Nisshin Flour Milling Co., Ltd.

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Reiko Kubota

Hiroyasu Koyama

Yoshiyuki Tahara

Yasuhiro Komatsu

Toshihiro Takahashi

Yoji Teramoto

Teruhito Yamaguchi

Shuhei Yamamoto

Hideo Ukuda

Toshiaki Shingu

Hitoshi Inoue

Hirohiko Komatsu

An article includes a film on a surface thereof, the film containing a resin, an organic azo-based particle, and a Ti- and O-containing particle so that the film is not separated or cracked and has a good design and good heat-shielding properties.

Article including film, optical apparatus, coating material, and method for producing article

An optical element has a lanthanum-containing glass substrate and a light-shielding film on part of the surface of the glass substrate. The light-shielding film is made from a light-shielding paint that contains at least an epoxy resin, fine particles of titania, a dye, an organic solvent, and an amine-based curing agent. The organic solvent in the light-shielding paint has a vapor pressure of 160 Pa or more and 960 Pa or less at a temperature of 20&#xb0; C. The viscosity of the light-shielding paint is 10.0 mPa&#xb7;s or more and 100 mPa&#xb7;s or less.

Light-shielding paint, light-shielding paint set, light-shielding film, optical element, and method for producing optical element

A light-shielding film for optical element includes at least a resin and a colorant. The light-shielding film for optical element has an average extinction coefficient of 0.03 or more and 0.15 or less as an average of extinction coefficients of the whole light-shielding film for light having wavelengths ranging from 400 to 700 nm.

Light-shielding film for optical element and optical element having light-shielding film

Provided is a thermal barrier film having, dispersed in a resin matrix, high-refractive-index particles having a D-line refractive index of 2.5 or more and 3.2 or less. The high-refractive-index particles have an average particle size of 2.0 &#x3bc;m or more and 5.0 &#x3bc;m or less. Provided are a thermal barrier film that reduces a temperature rise due to sunlight by virtue of having a high reflectance even as a thin film, has high film thickness accuracy, and has high abrasion resistance, a thermal barrier paint for forming such thermal barrier film, and an optical instrument including such thermal barrier film.

Thermal barrier film, thermal barrier paint, and optical instrument

A light-shielding paint includes an epoxy group-containing compound, an inorganic fine particle, a coloring agent, and an amine curing agent. The ratio (A'/A) of the mass (A&#x2032;) of the amine curing agent to the active hydrogen equivalent (A) of the amine curing agent and the ratio (E&#x2032;/E) of the mass (E&#x2032;) of the epoxy group-containing compound to the epoxy equivalent (E) of the epoxy group-containing compound satisfy 0.1&#x2264;[(A&#x2032;/A)/(E&#x2032;/E)]&#x2264;0.45.

Light-shielding paint, light-shielding paint set, light-shielding film, optical element, method for producing light-shielding film, and method for producing optical element

There is provided an optical apparatus which comprises a lens, and a lens barrel holding the lens, wherein a film is formed on a surface of the lens barrel, the film contains a resin, titanium oxide coated with silica, and an inorganic particle, an average particle size of the inorganic particle is 10 nm or more and 110 nm or less, and an average particle size of the titanium oxide coated with the silica is 0.2 &#x3bc;m or more. Thus, it is possible to achieve the optical apparatus which, in an anoxic atmosphere, has less discoloration due to sunlight and less reflectance deterioration even when color is thin, and has the high solar reflectance.

Optical apparatus, film to be provided on surface of optical apparatus, paint to be used for optical apparatus

An optical element includes a substrate and a light-shielding film on a part of the periphery of the substrate. The light-shielding film contains a compound having an epoxy group, a coloring agent, inorganic particles having a refractive index of 2.2 or more, and silica particles. The average concentration of the inorganic particles in an interface region having a thickness of 15 nm from the interface between the substrate and the light-shielding film is 1.1 to 1.5 times as high as the average concentration of the inorganic particles in the light-shielding film.

Optical element, light-shielding paint set, and method for manufacturing optical element

An antireflection coating film for an optical element is provided on a surface of a substrate of an optical material and includes first particles having a refractive index (nd) of at least 2.2 or more for the d-line and an average particle size of 10 to 70 nm, second particles of at least one of silica and sericite and having an average particle size of 1 to 11 &#x3bc;m, a colorant of an organic substance and soluble in an organic solvent, and a resin, in which the first particle content is in the range of 10% to 35% by weight, and second particle content is in the range of 1% to 11% by weight. The antireflection coating film has a high effect of preventing surface reflection, a high effect of preventing inner-surface reflection, satisfactory absorption of visible light, and low levels of reflection and scattering in the film.

Antireflection coating film and antireflection coating material for optical element and optical element

A multi-layered diffraction optical element, comprises a transparent substrate, a first layer having a diffraction grating shape at least on one face and comprised of a relatively high refractive index and low dispersion material, and a second layer having a diffraction grating shape at least on one face and comprised of a relatively low refractive index and high dispersion material, wherein the first and second layers are laminated on the transparent substrate so that the respective diffraction grating shapes are mutually opposed to each other with no space therebetween, and, the first layer is comprised of a first organic resin including a first inorganic fine particle, and the second layer is comprised of a second organic resin including a second inorganic fine particle different from the first inorganic fine particle.

Laminated diffraction optical element

Disclosed are a compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl or a group --(CH.sub.2).sub.n COOR.sup.3 in which n is an integer of 1 to 4 and R.sup.3 is hydrogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl, and R.sup.2 is a group --CH.dbd.CH--R.sup.4 or --CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 --R.sup.4 in which R.sup.4 is substituted or unsubstituted phenyl or a substituted or unsubstituted 5-membered heterocyclic group, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a pharmaceutical composition comprising the same as an active ingredient. The compounds have an excellent chemical mediator inhibitory activity.

Rhodanine derivatives and pharmaceutical compositions

New antiviral nonaprenylamine derivatives represented by the following formula ##STR1## wherein R is 4 or 5 atoms selected from the group consisting of C and N so as to complete, with the non-R nitrogen, a 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic ring, and X is selected from the group consisting of H and hydroxy-lower alkyl and non-toxic, pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts thereof and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.

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