Abstract: There is provided a composite polarizing plate used for a liquid crystal display device comprising a liquid crystal cell, a front substrate, and a collimated light source device according to present invention includes a polarizer; and a light diffusion pressure-sensitive adhesion layer placed on a side of the polarizer, wherein when the composite polarizing plate is used for the liquid crystal display device, the light diffusion pressure-sensitive adhesion layer is arranged in contact with the front substrate.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention includes: a liquid crystal cell; polarizing plates placed on both sides of the liquid crystal cell; a light diffusing element provided outside of the polarizing plate on a viewer side; and a backlight unit provided outside of the polarizing plate on an opposite side of the viewer side. The backlight unit includes a collimated light source device that emits collimated light having a brightness half-value angle of 3° to 35° toward the liquid crystal cell, and a ratio Fw(BL)/Fw(FD) between a diffused light half-value angle Fw(FD) of the light diffusing element and the brightness half-value angle Fw(BL) of the collimated light is 0.5 or less.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a depolarizing film which is excellent in productivity and can have a large area. The depolarizing film is obtained by using birefringent very short fibers instead of inorganic birefringent crystals, such as calcite, for use in conventional depolarizing elements.

Abstract: A structure for a spring chamber is formed by connecting a chamber case and a return spring housing case and includes a piston member and a push rod. The piston member has a spring receiving section which holds a power spring inside the chamber case and a cylinder body section which is interlocked with the spring receiving section. A diaphragm is arranged inside a return spring housing case chamber in the return spring housing case, defines a pressure medium chamber, and is deformed by an advancing and retracting operation of the cylinder body section. The push rod member advance and retract with an operation of the diaphragm, and performs braking or releasing of a brake. The push rod member is formed with integral molding of a push plate and a axle body section with aluminum material.

Abstract: The present invention provides a laminate optical body, which is excellent in production efficiency, shows an extremely small axis shift and can realize a liquid crystal display apparatus showing small display unevenness. The laminate optical body of the present invention includes an elongated polarizing film having an absorption axis in a short direction thereof, and including a base material layer and a hydrophilic polymer layer to which a dichromatic substance adsorbs; and an elongated retardation film having a slow axis in a lengthwise direction thereof. The polarizing film is a laminate including the base material layer and the hydrophilic polymer layer to which a dichromatic substance adsorbs. The laminate optical body is elongated. Preferably, the hydrophilic polymer layer has a thickness of 1 ?m to 10 ?m.

Abstract: A position detection device for a workpiece to be welded including a spot welding gun having a pair of electrodes adapted to be disposed opposite each other across the workpiece; a robot for holding either one of the spot welding gun and the workpiece in a manner movable relate to each other; a servo motor for allowing the pair of electrodes to approach the workpiece and separate from the workpiece; a physical quantity detection section for detecting a physical quantity correlative to a torque of the servo motor when the servo motor allows one of the pair of electrodes to approach a surface of the workpiece so that the one of the pair of electrodes abuts against the surface of the workpiece; a position detection section for detecting positions of the pair of electrodes; a storage section for storing the physical quantity detected by the physical quantity detection section and a value detected by the position detection section; and a computation section for calculating a contact start time at which the one of

Abstract: A spot welding system including a spot welding gun having a pair of electrodes disposed opposite to each other, and a servo motor for allowing the pair of electrodes to approach each other and separate from each other; a robot for movably holding either a spot welding gun or a workpiece so that a workpiece is disposed between the pair of electrodes of the spot welding gun; a physical quantity detection section for detecting a physical quantity correlative to torque or velocity of the servo motor; a position detection section for detecting positions of the pair of electrodes; a mode switching section for switching, by a switching command, an operation mode of the spot welding system between a spot welding mode for spot-welding the workpiece and a position correction mode for correcting a spot welding position of the workpiece; and a processing section for performing a spot welding process in the spot welding mode and a position correction process in the position correction mode.

Abstract: A spot welding system including spot welding gun having a movable electrode driven by a servo motor, a counter electrode arranged facing it and with a multiarticulated robot, holding one of the welding workpiece and spot welding gun which moves welding workpiece and spot welding gun relative to each other and thereby make the movable electrode and the welding workpiece approach each other from a separated state or vice-versa, monitoring the current or torque of the servo motor, and detecting the surface position of the welding workpiece from the position of the movable electrode and the position of the multiarticulated robot when the trend of the current or torque changes. The precision of detection of the surface position of the welding workpiece by a movable electrode in a spot welding system can now be improved without lengthening the time required for detection of the surface position of the welding workpiece.

Abstract: There is provided a process for production of a light-diffusing film 10 including a plurality of short fibers 11 and a transparent resin 12 for binding the short fibers 11 to each other. The production process of the present invention includes a step A of converting the plurality of short fibers 11 into a prefilm by a paper-making process, and a step B of coating a coating solution capable of forming the transparent resin 12 on at least one surface of the prefilm obtained in the step A, and solidifying or curing the coating solution coated on the prefilm to form a light-diffusing film 10. This production process can increase productivity of the light-diffusing film 10 since a production rate of the prefilm is higher than that of a conventional production process.

Abstract: A light diffusing film having superior productivity can be obtained by using very short fibers as a substitute for conventional spherical fine particles as light diffusing material. It is possible to mass-produce very short fibers at low cost, for example, by cutting fibers. Further, it is relatively easy to obtain very short fibers with a narrow fiber length distribution. The use of this makes it possible to carry out more highly sophisticated optical design of light diffusing films.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a depolarizing film which is excellent in productivity and can have a large area. The depolarizing film is obtained by using birefringent very short fibers instead of inorganic birefringent crystals, such as calcite, for use in conventional depolarizing elements.

Abstract: An optical film that includes an optical compensation layer having a refractive index anisotropy satisfying nx>ny>nz. The optical compensation layer contains a polyvinyl alcohol resin subjected to ultraviolet cross-linking with a cross-linking agent having at least two double bonds, where nx: a refractive index in a direction (a slow axis direction) in which an in-plane refractive index of the optical compensation layer reaches its maximum ny: a refractive index in a direction (a fast axis direction) that is orthogonal to the nx direction within a plane of the optical compensation layer nz: a refractive index in a thickness direction of the optical compensation layer that is orthogonal to each of the nx and ny directions. The optical film has a high retardation developability and high retardation reliability, uses a material that is inexpensive as compared to polyimide and has a wide choice of solvents.

Abstract: A method for producing a polarizer of the present invention includes: subjecting a polyvinyl alcohol film to at least a dyeing process, a crosslinking process and a stretching process, then subjecting the film, in which all of the processes have been performed, having a water content of 25 to 55% by weight to a drying process, wherein in the drying process, the water content of the film is reduced by at least 15% by weight, so that the film has a water content of 5 to 35% by weight, and the drying process has a quick drying stage in which the water content of the film is reduced by at least 10% by weight in a time period of ½ to 1/30 of the total drying time of the drying process. The polarizer obtained by the production method has durability and has good optical properties over a wide band.

Abstract: There is provided a composite polarizing plate used for a liquid crystal display device comprising a liquid crystal cell, a front substrate, and a collimated light source device according to present invention includes a polarizer; and a light diffusion pressure-sensitive adhesion layer placed on a side of the polarizer, wherein when the composite polarizing plate is used for the liquid crystal display device, the light diffusion pressure-sensitive adhesion layer is arranged in contact with the front substrate.

Abstract: As the polarizing fiber of the present invention, the cross sectional form perpendicular to the longitudinal direction has a sea-island structure, and the cross sectional form is continuously made up in the longitudinal direction. A resin (sea component) that constitutes the sea region of the sea-island structure comprises a dichroic dye, and a resin (island component) that constitutes the island regions of the sea-island structure is a transparent resin. The polarizing fiber of the present invention may be used as a forming material of a polarizer, for example. By using the above polarizing fiber, a polarizer wherein unevenness of the transmittance is small and cracks are less generated may be formed.

Abstract: A light diffusion film (20) having small back scattering can be obtained by using fibers having two kinds of birefringent regions (21A) and (21B). An outer portion of fiber (21) is a first birefringent region 21A and an inner portion of fiber (21) is a second birefringent region (21B). While the first birefringent region (21A) is in contact with a transparent resin (22), the second birefringent region (21B) is not in contact with the transparent resin (22). When a refractive index (n1) in major axis direction of the first birefringent region (21A) is a value between a refractive index n2 in major axis direction of the second birefringent region (21B) and a refractive index n0 of the transparent resin (22), interface reflection between the transparent resin (22) and the fiber (21) can be reduced, which leads to obtain a light diffusion film (20) having small back scattering.

Abstract: A light diffusion film 20 having a wide diffusion range of light can be obtained by using 1) fibers 21 having a large refractive index difference from a transparent resin 22, and/or 2) fibers 21 which comprise two kinds of birefringent regions 21A and 21B wherein one birefringent region is included inside of the other birefringent region.

Abstract: A wiping sheet is provided, which presents excellent in handling during wiping, high wiping ability for greasy dirt, and less liquid remains on an object after wiping. A wiping sheet having a fiber structure (such as a woven fabric, a knitted fabric and a nonwoven) is obtained, which includes an ultrafine fiber layer containing ultrafine fibers having a fineness of at most 0.9 dtex which result from at least two types of ultrafine fiber-generating conjugate fibers, at least one conjugate fiber giving ultrafine fibers containing a modified vinyl alcohol resin, and the other conjugate fibers giving ultrafine fibers containing another resin(s). The ultrafine fibers can be obtained by a first splittable conjugate fiber including a component containing the modified vinyl alcohol resin and a second splittable conjugate fiber composed of components of other resins. In the ultrafine fiber layer, the fibers are preferably bonded by thermoadhesive resin-containing ultrafine fibers.