Fluorene Resin Color Conversion Composition for Durable Color Purity

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current color conversion compositions for liquid crystal displays and LED lighting face challenges in achieving both high color reproducibility and durability, with existing solutions either lacking in durability or efficiency due to sensitivity to heat, moisture, and oxygen, and containing cadmium or having insufficient light stabilization.

Innovation Solution

A color conversion composition incorporating an organic light-emitting material and a resin with a fluorene skeleton, which enhances both color purity and durability by using specific organic compounds like pyrromethene derivatives and a fluorene-based resin to stabilize the light-emitting material and prevent aggregation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If quantum dots are used as color conversion material, then color reproducibility is improved, but durability deteriorates due to vulnerability to heat, moisture, and oxygen

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecolor reproducibilityVSAvoiddurability
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an organic light-emitting material as an intermediary substance that converts blue light to green or red light, replacing quantum dots. This organic material can be stabilized with light stabilizers and encapsulated in resin layers, providing both color conversion functionality and improved durability against environmental factors.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the material parameter from inorganic quantum dots to organic light-emitting materials, fundamentally altering the chemical composition and stability characteristics. This parameter change enables the system to achieve both color accuracy and environmental stability through proper material selection and stabilization techniques.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Reliability

If organic light-emitting materials are used instead of quantum dots, then durability improves, but color reproducibility deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovedurabilityVSAvoidcolor reproducibility
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent carefully selects and adjusts the chemical structure parameters of organic light-emitting materials, specifically using compounds with rigid molecular structures and extended conjugation systems. These parameter adjustments enable the organic materials to emit light with narrow bandwidths and high purity, achieving color reproducibility comparable to quantum dots while maintaining the durability advantages of organic materials.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Reliability

If light stabilizers are added to improve durability, then durability improves, but light emission efficiency deteriorates due to high absorption in visible range

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovedurabilityVSAvoidlight emission efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs light stabilizers that function as sacrificial protective agents. These stabilizers are designed to absorb UV and blue light that would otherwise degrade the organic light-emitting material, accepting their role as temporary energy sinks that protect the primary light-emitting components from damage.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #27Cheap short-living objects (Disposable)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies light stabilizers selectively in specific regions and concentrations within the color conversion layer, optimizing their distribution to provide maximum protection where UV and blue light exposure is highest, while minimizing their overall impact on visible light transmission and emission efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

The composition achieves high color reproducibility and durability by stabilizing the organic light-emitting material and preventing aggregation, resulting in improved thermal stability and photostability, and enhanced light emission efficiency.

Implementation Method 1

a color conversion composition that converts incident light into light having a longer wavelength than the incident light has

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectPhotoluminescence: Photoluminescence

Implementation Method 2

a resin whose molecular structure has a fluorene skeleton

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectMolecular structure stabilization:

Data Source

PatentUS12185622B2Color conversion composition, color conversion sheet, and light source unit, display and lighting device each comprising same
Publication Date: 2024.12.31 TORAY INDUSTRIES INC
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AI summary

A color conversion composition that converts incident light into light having a longer wavelength than the incident light is described, the color conversion composition including the following components (A) and (B): component (A): an organic light-emitting material; and component (B): a resin whose molecular structure has a fluorene skeleton.