Abstract: A photomask including a photomask body having a surface on which a mask pattern is formed and to be scanned and subjected to pattern transfer to a resist through a lens assembly including a connecting portion and a non-connecting portion. The mask pattern has a first region subjected to the pattern transfer at the connecting portion of the lens assembly and a second region subjected to the pattern transfer at the non-connecting portion. The mask pattern has, in at least one of the first and second regions, a corrected line width which is adjusted by calculation such that the resist is to have a target line width as designed. The corrected line width has a stepwise change in at least one of a scanning direction and a direction orthogonal to the scanning direction. The stepwise change is made by including a correction component based on a random number.

Abstract: A method when expressing gradation for a color image including binarizing tone values of first image data to produce second image data including pixels each having colors with respective binarized tone values, classifying pixels of the first image data into a plurality of first pixel groups and specifying a pixel where a color centroid is positioned for each color in each first pixel group, classifying pixels of the second image data into second pixel groups PXG2 corresponding to the first pixel groups and calculating the number of light pixels for each color in each second pixel group, producing third image data from the second image data, information related to the color centroid, and information related to the number of light pixels, and producing fourth image data by changing the position of a light pixel with the position of a dark pixel in the third image data.

Abstract: A method for filling an analytical device includes providing a plate having a detection space or spaces and ports communicating with the space(s), fitting, into one of the ports, an adapter having a reagent fixed on an inner wall of the adapter such that a first end of the adapter is fitted into the port, and delivering a sample solution into the detection space(s) through the adapter such that the sample solution and reagent fill the detection space(s). The plate includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a side wall such that the plate has the detection space(s) between the substrates and that the first substrate has the ports, the first and/or second substrates is formed of transparent material such that the detection space is observable from outside the plate, and the ports include a first port for delivering liquid-containing substance, and a second port for discharging the substance.

Abstract: A light control sheet including a light control layer and transparent electrode layers sandwiching the light control layer such that the transparent electrode layers apply a voltage to the light control layer. The light control layer has a light-shielding property which changes based on the voltage applied to the transparent electrode layers and is measurable by a light-shielding ratio defined by JIS L 1055:2009, and at least one target change ratio has a maximum value of 0.7 or more in an absolute value, where the target change ratio is a change ratio of the light-shielding ratio with respect to the voltage in a target range of the voltage in which the light-shielding ratio changes by 10%.

Abstract: A catalyst layer for polymer electrolyte fuel cells that improves drainage or gas diffusion, reduces or prevents the occurrence of cracking in a catalyst layer, enhances catalyst utilization efficiency, exerts high output power and high energy conversion efficiency, and has high durability, and also provides a membrane-electrode assembly and a polymer electrolyte fuel cell using the catalyst layer. The catalyst layer for polymer electrolyte fuel cells contains a catalyst, carbon particles, a polymer electrolyte, and a fibrous material. In the catalyst layer, the carbon particles carry the catalyst1. The catalyst layer for polymer electrolyte fuel cells has voids. The percentage of frequencies of the voids having a cross-sectional area of 10,000 nm2 or more is 13% or more and 20% or less among the voids observed in a thickness-direction cross section of the catalyst layer for polymer electrolyte fuel cells perpendicular to the surface thereof.

Abstract: The present invention provides a wavelength conversion sheet protective film having a structure in which a first film, which includes a first substrate and a first barrier layer, and a second film, which includes a second substrate, are bonded to each other at a surface of the first barrier layer and one surface of the second substrate via an adhesive layer, wherein a thermal expansion coefficient in a TD direction in a temperature range of 30 to 90° C. is about 1.0×10?4/K or less.

Abstract: A cell transplantation device is used to place a graft containing cells into a target region in a living body. The cell transplantation device includes a needle extending in one direction, and a filter unit made of a fibrous member. The needle has a flow channel defined therein and an opening at the tip of the needle. The filter unit is disposed at an intermediate position in the flow channel and configured to retain a graft between the filter unit and the opening when a liquid material containing the graft enters the flow channel through the opening.

Abstract: A packaging is provided including: a base layer including at least one layer of a biaxially oriented resin film; and a sealant layer including at least a first thermoplastic resin layer and a second thermoplastic resin layer, in which the base layer, the first thermoplastic resin laser, and the second thermoplastic resin layer are laminated in this order, a density of a first resin forming the first thermoplastic resin layer is higher than a density of a second resin forming the second thermoplastic resin layer, the density of the first resin is 0.90 g/cm3 or higher, the density of the second resin is 0.92 g/cm3 or lower, and the second thermoplastic resin layer contains 200 to 2000 ppm of a lubricant including at least one of a fatly acid amide lubricant and a fatty acid ester lubricant.

Abstract: A color filter including a substrate and colored parts formed on the substrate. The substrate has a surface having rectangular unit regions defined by evenly dividing the surface along a first direction and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. Each of the rectangular unit regions has four rectangular sub-regions which are three colored regions and one uncolored region. A first colored region has a first boundary with the uncolored region and a second boundary with a second colored region. A first colored part is formed in the first colored region with a first gap being formed in the first direction between the first boundary and a side of the first colored part facing the first boundary, and with a second gap greater than the first gap being formed in the second direction between the second boundary and a side of the first colored part facing the second boundary.

Abstract: A microfluidic device including a microwell array having microwells, and a cover member facing the microwell array with a gap between the cover member and the microwell array, and having a flow path formed in the gap. The cover member has a surface facing the microwell array, and the surface has an arithmetic average roughness Ra of 70 nm or less.

Abstract: A power storage device packaging material having a structure including at least a substrate layer, an adhesive layer, a metal foil layer, a sealant adhesive layer, and a sealant layer laminated in this order. The substrate layer is formed of a polyester film exhibiting ?A, as expressed by the following formula, of 10% or more and a 50% elongation stress of 75 MPa or more after heat treatment at 160° C.: “?A=(break elongation after 160° C. heat treatment)?(break elongation before 160° C. heat treatment)”.

Abstract: A solid-state image sensor including a semiconductor substrate having photoelectric conversion elements being two-dimensionally formed therein, and a color filter layer formed on the semiconductor substrate and having color filters of colors being two-dimensionally formed therein in a pattern such that the color filters correspond respectively to the photoelectric conversion elements. The color filter layer satisfies formulas (1) and (2): 200?A?700??(1) C?A+200??(2) where A represents a thickness in nm of a first-color color filter of a first color among the colors, and C represents a thickness in nm of color filters of colors other than the first color.

Abstract: A microfluidic device including a substrate having at least one droplet holder formed thereon, and a cover member facing the substrate with a space between the cover member and the substrate, and having a flow path formed in the space and connected to the droplet holder. The flow path has a height of more than 0 ?m and 30 ?m or less.

Abstract: An electromagnetic-coupling dual IC card includes an IC module and a plate-like card body. The IC module includes a module substrate having a first surface and a second surface, contact terminals provided on the first surface of the module substrate to be contactable with an external contact-type device, an IC chip having a contact communication function and a contactless communication function and disposed on the second surface, and a first connecting coil provided on the first surface. The plate-like card body includes an antenna sheet embedded therein and has a recess for holding the IC module, the antenna sheet being provided with a coupling coil to be electromagnetically coupled to the first connecting coil, and a main coil connected to the coupling coil to perform contactless communication with an external contactless-type device. The first connecting coil does not overlap with the contact terminals in plan view.

Abstract: An inkjet ink that shows only a small amount of discoloration over time and is capable of printing with a stable color, not only when printed on a surface of a print object having a relatively low ink permeability, but also when printed on a surface of a print object having a relatively high ink permeability, and provide a printed item including a printed area printed using the inkjet ink. A gray ink according to the present embodiment is an edible inkjet ink which contains at least a first colorant which is a food dye and a second colorant which is a food dye, and the first colorant is at least one of Red No. 3, Red No. 40, Red No. 104, Red No. 105, and Red No. 106.

Abstract: A wavelength selection filter includes a first high refractive index section with a thickness T1, a second high refractive index section with a thickness T2, a high refractive index layer with a refractive index n1, a projection-depression structure layer with a refractive index n2, a filling layer with a refractive index n3, a first high refractive index section with an area ratio R1, and a second high refractive index section with an area ratio R2. With n1>n2, n1>n3, and R1+R2>1, the value of T1×{n1×R1+n2×(1?R1)} is a first parameter, the value of T2×{n1×R2+n3×(1?R2)} is a second parameter, and the ratio of the second parameter to the first parameter is 0.7 or more and 1.3 or less.

Abstract: There is provided a polymer network liquid crystal display device for image display according to an input image signal. The device includes a determination unit configured to determine whether an image for display according to the image signal is a moving image or a still image, and a correction unit configured to correct a hysteresis of the image for display, based on a result of the determination by the determination unit.

Abstract: A photomask blank and a photomask having favorable wafer transfer characteristics and irradiation resistance. A photomask blank is for fabricating a photomask for an exposure wavelength of 193 nm, the photomask blank comprising: a light-transmissive substrate; a phase shift film formed on the light-transmissive substrate and providing phase shift effects of a light transmittance of at least 30% with respect to exposure light; and a light-shielding film formed on the phase shift film. The phase shift film is constituted by lamination of: a first phase shift film (that uses a silicon nitride-based material, has a refractive index n1 of 2.5 to 2.7, and an extinction coefficient k1 of 0.2 to 0.4; and a second phase shift film that uses a silicon oxynitride-based material, has a refractive index n2 of 1.55 to 2.20, and an extinction coefficient k2 greater than 0 but no greater than 0.1.

Abstract: A method for generating color conversion information including providing a user with color sample information for determining a color sample of which color characteristic information is known, receiving, from the user, an image including the color sample determined by the color sample information in a lighting environment, and generating color conversion information which corresponds to the lighting environment and is correlated with the user, based on the image and the color characteristic information of the color sample determined by the color sample information. The color conversion information converts between color information and color characteristic information, the color information is information which corresponds to a lighting environment and indicates colors of an object in the lighting environment, and the color characteristic information indicates color characteristics of the object.

Abstract: A decorative sheet comprises a transparent resin layer containing a polyolefin-based resin, and a surface protective layer containing a thermosetting resin and provided on a front surface side of the transparent resin layer. Further, an uneven pattern is provided on a front surface of the surface protective layer. A percentage of a surface waviness of the decorative sheet after molding to a surface waviness of the decorative sheet before molding, which is defined as a residual embossing ratio, is 30% or more; and an absolute value of a difference between a gloss of a surface of the decorative sheet before molding and a gloss of the surface of the decorative sheet after molding, which is defined as a gloss difference, is less than 5%.