Abstract: A terminal includes a transmission unit configured to transmit, to a base station, information indicating whether or not transmission diversity is supported, a reception unit configured to receive, from the base station, information indicating a transmission diversity scheme in a case where transmission diversity is supported, and a control unit configured to switch to a transmission diversity scheme based on the information indicating the transmission diversity scheme, wherein the transmission unit is configured to perform transmission by applying the transmission diversity scheme to which the switch was made.

Abstract: Provided is an optical film with a resin substrate adhered to an optically anisotropic layer and suppression of occurrence of optical defects in the optically anisotropic layer. The optical film has a resin substrate having an alignment regulating force and an optically anisotropic layer arranged thereon, in which the optically anisotropic layer contains a liquid crystal compound and a compound having a heteroatom different from the liquid crystal compound, and in a case where a surface of the optical film on an optically anisotropic layer side thereof is a first surface and a surface of the optical film on a resin substrate side thereof is a second surface, and components of the optical film in a depth direction are analyzed by time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry while irradiating the optical film with an ion beam from the first surface toward the second surface, the obtained profile satisfies a predetermined requirement.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optically anisotropic layer which has a plurality of regions in which alignment states of a liquid crystal compound are different in a thickness direction and in which peeling is unlikely to occur in the layer. The optically anisotropic layer of the present invention is an optically anisotropic layer formed of a liquid crystal compound, in which the optically anisotropic layer contains a leveling agent and satisfies a predetermined requirement in a profile of a secondary ion intensity derived from the leveling agent in a depth direction, which is obtained by analyzing components of the optically anisotropic layer in a depth direction by time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry while irradiating the optically anisotropic layer with an ion beam from one surface of the optically anisotropic layer to the other surface of the optically anisotropic layer.

Abstract: Provided is an optical film that has a thin thickness, is suitable in terms of continuous productivity, and exhibits suppressed tinting of black color in a front direction and an oblique direction in a case of being used as a circularly polarizing plate in an organic EL display device; a circularly polarizing plate; and an organic EL display device. The optical film includes an elongated support and a first, a second, and a third optically anisotropic layer in this order, in which a thickness of the elongated support is 10 to 45 ?m, the first optically anisotropic layer is formed of a rod-like liquid crystal compound, the second optically anisotropic layer is formed by fixing a twist-aligned liquid crystal compound having a helical axis in a thickness direction, the third optically anisotropic layer is formed of a liquid crystal compound, and each optically anisotropic layer exhibits predetermined optical characteristics.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal composition capable of forming an optically anisotropic layer, and method thereof, in which a variation in a twisted angle of liquid crystal compound in an in-plane direction is suppressed an optical film, and a circularly polarizing plate for an organic EL display. The liquid crystal composition contains a liquid crystal, optically active compound A which is a photosensitive optically active compound whose helical twisting power changes upon irradiation with light and has a molar absorption coefficient of 5,000 M?1·cm?1 or more with respect to light having a wavelength of 365 nm, and an optically active compound B having a molar absorption coefficient with respect to light having a wavelength of 365 nm smaller than the molar absorption coefficient of the optically active compound A, in which a mass content ratio of the optically active compound A to the liquid crystal compound is less than 0.01.

Abstract: A radiation detector includes control and data lines extending respectively in mutually-orthogonal first and second directions, photoelectric conversion parts respectively in regions defined by the control and data lines, noise detecting parts outside a region including the photoelectric conversion parts, a control circuit inputting control signals to first and second thin film transistors located respectively in the photoelectric conversion and noise detecting parts, a signal detection circuit reading image data and noise signals respectively from the photoelectric conversion and noise detecting parts, and an image configuration circuit configuring a radiation image based on the signals that are read.

Abstract: Provided is a glass direct roving that can achieve good productivity for long glass fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin pellets, and achieve excellent spinning productivity and good strength of glass fiber-reinforced resin molded articles produced by using long glass fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin pellets in combination. The glass direct roving includes a plurality of glass filaments bundled together, wherein the filament diameter of the glass filaments, D, is in the range of 17.5 to 21.5 ?m, the number of the glass filaments bundled, F, is in the range of 3000 to 7000, the mass of the glass direct roving is in the range of 2450 to 4000 tex, the ignition loss of the glass direct roving, L, is in the range of 0.03 to 0.90%, and the D, F, and L satisfy the following formula (1): 1 ? 0 ? 5 ? 0 ? ( D 4 × F 1 / 4 ) / ( 1000 × L 1 / 6 ) ? 1 640.

Abstract: Provided is an optical film in which black tinting is suppressed in front and oblique directions when the optical film is used as a circularly polarizing plate in an organic EL display device. The optical film is an elongated optical film having optically anisotropic layers (A), (B), and (C), in this order, in which layer (A) is formed by fixing a vertically aligned disk-like liquid crystal compound, layer (B) is formed by fixing a twist-aligned rod-like liquid crystal compound with a thickness direction as a helical axis, layer (C) is formed by fixing a vertically aligned rod-like liquid crystal compound, an in-plane slow axis of layer (A) is parallel to an in-plane slow axis on a surface of layer (B) on a layer (A) side, and layers (A) and (B) are disposed such that the in-plane slow axes thereof satisfy a predetermined positional relationship.

Abstract: A circularly polarizing plate in which tint unevenness in an oblique direction can be suppressed when the circularly polarizing plate is applied to an organic EL display device. The circularly polarizing plate includes a polarizer and a phase difference film laminated on one surface side of the polarizer, in which it has a moisture content of 1.8% or less, an absolute value of a chromaticity a* and chromaticity b* are 10 or less at any azimuthal angle, in a case where the chromaticity a* and b* are measured at all azimuthal angles with a polar angle of 40° from a normal direction of the circularly polarizing plate of a laminate when a reflectivity is measured at all azimuthal angles with a polar angle of 40° from the normal direction of the circularly polarizing plate of the laminate, the reflectivity is 3.0% or less at any azimuthal angle.

Abstract: Provided is an optical film having excellent adhesiveness; a circularly polarizing plate; and an organic EL display device. The optical film has three layers of an optically anisotropic layer (A), an optically anisotropic layer (B), and an optically anisotropic layer (C), each of which is formed by fixing an aligned liquid crystal compound, in which at least one of the optically anisotropic layer (A) or the optically anisotropic layer (B) is directly laminated with the optically anisotropic layer (C), the optically anisotropic layer (C) is a layer that contains a photo-alignment polymer having a photo-alignment group and is formed by fixing a vertically aligned rod-like liquid crystal compound or a horizontally aligned disk-like liquid crystal compound, and the photo-alignment polymer is present on the surface of the optically anisotropic layer (C) in contact with the optically anisotropic layer (A) or the optically anisotropic layer (B).

Abstract: The present invention provides an optically anisotropic layer which has a plurality of regions in which alignment states of a liquid crystal compound are different in a thickness direction and in which peeling is unlikely to occur in the layer. The optically anisotropic layer of the present invention is an optically anisotropic layer formed of a liquid crystal compound, in which the optically anisotropic layer contains a leveling agent and satisfies a predetermined requirement in a profile of a secondary ion intensity derived from the leveling agent in a depth direction, which is obtained by analyzing components of the optically anisotropic layer in a depth direction by time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry while irradiating the optically anisotropic layer with an ion beam from one surface of the optically anisotropic layer to the other surface of the optically anisotropic layer.

Abstract: Provided is an optically anisotropic layer formed of a liquid crystal compound, which includes first and second layers in direct contact along a thickness direction, an alignment state of the liquid crystal compound in the first layer is different from the second layer, and the optically anisotropic layer satisfies a relationship of Expression (2A) Xmax/Xmin<1.10 where a region within a square having a largest size that can be drawn on a surface of the optically anisotropic layer is subdivided into 64 square-shaped sub-regions having the same area, a thickness d1 of the first layer and a thickness d2 of the second layer at a center position of the sub-region are obtained, X represented by Expression (1) X=d1/(d1+d2) for each sub-region is calculated, and among the calculated 64 X's, a maximum value is defined as Xmax and a minimum value is defined as Xmin.

Abstract: A heat exchanger according to one embodiment includes: a heat exchange core; a shell provided to surround the heat exchange core; and a first partition wall that is provided in a space surrounded by an outer surface of the heat exchange core and an inner surface of the shell, and partitions the space into a first header space communicating with the heat exchange core and a second header space communicating with the heat exchange core. The first header space and the second header space are adjacent to each other, separated by the first partition wall.

Abstract: Provided is a circularly polarizing plate with which, in a case where a display device obtained by disposing the circularly polarizing plate on a display element is viewed from an oblique direction while the direction thereof is being changed, the display device exhibits little change in tint and has a low reflectivity; and an organic electroluminescent display device. The circularly polarizing plate includes a polarizer and an optically anisotropic layer, in which the optically anisotropic layer is a layer formed by fixing a liquid crystal compound having reverse wavelength dispersibility twist-aligned with a thickness direction as a helical axis, the molecular axis of the liquid crystal compound in the optically anisotropic layer is horizontal to the surface of the optically anisotropic layer, and the twisted angle of the twist-aligned liquid crystal compound is 15° to 360°.

Abstract: Provided are a circularly polarizing plate in which the black tint variation is suppressed in a case where a display device obtained by attaching the circularly polarizing plate to a display element is displayed in black and is then viewed from the front direction in a sunlight environment, and a display device. The circularly polarizing plate is has a polarizer, a first optically anisotropic layer, and a second optically anisotropic layer in this order, in which the first optically anisotropic layer is a layer formed by fixing a liquid crystal compound twist-aligned along a helical axis extending in a thickness direction, the second optically anisotropic layer is an A-plate, an absorption axis of the polarizer and an in-plane slow axis of the second optically anisotropic layer are parallel or orthogonal to each other, and the first optically anisotropic layer and the second optically anisotropic layer exhibit predetermined optical properties.

Abstract: A transfer film in an image display apparatus includes a temporary support including a substrate and an optically anisotropic layer, in which an in-plane retardation of the substrate at a wavelength of 550 nm is 0 to 20 nm, the optically anisotropic layer is formed of a liquid crystal compound, and where the optically anisotropic layer obtained by peeling the temporary support from the transfer film is allowed to stand in a predetermined environment, and then a maximum value of a dimensional change rate in an in-plane direction of the optically anisotropic layer is defined as ?L (max) and a minimum value of the dimensional change rate is defined as ?L (min), the transfer film satisfies at least one of Expression (1) ?L (max)/?L (min)?1.5 or Expression (2) ?L (max)?0.08%.

Abstract: A motor shaft of a drive apparatus extends along a first rotation axis extending in an axial direction. A gear portion is connected to one axial side of the motor shaft. A housing tubular portion extends in the axial direction and holds a stator on the radially inner surface. The first lid portion is attached to the other axial end portion of the housing tubular portion. The first bearing of the motor bearing that rotatably supports the motor shaft is a rolling bearing disposed on the first lid portion, and rotatably supports the motor shaft on the other axial side with respect to the rotor. The motor shaft and the first lid portion are electrically insulated by the first bearing.

Abstract: Provided are an optical film, a circularly polarizing plate, and an image display apparatus in each of which the occurrence of cracks is suppressed in the obtained film in a case of being punched. The optical film includes a stretched resin film and a liquid crystal layer formed by fixing a liquid crystal compound twist-aligned along a helical axis extending along a direction in thickness, in which a ?a value calculated using a three-dimensional solubility parameter of a resin in the stretched resin film is 8.0 MPa1/2 or less, the liquid crystal layer contains a cured substance of a polyfunctional compound having two or more polymerizable groups in one molecule, and an absolute value of a difference between the ?a value calculated using the three-dimensional solubility parameter of the polyfunctional compound and the ?a value calculated using the three-dimensional solubility parameter of the resin is 4.0 MPa1/2 or less.

Abstract: Provided are a phase difference film that has a small change in tint in a case where the phase difference film is combined with a polarizer and then applied as a circularly polarizing plate to a display device, and the display device is observed from an oblique direction at all azimuthal angles; as well as a circularly polarizing plate and a display device. The phase difference film includes a first optically anisotropic layer, a second optically anisotropic layer, a third optically anisotropic layer, and a fourth optically anisotropic layer in this order, in which the first optically anisotropic layer is a C-plate, the second optically anisotropic layer is an A-plate, the third optically anisotropic layer is a layer formed by fixing a liquid crystal compound twist-aligned along a helical axis extending in a thickness direction, and the first, second, third, and fourth optically anisotropic layers have a predetermined configuration.

Abstract: Provided are an optical film, a circularly polarizing plate, and an image display apparatus in each of which the occurrence of cracks is suppressed in the obtained film in a case of being punched. The optical film includes a stretched resin film and a liquid crystal layer formed by fixing a liquid crystal compound twist-aligned along a helical axis extending along a direction in thickness, in which a ?a value calculated using a three-dimensional solubility parameter of a resin in the stretched resin film is 8.0 MPa1/2 or less, the liquid crystal layer contains a cured substance of a polyfunctional compound having two or more polymerizable groups in one molecule, and an absolute value of a difference between the ?a value calculated using the three-dimensional solubility parameter of the polyfunctional compound and the ?a value calculated using the three-dimensional solubility parameter of the resin is 4.0 MPa1/2 or less.