US Patent Issued to SOMAR on July 28 for "Black light shielding member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,457, issued on July 28, was assigned to SOMAR Corp. (Tokyo).

"Black light shielding member" was invented by Hiroshi Namai (Tokyo) and Naoki Sakazume (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light shielding component with low gloss, high blackness, and excellent processability is provided. A light shielding layer (3) containing black fine particles (32), low refractive index nanoparticles (33), and a resin composition (31) is formed on at least one surface of a substrate. The average particle size of the black fine particles (32) is set to be between 0.1 micro metre and 50 micro metre, and the average particle size of the low refractiv...