Abstract: A light modulation element reproduces a light image in a specific color other than iridescence where white light is incident, without a layer that selectively transmits or reflects a specific wavelength band, and clearly reproduces a desired light image by reducing an influence of 0th-order diffracted light, and an information recording medium including the same. The light modulation element includes a factor element that reproduces a light image by modulating a phase of incident reproduction light, and has an uneven surface. A maximum diffraction efficiency Dmax in a wavelength band of between 380 nm and 780 nm in wavelength distribution of first-order diffracted light and of negative first-order diffracted light with respect to diffraction efficiency for the factor element has a local maximum value with a full width at half maximum FWHM of 200 nm or less in wavelength distribution with respect to diffraction efficiency having the maximum diffraction efficiency.

Abstract: To provide an antireflection member which not only has a low reflectance, but also is enhanced in scratch resistance, and an image display device comprising the antireflection member. An antireflection member 100 comprising a low refractive index layer 130 on a transparent substrate 110, in which the low refractive index layer 130 includes a binder resin and silica particles 132 and 134, a ratio of Si element attributed to the silica particles, obtained by analysis of a surface region of the low refractive index layer 130 by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, is 10.0 atomic percent or more and 18.0 atomic percent or less and a ratio of C element under the assumption that the ratio of Si element is defined to be 100 atomic percent is 180 atomic percent or more and 500 atomic percent or less.

Abstract: A foaming adhesive sheet includes: a first adhesive layer containing a curable adhesive agent and a foaming agent, and a second adhesive layer containing a curable adhesive agent, wherein a tack of the first and the second adhesive layers is between 0 gf and 10 gf; and when foaming adhesive sheet is foamed and cured so that a thickness, which is from a surface of the first adhesive layer opposing to the second adhesive layer to a surface of the second adhesive layer opposing to the first adhesive layer, becomes a distance between the first and second members, a thickness of the first adhesive layer and the thickness, which is from the surface of the first adhesive layer opposing to the second adhesive layer to the surface of the second adhesive layer opposing to the first adhesive layer, are set so that a foaming ratio is between 1.0 and 8.5.

Abstract: A decorative sheet includes a first surface and a second surface positioned opposite to the first surface. The first surface includes a first region and a second region that is different from the first region. The decorative sheet includes a surface protective layer, a design layer, and a substrate in order from the first surface toward the second surface. The design layer includes a patterned portion disposed only in a location that overlaps the first region. An average skewness Ssk1 of the first region and the average skewness Ssk2 of the second region satisfy a relationship (i), shown below. An average kurtosis Sku1 of the first region A1 and an average kurtosis Sku2 of the second region satisfy a relationship (ii), shown below 0 < Ssk ? 2 < Ssk ? 1 < 1 ( i ) 3 < Sk ? u2 < Sku ? 1 < 5.

Abstract: A decorative plate, a method for producing the decorative plate, and a transfer sheet. The method for producing a decorative plate includes: obtaining a first laminate including a decorative base paper and a core layer in this order successively laminated on a transfer sheet including a releasable support, a surface protective layer comprising a first ultraviolet absorbing agent, and an easy-adhesive layer in this order, on the easy-adhesive layer side with respect to the surface protective layer; impregnating an uncured first curable resin into the decorative base paper; impregnating an uncured first curable resin into the core layer; curing the uncured first curable resin by applying heat and pressure to the first laminate; and peeling away the releasable support from the first laminate to obtain a decorative plate including the surface protective layer, the easy-adhesive layer, the decorative base paper, and the core paper in this order.

Abstract: A deodorizing method includes a first rinsing step of supplying first rinse water for a first circulation system to a first circulation system (25a) including at least a heat sterilizer (3) that heats a drink, a chemical circulation step of supplying and circulating a chemical for a first circulation system in the first circulation system (25a), and a second rinsing step of supplying second rinse water for a first circulation system to the first circulation system (25a). At the chemical circulation step, the chemical for a first circulation system is heated to a temperature of 70° C. or higher and 150° C. or lower in the first circulation system (25a).

Abstract: Specifically, the present invention provides a decorative sheet comprising a laminate, the laminate comprising at least a base material sheet and a first surface-protecting layer in sequence in the thickness direction; (1) the first surface-protecting layer comprising an ionizing radiation-curable resin containing two kinds of aliphatic urethane acrylates, i.e., resin A and resin B, wherein resin A is an aliphatic urethane acrylate with an isocyanurate skeleton, and resin B is an aliphatic urethane acrylate with an alicyclic skeleton without an isocyanurate skeleton, (2) the first surface-protecting layer having a nanoindentation hardness of 160 MPa or more and 240 MPa or less, and (3) the base material sheet comprising a polyolefin resin and having a nanoindentation hardness of 30 MPa or more and 80 MPa or less.

Abstract: In a seal-type thermal transfer image-receiving sheet, the total thickness thereof is 250 ?m or less, a seal portion has a layered structure in which a pressure-adhesive layer, a seal portion substrate, and a receiving layer are layered in this order from a release portion side. A release portion has a layered structure in which a surface resin layer, a release portion paper substrate, and a back face resin layer are layered in this order from a seal portion side. One or both of the seal portion substrate and the surface resin layer includes a layer made of polyethylene terephthalate is 50 ?m or more. The sum of the thickness of the seal portion substrate and the thickness of the surface resin layer is four times or more the thickness of the back face resin layer, and the thickness of the back face resin layer is 20 ?m or more.

Abstract: Micro characters are expressed by a thermal fusion transfer technique. In a printed matter manufacturing method, a printed matter is manufactured by heating a thermal transfer sheet in accordance with image data, the thermal transfer sheet including a base member, a release layer disposed on the base member and containing a wavelength conversion material that emits visible light with excitation by invisible light, and a thermally fusible ink layer disposed on the release layer, and by transferring the thermally fusible ink layer to a transfer-receiving body. In this method, the image data includes a first pattern and a second pattern. The second pattern is disposed on the first pattern and has a maximum width of a predetermined value or less.

Abstract: A diffraction grating including: an optically transparent substrate; and a diffraction grating structure, with a step-like cross-sectional shape, on a surface of the optically transparent substrate, wherein the diffraction grating structure is formed of a single member, the diffraction grating structure includes a first diffraction grating portion and a second diffraction grating portion with different grating periods and different numbers of steps, a grating period of the second diffraction grating portion is shorter than a grating period of the first diffraction grating portion, a number of steps of the second diffraction grating portion is more than a number of steps of the first diffraction grating portion, and a difference between a grating height of the first diffraction grating portion and a grating height of the second diffraction grating portion is less than a minimum height of one step of the first diffraction grating portion.

Abstract: A multi-layer line structure including a substrate, a lower layer Cu line located on the substrate, an upper layer Cu line located on an insulating layer including an inorganic film located on the lower layer Cu line and an organic resin film located on the inorganic film, and a via connection part located in a via connection hole running in an up-down direction through the insulating layer in an area where the lower layer Cu line and the upper layer Cu line overlap each other is provided. The via connection part includes a barrier conductive layer located on a part of the lower layer Cu line exposed to a bottom part of the via connection hole and on an inner wall of the via connection hole.

Abstract: A wick sheet for a vapor chamber includes a sheet body having a first body surface and a second body surface, a first vapor flow channel portion, a liquid flow channel portion provided on the second body surface, and the second vapor flow channel portion provided on the first body surface. The sheet body includes a land portion having the longitudinal direction being a first direction, and the first vapor flow channel portion is disposed around the land portion. The second vapor flow channel portion includes a vapor flow channel groove extending from one of side edges of the land portion to the other side edge in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction.

Abstract: Provided is a decorative sheet having excellent abrasion-resistance. Also, provided is a decorative sheet capable of reducing abrasion sound. A decorative sheet is provided with; a linear irregularity pattern formed by a plurality of groove parts arranged side by side; and a protrusion pattern that coexists inside the linear irregularity pattern, is arranged at random without having any regularity with respect to the linear irregularity pattern, and is formed to have at least a height equal to or higher than a height of a protrusion part of the linear irregularity pattern. The protrusion pattern reinforces the linear irregularity pattern.

Abstract: Provided is a barrier film which is less likely to undergo deterioration of gas barrier properties even after the Gelbo Flex test. The barrier film according to the present invention includes a barrier coat layer, an inorganic oxide vapor deposition layer, and a substrate layer in this order, the barrier coat layer being a cured film of a barrier coat composition containing: a hydrolyzed product of an alkoxysilane represented by the following General Formula (I): Si(OR1)4 . . . (I), wherein R1 represents an organic functional group; a water-soluble polymer; and a hydrolyzed product of a silane coupling agent represented by the following General Formula (II): R2nSi(OR3)4-n . . . (II), wherein R2 and R3 each independently represent an organic functional group, and n is 2 or 3.

Abstract: To provide a metal plate which is elongated and has a high homogeneity in a wider range, a method for manufacturing the metal plate, a metal mask obtained from the metal plate, and a method for manufacturing the metal mask. Provided is a metal plate which is elongated and is to be used for manufacturing a metal mask, in which when a differential expansion rate En in a unit length L0 in a longitudinal direction for an arbitrary position n in a width direction of the metal plate is measured at each of an arbitrary plurality of positions in the longitudinal direction, a difference in the differential expansion rate En in a central portion in the width direction is 9.0×10?6 or less at a plurality of the positions, and the central portion is a portion that occupies 80% in the width direction of the metal plate excluding both side portions that occupy 10% in the width direction.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit. The control unit acquires a plurality of examination target documents, specifies an examination item as a comparison target from the plurality of acquired examination target documents, specifies examination conditions corresponding to an examination target area of the specified examination item based on examination target information, in which an examination target area is set for each examination item of the examination target documents, and examination condition information, in which examination conditions for the examination target documents are set so as to correspond to the examination target area, examines the plurality of examination target documents based on first examination conditions for a preliminary examination, examines the plurality of examination target documents based on second examination conditions for a main examination when the examination according to the first examination conditions is normal, and outputs an examination result.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus including a control unit, and the control unit acquires text data of a plurality of documents to be examined; outputs a list of pieces of information of the plurality of documents to be examined in a first display area of a display screen; if accepting selection of a piece of the information, outputs an image of at least one of the plurality of documents to be examined corresponding to a selected piece of the information, to a second display area of the display screen; outputs an examination result concerning examination items of the plurality of documents to be examined to a third display area of the display screen; and outputs a question related to examination to a fourth display area of the display screen.

Abstract: A thermal transfer system includes a winding portion that winds an ink ribbon that includes a support layer and an ink layer after ink in the ink layer is transferred to a transfer receiver, and a heating element that transfers the ink in the ink layer of the ink ribbon to the support layer of the ink ribbon that is located inside the ink ribbon that is wound around the winding portion in a stripe-shaped disturbing pattern DP1 that extends in a direction in which the ink ribbon is conveyed in a manner in which the ink ribbon that is wound around the winding portion is heated from the support layer. The heating element includes a contact portion including multiple projecting portions that come into contact with the ink ribbon and multiple recessed portions that do not come into contact with the ink ribbon.

Abstract: A metal tone decorative sheet has an excellent metallic luster and electromagnetic wave transmissivity, and a metal tone decorative molded body is provided with the metal tone decorative sheet. A metal tone decorative sheet includes a metal layer on a base material layer, wherein the metal layer includes a plurality of island portions containing metal and a sea portion positioned between the island portions, the island portion is a convex quadrangle in a cross-sectional view, one side of the quadrangle being opposed to the base material layer, and 0?x?y?80 where a length of a side of the island portion on the base material layer side is x [nm] and a length of a side of the island portion on an opposite side to the base material layer is y [nm].

Abstract: An optical film having high anti-glare properties and favorable fingerprints wiping off properties is provided. The optical film has a first surface, and a second surface which is a surface opposite to the first surface, wherein the optical film comprises an anti-reflection layer and an anti-glare layer in this order from the first surface to the second surface, the first surface has a profile of depressions and projections, the first surface has an arithmetic mean height Sa of 0.05 ?m or more specified in ISO 25178-2:2012, and the first surface satisfies the relation represented by the following Expression 1: Sw×Vmp?2.00 (Expression 1) wherein “Sw” represents a tilt angle (degrees) of 30 ?l pure water droplet flowing down on the first surface; and “Vmp” represents a value of a peak material volume (ml/m2) of the first surface specified in ISO 25178-2:2012.