Abstract:
There is provided a polarizing plate with a retardation layer that can achieve an image display apparatus having excellent durability and excellent weatherability, and having an excellent hue. A polarizing plate with a retardation layer according to an embodiment of the present invention includes in this order: a polarizing plate including a protective layer and a polarizer; a retardation layer; and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer. The protective layer has a light transmittance at a wavelength of 380 nm of 10% or less. The polarizing plate has a light transmittance at a wavelength of 380 nm of 5% or less. The pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has a light transmittance at a wavelength of 405 nm of 5% or less. The polarizing plate with a retardation layer has a light transmittance at a wavelength of 405 nm of 3% or less.
Abstract:
Provided is a polarizing film laminate comprising a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, and a polarizing film wherein the adhesive layer comprises: a base adhesive zone made of a transparent base pressure-sensitive adhesive material and formed over a given range from one principal surface of the adhesive layer in a thickness direction of the adhesive layer; and a refractive index adjustment zone formed over a given range from the other principal surface of the adhesive layer in the thickness direction and comprising the base pressure-sensitive adhesive material and material infiltrated into the base pressure-sensitive adhesive material and different from the base pressure-sensitive adhesive material, the refractive index adjustment zone having an average refractive index greater than a refractive index of the base pressure-sensitive adhesive material, and wherein the base pressure-sensitive adhesive material zone of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is located on the side of the polarizing film.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a transparent electroconductive layer-equipped cover element having a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet preliminarily laminated thereto, wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet comprises a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer in which a refractive index adjustment zone having a refractive index greater than that of a base pressure-sensitive adhesive material thereof is formed over a given range from a surface of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer in a thickness direction thereof, whereby: in a lamination process of a customer which is a supply destination of the transparent electroconductive layer-equipped cover element, it becomes possible to eliminate a need to distinguish between obverse and reverse sides of the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet itself; and, when the transparent electroconductive layer-equipped cover element is bonded to an optical element through the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, it becomes possible to suppress internal reflection in a laminate formed of these optical elements.
Abstract:
A pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet comprises a support and a transparent pressure-sensitive adhesive layer on the support. The pressure-sensitive adhesive layer comprises a base adhesive zone made essentially of a transparent base pressure-sensitive adhesive material and formed over a given range from a first principal surface of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer in a thickness direction of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, and a transparent, adherent, refractive index-adjusting zone formed over a given range from a second principal surface of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer in the thickness direction, and wherein the refractive index-adjusting zone has a refractive index greater than a refractive index of the base pressure-sensitive adhesive material.
Abstract:
A pressure-sensitive-adhesive-layer-attached polarizing film, comprising: a polarizing film which is provided nearest to a viewer-side of an image display device among at least one polarizing film used in the device, a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer A arranged at a viewer-side of the polarizing film, and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer B arranged at a side of the polarizing film that is opposite to the viewer-side of the polarizing film; wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer A is a multiple pressure-sensitive adhesive layer having at least a first pressure-sensitive adhesive layer (a) and a second pressure-sensitive adhesive layer (b) in an order of the recited layers from the outermost surface side of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer A.
Abstract:
Provided are an optical component having an excellent corrosion inhibition effect while achieving a high level of adhesion reliability and transparency, and pressure-sensitive adhesive composition and sheet that can produce such an optical component efficiently at a low cost. The pressure-sensitive adhesive composition according to the present invention includes a rust inhibitor, and a mixture of at least one monomer component for constituting a base polymer or a partially polymerized product of a mixture of at least one monomer component for constituting a base polymer. The monomer component includes no or substantially no acid group-containing monomer. The pressure-sensitive adhesive composition contains no or substantially no organic solvent. The pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet has a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer formed from such pressure-sensitive adhesive composition.
Abstract:
An acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive tape including an acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, wherein a 180° peel adhesive force of the acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive tape to a glass plate is 10 N/20 mm or more and a 180° peel adhesive force of the acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive tape to an acrylic plate is 10 N/20 mm or more. The acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive layer contains an acrylic polymer (A), has a gel fraction of 65% or more, and has a 300% tensile residual stress of from 7 to 16 N/cm2.