Abstract: The present invention provides an optical laminate including a void-containing layer with high strength against peeling, a method for producing the optical laminate, an optical member including the optical laminate, an optical apparatus including the optical laminate, a method for producing the optical member, and a method for producing the optical apparatus. The optical laminate (10a) or (10b) of the present inventions includes: a void-containing layer (12); and a hard layer (13) formed on the void-containing layer (12), wherein the void-containing layer (12) has a void fraction of 30 vol % or more, the hard layer (13) includes at least one element selected from the group consisting of metal, metal oxide, silicon, silicon oxide and an organic-inorganic hybrid material, and hardness measured by pushing an indenter of a nano indenter into the hard layer (13) for 20 nm is larger than hardness of the void-containing layer (12).

Abstract: A laminate includes a void-containing layer and a pressure-sensitive adhesive/adhesive layer. The pressure-sensitive adhesive/adhesive layer is directly laminated on one surface or both surfaces of the void-containing layer. A refractive index of the void-containing layer measured in a state of the laminate is 1.30 or less. Nanoindentation harness measured by pushing an indenter of a nano indenter into the pressure-sensitive adhesive/adhesive layer for 2000 nm is 0.5 MPa or more. Peel strength of interlayer between the void-containing layer and the pressure-sensitive adhesive/adhesive layer measured by a tensile testing machine at a tensile speed of 0.3 m/min is 3 N/25 mm or more.

Abstract: An optical laminate includes: a low-refractive index layer; a first pressure-sensitive adhesive layer arranged adjacent to the low-refractive index layer; and a second pressure-sensitive adhesive layer serving as one outermost layer. The low-refractive index layer has a porosity of 40 vol % or more; the first pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has a storage modulus of elasticity at 23° C. of from 1.0×105 (Pa) to 1.0×107 (Pa); the second pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has a storage modulus of elasticity at 23° C. of 1.0×105 (Pa) or less; a ratio of a thickness of the low-refractive index layer to a total thickness of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layers present in the optical laminate with pressure-sensitive adhesive layers on both surfaces is from 0.10% to 5.

Abstract: Provided is a method of producing a transparent porous film by which a transparent porous film having excellent transparency and excellent thickness accuracy can be produced through spray coating. The method of producing a transparent porous film according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a step of spray coating a base material with a transparent porous film-forming paint containing particles and a dispersion medium in which the particles are dispersed to form a coating film so that a solid content concentration change rate satisfies the following formula (1): 1.3?solid content concentration change rate?60 . . . (1) (in the formula (1), the solid content concentration change rate represents a solid content concentration in the coating film 10 seconds after the spray coating with respect to a solid content concentration in the transparent porous film-forming paint before the spray coating).

Abstract: Provided are a transparent porous film-forming paint which can be suitably adopted for spray coating and which can produce a transparent porous film having excellent transparency, and a method of producing a transparent porous film-forming paint. The transparent porous film-forming paint according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: particles; and a dispersion medium in which the particles are dispersed. A concentration of the particles in the paint is from 0.1 wt % to 6.0 wt %. The dispersion medium contains a first dispersion medium having a boiling point of 150° C. or more.

Abstract: Provided are an optical laminate that can be reduced in thickness and that can maintain excellent optical performance, and a method of producing the optical laminate. The optical laminate according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a transparent layer having a thickness of 20 ?m or less; a porous layer directly arranged in a predetermined pattern on one surface of the transparent layer in a thickness direction, the porous layer having a refractive index of 1.25 or less; an adhesion layer arranged on a side of the transparent layer opposite to the porous layer, the adhesion layer being brought into contact with the transparent layer; and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer arranged on a side of the transparent layer opposite to the adhesion layer, the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer covering the porous layer.

Abstract: A laminated film is disclosed including an optical functional layer having a function of changing a direction of light and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer for protecting the optical functional layer. A laminated film according to at least one embodiment includes: an optical functional layer having a first main surface and a second main surface, the first main surface having an uneven structure and having a height of unevenness of from 10 nm to 100 ?m; a porous layer arranged on the first main surface of the optical functional layer; and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer arranged on the porous layer on a side opposite to the optical functional layer, wherein the optical functional layer comprises a reflection-type hologram film, a microlens array film, or a prism film, and wherein the porous layer has a refractive index of from 1.15 to 1.30.

Abstract: There is provided an optical member for AR that is thin and lightweight, is bright, and is suppressed in light leakage. An optical member according to at least one embodiment of the present invention includes: an optical waveguide having a first main surface and a second main surface; an optical element arranged on at least one main surface of the first main surface or the second main surface, the optical element having an uneven structure; a porous layer arranged on at least a main surface of the optical waveguide on which the optical element is arranged; and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer arranged on a side of the porous layer opposite to the optical waveguide, the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer having a thickness of 3 ?m or more.

Abstract: A laminate includes: a void-containing layer and a pressure-sensitive adhesive/adhesive layer. The pressure-sensitive adhesive/adhesive layer is directly laminated on one surface or both surfaces of the void-containing layer. The pressure-sensitive adhesive/adhesive layer contains a (meth)acrylic polymer, and nanoindentation hardness of the pressure-sensitive adhesive/adhesive layer is 0.1 MPa or more and 1.0 MPa or less.

Abstract: A backlight unit includes: a light source; a light guide plate arranged to face the light source, having an end surface that light from the light source enters; and an emitting surface from which the entered light is emitted; a reflective plate bonded to a back surface side of the light guide plate via a double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive film; and a casing having a front portion and a back portion, the casing configured to store the light source, the light guide plate, and the reflective plate. The backlight unit is configured so that light from the light source is free from entering a space between the low-refractive index layer and the reflective plate, or so that light that has entered the space between the low-refractive index layer and the reflective plate from a light source is free from being emitted from the emitting surface of the light guide plate.

Abstract: A backlight unit includes: a light source; a light guide plate having an end surface that is arranged to face the light source, and that light from the light source enters, and an emitting surface from which the entered light is emitted; a casing having a front portion and a back portion, the casing being configured to store the light source and the light guide plate; and an optical pressure-sensitive adhesive film arranged between the front portion of the casing on a light source side and the light guide plate, the optical pressure-sensitive adhesive film being bonded to the light guide plate. The optical pressure-sensitive adhesive film includes a light-absorbing layer, a substrate, a low-refractive index layer, and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer in the stated order from a front portion side of the casing.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical laminate including a void-containing layer in which a pressure-sensitive adhesive, an adhesive, and the like barely permeate a void. In order to achieve the object, an optical laminate (10a) or (10b) of the present invention includes a void-containing layer (12) and a low moisture permeable layer (13) formed on the void-containing layer (12), wherein the low moisture permeable layer (13) includes at least one element selected from the group consisting of metal, metal oxide, silicon, silicon oxide and an organic-inorganic hybrid material, and a moisture vapor transmission rate of the low moisture permeable layer (13) measured by a dish method defined in JIS Z 0208-1976 is 35 g/m2·day or less.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical laminate including a void-containing layer with high strength against peeling, a method for producing the optical laminate, an optical member including the optical laminate, an optical apparatus including the optical laminate, a method for producing the optical member, and a method for producing the optical apparatus. The optical laminate (10a) or (10b) of the present inventions includes: a void-containing layer (12); and a hard layer (13) formed on the void-containing layer (12), wherein the void-containing layer (12) has a void fraction of 30 vol % or more, the hard layer (13) includes at least one element selected from the group consisting of metal, metal oxide, silicon, silicon oxide and an organic-inorganic hybrid material, and hardness measured by pushing an indenter of a nano indenter into the hard layer (13) for 20 nm is larger than hardness of the void-containing layer (12).

Abstract: Provided is an optical member, which is suppressed from causing a reduction in display quality due to wear or a flaw resulting from its vibration while maintaining the excellent characteristics of its low-refractive index layer. The optical member includes: a light guide plate having an end surface that light from a light source enters and an emitting surface from which the entered light is emitted; and a reflective plate bonded to a side of the light guide plate opposite to the emitting surface via a double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive film. The double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive film includes a first pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, a low-refractive index layer, and a second pressure-sensitive adhesive layer from the light guide plate side. The optical member further includes a surface-treated layer formed on a side of the reflective plate opposite to the double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive film.

Abstract: There is provided an optical member that can achieve a backlight unit excellent in brightness uniformity. The optical member includes: a light guide plate having an end surface that light from a light source enters, an emitting surface from which the entered light is emitted, and a light extraction pattern arranged on a surface opposite to the emitting surface; and a reflective plate bonded to the light guide plate via a double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive film. An outer edge of the light guide plate is positioned outside an outer edge of the double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive film, and the outer edge of the double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive film is positioned outside an outer edge of the light extraction pattern.

Abstract: The present invention provides a void-containing layer in which a pressure-sensitive adhesive or an adhesive is less liable to penetrate into voids. A void-containing layer of the present invention, includes: particles chemically bonding to each other, wherein the void-containing layer has a void fraction of 35 vol % or more, the particle is an inorganic-organic composite particle in which an organic group is bonded to an inorganic compound, the organic group includes a R1 group which is a linear or branched alkyl group and a R2 group which is a group containing a carbon-carbon unsaturated bond, and a molar ratio of the R2 group relative to a sum of the R1 group and the R2 group is from 1 to 30 mol %.

Abstract: Provided is a lighting apparatus having high light entrance efficiency with respect to a light guide plate, and being excellent in tint of light emitted from the light guide plate. The lighting apparatus of the present invention includes: an LED package; a light guide plate, which includes a main surface serving as a light emission surface, and a side surface serving as a light entrance surface, and which is arranged so that the side surface is opposed to the LED package; and a low-refractive index layer arranged between the LED package and the light guide plate.

Abstract: A die support mechanism includes: a die holding member including a slit horizontally passing through the die holding member, wherein a lower side from the slit forms a die holding base configured to hold a blanking die having a punch hole, an upper side from the slit forms a ceiling portion having a ceiling hole concentric with the punch hole, a part of a sheet metal inserted in the slit is punched out as a blank by a blanking punch, and the ceiling portion separates the sheet metal from the blanking punch; a support base configured to horizontally slidably support the die holding member; and a guide portion formed on an inner surface of the ceiling hole and configured to come into sliding contact with the blanking punch and to slide the die holding member to a position where the punch hole is centered on the blanking punch.

Abstract: There is provided an optical laminate with pressure-sensitive adhesive layers on both surfaces, which is suppressed damage from occurring to a low-refractive index layer in vacuum lamination while maintaining excellent characteristics of the low-refractive index layer. An optical laminate with pressure-sensitive adhesive layers on both surfaces according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a substrate; a low-retractive index layer formed on the substrate; a first pressure-sensitive adhesive layer arranged so as to be adjacent to the low-refractive index layer; and a second pressure-sensitive adhesive layer serving as one outermost layer. The low-refractive index layer has a porosity of 50% or more, the first pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has a storage modulus of elasticity of from 1.3×105 (Pa) to 1.0×107 (Pa), and the second pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has a storage modulus of elasticity of 1.0×105 (Pa) or less.

Abstract: A settlement device includes a packing unit located near a reading unit to pack a commodity, a symbol of which is read by a reading unit, a measuring unit to measure the packed commodity, a light emitting unit, determining means for determining, using data of weight measured, whether the commodity, the symbol of which is read, is packed, and light-emission controller for, if determining that the commodity, the symbol of which is read, is packed, causing the light emitting unit to emit light in a first form and, if determining that the commodity, the symbol of which is read, is not packed, causing the light emitting unit to emit light in a second form.