Abstract: Provided is a binder composition in which viscosity increases of an electrode mixture slurry is prevented or reduced while a high peel strength between a current collector and an electrode mixture layer is maintained.

Abstract: Provided is an optical element in which the occurrence of sidelobe is suppressed and a reflectivity is high.

Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal diffraction element, an image display apparatus, and a head mounted display where occurrence of a ghost in a head mounted display such as VR glasses can be suppressed.

Abstract: Provided are an optical element, a light guide element, and an image display element in which the occurrence of sidelobe is suppressed. The optical element includes a cholesteric liquid crystal layer that is obtained by immobilizing a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase, in which the cholesteric liquid crystal layer has a liquid crystal alignment pattern in which a direction of an optical axis derived from a liquid crystal compound changes while continuously rotating in at least one in-plane direction, and in a case where a birefringence in a thickness region of 80% as a center portion with respect to a thickness of the cholesteric liquid crystal layer is represented by ?n1, a birefringence in a thickness region of 10% from one surface of the cholesteric liquid crystal layer is represented by ?n2, and a birefringence in a thickness region of 10% from another surface of the cholesteric liquid crystal layer is represented by ?n3, at least one of ?n2 or ?n3 is less than ?n1.

Abstract: Provided is a transmissive liquid crystal diffraction element having a large diffraction angle and a high diffraction efficiency.

Abstract: Provided is a battery wiring module according to which a load that acts on module-side terminals accompanying expansion or contraction of battery cells can be reduced. A housing includes a wire accommodating portion for accommodating wires, multiple terminal accommodating portions for accommodating module-side terminals, and first elastic joining portions that join the wire accommodating portion and the terminal accommodating portions in an elastically-deformable manner in the direction in which the battery cells are aligned.

Abstract: A heater-integrated fuse is provided at a neutral point of a stator coil, and when a short-circuit failure of an inverter is detected, a fuse part of the heater-integrated fuse is cut by heating.

Abstract: The present invention provides an imprint apparatus that performs a process of forming an imprint material on a substrate using a mold, with respect to each of a plurality of shot regions on the substrate, the apparatus comprising: a detector configured to detect positions of marks provided in the substrate; and a controller configured to control, in the process, alignment between the substrate and the mold based on a detection result by the detector, wherein each of the plurality of shot regions includes two or more transfer regions where a pattern of an original has been individually transferred in a pre-process, and in the process on a specific shot region, the controller controls the alignment based on the detection result of the marks provided in the transfer region other than the smallest transfer region among the two or more transfer regions.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a light irradiation device which is thin and is capable of projecting an optical pattern, and a sensor which uses the light irradiation device. The object is achieved by a light irradiation device including a light emitting element which includes a plurality of light emitting units in a plane; and a liquid crystal optical element, in which the liquid crystal optical element has an optically anisotropic layer formed using a liquid crystal composition containing a liquid crystal compound, the optically anisotropic layer has a liquid crystal alignment pattern in which orientation of an optical axis derived from the liquid crystal compound continuously changes rotationally along at least one in-plane direction and has regions with different lengths of periods in a case where a length over which the orientation of the optical axis derived from the liquid crystal compound rotates by 180° in the plane is denoted by a single period.

Abstract: A compound represented by the following Formula (1), a hole transport material containing the compound, a hole transport material composition for a photoelectric conversion element containing the hole transport material, a photoelectric conversion element using the hole transport material composition for a photoelectric conversion element, and a solar cell using the photoelectric conversion element.

Abstract: Provided are: a light guide element in which deterioration in image sharpness can be prevented and the entire area of a display image can be suitably observed irrespective of the visual line of a user, the position of eyes of the user, and the like; and an image display apparatus including the light guide element. The light guide element includes: a light guide plate that includes a first light guide layer and a second light guide layer; and an incidence diffraction element and an emission diffraction element that are laminated on the second light guide layer, in which in a case where a refractive index of the first light guide layer is represented by n1 and a refractive index of the second light guide layer is represented by n2 in the light guide plate, n1<n2 is satisfied.

Abstract: Provided are an optical element, including a plurality of optically anisotropic layers, each of which has an in-plane alignment pattern in which orientations of optical axes derived from a liquid crystal compound change continuously and rotationally along at least one in-plane direction, in a thickness direction, in which the optically anisotropic layers each have regions where lengths over which the orientations of the optical axes rotate by 180° in the one direction are different from each other, and at least one of the plurality of optically anisotropic layers is an inclined optically anisotropic layer having a region where a plurality of pairs of bright lines and dark lines in a cross-sectional image are present and the pairs of the bright lines and the dark lines are inclined at inclination angles which are different from each other with respect to a normal line of an interface of the optically anisotropic layer.

Abstract: A mark-position-measurement-apparatus includes a stage with an object having plural marks thereon, a sensor including an irradiator irradiating beams to the object, and a photoreceiver receiving a reflected light from the object and outputting a height-position distribution of the object surface, a position-calculation-circuit to calculate, for each mark, a position of a mark-candidate-signal acquired in a scanned region, by using the height-position distribution, for each mark, obtained by scanning the beam over the plural marks to be intersected with one of the plural marks, a combination-generation-circuit to generate plural combinations by combining mark-candidate-signals selected from the plural marks when plural mark-candidate-signals are acquired, in a scanning direction, for at least one mark, and a selection-circuit to select a combination of mark-candidate-signals, being mark signals of the plural marks, from the plural combinations, by comparing, with a predetermined reference value, relative posit

Abstract: Provided are a light guide element and an image display apparatus capable of suppressing the occurrence of multiple images.

Abstract: Provided are: an image display apparatus that can display augmented reality in a virtual image is superimposed on a bright real scene; and AR glasses including the image display apparatus. The image display apparatus includes: a display element; and a reflective polarization diffraction element that reflects an image displayed by the display element, in which the polarization diffraction element has a region where a period of a diffraction structure decreases in a direction away from the display element.

Abstract: Provided are a method of forming a photo-alignment film having a large size that can appropriately align a liquid crystal compound can be formed and a method of forming a liquid crystal layer having a large size in which alignment defects of a liquid crystal compound can be suppressed.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a light deflection device having a simple structure suitable for reducing the size and weight where a deflection angle can be increased. The object can be achieved with a light deflection device including: a light deflection element that deflects incident light in one direct to be emitted; a driving unit that drives the light deflection element; and a diffraction element that is disposed on a light emission side of the light deflection element in which a periodic structure pitch gradually changes from a center of deflection from the light deflection element toward an outside.

Abstract: Provided are a beam combiner that can form a fine and clear interference pattern, a method of forming an alignment film in which a fine and clear alignment pattern can be obtained, and a method of manufacturing an optical element including a fine and clear liquid crystal alignment pattern. The beam combiner element includes: a beam combiner element that emits light where right/left circularly polarized light components are combined; a polarization separating element that separates incidence light into two right or left circularly polarized light components; and a light control element that focuses or diffuses light and is provided on at least one optical path of circularly polarized light incident into the beam combiner element, in which an absolute value of an ellipticity of circularly polarized light emitted from the beam combiner element is 0.8 or more.

Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal diffraction element, an image display apparatus, and a head mounted display where occurrence of a ghost in a head mounted display such as VR glasses can be suppressed.

Abstract: A signal processing device includes circuitry configured to receive, together with a voice recognition result of an utterance section of an utterance input to each of a plurality of microphones, an input of time information of a start time and an end time of each utterance and information regarding an appearance time of each word in the voice recognition result; detect whether there is an overlap in time of utterance sections in each pair of voice recognition results by combining voice recognition results of two utterances from utterance sections of utterances input to each of the microphones; calculate a similarity of voice recognition result for each pair having an overlap in time of utterance sections; compare the similarity with a predetermined threshold; and reject an utterance having a shorter length of the voice recognition result as a wraparound utterance for a pair in which the similarity exceeds the threshold.