Abstract: A thermally conductive pipe includes a pipe of which both end portions are closed, a working liquid that is sealed inside the pipe and vaporizes and liquefies, and a liquid transfer unit that exists along a longitudinal direction inside the pipe and transfers the liquefied working liquid at least in the longitudinal direction, in which the liquid transfer unit has, in a case of being viewed in a cross section of the pipe, which is orthogonal to the longitudinal direction, a first liquid transfer unit that is in contact with at least a partial range of an inner wall surface of the pipe and a second liquid transfer unit that is not in contact with the inner wall surface of the pipe and the first liquid transfer unit.

Abstract: A heat pipe includes a tubular member that is a hollow member in which liquid is encapsulated and of which an inner surface is subjected to an oxidation treatment in advance and a movement section that moves the liquid encapsulated and liquefied in the tubular member along a longitudinal direction of the tubular member by means of a capillary phenomenon and of which a surface is subjected to an oxidation treatment in advance.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a belt member that cyclically moves, a pressing unit that comes into contact with the belt member and presses a recording medium moving between the belt member and the pressing unit, and a heat source that includes a base material, a resistance heating element disposed on a surface of the base material along a longitudinal direction of the base material, and an insulator covering the resistance heating element and that comes into contact with the pressing unit via the belt member to heat an inner surface of the belt member, in which the insulator is formed to cover a corner portion of the base material in a direction of movement of the belt member.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical layered body having a good antistatic performance and good optical properties as well as an excellent durability. The present invention provides an optical layered body, comprising: an antistatic layer on a light-transmitting substrate, wherein the antistatic layer is a resin thin film layer containing at least an organic conductive material and a nonconductive polymeric material which is a resin having a glass transition temperature of 60° C. or higher or a resin obtainable by a reaction between a resin having a glass transition temperature of 60° C. or higher and a cross-linking agent.

Abstract: In view of the above state of the art, it is an object of the present invention to provide an optical layered body which can prevent the agglomeration of silica particles and form the desired surface roughness on the surface. An optical layered body comprising a light-transmitting substrate and an antiglare layer having a surface roughness on its surface, wherein said antiglare layer is a resin layer containing an organic particle and a nonspherical silica, and a weight ratio of organic particle/nonspherical silica is from 1/10 to 60/10.

Abstract: An optical layered body wherein the additive amount of the antistatic agent can be reduced leading to a cost reduction while achieving high antistatic property simply and at a low cost. An optical layered body including an optical layered body comprising a light-transmitting substrate and at least a hard coat layer and a low refractive index layer, firmed on the light-transmitting substrate, wherein 1) the low refractive index layer is formed on the outermost surface, and 2) the low refractive index layer contains an antistatic agent.

Abstract: An infrared ray-reflecting film that includes a laminate obtained by alternately laminating two or more layers having different refractive indices on a light-transmitting substrate, in which: a difference in refractive index (e.g., for light having a wavelength of 589 nm) between any adjacent layers falls within a range of 0.1 to 0.4; and a detected peak is observed at a depth where an interfacial region between the respective layers exists in elemental analysis in a depth direction of the film by a glow discharge optical emission spectrometry. Further, a detected peak is observed at a depth where detected signals derived from components that construct adjacent layers contact each other in elemental analysis in a depth direction of the film by a glow discharge optical emission spectrometry.

Abstract: Provided are (1) a method of producing a laminate that is based on an application mode in which the laminate is formed by one application process, by preparing a plurality of solutions by dissolving components for forming layers in solvents, laminating the plurality of solutions thus obtained, transferring the solutions onto a substrate, and drying the solutions, and (2) a laminate that can be produced by the production method. Specifically, provided are (a) a laminate having at least one pair of layers adjacent to each other, the laminate showing a detected peak having a full width at half maximum of 0.01 to 0.7 ?m at a depth where an interfacial region between the layers adjacent to each other exists in elemental quantitative analysis in its depth direction by a glow discharge optical emission spectrometry, and (b) a method of producing the laminate.

Abstract: The present invention provides a quantitative evaluation method of fouling of antifouling properties, a fouling evaluation apparatus, and a production method of optical members, which can be applied to various members, and haves high reproducibility and enable to detect a subtle difference between fouling, and an optical layered body having a property of preventing fingerprints from adhering, an anti-contamination property and a degree of recovery from fouling, and a display product including the optical layered body. The present invention pertains to an evaluation method of fouling, wherein light is radiated to a test sample and scattered light reflected off or passing through the test sample is detected to evaluate a degree of fouling of the surface of the test sample.

Abstract: The invention provides an optical laminate comprising an optically transparent base and a silica particle-containing antiglare layer, wherein the silica particles have a dielectric constant of less than 4.0, which optical laminate is provided with excellent optical characteristics and with suitable aggregation of silica particles even when silica particles are present in the antiglare layer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a quantitative evaluation method of fouling of antifouling properties, a fouling evaluation apparatus, and a production method of optical members, which can be applied to various members, and haves high reproducibility and enable to detect a subtle difference between fouling, and an optical layered body having a property of preventing fingerprints from adhering, an anti-contamination property and a degree of recovery from fouling, and a display product including the optical layered body. The present invention pertains to an evaluation method of fouling, wherein light is radiated to a test sample and scattered light reflected off or passing through the test sample is detected to evaluate a degree of fouling of the surface of the test sample.

Abstract: To provide an optical laminate that can sufficiently exhibit the function of a functional material such as an antistatic agent or fine particles in the obtained laminate without using a binder material for fixing the functional material to the substrate, as well as a method for manufacturing the same, there is obtained the optical laminate by step (A1) in which the substrate is coated with a composition (a) containing a solvent capable of swelling or dissolving the substrate and the functional material, step (A2) of drying, and step (A3) of forming a resin layer on the coated substrate.

Abstract: The present invention provides a quantitative evaluation method of fouling of antifouling properties, a fouling evaluation apparatus, and a production method of optical members, which can be applied to various members, and haves high reproducibility and enable to detect a subtle difference between fouling, and an optical layered body having a property of preventing fingerprints from adhering, an anti-contamination property and a degree of recovery from fouling, and a display product including the optical layered body. The present invention pertains to an evaluation method of fouling, wherein light is radiated to a test sample and scattered light reflected off or passing through the test sample is detected to evaluate a degree of fouling of the surface of the test sample.

Abstract: The present invention provides a quantitative evaluation method of fouling of antifouling properties, a fouling evaluation apparatus, and a production method of optical members, which can be applied to various members, and haves high reproducibility and enable to detect a subtle difference between fouling, and an optical layered body having a property of preventing fingerprints from adhering, an anti-contamination property and a degree of recovery from fouling, and a display product including the optical layered body. The present invention pertains to an evaluation method of fouling, wherein light is radiated to a test sample and scattered light reflected off or passing through the test sample is detected to evaluate a degree of fouling of the surface of the test sample.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a conductive pattern formed body with a conductive pattern formed efficiently and highly precisely in a simple process, a conductivity variable laminated body used for formation of the conductive pattern, and the like. The disclosure provides a conductivity variable composition characterized by containing insulating particle including a conductive inorganic material and an organic material adhered on the circumference of the conductive inorganic material, and a photocatalyst.

Abstract: The present invention provides a quantitative evaluation method of fouling of antifouling properties, a fouling evaluation apparatus, and a production method of optical members, which can be applied to various members, and haves high reproducibility and enable to detect a subtle difference between fouling, and an optical layered body having a property of preventing fingerprints from adhering, an anti-contamination property and a degree of recovery from fouling, and a display product including the optical layered body. The present invention pertains to an evaluation method of fouling, wherein light is radiated to a test sample and scattered light reflected off or passing through the test sample is detected to evaluate a degree of fouling of the surface of the test sample.

Abstract: The present invention provides a thiophene derivative useful for a material for forming an organic positive hole transport layer of an organic EL element excellent in light emitting efficiency, water resistance or the like, a polymer having the thiophene derivative as a monomer unit, and an organic EL element. The object can be solved by a thiophene derivative represented by the following formula (1), a polymer comprising the thiophene derivative, and an organic EL element, an organic positive hole transporting layer of which comprises the polymer: wherein, each “X” is a halogen atom, which may be same or different from each other; and “R” is an alkyl group.

Abstract: An optical layered body having an excellent antistatic property and adhesion is provided. An optical layered body is provided that comprises an antistatic layer and a hard coat layer formed in sequence on a light transmitting substrate, wherein in the cross-sectional appearance of the layered body, the cross-section phase of the hard coat layer exists in the region of the light transmitting substrate via the antistatic layer from the hard coat layer.

Abstract: A main object of the present invention is to provide an organic EL element having members such as an organic EL layer formed highly precisely in a pattern with preferable light emission characteristic of the organic EL layer, and a photocatalyst containing coating solution to be used for the production thereof.

Abstract: An organic EL device capable of being produced by a wet film forming method in which all processes can be conducted consistently under an inert atmosphere for efficiently forming a predetermined pattern without using any aqueous or acidic material. The device includes an organic layer between an anode and a cathode, the anode and the cathode facing each other, and the organic layer containing at least a light emitting layer. At least one layer composing the organic layer is a cured film having a predetermined pattern and containing a cured dendrimer material having one or more photoreactive functional groups at the ends thereof. The organic electroluminescent device is produced by: forming a dendrimer material layer, as at least one layer composing the organic layer, from a coating liquid containing a dendrimer material having one or more photoreactive functional groups at the ends thereof and an organic solvent; and pattern-exposing the dendrimer material layer.