Abstract: The liquid-repellent structure comprises a major surface to which liquid repellency is imparted, and a liquid-repellent layer formed on the major surface; wherein the liquid-repellent layer contains a scale-like filler having an average particle size of 0.1 to 6 ?m, inclusive, a thermoplastic resin, and a fluorine compound, and has aggregates containing the scale-like filler; and the ratio WS1/(WP+WFC) of the mass WS1 of the scale-like filler contained in the liquid-repellent layer to the sum (WP+WFC) of the mass WP of the thermoplastic resin and the mass WFC of the fluorine compound contained in the liquid-repellent layer is 0.1 to 10 inclusive.

Abstract: A light-field image generation system including a shape information acquisition server that acquires shape information indicating a three-dimensional shape of an object, and an image generation server that is provided with a shape reconstruction unit that reconstructs the three-dimensional shape of the object as a virtual three-dimensional shape in a virtual space based on the shape information and a light-field image generation unit that generates a light-field image of the virtual three-dimensional shape at a predetermined viewing point in the virtual space.

Abstract: Provided is an information display medium that can enhance a forgery prevention effect. An information display medium (100) includes a light reflection layer (20) made of a metal or a metallic oxide and partially or fully placed on one surface of a substrate, and the light reflection layer (20) includes a first region (30) where first information is displayed by either of or a combination of an outline shape and a shape of an uneven region, and a second information display region (21a) where identification information formed by partial material removal of the light reflection layer (20), the second information display region being set to partially or fully overlap with the light reflection layer (20) where the first information is displayed in the first region (30).

Abstract: An aerial display apparatus includes: a display device which displays an image; a mirror device which includes a plurality of optical elements each including two reflective surfaces that are orthogonally disposed, which reflects display light from the display device, and which forms an aerial image at a position that is plane-symmetrical to the display device; and a light shielding member which is disposed on an optical path between the display device and the aerial image, which includes an opening that allows a portion of incident light to pass through, and which shields light incident on a region other than the opening.

Abstract: A water-resistant gas barrier film is provided with a gas barrier layer at least disposed on a substrate film. The gas barrier layer is made from coating liquid comprising (a) at least one of carboxy group-modified polyvinyl alcohol and partially saponified polyvinyl alcohol, (b) completely saponified polyvinyl alcohol, and (c) polyethyleneimine.

Abstract: A gas barrier film includes: a substrate; and a gas barrier layer located on at least one surface of the substrate, the gas barrier layer containing an aqueous polyurethane resin that contains an acid group-containing polyurethane resin and a polyamine compound, a water soluble polymer, and an inorganic layered mineral, wherein, when a region from a top to a bottom of a cross-section of the gas barrier layer in a thickness direction, which is defined as a first region, is equally divided in the thickness direction into 11 strip regions, and a region different from the first region from a top to a bottom of a cross-section of the gas barrier layer in the thickness direction, which is defined as a second region.

Abstract: A method of generating image data by acquiring first image data having a tone value of each pixel for each color and generating second image data. Generating the second image data by selecting a first pixel of the first image data; binarizing the tone value of the first pixel in response to a comparison result showing that the tone value of the first pixel is greater than the first threshold, binarizing the tone value of the first pixel in response to a comparison result showing that the tone value of the first pixel is smaller than the second threshold, and binarizing the tone value of the first pixel in response to a comparison result showing that the tone value of the first pixel is equal to or less than the first threshold and is equal to or greater than the second threshold.

Abstract: A method for detecting a target molecule, including supplying a liquid dispersion of a structural substance including a target molecule into a well array such that the structural substance is introduced into wells of the well array, supplying a sealing solution into the well array such that a layer of the sealing solution is formed on the liquid dispersion in the wells, and that the liquid dispersion is sealed in the wells, extracting the target molecule from the structural substance, and detecting the target molecule.

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 base paper (6), a picture pattern layer (7) provided on a surface (6a) side of the base paper (6), and foaming agents (8) arranged on a surface (7a) of the picture pattern layer (7) or in the picture pattern layer (7) are provided. In the foaming agents (8), the average particle diameter after foaming is set to 15 ?m or more and 250 ?m or less and the foaming start temperature is set to 100° C. or more and 220° C. or less.

Abstract: An authentication medium includes a sheet-like laminate sheet; a first region that is formed on the laminate sheet and where personal identification information is recorded; and a second region that is formed on the laminate sheet and has a hologram structure where check data associated with first individual information is recorded.

Abstract: A glass device including a thin glass substrate which has a glass thickness of 300 ?m or less is enabled to be provided more easily. In a method for manufacturing the glass device, one or more through holes are formed in a glass substrate, and a first wiring on a first surface side of the glass substrate and a second wiring on a second surface side of the glass substrate are electrically connected to each other via the through holes. After the first wiring is provided, the through holes are formed while the glass substrate is being thinned by etching. Then, wirings in the through holes and the second wiring are formed. The thinned glass substrate has a thickness of 50 ?m or more and 300 ?m or less. The through holes have the shape of a truncated cone.

Abstract: A vapor deposition mask includes a front surface, a back surface opposite to the front surface, and inner surfaces defining the respective mask holes. Each mask hole extends between the front surface and the back surface. In a plan view of the front surface, each mask hole includes a large opening, which is located at the front surface, and a small opening, which is located inside the large opening. At least a section of each mask hole has a shape of an inverted frustum extending between the large opening and the small opening. Each inner surface includes a stepped surface spreading from the small opening toward the large opening.

Abstract: A display is provided with a periodic structure that is dielectric and includes a support and a plurality of periodic elements. A plurality of periodic elements is arranged on a reference plane in a two-dimensional lattice form having a sub-wavelength period and are either convexities projected or concavities recessed in the reference plane. A metal layer is disposed on a surface of the periodic structure. The surface corresponds to a plane including a region of the reference plane surrounding the individual periodic elements and surfaces of the periodic elements. The metal layer's profile conforms to a surface profile of the periodic structure. The plurality of periodic elements have an interval therebetween in a first direction in which the plurality of periodic elements are arranged in a two-dimensional lattice form. The interval is different from an interval between the periodic elements in a second direction intersecting the first direction.

Abstract: A primary culture method in which cells contained in a tissue collected from a living body are primary cultured in vitro, in which the cells in the tissue collected from the living body are seeded and cultured on a top surface of a cell structure containing cells constituting a stroma and composed of a single layer or two or more cell layers laminated in the thickness direction.

Abstract: A loop antenna unit including two loop antennas having a same number of turns and different winding directions, the two loop antennas being positioned in line symmetry and not superposed on each other in a plan view. Each of the two loop antennas includes a loop conductive line wound continuously in one direction with n turns, where n is an integer of 3 or more, forming loops from a start point to an end point on the outermost loop or the innermost loop, the loop conductive line being bent in a transitional region in a direction from an outer loop toward an inner loop such that the loops have bent portions positioned side by side from an outermost first loop to an (n?1)th loop in the transitional region, and a jumper wire positioned on the insulating layer to cross the transitional region in a plan view.

Abstract: A thermal transfer ribbon comprising a dye layer and a transferable protective layer repeatedly formed on one surface of a substrate, the transferable protective layer having a first layer formed on the substrate, and a second layer formed on the first layer. The first layer comprises an acrylic resin (X) containing methyl methacrylate, an acrylic resin (Y) containing a styrene resin, and a polyester resin (Z). X has a weight average molecular weight of 120000 or more, the mass ratio of X and Y is within the range of 1:9 to 9:1, and the mass of Z is 1% or more and 3% or less of the total mass of X and Y.

Abstract: A power storage device packaging material includes at least a substrate layer, a metal foil layer having an anticorrosion treatment layer on one or both sides thereof, and a sealant layer in this order. In the packaging material, the sealant layer includes a propylene-based branched polymer-containing layer that contains a propylene-based branched polymer having branched chains.

Abstract: A light control sheet includes a light control layer including a liquid crystal composition, a pair of transparent electrode layers including a first transparent electrode layer and a second transparent electrode layer sandwiching the light control layer, and a pair of transparent support layers sandwiching the light control layer and the pair of transparent electrode layers. The first transparent electrode layer includes an electrode section for an application of a driving voltage and an insulating section which is adjacent to the electrode section in a direction parallel to a surface of the light control sheet and extends along an outer edge of the electrode section in a plan view perpendicular to the surface.

Abstract: A sealant film including a polyolefin layer containing polyolefin as a main ingredient, and a polycycloolefin layer as an outermost layer containing polycycloolefin as a main ingredient. The polycycloolefin contains two or more kinds of structural units selected from a structural unit (A) derived from a dicyclopentadiene compound, a structural unit (B) derived from a tetracyclododecene compound, and a structural unit (C) derived from a norbornene compound, and the polycycloolefin has a glass transition temperature less than or equal to 80° C.