Abstract: A protective panel having touch panel function is used for protecting a front surface of a display device that is disposed so as to be visually recognized from outside, and the protective panel is fitted in a panel fitting part of a casing provided with an opening such that an outer surface of the protective panel forms a flat plane identical with that of the casing with no gap formed therebetween. The protective panel includes: an upper electrode sheet having a decorative layer and upper electrodes provided thereon; and a lower electrode sheet having lower electrodes provided on an upper surface thereof, and the upper electrode sheet and the lower electrode sheet are disposed such that the respective electrodes thereof face with each other.

Abstract: An optical film capable of improving luminance of a display unit, in which a viewing angle in the horizontal direction of emitted light of the display unit is wider than a viewing angle in the vertical direction and the emitted light of the display unit has a polarization component in the vertical direction viewable by polarized sunglasses, an illumination system including the same, and a display unit including the same are provided. The optical film includes a plurality of three-dimensional structures extending in one direction and arranged sequentially in a direction crossing the one direction. The three-dimensional structures contain a liquid crystalline polymer having orientation, and have refractive index anisotropy in which refractive index in the extending direction of the three-dimensional structures is smaller than refractive index in the direction crossing the extending direction of the three-dimensional structures.

Abstract: The present invention provides an illuminating apparatus locally reducing light intensity without depending on the configuration of a light source itself. An illuminating apparatus used as a backlight of a display apparatus having a liquid crystal display panel with a pair of first polarizers, including a light source and a liquid crystal light control panel. The liquid crystal light control panel has a pair of second polarizers and suppresses amount of transmission of light from the light source, thereby allows the light from the light source to have such a light intensity distribution along a plane that light intensity is locally reduced. The polarization degree in the second polarizers is optimized so that transmission light amount ratio of the second polarizers is lower than that of the first polarizers.

Abstract: Provided is a fuel assembly 1 for a PWR nuclear reactor capable of stably creating transverse flows of coolant for pressing and securing control rods so as to restrain vibration of the control rods in order to restrain the outer surfaces of the control rods and the inner surfaces of control rod guide tubes from being worn, wherein an upper nozzle arranged above the fuel assembly comprises an adapter plate 6 constituting the lower structure of the upper nozzle, a side wall extended along the periphery of the adapter plate, an overhang projected into a space above the adapter plate from the upper part of the side wall, and apertures for attaching control guide tubes and passage holes, which are formed in the passage surface of the adapter plate, and wherein those 15A, 15B, 15C of the passage holes which are located at positions where the coolant impinges upon the overhang are generally arranged, line-symmetric with respect to diagonal lines of the passage surface serving as symmetric axes Q, and ligaments 21, 2

Abstract: In an optical recording and reproducing medium having a groove 2 formed along a recording track and which is recorded and/or reproduced with irradiation of light L having a predetermined wavelength ?, a track pitch p of the groove 2 is selected in a range of from 200 nm to 350 nm and a ratio wg?/p between a width wg of the groove 2 and the track pitch p is selected in a range of from 0.24 to 0.67.

Abstract: Light intensity may be locally increased in light intensity distribution without increasing number of light sources or drive current. A light source system includes a light source, and a diffusion unit varying diffusibility in incident light so that light intensity in a light intensity distribution in a plane, resulted from light emitted from the light source, is locally enhanced.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a toner for electrostatic image development, obtainable by a process including the steps of: (I) melt-kneading a raw material mixture containing a resin binder, a releasing agent, and a colorant, cooling the melt-kneaded mixture, and pulverizing the cooled mixture; and (II) further pulverizing a pulverized product obtained in the step (I) in the presence of an external additive containing a negatively chargeable inorganic oxide subjected to hydrophobic treatment and a positively chargeable inorganic oxide subjected to hydrophobic treatment, and classifying the pulverized product; and a process for preparing the toner.

Abstract: An information processing system for producing a building material has a design drawing generator, a list generator and a member production controller. The design drawing generator generates design drawing information of an objective building. The list generator generates list information of the members used for the objective building. The member production controller controls the production of the members used for the objective building, based on the list information.

Abstract: A protection panel for an electronic device display window provided with a protection panel main body is composed of transparent resin and has a decoration layer having a transparent window section, and a transparent lower electrode formed on an upper surface of the protection panel main body. The protection panel main body is bonded, in its peripheral portions, to a transparent resin film on a lower surface of which a transparent upper electrode is formed via an air layer in a position opposite to the transparent lower electrode. The decoration layer is formed on at least one surface of a transparent resin cover film bonded to an upper surface of the transparent resin film.

Abstract: An optical sheet has a large number of cylindrical lens elements provided successively on one of principal faces thereof. The cylindrical lens elements have a hyperboloidal face or a paraboloidal face and have a finite focal distance on the emission side of illumination light. Where a Z axis is taken in parallel to a normal line direction to the optical sheet and an X axis is taken in a direction of the row of the cylindrical lens elements, a cross sectional shape of the cylindrical lens elements satisfies Z=X2/(R+?{square root over ( )}(R2?(1+K)X2)) (where R is the radius of curvature of a distal end vertex, and K is a conic constant).

Abstract: An optical recording/reproducing medium having grooves formed along recording tracks and used for recording/reproducing when irradiated with light L with a specified wavelength ?, wherein the track pitch p of a groove is at least 200 nm and up to 350 nm, and a ratio wg?/p between the width wg of a groove and a track pitch p is at least 0.24 and up to 0.67.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display, optical sheet manufacturing method, and an optical sheet are provided. The occurrence of moiré is prevented while suppressing a reduction in front luminance. The liquid crystal display includes: a liquid crystal display panel; a light source arranged on a back surface side of the liquid crystal display panel; an optical sheet with a light-condensing property arranged between the liquid crystal display panel and the light source, the optical sheet having a number of irregularities arranged continuously on a principal surface of the optical sheet; and a diffuser sheet arranged between the liquid crystal display panel and the optical sheet.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing the optical sheet is provided. The method includes: a first step of heating a composition containing a liquid crystal monomer or liquid crystal prepolymer and a photopolymerization initiator at a temperature equal to or higher than a melting point of the liquid crystal monomer or liquid crystal prepolymer and pressing the composition in a state where the composition is held between a master including a plurality of solid structures disposed continuously in one surface and having shape anisotropy in the one surface and a light transmission film disposed so as to face the solid structures of the master. The method also includes a second step of irradiating the composition with ultraviolet rays at a temperature lower than a phase transmission temperature to an isotropic phase to polymerize the liquid crystal monomer or liquid crystal prepolymer and, after that, separating the light transmission film from the master.

Abstract: An optical image capturing device which is configured to carry out underwater photographing, and comprises a selecting section configured to select a plurality of photographing modes including an underwater photographing mode, an imaging member to obtain an object image, and an adjusting section to adjust white balance of an image obtained by the imaging member, is disclosed. The adjusting section adjusts the white balance to enhance a blue component when the underwater photographing mode is selected. Thus, as the white balance is adjusted by the adjusting section to enhance a blue component when the underwater photographing mode is selected, a bluish image apparently photographed in water can be obtained.

Abstract: The present invention provides a joining structure of a roof truss using thin light-gauge shaped steel. In a joining structure for joining a subsidiary roof with a main roof, a valley bracket formed by bending a thin steel sheet is inserted and disposed in the longitudinal valley direction of a joining member for joining a rafter forming the subsidiary roof with a truss or a rafter forming the main roof. In a joining structure in which a roof truss upper chord member or a rafter intersects a wall on the upper surface of the wall, a bracket formed by bending a thin steel sheet is disposed at the intersection of these members and fixes the roof truss upper chord member or the rafter to the wall.

Abstract: An illumination apparatus is disclosed. The illumination apparatus includes a polarization plate, a light source, and a light transmission film. The light transmission film is disposed between the polarization plate and the light source and includes a plurality of prisms formed on a surface thereof, the plurality of prisms each having a ridge line in a first direction and being continuously arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. In the illumination apparatus, the light transmission film is disposed such that a ridge line direction of the plurality of prisms is one of a perpendicular direction and an approximately perpendicular direction to a transmission axis of the polarization plate.

Abstract: An optical sheet has a large number of cylindrical lens elements provided successively on one of principal faces thereof. The cylindrical lens elements have a hyperboloidal face or a paraboloidal face and have a finite focal distance on the emission side of illumination light. Where a Z axis is taken in parallel to a normal line direction to the optical sheet and an X axis is taken in a direction of the row of the cylindrical lens elements, a cross sectional shape of the cylindrical lens elements satisfies Z=X2/(R+?{square root over ( )}(R2?(1+K)X2)) (where R is the radius of curvature of a distal end vertex, and K is a conic constant).

Abstract: The present invention provides a joining structure of a roof truss using thin light-gauge shaped steel. In a joining structure for joining a subsidiary roof with a main roof, a valley bracket formed by bending a thin steel sheet is inserted and disposed in the longitudinal valley direction of a joining member for joining a rafter forming the subsidiary roof with a truss or a rafter forming the main roof. In a joining structure in which a roof truss upper chord member or a rafter intersects a wall on the upper surface of the wall, a bracket formed by bending a thin steel sheet is disposed at the intersection of these members and fixes the roof truss upper chord member or the rafter to the wall.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display, optical sheet manufacturing method, and an optical sheet are provided. The occurrence of moiré is prevented while suppressing a reduction in front luminance. The liquid crystal display includes: a liquid crystal display panel; a light source arranged on a back surface side of the liquid crystal display panel; an optical sheet with a light-condensing property arranged between the liquid crystal display panel and the light source, the optical sheet having a number of irregularities arranged continuously on a principal surface of the optical sheet; and a diffuser sheet arranged between the liquid crystal display panel and the optical sheet.

Abstract: An HDD has a carriage which moves a head with respect to a medium, and a voice coil motor (VCM) which drives the carriage. The VCM has a magnet, between which and a first shell formed of a magnetic substance a magnetic circuit is formed, and a voice coil which is secured to the carriage and disposed in a magnetic gap. A depression which receives a projecting portion covering a lead of the voice coil is formed in the first shell, and thereby a projection projecting toward the coil is consequently formed. This structure partially narrows the magnetic gap and allows generation of a torque with sufficient intensity.