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US 2006/0235107 A1Published application
Method of reusing flexible mold and microstructure precursor composition
Assignee3M Innovative Properties Company
InventorsYorinobu Takamatsu, Yusuke Saito, Akira Yoda
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Abstract
The present invention relates to methods of making a microstructures with a flexible mold, microstructure precursor compositions and articles.
Claims23
A method of making a display panel component comprising:
- providing a mold having a polymeric microstructured surface suitable for making barrier ribs;
- placing a rib precursor composition comprising a curable organic binder and an inorganic material between the microstructured surface of the mold and a substrate;
- curing the precursor material;
- and
- removing the mold wherein the method is repeated with the same polymeric mold at least 2 times.
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The method of claim 8 wherein the rib precursor composition comprises photoinitiator and the composition is photocured through the patterned substrate, though the mold, or a combination thereof.
A curable composition comprising:
- at least one inorganic particulate material;
- at least one curable organic binder having a solubility parameter;
- at least one diluent having a solubility parameter less than the solubility parameter of the curable organic binder;
- and
- optionally photoinitiator, stabilizer, and mixtures thereof.
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A method of making a microstructured component:
- providing a polymeric mold having a microstructured surface suitable;
- placing a curable material comprising a curable organic binder and an inorganic material between the microstructured surface of the mold and a substrate;
- curing the curable material;
- and
- removing the mold wherein the method is repeated with the same polymeric mold at least 2 times.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.