A display device is provided. A display device including folding areas, the display device includes a display panel, a first protection member disposed on the display panel, a second protection member disposed on the first protection member, a first adhesive member disposed between the display panel and the first protection member, and a second adhesive member disposed between the first protection member and the second protection member and having an elastic modulus equal to or smaller than an elastic modulus of the first adhesive member.

The present invention is an optically clear, curable adhesive including a polyvinylbutyral, a polyurethane (meth)acrylate, and a photoinitiator. The polyvinylbutyral has a dynamic viscosity of between about 9 and about 13 mPa.Math.s and a polyvinyl alcohol weight percent of less than about 18%. The polyurethane (meth)acrylate includes the reaction product of a diol, at least one diisocyanate, and a hydroxyfunctional (meth)acrylate or an isocyanatofunctional (meth)acrylate. When the optically clear, curable adhesive is placed between two transparent substrates and made into a laminate, the laminate has a haze of less than about 6%, a transmission of greater than about 88% and an optical clarity of greater than about 98% when cured. The optically clear, curable adhesive also has a peel adhesion of at least about 100 g/cm based on ASTM 3330 when cured.

A gas barrier film has, in sequence, a support, an inorganic layer disposed on one surface side of the support, an adhesive layer disposed on a surface of the inorganic layer, and a resin layer disposed on a surface of the adhesive layer in which the adhesive layer has a thickness of 15 μm or less, and the adhesion strength between the inorganic layer and the adhesive layer is 21 N/25 mm or more and 60 N/25 mm or less. A method for producing a gas barrier film includes an inorganic layer deposition step and a bonding step in a vacuum.

A display apparatus includes a substrate including a display area, a peripheral area outside the display area, and a bending area bendable along a bending axis, and an anti-crack projection disposed in the peripheral area and extending along at least a part of an edge of the substrate. A portion of the anti-crack projection in the bending area is a bending portion. A preset area including the bending portion on the substrate is a first area. A preset area of the substrate disposed outside the first area, having substantially the same area as that of the first area, and including a part of the anti-crack projection is a second area. A portion of the anti-crack projection belonging to the second area is a flat portion. The area occupied by the bending portion in the first area is greater than the area occupied by the flat portion in the second area.

The present disclosure relates to a laminated body including at least a base material layer containing at least a flexible base material and an inorganic thin film layer, in which a distribution curve of I.sub.O2/I.sub.Si has at least one maximum value (I.sub.O2/I.sub.Si).sub.maxBD in a region BD between a depth B and a depth D, where ionic strengths of Si.sup.−, C.sup.−, and O.sub.2.sup.− are each denoted as I.sub.Si, I.sub.C, and I.sub.O2 in a depth profile measured from a surface of the laminated body on an inorganic thin film layer side in a thickness direction using a time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometer (TOF-SIMS), an average ionic strength in a region A1 in which an absolute value of a coefficient of variation of an ionic strength value on a base material layer side is within 5% is denoted as I.sub.CA1, a depth that is closest to the region A1 on a surface side of the inorganic thin film layer with respect to the region A1 and exhibits an ionic strength to be 0.5 times or less the I.sub.CA1 is denoted as A2, and a depth that is closest to A2 on a surface side of the inorganic thin film layer with respect to A2 and exhibits a minimum value is denoted as A3 in an ionic strength curve of C.sup.−, and a depth that is closest to A3 on a surface side of the inorganic thin film layer with respect to A3 and has a differential value of 0 or more is denoted as B, a depth that is closest to A3 on a base material layer side with respect to A3 and exhibits a maximum value d(I.sub.C).sub.max of differential distribution value is denoted as C, and a depth that is closest to C on a base material layer side with respect to C and has an absolute value of differential value to be 0.01 times or less the d(I.sub.C).sub.max is denoted as D in a first-order differential curve of ionic strength of C.sup.−.

Provided is an optical laminate capable of contributing to reduction in weight and improvement in impact resistance of a display apparatus. The optical laminate includes a thin glass having a thickness of 100 μm or less and a polarizing plate arranged on one side of the thin glass, in which the polarizing plate includes a polarizer and a protective film arranged on a surface of the polarizer on a thin glass side. In one embodiment, the optical laminate of the present invention further includes an adhesion layer between the thin glass and the polarizing plate.

The present application relates to a glass-like film. The present application can provide a glass-like film capable of solving the disadvantages of the glass material, while having at least one or more advantages of the glass material. Such a glass-like film of the present application can be easily formed through a simple low temperature process without using expensive equipment.

A switchable optical device is provided having a first substrate (11), a second substrate (12) and a seal (114). The two substrates (11, 12) and the seal (114) are arranged such that a cell having a cell gap is formed and a switchable medium (10) is located inside the cell gap. The first substrate (11) has a first transparent electrode (21) and the second substrate (12) has a second transparent electrode (22). The electrodes (21, 22) are facing towards the cell gap. The two substrates (11, 12) are arranged such that the first substrate (11) has a first region (71) adjacent to a first edge (41) of the first substrate (11) which does not overlap with the second substrate (12) and the second substrate (12) has a second region (72) which does not overlap with the first substrate (11). A first electrically conducting busbar (31) is arranged in the first region (71) and a second electrically conducting busbar (32) is arranged in the second region (72). A first terminal is electrically connected to the first busbar (31) and a second terminal is electrically connected to the second busbar (32). The first substrate (11) and the second substrate (12) each have an edge deletion (116) in which the respective transparent electrode (21, 22) is removed. The edge deletion (116) is complete on the edges non-adjacent to a busbar (31, 32) and there is no edge deletion or only partial edge deletion on edges adjacent to a busbar (31, 32).

Further aspects of the invention relate to a method for designing a switchable optical device, a method for driving a switchable optical device, a method for manufacturing a switchable optical device and a system comprising a switchable optical device and a controller for driving the switchable optical device.

Provided is a decorative sheet comprising a base material layer, a transparent resin layer and a surface protection layer in the presented order, wherein at least one of the base material layer and the transparent resin layer is constituted by a resin composition comprising a resin having an ultraviolet absorption wavelength at least at 270 to 300 nm; absorbance All of the surface protection layer at wavelengths from 270 to 300 nm is 0.6 or more; and absorbance A.sub.12 of the transparent resin layer and the surface protection layer at wavelengths from 270 to 300 nm is 2.7 or more, and wherein the decorative sheet can suppress time-dependent degradation caused by ultraviolet ray, and has excellent weather resistance. Also provided is a decorative material obtained using the decorative sheet.

An over-laminate film applied to a decorative surface is described. In particular the over-laminate film includes: a transparent resin base film having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; a low gloss layer disposed on the first surface of the transparent resin base film; and a transparent adhesive layer disposed on the second surface of the transparent resin base film, the low gloss layer including a binder containing a resin, resin beads having an average particle size of 4 μm or greater and 20 μm or less, and nanosilica particles, the low gloss layer having surface glossiness of 5 GU or less at 60 degrees.