Nippon Oil Company

Nippon Mitsubishi Oil Corporation

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Nippon Oil Corporation

Shinichiro Suzuki

Suzushi Nishimura

Shinichi Komatsu

Nobuo Aoki

Hidekazu Hoshino

Itsuo Takeuchi

Mitsuo Matsuno

Shozo Tsuchiya

Akira Takagi

Hisatake Sato

Haruyoshi Sato

Kenji Hosaki

Akihito Shiozawa

Masumi Yokoyama

Mikihiko Sakakibara

When an optical element is produced using a liquid crystal film having no supporting substrate film for the purpose of decreasing the weight, the liquid crystal film layer may often pose problems of fine wrinkly deformation of and cracking in a caused by strain occurring during a manufacturing/processing step. The present invention intends to provide an elliptical polarizer having a thinned optical anisotropic element which is free from such deformation and cracking. The elliptical polarizer of the present invention comprises at least a polarizer and an optical anisotropic element wherein said optical anisotropic element comprises a liquid crystalline substance layer with a fixed liquid crystal orientation, a tacky adhesive/adhesive layer, and a stress blocking layer.

Elliptical polarizer and liquid crystal display device

An authenticity identifying film ( ) has a reflective film ( ) having a circularly polarized light selectivity to reflect at least only either of right-handed circularly polarized light and left-handed circularly polarized light of incident light to produce reflected light. The reflective film ( ) is provided with a hologram forming part ( ). The hologram forming part ( ) reflects circularly polarized light of the same circular polarization as that of the reflected light in a direction different from that of the reflected light to form a holographic image. The reflected light reflected by the reflective film ( ) and the holographic image formed by the hologram forming part ( ) are detected by detectors disposed at different positions, respectively.

Genuineness detecting system and method for using genuineness detecting film

A reflection liquid crystal display device comprising a liquid crystal cell where a liquid crystal layer is provided between two opposed electrode substrates, a reflecting layer, and a cholesteric liquid crystal film, characterized in that the ratio (SCE/SCI) of the specular component excluded-refelctance (SCE) to the specular component included-reflectance (SCI) of the cholesteric liquid crystal film is 15% or more, the wavelenght bandwidth of the cholesteric selective reflection ranges from 30 mm to 150 nm, and the center wavelength of the cholesteric selective reflection is in the visible range of 380-780 nm or in the near-infared range of 800-2000 nm.

Reflection-type liquid crystal display device

A light-diffusible liquid crystalline film having a fixed cholesteric or chiral smectic C orientation in which the helical axis direction is not uniformly parallel to the film thickness direction, as well as a liquid crystalline film having a fixed cholesteric or chiral smectic C orientation in which the helical axis direction is not uniformly parallel to the film thickness direction nor is the helix pitch uniformly equal in the film thickness direction, are provided.

Liquid-crystal film

Fine particles having a thin cholesteric liquid crystal film superior in visibility for a selectively reflected light are provided. Non-liquid crystalline fine particles for nucleus are dispersed in a cholesteric liquid crystal solution, then the solvent used is removed, followed by heat-treatment and cooling, to afford fine particles coated with a thin cholesteric liquid crystal film.

Fine particles covered by cholesteric liquid crystal

There are provided liquid crystalline polyesters comprising 4'-hydroxy-4-stilbenecarboxylic acid type units, dicarboxylic acid units acting as a mesogen such as 4,4'-stilbenecarboxylic acid and catechol units as essential ingredients, and a liquid crystalline polyester composition comprising said polyesters and optically active liquid crystalline polyesters consisting essentially of 4,4'-stilbenedicarboxylic acid type units and aliphatic diol units having asymmetric carbons.

Liquid crystalline polyesters, their composition, and their uses

Compositions of high lubrication and light coloration are disclosed in which a selected class of resins and rubbers is blended with a specified cured polybutadiene product. The cured product results from crosslinking more than 10% of vinyl bonds in a butadiene polymer having a vinyl bond content of not less 20% by mol in terms of its monomer unit. Also disclosed are solid lubricants comprising a specified fluorinated cured polybutadiene and compositions containing the solid lubricant.

Solid lubricant and composition

A particulate polybutadiene crosslinked material is disclosed along with a process of making the same. The particulate material has a substantially spherical, uniformly shaped configuration and comprises at least part of its surface layer occupied by a reaction product of polybutadiene and a silicone compound.

Particulate polybutadiene crosslinked material

Lubricant compositions of high lubrication and light coloration characteristics are made up essentially of a selected mineral or synthetic oil and a selected polybutadiene. The polymeric component contains greater than 20% by mol of vinyl bonds in terms of its monomeric unit and has crosslinked more than 10% of the vinyl bond content.

Lubricant compositions

A positive type photoresist material comprises a polymer having structural units each represented by the following formula (I) of; ##STR1## wherein each of R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.6 represents a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon residue having 1 to 12 carbon atoms, each or R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 represents a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group or a hydrocarbon residue having 1 to 12 carbon atoms and Z represents--CH.sub.2 --.sub.n which n indicates an integer of 0 to 4.

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Yokohama, Japan

Shinichiro Suzuki