Konica Corporation

Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.

Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.

Konica Corporation, a Corporation of Japan

Toshiaki Shibue

Makoto Honda

Sota Kawakami

Noriyasu Kuzuhara

Hiroki Umeda

Takatoshi Yajima

Nobuo Kubo

Koichi Nagayasu

Hirokazu Koyama

Shinichi Nakamura

Masayuki Kurematsu

Takashi Murakami

Yoshitaka Yasufuku

Kunitsuna Sasaki

Masao Ishihara

Katsumi Maejima

Masayoshi Mayama

Kazumasa Matsumoto

Naoto Abe

Toshiyuki Hagiwara

Tohru Kobayashi

Kouji Tokitou

Kazuyuki Shimizu

Katsuhito Yamanaka

A polarizing plate comprising a polarizing film having thereon a retardation film containing a plasticizer and a cellulose ester, wherein a free volume radius of the retardation film determined by positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy is in the range of 0.250-0.310 nm.

Polarizing plate and display using the same

Disclosed is an anti-glare anti-reflection film having a low haze and reduced in unevenness and dazzle. The film contains a thermoplastic resin film and at least a hard coat layer and an anti-reflection layer provided on a first surface of the thermoplastic resin film. In the film, a first convexoconcave structure that can give an anti-glare property is provided on the first surface of the thermoplastic resin film or the surface of a layer provided on the first surface of the thermoplastic resin film, and a second convexoconcave structure that can give an anti-glare property is provided on a second surface which is the other surface of the thermoplastic resin film or the surface of a layer provided on the second surface of the thermoplastic resin film. The anti-glare anti-reflection film has an average film thickness of 20 to 70 &#x3bc;m.

Method of manufacturing an anti-glare anti-reflection film

The method to produce the vertical alignment type liquid crystal display employs

Method for producing vertical alignment liquid crystal display

Disclosed is an optically anisotropic film used for a liquid crystal display of a vertical alignment liquid crystal mode comprising a fatty acid cellulose aster film, a retardation value (Rt value) in the thickness direction of the fatty acid cellulose ester film is from 60 to 300 nm, and the number of luminescent points having a size exceeding 50 &#x3bc;m is zero per 250 mm, and the number of luminescent points having a size of 5 to 50 &#x3bc;m is 200 or less per 250 mmwhen the fatty acid cellulose ester film is observed with two polarizing plates being provided on both surfaces of the fatty acid cellulose ester film so as to shield transmission light.

Optical film and liquid crystal display using the same

An optically anisotropic film is disclosed. The film comprises a fatty acid cellulose ester film support having an acetyl group and a propionyl group, and a liquid crystal layer containing a liquid crystal compound, or a resin layer containing polyimide, polyamidoimide, polyamide, polyether imide, polyether ether ketone, polyether ketone, polyketone sulfide, polyether sulfone, polysulfone, polyphenylene sulfide, polyphenylene oxide, polyethylene terephthalate, polybutylene terephthalate, polyethylene naphthalate, polyacetal, polycarbonate, polyallylate, acrylic resin, polyvinyl alcohol, polypropylene, cellulose based plastics, epoxy resin, or phenol resin.

A film for a liquid crystal display comprising a fatty acid cellulose ester film having an acetyl group and a propionyl group is disclosed. Sum of degree of acetyl substitution (DSac) and degree of propionyl substitution (DSpr) of the fatty acid cellulose ester film of the film is 2.8 or less, and a retardation value (Rt value) in the thickness direction define by Formula 1 is 60 to 300 nm.

A film for a liquid crystal display comprising a fatty acid celluose ester film having an acetyl group and a propionyl group is disclosed. Sum of degree of acetyl substitution (DSac) and degree of propionyl substitution (DSpr) of the fatty acid celluose ester film of the film is 2.8 or less, and a retardation value (Rt value) in the thickness direction defined by Formula 1 is 60 to 300 nm.

A film for a liquid crystal display comprising a fatty acid cellulose ester film having an acetyl group and a propionyl group is disclosed. Sum of degree of acetyl substitution (DSac) and degree of propionyl substitution (DSpr) of the fatty acid cellulose ester film of the film is 2.8 or less, and a retardation value (Rt value) in the thickness direction defined by Formula 1 is 60 to 300 nm.

A support for rolled light-sensitive photographic materials is disclosed. The support is composed of at least three polyester films laminated, in which outer layers are comprised of copolyester; at least one interlayer is comprised of the mixture of said copolyester and homopolyester; the total film thickness is between 105 and 130 &mgr;pm; the total thickness of interlayers is between 45 and 85 &mgr;m; and the ratio of said copolyester in the mixture layer of said copolyester and said homopolyester is between 10 and 40 percent by weight.

Support for rolled light-sensitive photographic material

A film for a liquid crystal display comprising a fatty acid cellulose ester film having an acetyl group and a propionyl group is disclosed. The sum of degree of acetyl substitution (DSac) and degree of propionyl substitution (DSpr) of the fatty acid cellulose ester film of the film is 2.8 of less, and a retardation value (Rt value) in the thickness direction defined by Formula 1 is 60 to 300 nm.

Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a cellulose ester film, the method comprising the steps of dissolving a cellulose ester and a plasticizer in a solvent containing a cyclic diether solvent to obtain a cellulose ester solution, casting the solution on a support to form a cellulose ester film, separating the cellulose ester film from the support, and drying the separated film, wherein the water content of the solution is 0.06 to 15 weight %, and the residual solvent content in the film at the separation step is 50 to 450 weight %.

Cellulose ester film manufacturing method

A method for producing an information recording medium is disclosed. The method comprising the steps of (1) applying a surface treatment on a surface of a film support so that the atomic percentage of oxygen at said surface is increased by 1.0 atomic-% to 10 atomic-% compared to the atomic percentage of oxygen at said surface before treatment, (2) providing a subbing layer comprising a water-soluble or water-dispersible polymer having a 2-oxazoline group represented by Formula A on said treated surface of the film support so that the subbing layer is directly adjoined to said surface, and (3) providing an information recording layer on said subbing layer, ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are each independently a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an aralkyl group, a phenyl group.

Method for producing information recording medium

This invention is a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising a paper support bearing thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing a hydroxytetrazaindene.

Silver halide photographic light-sensitive element

A magnetic recording medium is disclosed which comprises a support, and a magnetic layer comprising a specific binder resin, a fatty acid or a fatty acid ester and a magnetic particle. The binder resin comprises a monomer unit of vinyl chloride, a monomer unit having an alkalin metal salt of sulfonic acid or an alkaline salt of phosphoric acid and a monomer unit having an epoxy group. The magnetic recording medium is improved in a dispersibility of magnetic particles, a durability for still picture reproduction, a stability in running and in a S/N ratio of luminance.

Magnetic recording medium

A light-sensitive silver halide photographic element having (a) a cured coated layer on at least one surface of a support material, said cured coated layer having been formed by curing a composition with electron beam radiation, said composition prior to curing comprising (i) a compound having two or more unsaturated double bonds in its molecule which is curable by electron beam irradiation, (ii) an inorganic white pigment and (iii) a coupling agent having two or more different reactive groups in its molecule, one of said reactive groups being chemically reactive with the inorganic white pigment to form a chemical bond therewith and said other reactive group being chemically reactive with said compound (i) to form a chemical bond therewith and (b) at least one layer of silver halide emulsion on said coated layer.

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Hino, Japan

Toshiaki Shibue