Abstract: A protection element includes: a fuse element configured to be energized in a first direction, which is a direction from a first end portion of the fuse element to a second end portion of the fuse element; a shielding member including a plate-shaped part, configured to rotate around a rotation axis extending in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, wherein the plate-shaped part viewed from the fuse element is divided to a first portion and a second portion at a contact position between the plate-shaped part and the rotation axis, and an area of the first portion and an area of the second portion are different from each other; and a case having therein a housing portion. Pressure elevation in the housing portion due to an arc discharge causes the shielding member to rotate around the rotation axis and the shielding member divides the housing portion.

Abstract: Even when the blowing member generates heat over a long period of time, the fixing state of the blowing member is stabilized and the current path is interrupted safely and quickly. A protecting device 1 includes a case 28, a fuse element 2, a blowing member 3 connected to at least one side of the fuse element 2 to blow the fuse element 2,a fixing member 8 provided on an inner surface of the case 28 and in contact with the blowing member 3 to suppress the wobbling of the blowing member 3, the blowing member 3 has an insulating substrate 4 and a heat generator 5 formed on the insulating 10 substrate 4, and the insulating substrate 4 is connected to the fuse element 2 by a bonding material 9 that is softened by the heat generated by the heat generator 5.

Abstract: A method of producing a filler-containing film that holds fillers and a fine solid that is made of a material different from that of the filler in an insulating resin layer and in which a predetermined arrangement of the fillers is repeated as viewed in a plan view, where a proportion of (a) a repeat pitch of the fillers after thermocompression bonding under a thermocompression bonding condition with the filler-containing film held between smooth surfaces to (b) a repeat pitch of the fillers before the thermocompression bonding being 300% or less, the method including applying an insulating resin layer-forming composition containing a fine solid to a release substrate to form the insulating resin layer on the release substrate; and pushing the fillers into the insulating resin layer from a surface on a side opposite to the release substrate thereof.

Abstract: A sliding device configured to perform a sliding process on a surface of an object to be slid includes a sliding part including sliding bodies each having a flat working surface; a first driving mechanism configured to regularly move the sliding bodies in parallel with the working surfaces of the sliding bodies; and a second driving mechanism configured to regularly move the sliding part in parallel with the working surfaces in a direction different from a moving direction by the first driving mechanism while the first driving mechanism moves the sliding bodies. This enables uniform supply of the sliding process material onto the surface of the object to be slid or clean the surface of the object to be slid.

Abstract: A cationic curing agent includes porous particles and a compound represented by General Formula (1), where the compound is held in the porous particles. In the General Formula (1), R1 is an alkyl group having 1 to 18 carbon atoms or a phenyl group, where the alkyl group may be branched and the alkyl group and the phenyl group may each further have a substituent. R2 is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms where the alkyl group may be branched, a halogenalkyl group, an alkoxy group, or a phenoxy group; where the alkyl group, the halogenalkyl group, the alkoxy group, or the phenoxy group may further have a substituent. R1 and R2 may be identical to or different from each other.

Abstract: A polarizing plate having excellent optical properties includes: a transparent substrate that is transparent to light in a used wavelength band; grid-shaped protrusions arranged on the transparent substrate at a pitch shorter than the wavelength of light in the used band, extending in a predetermined direction, and has a reflective layer and a reflection control layer; and a groove which is recessed between the grid-shaped protrusions and whose width in a direction orthogonal to the predetermined direction is reduced to zero in the depth direction. This improves transmittance and reflectance properties, thereby achieving excellent optical properties.

Abstract: A connection structure, a method of manufacturing the connection structure, a connection material, and a coated conductive particle capable of reducing and stabilizing a conduction resistance value. The connection structure includes: a first electronic component having a first terminal; a second electronic component having a second terminal, and a cured film provided between the first electronic component and the second electronic component and formed by curing the connection material, wherein, with regard to the coated conductive particles between the first terminal and the second terminal, metal atoms of the conductive layer diffuse into the metal of the metal fine particles, and metal atoms of the first terminal and the metal atoms of the second terminal diffuse into the metal of the metal fine particles.

Abstract: There is provided an optical body, a lighting device, and an image display device that are novel and improved, and can increase a homogeneous light distribution property. The optical body is provided in which a composite structure of main structural bodies is deployed continuously within a plane of a base material, in which phase distributions of the main structural bodies within the plane of the base material are equivalent to amplitude distributions each obtained by subjecting a pupil function of a two-dimensional optical aperture to Fourier transform, and a peak ratio value is less than or equal to 2.5.

Abstract: A method for producing a heat transfer sheet, includes: (A1) forming a mixture including at least one of a carbon fiber and a boron nitride flake, an inorganic filler, and a binder resin into a molded body in which the at least one of the carbon fiber and the boron nitride flake is oriented in a thickness direction of the molded body; (B1) slicing the molded body into a sheet shape to obtain a molded sheet; (C1) pressing the molded sheet; and (D1), after the pressing, inserting the molded sheet between films and performing a vacuum packing of the molded sheet with the films such that an uncured component of the binder resin present inside the molded sheet is exuded to a surface of the molded sheet, which is the heat transfer sheet.

Abstract: Provided is a transfer sheet. The transfer sheet includes a plurality of linear protrusions extending and arranged side by side on a surface thereof. The plurality of linear protrusions are arranged in a manner that a gradual decrease and a gradual increase in protrusion height are repeated.

Abstract: Provided is a manufacturing method for a roll mold. The method includes performing a process of forming a linear groove on an outer peripheral surface of a roll base material in a roll axial direction or a direction inclined with respect to the roll axial direction n times, where n is 800 or more. A total of m linear grooves of 1st to mth linear grooves are formed at respective positions that are made up of a position of 0 degrees and at least one position shifted a multiple of (360/m) degrees from the position of 0 degrees, the position of 0 degrees being any position on the outer peripheral surface of the roll base material. In the subsequent cutting processes, linear grooves are formed at respective positions shifted from the positions of the 1st to mth linear grooves in a predetermined direction.

Abstract: Provided are a master in which a more complicated microstructure is formed, a transferred object obtained by using the master, and a method of producing the master. A plurality of concave-convex groups each including a plurality of concavities or convexities are provided on a base material apart from each other. Average widths of areas occupied by the concavities or convexities at a surface of the base material are smaller than or equal to a wavelength belonging to a visible light band. Formed lengths of the concavities or convexities from the surface of the base material in each of the concave-convex groups each belong to any of at least two or more groups having different central values.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a connection structure, connection structure, film structure, and a method of manufacturing a film structure capable of mounting an electronic component having a plurality of terminal rows on a mounting surface by using existing equipment, including: a pasting step of pasting, from a film structure including a tape-shaped base material and a connection film formed thereon, connection films having a unit region of a predetermined length in the length direction of the base material and a predetermined width in the width direction to a first or second electronic component having a plurality of terminal rows; and a connecting step of connecting terminals of the first and second electronic components through the connection films, wherein the film structure includes, in the unit region, in addition to portions corresponding to the plurality of terminal rows, a non-pasting portion in which the connection film is not pasted.

Abstract: Provided is a wire-grid polarizer comprising: a transparent substrate; and lattice-shaped protrusions which, on one surface of the transparent substrate, extend in prescribed direction and are arrayed at a pitch which is shorter than the wavelength of light in a band to be used. The lattice-shaped protrusions each include, in order from the transparent substrate side, the following: a reflective layer; a dielectric layer; and an absorption layer. In a prescribed region of the transparent substrate, a region is provided in which the lattice-shaped protrusions are divided.

Abstract: Provided is a wire grid polarizing element comprising: a transparent substrate; and latticed projections which are arrayed, on one-side surface of the transparent substrate, at a pitch shorter than the wavelength of light in a band to be used and extend in a prescribed direction. The latticed projections each include a reflection layer, a dielectric layer, and an absorption layer in the stated order from the transparent substrate side. The reflection layer contains an AlNd alloy.

Abstract: There is provided a master for micro flow path creation, a transfer copy, and a method for producing a master for micro flow path creation by which transfer copies having an area with high hydrophilicity can be easily mass-produced, the master for micro flow path creation including: a base material; a main concave-convex portion provided on a surface of the base material and extending in a planar direction of the base material; and a fine concave-convex portion provided on a surface of the main concave-convex portion and having a narrower pitch than the main concave-convex portion. The fine concave-convex portion has an arithmetic average roughness of 10 nm to 150 nm and has a specific surface area ratio of 1.1 to 3.0.

Abstract: This optical laminate includes a transparent substrate; an adhesion layer provided on at least one surface of the transparent substrate; and an optical layer provided on a surface of the adhesion layer on a side opposite to the transparent substrate, wherein the adhesion layer is formed of a metal material, and the metal material has a melting point in a range of 100° C. or more and 700° C. or less.

Abstract: Provided is a roll mold that has a plurality of linear grooves arranged side by side on its outer peripheral surface and in which an optical step between adjacent linear grooves is sufficiently small. A roll mold comprising, on an outer peripheral surface thereof, n linear grooves extending in a roll axial direction or a direction inclined with respect to the roll axial direction and arranged side by side, where n is 800 or more, wherein the n linear grooves are arranged in a manner that a gradual decrease and a gradual increase in groove depth are repeated, and the number of points at which a transition from the decrease to the increase in groove depth occurs is m or less, where m is selected from 2 to 8.

Abstract: Generation of outgassing is restrained to restrain deterioration in optical properties of a cover glass. A method for manufacturing an electronic device includes baking step of heating the cover glass on which an antireflection layer made of a cured product of a light-curing resin has been formed, an assembling step of installing the cover glass after the baking step at a position opposed to a light receiving surface of a sensor element to assemble a sensor module, and a reflow step of placing the sensor module on a mounting substrate and applying heat at a temperature of more than or equal to 250° C. to solder the sensor module to the mounting substrate. The baking step is performed before the reflow step to make a rate of generation of outgassing derived from a monomer having a monofunctional (meth)acryloyl group in outgassing generated from the antireflection layer of the cover glass in the reflow step less than or equal to 0.5% by mass relative to a mass of the antireflection layer.

Abstract: Provided is a protection circuit capable of reliably preventing an overcurrent or a sneak current after cutoff to improve safety, implementing cost reduction with a device configuration simpler than conventional device configurations, and further reducing a failure rate of a device. In a protection circuit, after one of two fuse elements provided in each of a plurality of protection elements is blown due to an overcurrent flowing along a current-carrying path, a heater provided in at least one of the plurality of protection elements generates heat due to a sneak current flowing via the plurality of protection elements on the current-carrying path which is remained and blows the other of the two fuse elements provided in the at least one of the plurality of protection elements.