Method for manufacturing liquid crystal panel, method for manufacturing retardation plate, and wire grid polarizing plate

A method for manufacturing a retarder, comprising

• irradiating a film of a retarder material formed on a surface of a substrate with light emitted from a light source and polarized by polarizers,
• the polarized light irradiation being performed while the substrate and/or the light source is moved,
• each of the polarizers including a polarized light transmissive region and a light-shielding region that surrounds the polarized light transmissive region,
• the polarized light transmissive region including end portions where the width of the polarized light transmissive region in a Y direction decreases toward the ends in an X direction,
• the polarizers being coupled with each other such that at least one end portion of each polarized light transmissive region is superimposed on an end portion of an adjacent polarized light transmissive region as viewed in the Y direction,
• wherein the X direction and the Y direction are perpendicular to each other in a plane parallel to the main surfaces of the polarizers, and the Y direction is a moving direction of the substrate relative to the light source.

A method for manufacturing a liquid crystal panel,

• the liquid crystal panel including paired substrates facing each other;
• a liquid crystal layer disposed between the substrates;
• and a retarder,
• the method comprising:
• irradiating a film of a retarder material formed on a surface of a substrate with light emitted from a light source and polarized by polarizers,
• the polarized light irradiation being performed while the substrate and/or the light source is moved,
• each of the polarizers including a polarized light transmissive region and a light-shielding region that surrounds the polarized light transmissive region,
• the polarized light transmissive region including end portions where the width of the polarized light transmissive region in a Y direction decreases toward the ends in an X direction,
• the polarizers being coupled with each other such that at least one end portion of each polarized light transmissive region is superimposed on an end portion of an adjacent polarized light transmissive region as viewed in the Y direction,
• wherein the X direction and the Y direction are perpendicular to each other in a plane parallel to the main surfaces of the polarizers, and the Y direction is a moving direction of the substrate relative to the light source.