Sony Corporation

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Agc Inc.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Takaaki Murakami

Koichiro Kishima

Makoto Ando

Tetsuo Nakayama

Kenji Yasumura

Shogo Ono

Minoru Kohno

Koichi Igarashi

Atsushi Nakamura

Toru Ikeda

Yosuke Takeda

Shinji Kayaba

Hiroshi Tokunaga

Shinichi Horii

Yuji Yakura

Shigeyoshi Hirashima

Manabu Tomita

Shigeru Shiratake

Toru Tanikawa

Takashi Katoku

Kaoru Motonami

Yuichi Yokoyama

Yasuyoshi Itoh

Ken Higuchi

Yasushi Hirumi

Azusa Takai

Hiroshi Matsuo

Satoshi Hamamoto

Masanobu Isshiki

Takamichi Shimosaka

Ritsuko Gotoda

Kenji Morisawa

Kazunori Inoue

Naoki Nakagawa

Masayuki Sato

Kazuyuki Sugahara

Yusuke Kobayashi

Kengo Ito

Yuji Ariyoshi

Iwao Ushinohama

Hiroshi Kumai

Katsuomi Shiozawa

Tomoyuki Kobayashi

Toshiyuki Oishi

Koji Oda

Kyoko Yamamoto

Keisuke Matsuda

Masanobu Hida

Toshinari Watanabe

Manabu Tsukamoto

Sunao Aya

Kazunobu Maeshige

Toshiki Kagami

Minoru Tamada

Motohiro Mizumachi

Koji Kise

Mitsuyuki Tatemura

Takahiro Ohnakado

Yuko Tachibana

Hiroe Honma

Rii Hirano

Hiromi Tsujie

Noriko Kasahara

Akihiko Yoshihara

Yasuhiro Kosasayama

A transparent substrate with an antiglare film, includes a transparent substrate having first and second main surfaces and an antiglare film formed on the first main surface. The antiglare film includes a low refractive index layer formed on the first main surface and a high refractive index layer formed in the low refractive index layer and having a refractive index different from that of the low refractive index layer. The low refractive index layer has nof 1.4 to 1.8. The high refractive index layer has nat least 0.1 higher than the n. The high refractive index layer has an area ratio of its portion where a surface inclination to the first main surface is 0.5° or less of 15% or less. An average length RSm of elements of a roughness curve of an outermost surface on a first main surface side is 50 μm or less.

Antiglare film having specified surface roughness and surface inclination

The object of the present invention is to provide an optical laminate capable of reducing reflectance not only with respect to light incident vertically but also light incident obliquely, and further capable of obtaining a neutral reflected color tone even when light is incident obliquely. The optical laminate includes a base material, an antireflection film provided on one surface of the base material, and a light shielding film provided on the other surface of the base material. The optical laminate satisfies all of the following characteristics (i) to (iii):0.5&#x3c;(&#x3bb;,&#x3b8;)/(&#x3bb;,&#x3b8;)&#x3c;1.5;&#x2003;&#x2003;(i)(&#x3b8;)&#x2264;3%; and&#x2003;&#x2003;(ii)(&#x3b8;)&#x2264;10%;&#x2003;&#x2003;(iii)in which R (&#x3bb;, &#x3b8;) designates reflectance when light of a wavelength of &#x3bb; nm is incident at an angle of &#x3b8;, provided that &#x3bb;=380 nm, &#x3b8;=60&#xb0; and &#x3bb;=650 nm, &#x3b8;=60&#xb0;; and

Optical laminate having antireflection film and light shielding film

The present invention relates to a translucent structure having a surface unevenness shape which has: an area ratio of surface flat regions in which an angle formed with a flat surface is in a range of 0&#xb0; to 0.5&#xb0; of in a range of 0% to 5.8%; a projection density of in a range of 0.0001/&#x3bc;mto 0.05/&#x3bc;m; a projection area ratio of in a range of 5.5% to 50%; a skewness Ssk which represents the degree of non-symmetry of in a range of &#x2212;0.5 to 1.1; a load area factor Smr1 at a boundary between a projected mountain portion and a core portion of in a range of 0% to 14.5%; and an arithmetic average surface roughness Sa of in a range of 0.06 &#x3bc;m to 0.143 &#x3bc;m.

Translucent structure

A translucent structure includes a translucent substrate and an antireflection layer provided on a visible side of the translucent substrate so that reflectivity of the translucent structure based on an SCI method is 3% or less. A visible-side outermost surface of the translucent structure includes a concave and convex structure as follows. The concave and convex structure includes a first convex portion and a second convex portion. The first convex portion has a diameter exceeding 10 &#x3bc;m and 185 &#x3bc;m or less in a specific section, and a specific maximum height is 0.2 to 8 &#x3bc;m. The second convex portion has a diameter exceeding 1 &#x3bc;m in a specific section, the number thereof is 0.0001 to 1.2 per 1 &#x3bc;m, and a specific average height thereof is 0.1 to 8 &#x3bc;m.

Translucent structure, method for manufacturing same, and article

There is provided a transparent substrate with an antifouling film that, when used as a cover member with an antifouling film of an electrostatic in-cell touch panel-type liquid crystal device, can reduce the whitening of a liquid crystal screen while fully maintaining an antifouling property and touch sensitivity. The transparent substrate with an antifouling film includes: a transparent substrate; and an antifouling film provided as an outermost layer on one main surface of the transparent substrate, wherein a surface shape of the antifouling film is a rugged shape whose arithmetic mean roughness Ra is 0.01 &#x3bc;m or more, and surface resistivity measured on the surface of the antifouling film is 1.0&#xd7;10to 1.0&#xd7;10&#x3a9;/.

Transparent substrate with antifouling film and capacitance in-cell touch panel-type liquid crystal display device

A curved substrate with a film includes a substrate having a first main surface, a second main surface and an end surface, and an antiglare film provided on the first main surface. The substrate has a flat portion and a bent portion. A value obtained by dividing a reflected-image diffusibility index value R of the bent portion by the sum of the reflected-image diffusibility index value R of the bent portion and a reflected-image diffusibility index value R of the flat portion is 0.3 or higher and 0.8 or less.

Curved substrate with film, method for producing the same, and image display device

A near-infrared cut filter has a transparent substrate and an optical multilayer film formed on the transparent substrate and including high-refractive index films each having a refractive index at a wavelength of 500 nm in a range of 2.0 to 2.8 and low-refractive index films each having a refractive index at the wavelength of 500 nm of less than 1.6. The multilayer film is formed such that the high-refractive and low-refractive index films are alternately stacked and that the filter has spectral transmittance characteristic for the entire wavelength range of 450 nm to less than 550 nm and part of that wavelength range for incident light having incident angle of 0 degree, and part of wavelength range of 450 nm to less than 550 nm and the entire wavelength range of 450 nm to less than 550 nm for incident light having incident angle of 40 degrees.

Near-infrared cut filter

Provided is an infrared cut filter including: an infrared absorbing layer of a transparent resin containing an infrared absorber; and a selected wavelength cut layer stacked on the infrared absorbing layer, wherein the following requirements are satisfied. (i) In a spectral transmittance curve for an incident angle of 0&#xb0;, an average transmittance in a 450-600 nm range is 80% or more, a transmittance in a 700-1200 nm range is 2.0% or less, and Drepresented by the following expression is less than 0.04. D(%/nm)=(Tmax&#xb7;0&#x2212;Tmin&#xb7;0)/(&#x3bb;(Tmax&#xb7;0)&#x2212;&#x3bb;(Tmin&#xb7;0)) (ii) wherein a spectrum transmittance curve for an incident angle of 30&#xb0;, an average transmittance in the 450 to 600 nm range is 80% or more, a transmittance in the 700-1200 nm range is 2.0% or less, and Drepresented by the following expression is less than 0.04. D(%/nm)=(Tmax&#xb7;30&#x2212;Tmin&#xb7;30)/(&#x3bb;(Tmax&#xb7;30)&#x2212;&#xd7;(Tmin&#xb7;30))

Infrared cut filter, solid-state imaging device, and imaging/display apparatus

A thin-film transistor substrate constituting a liquid crystal display includes: a thin-film transistor including, a gate electrode, a gate insulating film covering the gate electrode, a semiconductor layer opposing the gate electrode via the gate insulating film, a channel protective film covering the semiconductor layer, a protective film covering over the channel protective film, source and drain electrodes in contact with the semiconductor layer through first contact holes penetrating through the protective film and the channel protective film; a first electrode electrically connected to the drain electrode; a gate wiring extending from the gate electrode; and a source wiring electrically connected to the source electrode. The source wiring and first electrode are respectively electrically connected to the source electrode and drain electrode through respective second contact holes penetrating through the protective film. The first electrode and source wiring have a first transparent conductive film formed on the first insulation film.

Thin-film transistor substrate, thin-film transistor substrate manufacturing method, and liquid crystal display

In an image-forming method, a ribbon-shaped thermal transfer sheet with a dye layer and a protective material layer arranged side-by-side in the longitudinal direction is moved, and thermal energy is applied from a thermal head while arranging a recording medium to face the dye layer to thermally transfer the dye layer onto the recording medium to form an image. Thermal energy is applied while arranging the image to face the protective material layer to thereby form a protective layer on the image by thermal transfer. A ribbon-shaped surface-property-modifying sheet including a surface-property-modifying region for modifying the surface of the protective layer is moved, and the protective layer is aligned with the surface-property-modifying region of the surface-property-modifying sheet. Heat and pressure are applied from the thermal head and the surface-property-modifying sheet is detached after cooling to modify the surface condition of the protective layer.

Method and apparatus for forming image, surface-property-modifying sheet, and thermal transfer sheet

An image forming apparatus includes a feeding device feeding a recording medium to be recorded, a thermal transfer sheet having an ink layer to form an image and a protective material layer to form a protective layer protecting the image, a thermal transfer sheet transporting device, a surface property reforming sheet having an image printing opening disposed in such a way that the thermal transfer sheet comes into direct contact with a surface of the recording medium to be recorded and a surface property reforming portion to reform the surface state of the protective layer protecting the image, a reforming sheet moving device, and a thermal head to thermally transfer the ink layer or the protective material layer, wherein a non-adhesion treatment layer is formed on at least a surface of the surface property reforming sheet on the side to come into contact with the thermal transfer sheet.

Image forming apparatus, surface property reforming sheet, and method for forming image

An image forming apparatus includes a conveying unit that conveys a recording medium in a predetermined direction, a thermal transfer sheet traveling unit that causes a thermal transfer sheet to travel in a predetermined direction, a modification sheet moving unit that moves a surface modification sheet, a thermal head that applies thermal energy and thermally transfers sequentially a dye layer and a protective layer of the thermal transfer sheet onto the recording medium while the dye layer or the protective layer opposes the surface of the recording medium, and a modification sheet protecting unit disposed in a movement path of the surface modification sheet, and configured to prevent adhesion of dust to the surface modification sheet or to eliminate the adhesion. After forming the image onto the recording medium using the thermal transfer sheet and forming the protective layer that protects the image, the surface modification portion of the surface modification sheet is aligned with a plane in which the protective layer is formed, so that heat and pressure are applied by the thermal head to modify the surface state of the protective layer formed at the recording medium.

Image forming apparatus and modification sheet cartridge using the same

A thermal head is disclosed. The thermal head includes a heat generating element row in which plural heat generating elements are arrayed in a main scanning direction and a glaze that stores heat generated from the respective heat generating elements. The thermal head records an image on a recording medium by causing the respective heat generating elements to generate heat while conveying the recording medium in a sub-scanning direction. A plurality of the heat generating element rows are arrayed in the sub-scanning direction. The glaze includes plural convex portions arranged in the sub-scanning direction in association with the number of arrays of the heat generating element rows. The heat generating elements are arranged on upper sides of the convex portions, respectively.

Thermal head and method of manufacturing thermal head

A thermal head has plural heat generating elements arrayed therein in a main scanning direction to form a heat generating element row, causes the respective heat generating elements to generate heat while conveying a recording medium in a sub-scanning direction, and forms plural dot lines in the main scanning direction on the recording medium to record an image. A plurality of the heat generating element rows are arrayed in the sub-scanning direction. Respective nth (n is a natural number) heat generating elements among the heat generating elements in the respective heat generating element rows can sharingly form a dot in the same position in an identical dot line according to independent driving for each of the heat generating element rows.

Thermal head and method of controlling thermal head

A head module includes lines of head chips, each head chip having energy-generating elements for discharging liquid and electrodes for electrically connecting the energy-generating elements to a control substrate, and a wiring board having wires for electrically connecting the electrodes to the control substrate. The head module drives the energy-generating elements through the wiring board to discharge liquid. The wiring board includes connecting sections connecting the wires to the respective electrodes, common wire sections joining some of the wires that are common to the head chips, and a terminal section connecting the wires to the control substrate at one side of the wiring board. The wires in the connecting and terminal sections are arranged in a single-layer structure along a horizontal direction. The wires in the common wire sections are arranged in a multi-layer structure in which portions of the wires are stacked in the vertical direction.

Head module, liquid discharge head, and liquid discharge apparatus

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Kanagawa, Japan

Takaaki Murakami