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US 2025/0093555 A1Published application
Light control film with turning film and lenticular diffuser for view enhancement in the horizontal plane
Assignee3M Innovative Properties Company
InventorsRobert M. Emmons, Kenneth A. Epstein, Bryan V. Hunt
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Abstract
An optical system comprises a turning film and a lenticular diffuser. The lenticular diffuser comprises a structured surface comprising a plurality of microstructures comprises a plurality of lenticular prisms separated by substantially flat land areas, the lenticular prisms having a rounded tip and two sides comprising a linear base section and a linear tip section connected by a polynomial blend section.
Claims13
A lenticular diffuser, comprising:
- a substantially smooth surface, wherein the substantially smooth surface defines a display axis extending perpendicular to the substantially smooth surface;
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- a structured surface comprising a plurality of microstructures defining a plurality of substantially parallel grooves extending along a plane substantially perpendicular the display axis,
- wherein the structured surface comprises a plurality of microstructures each comprising a lenticular prism having linear end sections connected by a blend section separated by a substantially flat land area, wherein the blend section shape is a segment of an ellipse or 2nd, 4th or 6th order polynomial, and wherein the linear end sections comprise at least about 5% of the lenticular prism;
- wherein a cross section of each lenticular prism extends along a plane substantially parallel to the display axis in a direction from the substantially smooth surface to a vertex, and
- wherein the lenticular diffuser refracts light that is substantially collimated in a first plane toward a second plane substantially perpendicular to the first plane.
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