Abstract: The present invention provides a heat ray cutting film comprising, on a substrate, at least two layers of a light reflecting layer X1 and a light reflecting layer X2 obtained by fixing cholesteric liquid crystalline phases, and an infrared ray absorbing layer comprising composite tungsten oxide microparticles, wherein the light reflecting layer X1 and the light reflecting layer X2 reflect lights circularly polarized in directions opposite to each other, reflection center wavelengths of the light reflecting layer X1 and the light reflecting layer X2 are within a range of 800 to 1100 nm and are substantially equal to each other, and total reflectivity of all light reflecting layers obtained by fixing cholesteric liquid crystalline phases is 80% or more. The heat ray cutting film of the present invention has high transparency and high heat shielding performance.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided a vehicle minor with an image display function including, in this order: an image display device; a circular polarization reflection layer; and a front surface plate made of glass or plastic, in which the circular polarization reflection layer includes a linear polarization reflection plate and a ¼ wavelength plate from the image display device side. The vehicle mirror with an image display function of the invention is capable of displaying a bright image.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided a mirror with an image display function including, in this order: an image display device; a ¼ wavelength plate; a circular polarization reflection layer; and a front surface plate made of glass or plastic, in which the circular polarization reflection layer includes a cholesteric liquid crystal layer, and the cholesteric liquid crystal layer has a central wavelength of selective reflection in a visible light region. The mirror with an image display function of the invention is capable of displaying a bright image.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided a mirror with an image display function including, in this order: an image display device; a circular polarization reflection layer; and a front surface plate made of glass or plastic, in which the circular polarization reflection layer includes a cholesteric liquid crystal layer, the cholesteric liquid crystal layer has a central wavelength of selective reflection in a visible light region, and the central wavelength is different from an emission peak wavelength of the image display device by 5 nm or greater. The mirror with an image display function of the invention is capable of displaying a bright image.

Abstract: A dental diagnosis device has an occlusion sound detection member that detects occlusion sounds by teeth and an analysis member that analyzes the teeth occlusion based on detected occlusion sounds by the occlusion detection member. The occlusion detection member comprises a sucker shaped suction member that sticks to a tooth, a hollow passage connected to a through-hole installed in the suction member and it is operably controlled to appropriate negative pressure by which the suction member is adhered to a tooth, and a detection member connected to the suction member, which detects occlusion sound via the suction member.

Abstract: The present invention provides a polarizing plate that includes a polarizer, and an optical film including an alignment layer, an optically anisotropic layer, and an optically isotropic acrylic polymer layer on at least one surface of the polarizer, in which the optically anisotropic layer is a layer formed by irradiating a polymerizable composition including a liquid crystal compound that is directly applied to the alignment layer with light to polymerize the liquid crystal compound, the acrylic polymer layer is a layer formed by curing a polymerizable composition including (meth)acrylate that is directly applied to a surface of the layer formed from the polymerizable composition including a liquid crystal compound, and the thickness of the acrylic polymer layer is larger than the thickness of the optically anisotropic layer. According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a polarizing plate having a small thickness.

Abstract: The present invention provides a reflection member including a selective reflection layer; and two ¼ wavelength phase difference plates, in which the selective reflection layer is disposed between the two ¼ wavelength phase difference plates, the selective reflection layer includes a layer of a fixed cholesteric liquid crystal phase having a central wavelength of selective reflection at a visible light range wavelength ?i, and the selective reflection layer includes a layer in which a twisted direction of a helix of a cholesteric liquid crystal is only one of right or left as the layer of a fixed cholesteric liquid crystal phase having selective reflection at the wavelength ?i. The reflection member of the present invention can be used particularly as a heat shielding member, which can reduce damage to the optical systems due to external light including visible light while efficiently extracting projected light.

Abstract: A process of preparing a lamination film comprising two or more layers of a fixed cholesteric liquid-crystal phase is disclosed. The process comprises (a) applying a coating liquid of a curable liquid crystal composition comprising a rod-like liquid crystal compound, an alignment-control agent capable of controlling an alignment of the rod-like liquid crystal compound and a solvent to a surface; (b) drying the applied curable liquid crystal composition to form a cholesteric liquid-crystal phase; (c) carrying out a curing reaction of the composition and fixing the cholesteric liquid-crystal phase, thereby to form a lower layer; and (d) repeating the steps (a) to (c) on the lower layer, thereby to form an upper layer; wherein at least a part of the alignment-control agent in the lower layer diffuses into the upper layer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a film for thermal compression bonding, which contains a cholesteric liquid crystal layer that is formed by curing a liquid crystal composition including a polymerizable rod-like liquid crystal compound, a chiral agent, and a polymerizable monomer, in which the polymerizable rod-like liquid crystal includes a monofunctional rod-like liquid crystal compound having one polymerizable group and a bifunctional rod-like liquid crystal compound having two polymerizable groups, or two or more bifunctional rod-like liquid crystal compounds having two polymerizable groups, the polymerizable monomer has three or more polymerizable groups, and the polymerizable monomer is contained in an amount of 0.3% by mass to 6.0% by mass with respect to the total mass of the polymerizable rod-like liquid crystal compounds; a method for producing a molded article using the film for thermal compression bonding; and a molded article produced by the production method.

Abstract: The polarizing plate fabrication method includes the following: (1) preparing a transfer material including a temporary support and a transfer body including an optical anisotropic layer and an optical anisotropic layer; (2) peeling the temporary support and separating it from the transfer body; and (3) adhering the transfer body to a film including a polarizer, in which both the optical anisotropic layer and the optical anisotropic layer are layers formed of a polymerizable composition including a liquid crystal compound applied onto the temporary support, and the optical anisotropic layer and the optical anisotropic layer both have in-plane retardation, and a difference between slow axis directions in the optical anisotropic layer and the optical anisotropic layer is in a range of 3° to 90°. The fabrication method allows adhering of an optical anisotropic layer having a variety of optical compensation capabilities to a variety of polarizers in a minimum constitution.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided a circular polarizing filter for selectively transmitting circularly polarized light of any one sense of either right-handed circularly polarized light or left-handed circularly polarized light at a specific wavelength in which scattering transmittance/vertical transmittance when circularly polarized light of the sense of the specific wavelength enters from any one surface is less than scattering reflectance/regular reflectance when circularly polarized light of the other sense enters from the surface.

Abstract: The present invention provides a polarizing plate that includes a polarizer, and an optical film including an alignment layer, an optically anisotropic layer, and an optically isotropic acrylic polymer layer on at least one surface of the polarizer, in which the optically anisotropic layer is a layer formed by irradiating a polymerizable composition including a liquid crystal compound that is directly applied to the alignment layer with light to polymerize the liquid crystal compound, the acrylic polymer layer is a layer formed by curing a polymerizable composition including (meth)acrylate that is directly applied to a surface of the layer formed from the polymerizable composition including a liquid crystal compound, and the thickness of the acrylic polymer layer is larger than the thickness of the optically anisotropic layer. According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a polarizing plate having a small thickness.

Abstract: The invention provides: a circularly polarized light separation film which selectively allows the transmission of any one of right circularly polarized light and left circularly polarized light in at least a part of a near infrared light wavelength range and includes a visible light shielding layer which reflects or absorbs light in at least a part of a visible light wavelength range and a circularly polarized light separation layer which selectively allows the transmission of any one of right circularly polarized light and left circularly polarized light in at least a part of a near infrared light wavelength range; a manufacturing method of the circularly polarized light separation film; an infrared sensor including the circularly polarized light separation film; and a sensing system and a sensing method utilizing the circularly polarized light separation film or a combination of the circularly polarized light separation film and a film including the visible light shielding layer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a polarizing plate that includes a polarizer and an optically anisotropic layer that is a layer formed on at least one surface of the polarizer by irradiating a polymerizable composition including a liquid crystal compound with light to polymerize the liquid crystal compound, in which only an adhesive layer or only an adhesive layer and a protective film provided on a surface of the polarizer are provided between the optically anisotropic layer and the polarizer, and a method for producing the polarizing plate including laminating a transfer material including a temporary support and an optically anisotropic layer on a film including a polarizer and then peeling off the temporary support of the transfer material. According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a polarizing plate having a small thickness.

Abstract: Provided is a method of producing a film including: a coating step of coating, on a substrate, a polymerizable liquid crystal composition containing a polymerizable liquid crystal compound, an alignment controlling agent capable of controlling alignment of the polymerizable liquid crystal compound, a polymerization initiator and coated film a solvent; and a drying step of drying, wherein the alignment controlling agent is a compound represented by formula (1) below, and the alignment controlling agent is added in 0.005 to 0.2 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the polymerizable liquid crystal compound: In general formula (1), each of L1 and L2 represents an alkylene group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms that may be substituted with a fluorine atom or the like, and n1 and n2 represents integers of 3 or more.

Abstract: The present invention provides a reflection film, comprising a right circularly-polarized light reflection layer and a left circularly-polarized light reflection layer as circularly-polarized light reflection layers, each of the circularly-polarized light reflection layers consisting of a layer obtained by fixing a cholesteric liquid-crystalline phase, having a reflection wavelength at which a diffuse reflectance for non-polarized light becomes 50% or more in a wavelength region in which each of the circularly-polarized light reflection layers exhibits selective reflection, the reflection wavelength being in an infrared wavelength region, and the reflection film exhibiting a direct transmittance of non-polarized visible light of 50% or more and a haze value of 5% or less; and an optical member including the reflection film, which can be used as a handwriting input sheet. The optical member can be used by being stuck to the surface of a display.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical member including a reflection layer and an information presentation layer, the reflection layer comprising one or more circularly-polarized light reflection layers selected from the group consisting of a right circularly-polarized light reflection layer and a left circularly-polarized light reflection layer, the circularly-polarized light reflection layer consisting of a layer obtained by fixing a cholesteric liquid-crystalline phase, the reflection layer having a reflection wavelength at which a specular reflectance for non-polarized light is more than 20% in a wavelength region in which the circularly-polarized light reflection layer exhibits selective reflection, a diffuse reflectance for non-polarized light at the reflection wavelength less than 50%, the reflection wavelength being in an infrared wavelength region, and the information presentation layer having a pattern of a material that absorbs or reflects light of the reflection wavelength.

Abstract: The present invention provides a heat ray cutting film comprising, on a substrate, at least two layers of a light reflecting layer X1 and a light reflecting layer X2 obtained by fixing cholesteric liquid crystalline phases, and an infrared ray absorbing layer comprising composite tungsten oxide microparticles, wherein the light reflecting layer X1 and the light reflecting layer X2 reflect lights circularly polarized in directions opposite to each other, reflection center wavelengths of the light reflecting layer X1 and the light reflecting layer X2 are within a range of 800 to 1100 nm and are substantially equal to each other, and total reflectivity of all light reflecting layers obtained by fixing cholesteric liquid crystalline phases is 80% or more. The heat ray cutting film of the present invention has high transparency and high heat shielding performance.

Abstract: An infrared ray cutting film having a transparent base, a near infrared ray absorbing layer containing a compound of Formula (1) with a maximum absorption wavelength of from 750 nm to 920 nm, and a near infrared ray reflection layer obtained by fixing a cholesteric liquid crystal phase is excellent in invisibility, robustness and high heat shielding performance. R1a and R1b represent alkyl, aryl or heteroaryl; at least one of R2 and R3 is an electron-withdrawing group, and R4 represents H, alkyl, aryl, heteroaryl, substituted boron, or a metal.

Abstract: A dental diagnosis device has an occlusion sound detection member that detects occlusion sounds by teeth and an analysis member that analyzes the teeth occlusion based on detected occlusion sounds by the occlusion detection member. The occlusion detection member comprises a sucker shaped suction member that sticks to a tooth, a hollow passage connected to a through-hole installed in the suction member and it is operably controlled to appropriate negative pressure by which the suction member is adhered to a tooth, and a detection member connected to the suction member, which detects occlusion sound via the suction member.