Abstract: A wiring film is provided between a cloth and an electronic component, wherein the wiring film has a wiring layer including an extensible film and wirings provided along the extensible film inside or on an outer surface of the extensible film and at least a part of the wirings is exposed from a first surface of the wiring layer that faces the electronic component.

Abstract: The present invention provides a stress relaxation substrate for relaxing stress generated due to differences in the hardness of a circuit substrate and a cloth body. This stress relaxation substrate is disposed between a cloth body and a circuit board having a wiring, wherein the stress relaxation substrate includes a stress relaxation layer harder than the cloth body, and softer than the circuit board, an adhesive layer provided on one surface of the stress relaxation layer, and a conductive portion provided on the stress relaxation layer to be formed between a first surface and a second surface.

Abstract: A wearable device includes sensors, at least one of which being provided on the front side and the back side 1b respectively, and a single controller that controls the sensors. The boundary between the front side and the back side includes first seamed portions and second seamless portions. Some of the wires are disposed on the front side and the back side across the second seamless portions on the boundary between the front side and the back side so as to electrically couple the sensors provided on the front side and the back side 1b to the controller.

Abstract: A connector substrate includes a base material, n first input terminals of m groups (m and n are an integer equal to or greater than 2) which are provided on the base material, n first output terminals which are provided on the base material, first wiring patterns which are disposed on or inside the base material and connect the first input terminals and the first output terminals, m second input terminals which are provided on the base material, m second output terminals which are provided on the base material, and second wiring patterns which are disposed on or inside the base material and connect the second input terminals and the second output terminals, in which a first end of each connector wiring constituting the first wiring pattern is connected to one of the n first input terminals constituting each group, and a second end is connected to one of the first output terminals.

Abstract: A wiring film is provided between a cloth and an electronic component, wherein the wiring film has a wiring layer including an extensible film and wirings provided along the extensible film inside or on an outer surface of the extensible film and at least a part of the wirings is exposed from a first surface of the wiring layer that faces the electronic component.

Abstract: The present invention provides a stress relaxation substrate for relaxing stress generated due to differences in the hardness of a circuit substrate and a cloth body. This stress relaxation substrate is disposed between a cloth body and a circuit board having a wiring, wherein the stress relaxation substrate includes a stress relaxation layer harder than the cloth body, and softer than the circuit board, an adhesive layer provided on one surface of the stress relaxation layer, and a conductive portion provided on the stress relaxation layer to be formed between a first surface and a second surface.

Abstract: A connector substrate includes a base material, n first input terminals of m groups (m and n are an integer equal to or greater than 2) which are provided on the base material, n first output terminals which are provided on the base material, first wiring patterns which are disposed on or inside the base material and connect the first input terminals and the first output terminals, m second input terminals which are provided on the base material, m second output terminals which are provided on the base material, and second wiring patterns which are disposed on or inside the base material and connect the second input terminals and the second output terminals, in which a first end of each connector wiring constituting the first wiring pattern is connected to one of the n first input terminals constituting each group, and a second end is connected to one of the first output terminals.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of displaying, in color, information accompanying rotation in a device having a rotating member, comprising disposing a first polarizing film, a printed film, a retardation film, and a second polarizing film approximately perpendicularly to the direction of the rotational axis of the rotation; with the first polarizing film, retardation film, and second polarizing film being the sequence of disposition; and with one or two films selected from among the first polarizing film, the retardation film, and the second polarizing film being caused to rotate in a manner accompanying rotation of the rotating member. The method of the present invention affords inexpensive installation, maintenance, and use; good energy efficiency; and complex color display in a greater number of colors.

Abstract: The present invention provides a product comprising a patterned optically anisotropic layer having two or more regions of different birefringence, which has a latent image becoming visible through a polarizing plate, wherein an image visible through the polarizing plate including the latent image comprises a periodic structure. An additional visual effect can be attached to the latent image observed through a polarizing plate.

Abstract: A method of producing a patterned birefringent product, comprising at least steps [1] to [3] in this order: [1] producing a birefringent pattern building material comprising at least one optically anisotropic layer, which is formed by a process including: coating and drying a composition containing at least one rod-like liquid crystalline compound having at least two reactive groups and at least one chiral agent to form a cholesteric liquid crystal phase; and then subjecting the cholesteric liquid crystal phase to heating or exposure to radiation to form the optically anisotropic layer containing a polymer fixed by polymerization and fixing; [2] subjecting the birefringent pattern building material to a patterned exposure to light; and, [3] baking a laminate obtained after the step [2] at 50° C. or higher and 400° C. or lower.

Abstract: A viewer for authenticating a birefringent pattern having at least two regions having a different birefringence from each other, wherein the viewer contains a polarizing plate and at least one optically anisotropic layer laminated on the polarizing plate, a front retardation of the at least one optically anisotropic layer is 5 nm or more and the total of the front retardation of the at least one optically anisotropic layer and a maximum value of front retardation of the birefringent pattern is greater than ?/2.

Abstract: A method of producing a patterned birefringent product, containing at least steps (I) to (III) in this order: (I) providing a birefringent pattern builder having an optically anisotropic layer containing a polymer; (II) subjecting two or more regions of the birefringent pattern builder to exposure to light under exposure conditions different from each other; and (III) heating a laminated structure obtained after the step (II) at 50° C. or higher and 400° C. or lower.

Abstract: A birefringent pattern builder, having an optically anisotropic layer containing a polymer having unreacted reactive groups, wherein the optically anisotropic layer is produced by a method containing the steps [1] and [2] in this order: [1] coating and drying a solution containing a liquid crystalline compound having at least two kinds of reactive groups; and [2] reacting one kind of the at least two kinds of reactive groups by applying heat or irradiating ionizing radiation.

Abstract: A method of producing a patterned birefringent product, having at least steps (I) to (III) in this order: (I) providing a birefringent pattern builder having an optically anisotropic layer containing a polymer having unreacted reactive groups; (II) heating a region of the birefringent pattern builder; and (III) subjecting the birefringent pattern builder to a process that reacts at least a part of the unreacted reactive groups in the optically anisotropic layer.

Abstract: A novel transfer material is disclosed. The transfer material comprises, at least, a support, and, thereon, an optically uniaxial or biaxial anisotropic layer and a photosensitive polymer layer. A novel process for producing a liquid crystal cell substrate is also disclosed. The process comprises, at least, [1] laminating a transfer material as set forth in any one of claims 1 to 11 on a substrate; [2] removing the support from the transfer material laminated on the substrate; and [3] exposing the photosensitive polymer layer disposed on the substrate to light.

Abstract: A process of readily producing a patterned birefringent product excellent in resolution and heat-resistance is provided. Said process comprises at least the following steps [1] to [3] in order: [1] preparing a birefringence pattern builder which comprises an optically anisotropic layer comprising a polymer, and said optically anisotropic layer has a retardation disappearance temperature in the range higher than 20° C., at said retardation disappearance temperature in-plane retardation becomes 30% or lower of the retardation at 20° C. of the same optically anisotropic layer, and said retardation disappearance temperature rises by light exposure; [2] subjecting the birefringence pattern builder to patterned light exposure; [3] heating the laminated structure obtained after the step [2] at 50° C. or higher and 400° C. or lower.

Abstract: A novel optical compensation sheet is disclosed. The sheet comprising a polymer layer formed by coating and, drying a solution comprising a polymer compound and a solvent composition comprising 20% by weight or more of water; and an optically anisotropic layer formed on the surface of the polymer layer by hardening a liquid crystal layer comprising at least one liquid-crystalline compound under irradiation of ionizing radiation at a film surface temperature from 70 to 160° C.; wherein a frontal retardation (Re) value of the optically anisotropic layer is not zero, and the optically anisotropic layer gives substantially equal retardation values for light of a wavelength ? nm coming respectively in a direction rotated by +40° and in a direction rotated by ?40° with respect to a normal direction of a layer plane using an in-plane slow axis as a tilt axis (a rotation axis).

Abstract: A medium for preventing forgery having a hologram layer and at least one patterned optically anisotropic layer, wherein the patterned optically anisotropic layer has two or more regions comprising different birefringence property, and wherein all the regions are formed of the same composition.

Abstract: A transfer material comprising at least one optically anisotropic layer and at least one photosensitive polymer layer on at least one support, wherein said optically anisotropic layer comprises one or more compounds having a reactive group, and said photosensitive polymer layer comprises two or more types of photopolymerization initiators having different photoreaction mechanisms to each other, and a compound having a reactive group which can react with one or more of the reactive groups present in the optically anisotropic layer by the action of the at least one of said photopolymerization initiators. By using the transfer material, a color filter which contributes to reducing viewing angle dependence of color of a liquid crystal display device, and a liquid crystal display device having less corner non-uniformities and less viewing angle dependence of color.

Abstract: There is provided an optical device including a plurality of first phasors having substantially the same phase delaying axis as each other; and a plurality of second phasors having substantially the same phase delaying axis as each other in a direction different from that of the first phasors and providing a phase difference substantially the same as that provided by the first phasors, in which the plurality of first phasors and the plurality of second phasors are arranged on substantially the same face, a density of the first phasors is substantially the same as a density of the second phasors, and a spatial distribution of the density of the first phasors and a spatial distribution of the density of the second phasors are substantially uniform.