Konica Corporation

Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.

Konica-Minolta Holdings, Inc.

Konica Corporation, a Corporation of Japan

Sota Kawakami

Noriyasu Kuzuhara

Hiroki Umeda

Nobuo Kubo

Toshiaki Shibue

Makoto Honda

Takatoshi Yajima

Atsushi Nakajima

Katsumi Maejima

Shinji Matsumoto

Takahiro Ogawa

Koichi Nakatani

Tatsuichi Maehashi

Shigeru Mano

Katsuyuki Takeda

Masataka Takimoto

Ai Katsuda

Takayuki Sugaiwa

Hiroshi Yamazaki

Masayuki Kurematsu

Takashi Murakami

Ryoji Hattori

Takaaki Kuroki

Koji Tasaka

Shinji Kudo

Shozo Kikugawa

Hiroshi Watanabe

Nobuyuki Takiyama

Yasuo Kojima

Katsuya Kishinami

Miyuki Hosoi

Harue Ebisawa

Kiyoshi Akagi

Kouji Nishizaki

Koyoshi Sawada

Disclosed is an anti-glare anti-reflection film having a low haze and reduced in unevenness and dazzle. The film contains a thermoplastic resin film and at least a hard coat layer and an anti-reflection layer provided on a first surface of the thermoplastic resin film. In the film, a first convexoconcave structure that can give an anti-glare property is provided on the first surface of the thermoplastic resin film or the surface of a layer provided on the first surface of the thermoplastic resin film, and a second convexoconcave structure that can give an anti-glare property is provided on a second surface which is the other surface of the thermoplastic resin film or the surface of a layer provided on the second surface of the thermoplastic resin film. The anti-glare anti-reflection film has an average film thickness of 20 to 70 &#x3bc;m.

Method of manufacturing an anti-glare anti-reflection film

The method to produce the vertical alignment type liquid crystal display employs

Method for producing vertical alignment liquid crystal display

Disclosed is an optically anisotropic film used for a liquid crystal display of a vertical alignment liquid crystal mode comprising a fatty acid cellulose aster film, a retardation value (Rt value) in the thickness direction of the fatty acid cellulose ester film is from 60 to 300 nm, and the number of luminescent points having a size exceeding 50 &#x3bc;m is zero per 250 mm, and the number of luminescent points having a size of 5 to 50 &#x3bc;m is 200 or less per 250 mmwhen the fatty acid cellulose ester film is observed with two polarizing plates being provided on both surfaces of the fatty acid cellulose ester film so as to shield transmission light.

Optical film and liquid crystal display using the same

It is an object of the present invention to provide an anti-glare film and a manufacturing method thereof, in which undesired image capturing caused by outside light and lowered contrast are effectively inhibited without lowering sharpness of a high quality image via miniaturization of a pixel size, and a desired micro-roughened structure is stably formed effectively with good productivity, and further to provide an anti-glaring anti-reflection film, a polarizing plate, and a display thereof. Disclosed is a manufacturing method of an anti-glare film possessing the step of forming a roughened structure with ink adhesion portions and unfinished ink adhesion portions, provided on a substrate film surface via flexographic printing, employing a seamless resin plate having a diameter of 50-1000 mm and a rubber hardness degree of 30-80.

Anti-glare film, manufacturing method of anti-glare film, anti glaring anti-reflection film, polarizing plate, and display

A method for forming an anti-glare layer, including the step of: ejecting droplets of an ink with an ink-jet apparatus onto a transparent substrate so as to form a microscopically roughened structure on the transparent substrate, wherein the ink contains an ingredient capable of giving an anti-glare property to the transparent substrate.

Method for forming anti-glare layer and anti-glare film, and ink-jet apparatus for forming anti-glare layer

An optically anisotropic film is disclosed. The film comprises a fatty acid cellulose ester film support having an acetyl group and a propionyl group, and a liquid crystal layer containing a liquid crystal compound, or a resin layer containing polyimide, polyamidoimide, polyamide, polyether imide, polyether ether ketone, polyether ketone, polyketone sulfide, polyether sulfone, polysulfone, polyphenylene sulfide, polyphenylene oxide, polyethylene terephthalate, polybutylene terephthalate, polyethylene naphthalate, polyacetal, polycarbonate, polyallylate, acrylic resin, polyvinyl alcohol, polypropylene, cellulose based plastics, epoxy resin, or phenol resin.

An optical compensation sheet comprising at least two optically anisotropic layers each formed by orienting an optically anisotropic compound, the orientation direction in the optically anisotropic layer plane of the optically anisotropic compound in the two optically anisotropic layers intersecting each other at an angle of from 80 to 100 degrees, wherein, viewing the two layers from one side of the sheet, one of the two layers, when the compound is uniaxial, is oriented so that a first angle of optic axis of the uniaxial optically anisotropic compound to the sheet plane increases continuously or stepwise in the thickness direction of the sheet, or when the compound is biaxial, is oriented so that a second angle of a direction giving maximum refractive index of the biaxial optically anisotropic compound to the sheet plane increases continuously or stepwise in the thickness direction of the sheet, and the other layer, when the compound is uniaxial, is oriented so that the first angle decreases continuously or stepwise in the thickness direction of the sheet, or when the compound is biaxial, is oriented so that the second angle decreases continuously or stepwise in the thickness direction of the sheet.

Optical compensation sheet and liquid crystal display

A film for a liquid crystal display comprising a fatty acid cellulose ester film having an acetyl group and a propionyl group is disclosed. Sum of degree of acetyl substitution (DSac) and degree of propionyl substitution (DSpr) of the fatty acid cellulose ester film of the film is 2.8 or less, and a retardation value (Rt value) in the thickness direction define by Formula 1 is 60 to 300 nm.

A film for a liquid crystal display comprising a fatty acid celluose ester film having an acetyl group and a propionyl group is disclosed. Sum of degree of acetyl substitution (DSac) and degree of propionyl substitution (DSpr) of the fatty acid celluose ester film of the film is 2.8 or less, and a retardation value (Rt value) in the thickness direction defined by Formula 1 is 60 to 300 nm.

A film for a liquid crystal display comprising a fatty acid cellulose ester film having an acetyl group and a propionyl group is disclosed. Sum of degree of acetyl substitution (DSac) and degree of propionyl substitution (DSpr) of the fatty acid cellulose ester film of the film is 2.8 or less, and a retardation value (Rt value) in the thickness direction defined by Formula 1 is 60 to 300 nm.

A film for a liquid crystal display comprising a fatty acid cellulose ester film having an acetyl group and a propionyl group is disclosed. The sum of degree of acetyl substitution (DSac) and degree of propionyl substitution (DSpr) of the fatty acid cellulose ester film of the film is 2.8 of less, and a retardation value (Rt value) in the thickness direction defined by Formula 1 is 60 to 300 nm.

Thermal transfer intermediate material, a thermal transfer image forming material and a thermal transfer recording material set

A thermal transfer image forming method using a laser is disclosed. The method is comprises the steps of

Thermal transfer image forming method using laser

Presensitized lithographic printing plate and method for preparing

A light sensitive composition comprising (a) a vinyl type polymer having a unit represented by the following Formula (1) and a carboxyl group, (b) a monomer, oligomer or polymer containing at least one polymerizable double bond in its molecule, (c) a photopolymerization initiator and (d) a polymerization inhibitor capable of trapping a radical, ##STR1##

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Hino, Japan

Sota Kawakami