Abstract: A transparent substrate for a liquid crystal device includes an alignment layer that regulates an alignment direction of liquid crystal molecules contained in a liquid crystal layer of the liquid crystal device, and a base layer on which the alignment layer is formed. The transparent substrate includes a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The first surface is a surface of the alignment layer, and the second surface is a surface of the base layer. The coefficient of static friction between the first surface and the second surface is less than or equal to 1.3. The transparent substrate has a hardness of F or higher in a pencil harness test on the first surface or on a surface of the base layer opposite the second surface.

Abstract: A target object management system includes a first device attached to a target object and configured to transmit and receive data to and from an access point in a predetermined first communication range by a communication system of a LPWA, a second device attached to the target object and configured to transmit and receive data to and from a predetermined terminal in a second communication range narrower than the first communication range of the first device by a communication system different from the LPWA, and a management server configured to detect a position of the target object from a first installation position at which the access point is installed and a second installation position at which the terminal is installed. The management server is configured to manage first identification information for identifying the first device and second identification information for identifying the second device in association with each other.

Abstract: The weather resistance testing apparatus includes a pressurizable container, a sample holder, and a light irradiation device having a light source. The pressurizable container has a quartz glass plate that can transmit light. The sample holder is disposed in the pressurizable container and can hold a sample. In this weather resistance testing apparatus, the light irradiation device is disposed outside the pressurizable container and irradiates the sample with light from the light source via the quartz glass plate.

Abstract: A multilayer wiring board that improves the reliability of connection at a via hole connection portion, and a method for producing the multilayer wiring board. In a multilayer wiring board comprising a plurality of metal wiring layers alternately laminated with insulating layers interposed therebetween are electrically connected to each other via a via hole plated layer, wherein a dissimilar metallic layer, made from material different from that of the metal wiring layers, is interposed between each of the metal wiring layers on the bottom surface of the via hole and the via hole plated layer, and the dissimilar metallic layer interposed between the each of the metal wiring layers on the bottom surface of the via hole and the via hole plated layer is arranged in a concave shape on the surface of the concave portion formed in the metal wiring layer on the bottom surface of the via hole.

Abstract: A transparent substrate for a liquid crystal device includes an alignment layer that regulates an alignment direction of liquid crystal molecules contained in a light control layer included in a light control sheet, which is the liquid crystal device, and a base layer on which the alignment layer is formed. The substrate includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The first surface is part of the alignment layer. The second surface is part of the base layer. A surface, which contacts the alignment layer, of the base layer has surface roughness Ra1 of 20 nm or less in a pencil hardness test. A sum Ra1+Ra2 of the surface roughness Ra1 and surface roughness Ra2 of the second surface is 5 nm or more.

Abstract: An examination marker for use in diagnostic imaging using microwaves. The examination marker includes a marker main body to be attached to an examination target. The marker main body is capable of displaying, on the marker main body, an index for use in scanning the examination target marker and is deformable following the shape of the examination target. The marker main body has a relative permittivity of 10 or less to microwaves at a frequency of 1 GHz.

Abstract: A laminate includes a protective layer; a substrate layer; and a sealant layer, laminated in this order, wherein the substrate layer and the sealant layer contain polyethylene, the protective layer contains a thermosetting resin or a resin having a melting point of 160° C. or higher, and a ratio of polyethylene in the laminate is 90 mass % or more.

Abstract: An avatar management system includes an avatar registration unit configured to register an available avatar by having a storage unit to store the avatar available in a network service provided to an end user on a network, an authentication information assignment unit configured to assign authentication information to a registration target avatar registered in the avatar registration unit, and an authenticity confirmation unit configured to confirm authenticity of a designated avatar based on an assignment condition of the authentication information to the designated avatar, in accordance with an authenticity confirmation inquiry made by designating the avatar used in the network service.

Abstract: A fire extinguishing body includes a substrate and a fire extinguishing agent-containing layer facing the substrate, the substrate having a Young's modulus of 2 MPa or more.

Abstract: A laminate including, a base material layer; a first polyethylene resin layer containing a first polyethylene resin and having a melt flow rate of less than 5 g/10 minutes, and a second polyethylene resin layer containing a second polyethylene resin and having a melt flow rate of 5 to 12 g/10 minutes, in this order, in which a ratio R2 (Mw/Mn) of a weight-average molecular weight Mw to a number average molecular weight Mn of the second polyethylene resin is 7 or less.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging element includes a semiconductor substrate having photoelectric conversion elements, a color filter layer formed on the semiconductor substrate and having types of color filters positioned corresponding to the photoelectric conversion elements, and a microlens array including microlenses positioned corresponding to the color filters. The microlens array includes a PDAF pixel microlens positioned in a PDAF pixel of a pixel array unit and imaging pixel microlenses positioned in imaging pixels of the pixel array unit. The PDAF pixel microlens includes a lens part and a pedestal part adjoining the lens part and has a greater height than the imaging pixel microlenses.

Abstract: A designed electromagnetic wave suppressor includes a design layer, and an electromagnetic wave suppressor having an electromagnetic wave return attenuation of 10 dB or more. A building material includes the designed electromagnetic wave suppressor. An electromagnetic wave suppression chamber includes a room in which at least part of the inner walls is covered with the building material, and a transmitter disposed in the room. A system includes the electromagnetic wave suppression chamber, and a wireless communication device disposed in the electromagnetic wave suppression chamber.

Abstract: A gas barrier film that includes a resin substrate, an underlayer, and a vacuum deposition layer, in which the resin substrate contains a polyolefin resin, and the underlayer contains a polyurethane resin that includes an acid group-containing polyurethane and a polyamine.

Abstract: A light control sheet including a first transparent electrode layer, a second transparent electrode layer, a light control layer including a resin layer formed between the first transparent electrode layer and the second transparent electrode layer, the resin layer including voids dispersed therein and filled with a liquid crystal composition including liquid crystal molecules, and a first orientation layer formed between the first transparent electrode layer and the light control layer such that a haze of the light control layer is increased by applying a voltage to the first transparent electrode layer. The light control layer has a first surface in contact with the first orientation layer, and an area ratio of the voids at the first surface is 49% or more where the area ratio is a percentage of a total area of all the voids to an area of the first surface.

Abstract: A light control layer contains a liquid crystal composition and a resin composition. The liquid crystal composition is composed of a liquid crystal compound having a nematic-isotropic phase transition temperature of 110° C. or greater and 140° C. or less, the resin composition contains an acrylic polymer, a bridging group of the acrylic polymer is a saturated alkyl group having 1 or more and 12 or fewer carbon atoms, and the resin composition contains, in the acrylic polymer, a moiety in which the saturated alkyl group is a linear alkyl group, whereby a light control device operates normally over a wider temperature range.

Abstract: A laminate according to an aspect of the present disclosure is a laminate including a substrate layer, a sealant layer, and an adhesive layer disposed between the substrate layer and the sealant layer, the adhesive layer being in contact with the sealant layer, in which the substrate layer is formed from an unstretched film containing a polyethylene having a density of 0.940 g/cm3 or more as a main component, the sealant layer is formed from an unstretched film containing a polyethylene as a main component, and a content of polyethylene occupying the laminate is 90% by mass or more.

Abstract: A packaging material film according to the present disclosure includes a first resin layer that contains a polyolefin resin and a porous filler. A ratio Y/X of an average particle size Y ?m of the porous filler to a thickness X ?m of the first resin layer is 0.02 to 3.5, and a content percentage of the porous filler in the first resin layer is 0.5 to 30 mass %. A packaging material according to the present disclosure includes a substrate and a packaging material film disposed on the substrate. In the packaging material, the packaging material film is formed of the above packaging material film, and a surface of the first resin layer of the packaging material film on a side opposite from the substrate is exposed.

Abstract: A wiring board manufacturing method including a step A of forming a laser-modified portion in a glass substrate by applying laser light to the glass substrate from a first surface toward an opposite surface thereof; a step B of forming, on the first surface of the glass substrate, a first surface wiring layer including a hydrofluoric acid resistant metal film and a copper layer; a step C of etching a surface of the glass substrate opposite to the first surface to form a through via in the laser-modified portion and form a second surface of the glass substrate, the second surface being an opposite surface to the first surface; a through via treatment step D of removing an etching residue of glass adhered to the hydrofluoric acid resistant metal film; and a step E of forming a through electrode in the through via.

Abstract: A range imaging device includes a light source unit, a light-receiving unit that includes pixel driving circuit and a pixel including a photoelectric conversion element and charge storage units, a storage unit that stores table information in which electric charge ratios are associated with corresponding distances to an object, and a range image processing unit that determines a measured distance to an object using the table information and the amounts of electric charge accumulated in the charge storage units. The range image processing unit calculates the electric charge ratio based on the amounts of electric charge accumulated in the charge storage units, acquires the corresponding distance associated with the calculated electric charge ratio from the table information, and determines the measured distance using the acquired corresponding distance.

Abstract: A decorative material includes a substrate and a decorative sheet laminated on at least one surface of the substrate, the decorative sheet including a printing substrate layer, a pattern layer laminated on one surface of the printing substrate layer, and a surface protective layer laminated on a surface of the pattern layer opposite to a surface facing the printing substrate layer, and the surface protective layer having an antiviral agent and a fluorochrome added thereto.