Abstract: A liquid crystal device includes a light source, a first transparent substrate, a first transparent electrode, a switchable or tunable micropatterned alignment layer arranged in an array of pixels, a liquid crystal layer, a fixed alignment layer, a second transparent electrode, and a second transparent substrate. The switchable micropatterned alignment layer is disposed between the liquid crystal layer and one of the first transparent substrate and the second transparent substrate. The fixed alignment layer is disposed between the liquid crystal layer and one of the first transparent substrate and the second transparent substrate. Light from the light source is not visible outside the liquid crystal device when the switchable or tunable micropatterned alignment layer is in an off-state.

Abstract: A control device of an injection apparatus outputs a control command to a hydraulic pressure device to perform injection by supplying hydraulic fluid to the back of an injection piston 15 from an accumulator 25 and, at this time, to execute speed control for controlling the speed of the plunger by an opening degree of an injection control valve. Further, the control device outputs a control command to the hydraulic pressure device to perform boosting by opening a booster valve to supply hydraulic fluid to the back of the booster piston and pressurizing the hydraulic fluid behind the injection piston by the booster piston and, at this time, to execute pressure control for controlling the pressure of the molding material by an opening degree of the injection control valve. Further, the control device can start outputting a control command for pressure control after start of outputting a control command for opening the booster valve in transition from injection to boosting.

Abstract: A cooling fan includes a boss section (12) connected to a rotary drive source, a plurality of blades (13) protruding outward from the boss section in a radial direction, and a cylindrical ring member (14) configured to annularly connect the vicinities of end sections outside in the radial direction of the plurality of blades. The plurality of blades (13) protruding outward from the boss section (12) in the radial direction are connected by the cylindrical ring member (14) in the vicinity of the end section outside in the radial direction. An air inlet groove (16) is formed at an end section in an axial direction of an air suction side of the ring member (14). The air inlet groove (16) is disposed between front regions in the rotation direction of all of the blades (13) on the ring member (14) and front regions in the rotation direction of the blades (13) adjacent thereto.

Abstract: A flow rate control valve configuring a meter-out circuit of an injection cylinder is an overlap type where a first port starts to be opened by a spool passing through an overlapping range. The control device holds a characteristic table linking a command value of a control command to the flow rate control valve and a velocity of a plunger including also the movement of the plunger which occurs due to a gap flow even if the spool is located in the overlapping range. Further, the control device specifies the command value corresponding to the target velocity set by operation of the input device based on the characteristic table, performs open control based on this command value, then performs the feedback control for realizing the target velocity.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention is to smoothen air flow at the time of vibrations of the diaphragm, and to suppress variations in acoustic characteristics. Since the inclined surface 37c of the washer 37, which forms the air flow channel 50, is an inclined surface having a diameter gradually reduced with distance from the diaphragm 35 in the axial direction of the movable iron core 36, compared with the conventional step-shaped air flow channel having vertical surfaces, air flow in the air flow channel 50 can be smoothened. Therefore, disturbance in air flow is not easily generated in the air flow channel 50, and variations in acoustic characteristics of the horn apparatus 10 can be suppressed.

Abstract: A three-dimensional modeling apparatus models a three-dimensional object by lamination modeling in an air-tight process chamber. The three-dimensional modeling apparatus includes an elevation guide chamber provided adjacent to the process chamber, an elevation stage provided so as to be capable of being raised and lowered in the elevation guide chamber, and a communication pipe communicating between a space below the elevation stage in the elevation guide chamber and the process chamber.

Abstract: A three-dimensional modeling apparatus 10, 11 includes a three-dimensional modeling unit 20, 40 and a control unit 15. The three-dimensional modeling unit 20, 40 is configured to stack unit layers ul made of a material solidified in a predetermined solidification pattern thereby to produce a three-dimensional object O. The control unit 15 is configured to correct a sectional pattern sp at each level in a model M along a lamination direction, allowing for deformation in modeling based on at least one of a material characteristic, a modeling condition, and a facility condition, thereby to determine the solidification pattern corresponding to the sectional pattern sp.

Abstract: A control device of an injection apparatus outputs a control command to a hydraulic pressure device to perform injection by supplying hydraulic fluid to the back of an injection piston 15 from an accumulator 25 and, at this time, to execute speed control for controlling the speed of the plunger by an opening degree of an injection control valve. Further, the control device outputs a control command to the hydraulic pressure device to perform boosting by opening a booster valve to supply hydraulic fluid to the back of the booster piston and pressurizing the hydraulic fluid behind the injection piston by the booster piston and, at this time, to execute pressure control for controlling the pressure of the molding material by an opening degree of the injection control valve. Further, the control device can start outputting a control command for pressure control after start of outputting a control command for opening the booster valve in transition from injection to boosting.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention is to smoothen air flow at the time of vibrations of the diaphragm, and to suppress variations in acoustic characteristics. Since the inclined surface 37c of the washer 37, which forms the air flow channel 50, is an inclined surface having a diameter gradually reduced with distance from the diaphragm 35 in the axial direction of the movable iron core 36, compared with the conventional step-shaped air flow channel having vertical surfaces, air flow in the air flow channel 50 can be smoothened. Therefore, disturbance in air flow is not easily generated in the air flow channel 50, and variations in acoustic characteristics of the horn apparatus 10 can be suppressed.

Abstract: There is provided a metal laminated structure comprising a first metal layer, a second metal layer and a third metal layer, the first metal layer being disposed on one surface of the second metal layer, the third metal layer being disposed on the other surface of the second metal layer, the first metal layer including at least one of tungsten and molybdenum, the second metal layer including copper, the third metal layer including at least one of tungsten and molybdenum, and a method for producing the metal laminated structure.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to suppress variations in shape of flow channels to have an enlarged flow channel. When an attachment main body 51 of a lid member 50 is attached to a recessed attachment part 46 of a main body member 40, a pair of flange parts 52 provided to the lid member 50 abuts on the main body member 40. Therefore, the insertion amount of the attachment main body 51 into the recessed attachment part 46 in each product can be maintained approximately constant while enlarging a main channel MC and a pair of sub channels SS1 and SS2, which are formed by the main body member 40 and the lid member 50, and variations in shape of these flow channels can be reliably suppress.

Abstract: A method of tilting liquid crystal molecules is presented. The method entails providing a substrate including a photoalignment layer on top of a layer of liquid crystal molecules. The photoalignment layer is exposed to patterned light that is incident on the substrate at a substantially normal angle. The patterned light is polarized in a polarization direction that is non-parallel to an incident surface of the substrate.

Abstract: A high resolution, wide viewing angle, low power consumption liquid crystal display device which utilizes nematic liquid crystal and which can attain both the memory effect and wide-viewing-angle display characteristic. A liquid crystal display device that utilizes nematic liquid crystal and includes a pair of transparent substrates; a group of electrodes for applying to a liquid crystal layer disposed between the pair of substrates an electric field having a component substantially parallel to the surfaces of the substrates; and an alignment layer disposed between the liquid crystal layer and at least one of the pair of substrates and having been subjected to liquid crystal anchoring treatments in plural directions. The plurality of liquid crystal anchoring directions of the alignment layer form substantially equal angles relative to one another, and a rising angle in each of the liquid crystal anchoring directions with respect to the corresponding substrate surface is substantially zero.

Abstract: According to the present invention, a metal nanoparticle dispersion suitable to multiple layered coating by jetting in the form of fine droplets is prepared by dispersing metal nanoparticles having an average particle size of 1 to 100 nm in a dispersion solvent having a boiling point of 80° C. or higher in such a manner that the volume percentage of the dispersion solvent is selected in the range of 55 to 80% by volume and the fluid viscosity (20° C.) of the dispersion is chosen in the range of 2 mPa·s to 30 mPa·s, and then when the dispersion is discharged in the form of fine droplets by inkjet method or the like, the dispersion is concentrated by evaporation of the dispersion solvent in the droplets in the course of flight, coming to be a viscous dispersion which can be applicable to multi-layered coating.

Abstract: The ridge semiconductor laser is a semiconductor laser in which a carrier stopper layer made of an AlInAs compound, a clad layer made of an AlGaInAs compound, and an etching stopper layer made of an InGaAsP compound are stacked in sequence on one side of an active layer made of an AlGaInAs compound. The ridge semiconductor laser is provided with a ridge waveguide including, in a layer made of an InP compound, a diffraction grating made of an InGaAsP compound on the opposite side of the clad layer of the etching stopper layer.

Abstract: There is provided a metal laminated structure in which a first metal layer containing tungsten is provided on a first surface of a second metal layer containing copper and a third metal layer containing tungsten is provided on a second surface of the second metal layer opposite to the first surface, and the first metal layer contains crystal grains of tungsten in a form of a columnar crystal extending in a direction perpendicular to the first surface of the second metal layer and the third metal layer contains crystal grains of tungsten in a form of a columnar crystal extending in a direction perpendicular to the second surface of the second metal layer, and a method for producing the metal laminated structure.

Abstract: The present invention is a method for manufacturing a titanium ingot (30), the method being characterized by comprising: a step of melting a titanium alloy for a predetermined time by cold crucible induction melting (CCIM); a step of supplying molten titanium (6) to a cold hearth (10), and separating high density inclusions (HDIs) (8) by precipitation in the cold hearth (10) while spraying a plasma jet or an electron beam onto the bath surface of the molten titanium (6); and a step of supplying a molten titanium starting material from which the HDIs (8) are separated by precipitation to a mold (20) to obtain the titanium ingot.

Abstract: To provide a novel triazine-based compound exhibiting an ultraviolet blocking effect even in the long-wavelength region and being useful as an ultraviolet absorber with excellent light resistance, and to provide an ultraviolet absorber and a resin composition, which can maintain a long-wavelength ultraviolet-blocking effect for a long period of time. A compound represented by the following formula (1): wherein each of R1a, R1b, R1c, R1d and R1e independently represents a hydrogen atom or a monovalent substituent excluding OH, provided that at least one substituent represents a substituent having a Hammett's ?p value of 0.3 or more and substituents may combine with each other to form a ring, and each of R1g, R1h, R1i, R1j, R1k, R1m, R1n and R1p independently represents a hydrogen atom or a monovalent substituent, provided that substituents may combine with each other to form a ring.

Abstract: The present invention is a method for manufacturing a titanium ingot (30), the method being characterized by comprising: a step of melting a titanium alloy for a predetermined time by cold crucible induction melting (CCIM); a step of supplying molten titanium (6) to a cold hearth (10), and separating high density inclusions (HDIs)(8) by precipitation in the cold hearth (10) while spraying a plasma jet or an electron beam onto the bath surface of the molten titanium (6); and a step of supplying a molten titanium starting material from which the HDIs (8) are separated by precipitation to a mold (20) to obtain the titanium ingot.

Abstract: A method is for producing an active matrix organic EL display element by an inkjet method to eject droplets (12) of a liquid via an ejection hole of a nozzle so as to form an organic EL layer. The liquid contains an organic EL layer material. An electrostatic attraction type inkjet apparatus (15) is used whose ejection hole (1b) has a diameter smaller than a diameter of the droplets (12). The droplets are ejected from the nozzle of the electrostatic attraction type inkjet apparatus (15) in such a manner that each of the droplets is 1 pl or less in amount. With this arrangement, the landed droplet dries quickly, and movement of the landed droplet is restricted. This makes it possible to form an organic EL layer accurately with low cost.