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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2017
Fujifilm Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Akira Yamamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoji Ito, Kanagawa, JP;
Michio Nagai, Kanagawa, JP;
Daisuke Kashiwagi, Kanagawa, JP;
Nobuhiko Ichihara, Kanagawa, JP;
FUJIFILM Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An optical member includes: a substrate; and a dot formed on a surface of the substrate. The dot has wavelength selective reflecting properties, and a cholesteric structure which has a stripe pattern including bright and dark portions in a cross-sectional view of the dot when observed with a scanning electron microscope. A surface shape of the dot opposite to the substrate in a cross-section of the dot in a thickness direction has at least one inflection point. In the cross-section, an angle between a normal line perpendicular to a line, formed using a first dark portion from a surface of the dot opposite to the substrate, and the surface of the dot, is in a range of 70° to 90°. A proportion of a retroreflective area of the optical member is high when observed after light irradiation from an oblique direction to a normal direction perpendicular to the optical member.