.

Polyester film for use as an ink image receiving base film and ink

An adhesive polyester film which comprises a biaxially oriented polyester film base layer and an adhesive layer and which is particularly useful as a base layer for a sublimation-type thermosensitive image transfer recording material. This base layer has no point at which the gradient of its temperature-dimensional change curve changes from a positive value to a negative value when temperature is elevated from the glass transition temperature of the polyester to 240&deg; C. and does not show a dimensional change of more than 5%. The adhesive layer is made from (i) a water-soluble or water-dispersible resin of a polyester modified by a vinyl resin or (ii) a crosslinked resin of a mixture of a water-soluble or water-dispersible acrylic resin, a water-soluble or water-dispersible polyester resin and an epoxy resin crosslinking agent.

Adhesive polyester film

Antistatic polyester film and antistatic film laminate

A base Film for a photographic film, wherein (A) the base film is formed of a polyethylene-2,6-naphthalenedicarboxylate copolymer formed from 2,6-naphthalenedicarboxylic acid as a main acid component and ethylene glycol as a main glycol component; (B) a solution of 10 mg/ml of said copolymer in a hexafluoroisopropanol/chloroform mixed solvent having a hexafluoroisopropanol/chloroform weight ratio of 2/3 shows a light transmittance, T.sub.400, of at least 97%/cm at a wavelength of 400 nm; (C) the film has a yellow index, Y.sub.ID, of 5 or less; and (D) the film has a haze value of 2.0% or less.

Base film for photographic film

A base film for a photographic film, wherein (A) the base film is formed of a polyethylene-2,6-naphthalenedicarboxylate copolymer formed from 2,6-naphthalenedicarboxylic acid as a main acid component and ethylene glycol as a main glycol component; (B) a solution of 10 mg/ml of said copolymer in a hexafluoroisopropanol/chloroform mixed solvent having a hexafluoroisopropanol/chloroform weight ratio of 2/3 shows a light transmittance, T.sub.400, of at least 97%/cm at a wavelength of 400 nm; (C) the film has a yellow index, Y.sub.ID, of 5 or less; and (D) the film has a haze value of 2.0% or less.

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Sagamihara, Japan

Satoshi Kitazawa