Nitto-denko Corporation

Seiji Kondo

Satoshi Hirata

Kazuya Hada

Seiji Umemoto

Kazuki Tsuchimoto

Tatsuya Araki

Takashi Shimizu

Akihiro Nishida

Nao Murakami

Hiroaki Sawada

Takuya Nakazono

Minoru Miyatake

Satoru Koshio

Yuji Hotta

Yoshihiro Hieda

Takashi Shouda

Shinichi Sasaki

Takuya Matsunaga

Takaichi Amano

Atsushi Kitagawa

Shinichi Ohizumi

Ryouji Kinoshita

Yutaka Fujita

Yutaka Nakabayashi

Tadashi Yokouchi

Akira Kunikawa

Hiroyuki Morikazu

Atsushi Muraoka

The present invention provides a method of producing a thin polarizing film having both excellent optical characteristics and excellent in-plane uniformity. The method of producing a thin polarizing film includes stretching a thermoplastic resin substrate in a first direction, followed by formation of a polyvinyl alcohol-based resin layer on the thermoplastic resin substrate to prepare a laminate and shrinking and stretching the laminate in the first direction and a second direction, respectively.

Method for producing thin polarizing film

An optical film roll is disclosed capable of realizing excellent display characteristics while maintaining manufacturing efficiency. The optical film roll has a width corresponding to a pair of opposite sides of a liquid crystal cell and is used by being cut to a length corresponding to another pair of opposite sides of the liquid crystal cell to be continuously attached to a surface of the liquid crystal cell. The optical film roll includes a long optical film wound into a roll shape, the long optical film being obtained by subjecting a long optical raw film, which is produced by laminating a polarizing film having an absorption axis in its width direction, and a reflective polarizing film having a reflection axis in its width direction, to a slitting process in a machine direction while conveying the long optical raw film in its lengthwise direction.

Optical film roll

Provided is a method capable of producing a retardation film suppressed in biaxiality, having a small Nz coefficient, and having a slow axis in an oblique direction with high production efficiency. The production method for a retardation film of the present invention includes: holding left and right side edge portions of a film to be stretched with left and right variable pitch-type clips configured to have clip pitches changing in a longitudinal direction, respectively; preheating the film; reducing, under a state in which a position at which the clip pitch of the clips on one side out of the left and right clips starts to reduce and a position at which the clip pitch of the clips on another side starts to reduce are set to different positions in the longitudinal direction, the clip pitch of each of the clips to a predetermined pitch to subject the film to oblique stretching; and releasing the clips holding the film.

Production method for phase shift film and circular polarizing plate involving bilaterally symmetric loops with non-simultaneous reduction of clip pitch

A manufacturing method for a liquid crystal display panel includes slitting a first optical film having an elongate shape, to have a width corresponding to a pair of opposing sides of a liquid crystal cell, and by rolling the slit first optical film in its width direction to have a length corresponding to another pair of opposing sides of the liquid crystal cell; slitting a second optical film having an elongate shape, to have a width corresponding to a pair of opposing sides of the liquid crystal cell, and by rolling the slit second optical film in its width direction to have a length corresponding to another pair of opposing sides of the liquid crystal cell; bonding the cut first optical film onto one surface of the liquid crystal cell; and bonding the cut second optical film onto another surface of the liquid crystal cell.

Manufacturing method for liquid crystal display

Provided is a method capable of producing a retardation film being excellent in axial accuracy, showing small changes in retardation and dimensions at the time of its heating, and having a slow axis in an oblique direction with high production efficiency. The production method for a retardation film of the present invention includes: holding left and right end portions of a film with left and right variable pitch-type clips configured to have clip pitches changing in a longitudinal direction, respectively; preheating the film; causing the clip pitches of the left and right clips to each independently change to obliquely stretch the film; reducing the clip pitches of the left and right clips to shrink the film in the longitudinal direction; and releasing the film from being held with the clips.

Methods for producing phase-difference film and circularly polarizing plate involving simultaneous reduction of clip pitch on one side and increase of clip pitch on another side

The present invention provides a method capable of producing a retardation film having an elongated shape, having high uniaxiality and a high in-plane alignment property, and having a slow axis in an oblique direction with high production efficiency. The production method for a retardation film of the present invention includes: holding left and right end portions of a film with left and right variable pitch-type clips configured to have clip pitches changing in a longitudinal direction, respectively; preheating the film; increasing the clip pitch of the clips on one side and reducing the clip pitch of the clips on another side, while extending a distance between the left and right clips, to obliquely stretch the film; maintaining or reducing the clip pitch of the clips on the one side and increasing the clip pitch of the clips on the another side so that the clip pitches of the left and right clips are equal to each other, while extending the distance between the left and right clips, to obliquely stretch the film; and releasing the film from being held with the clips.

An optical film roll is disclosed capable of realizing excellent display characteristics while maintaining manufacturing efficiency. The optical film roll has a width corresponding to a pair of opposite sides of a liquid crystal cell and is used by being cut to a length corresponding to another pair of opposite sides of the liquid crystal cell to be continuously attached to a surface of the liquid crystal cell. The optical film roll includes a long optical film wound into a roll shape, the long optical film being obtained by subjecting a long optical raw film, which includes a polarizing film having an absorption axis in its width direction, to a slitting process in a machine direction while conveying the long optical raw film in its lengthwise direction. The polarizing film includes a polyvinyl alcohol-based resin film that contains a dichromatic substance and has an Nz coefficient of 1.10 or more.

A method includes a first bonding step including providing a first polarizing film obtained by transversely cutting a first long polarizing film having an absorption axis in its longitudinal direction, supplying the first polarizing film from a first optical film roll, and bonding the first polarizing film to a back side of the optical cell while feeding the optical cell; and a second bonding step including providing a linearly polarized light separating film obtained by transversely cutting a long linearly polarized light separating film having a reflection axis in its transverse direction, supplying the linearly polarized light separating film from a second optical film roll, and bonding the linearly polarized light separating film onto the first polarizing film bonded to the back side of the optical cell, while feeding the optical cell.

Method for continuously producing optical display panel, and system for continuously producing optical display panel

A method for continuously manufacturing an optical display panel includes feeding a carrier filmon which an optical filmis placed with a pressure-sensitive adhesive interposed therebetween, peeling off the optical filmfrom the carrier filmby using a folding-back partto inwardly fold back the carrier filmbeing fed, taking up the carrier filmfrom which the optical filmis peeled off, feeding an optical cell P and bonding the optical film, which is peeled off from the carrier film, to the optical cell P with the pressure-sensitive adhesive interposed therebetween, and reducing a difference between a first tension on the carrier filmlocated upstream of the folding-back partand a second tension on the carrier filmlocated downstream of the folding-back part while reducing one of the first and second tensions before the bonding step.

Method and system for continuously manufacturing optical display panel

An object of the invention is to provide a method for manufacturing an optical display panel. The method includes a feeding step including feeding an optical cell with a thickness of 0.2 mm to 1.0 mm by means of a feed roller unit arranged perpendicular to a direction in which the optical cell is fed; a bonding step including feeding a long carrier film from a continuous roll and bonding a sheet piece of the optical film to a lower surface of the optical cell with the pressure-sensitive adhesive interposed therebetween, wherein the lower surface is on a side in contact with the feed roller unit; and a rotation step including rotating the optical cell by 90&#xb0; with respect to the direction in which the optical cell is fed which is bonded in the bonding step.

Optical display panel production method and optical display panel production system

The present invention provides a method and apparatus designed to, during continuous manufacture of liquid crystal display panels, feed only a normal sheet to a lamination position for lamination to a rectangular panel and continuously laminate them together while positionally aligning them with each other. In the present invention, plural devices making up the entire apparatus are cooperatively associated with each other to make it possible that, among plural polarizing film sheets comprising a defect-free normal sheet and a defect-containing defective sheet each formed on a carrier film comprised in a strip-shaped film laminate. The normal sheet is reliably peeled from the carrier film by cooperatively associating feeding of the strip-shaped film laminate with a normal-sheet peeling device, and the defective sheet is reliably taken up while being attached to the carrier film, by cooperatively associating the feeding of the strip-shaped film laminate with a defective-sheet path changing device.

Method and apparatus for the continuous manufacture of liquid crystal display devices

An object of the invention is to provide a method and a system for manufacturing a liquid crystal panel, which allow more successful bonding of an optical film to a liquid crystal cell. A pressing force Fa per unit area applied when the optical film is pressed by the first roller and a pressing force Fb per unit area applied when the liquid crystal cell is pressed by the second roller satisfy the relation Fa&#x3e;Fb. On the first roller side, the feed may fail to be stabilized due to the influence of tension fluctuations or vibration acting on the first optical film, so that air bubbles may occur. When the second roller side, where such an influence does not occur, contributes more to the feed of the liquid crystal cell, the liquid crystal cell can be successfully fed in the process of bonding the optical film thereto.

Method and system for producing liquid crystal panel

A system and a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display element through a reduced number of steps are provided, in which a liquid crystal panel is turned over, by means of a panel turning mechanism, about an axis not parallel to any of the long and short sides of the liquid crystal panel so that the positional relationship between the long and short sides of the liquid crystal panel can be reversed, after one of sheet pieces of optical functional films is bonded to the liquid crystal panel and before another of the sheet pieces is bonded thereto, which can achieve the same effect by a single operation as in the case where turning over the liquid crystal panel and rotating it are performed independently.

System for manufacturing a liquid crystal display including a liquid crystal display panel turning mechanism

A method for continuously manufacturing an optical display panel includes a velocity control step includes setting a bonding velocity and a carrier film feed velocity in such a manner that during a period from the start of the bonding of the sheet piece to the end of the bonding, the bonding velocity is higher than the carrier film feed velocity is fed and in such a manner that slack formed in the sheet piece is eliminated between the bonding position and the front end of the peeling unit; and performing control in such a manner that during a period from the start of the bonding to the end of the bonding, the distance (L) is longer than the distance (Ls), while the bonding velocity in the bonding step is higher than the velocity at which the carrier film is fed.

A set of optical film rolls for use in a process including supplying films and bonding the films, in directions relatively perpendicular to one another, to an optical cell, wherein a direction in which each film is bonded to the optical cell is equal to a direction in which each film is supplied, and the films are laminated to one side of the optical cell, the set of optical film rolls includes:

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Ibaraki, Japan

Seiji Kondo