Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited

Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Nippon Paint Compnay, Ltd.

Dongwoo Fine-chem Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd.

Satoshi Okamoto

Tomoya Hosoda

Manabu Hirakawa

Shiro Katagiri

Shinji Ohtomo

Yusaku Kohinata

Toyonari Ito

Naoji Okumura

Yutaka Nio

Naoki Yamamori

Mikihiko Yamada

Masayuki Matsuda

Akiko Tsunemi

Kiyoaki Higo

Katsumi Terai

Shouichi Gotoh

Hisashi Watabu

Tomoko Uehara

Hiroshi Harada

Norihiko Mizobata

Mitsuo Maeda

Mitsunori Nodono

Tohru Nagashima

Yasushi Funakoshi

Akiko Nakazono

Koichi Morioka

Tomohiro Sato

Masaaki Fujita

Osamu Sakai

Minoru Miyata

Hideyuki Ikehira

Kazuto Tanaka

Kenji Fujita

Yoshifumi Yoshida

Satoshi Nagano

Hiroyasu Yamauchi

Yasuhiro Yamashita

Tohru Nunoi

Sadatoshi Chozui

Taiho Nakazawa

Yoshikazu Takahashi

Tsutomu Yamazaki

Kazuhito Tanaka

Toshio Akai

Naoto Ikegawa

Koichi Ui

Toru Fujiki

Jongchul Seo

Seung-Shin Lee

Hiroyuki Oka

Wakana Aizawa

Masatoshi Kito

Toshiyuki Ueno

Jumpei Imoto

Shinji Ootomo

Min-soo Yang

Dong-pil Park

This invention provides a gas barrier film, which can suppress blocking and winding deviation, and an optical film using the gas barrier film. The gas barrier film includes a flexible substrate and an inorganic thin film layer formed on at least one surface of the flexible substrate. A static friction coefficient between one surface of the gas barrier film and the other surface is not less than 0.85 and not more than 2.0, and when a 50 mm-square portion cut from the gas barrier film is placed on a horizontal surface such that a central portion of the 50 mm-square portion is in contact with the horizontal surface, an average value of distances from the horizontal surface to four corners of the 50 mm-square portion is not more than 2 mm.

Gas barrier film, optical film, and flexible display

A semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the semiconductor device are provided. A semiconductor substrate has a surface on which an abrasion trace is formed, and a dopant diffusion region includes a portion extending in the direction at an angle within the range of &#x2212;5&#xb0; to +5&#xb0; with respect to the direction in which the abrasion trace extends.

Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing semiconductor device

Disclosed is a material for fiber manufacturing comprising a liquid crystal polyester satisfying the following requirements (a) and (b): (a) the weight-average molecular weight is equal to or less than 30000 and the polydispersity is equal to or less than 2.5; and (b) the melt viscosity measured at 360&#xb0; C. with conditions of a nozzle pore diameter of 0.5 mm and a shear velocity of 1000 susing a flow feature testing machine is equal to or less than 70 Pa&#xb7;s.

Material for fiber manufacturing and fiber

The present invention provides a resin composition containing a liquid crystalline polyester and a high dielectric material filler. The present invention also provides a molded article of the liquid crystalline polyester resin composition. The liquid crystalline polyester resin composition of the present invention comprises 50 to 80% by volume of a liquid crystalline polyester which has 40% by mol or more of a 2,6-naphthalenediyl group as an aromatic group, also has a flow initiation temperature of 280&#xb0; C. or higher, and shows a melt tension of 1 g or more measured at a temperature higher than flow initiation temperature; and 20 to 50% by volume of a high dielectric material filler. The liquid crystalline polyester resin composition can be formed into composition pellets easily and stably by a strand method, and a molded article obtained from the liquid crystalline polyester resin composition is excellent in flexural strength and dielectric characteristics.

Liquid crystalline polyester and molded article thereof

The surrounding length of a junction separation portion can be shortened to improve an insulating resistance in order to provide a solar cell with highly efficiency. In a photoelectric transducer of the type where a light-receiving surface electrode is wired to another electrode on a back surface via a through electrode passing through a semiconductor substrate of a first conductive type, the photoelectric transducer comprises: a junction separation portion made around the through electrode on a back surface of the semiconductor substrate; a dielectric layer formed for covering the junction separation portion, the through electrode penetrating the dielectric layer; and a back electrode provided on the dielectric layer and coupled to the through electrode which is connected to the light-receiving surface electrode.

Photoelectric transducer and manufacturing method therefor

The present invention provides a method for producing a polyethersulfone fiber, the method comprising the steps of discharging an electrically charged solution comprising a polyethersulfone and a solvent from a container; and drawing the charged solution by electrical attraction in an electrical field generated between the solution and an electrically charged collecting means having the opposite charge of the solution, while evaporating at least a portion of the solvent to form a polyethersulfone fiber. The fiber obtained in the present invention has a small average fiber diameter and can be made into a thin fiber cloth.

Method for producing polyethersulfone fiber

A photoelectric conversion element of the present invention comprises: a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type; a first electrode arranged on the back side of the first semiconductor layer a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type, the second semiconductor layer on the light-receiving side of the first semiconductor layer; a light-receiving face-side electrode provided on the light-receiving side of the second semiconductor layer; a second electrode arranged on the back side of the first semiconductor layer, and electrically separated from the first semiconductor layer, but connected to the second semiconductor layer; and a penetrating-connecting section penetrating the first semiconductor layer, and connecting the light-receiving face-side electrode with the second electrode, wherein the photoelectric conversion element is characterized in that the first electrode and the second electrode are arranged equidistantly apart from a central axis passing through a center of the photoelectric conversion element.

Photoelectric conversion element, photoelectric conversion element assembly and photoelectric conversion module

The present invention provides a method for producing a liquid-crystalline polyester powder, the method comprising: carrying out melt polycondensation of monomers and/or its acylated monomers to obtain a corresponding polyester having a flow initiation temperature of 240 to 300&#xb0; C.; spreading and solidifying the polyester so as to be a layer thereof with a thickness of 1 cm or more: crushing the solidified substance to obtain a powder having a volume average particle diameter of 3 to 30 &#x3bc;m; and subjecting the powder to a heat treatment to obtain a powder having a flow initiation temperature higher than the flow initiation temperature of the liquid-crystalline polyester after the melt polycondensation.

Method for producing liquid-crystalline polyester powder

To provide a photoelectric conversion element that allows connection between adjacent photoelectric conversion elements by use of an inexpensive wiring member. A photoelectric conversion element of the present invention comprises: a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type; a first electrode arranged on the back side of the first semiconductor layer and electrically connected to the first semiconductor layer; a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type, the second semiconductor layer brought into contact with the first semiconductor layer and arranged at least in part on the light-receiving side of the first semiconductor layer; a light-receiving face-side electrode provided so as to be electrically connected to the second semiconductor layer on its light-receiving side; a second electrode arranged on the back side of the first semiconductor layer, and electrically separated from the first semiconductor layer, but electrically connected to the second semiconductor layer; and a penetrating-connecting section penetrating the first semiconductor layer, and electrically separated from the first semiconductor layer, but electrically connecting the light-receiving face-side electrode with the second electrode, wherein the photoelectric conversion element is characterized in that the first electrode and the second electrode are arranged equidistantly apart from a central axis passing through a center of the photoelectric conversion element.

An organic resin composition with a low coefficient of thermal expansion comprising (a) an organic resin and (b) an inorganic silicate containing alkali metals and alkaline earth metals in a total amount of 1,000 ppm or less.

Organic resin composition, solution of the same and shaped article of the same

The present invention provides a liquid-crystalline polyester having a structural unit represented by the formula (i), a structural unit represented by the formula (ii) and a structural unit represented by the formula (iii): wherein Aris, at each occurrence, a member selected from the group consisting of a 2,6-naphthalenediyl group, a 1,4-phenylene group and a 4,4'-biphenylene group; and Arand Arare, at each occurrence, a member selected from the group consisting of a 2,6-naphthalenediyl group, a 1,4-phenylene group, a 1,3-phenylene group and a 4,4&#x2032;-biphenylene group; wherein 40% by mole or more of all the groups Ar, Arand Arare 2,6-naphthalenediyl groups; and wherein the polyester has a flow initiation temperature of from about 280 to about 320&#xb0; C.

Polyester for producing fiber, and fiber and non-woven fabric using the same

Versatility of a memory card is improved by providing a memory card where data protection mode and normal mode can be selected at discretion. A portable auxiliary storage device includes a mode setting section, a mode detecting section and a memory access control section. The mode setting section allows a user to set a normal mode permitting reading data stored in a memory section or writing the data to the memory section without restriction and a data protection mode for restricting the reading or writing. The mode detecting section detects a mode set in the mode setting section. The memory access control section controls the read or write according to a state of the mode setting section detected by the mode detecting section.

Portable auxiliary storage device

The present invention provides a resin composition comprising a liquid crystal polymer and a filler comprising a composite oxide containing Ba, Sm, and Ti. The resin composition can provide a molded article which has excellent dielectric characteristics and is excellent in dimension stability.

Resin composition and molded article using the same

The present invention provides a laminate comprising a resin layer and a copper foil. The resin layer is made from a liquid crystalline polyester having at least one structural unit selected from a structural unit derived from aromatic diamine and a structural unit derived from aromatic amine with a phenolic hydroxyl group in an amount of 10 to 35% by mole on the basis of the total structural units in the polyester. The copper foil has a tensile modulus of 60 GPa or smaller and a tensile strength at break of 150 MPa or smaller measured after heat treatment at a temperature of 300&#xb0; C. The copper-foil laminate has good flexibility and high durability with little anisotropy is provided.

Laminate of liquid crystalline polyester with copper foil

The present invention provides a liquid crystalline polyester composition comprising a terphenyl and a liquid crystalline polyester, wherein the terphenyl substantially consists of p-terphenyl, and the p-terphenyl is contained in the composition in the amount of 0.3 to 15 parts by weight on the basis of 100 parts by weight of the liquid crystalline polyester. The liquid crystalline polyester composition has high flowability and low anisotropy, which can also suppress generation of gases when molded.

Liquid crystalline polyester composition

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Tsukuba, Japan

Satoshi Okamoto