Abstract: Provided is a vehicular display device that offers good visibility without causing a passenger to feel uncomfortable. In a bezel that includes a cover portion arranged above a display unit of a vehicular display device and a frame portion enclosing the cover portion, a front-side end portion of the cover portion is arranged at a position lower than a rear-side end portion. As a result, external light is reflected forward. Moreover, a front frame includes a reflecting plate, a semi-transparent output plate covering over the reflecting plate, and a light-collecting portion collecting external light that enters from a front into a space enclosed by the reflecting plate and the output plate. As a result, the front frame is prevented from being darkly reflected onto a front glass.

Abstract: A method for measuring visual field comprising a reference standardized symbol display operation in which a standardized test symbol is displayed at a reference location BP provided at a center of a display 2; a reference input operation in which a test subject is made to input the fact that the standardized test symbol displayed at the reference standardized symbol display operation has been recognized; a peripheral standardized symbol display operation in which, following input of the fact that the standardized test symbol was recognized at the reference input operation, a standardized test symbol is displayed at a location different from the reference location BP; and a peripheral input operation in which the test subject is made to input the fact that the standardized test symbol displayed at the peripheral standardized symbol display operation has been recognized; wherein a response time is measured from when the standardized test symbol is displayed at the peripheral standardized symbol display operatio

Abstract: One object is to provide a polishing machine and a polishing method capable of improving a processing accuracy on the surface of an object. A method of polishing an object is provided. Such a method comprises a first step of polishing an object by moving the object and a first polishing pad having a smaller dimension than that of the object relative to each other while the first polishing pad is made to contact the object, a second step of polishing the object, after the first step of polishing, by moving the object and a second polishing pad having a larger dimension than that of the object relative to each other while the second polishing pad is made to contact the object, and a step of detecting the state of the surface of the object before the first step of polishing.

Abstract: A polishing apparatus capable of accurately measuring a film thickness by regulating a quantity of light illuminating a wafer is disclosed. The polishing apparatus includes: a light source; an illuminating fiber having distal ends arranged at different locations in the polishing table; and a light-receiving fiber having distal ends arranged at the different locations in the polishing table. The illuminating fiber includes a first illuminating fiber and a second illuminating fiber. A first dimmer is attached to the first illuminating fiber and the second illuminating fiber, and a second dimmer is attached to at least one of the first illuminating fiber and the second illuminating fiber.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to improve a substrate processing apparatus using the CARE method. The present invention provides a substrate processing apparatus for polishing a processing target region of a substrate by bringing the substrate and a catalyst into contact with each other in the presence of processing liquid. The substrate processing apparatus includes a substrate holding unit configured to hold the substrate, a catalyst holding unit configured to hold the catalyst, and a driving unit configured to move the substrate holding unit and the catalyst holding unit relative to each other with the processing target region of the substrate and the catalyst kept in contact with each other. The catalyst is smaller than the substrate.

Abstract: Provided is a vehicular display device that offers good visibility without causing a passenger to feel uncomfortable. In a bezel that includes a cover portion arranged above a display unit of a vehicular display device and a frame portion enclosing the cover portion, a front-side end portion of the cover portion is arranged at a position lower than a rear-side end portion. As a result, external light is reflected forward. Moreover, a front frame includes a reflecting plate, a semi-transparent output plate covering over the reflecting plate, and a light-collecting portion collecting external light that enters from a front into a space enclosed by the reflecting plate and the output plate. As a result, the front frame is prevented from being darkly reflected onto a front glass.

Abstract: An illumination device includes a light source row made up of multiple first light sources, each emitting light in the same direction and being aligned in a row with intervals maintained therebetween; a light guide member having a light-guide main portion in a plate shape including a light-incident surface which faces a first light-emitting portion and on which light from the first light-emitting portion is incident and a light-emitting surface from which light enters from the light-incident surface is externally emitted, and an extended portion in a plate shape thinner in thickness than the light-guide main portion and extending toward an outer side from part of the end surface of the light-guide main portion to cover the light source row from the front side; and multiple second light sources having a second light-emitting portion that emits light toward the extended portion and being disposed aligned in the row along with the light source row at both ends of the light source row to be covered by the extende

Abstract: The invention provides a metabolism improving agent containing a rare fatty acid such as hydroxylated fatty acid, oxo fatty acid and the like, and further, food, pharmaceutical product and the like containing the metabolism improving agent.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a use of benzimidazole derivative compounds for improvement and treatment of nocturnal acid breakthrough (NAB). The benzimidazole derivative compounds can more effectively prevent and treat gastric acid-related diseases by effectively improving and treating nocturnal nocturnal acid breakthrough symptoms.

Abstract: According to one aspect, a substrate processing apparatus is provided. The substrate processing apparatus includes a table provided with a substrate holding surface for holding a substrate, a pad for processing the substrate held on the table, a head for holding the pad, an actuator for moving the head in a direction perpendicular to the substrate holding surface of the table, and a mechanical stopper device for stopping a movement of the head in the direction perpendicular to the substrate holding surface.

Abstract: The present invention provides a metabolism improving agent containing a rare fatty acid such as hydroxylated fatty acid, oxo fatty acid and the like, and further, food, pharmaceutical product and the like containing the metabolism improving agent.

Abstract: Provided is a vehicle display device that can improve visibility without providing a feeling of strangeness to a passenger. A vehicle display device includes a display unit provided in an inner side of an instrument panel and which projects a display image, a transparent cover that transmits the display image projected from the display unit toward a windshield, and a bezel body including an opening portion that allows the display image transmitted through the transparent cover to pass through and having an outer edge portion continuing into the windshield, and the degrees of brightness of respective reflected images of the instrument panel, the transparent cover, and the bezel body, the respective reflected images being reflected in the windshield, are made uniform, and therefore dark visual recognition of any of the reflected images is suppressed, and the feeling of strangeness provided to the passenger is relieved.

Abstract: A polishing-pad laminated structure which allows for easy alignment of a through-hole of a polishing pad with a sensor head installed in a polishing table is disclosed. The polishing-pad laminated structure includes a polishing pad and a release sheet. The polishing pad has a through-hole located at a position corresponding to a position of a sensor head disposed in the polishing table. The release sheet covers an adhesive surface of the polishing pad. The release sheet is divided into at least a first release sheet and a second release sheet. The first release sheet has a surface area smaller than a surface area of the second release sheet.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a use of benzimidazole derivative compounds for improvement and treatment of nocturnal acid breakthrough (NAB). The benzimidazole derivative compounds can mere effectively prevent and treat gastric acid-related diseases by effectively improving and treating nocturnal nocturnal acid breakthrough symptoms.

Abstract: A viewing angle control sheet located on a light output side of a display device having a display surface curving in accordance with distance from the sloping reflective member, the viewing angle control sheet being curved along the display surface to control a viewing angle of an image displayed on the display surface, the viewing angle control sheet includes light-transmitting portions and light-blocking portions alternately arranged in a curving direction of the display surface, and the light viewing angle control sheet is configured such that ?1 satisfies the following expression (1), [ expr .

Abstract: A portable electronic device includes: a communication block configured to communicate with another portable electronic device different from said portable electronic device; an information acquisition block configured to acquire relation information that is information about a relation between a user of said portable electronic device and a user of said other portable electronic device from an external server through a network when said communication block communicates with said other electronic device; and a notification block configured to notify the user of said portable electronic device of the relation information acquired by said information acquisition block.

Abstract: A vehicular display device includes a display that emits, as display light, a display image projected onto a windshield, a transparent cover that blocks an opening of a housing and transmits at least a part of the display light emitted from the display, a plurality of reflecting mirrors, and a quarter wave plate. Using a vibration direction of the display light from the display as a reference vibration direction, the quarter wave plate converts the display light transmitted from the transparent cover toward the reflecting mirror into circularly polarized light vibrating in a direction tilted by 45 degree from the reference vibration direction and converts the circularly polarized light transmitted toward the reflecting mirror from the reflecting mirror into display light vibrating in a direction orthogonal to the reference vibration direction.

Abstract: The present invention provides production of hydroxylated fatty acid by a hydration reaction using a novel enzyme derived from lactobacillus and using fatty acid as a substrate, and further, a production method of oxo fatty acid by an enzyme reaction or chemical oxidation reaction using the hydroxylated fatty acid as a substrate. In addition, a valuable novel rare fatty acid obtained by such production method is also provided.

Abstract: A projection device includes a display that emits a first linearly polarized light that oscillates in a reference oscillation direction, a transparent cover that blocks an opening of a housing, and that reflects the first linearly polarized light that is emitted by the display, and a half-wavelength plate that converts the first linearly polarized light entering from the transparent cover into a second linearly polarized light that oscillates in a direction orthogonal to the reference oscillation direction, and transmits the second linearly polarized light. The transparent cover includes a convex curved surface protruding toward an interior of the housing, and is structured to reflect the first linearly polarized light that is emitted by the display, toward the half-wavelength plate, and to transmit the second linearly polarized light from a reflection mirror toward a combiner.

Abstract: A vehicular display device includes a display that emits, as display light, a display image projected onto a windshield, a transparent cover that blocks an opening of a housing and transmits the display light, and a reflecting mirror that reflects the display light at a position where an optical path of the display light from the display to the windshield is folded back. The transparent cover includes a light shielding wall disposed on an optical path of external light incident from an outside of a vehicle, reflected by the transparent cover, and directed from the transparent cover to an eye point via the windshield, reflects the display light emitted from the display toward the reflecting mirror, transmits the display light reflected from the reflecting mirror toward the windshield, and reflects the external light toward the light shielding wall.