Abstract: Anisotropic conductive films, each including an insulating adhesive layer and conductive particles insulating adhesive layer in a lattice-like manner. Among center distances between an arbitrary conductive particle and conductive particles adjacent to the conductive particle, the shortest distance to the conductive particle is a first center distance; the next shortest distance is a second center distance. These center distances are 1.5 to 5 times the conductive particles' diameter. The arbitrary conductive particle, conductive particle spaced apart from the conductive particle by the first center distance, conductive particle spaced apart from the conductive particle by first center distance or second center distance form an acute triangle. Regarding this acute triangle, an acute angle formed between a straight line orthogonal to a first array direction passing through the conductive particles and second array direction passing through conductive particles being 18 to 35°.

Abstract: An optical device capable of achieving desired polarization properties including a light source, incident-side polarizing element, optical modulating element, emission-side first polarizing element, and emission-side second polarizing element, the first and second polarizing elements each have a wire-grid structure and include a plurality of convex portions arranged on a transparent substrate and spaced apart from each other at a pitch shorter than the wavelength of light in the light source, the transmission axis of the first polarizing element relative to the transmission axis of the incident-side polarizing element is within ±8.

Abstract: An anti-fogging and anti-fouling laminate including: a substrate; and an anti-fogging and anti-fouling layer on the substrate, the anti-fogging and anti-fouling layer having a flat surface, wherein a hexadecane contact angle of the anti-fogging and anti-fouling layer is 10° or less, the anti-fogging and anti-fouling layer is a cured product of an active energy ray-curable resin composition, and the active energy ray-curable resin composition includes a hydrophilic monomer.

Abstract: Provided is a multilayer substrate including laminated semiconductor substrates each having a penetrating hole (hereinafter referred to as through hole) having a plated film formed in the inner surface. The multilayer substrate has excellent conduction characteristics and can be manufactured at low cost. Conductive particles are selectively present at a position where the through holes face each other as viewed in a plan view of the multilayer substrate. The multilayer substrate has a connection structure in which the facing through holes are connected by the conductive particles, and the semiconductor substrates each having the through hole are bonded by an insulating adhesive.

Abstract: There is provided a novel and improved resin laminated optical body and a method for manufacturing the same that can easily adjust an optical property other than an optical property derived from a micro concave-convex structure, and eventually can reduce manufacturing costs of an optical device. The resin laminated optical body includes: an optical base material having a curved surface; and a resin layer provided on the curved surface of the optical base material. A micro concave-convex structure is formed in a surface of the resin layer, and the resin laminated optical body has a first optical property derived from the micro concave-convex structure and a second optical property derived from a property of the resin layer other than the micro concave-convex structure, the second optical property being different from an optical property of the optical base material.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a connection body, and a method for connecting a component, which can secure conduction reliability by trapping conductive particles even when the bump size is minimized. The method includes a disposing step of disposing a filler-containing film having a filler-aligned layer in which individual independent fillers are aligned in a binder resin layer between a first component having a first electrode and a second component having a second electrode; a temporary fixing step of pressing the first component or the second component to sandwich the filler-aligned layer; and a final compression boding step of further pressing the first component or the second component after the temporary fixing step to connect the first electrode and the second electrode.

Abstract: There is provided a novel and improved optical body, master, and method for manufacturing an optical body in which the anti-reflection characteristics are improved even further, and fabrication is facilitated, the optical body having a concave-convex structure in which structures having convex shapes or concave shapes are arrayed on an average cycle less than or equal to visible light wavelengths. The structures have an asymmetric shape with respect to any one plane direction perpendicular to a thickness direction of the optical body. Accordingly, the anti-reflection characteristics are improved even further, and fabrication is facilitated.

Abstract: Provided is a wire grid polarizing element excellent in heat dissipation and excellent in transmissivity and polarization splitting properties for oblique incident light at wide-range incident angles. A wire grid polarizing element 1 of a hybrid type made of an inorganic material and an organic material includes a substrate 10 made of the inorganic material, a grid structural body 20 made of the organic material and including a base part 21 provided on the substrate 10 and a plurality of ridge portions 22, the base part and the ridge portions being integrally formed, and a functional film 30 made of a metal material and covering part of the ridge portion 22. The ridge portion 22 has an upward narrowing shape that narrows in width with distance from the base part 21. The functional film 30 covers and wraps the top of the ridge portion 22, and does not cover a bottom side of the ridge portion 22 and the base part 21.

Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing an optical device capable of surely curing a photocurable resin composition. The method for manufacturing an optical device 1 in which an optical member 2 and a transparent panel 4 are bonded together via a cured resin layer 3 includes: a step of forming, on one of the optical member 2 and the transparent panel 4, a wall 12 surrounding a forming region for the cured resin layer 3 and having at least one opening 13; a step of laminating the optical member 2 and the transparent panel 4 to form a laminated body 10 in which a resin filling space 14 surrounded by the wall 12 is formed between the optical member 2 and the transparent panel 4; a step of filling the resin filling space 14 of the laminated body 10 with a photocurable resin composition 30; and a step of curing the photocurable resin composition 30 to form the cured resin layer 3.

Abstract: This protection element is provided with a first terminal, as well as a second terminal and a third terminal that are connected to the first terminal. Regarding the electrical resistance of a fuse element connecting the first terminal and the second terminal, at least a portion of a fuse element connecting the first terminal and the third terminal has a higher electrical resistance than the fuse element connecting the first terminal and the second terminal.

Abstract: This optical laminate contains a transparent substrate, an optical functional layer and an antifouling layer laminated in that order, wherein when a light with a wavelength of 380 nm to 780 nm from a standard light source D65 is incident upon the optical laminate at an incident angle within a range from 5° to 50° relative to the surface, the a* value and the b* value in the CIE-Lab color system of the reflected light are within the same quadrant of the a*b* plane.

Abstract: The optical device 1 according to the present disclosure includes substrates 10 provided opposite to each other, a partition wall 20 formed between opposing faces of the substrates 10 and separating adjacent spaces, and a fluid 30 filled in each space 20b separated by the partition wall and containing an electric field control material, wherein the optical device further includes, between at least one of the substrates 10 and the partition wall 20, a fine uneven layer 40 having fine uneven shapes and a conductive layer 50 formed according to a shape of the fine uneven layer.

Abstract: Provided is a polarizing plate 1 having a wire grid structure, the polarizing plate 1 comprising: a transparent substrate 10; and grid protrusions 11 provided over the transparent substrate 10, arranged in an array having a pitch shorter than a wavelength of light in a band to be used, and extending in a predetermined direction, the grid protrusions 11 having a reflective layer 13, a dielectric layer 14, and an absorptive layer 15 that are disposed in this order in a direction away from the transparent substrate 10, and the reflective layer 13 having a maximum width b that is smaller than each of a maximum width of the dielectric layer and a maximum width of the absorptive layer (grid width a). This makes it possible to provide a polarizing plate capable of controlling the wavelength dispersion of absorption axis reflectance more accurately.

Abstract: Provided is a thermally conductive sheet which is highly flexible and of which the thermal resistance value has small load dependency. A thermally conductive sheet 1 contains a curable resin composition 2, a flaky thermally conductive filler 3, and a non-flaky thermally conductive filler 4, wherein the amount of change between the thermal resistance value at load of 1 kgf/cm2 and the thermal resistance value at load in a range greater than 1 kgf/cm2 and not greater than 3 kgf/cm2 is not greater than 0.4° C.·cm2/W, and the amount of change between the compression rate at load of 3 kgf/cm2 and the compression rate at load of 1 kgf/cm2 is not less than 20%.

Abstract: Provided are an extract, which is a fractionated component 1 of a water extract of a plant powder, wherein the fractionated component 1 is a fractionated component having a fractionation molecular weight of 12,000 or greater, wherein an ethanol-undissolved component of the fractionated component 1 exhibits a peak attributable to carboxylic acid in a Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) measurement and exhibits a peak attributable to cellulose in a gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS) measurement, and wherein an ethanol-dissolved component of the fractionated component 1 exhibits a peak attributable to carboxylic acid in the FT-IR measurement and exhibits a peak attributable to a plant protein in the GC-MS measurement, and a water-purifying agent containing the extract.

Abstract: Provided is a polarizing plate having a wire grid structure, comprising a transparent substrate, a first antireflection film laminated on the first surface of the transparent substrate, a plurality of protrusions protruding from the first antireflection film, a second antireflection layer laminated on a second surface opposite to the first surface, wherein the plurality of protrusions are periodically arranged at a pitch shorter than a wavelength of light in a use band, each of the protrusions extends in in a first direction and includes a reflective layer, a dielectric layer, and an absorption layer in order from the first direction, and both the first antireflection layer and the second antireflection layer have high refractive index layers and low refractive index layers that are alternately laminated.

Abstract: Provided are a conductive laminate capable of achieving both high transmittance and low electric resistance, and various optical devices equipped with the same. A conductive laminate (1) includes a first transparent material layer (3), a metal layer (4) mainly composed of silver, and a second transparent material layer (5) laminated on at least one surface of a transparent substrate (2) in this order from the side of the transparent substrate (2), wherein the first transparent material layer (3) is composed of a zinc-free metal oxide, the second transparent material layer (5) is composed of a zinc-containing metal oxide, and the metal layer (4) has a thickness of 7 nm or more.

Abstract: A protective element includes: a fuse element which includes a blowout portion between a first end portion and a second end portion, and is energized in a first direction; and a case having a housing portion housing the blowout portion therein. A length in a thickness direction in a cross section perpendicular to the first direction of the blowout portion is less than or equal to a length in a width direction perpendicular to the thickness direction in the cross section. A first wall surface and a second wall surface that face each other in the thickness direction are provided in the housing portion. A distance in the thickness direction between the first wall surface and the second wall surface is 10 times or less the length in the thickness direction of the blowout portion.

Abstract: An optical body that has excellent anti-reflection performance and transmittance for light having wavelengths in the visible light band and good absorption performance for light having wavelengths in the near-infrared band is provided. To solve the above problem, the present disclosure provides an optical body 100 including a base material 20, a dye-containing resin layer 30 formed on the base material 20, and an anti-reflection layer 40 formed on the resin layer 30 and having a micro uneven structure in at least one surface. The average spectral transmittance of the optical body 100 for light in a wavelength range of 420 to 680 nm is 60% or greater, and the minimum spectral transmittance of the optical body 100 for light in a wavelength range of 750 to 1400 nm is less than 60%.