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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cellulose acylate optical film particularly for VA (vertically aligned), IPS (in-plane switching) and OCB (optically compensatory bend) modes which accurately, optically compensates liquid crystal cells and improves its contrast and the color shift dependent on a visual angle in black display, to provide its production method and a polarizing plate using the optical film, and also to provide a liquid crystal display, particularly of VA, IPS and OCB modes which improves the contrast and the color shift dependent on the visual angle in black display. SOLUTION: The method for production of the cellulose acylate optical film includes: a film formation process for obtaining a film having the volatile portions of equal to or less than 5 wt.% by a solution casting method; and the stretching and contraction processes for stretching and contracting the obtained film in X% elongation and Y% contraction rate, respectively so as to satisfy the formula (Z). COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide; an optical film for VA, IPS and OCB modes accurately and optically compensating a liquid crystal cell and improving high contrast and a color shift depending on a visual angle direction when black display is performed; its manufacturing method; a polarizing plate using the optical film; and a liquid crystal display device which has high contrast and wherein the color shift depending on the visual angle direction when black display is performed is improved and peripheral unevenness is hardly generated even when temperature and humidity change is received. SOLUTION: The optical film is characterized in that a value obtained by dividing a smaller value of values of a photoelastic coefficient in the longitudinal direction of the film and a photoelastic coefficient in a direction nearly orthogonal to the longitudinal direction by a larger value is ≤0.8. The manufacturing method of the optical film includes a stretching process for stretching the film and a contracting process for contracting the film after a casting process and a drying process for drying the film at 40 to 60°C prior to the stretching process and the contracting process after the casting process. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid crystal display device that is superb in expression of retardation in a front direction and in a film-thickness direction with little change in view angle characteristics and is made of cellulose acetate film, which is thin and easy to handle at the time of manufacture and processing.SOLUTION: The liquid crystal display device includes a pair of polarizing plates 30 and 32 that comprise polarizing films 34, 37 and pairs of protection films 33, 35, 36, and 38 sandwiching the polarizing films. At least one of the protection films is a cellulose acetate film 36 of 20-70 μm in thickness with an elastic modulus in at least one direction of a film stretching direction and a width direction being 3.5-10 GPa. A viewing angle is equal to or greater than polar angle 80° in at least three directions of upward, downward, right and left directions. Contrast in the front direction expressed by luminance of white display/luminance of black display is equal to or greater than 300.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a film that has excellent optical compensation performance and can be laminated by using a water-soluble adhesive. SOLUTION: The cellulose acylate film satisfies the formula ¾Re(630 nm)-Re(450 nm)¾≥10 nm [wherein Re(λ) is an in-plane retardation value (unit; nm) measured by a light having a wavelength of λ nm]. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optically compensatory film for a polarizing plate which optically compensates a liquid crystal cell with accuracy, suppresses a color shift depending on a viewing angle direction in high contrast and black display, and ensures sufficiently small variations of Re and Rth to a change of the environmental humidity, a polarizing plate using the same, and a liquid crystal display. SOLUTION: The optically compensatory film contains at least a compound A having a plurality of hydrogen bondable groups within one molecule and at least any one of the compounds B represented by general formulae (I)-(III). COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cellulose acylate film, particularly for use in VA, IPS and OCB modes, which improves a color shift depending on high contrast and the direction of a visual angle in black display, by bringing about the accurate optical compensation of a liquid crystal cell, a manufacturing method for the cellulose acylate film, a polarizing plate using the cellulose acylate film, and a liquid crystal display device, particularly for use in the VA, IPS and OCB modes, which improves a contrast and a color shift depending on the direction of the visual angle in the black display. SOLUTION: This manufacturing method for the cellulose acylate film is characterized by comprising a stretch step of stretching a film, and a shrinkage step of shrinking the film. The cellulose acylate film is manufactured by the manufacturing method. The polarizing plate using the cellulose acylate film, and the liquid crystal display device are constituted. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical film especially for VA, IPS and OCB modes accurately and optically compensating a liquid crystal cell, having high contrast and nearly free from a color shift depending on a visual angle direction when black display is performed; its manufacturing method; and a polarizing plate using the optical film. SOLUTION: In the optical film, a value obtained by dividing a larger value of values of an acoustic velocity in the longitudinal direction of the film and an acoustic velocity in the direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction by a smaller value is ≥1.2. In the optical film, the value is ≥1.1 and ratios of front retardation values Re to retardation values Rth in the film thickness direction in 450 nm, 550 nm and 650 nm wavelengths and mutual ratios of the respective front retardation values Re in 450 nm, 550 nm and 650 nm wavelengths are in specified ranges. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide cellulose acylate films for especially VA, IPS and OCB modes which optically compensate liquid crystal cells and improve a color shift depending on a high contrast and visual angle direction in black display, a producing method therefore, a polarizing plate and a liquid crystal display device using the cellulose acylate film. SOLUTION: The method for producing a cellulose acylate film is characterized in that it comprises a stretching step for stretching a film and a contracting step for contracting the film, the contracting step starts with the stretching step at the same time, or starts before the stretching step, and the contracting step ends with the stretching step at the same time or before the stretching step, and comprises the stretching step for stretching the film and the contracting step for contracting the film, the contracting step starts before the starting of the stretching step, and the contracting step ends with the stretching step at the same time. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical film which is free of coloration of black display even when obliquely observed and provides high display quality, a polarizing plate using the same, and a liquid crystal display device. SOLUTION: The optical film contains at least one kind of Rth raising agent as well as at least one kind of low molecular compound characterized in that a molecule absorption wavelength originating from transitional electric dipolar moment My nearly orthogonal to a molecule long-axis direction is longer than a molecule absorption wavelength originating from transitional electric dipolar moment Mx nearly parallel to the molecule long-axis direction and the value ¾My¾ of the transitional electric dipolar moment nearly orthogonal to the molecule long-axis direction is larger than the value ¾Mx¾ of the transitional electric dipolar moment nearly parallel to the molecule long-axis direction. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid crystal display device causing less light leakage in black display, and thereby, showing high contrast, little change in colors by angles and excellent productivity. SOLUTION: The device includes: a first polarizing layer; a liquid crystal cell comprising a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer held between the substrates and having liquid crystal molecules to be aligned substantially parallel to the substrates during black display; a first optical anisotropic layer 34 disposed between the first polarizing layer and the liquid crystal layer and showing an in-plane retardation of 0 to 10 nm and a retardation of -400 to -30 nm in the thickness direction; and a second optical anisotropic layer showing an in-plane retardation of 20 to 150 nm; wherein at least the first optical anisotropic layer 34 is formed on the substrate (first substrate 30) nearer to the first polarizing layer of the pair of substrates, and the second optical anisotropic layer is disposed between the first optical anisotropic layer 34 and the first polarizing layer. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT