Fujifilm Corporation

Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Yuki Matsunami

Shintaro Washizu

Takatoshi Kinoshita

Masayuki Naya

Shinya Hakuta

Tadashi Kuriki

Masaya Nakayama

Takeharu Tani

Yasushi Endo

Akihiro Hashimoto

Nobuyuki Tada

Kentaro Okazaki

Naoharu Kiyoto

Shinichi Nakai

Yasuhiro Mitamura

Koh Kamada

Reona Ikeda

Provided are a transparent base material film laminate that is used by being arranged on the viewing side of a polarizing plate of an image display device having a backlight light source and the polarizing plate, the laminate having a first transparent base material film and a second transparent base material film, in which a Re of the first transparent base material film is 4,000 nm or more, the laminate is arranged for use such that an angle formed between a slow axis of the first transparent base material film and an absorption axis of the polarizing plate is 45&#xb0;&#xb1;20&#xb0; and such that an angle formed between a slow axis of the second transparent base material film and the absorption axis of the polarizing plate is 90&#xb0;&#xb1;30&#xb0; or 0&#xb0;&#xb1;30&#xb0;, an angle formed between the slow axes of the first transparent base material film and the second transparent base material film is neither 0&#xb0; nor 90&#xb0;, and the second transparent base material film is used by being arranged on the viewing side with respect to the first transparent base material film.

Transparent base material film laminate, touch panel sensor film, touch panel, image display device, and method for improving visibility of image display device

A heat ray-shielding material including a metal particle-containing layer containing at least one kind of metal particle. The metal particle contains substantially hexagonal or substantially discoidal metallic flat particles in an amount of 60% by number or more. The main planes of the metallic flat particles are oriented at an angle ranging from 0&#xb0; to &#xb1;30&#xb0; relative to one surface of the metal particle-containing layer.

Heat ray-shielding material

A composition for forming a silver ion diffusion-suppressing layer includes an insulating resin and a compound including: a structure selected from the group consisting of a triazole structure, a thiadiazole structure and a benzimidazole structure; a mercapto group; and at least one hydrocarbon group optionally containing a heteroatom, with the total number of carbon atoms in the hydrocarbon group or groups being 5 or more. The composition for forming a silver ion diffusion-suppressing layer allows formation of a silver ion diffusion-suppressing layer capable of suppressing silver ion migration between metal interconnects containing silver or a silver alloy to improve the reliability on the insulation between the metal interconnects.

Composition for forming silver ion diffusion-suppressing layer, film for silver ion diffusion-suppressing layer, circuit board, electronic device, conductive film laminate, and touch panel

A capacitance type touch panel includes: an insulating layer; a plurality of electrode portions; a plurality of lead-out wiring portions; a transparent resin layer; and a substrate disposed on the transparent resin layer, wherein at least on the surface of the peripheral edge of the transparent resin layer exposed between the insulating layer and the substrate and on the exposed surface of the lead-out wiring portions, a sealing layer is disposed, and the sealing layer has a moisture vapor transmittance equal to or less than 20 g/m/24 h/atm (25&#xb0; C., 90% RH, 25 &#x3bc;m), and has a thickness equal to or greater than 1.0 &#x3bc;m.

Capacitance type touch panel, manufacturing method of the same, and input device

A fine structure body comprises: (i) a base body, and (ii) a plurality of metal nanorods, which have been distributed and located on a surface of the base body, a proportion X being equal to at least 15%, the proportion X being calculated with the formula:()/100[%]wherein A represents the sum total of the projected areas of all of the metal nanorods, B represents the sum total of the projected areas of certain metal nanorods, each of which is located as an isolated metal nanorod at a spacing larger than 10 nm from the closest metal nanorod, and C represents the entire projected area of the fine structure body, including regions free from the metal nanorods.

Fine structure body, process for producing the same, and Raman spectroscopic method and apparatus

It is an object of the present invention to provide a process for producing nano-particles, capable of efficiently producing monodisperse nano-particles substantially uniform in particle size and composition, and freely controllable in particle size and composition at low cost. The process for producing nano-particles comprises a particle precursor capturing step in which a liquid containing the particle precursor is incorporated in another liquid containing dendritic branching molecules to capture the particle precursor by the dendritic branching molecule, and particle forming step in which the particle precursor captured by the dendritic branching molecule is transformed into the particle.

Nano-particles and process for producing nano-particles

A target detection apparatus is provided which can detect and quantitatively measure various detection targets such as pathogens. For this purpose, the apparatus comprises an optical irradiation unit which irradiates light; an optical interference unit which can interact with the detection target, interferes with the light irradiated from the optical irradiation unit and radiates it as interference light and change the wavelength of the interference light after interaction with the detection target; and an wavelength change detecting unit which detects the wavelength change of the interference light radiated by the optical interference unit. The wavelength change detecting unit preferably measures spectrums before and after wavelength change of the interference light, and their differential spectrum. Also provided is a target detection substrate comprising a film-like material on a substrate which, when interacting with a detection target, changes the wavelength of the interference light.

Target detecting apparatus, target detection method and target detection substrate

Provided are optical switches applicable to various safety apparatuses which can control an operation of a circuit by detecting a switching signal such as pathogens and toxic substances, and safety apparatuses using the optical switches. The optical switch comprises an optical irradiation unit to irradiate light; an optical interference unit which can interact with a switching signal, interferes with light irradiated from the optical irradiation unit and radiates it as interference light, and can vary the wavelength of the interference light after interaction with the switching signal; and a switching unit which is provided in the path of the interference light, detects a wavelength change of the interference light, and conducts one of activating and deactivating a circuit. The safety appatatus comprises the optical switch and a hazard evasive apparatus activating unit which activates a hazard evasive apparatus using the optical switch.

Optical switch and safety apparatus using the same

A microcapsule which includes a polymer as a capsule wall of the microcapsule, in which the polymer is obtained by polymerizing a dendritic branching molecule having a hydroxyl group in a terminal thereof, an isocyanate compound, and a compound having two or more active hydrogen atoms in a molecule thereof. A process for manufacturing a microcapsule includes the step of polymerizing an isocyanate compound, a dendritic branching molecule having a hydroxyl group in a terminal thereof, and a compound having two or more active hydrogen atoms in a molecule thereof, so as to form a capsule wall of the microcapsule.

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Shizuoka, Japan

Yuki Matsunami