Abstract: The present invention provides a carbodiimide composition containing a water-soluble modified polycarbodiimide (A) and a water-insoluble polycarbodiimide (B), a curing agent composition using the same, a coating composition, and a resin cured product.

Abstract: Provided is a polymerizable liquid crystal composition capable of suppressing the generation of precipitates; and an optically anisotropic layer, an optical film, a polarizing plate, and an image display device. The polymerizable liquid crystal composition contains a forward wavelength dispersion liquid crystal compound A having an aromatic ring having 10 or more ? electrons and a forward wavelength dispersion liquid crystal compound B having an aromatic ring having 6 or more and less than 10 ? electrons.

Abstract: A gun drill machine capable of shortening a margin dimension required in a gun drill as much as possible. In a free zone between a chip box and a moving spindle unit, a plurality of swing stopping devices for loosely holding a gun drill and suppressing the swing of the gun drill are arranged, and each swing stopping device is configured to freely retract from a steady action position where a swing stopping action is performed to avoid interference with the spindle unit that moves in the free zone.

Abstract: Provided is an image forming method including a step of imagewisely applying, onto a base material by an inkjet method, at least two inks containing a polymerizable liquid crystal compound, a chiral compound, and a polymerization initiator and having reflection wavelengths different from each other, such that the total application amount of the inks provides an image area ratio of 50% or more in an image forming region.

Abstract: Provided is a half mirror which is used for a windshield constituting a head up display, and in which a feeling of glare is suppressed, and a boundary between a region which selectively reflects visible light and a region which reflects visible light is made inconspicuous. The half mirror has a reflection layer including a non-reflection region which does not reflect visible light, a reflection region which selectively reflects visible light, and a mixed region which is provided between the regions and in which a non-reflection portion which does not reflect visible light and a reflection portion which selectively reflects visible light are mixed, and in the mixed region, an area of the reflection portion is gradually increased from the non-reflection region toward the reflection region.

Abstract: An optical film, a polarizing plate, and an image display device, each having an optically anisotropic layer obtained by curing a polymerizable liquid crystal composition including a polymerizable liquid crystal compound (LCC) having forward wavelength dispersion and a monofunctional compound, and immobilizing an alignment state of the polymerizable LCC. The number a1 of atoms of the polymerizable LCC and the number a2 of atoms of the monofunctional compound satisfy a relationship of Expression (1): 0.2<a2/a1<0.55; the number b1 of the rings B1 contained in the polymerizable LCC and the total number b2 of the aromatic rings Ar and the rings B2 contained in the monofunctional compound satisfy a relationship of Expression (2): b2=b1×0.5 or b2=(b1+1)×0.5.

Abstract: Provided is an optically anisotropic layer having an excellent surface condition, with which an image display device having an excellent contrast can be manufactured; and an optical film, a polarizing plate, and an image display device, each having the optically anisotropic layer. The optically anisotropic layer is obtained by immobilizing a polymerizable liquid crystal composition including a polymerizable rod-shaped liquid crystal compound exhibiting a liquid crystal state of a smectic phase and an additive in a liquid crystal state of a smectic phase, in which a molecular length A (?) of the polymerizable rod-shaped liquid crystal compound, a layer interval B (?) of the smectic phase of the optically anisotropic layer, and a molecular length C (?) of the additive satisfy a relationship of Expression (1-1), 0.5×B?C?0.6×A . . . (1-1).

Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal composition with which an optically anisotropic layer having excellent light resistance can be formed and an image display device having an excellent contrast can be manufactured, an optically anisotropic layer, an optical film, a polarizing plate, and an image display device. The liquid crystal composition contains a liquid crystal compound and a non-liquid crystal compound, in which both of the liquid crystal compound and the non-liquid crystal compound are compounds having any of aromatic rings selected from the group consisting of groups represented by predetermined formulae, and a ratio of a molecular weight of the non-liquid crystal compound to a molecular weight of the liquid crystal compound is 1 or less.

Abstract: An optical film, a polarizing plate, and an image display device, each having an optically anisotropic layer obtained by curing a polymerizable liquid crystal composition including immobilizing an alignment state of a rod-shaped liquid crystal compound (LCC) having reverse wavelength dispersibility and a monofunctional compound, in which the rod-shaped LCC has polymerizable groups P1 and P2, and three or more rings B1 selected from the group consisting of an aromatic ring and an alicyclic ring a1 atoms of the rod-shaped LCC and a2 atoms of the monofunctional compound having polymerizable group P3, satisfy a relationship of Expression (1): 0.2<a2/a1<0.55; b1 of the rings B1 contained in the rod-shaped LCC and a total b2 of the rings B2 and the aromatic rings Ar contained in the monofunctional compound satisfy a relationship of Expression (2): b2=b1×0.5 or b2=(b1+1)×0.5.

Abstract: Provided is a polymerizable liquid crystal composition with which an image display device having an excellent contrast can be manufactured; and a cured product, an optical film, a polarizing plate, and an image display device. The polymerizable liquid crystal composition contains a compound represented by Formula (I). L1-SP1-D5-(A1)a1-D3-(G1)g1-D1-[Ar-D2]q1-(G2)g2-D4-(A2)a2-D6-SP2-L2 . . . (I), and a compound represented by Formula (II), L5-SP5-D9-(A5)a3-D10-(G3)g3-D11-M . . . (II).

Abstract: Provided are an imaging device that is inconspicuous from the outside, can easily apply design, and can obtain a clear image, and a laminate. The imaging device includes: an imaging unit that includes an image pickup element; and a transflective film that is disposed on a side of the imaging unit where light is incident into the image pickup element and reflects a part of the incident light, in which the transflective film includes at least one of a cholesteric liquid crystal layer or a multi-layer polymer film, when seen from a direction perpendicular to a surface of the image pickup element where light is incident, a peripheral region surrounding the imaging unit satisfies L*?50 in a CIE-Lab (D50) color space, and when seen from the direction perpendicular to the surface of the image pickup element where light is incident, the transflective film is disposed to cover at least the imaging unit and the peripheral region.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a reflective layer having an excellent diffuse reflectivity and a wide reflection wavelength range. Another object of the present invention is to provide a reflective layer having an excellent diffuse reflectivity and a wide reflection wavelength range.

Abstract: A gun drill machine capable of shortening a margin dimension required in a gun drill as much as possible. In a free zone between a chip box and a moving spindle unit, a plurality of swing stopping devices for loosely holding a gun drill and suppressing the swing of the gun drill are arranged, and each swing stopping device is configured to freely retract from a steady action position where a swing stopping action is performed to avoid interference with the spindle unit that moves in the free zone.

Abstract: Provided is a compound which is capable of reducing a tilt angle of a liquid crystal molecule, and a polymerizable composition, a cured product, an optical film, a polarizing plate, and an image display device, each using the compound. The compound is represented, for example, by Formula (I), P-Sp-Z-G1-(X1-Cy1)n-(X2-A1)m-X3-A2.

Abstract: Provided is a compound having a wide temperature range exhibiting liquid crystallinity and excellent precipitation suppression and solubility; and a polymerizable composition, a cured product, an optical film, a polarizing plate, and an image display device, each using the compound. The compound is represented, for example, by Formula (1) or (2).

Abstract: A compound having an uretonimine group contains, as a structural unit, a carbodiimide compound derived from at least one of an aliphatic diisocyanate and an aromatic diisocyanate, and also contains an isocyanate compound as a structural unit, wherein the residue obtained by removing an isocyanate group from the isocyanate compound and the residue obtained by removing a carbodiimide group from the carbodiimide compound are different.

Abstract: The present invention provides a viewing system capable of providing varying visual effects with a simpler configuration. In addition, the present invention also provides a display device, a stage installation, and a polymerizable liquid crystal composition.

Abstract: To provide a decorative film capable of applying a visual effect of making a pattern not visually recognizable, in a case where it is seen from the front, and making it visually recognizable, in a case where it is obliquely seen. a circular polarization plate including a linear polarization plate, and a laminate of a uniaxial retardation layer or a biaxial retardation layer; and a circularly polarized light reflection layer which reflects circularly polarized light having a revolution direction opposite to that of light transmitted through the circular polarization plate in a vertical direction from the linear polarization plate side are included.

Abstract: Provided is an image forming method including a step of imagewisely applying, onto a base material by an inkjet method, at least two inks containing a polymerizable liquid crystal compound, a chiral compound, and a polymerization initiator and having reflection wavelengths different from each other, such that the total application amount of the inks provides an image area ratio of 50% or more in an image forming region.

Abstract: A polymerizable composition includes a polymerizable liquid crystal compound of Formula (I) and a urethane (meth)acrylate monomer including a urethane bond and three or more (meth)acryloyl groups: Q1-Sp1A-Lm-1A-Sp2-Q2??(I) In Formula (I), A represents a cyclic divalent group (at least one is a divalent saturated hydrocarbon ring group), L preferably represents —C(?O)O— or —OC(?O)—, m represents 3 to 12, Sp1 and Sp2 preferably are alkylene, and any one of Q1 and Q2 represents a polymerizable group. A film including a layer obtained by curing the polymerizable composition; and a film adjacently including a layer obtained by curing the polymerizable composition including a polymerizable liquid crystal compound represented by Formula (I) and a layer obtained by curing a composition including a urethane (meth)acrylate monomer and a manufacturing method thereof, are also disclosed.