Abstract:
To provide a continuous web of optical film laminate provided with static electrification prevention function which allows for promptly attenuating static charge of optical film sheet and carrier film electrified by peeling action in RTP lamination method and apparatus. The problem has been solved with a continuous web of optical film laminate for using in RTP lamination method and apparatus, in which static electrification prevention function is provided to optical film sheets and a carrier film configuring the continuous web of optical film laminate, such that sheet resistance of each of the optical film sheets and the carrier film is 1012 Ω/sq or less so as to promptly attenuate static charge of the carrier film to be collected, which is statically electrified by peeling action, and the optical film sheets to be laminated to panel components, which are also statically electrified by peeling action.
Abstract:
A continuous manufacturing apparatus for an optical display unit which allows for laminating a sheet of optical functional film with a panel member, even when length of each of their long sides is wide, without lowering lamination accuracy and/or increasing generation of bubbles by lamination. In a RTP system using laminating rollers having sufficient length not being bent by their own weight, when using a sheet of optical functional film which each of long sides is longer than the length of the laminating rollers, each of the sheets of optical functional film is conveyed on a band of carrier film in a continuously aligned state such that each of short sides extend in a direction crossing a conveying direction, and peeled from the band of carrier film at a laminating part to be laminated with one of opposite surfaces of the panel member.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a manufacturing apparatus and manufacturing method for realizing lamination with high accuracy responding to increase in speed and growth in size in an optical display unit manufacturing apparatus. The present invention is a manufacturing apparatus and manufacturing method in which, in the optical display unit manufacturing apparatus, a holding device which reciprocates between a peeling position and an upstream side predetermined position of the peeling position is deployed, the holding device holds the optical film laminate in a width-wise direction including both sides, and moves for a fixed distance, and at the peeling position, sends a front end of the optical film sheet peeled with the adhesive layer from the carrier film to a downstream side predetermined position of the peeling position to release the optical film laminate when the holding device reaches the lower side predetermined position.
Abstract:
A method for continuously manufacturing an optical display device includes air filtering into a laminating part in an apparatus, exhausting in coordination with the air filtering, and humidifying the laminating part so as to make relative humidity of the laminating part as 60 to 75% RH at room temperature 22° C. The method also includes sequentially supplying a rectangularly formed optical functional film having a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer with a separator laminated on one of opposite surfaces of the optical functional film to a predetermined laminating position of the laminating part and conveying a rectangular panel component to the predetermined laminating position so as to correspond to the sequentially supplied optical functional film. The method further includes peeling the separator from the optical functional film leaving the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer behind and laminating the optical functional film to one of opposite surfaces of the panel component by the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer.
Abstract:
A method and an apparatus for manufacturing an optical display device by sequentially peeling a plurality of optical film sheets continuously supported on a long web of a carrier film and laminating the plurality of optical film sheets to a plurality of panel components are provided.
Abstract:
Method for manufacturing an optical display device which allows for appropriately correcting a linear deformation generated on a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer in laminating an optical functional film with a panel member includes steps of peeling a sheet of optical functional film together with the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer from a carrier film up to a predetermined head-out length, stopping the conveyance of the carrier film for detecting the front edge, making the front edge of the sheet of optical functional film proceed to the laminating position, laminating from the front edge to a predetermined position upstream of the head-out length on the sheet of optical functional film with the panel member at a first lamination speed, and laminating at least a part from the predetermined position to a rear edge of the sheet of optical functional film with the panel member at a speed faster than the first lamination speed.
Abstract:
The lamination apparatus includes a panel member conveying line for conveying the panel member from an entrance part to an exit part, a first lamination unit provided between the entrance part and the exit part, a second lamination unit provided between the entrance part and the exit part of the panel member conveying line, at the exit part side of the first lamination unit, a first film conveying line for supplying an optical film laminate from a transverse direction with respect to the panel member conveying line between the first lamination unit and the second lamination unit for conveying to the first lamination unit, and a second film conveying line for supplying a second optical film laminate from a transverse direction with respect to the panel member conveying line between the first film supplying unit and the first lamination unit for conveying to the second lamination unit.
Abstract:
A continuous web of optical film laminate comprising, an optical film comprising a first substrate and an adhesive layer on the first substrate, a releasable film comprising a second substrate and a releasably treated layer on the second substrate, the releasably treated layer being in contact with the adhesive layer, a first conductive layer between the first substrate and the adhesive layer, and a second conductive layer between the second substrate and the releasably treated layer. The first conductive layer and the second conductive layer comprise a static electrification prevention material, such that the optical film with the first conductive layer, and the releasable film with the second conductive layer, both have a sheet resistance of 1012Ω/sq or less.
Abstract:
A method for manufacturing an optical display device from a web of optical film laminate including a carrier film, a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer formed on one of opposite surfaces of the carrier film, and a plurality of sheets of optical functional film continuously supported on the carrier film via the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, comprises folding the other of opposite surfaces of the carrier film inside via a tip end of a releasing body to wind the carrier film, peeling the sheet of optical functional film to a head-out state while exposing the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, stopping winding of the carrier film, detecting a front end of the peeled sheet of optical functional film in the head-out state, and rewinding the carrier film integrally with the sheet of optical functional film in the head-out state to mend a deformation of a pressure-sensitive adhesive, at the tip end of the releasing body.
Abstract:
A method for continuously manufacturing an optical display device comprises feeding a continuous web of optical film laminate including a continuous web of releasable film that includes a conductive layer and an optical film sheet that includes a conductive layer formed on the releasable film, bending the releasable film at a peeling body located in close vicinity of a lamination position, collecting the releasable film and thereby peeling the optical film sheet from the optical film laminate, sending the optical film sheet to the lamination position, and laminating the optical film sheet with a panel member which is conveyed to the lamination position by a panel conveying channel which makes at least a double-storied structure with a portion of a collecting channel where the releasable film is collected, attenuating static electrification generated on the optical film sheet, and continuously laminating the optical film sheet with the panel member.