Fujifilm Corporation

Taketo Otani

Akio Tamura

Reiko Fukagawa

Yujiro Yanai

Masaaki Suzuki

Wataru Majima

Katsuyuki Takada

Daiki Wakizaka

Akihiro Anzai

Shusuke Arita

Hiroshi Sato

Shinichi Morishima

Takao Taguchi

Takashi Yonemoto

Rikio Inoue

Ryo Nakamura

Megumi Sekiguchi

Shinpei Yoshida

Keigo Ueki

Makoto Uchimura

Kazuhiro Amemiya

Objects are to provide a projection-image-displaying laminate film that enables, when used for, for example, a HUD, displaying of undistorted projection images of high-quality screen images, a laminated glass using the projection-image-displaying laminate film, and an image display system using the laminated glass. The objects are achieved with a projection-image-displaying laminate film including a half-mirror film including a selective reflection layer configured to wavelength-selectively reflect light, and a heat-sealing layer disposed on one surface of the half-mirror film, wherein the half-mirror film has a stiffness at 25° C. of 4.0 N·mm or less, and the heat-sealing layer has a thickness of 40 μm or less, contains a thermoplastic resin, and has a surface opposite from the half-mirror film, the surface having a static coefficient of friction of 1.0 or less.

Projection-image-displaying laminate film, projection-image-displaying laminated glass, and image display system

It is an object of the present invention to provide a projection image-displaying member having excellent suitability for polarizing sunglasses, a windshield glass, and a head-up display system. The projection image-displaying member has a first polarization converting layer, at least one selectively reflecting layer, and a second polarization converting layer in this order. The first polarization converting layer and the second polarization converting layer are layers formed by fixing a helical alignment structure of a liquid crystal compound. The number of pitches in the helical alignment structure and a film thickness satisfy all relational expressions below. When the first polarization converting layer has a number of pitches xand a film thickness y(unit: μm),0.3≤≤2.0 and  (i)≥1.86+0.13.  (ii) When the second polarization converting layer has a number of pitches xand a film thickness y(unit: μm),0.25≤≤2.0,  (iii)≤1.37+5.5, and  (iv)≥1.37+0.25.  (v)

Projection image-displaying member, windshield glass, and head-up display system

The present invention provides a functional film including a copolymer that contains a repeating unit represented by Formula (I) and a repeating unit represented by Formula (II) shown in the description, or a crosslinked reaction product derived from the copolymer; a polarizing plate having this functional film; and a display device.

Functional film, polarizing plate, and display device

Provided are a projection image display member having a high visible light transmittance, suppressing a double image of a display image, and having excellent suitability of polarized sunglasses for incident light reflected from external light, a windshield glass using the projection image display member, and a head-up display system. The problem is solved such that one or more phase difference layers, one or more selective reflection layers, and one or more polarization conversion layers are provided in this order, the polarization conversion layer being a layer in which a helical alignment structure of a liquid crystal compound is fixed, and the number of pitches x of the helical alignment structure and a film thickness y (μm) of the polarization conversion layer satisfying '0.3≤x≤7.0', “0.5≤y≤6.0”, “y≤0.7x+3.2”, and “y≥0.7x−1.4”.

Projection image display member, windshield glass, and head-up display system

A fluorine-containing copolymer composition includes repeating units derived from a fluorine-containing monomer represented by Formula (I) and from a monomer having at least two polymerizable groups, in which the latter is 3% by mass or more with respect to a total mass of the fluorine-containing copolymer, and the former is 15% by mass or more with respect to a total solid content in the composition, in the Formula (I), Rrepresents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms; Rrepresents a group having at least one fluorine atom; and Lrepresents a divalent linking group including at least one selected from the group consisting of &#x2014;O&#x2014;, &#x2014;(C&#x2550;O)O&#x2014;, &#x2014;O(C&#x2550;O)&#x2014;, &#x2014;(C&#x2550;O)NH&#x2014;, &#x2014;NH(C&#x2550;O)&#x2014;, a divalent aromatic group which may have a substituent, a divalent aliphatic chain group which may have a substituent, and a divalent aliphatic cyclic group which may have a substituent.

Composition, optical film, polarizing plate, display device, and method for producing composition

An object of the present invention is to provide a half-mirror film for displaying a projection image having high adhesiveness, a laminated glass in which wrinkle generation of the half-mirror film is suppressed or furthermore has high adhesiveness, and an image display system using the laminated glass. The problem is solved by providing a half-mirror film for displaying a projection image including a transparent support; and a selective reflection layer reflecting light in a wavelength selective manner, in which the transparent support has an absolute value of 10 nm or less of an in-plane phase difference at a wavelength of 550 nm and a heat seal layer disposed on an opposite surface of a surface having the selective reflection layer, the heat seal layer contains a thermoplastic resin, and a mixed layer in which components of the transparent support and the heat seal layer are mixed is formed between the transparent support and the heat seal layer.

Half-mirror film for displaying projection image, laminated glass for displaying projection image, and image display system

A copolymer includes a repeating unit represented by Formula (I); and a repeating unit represented by Formula (II), in Formula (I), Rrepresents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms; Rrepresents an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms and having at least one fluorine atom as a substituent, or a group including &#x2014;Si(R)(R)O&#x2014;; L represents a divalent linking group as defined herein; and Rand Reach independently represent an alkyl group as defined herein, in Formula (II), Rrepresents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms; Rand Reach independently represent a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic hydrocarbon group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted heteroaryl group; Rand Rmay be linked to each other; and Xrepresents a divalent linking group.

Copolymer and composition

According to the present invention, there are provided a film forming composition, which contains a polymer having a repeating unit represented by General Formula (I) and a curable compound, an optical film having a film formed of the composition, a hardcoat film, a polarizing plate, and a method for manufacturing a hydrophilized hardcoat film. In General Formula (I), Rrepresents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, L represents an ester bond, an ether bond, a phenylene group, or an amide bond, Rand Reach independently represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, or a halogenated alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, and Rrepresents a hydrogen atom or a substituent. 

Film forming composition, hardcoat film, polarizing plate, and method for manufacturing hydrophilized hardcoat film

The invention is directed to a method for manufacturing a hardcoat film including a hardcoat layer having a surface of which a water contact angle is 65&#xb0; or less by applying, drying, and curing a composition for forming the hardcoat layer on a base material film, in which the composition for forming the hardcoat layer contains the components (a) to (d) as defined herein, and, in a case in which a total solid content of the composition for forming the hardcoat layer is set to 100% by mass, a content of the component (b) is 40% to 80% by mass, a content of the component (c) is 10% to 40% by mass, and a content of the component (d) is 10% to 40% by mass.

Method for manufacturing hardcoat film and hardcoat film

The present invention provides an optical laminate which is suppressed in film thickness unevenness of an optically anisotropic layer and is free from point defects, a method of producing the same, and a polarizing plate and an organic EL display device using the optical laminate. The method of producing an optical laminate having an optically anisotropic layer A and an optically anisotropic layer B, includes where the layer A and the layer B are provided in direct contact with each other. The method further includes where both a composition a for forming the layer A and a composition b for forming the layer B contain a fluorine compound, and when the layer A is formed using composition a and layer B is formed using composition b, layer A and layer B are formed in this order under the condition that composition a and composition b satisfy predetermined surface tension relationships.

Method of producing optical laminate, optical laminate, polarizing plate and organic el display device

There is provided a method of manufacturing a hard coat film having a hard coat layer on at least one side of a transparent support, the method includes curing a hard coat layer forming composition containing (a) a compound having one alicyclic epoxy group and one ethylenically unsaturated double bond group in a molecule and having a molecular weight of 300 or less, (b) a compound having three or more ethylenically unsaturated double bond groups in a molecule, (c) a radical polymerization initiator, and (d) a cationic polymerization initiator in a specific amount.

Method of manufacturing hard coat film, hard coat film, polarizing plate, and liquid crystal display device

A liquid crystal display device includes first and second polarizers with absorption axes orthogonal to each other; first and second substrates between the first and second polarizers and at least one of which has a transparent electrode; and a twisted-nematic liquid crystal cell disposed between the first and second substrates, wherein a light scattering film is provided at a viewing side of the first and second polarizers and includes a support member and a liquid crystal layer composed of a liquid crystal compound, wherein the pitch of the liquid crystal compound ranges between 0.35 &#x3bc;m and 3 &#x3bc;m and is oriented at 45&#xb0; relative to a liquid-crystal direction of the liquid crystal display device, wherein the liquid crystal layer has a thickness between 0.17 &#x3bc;m and 10 &#x3bc;m, and wherein a weighted scattering area ratio of a goniophotometer scattering profile of the light scattering film satisfies the following expression. 

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Kanagawa, Japan

Taketo Otani