Rocess for producing coated sheet, optically functional layer, optically compensating plate, optical device and image display

• Main Author: KONDOU SEIJI,TSUCHIMOTO KAZUKI,MASUDA TOMOAKI,KOMATSUBARA MAKOTO,OOTA MIE,INOUE RYUUICHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 28.06.2006
• Subjects: AFTER-TREATMENT NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C08B, C08C, C08F,C08G; APPLYING LIQUIDS OR OTHER FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON; DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS, THE OPTICAL OPERATION OF WHICH ISMODIFIED BY CHANGING THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIUM OF THEDEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF THE INTENSITY,COLOUR, PHASE, POLARISATION OR DIRECTION OF LIGHT, e.g.SWITCHING, GATING, MODULATING OR DEMODULATING; FREQUENCY-CHANGING; GENERAL PROCESSES OF COMPOUNDING; METALLURGY; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS; OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICS; ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PROCESSES FOR APPLYING LIQUIDS OR OTHER FLUENT MATERIALS TOSURFACES, IN GENERAL; SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; TECHNIQUES OR PROCEDURES FOR THE OPERATION THEREOF; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; TRANSPORTING; WORKING-UP

The method of cleaning a coated sheet according to the present invention is characterized in that dry wind is brown along the traveling direction of a film onto the surface of a coating layer wherein the solid content and the viscosity of the coating solution are within specified ranges. By this method, the thickness precision of the coating film can be improved in its large area, and the evenness of its in-plane optically functional property can be made even therein. The speed of the dry wind, the temperature of the wind, and the thickness of the dried coating film are preferably within specified ranges. In particular, the coated sheet is very useful as an optical material having good properties in an optically functional layer which is frequently used as a large-area coated sheet, an optical device having such an optically functional layer, an optically compensating layer, or an optically compensating plate. The coated sheet is particularly effective for an image display on which they are mounted.