Fresnel lens base sheet
AssigneesAsahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha, Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
InventorsShunji Kamiya, Makoto Honda, Keiji Hanamoto
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Abstract
A Fresnel lens base sheet is provided which is suitable for the formation of a lens layer of an ultraviolet-cured resin and has excellent impact resistance and environmental resistance. The Fresnel lens base sheet comprises a specific rubber-modified styrene resin comprising a rubber-like elastic material as dispersed particles and a copolymer of a styrene monomer with an acrylic (methacrylic) ester monomer as a continuous phase.
Claims3
An extruded base sheet for a Fresnel lens suitable for the formation of a lens layer of an ultraviolet-cured resin, said base sheet being formed of a rubber-modified resin comprising an elastic material as dispersed particles and a resin as a continuous phase,
- (i) the resin constituting the continuous phase being a copolymer of a monomer (A) represented by formula (1)
- wherein R1 represents hydrogen or a methyl group;
- and R2 represents hydrogen or an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms,
- with an acrylic (methacrylic) ester monomer (B) represented by formula (2)
- wherein R3 represents hydrogen or a methyl group;
- and R4 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms, the proportions of the monomer (A) and the monomer (B) being 75 to 25% by weight and 25 to 75% by weight, respectively, wherein the total amount of the monomers (A) and (B) is 100% by weight,
- (ii) the content of the elastic material in the dispersed phase being 3 to 20 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the rubber modified resin,
- (iii) the diameter of dispersed particles of the elastic material constituting the dispersed phase being 0.3 to 1.0 μm, and
- (iv) the transmittance of light at 360 nm being not less than 50%, wherein the rubber-modified resin is a rubber-modified resin composition comprising:
- 100 parts by weight of the rubber-modified resin;
- and 0.1 to 5 parts by weight of transparent fine particles that are different in a refractive index difference by ± (0.005 to 0.040) from the rubber-modified resin and have an average particle diameter of 5 to 30 μm.
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