Abstract: A light absorption anisotropic layer which has high contrast and can suppress hue change of an image reflected by surroundings relative to an original image when used in a viewing angle control system, an optical film using the light absorption anisotropic layer, a viewing angle control system, and an image display device. The light absorption anisotropic layer is formed of a liquid crystal composition containing a liquid crystalline compound, a dichroic substance, and an alignment agent. The liquid crystalline compound is in a liquid crystal state of a smectic phase, a content of the dichroic substance is 5.0% by mass or more with respect to a total solid content mass of the liquid crystal composition, and an angle ? between a transmittance central axis of the light absorption anisotropic layer and a normal direction of a surface of the light absorption anisotropic layer is between 0° and 45°.

Abstract: A liquid crystal composition with a light absorption anisotropic film that has a high alignment degree, a light absorption anisotropic film, a laminate, and an image display device. The liquid crystal composition contains a high-molecular weight liquid crystal compound, and a dichroic substance, where the liquid crystal compound is a copolymer having a repeating unit (1) represented by Formula (1) and a repeating unit (2) represented by Formula (2), where P1 and P2 represent the main chain of the repeating unit, L1 represents a single bond or a divalent linking group, L2 represents a single bond, a divalent alicyclic group or an aromatic group, which may have a substituent, SP1 represents a spacer group, SP2 represents an alkylene group having 10 or more atoms in the main chain, M1 represents a mesogenic group, and T1 and T2 represent a terminal group.

Abstract: Disclosed is an Fe-based electroplated steel sheet including: a Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet containing Si in an amount of 0.1 mass % or more and 3.0 mass % or less; and an Fe-based electroplating layer formed on at least one surface of the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet with a coating weight per surface of 5.0 g/m2 or more, in which in an intensity profile measured by glow discharge optical emission spectrometry, a peak of emission intensity at wavelengths indicating Si is detected within a range from a surface of the Fe-based electroplating layer to more than 0.2 ?m in a thickness direction and not more than a thickness of the Fe-based electroplating layer, and an average value of C concentration in a region ranging from 10 ?m to 20 ?m in the thickness direction from the surface of the Fe-based electroplating layer is 0.10 mass % or less.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a polarizer, a method of producing a polarizer, a laminate, and an image display device which enable achievement of both the degree of alignment and light fastness. The polarizer of the present invention is a polarizer formed of a polarizer-forming composition which contains a liquid crystal compound and a dichroic material, in which the liquid crystal compound is a polymer compound having a smectic liquid crystallinity.

Abstract: A RIO device mounted to a train includes an output unit that outputs a signal to a relay mounted to the train, and a controller that controls whether or not to cause the output unit to output the signal. The output unit includes a readback circuit that detects whether or not the signal is outputted from the output unit. The controller makes a signal stop request and a signal output request to the output unit before operation of the train starts, acquires a detection result of the readback circuit while each of the signal stop request and the signal output request is performed, and detects abnormality of the output unit using the detection result.

Abstract: A light absorption anisotropic layer used in a viewing angle control system which has high image visibility from a desired direction and can sufficiently block images from other directions, an optical film, a viewing angle control system, and an image display device using the light absorption anisotropic layer. The light absorption anisotropic layer is formed of a liquid crystal composition containing a liquid crystalline compound, a dichroic substance, and an alignment agent, in which a content of the dichroic substance is 8.0% by mass or more with respect to a total solid content mass of the liquid crystal composition, and an angle ? between a transmittance central axis of the light absorption anisotropic layer and a normal direction of a surface of the light absorption anisotropic layer is 5° or more and less than 80°.

Abstract: A timepiece including: a dial; a windshield glass having a plurality of curved surfaces that differ from each other in curvature; and a hand disposed between the dial and the windshield glass, wherein the windshield glass includes: a first curved surface having a first curvature and including a center of the windshield glass; a second curved surface disposed adjacent to the first curved surface and having a second curvature larger than the first curvature; and a third curved surface disposed adjacent to the second curved surface and having a third curvature larger than the second curvature, a thickness of the first curved surface and a thickness of the second curved surface are equal, and in plan view, a distal end of the hand is disposed on a center C side of the windshield glass with respect to a boundary between the second curved surface and the third curved surface.

Abstract: A bucket management system 1 comprises: chutes 2 and 3 that have loading areas I1 and I4 and take-out areas O1 and O4 facing each other along a conveying direction F and convey buckets loaded to the loading area along the conveying direction F in storage areas S1 and S4 between the loading areas and the take-out areas; and a loading position indicating device 5 that indicates a loading position P for a bucket to be loaded along the width direction in the loading area. A plurality of bucket rows configured by stacking a plurality of buckets along the conveying direction F can be arranged in the storage areas. The loading position indicating device 5 indicates a loading position P on the basis of the lot number allocated to a bucket to be loaded and the arrangement information of the buckets in the storage areas.

Abstract: A novel method of producing 1-chloro-3-(4-chlorophenoxy)benzene can include performing hydrogenation reduction of 1-bromo-2-chloro-4-(4-chlorophenoxy)benzene or 1-bromo-4-chloro-2-(4-chlorophenoxy)benzene.

Abstract: A novel method of producing an azole derivative represented by General Formula (I) includes: reacting an organometallic reagent formed from 1-bromo-2-chloro-4-(4-chlorophenoxy)benzene by transmetalation reaction with a bromopyruvic acid derivative to obtain a bromohydrin derivative; and reacting the bromohydrin derivative with imidazole, 1,2,4-triazole, or an alkali metal salt thereof to obtain the azole derivative.

Abstract: A fuel tank vent shutoff valve is provided with a leak countermeasure for preventing liquid fuel leaking from the vent shutoff valve into an evaporative emissions canister. In one embodiment, the vent shutoff valve includes a case disposed over a valve body. The case includes a floor surface surrounding an opening and a cover disposed over the case. The case also includes a flange structure extending away from the floor surface towards an inside surface of the cover. The inside surface includes an annular wall aligned over the opening and extending towards the floor surface of the case. The annular wall includes a first section having a first height that is greater than a second height of a second section. A free end of the first section extends past a free end of the flange structure of the case to prevent fuel from leaking into the evaporative emissions canister.

Abstract: A fuel tank vent shutoff valve is provided with a leak countermeasure for preventing liquid fuel leaking from the vent shutoff valve into an evaporative emissions canister. In one embodiment, the vent shutoff valve includes a case disposed over a valve body. The case includes a floor surface surrounding an opening and a cover disposed over the case. The case also includes a flange structure extending away from the floor surface towards an inside surface of the cover. The inside surface includes an annular wall aligned over the opening and extending towards the floor surface of the case. The annular wall includes a first section having a first height that is greater than a second height of a second section. A free end of the first section extends past a free end of the flange structure of the case to prevent fuel from leaking into the evaporative emissions canister.

Abstract: A main energizing/heating unit has an outer electrode and an inner electrode, and energizes a fool material to be gelatinized by heating and continuously heat-treats it while it is conveyed in a food flow channel. The food flow channel in which the food material flows is formed between the both electrodes. Fed to the food material flowing in the food flow channel by a power supply section is a current in a direction traversing a flow direction of the food material. An inner cooling flow channel is formed in the inner electrode, and cooling liquid is fed to the inner cooling flow channel through a piping.

Abstract: A yeast extract is produced by preparing a suspension containing yeast, applying an electric field treatment to the suspension, and then autolyzing the suspension. In this electric field treatment, a voltage to be applied is less than 1000 V/mm, and a temperature of the suspension during an application period of the voltage is 64° C. or less. According to such a production process, a content of amino acids in the yeast extract can be improved. Among amino acids, branched chain amino acids or the like can be efficiently increased.

Abstract: A main energizing/heating unit has an outer electrode and an inner electrode, and energizes a fool material to be gelatinized by heating and continuously heat-treats it while it is conveyed in a food flow channel. The food flow channel in which the food material flows is formed between the both electrodes. Fed to the food material flowing in the food flow channel by a power supply section is a current in a direction traversing a flow direction of the food material. An inner cooling flow channel is formed in the inner electrode, and cooling liquid is fed to the inner cooling flow channel through a piping.

Abstract: A yeast extract is produced by preparing a suspension containing yeast, applying an electric field treatment to the suspension, and then autolyzing the suspension. In this electric field treatment, a voltage to be applied is less than 1000 V/mm, and a temperature of the suspension during an application period of the voltage is 64° C. or less. According to such a production process, a content of amino acids in the yeast extract can be improved. Among amino acids, branched chain amino acids or the like can be efficiently increased.

Abstract: An optical disc driving device includes a control circuit 4 for performing a gain adjustment for each of two recording surfaces of a multilayered optical disc 1 on the basis of an FE signal in such a way as to maintain a state in which light is focused onto either of the recording surfaces, to generate a focus servo loop signal, and for generating a focus jump signal for causing either a transition from a state in which the light is focused onto one recording surface to a state in which the light is focused onto the other recording surface, or a transition in the opposite direction from a threshold set up on the basis of an amount of gain adjustment, and a focus actuator driving circuit 5 for performing either a focus jump or an operation of maintaining the state in which the light is focused.

Abstract: A disk drive determines, from eccentric amounts of individual prescribed rotation phases for one round of an optical disk 1, a rotation phase range in which a lens shift amount after tracking pulling-in of an object lens constituting an optical pickup 3 does not exceed a movable range of the object lens in a preset tracking direction, sets the rotation phase range as a tracking pulling-in range, and carries out tracking pulling-in of the optical pickup 3 while the rotation phase of the optical disk 1 is placed within the tracking pulling-in range.

Abstract: A disk drive determines, from eccentric amounts of individual prescribed rotation phases for one round of an optical disk 1, a rotation phase range in which a lens shift amount after tracking pulling-in of an object lens constituting an optical pickup 3 does not exceed a movable range of the object lens in a preset tracking direction, sets the rotation phase range as a tracking pulling-in range, and carries out tracking pulling-in of the optical pickup 3 while the rotation phase of the optical disk 1 is placed within the tracking pulling-in range.

Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a projector receiving an image signal and projecting image light and a screen including a projection plane of arbitrary shape. The projector and screen are connected with link mechanisms and link mechanisms. The relative position and posture between the projector and the screen are automatically or manually changeable. The relative position and posture between the projector and the screen are measured, and correction parameters for correcting distortion of image light projected from the projector onto the screen are calculated from the previously set viewing position of the viewer and the shape of the projection plane of the projector. Based on the calculated correction parameters, the image signal inputted into the projector is subjected to distortion correction processing. It is therefore possible to allow the viewer to see a clear image even if the position of the screen is changed.