Sony Corporation

Nippon Steel Corporation

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited

Subaru Corporation

Nippon Steel Sumitomo Metal Corporation

Jun Shimizu

Kei Obata

Mitsuo Arima

Mitsunari Hoshi

Sohmei Endoh

Jun Nakano

Eiji Ohta

Hirokazu Odagiri

Yoshimichi Kawai

Junichiro Kudo

Kentaro Okuyama

Tadao Suzuki

Yoshimitsu Murahashi

Shinichiro Hashimoto

Tomohisa Hirakawa

Yoshitomo Ito

Kimihiko Imai

Tetsushi Horibe

Yasuyuki Kudo

Atsushi Takeuchi

Hiroshi Nakayama

Akihiro Horii

Akitoshi Suzuki

Hiroshi Mizuno

Norimasa Furukawa

Shinya Suzuki

Satoshi Ueda

Toru Abiko

Yoshihito Fukushima

Noriyuki Hirai

Etsuro Ikeda

Kouji Takahashi

Takeshi Gouko

Hideyuki Sakata

Akito Kuriyama

Shigeyuki Watanabe

Masato Ishigaki

Junichi Inoue

Ken Minemura

Yuko Nakamura

Hitoshi Katakura

Yasunao Yamaguchi

Hiroshi Nomura

Hirotaka Ozawa

Manabu Satoh

Manabu Iwai

Eiji Oota

Masayuki Takakuwa

Tsuguo Nakazawa

In a fastener structure for a vehicle, a height adjustment spacer is interposed between first and second vehicle body frames fixed with a bolt and a nut. The nut has a first insertion hole through which a bolt is screwed, and is fixed to a surface of the first vehicle body frame. The height adjustment spacer has a second insertion hole through which the bolt is inserted, and is disposed in contact with another surface of the first vehicle body frame. The bolt is inserted through an attachment hole of the second vehicle body frame, the second insertion hole, an attachment hole of the first vehicle body frame, and the first insertion hole. On a contact surface between the height adjustment spacer and the first vehicle body frame, a protrusion and a recess are provided to surround an entirety of the second insertion hole, the second insertion hole respectively.

Fastener structure for vehicle

The present invention provides a joining structure of a roof truss using thin light-gauge shaped steel. In a joining structure for joining a subsidiary roof with a main roof, a valley bracket formed by bending a thin steel sheet is inserted and disposed in the longitudinal valley direction of a joining member for joining a rafter forming the subsidiary roof with a truss or a rafter forming the main roof. In a joining structure in which a roof truss upper chord member or a rafter intersects a wall on the upper surface of the wall, a bracket formed by bending a thin steel sheet is disposed at the intersection of these members and fixes the roof truss upper chord member or the rafter to the wall. In a joining structure for the connecting top of the roof truss upper chord member or the rafter, a thin steel sheet member is disposed at the connecting top to fix an end of the roof truss upper chord member or the rafter with an end of a strut, and a box-shaped bracket formed by bending a thin steel sheet to have box-like receiving sections is provided at a top of the thin steel sheet member, for fixing top cleat members.

Joining structure of roof truss using thin light-gauge shaped steel

Provided is a fuel assemblyfor a PWR nuclear reactor capable of stably creating transverse flows of coolant for pressing and securing control rods so as to restrain vibration of the control rods in order to restrain the outer surfaces of the control rods and the inner surfaces of control rod guide tubes from being worn, wherein an upper nozzle arranged above the fuel assembly comprises an adapter plateconstituting the lower structure of the upper nozzle, a side wall extended along the periphery of the adapter plate, an overhang projected into a space above the adapter plate from the upper part of the side wall, and apertures for attaching control guide tubes and passage holes, which are formed in the passage surface of the adapter plate, and wherein thoseA,B,C of the passage holes which are located at positions where the coolant impinges upon the overhang are generally arranged, line-symmetric with respect to diagonal lines of the passage surface serving as symmetric axes Q, and ligamentsaround the passage holes located inside and outside of thoseof the attaching apertures which are located on the outer peripheral side are set to be larger than ligamentsaround the passage holes which are located on opposite transverse sides of those of the attaching apertures.

Fuel assembly for PWR nuclear reactor

An optical film capable of improving luminance of a display unit, in which a viewing angle in the horizontal direction of emitted light of the display unit is wider than a viewing angle in the vertical direction and the emitted light of the display unit has a polarization component in the vertical direction viewable by polarized sunglasses, an illumination system including the same, and a display unit including the same are provided. The optical film includes a plurality of three-dimensional structures extending in one direction and arranged sequentially in a direction crossing the one direction. The three-dimensional structures contain a liquid crystalline polymer having orientation, and have refractive index anisotropy in which refractive index in the extending direction of the three-dimensional structures is smaller than refractive index in the direction crossing the extending direction of the three-dimensional structures.

Optical film, method of manufacturing the same, and display unit

An illumination apparatus is disclosed. The illumination apparatus includes a polarization plate, a light source, and a light transmission film. The light transmission film is disposed between the polarization plate and the light source and includes a plurality of prisms formed on a surface thereof, the plurality of prisms each having a ridge line in a first direction and being continuously arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. In the illumination apparatus, the light transmission film is disposed such that a ridge line direction of the plurality of prisms is one of a perpendicular direction and an approximately perpendicular direction to a transmission axis of the polarization plate.

Illumination apparatus and liquid crystal display apparatus

The present invention provides an illuminating apparatus locally reducing light intensity without depending on the configuration of a light source itself. An illuminating apparatus used as a backlight of a display apparatus having a liquid crystal display panel with a pair of first polarizers, including a light source and a liquid crystal light control panel. The liquid crystal light control panel has a pair of second polarizers and suppresses amount of transmission of light from the light source, thereby allows the light from the light source to have such a light intensity distribution along a plane that light intensity is locally reduced. The polarization degree in the second polarizers is optimized so that transmission light amount ratio of the second polarizers is lower than that of the first polarizers.

Illuminating apparatus and display apparatus

A method of manufacturing the optical sheet is provided. The method includes: a first step of heating a composition containing a liquid crystal monomer or liquid crystal prepolymer and a photopolymerization initiator at a temperature equal to or higher than a melting point of the liquid crystal monomer or liquid crystal prepolymer and pressing the composition in a state where the composition is held between a master including a plurality of solid structures disposed continuously in one surface and having shape anisotropy in the one surface and a light transmission film disposed so as to face the solid structures of the master. The method also includes a second step of irradiating the composition with ultraviolet rays at a temperature lower than a phase transmission temperature to an isotropic phase to polymerize the liquid crystal monomer or liquid crystal prepolymer and, after that, separating the light transmission film from the master.

Optical sheet, method of manufacturing the same, and display apparatus

In an optical recording and reproducing medium having a grooveformed along a recording track and which is recorded and/or reproduced with irradiation of light L having a predetermined wavelength &#x3bb;, a track pitch p of the grooveis selected in a range of from 200 nm to 350 nm and a ratio w'/p between a width wof the grooveand the track pitch p is selected in a range of from 0.24 to 0.67.

Manufacturing method for optical recording and reproducing medium stamper

A retardation film which is manufacturable by a simple process, and being capable of preventing a decline in light use efficiency is provided. A retardation film includes: a substrate having a plurality of grooves extending in a specific direction on a surface thereof; and a retardation layer arranged in contact with the surface of the substrate, and including a liquid crystal material, the liquid crystal material being aligned along the extending direction of the plurality of grooves and being polymerized.

Retardation film, method of manufacturing the same, and display

An information processing system for producing a building material has a design drawing generator, a list generator and a member production controller. The design drawing generator generates design drawing information of an objective building. The list generator generates list information of the members used for the objective building. The member production controller controls the production of the members used for the objective building, based on the list information.

Equipment for producing light gauge shape sheet steel

Information processing system for producing building material, building material production method and production equipment, and building information distribution system

An optical sheet has a large number of cylindrical lens elements provided successively on one of principal faces thereof. The cylindrical lens elements have a hyperboloidal face or a paraboloidal face and have a finite focal distance on the emission side of illumination light. Where a Z axis is taken in parallel to a normal line direction to the optical sheet and an X axis is taken in a direction of the row of the cylindrical lens elements, a cross sectional shape of the cylindrical lens elements satisfies Z=X/(R+&#x221a;{square root over ( )}(R&#x2212;(1+K)X)) (where R is the radius of curvature of a distal end vertex, and K is a conic constant).

Optical sheet, backlight and liquid crystal display apparatus

An optical sheet has a large number of cylindrical lens elements provided successively on one of principal faces thereof. The cylindrical lens elements have a finite focal distance on the emission side of illumination light and have an aspheric face of a leftwardly and rightwardly symmetric sectional shape. Where a Z axis is taken in parallel to a normal line direction to the optical sheet and an X axis is taken in a direction of the row of the cylindrical lens elements, a cross sectional shape of the cylindrical lens elements satisfies/(+&#x221a;{square root over ( )}(&#x2212;(1)))++ . . .

An optical recording/reproducing medium having grooves formed along recording tracks and used for recording/reproducing when irradiated with light L with a specified wavelength &#x3bb;, wherein the track pitch p of a groove is at least 200 nm and up to 350 nm, and a ratio w/p between the width wof a groove and a track pitch p is at least 0.24 and up to 0.67.

Optical recording medium having a relationship between groove width and track pitch

A liquid crystal display, optical sheet manufacturing method, and an optical sheet are provided. The occurrence of moir&#xe9; is prevented while suppressing a reduction in front luminance. The liquid crystal display includes: a liquid crystal display panel; a light source arranged on a back surface side of the liquid crystal display panel; an optical sheet with a light-condensing property arranged between the liquid crystal display panel and the light source, the optical sheet having a number of irregularities arranged continuously on a principal surface of the optical sheet; and a diffuser sheet arranged between the liquid crystal display panel and the optical sheet. The liquid crystal display is constructed so that when an arrangement pitch of the irregularities of the optical sheet is P [&#x3bc;m], a haze value of the diffuser sheet is H [%], a total light transmittance of the diffuser sheet is Tt [%], and a pixel pitch of the liquid crystal display panel is Pp [&#x3bc;m], the following relationship is satisfied: (H/Tt)&#xb7;(Pp/P)&#x2267;1.6.

Liquid crystal display, optical sheet manufacturing method, and optical sheet

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