Triarylmethane Curable Coloring Composition for Color Filters

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current methods for manufacturing color filters using dyes in liquid crystal display devices face challenges in achieving high heat resistance, solvent resistance, and voltage holding ratio, which affect image quality and display performance.

Innovation Solution

A curable coloring composition incorporating a triarylmethane compound with an anionic site within the same molecule is developed, enhancing heat resistance, solvent resistance, and voltage holding ratio, and is used to form a color filter with improved electrical characteristics.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Illumination intensity

If a dye is used as a coloring compound to enhance color purity and luminance, then the hue clarity and luminance are improved, but the heat resistance, solvent resistance, and voltage holding ratio deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveluminanceVSAvoidheat resistance
Core Design Contradiction:
Illumination intensityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses a composite structure by combining a dye molecule with a polymerizable group and an anionic site within the same molecular framework. This creates a hybrid material that exhibits both the optical properties of dyes (high luminance and color purity) and the thermal/stability properties of polymer-anionic complexes (heat resistance and voltage holding ratio). The triarylmethane compound structure integrates multiple functional groups that work synergistically to resolve the contradiction between luminance enhancement and heat resistance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

2Illumination intensity

If a dye is used as a coloring compound to enhance color purity and luminance, then the hue clarity and luminance are improved, but the solvent resistance deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveluminanceVSAvoidsolvent resistance
Core Design Contradiction:
Illumination intensityVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates a composite molecular structure where a dye is chemically integrated with polymerizable groups and anionic sites. This composite architecture provides both the optical advantages of dyes (high luminance) and the compositional stability of crosslinked polymer networks (solvent resistance). The anionic site forms stable interactions that prevent solvent extraction while maintaining the dye's optical properties.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

3Illumination intensity

If a dye is used as a coloring compound to enhance color purity and luminance, then the hue clarity and luminance are improved, but the voltage holding ratio deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveluminanceVSAvoidvoltage holding ratio
Core Design Contradiction:
Illumination intensityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs a composite molecular design where the dye structure is integrated with anionic sites that can interact with cations (such as lithium ions in liquid crystal displays). This composite structure maintains the high luminance characteristics of dyes while the anionic component provides electrostatic stabilization that improves voltage holding ratio, resolving the contradiction between optical performance and electrical stability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

4Reliability

If a pigment dispersion method is used to ensure heat resistance and position precision, then the thermal stability and patterning accuracy are improved, but the color purity and luminance deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveheat resistanceVSAvoidluminance
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSIllumination intensity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent fundamentally changes the chemical state of the coloring compound from particulate pigment to molecular dye with specific functional groups. By incorporating polymerizable groups and anionic sites within the dye molecule itself, the patent achieves pigment-like heat resistance and adhesion properties while maintaining dye-like high luminance and color purity. This parameter change in molecular structure resolves the contradiction between thermal stability and optical performance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

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 heat resistance, excellent solvent resistance, and a high voltage holding ratio, resulting in a color filter that provides high luminance and contrast for improved image quality in display devices.

Implementation Method 1

a curable coloring composition including a triarylmethane compound having a structure represented by the following General Formula (1) and a structure represented by the following General Formula (2) in the same molecule

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectPhotopolymerization: Photopolymerisation

Data Source

PatentUS9605154B2Curable coloring composition, cured film, color filter, method for manufacturing color filter, solid-state image pickup element, picture display device, and triarylmethane compound
Publication Date: 2017.03.28 FUJIFILM CORP
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AI summary

Provided are a curable coloring composition which is useful for formation of a colored pattern of a color filter, having high heat resistance, excellent solvent resistance, and a high voltage holding ratio; a color filter; a method for manufacturing a color filter; a solid-state image pickup element; a picture display device; and a triarylmethane compound. The curable coloring composition includes a triarylmethane compound having a structure represented by the following General Formula (1) and a structure represented by the following General Formula (2) in the same molecule.