Abstract: A packaging body for a light control sheet including a light control sheet, and a packaging member that supports the light control sheet. The light control sheet includes a first transparent electrode film, a second transparent electrode film, a sealing section that seals a gap between the first transparent electrode film and the second transparent electrode film in an outer peripheral section of the light control sheet, and a liquid crystal composition that is enclosed in the gap surrounded by the sealing section. The packaging body includes an easy-peel tape that covers the sealing section and fixes the sealing section to the packaging member. This allows the packaging body for the light control sheet to protect the quality of the light control sheet.

Abstract: A light control sheet includes a first electrode sheet, a second electrode sheet, a light control layer, and an adherend layer. The first electrode sheet includes a first transparent substrate and a first transparent electrode layer. The second electrode sheet includes a second transparent substrate and a second transparent electrode layer. The light control layer is positioned between the first and second transparent electrode layers. The adherend layer is bonded to a surface of the first transparent substrate. The first transparent substrate has a substrate surface exposed from the adherend layer, the second transparent electrode layer has an electrode surface exposed from the first transparent substrate and the light control layer, and a sealing section is formed to cover the electrode surface, an end face of the light control layer, the substrate surface, and an end face of the adherend layer in an edge section of the light control sheet.

Abstract: A light control device includes two light control units each having a light control sheet reversibly changeable between a transparent state and an opaque state, one light control sheet overlapping another light control sheet. The light control device has a state in which the light control sheets are simultaneously opaque, the light control sheet includes a transparent polymer layer having voids, and a liquid crystal composition including a liquid crystal compound and a dichroic dye. The voids being filled with the liquid crystal composition. An absorbance difference, which is a value obtained by subtracting an average absorbance of the liquid crystal composition from an absorbance of the light control sheets in the opaque state, is 0.4 or greater.

Abstract: The paper product contains a pulp derived from a used paper diaper and a resin derived from a used paper diaper.

Abstract: A range imaging apparatus includes a light source unit; a light receiving unit including a pixel having a photoelectric conversion device and charge storages, and a pixel driver circuit that distributes and stores the charge into the charge storages; and a range image processing unit that calculates a distance to a subject in the measurement space are included. Subframes are provided per frame, and the range image processing unit stores the charge by controlling the storage timing such that the storage timing relative to the emission timing is relatively different in each of the subframes, and selects a subframe for calculating the distance from the subframes based on the amounts of charge stored per unit integration count in each of the subframes.

Abstract: A light control sheet includes a first electrode sheet including a first transparent electrode layer, a second electrode sheet including a second transparent electrode layer, and a light control layer. The first sheet, second sheet, and control layer form a driver section in which the first sheet, second sheet, and control layer are overlaid, a first non-driver section in which the first sheet is exposed from the control layer and second sheet, and a second non-driver section in which the second sheet is exposed from the control layer and first sheet. The non-driver sections have a sealing section covering end face of the control layer. The first electrode layer includes a non-conductive section in the first non-driver section. The non-conductive section is not connected to a first driver portion in the driver section. The first non-driver section includes a disconnection section separating the non-conductive section from the first driver portion.

Abstract: A first light control device includes a first light control sheet and a driving unit that applies voltage to the first light control sheet. The haze of the first light control sheet is 80% or more when the first voltage is applied, and the haze of the first light control sheet is less than 10% when the second voltage is applied. In the first light control sheet, the difference in lightness index L* between when the second and third voltages are applied is 20 or more, and the difference in color coordinate a* is 15 or more or the difference in color coordinate b* is 20 or more between when the second and third voltages are applied.

Abstract: A microfluidic chip includes an input section from which a liquid is introduced, a channel section in which the liquid flows, and an output section from which the liquid is discharged or a drug fixation section where the liquid and a drug come into contact. The channel section has a hydrophobic region in which a contact angle of a surface in contact with the liquid is 90 degrees or more and 130 degrees or less. The channel section is formed by being surrounded by at least a floor layer, a barrier layer, and an upper covering layer above a substrate, and a surface of at least one of the floor layer, the barrier layer, and the upper covering layer has the hydrophobic region.

Abstract: A method of culturing three-dimensional cellular tissues, including mixing cells with a cationic substance, an extracellular matrix component and a polyelectrolyte to obtain a mixture, collecting cells from the obtained mixture to obtain cell aggregates, seeding the cell aggregates in a culture medium stored in a culture vessel, and culturing the seeded cell aggregates without suspension to thereby obtain a three-dimensional cellular tissue.

Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, a barrier layer, light-emitting diodes, and lenses. The barrier layer is provided on the substrate. The barrier layer has through holes. The light-emitting diodes are disposed in the through holes. The lenses is disposed at positions of the through holes. Each of the lenses has a first surface and a second surface, the second surface is a convex surface, and height of a top of the convex surface based on the substrate is greater than a height of an upper surface of the barrier layer based on the substrate. The first surface is opposed to the substrate with the light-emitting diode therebetween. The second surface is a back of the first surface.

Abstract: A display unit includes a device substrate on which light sources are disposed, a protective layer provided on the device substrate to cover the light sources; a color filter provided on the protective layer, the color filter including monochromatic filters disposed corresponding to the light sources, a lens array provided on the color filter, the lens array including microlenses disposed corresponding to the monochromatic filters, and a flattening layer provided on the lens array to cover the microlenses (41), the flattening layer having a refractive index lower than a refractive index of the microlenses. A refractive index nm of the microlenses, a refractive index nt of the flattening layer, and a ratio r/H between a curvature radius r and a height H of a lens surface of the microlenses satisfy a predetermined expression.

Abstract: A gas barrier laminate includes a substrate layer containing a resin, an inorganic oxide layer, and a gas barrier coat layer in this order. The gas barrier coat layer is a cured article containing a water-soluble polymer, a first silicon compound of a silicon alkoxide in formula (1) below, and a second silicon compound of a silicon alkoxide in formula (2) below. The ratio of the water-soluble polymer to the water-soluble polymer and the second silicon compound is 55 to 95% by mass, and the ratio of the first silicon compound to the first silicon compound and the second silicon compound is more than 0% by mass and 89% by mass or less. Si(OR1)4 . . . (1) (R2Si(OR3)3)n . . . (2) (in formulas (1) and (2) above, R1 and R3 each denote an alkyl group, and R2 denotes an organic functional group; n represents an integer equal to or greater than 1).

Abstract: An interposer including an inner layer structure including at least one inner wiring layer; a first outer layer structure disposed on a first surface of the inner layer structure, the first outer layer structure having rigidity higher than the inner layer structure; and a second outer layer structure disposed on a second surface of the inner layer structure, the second outer layer structure having rigidity higher than the inner layer structure, the inner wiring layer includes wiring disposed on a surface of a first insulating resin layer, which is a photosensitive insulating resin, and a conductive member connected to the wiring and penetrating the first insulating resin layer, the first outer layer structure includes a second insulating resin layer and a conductive member penetrating the second insulating resin layer, the second outer layer structure includes a third insulating resin layer and a conductive member penetrating the third insulating resin layer.

Abstract: A solid-state battery packaging material including at least a substrate layer, a barrier layer, and a sealant layer in this order. The substrate layer includes at least two biaxially stretched resin films, and one or more of the at least two resin films other than an outermost layer have a water content of 4000 mass ppm or less.

Abstract: A first design assistance system includes a first input/output management unit that receives a product specification and a first inference model trained to output first design information that fulfills the product specification. The first design assistance system includes a first design information output unit that outputs the first design information from the product specification by inputting an input specification that is the product specification accepted by the first input/output management unit to the first inference model. The first design assistance system uses a past product design for product design that fulfills a product specification of interest.

Abstract: A tablet comprising a printed part printed using an edible ink printing method, and a printed matter comprising a printed part printed using the printing method. The edible ink printing method comprises performing thinning printing so that when a ratio of the total area of a plurality of dots (b) printed while performing thinning printing to the area of a solid printed part (A) printed without performing thinning printing (total area of dots (b) printed while performing thinning printing/area of solid printed part (A) printed without performing thinning printing) is defined as a printing area ratio, the printing area ratio is within the range of 30% or more and 80% or less, an ink used for printing being an edible IJ ink, and the edible IJ ink comprising an edible dye.

Abstract: A decorative sheet includes a primary film layer and a surface protective layer which has a gloss level of 15 or less; the surface protective layer has on its surface a ridged portion projecting in a ridged pattern to form an uneven shape, has a Martens hardness of 20 N/mm2 or greater and 200 N/mm2 or less; and contains as a main material an ionizing radiation curable resin; the ionizing radiation curable resin contains as a main component a tetrafunctional acrylic resin containing a repeating structure; the number of repetitions of the repeating structure is 12 or more; and RSm/Ra of the uneven shape of the surface protective layer is in a range of 10 or more and 300 or less.

Abstract: An adhesive tape includes a substrate that is in contact with a carrier sheet and has a higher tensile elongation at break than the carrier sheet and a release sheet, and an adhesive layer that is in contact with the release sheet and is configured to be adhered to a living body surface after the release sheet is peeled off from the adhesive layer. The carrier sheet has a larger area than the adhesive tape, which is located within the carrier sheet in a view facing a plane where the carrier sheet extends. The carrier sheet includes a slit extending toward the adhesive tape from a portion of an outer edge of the carrier sheet that does not overlap the adhesive tape and having a length that does not reach an outer edge of the adhesive tape in the view facing the plane where the carrier sheet extends.

Abstract: A battery pack includes: a case; a plurality of batteries housed in the case; at least one of a heat-insulating material or an endothermic material disposed between the plurality of batteries; and a fire extinguisher disposed in the case. The heat-insulating material suppresses heat transfer to adjacent batteries when a battery is ignited. The heat-insulating material also blocks heat after the fire is extinguished by the action of the fire extinguisher.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging element including a lens array in which micro lenses are formed in an alignment, a flattening layer formed on the lens array, and a diffraction grating part including a thermosetting resin, has diffraction gratings, and is provided on the flattening layer. A solid-state imaging element including a lens array in which micro lenses are in an alignment, a flattening layer formed on the lens array, and a diffraction grating part including a base that covers the entire upper surface of the flattening layer, and diffraction gratings provided so as to protrude from the base.