Background technology
Generally speaking, the primary structure of LCD (being called for short " LCD ") comprises panel and backlight module two large divisions, faceplate part comprises for example tin indium oxide (ITO) electro-conductive glass, liquid crystal, alignment film, colored filter, polaroid, drive integrated circult etc., and the backlight module part then comprises for example fluorescent tube, light guide plate and various bloomings etc.For can being presented, LCD better views and admires angle and color, industry has been carried out various trials at present, for example, known can be by increasing the brightness that the fluorescent tube number improves the LCD panel, yet, so not only cause too much heat to be accumulated in LCD easily, and have influence on the life-span and the quality of other assembly, can cause power consumption excessive simultaneously, thereby can't satisfy the requirement that many info class products must rely on battery to come off-line to use.At present, in backlight module, utilize blooming miscellaneous, provide a kind of and can improve the LCD panel luminance, become most economical and easy solution so that source efficiency is the highest, but need not change any component design or consume the way of additional energy source.
The concentration piece industry is commonly referred to as brightness enhancement film (Brightness Enhancement Film) or prismatic lens (prism film), is only to utilize high energy UV light that special acrylic resin is hardened into the microscopic prisms structure on the polyester optical thin film of 50-200 μ m at thickness to form.And the main function of brightness enhancement film is will be issued to from all directions ray-collecting at random from light guide plate (lightguide) by refraction and inner full-reflection, and is concentrated to positive visual angle (On-axis) direction of degree approximately ± 35, to improve the brightness of LCD.
How being applied to have in the backlight module many patent documentations for concentration piece at present delivers, for example the patented claim WO96/23649 of 3M company has disclosed the method for avoiding optically focused prism structure drift angle to subside, wherein utilize type of heating the prismatic lens of finishing to be heated to more than the glass transition temperature of its resin, to increase its prism vertex angle hardness.But the concentration piece that this piece patent is disclosed, as shown in Figure 1, owing to have only a surface to have concentration structure, and its lower surface is level and smooth shape, does not carry out scratch resistance to handle, and damages its lower surface during operation easily, so can influence the optical effect of concentration piece.
At this situation, the invention provides a kind of concentration piece and improve above-mentioned shortcoming.As shown in Figure 2, the coating that will contain inorganic particles according to the lower surface coating of the concentration piece of WO96/23649 is curing molding in addition, its coating layer that contains inorganic particles be except strengthening concentration piece lower surface hardness, by scratch, thereby obtains preferable optical effect in the time of also can preventing its operation.
Embodiment
The employed base material of concentration piece of the present invention, it is known to can be any the technical field of the invention those of ordinary skill, for example glass or plastics.Above-mentioned plastic basis material there is no particular restriction, and it is such as but not limited to vibrin (polyester resin), as polyethylene terephthalate (PET); Polyacrylate resin (polyacrylate resin) is as polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA); Polyolefin resin (polyolefin resin) is as tygon (PE) or polypropylene (PP); Polyimide resin (polyimideresin); Polycarbonate resin (polycarbonate resin); Polyurethane resin (polyurethane resin); Triafol T (TAC); Or its potpourri.Preferably be polyethylene terephthalate, polymethylmethacrylate, trimerization cellulose acetate or its potpourri.The thickness of base material depends on the demand of required optical articles usually, its preferably between about 50 μ m (micron) between about 150 μ m.
Concentration piece of the present invention has optically focused and anti-scratch characteristic, in order to reach anti-scratch effect, comprises at least one anti-scratch layer at the lower surface of its base material, and described anti-scratch layer is to form by the coating that the lower surface coating at base material comprises inorganic particles and resin.Above-mentioned anti-scratch layer has non-smooth structure, and the hardness that standard method records according to DIN53157 was not less than 130 seconds.
Anti-scratch layer of the present invention is mixed with the inorganic particles of different-grain diameter, and above-mentioned inorganic particles has nanoscale
(nanoscale) particle size is approximately between 1 to 500 nanometer.The inorganic particles kind that can be used among the present invention does not have particular restriction, and it is such as but not limited to titania (TiO
2), silicon dioxide (SiO
2), zinc paste (ZnO), barium sulphate (BaSO
4), lime carbonate (CaCO
3), zirconia (ZrO
2) or its potpourri.Preferably, this inorganic particles is a silicon dioxide.
The employed resin of concentration piece of the present invention can be applicable to that the polymerization single polymerization monomer in the concentration piece manufacturing is polymerized by well known by persons skilled in the art, and the example of suitable polymerization single polymerization monomer for example comprises epoxy diacrylate (epoxy diacrylate), halogenation epoxy diacrylate (halogenated epoxy diacrylate), methyl methacrylate (methyl methacrylate), isobornyl acrylate (isobornylacrylate), acrylic acid 2-phenoxy ethyl (2-phenoxy ethyl acrylate), acrylamide (acrylamide), styrene (styrene), halogenated styrenes (halogenated styrene), acrylic acid (acrylic acid), vinyl cyanide (acrylonitrile), methacrylonitrile (methacrylonitrile), acrylic acid xenyl epoxy ethyl ester (biphenylepoxyethylacrylate), the acrylic acid xenyl epoxy ethyl ester (halogenated biphenylepoxyethylacrylate) of halogenation, alkoxide epoxy diacrylate (alkoxylated epoxy diacrylate), alkyl halide oxidation epoxy diacrylate (halogenated alkoxylated epoxy diacrylate), aliphatic carbamate diacrylate (aliphatic urethane diacrylate), aliphatic carbamate six acrylate (aliphatic urethane hexaacrylate), aromatic amino ester formate six acrylate (aromatic urethane hexaacrylate), bisphenol-A epoxy diacrylate (bisphenol-A epoxy diacrylate), novolaks epoxy acrylate (novolac epoxyacrylate), polyester acrylate (polyester acrylate), polyester diacrylate (polyesterdiacrylate), the carbamic acid oligomer ester of acrylate ended (acrylate-capped urethaneoligomer), or its potpourri.Preferable polymerization single polymerization monomer is halogenation epoxy diacrylate, methyl methacrylate, acrylic acid 2-phenoxy ethyl, aliphatic carbamate diacrylate, aliphatic carbamate six acrylate, reaches aromatic amino ester formate six acrylate.
Concerning concentration piece of the present invention, the proportion of composing of this resin and nano grade inorganic particulate is unimportant, can determine according to required final purpose.This proportion of composing can change on a large scale, and for example, inorganic particles can account for 0.01 to 50% of resin gross weight, or 0.1 to 35%, or even 0.5 to 25%, also can be 0.5 to 10%.
The anti-scratch coating of concentration piece of the present invention can be added any additive well-known to those skilled in the art as required, for example even paint (leveling agent), defoamer (defoamer), antistatic agent (antistatic agent) etc.
The anti-scratch coating of concentration piece of the present invention can be made according to any way well-known to those skilled in the art, for example, and can be via the method manufacturing that comprises following steps:
(a) resin, light trigger and nano_scale particle are mixed, to form a colloidal state coating composition;
(b) this colloidal state coating composition is coated the lower surface of a base material, to form a coating;
(c) to this coating irradiation energy ray or heating or both and with so that this coating solidify.
The light trigger of above-mentioned steps (a) is meant after rayed to produce free radical, and sees through the compound of the transmission initiated polymerization of free radical.Be applicable to that light trigger of the present invention there is no particular restriction, it is such as but not limited to benzophenone (benzophenone), benzoin (benzoin), benzil (benzil), and preferable light trigger is benzophenone (benzophenone).
The coating curing schedule of above-mentioned steps (c) produces photopolymerization reaction by the irradiation energy ray to carry out, this energy-ray is meant the light source of certain wavelength coverage, for example can be ultraviolet light, infrared light, visible light or hot line (radiation or radiation) etc., be preferably ultraviolet light.Exposure intensity can be from 1 to 300 millijoule/square centimeter (mJ/cm
2), preferably from 10 to 100mJ/cm
2
If desired, can repeat above steps, to obtain the anti-scratch coating of multilayer.
For reaching the light spotlight effect, the present invention is at the opposite side of above-mentioned anti-scratch coating, that is comprise at least one light collecting layer at the upper surface of base material, its thickness is generally between 5 μ m to 100 μ m, be preferably 10 μ m to 40 μ m, have at least 1.55 refractive index, this light collecting layer forms by the composition that coating on base material comprises resin, light trigger and crosslinking chemical.The resin that is suitable for is well-known to those skilled in the art, such as but not limited to vibrin, polyacrylate resin or polycarbonate resin etc.Being applicable to that light trigger of the present invention does not have particular restriction, being meant after rayed to produce free radical, and seeing through the compound of the transmission initiated polymerization of free radical, for example is benzophenone.The crosslinking chemical that is suitable for is for example for having (methyl) esters of acrylic acid of one or more functional group, preferably for having multi-functional compound, to improve glass temperature.
Light collecting layer of the present invention can be planar film or have microstructure form that wherein, the example of microstructure form includes but not limited to rule or irregular prism decorative pattern, ring-type prism decorative pattern, solid angle decorative pattern, pearl decorative pattern or lensing decorative pattern.Preferably, have the prism decorative pattern of rule on this light collecting layer, such light collecting layer has preferable light harvesting effect, therefore can make display possess the briliancy of enhancing.
Base material lower surface coating of the present invention contains the coating of inorganic particles, improves the hardness of base material lower surface effectively, can prevent surperficial scratch phenomenon, avoids optical property to be affected.In addition, concentration piece of the present invention has concentration structure, can be used in the LCD concentration piece as backlight, to strengthen the brightness of panel of LCD.
Following examples are used for that the invention will be further described, are not in order to limit the scope of the invention.Those skilled in the art can make various changes or modifications the present invention, and these equivalent form of values fall within the application's appended claims institute restricted portion equally.
Embodiment
Example
Make blooming of the present invention according to mode described below, the resin of each embodiment and the composition of light trigger are as described in the following table 1.
Table 1
With part by weight respectively is 40% and 60%
(acrylic acid 2-phenoxy ethyl is buied by Eternal company pin) and
(epoxy acrylate is buied by Eternal company) mixes, add then light trigger (benzophenone (benzophenone),
BP, two key chemical industry provide) stir together to form a colloidal state coating composition.
With above-mentioned colloidal state coating composition packing, blending goes into to be respectively 1%, 3%, 5%, 7% SiO with respect to colloidal state coating weight number percent respectively
2(
, buy by Eternal company) after, respectively it is coated on a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) base material (
, buy by TORAY company), in addition after the drying, obtain the blooming that thickness is 9 μ m with energy-ray.
The gained diaphragm is carried out hardness test, shown in the following tabulation 2 of gained result.
Hardness test: utilize the pendulum-rocker hardness instrument (BYK company,
Fork), according to the DIN53157 standard method, record hardness.
Table 2
| Example |
Nanoparticle solid content (%) |
Hardness (second) |
| 1 |
0 |
130 |
| 2 |
1 |
138 |
| 3 |
3 |
143 |
| 4 |
5 |
147 |
| 5 |
7 |
148 |
As shown in Table 2, the back side has been coated with after the coating that contains inorganic particulate under concentration piece, can improve hardness, and therefore concentration piece of the present invention has optically focused and anti-scratch characteristic, and can avoid concentration piece surface scratch, reach the affected effect of optical property of avoiding.