Daikin Industries, Ltd.

Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Daiki Industries, Ltd.

Takayuki Araki

Tetsuo Shimizu

Masahiro Kumegawa

Yoshito Tanaka

Noritoshi Oka

Yoshihisa Yamamoto

Nobuhiko Tsuda

Takafumi Yamato

Meiten Koh

Takuji Ishikawa

Mihoko Ohashi

Hisato Sanemasa

Tetsuhiro Kodani

Seitaro Yamaguchi

Masami Kato

Noriyasu Yamane

Nobuyuki Tomihashi

Taketo Kato

Yuzo Komatsu

Masayuki Yamana

Tsuneo Yamashita

Masaji Komori

Shigehito Sagisaka

Tsuyoshi Miyamori

Eiji Sakamoto

Norihito Otsuki

Tokio Taguchi

Shigeru Morita

Hidekazu Hayashi

Yasuhiro Shibai

Takayuki Nakamura

Masahiro Kondo

Kenichiro Nakamatsu

Akinori Yamamoto

Tatsushiro Yoshimura

Ken Atsumo

Kakeru Hanabusa

Hirotoshi Sakashita

Kazuyuki Satoh

Saya Nii

Hidenori Ozaki

Tsutomu Terada

Kazuhiro Nakai

Yasushi Yonei

Takuji Kume

Yoshito Ando

Hirokazu Aoyama

Takahiro Kitahara

Tsuyoshi Noguchi

Mitsuru Kishine

Katsuhiko Imoto

Hisashi Mitsuhashi

Masanori Kitaichi

Yoshiki Shimizu

Tatsuya Higuchi

Takeshi Inaba

Kazuo Ishiwari

Hiroshi Torii

Sadashige Irie

Hideto Nakagawa

Eiji Fujita

Yoshio Negishi

Kazuyuki Sato

Ryuzi Iwakiri

Kazuko Aoki

Saya Nil

Sachio Nomura

Mihoko Sakai

Kenji Goboh

Nobuhiro Hirano

The present invention provides a method for producing an antifouling film capable of long-term continuous production of an antifouling film having excellent antifouling properties. The method for producing an antifouling film of the present invention includes Process (1) of applying a resin to a surface of a substrate; Process (2) of applying a second release agent to a surface of a die coated with a first release agent; Process (3) of pushing the substrate to the surface of the die coated with the second release agent with the resin in between to form an uneven structure on a surface of the resin; and Process (4) of curing the resin including the uneven structure on the surface thereof to form a polymer layer. The resin contains an antifouling agent that contains a predetermined compound. The first release agent contains a predetermined compound. The second release agent contains a predetermined compound.

Method for producing antifouling film

The present invention provides a method for producing an antifouling film having excellent antifouling properties and rubbing resistance. The method for producing an antifouling film of the present invention includes Process (1) of applying a resin to a surface of a substrate; Process (2) of pushing the substrate to a die with the resin in between to form an uneven structure on a surface of the resin; and Process (3) of curing the resin including the uneven structure on the surface thereof to form a polymer layer. The resin contains an antifouling agent that contains a compound containing a perfluoro(poly)ether group. The die includes a surface having undergone release treatment using a release agent containing a compound that contains a perfluoro(poly)ether group, a hydrolyzable group, and a Si atom.

The invention provides a method for producing a transfer target which is less likely to separate from a substrate or adhere to a mold even when transfer is repeated. The production method includes the steps of: (1) applying a composition containing a fluoropolyether to a release layer of a mold having an uneven pattern on a surface thereof; (2) pressing the mold to a transfer target and transferring the uneven pattern; and (3) releasing the mold from the transfer target, thereby providing the transfer target having a transferred pattern.

Process for producing receiving object having transferred pattern

The present invention provides a weather-resistant sheet for a solar cell module, which has better adhesion to a water impermeable sheet, better blocking resistance against the water impermeable sheet, and better adhesion to EVA that is a sealant; a weather-resistant sheet for a solar cell module in which a cured coating film layer thereof can suppress UV transmission significantly; a product including the sheet; and a process for producing the sheet. The weather-resistant sheet for a solar cell module includes, on a water impermeable sheet, a cured coating film layer made of a crosslinked product of a coating composition that includes a hydroxyl group-containing fluoropolymer, wherein in a pressure-resistance test performed when a crosslinking degree of the cured coating film layer is 80 to 99%, the cured coating film layer and the water impermeable sheet without a cured coating film layer formed thereon are not adhered to each other after a load has been applied to the cured coating film layer and the water impermeable sheet being stacked.

Weatherable sheet for solar cell module, product obtained using the sheet, and process for producing the weatherable sheet for solar cell module

The present invention provides a focusing method and a light-concentrating film capable of concentrating incident light in a wide angular range with high efficiency, a focusing element including the light-concentrating film, and a solar cell. The present invention is alight-concentrating film that is made of an organic material, and is characterized by having a multilevel gradation pattern.

Light-concentrating film, method for producing same, focusing element, solar cell, and focusing method

A vinylidene fluoride homopolymer represented by the formula (4):CF-(A)-I&#x2003;&#x2003;(4)wherein Arepresents a structural unit of vinylidene fluoride homopolymer which includes crystal form I alone or as main component and has a number average degree of polymerization of 5 to 12.

Method of forming thin film

A material for solid polyelectrolytes which comprises a polymer comprising two or more fluoropolymer segments differing in monomer composition, wherein at least one of the fluoropolymer segments has sulfonic acid type functional groups.

Material for solid polyelectrolyte suitable for use in fuel cell

There is provided a method of forming a thin film of vinylidene fluoride homopolymer having crystal form I which is applicable to various substrates in relatively easy way (coating conditions, application method, etc.), a process for preparing a vinylidene fluoride homopolymer having crystal form I efficiently at high purity, and novel vinylidene fluoride homopolymers which can give a thin film being excellent in ferroelectricity. The method of forming a thin film of vinylidene fluoride homopolymer comprises (i) a step for preparing a green powder product of vinylidene fluoride homopolymer comprising crystal form I alone or as main component by subjecting vinylidene fluoride to radical polymerization in the presence of a bromine compound or iodine compound having 1 to 20 carbon atoms which contains at least one moiety represented by &#x2014;CRfRfX, wherein X. is iodine atom or bromine atom; Rf. and Rf. are the same or different and each is selected from fluorine atom or perfluoroalkyl groups having 1 to 5 carbon atoms and (ii) a step for forming a thin film on a substrate surface by using vinylidene fluoride homopolymer which comprises crystal form I alone or as main component and is obtained from the green powder product of vinylidene fluoride homopolymer comprising crystal form I alone or as main component.

There is provided a fluorine-containing polymer solid electrolyte which has an excellent ion-conducting property, is high in oxidation resistance, is stable electrochemically and thermally, has sufficient strength and is applicable to various electrochemical devices. The electrolyte comprises (I) a non-crystalline fluorine-containing polymer which has a polar nonionic functional group and has, in a side chain of the polymer molecule, a structural unit D having 1 to 4 units derived from a fluorine-containing ether in the form of continuous chain, (II) an electrolytic compound and as case demands, (III) a solvent. The electrolyte has an ionic conductivity of from 10to 10S/cm measured at 25&#xb0; C. by an alternating current complex impedance method, and is useful for various electrochemical devices.

Solid electrolyte comprising fluorine-containing polymer having fluorine-containing ether chains

There is provided a curable surface modifier comprising a resin which is soluble in a general purpose solvent and comprises a fluorine-containing ethylenic polymer containing, in at least a part of its side chain, a moiety A having a long polyfluoropolyether chain and/or a moiety B having a self-crosslinkable functional group, in which the resin contains both of the moieties A and B. The curable surface modifier improves properties of surfaces of various coating films, especially antireflection films, such as surface sliding property (decrease in a friction coefficient), surface hardness, abrasion resistance, chemical resistance and stain removability by wiping, thus being capable of imparting modified properties to the surfaces of original coating films.

Curable surface modifier and curable composition for surface modification prepared from same

There is provided a fluorine-containing polymer solid electrolyte which has an excellent ion-conducting property, is high in oxidation resistance, is stable electrochemically and thermally, has sufficient strength and is applicable to various electrochemical devices. The electrolyte comprises (A) a non-crystalline fluorine-containing polymer having, in a trunk chain and/or side chain of the polymer molecule, a structural unit D having five or more chained units derived from a fluorine-containing ether, (B) an electrolytic compound and (C) a solvent, and has an ionic conductivity of from 10to 10S/cm measured at 25&#xb0; C. by an alternating current complex impedance method. The electrolyte is useful for various electrochemical devices.

There are provided a curable fluorine-containing polymer which can realize a high hardness by photo-curing while maintaining a low refractive index, an antireflection film possessing improved scratch resistance and abrasion resistance while maintaining a reflection reducing effect, and an antireflection-treated article provided with such an antireflection film. The curable fluorine-containing polymer has a number average molecular weight of from 500 to 1,000,000 and is represented by the formula (1):AM&#x2003;&#x2003;(1)in which the structural unit M is a structural unit derived from a fluorine-containing ethylenic monomer and represented by the formula (M): 

Curable fluorine-containing polymer, curable resin composition prepared from same and antireflection film

It is possible to provide the heat resistant material and coating material for OA equipment which comprise a fluorine-containing multi-segment polymer having heat resistance, abrasion resistance, non-sticking property against toner and oil resistance in addition to flexibility and are used particularly on surfaces of fuser roll and belt. Those materials comprise a fluorine-containing multi-segment polymer having an elastomeric fluorine-containing polymer chain segment A and a non-elastomeric fluorine-containing polymer chain segment B, and the elastomeric fluorine-containing polymer chain segment A comprises not less than 90% by mole of perhaloolefin unit as a recurring unit and imparts flexibility to the whole polymer.

Heat-resistant material and coating material for OA equipments having flexibility

There is provided a method of forming a thin film of vinylidene fluoride homopolymer having crystal form I which is applicable to various substrates in relatively easy way (coating conditions, application method, etc.), a process for preparing a vinylidene fluoride homopolymer having crystal form I efficiently at high purity, and novel vinylidene fluoride homopolymers which can give a thin film being excellent in ferroelectricity. The method of forming a thin film of vinylidene fluoride homopolymer comprises (i) a step for preparing a green powder product of vinylidene fluoride homopolymer comprising crystal form I alone or as main component by subjecting vinylidene fluoride to radical polymerization in the presence of a bromine compound or iodine compound having 1 to 20 carbon atoms which contains at least one moiety represented by &#x2014;CRfRfX, wherein Xis iodine atom or bromine atom; Rfand Rfare the same or different and each is selected from fluorine atom or perfluoroalkyl groups having 1 to 5 carbon atoms and (ii) a step for forming a thin film on a substrate surface by using vinylidene fluoride homopolymer which comprises crystal form I alone or as main component and is obtained from the green powder product of vinylidene fluoride homopolymer comprising crystal form I alone or as main component.

There are provided a novel norbornene derivative which is a material for a chemically amplifying type photoresist for Flaser, possesses excellent transparency and improved dry etching resistivity and has a fluorine-containing ketone unit or fluorine-containing tertiary alcohol unit directly bonded to the norbornene backbone; a fluorine-containing polymer obtained by using the norbornene derivative as a copolymerizable monomer; and a chemically amplifying type photoresist composition comprising the fluorine-containing polymer, a photoacid generator and a solvent.

Process for preparing fluorine-containing norbornene derivative

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