Abstract: A pattern of a concave-convex structure having any three-dimensional shape is formed on an outer circumferential surface of a master with high accuracy.

Abstract: Provided is a laminate that includes a thin-film structure having a fine concave-convex structure at its surface, can be distributed on the market so that the thin-film structure is usable by a customer without staining or fracturing, and can be prevented from degradation even after storage. A laminate comprises a thin-film structure and holding films, wherein a first holding film is laminated on one surface of the thin-film structure and a second holding film is laminated on the other surface of the thin-film structure, the thin-film structure has fine concave-convex structures at both surfaces, and 0<P1, 0<P2, and P1?P2, where P1 is a peel force at an interface between the first holding film and the thin-film structure and P2 is a peel force at an interface between the second holding film and the thin-film structure.

Abstract: Provided is a Mn—Ta—W—Cu—O-based sputtering target including, in the component composition, Mn, Ta, W, Cu, and O. The sputtering target has a relative density of at least 90%, and includes a crystal phase of Mn4Ta2O9. Also provided is a production method for the sputtering target.

Abstract: A protective circuit (1A) includes a protective element (10A), a plurality of secondary battery cells (20), (20), . . . , an external positive electrode terminal (30a) and an external negative electrode terminal (30b), an auxiliary power supply (40), a first control device (50), and a switch (60). The protective element (10A) has a first fusible conductor (15) of which both ends are connected to a first terminal (11) and a second terminal (12), and a heat generator (16) installed on a first energizing path (P1A) between a third terminal (13) and a fourth terminal (14). The auxiliary power supply (40) is provided electrically independently of the plurality of secondary battery cells (20), (20), . . . .

Abstract: Provided is a wire grid polarizing element excellent in heat dissipation and excellent in transmissivity and polarization splitting properties for oblique incident light at wide-range incident angles. A wire grid polarizing element 1 includes a substrate 10 made of an inorganic material, a grid structural body 20 made of an organic material and including a base part 21 provided on the substrate 10 and a plurality of ridge portions 22, the base part and the ridge portions being integrally formed, and a functional film 30 made of a metal material and covering part of the ridge portion 22. The ridge portion 22 has an upward narrowing shape that narrows in width with distance from the base part 21. The functional film 30 covers and wraps the top of the ridge portion 22, and does not cover a bottom side of the ridge portion 22 and the base part 21. A coverage rate (Rc) of the side surface of the ridge portion 22 obtained by the functional film 30 is more than or equal to 30% and less than or equal to 70%.

Abstract: This protective element includes a first electrode portion, a second electrode portion disposed distant from the first electrode portion, a fuse element portion having spring characteristics, and a case that houses at least a portion of the fuse element portion, wherein the fuse element portion includes a first end section that is connected to the first electrode portion, a second end section that is connected to the second electrode portion, and a cutoff section that is positioned between the first end section and the second end section, and the fuse element portion is held inside the case in a bent state such that, when the fuse element portion is cut, both cut ends of the cutoff section are pulled apart from each other.

Abstract: To provide a protecting device and a battery pack using the same, which are less likely to cause a spark even when a high voltage is applied and can safely and quickly interrupt the current path.

Abstract: This method of manufacturing an optical laminate comprising a transparent substrate, an adhesion layer, an optical functional layer, and an antifouling layer laminated in this order, includes an adhesion layer forming step of forming the adhesion layer, an optical functional layer forming step of forming the optical functional layer, a surface treatment step of treating the surface of the optical functional layer so that the rate of change in surface roughness represented by formula (1) is 1˜25%, and an antifouling layer forming step of forming the antifouling layer on the surface-treated optical functional layer; Rate of change of surface roughness (%)=((Ra2/Ra1)?1)×100(%) Formula (1) (Formula (1), where Ra1 represents the surface roughness (Ra) of the optical functional layer before the surface thereof is treated, and Ra2 represents the surface roughness (Ra) of the optical functional layer after the surface thereof is treated.).

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a connection film achieves high productivity. The method includes printing an adhesive in a predetermined shape on a mold release film, and forming a connection film of a predetermined shape on the mold release film. A plurality of connection films of the predetermined shape are formed in the width direction of the mold release film, the mold release film is cut in the longitudinal direction at a predetermined width, a plurality of mold release films of the predetermined width are connected in the longitudinal direction, and the connected mold release films of the predetermined width are wound around a winding core. This enables high productivity.

Abstract: A protective element includes: a fuse element including a first end portion and a second end portion; first and second insulating members each having an opening or a separation part, the first and second insulating members being disposed in a state proximal to or in contact with the fuse element; a shielding member movable in a moving direction that allows the shielding member to insert into the opening or the separation part so as to divide the fuse element; a locking member that suppresses movement of the shielding member; a pressing member that press the shielding member; and a heat-generating body configured to heat the locking member or a fixing member of the locking member. The fuse element further includes a cutoff portion for cutting off a current path between the first end portion and the second end portion.

Abstract: A method for fabricating an imprint master 1 comprises a first forming step of forming micro-protrusion-and-recess structures 23 having a first average pitch on one surface of a substrate 10 and a second forming step of forming main recesses 21 or main protrusions 22 having a second average pitch larger than the first average pitch on the one surface of the substrate 10 having the micro-protrusion-and-recess structures 23 formed thereon, in a manner maintaining a shape of at least a portion of the micro-protrusion-and-recess structures 23 in the main recesses 21 or the main protrusions 22 while the main recesses 21 or the main protrusions 22 are being formed.

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: 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: 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 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 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 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: 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: 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: 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.