US 12,235,479 B2
Light absorption anisotropic film, optical film, and image display device
Fumitake Mitobe, Kanagawa (JP); Shinya Watanabe, Kanagawa (JP); and Naoya Nishimura, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to FUJIFILM Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by FUJIFILM Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Dec. 14, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/540,153.
Application 18/540,153 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2022/024338, filed on Jun. 17, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-106817 (JP), filed on Jun. 28, 2021; and application No. 2021-150400 (JP), filed on Sep. 15, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0151888 A1, May 9, 2024
Int. Cl. G02B 5/30 (2006.01); G02B 1/08 (2006.01)
CPC G02B 5/3016 (2013.01) [G02B 1/08 (2013.01); G02F 2202/043 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A light absorption anisotropic film formed of a composition containing a liquid crystal compound and a dichroic substance,
wherein the light absorption anisotropic film has two main surfaces facing each other,
an angle between a normal direction of a main surface of the light absorption anisotropic film and a transmittance central axis of the light absorption anisotropic film is 0° to 45°,
in a case where the angle is 0°, the following requirement A1 is satisfied, and
in a case where the angle is other than 0°, the following requirement B1 is satisfied,
the requirement A1: an average polarization degree A of a polarization degree which is measured by allowing light having a wavelength of 450 nm to be incident from a direction tilted by 50° with respect to the normal direction, a polarization degree which is measured by allowing light having a wavelength of 550 nm to be incident from the direction tilted by 50° with respect to the normal direction, and a polarization degree which is measured by allowing light having a wavelength of 650 nm to be incident from the direction tilted by 50° with respect to the normal direction is 0.80 or more, and
a retardation at a wavelength of 650 nm in the direction tilted by 50° with respect to the normal direction is less than 250 nm,
the requirement B1: an average polarization degree B of a polarization degree which is measured by allowing light having a wavelength of 450 nm to be incident from a direction tilted by 50° on a normal direction side with respect to the transmittance central axis, a polarization degree which is measured by allowing light having a wavelength of 550 nm to be incident from the direction tilted by 50° on the normal direction side with respect to the transmittance central axis, and a polarization degree which is measured by allowing light having a wavelength of 650 nm to be incident from the direction tilted by 50° on the normal direction side with respect to the transmittance central axis is 0.80 or more, and
a retardation at a wavelength of 650 nm in the direction tilted by 50° on the normal direction side with respect to the transmittance central axis is less than 250 nm,
the polarization degree is a value represented by the following expression,

OG Complex Work Unit Math
in the expression, Ty0 is a transmittance with respect to polarized light in a direction orthogonal to a direction obtained by orthographically projecting the transmittance central axis onto a plane orthogonal to a direction in which the light is incident, and Tz0 is a transmittance with respect to polarized light in a direction parallel to the direction obtained by orthographically projecting the transmittance central axis onto the plane orthogonal to the direction in which the light is incident.