公开(公告)号：US20250076553A1

公开(公告)日：2025-03-06

申请号：US18770711

申请日：2024-07-12

Applicant: Sharp Display Technology Corporation

Inventor： Ryosuke SAIGUSA ,  Akira SAKAI ,  Yuichi KAWAHIRA

IPC: G02B5/30

Abstract: Provided is an optical element that can achieve favorable optical characteristics. The optical element of the present invention includes, in the following order: a first alignment film; a first optically anisotropic layer containing a first anisotropic molecules; a second alignment film; and a second optically anisotropic layer containing a second anisotropic molecules.

公开(公告)号：US20230375873A1

公开(公告)日：2023-11-23

申请号：US18195848

申请日：2023-05-10

Applicant: Sharp Display Technology Corporation

Inventor： Yuichi KAWAHIRA ,  Masahiro HASEGAWA ,  Ryosuke SAIGUSA ,  Akira SAKAI

IPC: G02F1/1335 ,  G02F1/13363

CPC classification number: G02F1/133531 ,  G02F1/13363 ,  G02F1/133607

Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device sequentially including: a first polarizer; a liquid crystal panel; a second polarizer; a biaxial retarder; a third polarizer; and a backlight including a light source and a prism sheet disposed closer to the viewing surface side than the light source is. The prism sheet includes prisms arranged in multiple columns on a surface close to the viewing surface side. The liquid crystal display has a light diffusion property curve having no side lobe or having a side lobe satisfying a ratio of a local maximum luminance to a local minimum luminance of 1.35 or less, the light diffusion property curve being obtained by plotting a luminance in a white display state in a direction perpendicular to ridge lines of the prisms against a polar angle.

公开(公告)号：US20230185139A1

公开(公告)日：2023-06-15

申请号：US18078404

申请日：2022-12-09

Applicant: Sharp Display Technology Corporation

Inventor： Yuichi KAWAHIRA ,  Akira HIRAI ,  Akira SAKAI

IPC: G02F1/135 ,  G02F1/1335 ,  G03F7/039 ,  G02F1/1368

CPC classification number: G02F1/1351 ,  G02F1/133519 ,  G03F7/039 ,  G02F1/1368

Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal display device that can increase light use efficiency and reduce external light reflection, and a method of producing the liquid crystal display device. The liquid crystal display device sequentially includes, from a back surface side toward a viewing surface side: a first substrate; a liquid crystal layer; and a second substrate, the liquid crystal display device including sub-pixels each including an optical opening allowing light to pass through, the first substrate sequentially including, from the back surface side toward the viewing surface side: a supporting substrate; a metal layer surrounding the optical openings; and a resist layer being superimposed with the metal layer and being in contact with the metal layer, an end of the resist layer being superimposed with an end of the metal layer and having a taper angle θ of 40° or more.

公开(公告)号：US20230095922A1

公开(公告)日：2023-03-30

申请号：US17940103

申请日：2022-09-08

Applicant: Sharp Display Technology Corporation

Inventor： Miho YAMADA ,  Akira SAKAI ,  Masahiro HASEGAWA ,  Yuichi KAWAHIRA ,  Hiroaki ASAGI

IPC: G02B5/30 ,  C09K19/56

Abstract: Provided are a polarizing plate including a polarizing layer containing a lyotropic liquid crystal compound and capable of achieving uniform polarization properties over a large area, and a display device equipped with the polarizing plate. The polarizing plate includes: an alignment film; and a polarizing layer on the alignment film. The alignment film contains an alignment film polymer, has a static contact angle with water of 60° or smaller, and has a slow axis. The polarizing layer contains a lyotropic liquid crystal compound and has an absorption axis parallel to the above slow axis. The lyotropic liquid crystal compound is preferably dichroic.

公开(公告)号：US20240241300A1

公开(公告)日：2024-07-18

申请号：US18525939

申请日：2023-12-01

Applicant: Sharp Display Technology Corporation

Inventor： Ryosuke SAIGUSA ,  Yuichi KAWAHIRA ,  Akira SAKAI

IPC: G02B5/30 ,  G02F1/13363

CPC classification number: G02B5/3016 ,  G02F1/133636

Abstract: Provided are an optical element that has a high diffraction efficiency and can be produced through a simple procedure, a method of producing the optical element, and a mask set for use in production of the optical element. The optical element of the present invention includes an optically anisotropic layer containing anisotropic molecules. The optically anisotropic layer includes a first region that is a region where the anisotropic molecules are not twist-aligned in a film thickness direction of the optically anisotropic layer, and a second region that is a region where the anisotropic molecules are twist-aligned in the film thickness direction of the optically anisotropic layer.

公开(公告)号：US20240184162A1

公开(公告)日：2024-06-06

申请号：US18380870

申请日：2023-10-17

Applicant: Sharp Display Technology Corporation

Inventor： Yuichi KAWAHIRA ,  Masahiro HASEGAWA ,  Ryosuke SAIGUSA ,  Jianeng XU ,  Akira SAKAI

IPC: G02B5/30

CPC classification number: G02B5/3033 ,  G02B5/3083 ,  G02F1/133528

Abstract: Provided is an optical element including, sequentially from a viewing surface side toward a back surface side: a first polarizer; a negative C plate; a phase difference layer; and a second polarizer. A transmission axis of the first polarizer is parallel to a transmission axis of the second polarizer. The phase difference layer contains anisotropic molecules. In the phase difference layer, a tilt angle of the anisotropic molecules on a viewing surface side in the phase difference layer and a tilt angle of the anisotropic molecules on a back surface side in the phase difference layer are the same as each other and greater than 0°. A slow axis of the phase difference layer, in a case of lying in a tilt direction of the anisotropic molecules, is parallel to or perpendicular to the transmission axis of the first polarizer.

公开(公告)号：US20230384634A1

公开(公告)日：2023-11-30

申请号：US18199882

申请日：2023-05-19

Applicant: Sharp Display Technology Corporation

Inventor： Ryosuke SAIGUSA ,  Akira SAKAI ,  Yuichi KAWAHIRA ,  Masahiro HASEGAWA

IPC: G02F1/1335 ,  G02F1/13363

CPC classification number: G02F1/133528 ,  G02F1/13363 ,  G02F1/133562 ,  G02F1/133567 ,  G02F2413/06 ,  G02F2413/02

Abstract: Provided are an optical element that can achieve both color difference control and luminance reduction at an oblique viewing angle, and a liquid crystal display device including the optical element and having excellent display quality. The optical element includes: a first polarizer; a first phase difference layer; a second phase difference layer; and a second polarizer, the first polarizer, the first phase difference layer, the second phase difference layer, and the second polarizer being arranged in the stated order, the first phase difference layer satisfying the formula nx>ny≈nz, the second phase difference layer satisfying the formula nz>nx≈ny, the first polarizer and the second polarizer being linear polarizers, transmission axes of the first polarizer and the second polarizer being parallel to each other, a slow axis of the first phase difference layer being orthogonal to a polarization axis of the first polarizer.