Abstract: A sheet folding device includes a folding rollers pair, a folding blade and a sheet guide. The folding rollers pair causes a sheet to pass through a first nip area to fold the sheet. The folding blade includes a blade portion and a pair of arm portions. The blade portion is selectively disposed in a folding position where the blade portion pushes a folded portion of the sheet into the first nip area and in a retracting position where the blade portion is retracted from the folding position. The pair of arm portions couples both end portions of the blade portion with the pivot shaft. The sheet guide can be passed between the pair of arm portions. Between the blade portion and the sheet guide, a retreating path in which a part of the sheet is retreated when the folded portion is pushed into the first nip area.

Abstract: An optical device (10) includes a first substrate (11) and a second substrate (12) facing each other, a liquid crystal component (13) between the first substrate (11) and the second substrate (12), a first electrode (18) and a second electrode (19) located on the first substrate (11) on the second substrate (12) side, and a first alignment layer (14) that is located on the first substrate (11) on the second substrate (12) side and controls the alignment state of liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal component (13), wherein an interface between the liquid crystal component (13) and the first alignment layer (14) forms a non-glide weak anchoring interface (17).

Abstract: The present invention provides a barrier film laminate including a first barrier film that includes a first substrate layer and a first barrier layer formed on the first substrate layer, a second barrier film that includes a second substrate layer and a second barrier layer formed on the substrate layer, and an adhesive layer. In the barrier film laminate, the first barrier film is bonded with the second barrier film so that the first barrier layer faces the second barrier layer with the adhesive layer interposed therebetween. In one embodiment of the barrier film laminate, the adhesive layer is formed of an adhesive containing an epoxy resin, a curing agent having an amino group, and either a silane coupling agent having an epoxy group or a silane coupling agent having an amino group and two hydrolyzable functional groups.

Abstract: A TFT layer; a light-emitting element layer including a first electrode, a light-emitting layer, and a second electrode; a wavelength conversion layer formed above the light-emitting element layer and being configured to convert a color of light from the light-emitting layer; a dielectric layer formed above the wavelength conversion layer; and a particle layer formed above the dielectric layer and including metal nanoparticles including a core and a shell around the core.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a first polarizer plate, and a second polarizer plate. The first substrate includes a first dielectric substrate, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a first alignment film. The second electrode includes a plurality of slits and a conductive portion. The second substrate includes a second dielectric substrate and a second alignment film. The first substrate further includes a resin layer disposed between the second electrode and the first alignment film. The resin layer within the plurality of slits is as thick as or thicker than the second electrode. The plurality of slits are filled with the resin layer. A difference in height between the resin layer over the conductive portion of the second electrode and the resin layer within the plurality of slits of the second electrode is 10 nm or more.

Abstract: A power storage device packaging material including a substrate protective layer, a substrate layer, an adhesive layer, a metal foil layer, and a sealant layer in this order, wherein the substrate protective layer is made of a cured curable resin containing a plurality of types of particles having different average particle sizes, the curable resin contains a polyol component as a base resin and a polyisocyanate component as a hardener, and when, particles with a large average particle size are referred to as a large filler and particles with small average particle size are a small filler, the average particle size of the large filler is 10 ?m or more, and the average particle size of the small filler is 1 ?m or more, and an amount of the large filler is 3 mass % or more, and an amount of the small filler contained is 5 mass % or more.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a first polarizing plate, and a second polarizing plate. The first substrate includes a first dielectric substrate, first and second electrodes, provided over the first dielectric substrate and configured to generate a transverse electric field in the liquid crystal layer, at least either of which has a plurality of slits, and a first alignment film placed in contact with the liquid crystal layer. The first substrate further includes an inorganic insulating layer provided between the second electrode and the first alignment film. The difference between the refractive index of the inorganic insulating layer and the refractive index of the second electrode is smaller than or equal to 0.20. The thickness of the inorganic insulating layer is greater than or equal to 50% of the thickness of the second electrode and greater than or equal to 40 nm.

Abstract: A packaging material for a solid-state battery including a sulfide-based solid electrolyte is provided. The packaging material includes at least a substrate layer, a barrier layer, and a sealant layer in this order. The sealant layer includes an ionomer.

Abstract: A photo-alignment film of the present invention includes a polymer layer containing a photoreactive polymer and metal nanoparticles dispersed in the polymer layer at a concentration of 109 particles/(cm2×100 nm) or more and 1019 particles/(cm2×100 nm) or less. The metal nanoparticles have an absorption peak in a wavelength region of 420 nm or less. An absorbance A1 at the absorption peak of the metal nanoparticles and an absorbance A2 at an absorption peak of the polymer layer satisfy a relationship represented by the following formula 1: 0.2?A1/A2?25??(Formula 1).

Abstract: A switching period in a burst cycle includes three pulses, that is to say, a start pulse that turns on a low-side switching element, a main pulse that turns on a high-side switching element, and an end pulse that turns on the low-side switching element. A burst stop period corresponding to the magnitude of a load is set during a switching stop period. When the burst cycle approaches a cycle corresponding to a frequency close to the upper limit of the audible frequencies, a second off-threshold voltage of the main pulse is made equal to a first off-threshold voltage of the start pulse to narrow the on-width of the main pulse. By doing so, energy transmitted to the secondary side of a transformer is reduced and the burst cycle is shortened.

Abstract: Provided is a barrier film including a gas barrier film and a primer layer disposed on one outermost surface of the barrier film and made of a cured product formed by using a composition for forming a primer layer, the composition containing a resin having a reactive carbon-carbon double bond, a resin not having a reactive carbon-carbon double bond but having a primary hydroxyl group, and a polyisocyanate compound, the primer layer having a surface wetting index of 40 dyn/cm or more.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device of a transverse electric field mode that may inhibit internal reflection and realize proper black display to which coloring does not occur. The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device including a first linear polarizer, a first ?/4 retardation layer, a first substrate, a second ?/4 retardation layer configured with a different material from the first ?/4 retardation layer, a liquid crystal layer that contains liquid crystals which are horizontally aligned in a case where no voltage is applied, plural electrode pairs that generate a transverse electric field in the liquid crystal layer by a voltage being applied, a second substrate, a second linear polarizer, and a backlight. In a case where a color of light emitted from the backlight is expressed by using chromaticity coordinates (x, y) of an XYZ color system, both of x and y are 0.32 or greater.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a first polarizing plate, and a second polarizing plate. The first substrate includes a first dielectric substrate, first and second electrodes, provided over the first dielectric substrate and configured to generate a transverse electric field in the liquid crystal layer, at least either of which has a plurality of slits, and a first alignment film placed in contact with the liquid crystal layer. The first substrate further includes an inorganic insulating layer provided between the second electrode and the first alignment film. The difference between the refractive index of the inorganic insulating layer and the refractive index of the second electrode is smaller than or equal to 0.20. The thickness of the inorganic insulating layer is greater than or equal to 50% of the thickness of the second electrode and greater than or equal to 40 nm.

Abstract: A video distribution server according to an embodiment provides a live video distribution service for distributing and viewing live video to a user via a user terminal. This server determines the ranking of distributors on the basis of live video distribution performance, sets a base reward quantity for distributors on the basis of the determined ranking, and gives distributors rewards in a quantity based on the distribution duration of the live video and the base reward quantity, so even if a distributor is a novice, he can obtain a reward in a quantity based on the distribution duration and the base reward quantity by continuing to distribute live video.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel performs displaying in the normally white mode. A first and a second polarizer are disposed so that the transmission axes thereof are perpendicular to each other. A liquid crystal layer is in a twisted alignment state in the absence of an applied voltage. A first substrate has a first electrode having a plurality of rectangular openings extending in parallel to each other, and a second electrode facing the first electrode with a dielectric layer interposed therebetween. The openings each independently have a width S of more than 0.6 ?m and not more than 1.4 ?m, and each pair of adjacent openings independently has a distance L therebetween of not less than 0.3 ?m and not more than 0.7 ?m. A first and a second horizontal alignment film each have an azimuthal anchoring energy of not more than 1×10?4J/m2.

Abstract: Residual noise of a frequency mixer is detected. A reference clock is used to generate a first radio frequency (RF) signal, a second RF signal and a third RF signal. The first RF signal and the second RF signal serve as input to the frequency mixer. The reference clock is used to generate a third RF signal. The reference clock is also used to control timing in a detector device. A second frequency mixer mixes an output of the DUT with the third RF signal to produce an input signal for a detector device. Mixing the output of the DUT with the third RF signal cancels at least some of the phase noise within the output signal of the DUT that results from phase noise in the first RF signal and from phase noise in the second RF signal. The detector device detects residual phase noise existing within the input signal for the detector device.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal panel; a backlight; an illuminance sensor; and a display controller. The liquid crystal panel includes, in order toward the backlight, an antireflection layer, a first linearly polarizing plate, a first ?/4 retardation layer, a first substrate, a second ?/4 retardation layer, a liquid crystal layer, a second substrate, and a second linearly polarizing plate. The liquid crystal panel has a reflectance within a predetermined range in irradiating the liquid crystal panel with light from an antireflection layer side. The liquid crystal display device satisfies a predetermined relation in the following X and Y, where X (unit: lx) is defined as an environmental illuminance detected by the illuminance sensor, and Y (unit: nit) is defined as a luminance of the backlight, adjusted by the display controller.

Abstract: A packaging material for a power storage device includes a base material layer which has at least a first adhesive layer, a metal foil layer, a corrosion prevention-treated layer, a second adhesive layer, and a sealant layer, sequentially laminated on the side of the first surface thereof; and a base material protective layer formed from at least one selected from the group consisting of a polyester polyol and an acrylic polyol, each containing a group having a hydroxyl group in a side chain thereof, and an aliphatic isocyanate curing agent, laminated on the side of the second surface of in the base material layer.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes in the following order from a viewing surface side a first polarizer, a first positive A plate having an in-plane retardation of 120 nm or greater and 155 nm or smaller, a positive C plate having a thickness retardation of 80 nm or greater and 100 nm or smaller, a first substrate, a second positive A plate having an in-plane retardation of 120 nm or greater and 155 nm or smaller, a horizontally aligned liquid crystal layer, a second substrate, a viewing angle compensation layer, and a second polarizer. The device further includes between the first polarizer and the first positive A plate a positive C plate having a thickness retardation of 30 nm or greater and 80 nm or smaller.

Abstract: An optical device (10) includes a first substrate (11) and a second substrate (12) facing each other, a liquid crystal component (13) between the first substrate (11) and the second substrate (12), a first electrode (18) and a second electrode (19) located on the first substrate (11) on the second substrate (12) side, and a first alignment layer (14) that is located on the first substrate (11) on the second substrate (12) side and controls the alignment state of liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal component (13), wherein an interface between the liquid crystal component (13) and the first alignment layer (14) forms a non-glide weak anchoring interface (17).