Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090040443 | METHOD OF PRODUCING A LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - To provide a method of producing a liquid crystal panel capable of easily realizing stable high contrast of the liquid crystal panel to be obtained at low cost, a liquid crystal panel, and an image display apparatus. There is provided a method of producing a liquid crystal panel including a first optical compensation layer having refractive index profile of nx>ny=nz and a polarizer on each side of a liquid crystal cell in the order given, in which an angle formed between an absorption axis of the polarizer (A) and a slow axis of the first optical compensation layer (B) on one side of the liquid crystal cell is +α°, an angle formed between an absorption axis of the polarizer (A′) and a slow axis of the first compensation layer (B′) on another side of the liquid crystal cell is −α°, and 0<α<90, the method comprises a step of subjecting substrate formed of single original sheet to alignment treatment at +α° and alignment treatment at −α° with respect to a longitudinal direction of the substrate; and a step of forming the first optical compensation layer (B) on the surface subjected to the +α° alignment treatment and forming the first optical compensation layer (B′) on the surface subjected to the −α° alignment treatment. | 02-12-2009 |
20090167994 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING POLARIZER, POLARIZER, POLARIZING PLATE, AND IMAGE DISPLAY - A method of manufacturing a polarizer is provided that makes it possible to manufacture a polarizer prevented from curling even when a liquid is brought into contact with a hydrophilic polymer film by being sprayed. A method of manufacturing a polarizer includes a swelling step A for swelling a hydrophilic polymer film | 07-02-2009 |
20100225854 | LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS USING THE PANEL - Provided are a liquid crystal panel which contributes to reduction in thickness and is excellent in optical properties and a liquid crystal display apparatus. The liquid crystal panel of the present invention includes a liquid crystal cell, a first polarizer disposed on one side of the liquid crystal cell, a second polarizer disposed on another side of the liquid crystal cell, a first optical compensation layer and a first negative C plate disposed between the first polarizer and the liquid crystal cell, and a second negative C plate and a second optical compensation layer disposed between the liquid crystal cell and the second polarizer, in which the first optical compensation layer is disposed between the first polarizer and the first negative C plate, the second optical compensation layer is disposed between the second negative C plate and the second polarizer, the first and second optical compensation layers each include a coating layer functioning as a λ/4 plate, and each have a thickness of 0.3 to 3 μm, and the first and second negative C plates each include a coating layer, and each have a thickness of 0.5 to 10 μm. | 09-09-2010 |
20100321613 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING POLARIZER, POLARIZER, POLARIZING PLATE, OPTICAL FILM, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING COMPOSITE POLARIZING PLATE, COMPOSITE POLARIZING PLATE AND IMAGE DISPLAY - A method of manufacturing a polarizer is provided that makes it possible to virtually simultaneously perform a contact of a hydrophilic polymer film with liquid and stretch of the hydrophilic polymer film in a width direction by a tenter method, or the like, using a small and simple manufacturing equipment. A method of manufacturing a polarizer includes a width direction stretching process for stretching a hydrophilic polymer film | 12-23-2010 |
20120241077 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE CONTINUOUS MANUFACTURE OF LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICES - 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. | 09-27-2012 |
20120291945 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANUFACTURING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device includes carrier film feeding steps including feeding long carrier films from continuous rolls, respectively; peeling steps including folding back each of the carrier films at a front end part placed on a carrier film feed path so that the optical films are peeled off from the carrier films, respectively; and bonding steps including bonding the optical films to the viewer side and back side of a liquid crystal panel, wherein in the bonding steps, the optical films are bonded to the liquid crystal panel in such a manner that the number of times the optical film is bonded to the back side of the liquid crystal panel is greater than the number of times the optical film is bonded to the viewer side of the liquid crystal panel. | 11-22-2012 |
20120321782 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FABRICATING OPTICAL FILM - Disclosed is a method for fabricating an optical film, comprising a treatment step comprising: continuously feeding a film, while holding both transverse end portions of the film; and bringing a lower surface of the film into contact with a surface of a treatment liquid with which a treatment tank is filled, while continuously feeding the film. The method for fabricating a polarizing film in which bringing a liquid into contact with a film and transversely stretching the polymer film by a tenter method or the like can be performed at the same time using a small and simple fabricating apparatus. | 12-20-2012 |
20130070194 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL - 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>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. | 03-21-2013 |
20130269869 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTINUOUSLY MANUFACTURING OPTICAL DISPLAY PANEL - 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. | 10-17-2013 |
20130288558 | SYSTEM FOR MANUFACTURING A LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY INCLUDING A LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL TURNING MECHANISM - 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. | 10-31-2013 |
20140041798 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANUFACTURING OPTICAL DISPLAY PANEL - Manufacturing method is for manufacturing an optical display panel including an optical cell and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer-carrying optical film provided thereon with the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer interposed therebetween, which includes the steps of unwinding a multilayer optical film from a roll, feeding the multilayer optical film, feeding an optical cell, peeling off the optical film from a carrier film, and bonding the optical film to one side of the optical cell with a pressure-sensitive adhesive interposed therebetween, wherein the longitudinal length (L) of the carrier film between a position at which the multilayer optical film begins to be unwound in the film feeding step and a position at which peeling is started in the peeling step is 15 times or more the width (W) of the carrier film. | 02-13-2014 |
20140085723 | OPTICAL FILM ROLL SET, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING OPTICAL FILM ROLL SET - 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:
| 03-27-2014 |
20140090779 | METHOD FOR CONTINUOUSLY PRODUCING OPTICAL DISPLAY PANEL, AND SYSTEM FOR CONTINUOUSLY PRODUCING OPTICAL DISPLAY PANEL - 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. | 04-03-2014 |
20140124966 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MANUFACTURING TREATED FILM - A method for manufacturing a treated resin film from a long resin film, the method including at least treatment steps each including treating the long resin film by bringing the long resin film into contact with a treatment liquid in a treatment tank, while feeding the long resin film, wherein at least one of the treatment steps is a one-side contact step including bringing a lower surface of the resin film into contact with a surface of the treatment liquid in the treatment tank that is filled with the treatment liquid, and nip rolls are placed downstream of at least one one-side treatment tank for the one-side treatment step. The method is capable of satisfying the properties required of the treated film and also capable of reducing the occurrence of scratches, dents, and other defects. | 05-08-2014 |
20140378020 | MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A manufacturing method for a liquid crystal display panel includes the steps of slitting a first optical film which includes a polarizing film having an absorption axis in its width direction, the polarizing film including a polyvinyl alcohol-based resin film containing a dichromatic substance and has an Nz coefficient of 1.10 or more, and rolling the slit first optical film in its width direction; slitting a second optical film, which includes a polarizing film having an absorption axis in its longitudinal direction, and rolling the slit second optical film in its width direction; 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. | 12-25-2014 |
20150027626 | MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - 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. | 01-29-2015 |
20150029447 | OPTICAL FILM ROLL - 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. | 01-29-2015 |