Abstract: An optical compensation member is provided and includes an alignment layer, and an optical anisotropic layer composed of liquid crystal molecules and provided on the alignment layer, wherein the alignment layer contains an additive which suppresses transmission of light in a specific wavelength range.

Abstract: An optical semiconductor device includes an active layer having a quantum well structure including alternately stacked well layers and barrier layers with a larger band gap than the well layers. The band gap of each of the well layers and the barrier layers is constant, each well layer is uniformly provided with compression strain and each barrier layer is provided with large extension strain in a center portion thereof along the thickness direction and small extension strain in portions thereof in the vicinity of the well layers.

Abstract: To provide a low reflectance protection panel with decoration for a display window of an electronic apparatus, superior in productivity. A decorating film is laminated on the surface of a transparent protective plate: the decorating film forms at least a window forming layer having a transparent window portion on the surface of a hard coating film at the transparent protective plate side and is formed with a low reflectance processed layer on the opposite surface thereof: and a low reflectance processed layer is formed on the rear surface of the transparent protective plate. Or, a decorating film is laminated on a surface of an optical isotropic transparent protective plate being interposed by a polarizing plate, the decorating film forms at least a window forming layer having a transparent window portion on the surface of the hard coating film at the transparent protective plate side.

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 comprising 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; and classifying the pulverized product, wherein the releasing agent in the step (I) contains a wax having a melting point of from 65° to 100° C., and wherein the external additive in the step (II) contains specified inorganic oxides. The toner of the present invention can be suitably used, for instance, for the development of a latent image formed in electrophotography, electrostatic recording method, electrostatic printing method or the like.

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 at least two kinds of inorganic oxides subjected to hydrophobic treatment, having different average particle sizes from each other; and classifying the pulverized product, wherein the inorganic oxides subjected to hydrophobic treatment in the step (II) have an average particle size of 20 nm or less, and a difference in average particle size of 3 to 10 nm; 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: 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 sheet has a large number of cylindrical lens elements provided successively on one of principal faces thereof. The cylindrical lens elements have a finite focal distance on the emission side of illumination light and have an aspheric face of a leftwardly and rightwardly symmetric sectional shape. 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))+AX4+BX5+CX6+ . . . (where R is the radius of curvature of a distal end vertex, K is a conic constant, and A, B, C, . . . are aspheric coefficients).

Abstract: In a protection panel for electronic device display window provided with a protection panel main body composed of transparent resin and with a decoration layer having a transparent window section, a transparent lower electrode is 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: A nitride semiconductor device includes: a substrate having a principal surface; a first nitride semiconductor layer formed on the principal surface of the substrate and includes one or more convex portions whose side surfaces are vertical to the principal surface; and a second nitride semiconductor layer selectively grown on the side surfaces of the one or more convex portions of the first nitride semiconductor layer.

Abstract: It is possible to obtain a disk substrate in which an edge of a center hole is free of flash. The disk substrate (23) in which the center hole (24) is provided with a straight portion (24a) and a tapered portion (24b), and an edge on the side of a signal transfer surface (22) of the tapered portion (24b) is provided with an R surface or C surface (24c), a mold apparatus optimum for molding the disk substrate (23), and a disk taking-out apparatus.

Abstract: A wide range-inputable touch panel is provided which allows a larger amount of input operations to be made with one display operation on a screen, in which at least one bus bar and a transparent electrode on a conductive panel fronting the bus bar though spaces formed in an adhesive layer cut out from an outer edge side thereof face each other so as to be capable of making electrical contact with each other by a press.

Abstract: An optical semiconductor device includes an active layer having a quantum well structure including alternately stacked well layers and barrier layers with a larger band gap than the well layers. The band gap of each of the well layers and the barrier layers is constant, each well layer is uniformly provided with compression strain and each barrier layer is provided with large extension strain in a center portion thereof along the thickness direction and small extension strain in portions thereof in the vicinity of the well layers.

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: 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.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for assembling structural members of thin and lightweight shaped steel, the thin and lightweight shaped-steel members to be assembled having at least one joint hole or concave/convex portion at an appropriate position of a flange or web of the thin and lightweight shaped steel member, and temporarily joining portions of the thin and lightweight shaped steel members to each other for easy assembly.

Abstract: A case has a central axis C and first and second regions situated individually on the opposite sides of the central axis. Provided in the case are a recording medium, a drive motor which supports and rotates the recording medium, a head, a carriage which supports the head for movement, and a latch mechanism. The recording medium is located so as to be eccentric to the central axis on the side of the first region, and the latch mechanism is located in the second region. The head actuator has a bearing portion provided in the second region, an arm extending from the bearing portion into the first region, a suspension extending from the arm, located in the first region, and supporting the head, and a driver which is located in the second region and rotates the arm.

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: 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 at least two kinds of inorganic oxides subjected to hydrophobic treatment, having different average particle sizes from each other; and classifying the pulverized product, wherein the inorganic oxides subjected to hydrophobic treatment in the step (II) have an average particle size of 20 nm or less, and a difference in average particle size of 3 to 10 nm; and a process for preparing the toner.