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Noriyuki Hirai, Miyagi JP

Noriyuki Hirai, Miyagi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080223510OPTICAL SHEET MANUFACTURE METHOD AND OPTICAL SHEET - A manufacture method of an optical sheet made of a transparent thermoplastic resin sheet on whose surface a regular geometric design working is performed, the optical sheet manufacture method comprising steps of performing a geometric design working on the resin sheet at a temperature not lower than a glass transition temperature of the resin sheet, by using a metal endless working belt formed with a geometric design on a surface thereof, rapidly cooling the resin sheet on which the geometric design working is performed to a temperature lower than the glass transition temperature, and detaching the rapidly cooled resin sheet from the metal endless working belt.09-18-2008
20080232113LIGHT-TRANSMISSIVE FILM, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - A light-transmissive film for use in display devices is provided. The light-transmissive film includes a plurality of first protrusions formed on one surface and extending in a predetermined direction of the one surface, and a plurality of second protrusions formed on an opposite surface to the one surface, extending in one direction of the opposite surface, arranged parallel to the one direction, and arranged parallel to a direction intersecting the one direction. At least one of the first and second protrusions has a refractive index anisotropy in a plane.09-25-2008
20080239200OPTICAL SHEET AND DISPLAY UNIT - An optical sheet capable of eliminating rapid lowering of the luminance view angle while minimizing the lowering amount of the front luminance, or while avoiding the lowering of the front luminance is provided. The optical sheet includes a first light transmissive film and a second light transmissive film. The first light transmissive film and the second light transmissive film are layered on each other, the first light transmissive film has a plurality of first convexes that extend in a given direction and are arranged in parallel in a direction crossing the given direction in-plane on the second light transmissive film side, and the second light transmissive film has a plurality of second convexes that are arranged in parallel in one direction and are arranged in parallel in a direction crossing the one direction in-plane on the first light transmissive film side, and has shape anisotropy and refractive index anisotropy in-plane.10-02-2008
20080303975OPTICAL SHEET COMBINATION STRUCTURE, SURFACE EMITTING DEVICE, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DEVICE - An optical sheet combination structure disposed between a polarizer and a surface emitting unit, includes a first optical sheet having a number of columnar cubic structures of curing resin arrayed on a transparent base, a valley portion between adjacent cubic structures contacting a surface of the transparent base, and a second optical sheet disposed nearer to the side of the polarizer than the first optical sheet, having a number of columnar cubit structures arrayed on a surface, and a refractive index of the cubic structures along an extension direction thereof being different from a refractive index of the cubic structures along an array direction thereof.12-11-2008
20090059120ILLUMINATION APPARATUS AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - An illumination apparatus is disclosed. The illumination apparatus includes a polarization plate, a light source, and a light transmission film. The light transmission film is disposed between the polarization plate and the light source and includes a plurality of prisms formed on a surface thereof, the plurality of prisms each having a ridge line in a first direction and being continuously arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. In the illumination apparatus, the light transmission film is disposed such that a ridge line direction of the plurality of prisms is one of a perpendicular direction and an approximately perpendicular direction to a transmission axis of the polarization plate.03-05-2009
20090195728DISPLAY UNIT - A display unit in which the view angle in the horizontal direction of emitting light is wider than the view angle in the vertical direction thereof, in which the emitting light has a polarization component in the vertical direction viewable with the use of a polarized sunglass, and which is able to improve display luminance is provided. A luminance enhancement film has a plurality of convex sections which extend toward in the horizontal direction and are arranged in the direction crossing the extending direction, and in which the refractive index in the extending direction is larger than the refractive index in the arrangement direction. A wave plate changes the polarization direction of light entering the wave plate so that an angle made by a polarization direction of the polarization component in the arrangement direction of the convex section after passing through the wave plate among light passing through the luminance enhancement film and the direction of a polarizing axis a of a first polarizer becomes small. A second polarizer has a polarizing axis b that transmits the polarization component in the vertical direction.08-06-2009
20100039584OPTICAL ELEMENT LAMINATE, BACKLIGHT, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - An optical element laminate is provided and includes a first optical element and a second optical element superimposed with the first optical element. The first optical element and the second optical element are each a rectangular film or sheet. The first optical element has at least two side walls at two opposing sides among four sides of the first optical element and the second optical element has at least two side walls at two opposing sides among four sides of the second optical element.02-18-2010
20100253879OPTICAL SHEET, OPTICAL SHEET PRODUCTION METHOD, SURFACE-EMITTING APPARATUS, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - An optical sheet includes a sheet body including a single translucent resin material layer having a first surface that light enters and a second surface that the light exits. The sheet body is orientationally crystallized in a first in-plane axis direction and a second in-plane axis direction orthogonal to each other and having a linear expansion coefficient of 1.0*10E−5/° C. or less in all in-plane directions. A structure surface portion that has a geometric configuration and is formed on at least one of the first surface and the second surface.10-07-2010
20100309411DIFFUSION SHEET AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, BACKLIGHT, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A diffusion sheet includes: a substrate having a first principal surface and a second principal surface; and structures each in a convex shape formed randomly on the first principal surface or the second principal surface of the substrate. The structures have an identical or almost identical height. The structures have an aspect ratio h/r, where r denotes an average radius of the structures and h denotes an average height of the structures, of more than 0.85 and not more than 1.50. The structures have a filling factor of not less than 60% and not more than 80%.12-09-2010
20110076394OPTICAL SHEET MANUFACTURING APPARATUS AND OPTICAL SHEET MANUFACTURING METHOD - An optical sheet manufacturing apparatus includes a first master including a first three-dimensional structure, a second master including a second three-dimensional structure, a first processing unit to heat a first surface of a resin sheet to a first temperature and transfer the first three-dimensional structure onto the first surface heated, a second processing unit to cool the first surface to a second temperature lower than the first temperature, heat a second surface of the resin sheet to a third temperature higher than the second temperature, and transfer the second three-dimensional structure onto the second surface heated, a third processing unit to cool the second surface to a fourth temperature lower than the third temperature, a first conveyance mechanism to perform conveyance from the first processing unit to the second processing unit, and a second conveyance mechanism to perform conveyance from the second processing unit to the third processing unit.03-31-2011

Patent applications by Noriyuki Hirai, Miyagi JP