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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 26, 1999
Yoshio Abe, Nakajho-machi, JP;
Osamu Shinji, Nakajho-machi, JP;
Kuraray Co., Ltd., Kurashiki, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a lenticular lens sheet on which external light reflection is greatly reduced and which gives high-contrast sharp images. The lenticular lens sheet has a plurality of lenticular lenses formed on one surface of a light-transmissive substrate and having, on the other surface of the substrate, convex lenses , and external light-absorbing ridges as formed alternately with those convex lenses and coated with an external light-absorbing layer on their tops, in which every furrow between each convex lens and each external light-absorbing ridge that ate adjacent to each other is further coated with an external light-absorbing layer . The external light-absorbing layer may be not only on the top of each ridge but also around each ridge adjacent to the top thereof.