Nec Corporation

Fujifilm Corporation

Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Nec Electronics Corporation

Fuji Photo Film Photo, Co., Ltd.

Kiyokazu Hashimoto

Masaaki Otoshi

Hiroshi Furuta

Zemin Shi

Junichi Yamanouchi

Yasuo Mukunoki

Yasutomo Goto

Kentaro Okazaki

Yukio Shinagawa

Kenji Hibino

Kimiyasu Ishikawa

Katsufumi Ohmuro

Kazunobu Katoh

Minoru Sakai

Hiroshi Sugawara

Akihiro Matsufuji

Tsukasa Yamada

Akira Hatakeyama

Toshikatsu Jinbo

Toshimitu Okutu

Hiroyuki Kawanishi

Hidetaka Natsume

Yosuke Nishiura

Ryuta Takegami

Tsutomu Arai

Hiroaki Sata

Hironori Sakamoto

Shinichi Nakai

Hiroshi Kawasaki

Kazuyuki Yamasaki

Tetsuji Togami

Yohei Aritoshi

Yuuzou Muramatsu

Masataka Ogawa

Masao Kunitou

Sumio Nishikawa

Xiao Ling

Kenji Kano

Nobutoshi Tsunesada

Kenichiro Hatayama

Haruki Tomikawa

Chiyomi Niitsu

Nobuo Murakami

Rei Miyasaka

Tetsuya Yoshida

Natsuki Ooyabu

Toshihiro Oda

Provided is a medium evaluation method for evaluating the suitability of a medium in which cell aggregates are cultured in a suspended state, by which an evaluation of whether a medium is adequate for both the cell retention performance and the cell recovery efficiency, the medium evaluation method including dispersing a plurality of particles in a medium, measuring a sedimentation velocity by which the particles settle in the medium, and using the sedimentation velocity thus measured as an index value indicating the suitability of the medium; and also provided are a medium and a culture method.

Medium evaluation method, medium, and culture method

A transparent conductive film having a transparent resin film containing a cyclic olefin resin, an undercoating layer formed on the transparent resin film, and a conductive layer and having a thermal dimensional change rate in hot water at 100&#xb0; C. for 60 seconds of from 0.01 to 0.2%, which shows excellent adhesion between the transparent resin film and the conductive layer.

Transparent conductive film and touch panel

A transparent conductive film having a transparent resin film containing a cyclic olefin resin and a conductive layer and having a thermal dimensional change rate in hot water at 100&#xb0; C. for 60 seconds of from 0.01 to 0.2%, shows excellent adhesion between the transparent resin film and the conductive layer.

A polyester film containing a polyester support having a terminal carboxylic acid value of from 3 to 20 eq/ton and IV of from 0.65 to 0.9 dL/g, and a conductive layer having a surface specific resistance of from 10to 10&#x3a9; per square with an in-plane distribution of from 0.1 to 20% exhibits an improvement in withstand voltage.

Polyester film and method for producing the same, back sheet for solar cell, and solar cell module

A polyester film has excellent resistance to hydrolysis, excellent heat resistance in high temperatures and low humidity, and mechanical strength. The polyester film satisfies a stress heat resistant coefficient f(125)&#x2267;3 and a wet thermo retention (=100&#xd7;S(120)/S(0)) of 30% or more. f(125) is a value obtained by substituting t=125&#xb0; C. in an approximation represented by f(t); t represents a temperature (&#xb0; C.) at thermo processing; f(t) represents a stress heat resistant coefficient f at the thermo temperature t and represents an approximation to a straight line obtained by linear approximation by a least squares method of values plotted from a relationship between the thermo temperature t and a logarithm (log T(t)) of time T at which a rupture stress is 50% when t is 150&#xb0; C., 160&#xb0; C., 170&#xb0; C., or 180&#xb0; C.; T(t) is a time (hr) at which the maximum stress in a tensile test after thermo processing at t&#xb0; C. and 0% RH is 50% of the maximum stress in a tensile test before thermo processing; S(120) is breaking elongation (%) after aging for 100 hours at 120&#xb0; C. and 100% RH, and S(0) represents a breaking elongation (%) before aging.

Polyester film, method for producing the same, back sheet for solar cell, and solar cell module

A biaxially stretched polyester film for protecting a back surface of a solar cell, containing a polyester resin that is polymerized with addition of a Ti catalyst, a Mg compound, a P compound and a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound, and having a volume resistivity at 285&#xb0; C. is 10&#xd7;10&#x3a9;&#xb7;cm or less, is improved in hydrolysis resistance and electrostatic adhesion property.

Biaxially stretched polyester film for protecting back surface of solar cell, and method for producing polyester resin

A method of manufacturing a polyester film, including: preparing a polyester film substrate having an amount of a terminal carboxylic acid group (AV) of from 3 eq/ton to 20 eq/ton, by using a polyester resin having a temperature distribution of a pre-melting peak (Tm') of from 1&#xb0; C. to 10&#xb0; C.; providing a coating layer on at least one surface of the polyester film substrate; and stretching the polyester film substrate provided with the coating layer at least once.

Method of producing polyester film, polyester film, and back sheet for solar cell

A polyester film containing a polyester resin having an intrinsic viscosity IV of from 0.73 to 0.9 dL/g in which the polyester film has a specific heat change at 85&#xb0; C. to 135&#xb0; C. (&#x394;Cp) of from 0.06 to 0.1 J/g, has an excellent weather resistance, a good planar surface state and a low thermal shrinkage.

Polyester film and method for producing same, backsheet for solar cell, and solar cell module

A polyester film including terminal carboxylic groups in an amount of from 2 eq/t to 23 eq/t, wherein an amount of carboxylic groups on a surface of the film is from 0.005 eq/mto 0.2 eq/m, and a thickness of the film is from 120 &#x3bc;m to 500 &#x3bc;m.

Polyester film, method for manufacturing the same, and solar cell module

A cellulose acylate film produced by a melt-casting film formation, wherein the total of the number of projections having a height of from 0.1 &#x3bc;m to 100 &#x3bc;m and a length of at least 1 mm and the number of depressions having a depth of from 0.1 &#x3bc;m to 100 &#x3bc;m and a length of at least 1 mm is at most 10 per 10 cm of the width of the film. When built in a liquid-crystal display device, the cellulose acylate film significantly reduces the display blur in the device.

Cellulose acylate film

A cellulose acylate film in which the number of V-shaped thickness-uneven portions having a variation width in the thickness direction of 0.1 to 10% of a film thickness and a width in the in-plane direction of 1 to 20 mm is in the range of 0 to 10 per 100 m in the length direction of the film. A display unevenness is solved in a liquid crystal display device having the cellulose acylate film.

Cellulose acylate film and method for producing same

A thermoplastic film is transversely stretched, and then transported in a heat-treating zone () such that the ratio (G/D) of an inter-roll distance (G) to a roll lap length (D) is 0.01 to 3, and the ratio (V/V) of an exit-side transporting speed (V) to an entry-side transporting speed (V) is 0.6 to 0.999. The thermoplastic film is heat-treated in the heat-treating zone () at (Tg&#x2212;20)&#xb0; C. to (Tg+50)&#xb0; C., in which Tg is the glass transition temperature of the film. The heat-treated thermoplastic film exhibits an Rth/Re ratio of at least 0.5 and less than 1, an Rth/Re ratio range of 0.01 to 0.1 in the width direction, and a thermal dimensional change of 0.001% to 0.3% under conditions of 80&#xb0; C. and 200 hours.

Heat treatment of thermoplastic film, and thermoplastic film and method for producing the same

A method of producing a transparent thermoplastic film comprising transversely stretching a film by 1% to 200%, wherein a ratio (Lc/Wc) of a clutch length (Lc) of a chuck to a clutch depth (Wc) of the chuck in the transverse stretching zone is in the range of 3 to 50.

Transparent thermoplastic film and a method of producing the same

The invention relates to a liquid crystal display device comprising a retardation layer wherein an in-plane slow axis of the retardation layer is within the direction of 90&#xb1;40 degrees relative to an absorption axis of the polarizing layer disposed at a closer position to the retardation layer; Re(550) meets following relation, 25 nm&#x2266;Re(550)&#x2266;230 nm; R[40&#xb0;] of the retardation layer which is measured for incident light in a direction tilted by 40 degrees toward the tilt direction of the retardation layer relative to the normal line of the retardation layer meets following relation, 0 nm&#x2266;R[40&#xb0;]&#x2266;300 nm; and R[+40&#xb0;] of the retardation layer and retardation R[&#x2212;40&#xb0;] of the retardation layer meet following relation, 1&#x3c;R[+40&#xb0;]/R[&#x2212;40&#xb0;].

Liquid crystal display device

A cellulose acylate resin film which can suppress generation of color nonuniformity even after exposure to high temperature and high humidity when incorporated in a liquid crystal display element can be produced. The cellulose acylate resin film is heat-treated at a temperature of Tg&#x2212;30&#xb0; C. to Tg+20&#xb0; C., Tg representing the glass transition temperature of the cellulose acylate resin, for 10 seconds to 600 seconds while conveying the cellulose acylate resin film at a tension of 2 N/cmto 120 N/cm.

Method for producing cellulose acylate resin film

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Minami-ashigara, Japan

Kiyokazu Hashimoto