Abstract: A board unit with support which does not require a high-energy UV laser and which is less likely to form residues of the release layer after separation of the support, a board unit, and a semiconductor device, and a method of producing them. The board unit with support includes a support, a release layer, a laser absorption layer that absorbs laser light, and at least one first wiring board in this order, wherein the at least one first wiring board has a first surface provided with first electrodes that can be bonded to at least one semiconductor element, the at least one first wiring board has a second surface provided with second electrodes that can be bonded to a second wiring board.

Abstract: An electrode catalyst layer has a first surface configured to be in contact with a polymer electrolyte membrane in a membrane electrode assembly, and a second surface facing away from the first surface. The electrode catalyst layer includes a first portion including the first surface, and a second portion having a layer shape and being laminated on the first portion. The electrode catalyst layer contains a first catalyst containing platinum and a second catalyst containing transition metal oxide. The first catalyst has catalytic activity higher than that of the second catalyst. A density of the first catalyst in the electrode catalyst layer is highest in a region including the first surface in the first portion. A maximum value of the density of the first catalyst in the second portion is smaller than a minimum value of the density of the first catalyst in the first portion.

Abstract: A gate insulating layer includes a first gate insulating film including an organic polymer compound and covering a second part of a support surface and a gate electrode layer, and second gate insulating film including an inorganic silicon compound and sandwiched between the first gate insulating film and a semiconductor layer. The second gate insulating film has a thickness of 2 nm or greater and 30 nm or less, and the second gate insulating film has a hydrogen content of 5 at % or more and 13 at % or less so as to enhance the electrical durability of the thin film transistor against bending of the flexible substrate.

Abstract: A decorative sheet comprises a substrate layer; a pattern layer provided on the first front surface of the substrate layer; and a thermoplastic resin layer provided on the second front surface of the pattern layer. A test piece of 8 mm width from the decorative sheet is taken; the storage modulus is measured with an initial chuck distance of 10.77 mm, a start temperature of 30° C., an end temperature of 150° C., a temperature increase rate of 5° C./min, and a measurement frequency of 1.0 Hz. The ratio of the difference between the second storage modulus and a third storage modulus when the decorative sheet changes from the transition region to a rubbery flat region to the difference between a first storage modulus when the environmental temperature is 30° C. and a second storage modulus when the decorative sheet changes from a glassy region to a transition region is 3.5 or less.

Abstract: A membrane electrode assembly includes: a polymer electrolyte membrane; a first electrocatalyst layer and a second electrocatalyst layer sandwiching the polymer electrolyte membrane while being in contact therewith; a fuel electrode diffusion layer which is a gas diffusion layer laminated on the first electrocatalyst layer to form a fuel electrode; and an air electrode diffusion layer which is a gas diffusion layer laminated on the second electrocatalyst layer to form an air electrode. The air electrode diffusion layer has a Gurley value of 80 seconds or less in a thickness direction thereof, which is smaller than a Gurley value of the fuel electrode diffusion layer in a thickness direction thereof, the Gurley value indicating air permeability.

Abstract: A gas barrier film includes a substrate containing polypropylene or polyethylene as a main ingredient, the substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface; and a gas barrier layer arranged to face the first surface of the substrate. The second surface of the substrate has a wetting tension of 21 mN/m 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: There is provided a resin-impregnated decorative paper (2) formed by impregnating a decorative paper (4) with an impregnating resin (5). The decorative paper (4) includes: a base paper (6); a picture pattern layer (7) provided on a surface (6a) side of the base paper (6); a filling layer (8) provided on a surface (7a) of the picture pattern layer (7); and a foamed resin layer (9) provided on a surface (8a) of the filling layer (8). The filling layer (8) contains at least one of an epoxy-based resin, an acrylic-based resin, a urethane-based resin, and a casein-based resin.

Abstract: A light control sheet including a light control sheet body having a front surface and a back surface, the light control sheet body including a first film including a transparent electrode layer, a second film including a transparent electrode layer, a liquid crystal layer formed between the first and second films, and a sealant covering an edge portion of the liquid crystal layer. The second film has a second film contact surface which includes a portion in contact with the liquid crystal layer, and further includes a second film outer peripheral part on which the sealant is formed, the second film outer peripheral part is extended along the edge portion of the liquid crystal layer, and when viewed in a first direction from the front surface to the back surface, the second film outer peripheral part does not overlap the first film or the liquid crystal layer.

Abstract: A range imaging device includes a light-receiving unit including at least one pixel circuit including a photoelectric conversion element that generates charge in response to incident light, N (N?3) charge storage units that integrate charge in a frame cycle, and transfer transistors, and a pixel drive circuit that causes the transfer transistors to distribute charge to the charge storage units with integration timing synchronizing with light pulses, a light source unit that emits light pulses; a range image processing unit that calculates a distance to an object based on integrated charges, and a measurement control unit that calculates a thinning time of not integrating charge, according to integrated charge in the charge storage units, the distance, and intensity of the incident light. The measurement control unit controls integration of charge with a thinning time set in a measurement zone corresponding to the distance from the light-receiving unit.

Abstract: A range imaging device includes a light source unit, a light-receiving unit, and a range image processing unit that computes a distance to an object. The range image processing unit performs multiple measurements different in relative timing relationship between an emission timing and an accumulation timing, extracts a feature amount based on the amounts of charge accumulated at the measurements, determines whether reflection light of a light pulse has been received by pixels in a single path or via multipath propagation, based on tendency of the extracted feature amount, and calculates the distance to the object present in a measurement space in accordance with a result of the determination.

Abstract: A distance image capturing device includes a light source, a photodiode configured to generate a charge corresponding to received light, and a peripheral circuit configured to control an operation of the pixel circuit unit, in which the peripheral circuit generates a first transfer control pulse and a second transfer control pulse based on the magnitude relationship between a first charge amount accumulated in a first floating diffusion unit and a second charge amount accumulated in a second floating diffusion unit.

Abstract: A wiring board that facilitates narrowing a pitch of bonding terminals used for bonding to a semiconductor chip, providing finer wiring in a substrate and reducing cost, and is capable of achieving high connection reliability. A composite wiring board includes: a first wiring board; a second wiring board facing the first wiring board and bonded to the first wiring board, a distance from the second wiring board to the first wiring board being greater at a peripheral part than at a center part of the second wiring board; and a sealing resin layer interposed between the first wiring board and the second wiring board, the sealing resin layer covering an end face of the second wiring board.

Abstract: A range imaging device includes a light-receiving unit including a pixel circuit including a photoelectric conversion element that generates charge according to incident light and N (N?3) charge storage units that integrate charge in frame cycle, and a pixel drive circuit that turns on or off transfer transistors that transmit charge to the charge storage units at integration timing synchronizing with light pulses to distribute and integrate charge; a light source that emits light pulses; a range image processing unit that calculates a distance to object based on charge integrated in the charge storage units; and a measurement control unit that determines measurement zone to which the measurement distance belongs and which is set according to zone threshold set according to distance, integrates charge according to integration time set in the zone, and emits light pulses by increasing pulse period of light pulses according to increase of the integration time.

Abstract: A coating liquid for producing a gas barrier laminate, the coating liquid containing a carboxyl group-containing polymer (a), polyvalent metal-containing particles (b), a surfactant (c), a specific silicon-containing compound (d), and an organic solvent (e). In the coating liquid: the equivalence ratio (bt/at) of the product (bt) of the number of moles and the valency of the polyvalent metal contained in the polyvalent metal-containing particles (b) relative to the number of moles (at) of carboxyl groups contained in the carboxyl group-containing polymer (a) is 0.45 or more and 0.9 or less; and the molar ratio (dt/at) of the number of moles (dt) of the silicon-containing compound (d) relative to the number of moles (at) of the carboxyl groups is 0.7% or more and 7.5% or less.

Abstract: Provided is a gas barrier laminate being capable of hermetic sealing by heat sealing and having a paper substrate and a vapor-deposited layer, in which the paper substrate has a basis weight of 30 to 100 g/m2, and the water vapor transmission rate and the oxygen transmission rate of the gas barrier laminate are in specific ranges, respectively.

Abstract: A card-type medium includes a card body; an exposed component that is accommodated inside an opening formed in a front surface of the card body and is disposed so as to be partially exposed on the front surface; and a circuit board that is embedded in the card body and to which the exposed component is attached. The exposed component includes a first exposed component that is attached to the circuit board with an intermediate spacer interposed therebetween. The first exposed component and the intermediate spacer are joined together by a first conductive joining material. The circuit board and the intermediate spacer are joined together by a second conductive joining material. A joint-forming temperature of the first conductive joining material and a joint-forming temperature of the second conductive joining material are different from each other.

Abstract: A range imaging device includes: a light-receiving unit including a pixel circuit, and a pixel drive circuit that causes transfer transistors to distribute charge to charge storage units, the pixel circuit including a photoelectric conversion element that generates charge in response to incident light, N (N?3) charge storage units that integrates charge in frame cycle, and the transistors that transfer charge to the storage units from the conversion element; a light source that emits light pulses; a range image processing unit that calculates a measurement distance to an object based on the integrated charge in the storage units; and a measurement control unit that calculates integration time with which charge is integrated in the storage units, according to the integrated charge, distance, and intensity of incident light. The control unit decrements the time by a first unit until the integrated charge becomes equal to or smaller than a first threshold.

Abstract: The optical sheet includes: a first adhesive layer containing an adhesive and a colorant, the first adhesive layer having opposite first and second surfaces; and an ultraviolet shielding layer arranged to face the first surface. The colorant contains at least one of a first coloring material having a maximum absorption wavelength in a range of 470 to 530 nm and an absorption spectral half width of 15 to 45 nm, a second coloring material having a maximum absorption wavelength in a range of 560 to 620 nm and an absorption spectral half width of 15 to 55 nm, and a third coloring material in which a wavelength having the lowest transmittance in a wavelength range of 400 to 800 nm is in a range of 650 to 800 nm. The ultraviolet shielding layer has an ultraviolet shielding rate of 85% or more. ?E * ab.

Abstract: An optical film includes a substrate, an optical function layer, and a colored layer. The substrate has an ultraviolet shielding rate of 85% or higher according to JIS L 1925. The optical function layer is formed on a first surface side of the substrate. The colored layer is formed on a second surface side. A difference ?E*ab between chromaticities before and after a lightfastness test is 5 or less. A first coloring material includes a maximum absorption wavelength of 470 to 530 nm and an absorption spectrum half width of 15 to 45 nm. A second coloring material includes a maximum absorption wavelength of 560 to 620 nm and an absorption spectrum half width of 15 to 55 nm. A third coloring material has a wavelength having the lowest transmittance in a wavelength range of 400 to 800 nm is in a range of 650 to 800 nm.