Abstract: Disclosed is an electrochemical device comprising a pair of electrodes and provided therebetween, a gelled nonaqueous electrolyte composition containing an electrolyte and a gelling agent having two or more amide groups in the chemical structure.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device having high luminance and long-term stability under high temperature, high humidity conditions. This organic electroluminescent device is suppressed in voltage increase and generation of dark spots when driven at a constant current. Additionally, a display and an illuminating device can be made using the organic electroluminescent device. The organic electroluminescent device is characterized in that at least one of organic layers constituting the device is a light-emitting layer containing a host compound and a phosphorescent compound of the general formula: and the at least one organic layer has a film surface density of 1.10-1.25 g/cm3.

Abstract: A transparent gas barrier film comprising a substrate having thereon a gas barrier layer comprising at least a low density layer and a high density layer, wherein one or more intermediate density layers are sandwiched between the low density layer and the high density layer.

Abstract: Whether a log-in button has been pressed or not is determined. When it is determined that the log-in button has been pressed, an ID selection screen is displayed. Whether an ID has been selected or not is determined. When it is determined that an ID has been selected, whether a secure printing job is present or not is determined. Thereafter, whether password matching is successfully achieved or not is determined. Thereafter, whether a password image function is ON or not is determined. Then, when it is determined that password matching was successfully achieved and a password image authentication function is ON, password image authentication is carried out.

Abstract: Disclosed is a gas barrier film which has both high gas barrier performance and high cracking (bending) resistance. Specifically disclosed is a gas barrier film which comprises, on a substrate in the following order, at least one silanol-containing layer and at least one gas barrier layer that contains silicon atoms and hydrogen atoms. The gas barrier film is characterized in that the relative SiOH ion strength in the central part of the silanol-containing layer in the film thickness direction as detected by time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (Tof-SIMS) is 0.02-1.0 when the relative Si ion strength is taken as 1. Also disclosed is an organic photoelectric conversion element which comprises the gas barrier film.

Abstract: A gas barrier laminate comprising a substrate having thereon at least a gas barrier layer and a polymer layer, wherein at least one polymer layer is provided adjacent to at least one gas barrier layer; and an average carbon content of the polymer layer at a contact interface between the gas barrier layer is lower than an average carbon content in the polymer layer.

Abstract: Provided is a print preparation method possessing an ejection step in which liquid drops of actinic energy radiation curable type ink-jet ink each containing a polymerizable compound, a photo-polymerizable initiator and a gelling agent are injected from an ink-jet recording head to supply the actinic energy radiation curable type ink-jet ink onto a recording medium, and an actinic energy radiation exposure step, wherein the print preparation method further comprises step (A) in which the recording medium is exposed to electromagnetic waves having a longer wavelength than a wavelength of an absorption wavelength of the photo-polymerization initiator contained in the actinic energy radiation curable type ink-jet ink from a side of a surface on which the image is formed, before conducting the actinic energy radiation exposure step, the print preparation method by which a print having images exhibiting excellent image wear resistance, gloss evenness and image density evenness is provided.

Abstract: An inkjet drawing apparatus includes a head module which holds a droplet jetting head provided with a nozzle for ejecting droplets, and which is unmovable in a horizontal direction, and a drawing table which supports a recording member on an upper surface, and which is movable in the horizontal direction. The inkjet drawing apparatus executes a prescribed drawing by ejecting the droplets onto the recording member from the droplet jetting head. A maintenance unit transfer mechanism is movable within a prescribed region including a position under the head module, and transfers a maintenance unit for conducting maintenance of the droplet jetting head toward the position under the head module, and executes positioning of the maintenance unit with respect to the droplet jetting head. A maintenance unit selecting/arranging mechanism selects one of a plurality of kinds of maintenance units, and places the selected maintenance unit on the maintenance unit transfer mechanism.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent element containing an anode and a cathode having therebetween a light emitting layer, wherein the light emitting layer contains a guest compound having a substructure represented by the following Formula (A): wherein Ra represents alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, cycloalkyl, aromatic hydrocarbon, aromatic heterocyclic or heterocyclic, Rb and Rc represent hydrogen or a substituent, A1 represents a group of atoms which forms an aromatic hydrocarbon ring or an aromatic heterocycle, M represents Ir or Pt, and a host compound having the following Formula (1): wherein Ra1 represents alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, cycloalkyl or heterocyclic, R1, R2 and R5 each represent hydrogen or a substituent, and n1, n2 and n5 each represent 0 to 4.

Abstract: Disclosed are a coating method of forming a coating with a stable thickness from a coating solution with a low viscosity employing a slit-type die coater and an organic electroluminescence element prepared employing the coating method. The coating method employing a slit-type die coater comprises the steps of allowing a lip tip of the slit-type die coater to bring close to the substrate to form a coating solution bead between the lip tip and the substrate, and coating on the substrate a coating solution ejected from a slit outlet at the lip tip while relatively moving the slit-type die coater and the substrate, thereby forming at least two coating layers in the stripe shape, featured in that the lip tip has at least one groove in the coating region in the coating width direction, and a pressure at the slit outlet of the coating solution of the bead is negative or zero.

Abstract: Disclosed is an organic photoelectric conversion element having high photoelectric conversion efficiency and high durability. Also disclosed are a solar cell and an optical sensor array, each using the organic photoelectric conversion element. The organic photoelectric conversion element comprises a bulk heterojunction layer wherein an n-type semiconductor material and a p-type semiconductor material are mixed. The organic photoelectric conversion element is characterized in that the n-type semiconductor material is a polymer compound and the p-type semiconductor material is a low-molecular-weight compound.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a display panel, which employs a vacuum bonding method. A display material is dispensed such that the height distance from the upper surface of a lower substrate to the top of the display material is larger than the height distance from the surface of either upper or lower substrate on which the seal pattern is formed to the apex of the seal pattern. The upper substrate is placed at a position where the upper substrate and the top of the display material in the height direction are in touch with each other and the seal pattern on one substrate is not in touch with the other substrate, then, air is released. Thus, volatilization of the display material is reduced easily at small cost to prevent drying of the surface of the display material, and the display qualities can be prevented from being degraded.

Abstract: A technique capable of satisfying both higher functionality and higher accuracy in a compact imaging device is sought to be provided. In order to accomplish the above object, an imaging device is formed by lamination of a plurality of layers including: an imaging element layer that has an imaging element part; a lens layer that has a lens part whose distance from the imaging element part is changeable, and is disposed between a subject and the imaging element part; and an actuator layer that has an actuator part to move the lens part, and is disposed between the subject and the imaging element part.

Abstract: An inkjet head (3) comprises a wiring board (80) which. has, two-dimensionally arranged thereon, sets of nozzles (11) , pressure chambers (41) , and actuators (60) and which also has lines of wiring (87, 91) through-vias (85) , and ink flow paths (88); and connection sections (110, 111) which connect the lines of wiring to a drive section, the connection sections (110, 111) being disposed outside the arrangement region (R) in which the sets of the nozzles, the pressure chambers, and the actuators are arranged two-dimensionally. The nozzles are arranged in N rows (N is an integer greater than or equal to 2) , with each of the N rows comprising M nozzles (M is an integer greater than or equal to 2) which are arranged rectilinearly. The through-vias which correspond.

Abstract: A technique of enabling both of higher functionality and higher accuracy in a compact optical system is provided. To achieve this object, an imaging unit has a laminated structure formed by laminating a plurality of layers including: an image capturing element layer including an image capturing element part; a lens layer capable of changing a distance from the image capturing element layer; and an actuator layer including a movable part for moving the lens layer; and a signal transmitter disposed so as to connect the actuator layer and the image capturing element layer, and transmitting a drive signal for driving the movable part from the image capturing element layer side to the actuator layer, and the movable part is deformed according to the drive signal transmitted through the signal transmitter, and the actuator layer is provided between the image capturing element layer and the lens layer.

Abstract: Disclosed is an illumination apparatus, which is constituted by a plurality of OLED devices and makes it possible to improve an accuracy of a dimming control operation. The apparatus is provided with a driving electric power source including: a pulse generating section; an OLED driving section; a first voltage source; a second voltage source; a current source; a switchover section that conducts a switchover operation between the first voltage source and the current source during the time when the duty ratio of the driving pulses is increasing, and also conducts another switchover operation between the first voltage source and the current source during the time when the duty ratio of the driving pulses is decreasing; and an OLED illumination disabling section that makes the second voltage source supply the second electric power to the OLED unit, only during the time when each of the pulses is the OFF state.

Abstract: Disclosed is a long-life organic electroluminescent element which can be driven at low voltage. Also disclosed are a display and illuminator using the same. Specifically disclosed is an organic electroluminescent element comprising on a substrate, an anode, a cathode and an organic compound layer arranged between the anode and the cathode and including at least one light emission layer. This organic electroluminescent element is characterized in that the organic compound layer includes an electron transport material-containing layer which contains an electron transport material represented by Formula (a) and at least one substance selected from the group consisting of metals, salts of the metals and electron-donating compounds. Formula (a) Ar1-(Ar2)n [In the formula, Ar1 represents a group derived from an aromatic hydrocarbon ring or a group derived from an aromatic heterocycle; Ar2 represents a group derived from an aromatic heterocycle; and n represents an integer of 2 or more.

Abstract: Disclosed are an organic electroluminescence element with significantly improved light extraction efficiency and improved film properties and an illumination device that uses said element. The organic electroluminescence element has a transparent electrode, an organic electroluminescence layer, and a cathode sequentially stacked on a transparent base material. The element is characterized in that the transparent base material is a transparent resin film, there is a hard coat layer on both sides, the respective refractive indices satisfy the expressions (1)-(4), and there is a function to scatter light to the light emission side with respect to the organic electroluminescence layer. Expression (1): ?0.2?n(H1)?n(A)?0.2, Expression (2): ?0.1?n(H1)?n(B)?0.1, Expression (3): ?0.1?n(H2)?n(B)?0.1, Expression (4): ?0.1?n(H1)?n(H2)?0.1.

Abstract: In the case of depositing a metal in a plurality of stages by applying deposition voltages having a plurality of rectangular waves at different voltages to an electrochemical display element, the application time of the rectangular wave at the highest voltage among the plurality of rectangular waves is set to a time (Tip) required for reaching a resistance inflexion point (Rip) where the resistance value (R) of a pixel starts to rapidly increase or shorter. Thus, the element can be prevented from being broken without deteriorating the response characteristics of a display element.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent element including at least an emission layer sandwiched between an anode and a cathode, wherein the emission layer comprises at least a compound represented by Formula (A),