COATED MICROSTRUCTURED FILMS, METHODS OF MAKING SAME, AND METHODS OF MAKING LIGHT CONTROL FILMS

    公开(公告)号:US20250130352A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-04-24

    申请号:US18681559

    申请日:2022-08-15

    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a coated microstructured film (100a-c). The coated film includes microstructures (110) extending across a first surface of the microstructured film (100a-e) and a coating (130) on a first portion of at least some of the microstructures (110). The coating (130) includes one or more polyelectrolytes and has an average thickness T. A second portion of the coated microstructures either lacks the coating or has the coating with an average thickness of no more than 50% of T. The coating (130) is essentially free of any light absorptive material. A method of making the coated microstructured film (100a-c) is also provided. The method includes obtaining a microstructured film (100a), applying a coating (130) containing one or more polyelectrolytes to at least some of the microstructures (110), and removing at least some of the coating (130) from a second portion of the coated microstructures. Additionally, the present disclosure provides a method of making a light control film (110d. 100e). The method includes the above method as well as either infusing a light absorptive material into the coating of the coated microstructured film (100b-d) or applying a layer of a pigment on the coating. Such a light control film exhibits a transmission of visible light of 75% or greater at a viewing angle of 0 degrees.

    Light Control Film
    12.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20240411061A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-12-12

    申请号:US18700470

    申请日:2022-10-17

    Abstract: A light control film includes a two-dimensional array of projections arranged across the light control film. A square of a magnitude of a Fourier transform frequency spectrum of the projections includes a plurality of distinct peaks separated by one or more valleys. The peaks and the one or more valleys have respective averages Pavg and Vavg, Pavg/Vavg≥5, such that when light from a substantially Lambertian light source is incident on the light control film, the light control film transmits the incident light with the transmitted light propagating along a transmission axis and having an intensity profile having a full width at half maximum of less than about 120 degrees in each cross-section of the intensity profile that comprises the transmission axis.

    OPTICAL FILM
    16.
    发明公开
    OPTICAL FILM 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240142673A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-02

    申请号:US17769280

    申请日:2020-10-29

    CPC classification number: G02B3/08 G02B1/10

    Abstract: An optical film has a major surface including a plurality of microstructures. Each microstructure includes an optical facet and a sidewall meeting the optical facet at a ridge of the microstructure. The optical facet and the sidewall define an oblique angle therebetween. For each microstructure in at least a majority of the microstructures, an optically absorptive layer is disposed on the sidewall. The optical film can include a polymeric layer having a microstructured surface at least partially coated with an inorganic optically transparent layer. The optically absorptive layer can an average thickness t where 100 nm

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