Abstract: An angular pin is used in a connecting portion of each component, and a plated copper wire for electrical connection of the component is wound at several turns around the angular pin.

Abstract: An angular pin is used in a connecting portion of each component, and a plated copper wire for electrical connection of the component is wound at several turns around the angular pin.

Abstract: An anti-reflection film comprises a high refractive index layer having a refractive index of 1.65-2.40, and a low refractive index layer having a refractive index of 1.20-1.55. Another anti-reflection film comprises only a low refractive index layer having a refractive index of 1.20-1.55. In the invention, the first improvement resides in a high refractive index layer composed of inorganic fine particles having a mean particle size of 1-200 nm in an amount of 5-65 vol. % and a crosslinked anionic polymer in an amount of 35 to 95 vol. %. The second improvement resides in a low refractive index layer composed of inorganic fine particles having a mean particle size of 0.5-200 nm in an amount of 50-95 wt. % and a polymer in an amount of 5-50 wt. %, and two or more of those particles are piled up to form micro voidsby the adjacent particles.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display is composed of a liquid crystal cell which comprises a pair of transparent substrates at least one of which is provided with an electrode thereon and liquid crystal sealed therebetween, a polarizing sheet arranged on at least one side of the cell, the liquid crystal aligning parallel to a plane of the substrate and varying its direction of molecular major axis in a plane parallel to the plane of the substrate under variation of voltage applied to the liquid crystal cell. The liquid crystal display has an optical compensatory sheet between at least one side of the liquid crystal cell and the polarizing sheet, the optical compensatory sheet having an optically negative uniaxial property and an optic axis parallel to a plane of the sheet.

Abstract: An optical filter comprises a transparent support and a filter layer. The filter layer has an absorption maximum in the wavelength range of 500 to 550 nm. The filter layer further has another absorption maximum in the wavelength range of 560 to 620 nm. The optical filter has a transmittance in the range of 40 to 85% at the absorption maximum in the wavelength range of 500 to 550 nm. The optical filter further has a transmittance in the range of 0.01 to 80% at the absorption maximum in the wavelength range of 560 to 620 nm.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for preparing 2-mercaptothiazole, which comprises adding a dithiocarbamate salt represented by the formula (1): ##STR1## wherein M is a cation, to a chloroacetaldehyde solution in the presence of an acid.

Abstract: Disclosed is an elliptically polarizing plate comprising a polarizing film and an optical compensatory sheet provided, in which the compensatory sheet has a direction of a minimum retardation inclined at 5 to 50 degrees from the normal of the sheet. A process for preparation of the elliptically polarizing plate, and a liquid crystal display provided with the elliptically polarizing plate are also disclosed.

Abstract: Disclosed is an optical compensatory sheet which comprises a transparent support and an optically anisotropic layer provided thereon, wherein the optically anisotropic layer comprises a compound having a discotic structure unit in its molecule and has negative birefringence, and the discotic structure unit has a plane inclined from a plane of the transparent support at an angle varying along a direction of depth of the anisotropic layer. A liquid crystal display and a color liquid crystal display provided with the optical compensatory sheet are also disclosed.

Abstract: Disclosed is an elliptically polarizing plate comprising a polarizing film and an optical compensatory sheet provided, in which the compensatory sheet has an optically negative monoaxial property and a direction of a minimum retardation inclined at 5 to 50 degrees from the normal of the sheet. A process for preparation of the elliptically polarizing plate, and a liquid crystal display provided with the elliptically polarizing plate are also disclosed.

Abstract: A process for preparation of a light-sensitive material containing microcapsules is disclosed. The light-sensitive material comprises a light-sensitive layer provided on a support. The microcapsules are dispersed in the light-sensitive layer. The process of the present invention comprises the steps of: (1) mixing a silver halide emulsion and the reducing agent or the photopolymerization initiator with the polymerizable compound to prepare a light-sensitive composition; (2) emulsifying the composition in an aqueous medium to prepare an aqueous emulsion; (3) forming a shell around the droplets of the composition contained in the aqueous emulsion to prepare a microcapsule dispersion; (4) coagulating the aqueous medium to set the microcapsule dispersion; (5) storing the set microcapsule dispersion; (6) melting the aqueous medium to prepare a coating solution of the light-sensitive layer; and (7) coating the solution on the support.

Abstract: An image forming method of imagewise exposing and heating a light-sensitive material is disclosed. The light-sensitive material comprises a support and a light-sensitive layer provided thereon. The light-sensitive layer contains silver halide, a reducing agent, an ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable compound, a color image forming substance and a base precursor. The silver halide, the reducing agent, the polymerizable compound, the color image forming substance and the base precursor are contained in microcapsules which are dispersed in the light-sensitive layer. According to the present invention, the support is made of a thin polymer film having a thickness of not more than 75 .mu.m. The light-sensitive material is heated from the side of the support for 0.1 to 5 seconds.

Abstract: Disclosed are oily droplets comprising an oily core containing a compound having an ethylenically unsaturated group and a film formed around the oily core which is composed of a reaction product of the compound having an ethylenically unsaturated group with a water-soluble polymer having a sulfinyl group. Also disclosed are microcapsules comprising the oily droplet and a resin wall formed therearound. Further disclosed are processes for preparing the oily droplets and the microcapsules.

Abstract: An image recording material comprises a support and an image recording layer provided thereon which contains a salicyclic acid derivative or its metal salt, which functions as a developer of a leuco dye to form a color image. A new salicylic acid developer is herein disclosed. The salicylic acid developer is a salicylic acid derivative having the formula (I) or its metal salt: ##STR1## in which each of R.sup.13 and R.sup.15 independently is hydrogen, an alkyl group, an aryl group or a tertiary aralkyl group; R.sup.16 is an alkyl group or an aryl group; and when R.sup.15 is hydrogen R.sup.13 is a tertiary aralkyl group. An image recording process employing the image recording material is also disclosed.

Abstract: Disclosed is a light-sensitive material comprising a support and a light-sensitive layer provided thereon which contains silver halide, a reducing agent and an ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable compound. The silver halide and the polymerizable compound are contained in oily droplets. The oily droplets are a core material of microcupsules. The oily droplet has a film therearound which is composed of a reaction product of a water-soluble polymer having a sulfinyl group with an ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable compound.

Abstract: A base precursor in the form of a salt of an organic base with a carboxylic acid is disclosed. The organic base is a diacidic to tetraacidic base which is composed of two to four guanidine moieties and at least one linking group for the guanidine moities. The organic base is such a hydrophilic compound that the number of carbon atoms contained in the organic base is not more than six times the number of the guanidine moieties. The linking group is a residue of a hydrocarbon or a heterocyclic ring. The guanidine moiety corresponds to an atomic group formed by removing one or two hydrogen atoms from a compound having the following formula (I): ##STR1## where each of R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 independently is hydrogen, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an aralkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group, each of which may have one or more substituent groups, and any two of R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4 and R.sup.

Abstract: An image-receiving material comprises a support and an image-receiving layer characterized in that the image-receiving layer contains a hardening agent being capable of polymerizing a polymerizable compound without necessity of external energy. The hardening agent is ethylenediamine, propylenediamine, 1,3-diamino-2-hydroxypropane, 1,3-trimethylenediamine, N,N'-dimethylethylenediamine, 1,4-diaminobutane, hexamethylenediamine, diethylenetriamine, triethylenetetraamine, ##STR1## polyethleneimine, polyallylamine, poly-L-lysine, poly-L-ornithine, NaO.sub.2 S--CH.sub.2 CH.dbd.CHCH.sub.2 SO.sub.2 Na or an alkali metal salt of polyvinylbenzenesulfinic acid.

Abstract: A light-sensitive microcapsule comprising a core material containing a polymerizable compound and a shell material characterized in that the shell material contains therin silver halide in the form of grains. A light-sensitive material comprising a light-sensitive layer containing a great number of said microcapsules and a reducing agent provided on a support is also disclosed.

Abstract: A light-sensitive material comprises a support and a light-sensitive layer containing silver halide, a reducing agent, an ethylenic unsaturated polymerizable compound and a base precursor in the form of a salt of an organic base with a carboxylic acid. The silver halide, reducing agent, polymerizable compound and base precursor are contained in microcapsules which are dispersed in the light-sensitive layer. The organic base of the base precursor is a diacidic to tetraacidic base which is composed of two to four amidine moieties and at least one linking group for the amidine moieties. The linking group is a residue of a hydrocarbon or a heterocyclic ring. The amidine moiety corresponds to an atomic group formed by removing one or two hydrogen atoms from an amidine having the following formula (I): ##STR1## wherein each of R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.

Abstract: An image-receiving material comprises a support and an image-receiving layer characterized in that the image-receiving layer contains a hardening agent being capable of polymerizing a polymerizable compound without necessity of external energy. An image-forming method employing the image-receiving material is also disclosed. The image-forming method comprises: imagewise exposing to light a light-sensitive material comprising a support and a light-sensitive layer containing silver halide, a reducing agent and a polymerizable compound; simultaneously or thereafter developing the light-sensitive material; and pressing the light-sensitive material on the image-receiving material to transfer the unpolymerized polymerizable compound to the image-receiving layer.

Abstract: An image-forming method which comprises:imagewise exposing a light-sensitive material comprising a light-sensitive layer provided on a support wherein the light-sensitive layer contains silver halide, a reducing agent and a mixture of at least two polymerizable compounds to form a latent image of the silver halide;simultaneously or thereafter developing the light-sensitive material to polymerize the mixture of the polymerizable compounds within the area where the latent image of the silver halide has been formed; andpressing the light-sensitive material on an image-receiving material to transfer the unpolymerized mixture of the polymerizable compounds to the image-receiving material.