Abstract: The optical sheet includes a first lens sheet having a plurality of first three-dimensional structures arrayed to extend to one surface thereof, and a reflective polarizer sheet for transmitting either one of p-polarization component and s-polarization component of incident light and reflecting the other of p-polarization component and s-polarization component of the incident light. Head portions of the first three-dimensional structures are bonded to the reflective polarizer sheet.

Abstract: A diffusion sheet includes: a substrate having a first principal surface and a second principal surface; and structures each in a convex shape formed randomly on the first principal surface or the second principal surface of the substrate. The structures have an identical or almost identical height. The structures have an aspect ratio h/r, where r denotes an average radius of the structures and h denotes an average height of the structures, of more than 0.85 and not more than 1.50. The structures have a filling factor of not less than 60% and not more than 80%.

Abstract: There are provided a golf ball molding die in which a mold deposit produced when a gas is discharged can be removed easily, and the area of a venting opening per unit area of the tip end of a pin can be increased tremendously, and a golf ball manufactured by using the golf ball molding die. A golf ball molding die in accordance with the present invention includes at least two die bodies which are configured so that a cavity for forming a golf ball is formed by joining the die bodies to each other; a venting hole which is provided in at least one of the die bodies to discharge a gas in the cavity; and a pin which is present in the venting hole, the pin being configured so that a plurality of layers are lapped on each other from the center thereof.

Abstract: A light guide plate includes a light-incident surface, a light-reflecting surface, and a light-emitting surface. The light-reflecting surface includes a plurality of first light diffusion portions and a second light diffusion portion. The plurality of first light diffusion portions each have a first concavo-convex height. The second light diffusion portion has a second concavo-convex height lower than the first concavo-convex height and is extended around the plurality of first light diffusion portions in a net-like manner. The light-emitting surface emits light that enters from the light-incident surface and is reflected by the light-reflecting surface.

Abstract: A light guide plate includes a light-emitting surface, a light-reflecting surface opposed to the light-emitting surface, and a light-incident surface including a protrusion formed continuously along an edge portion of the light-emitting surface. Accordingly, light that has entered the protrusion is transmitted through the protrusion and totally reflected on an inner surface of the light-emitting surface to thus propagate inside the light guide plate. As described above, since incident light components emitted toward an upper portion of the light-incident surface can be effectively blocked by the protrusion, luminance distribution characteristics as well as a light use efficiency can be improved. The light guide plate is produced by a punching press process.

Abstract: A scroll fluid machine comprises compression chambers defined with an orbiting scroll orbiting relative to a fixed scroll, and a back pressure chamber provided on the face opposite from a wrap of the orbiting scroll. A back pressure port is provided, which is formed in an end-plate of the orbiting scroll and connects from a compression chamber side opening opened to a compression chamber side and to a back pressure chamber side opening opened to a back pressure chamber side. The compression chamber side opening is opened and closed by an end-plate of the fixed scroll according as the orbiting motion of the orbiting scroll to perform connection and blockage of the back pressure port. The flow resistance of fluid flowing in and out between the back pressure chamber and the compression chamber is reduced and the compression efficiency and reliability are improved.

Abstract: Provided are a negatively-chargeable electrophotographic photosensitive member, an image forming process and an electrophotographic apparatus. The electrophotographic photosensitive member has, between its cylindrical substrate and photoconductive layer, a first lower-part layer formed of a non-single crystal material containing silicon atoms and a second lower-part layer formed of a non-single crystal material containing silicon atoms, and has, on its photoconductive layer, an upper-part layer formed of a non-single crystal material containing silicon atoms. The first lower-part layer is a layer containing a periodic-table Group 13 element, and the upper-part layer has a region capable of retaining electrification charges.

Abstract: A method for forming a ceramic laminate ceramic laminate from first and second sheets of ceramic material, the sheets having a first and a second surface, wherein the first ceramic material has a different coefficient of thermal expansion than the second ceramic material and the outer layers comprises ceramic materials having substantially the same thermal properties, comprising (a) heating the first and the second sheets of ceramic material; (b) stacking the first and the second sheets of ceramic material wherein the second surfaces are opposed to one another to provide stacked sheets; and (c) pressing the stacked sheets and forming the ceramic laminate.

Abstract: Provided is a computer system including at least one host computer; and at least one storage system, characterized in that: the storage system has a disk drive and a disk controller, and provides a storage area of the disk drive as at least one logical unit; upon detecting a failure in a logical path serving as an access route from the host computer to the logical unit, the host computer specifies logical paths for accessing the same logical unit that is connected to the logical path where the failure is detected; the host computer executes failure detecting processing for the specified logical paths to judge whether the specified logical paths are normal or not; the host computer selects normal logical paths out of the specified logical paths; and the host computer accesses the logical unit via the normal logical paths selected.

Abstract: An optical element laminate is provided and includes a first optical element and a second optical element superimposed with the first optical element. The first optical element and the second optical element are each a rectangular film or sheet. The first optical element has at least two side walls at two opposing sides among four sides of the first optical element and the second optical element has at least two side walls at two opposing sides among four sides of the second optical element.

Abstract: Provided is a computer system including at least one host computer; and at least one storage system, characterized in that: the storage system has a disk drive and a disk controller, and provides a storage area of the disk drive as at least one logical unit; upon detecting a failure in a logical path serving as an access route from the host computer to the logical unit, the host computer specifies logical paths for accessing the same logical unit that is connected to the logical path where the failure is detected; the host computer executes failure detecting processing for the specified logical paths to judge whether the specified logical paths are normal or not; the host computer selects normal logical paths out of the specified logical paths; and the host computer accesses the logical unit via the normal logical paths selected.

Abstract: A plurality of logical units are set in an information processing device and a storage device and connected by logical paths. The information processing device monitors the path state. When a state change of a path has occurred, the information processing device searches for a normal path connected to the logical unit and decides a logical unit to be an object of the read request. The information processing device issues a data read request to the logical unit decided. Moreover, when a failure has occurred in the path, the information processing device performs an access to the logical unit by utilizing a path other than the path where the failure has occurred and another path sharing a part of the path where the failure has occurred.

Abstract: A light control element capable of controlling deflection of light output through a light guide plate to a desired output viewing angle is provided. A light control element (prism sheet) has a plane of incidence on one surface thereof, and a plane of output on the other surface thereof. The plane of incidence is formed as having thereon a number of prism portions arrayed in parallel. Each of the prism portions has a first prism surface allowing incidence of light, and a second prism surface where the light entering through the first prism surface is reflected by total reflection on the inner side. The second prism surface has an outwardly-swelled curved profile, formed with a curvature that allows the light to output through the plane of output at a second output viewing angle wider than a first output viewing angle of a case where the second prism surface is flat.

Abstract: A plurality of logical units are set in an information processing device and a storage device and connected by logical paths. The information processing device monitors the path state. When a state change of a path has occurred, the information processing device searches for a normal path connected to the logical unit and decides a logical unit to be an object of the read request. The information processing device issues a data read request to the logical unit decided. Moreover, when a failure has occurred in the path, the information processing device performs an access to the logical unit by utilizing a path other than the path where the failure has occurred and another path sharing a part of the path where the failure has occurred.

Abstract: In the computer system including a host computer and a storage system, the storage system includes a physical disk and a disk controller, and provides a storage area of the physical disk as at least one logical unit. The processor obtains, at a first time point and a second time point different from the first time point, a relation between a logical path and a component through which the logical path passes, stores, as logical path connection information, the relations obtained at the first time point and the second time point, refers to the logical path connection information to compare the logical paths existing at the first time point and the logical paths existing at the second time point with each other, and specifies the logical path which does not exist at the second time point among the logical paths existing at the first time point.

Abstract: Provided is a computer system which includes computers and a storage system coupled to the computers. The storage system includes a first load measuring module that measures a first access load for each channel adaptor. At least one of the computers includes a path management module that manages paths through which the computers access logical units. The path management module includes a second load measuring module that measures a second access load imposed by access from the computer to the logical unit, and an active path setting module that selects one of the channel adaptors based on the first access and the second access load measured by the first and second load measuring modules, and setting an active path passing through the channel adaptor. Thus, a load on an entire system is balanced, thereby improving performance while a cache hit rate of a storage system is maintained.

Abstract: There are provided a golf ball molding die in which a mold deposit produced when a gas is discharged can be removed easily, and the area of a venting opening per unit area of the tip end of a pin can be increased tremendously, and a golf ball manufactured by using the golf ball molding die. A golf ball molding die in accordance with the present invention includes at least two die bodies which are configured so that a cavity for forming a golf ball is formed by joining the die bodies to each other; a venting hole which is provided in at least one of the die bodies to discharge a gas in the cavity; and a pin which is present in the venting hole, the pin being configured so that a plurality of layers are lapped on each other from the center thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a water-based fluorescent ink for the purpose of measurement or judgment of the fluorescence emission in a visible light region by an excitation wavelength in a predetermined ultraviolet range, containing water, a coloring material dissolved or dispersed in water, and an organic solvent, having a plurality of fluorescent groups in the coloring material structure of the coloring material, and using a water-soluble coloring material having a sulfonic acid group as the water-soluble group in the state of a free acid, capable of improving the water resistance and the light resistance, dramatically increasing the content of the fluorescent coloring material in the ink, which has conventionally been included only by a small amount in the ink due to the concentration quenching problem, obtaining preferable fluorescence emission and water resistance of the recorded image, and providing preferable adhesion resistance to the recording medium of the coloring material and reliability.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus is provided in which occurrence of a moiré pattern can be prevented without largely reducing front luminance. A liquid crystal display apparatus 1 includes a surface light source 4, a liquid crystal display panel 2, and first and second prism sheets 5 and 6 for condensing light emitted from the surface light source 4 and guiding the light toward the liquid crystal display panel. The first and second prism sheets 5 and 6 are disposed such that prism array directions thereof are orthogonal to each other. When a pixel pitch of the liquid crystal display panel 2 is defined as Pp [?m]; a prism array pitch of the first prism sheet 5 is defined as Px [?m]; and a prism array pitch of the second prism sheet 6 is defined as Py [?m], relationships of Px?Pp/(14?0.045Pp) and Py?Pp/(11.5?0.032Pp) are satisfied.

Abstract: In a circuit device of this invention, a support base member, which holds an electronic component and circuit for supplying a control signal to a rotating carriage, is formed integrally with a carrier member via a plurality of cutting areas which are to be cut out from the carrier member, in order to provide an FPC, connected electrically to the carriage, with such a height which enables the FPC to be displaced on a same plane as a plane in which the carriage rotates or a plane parallel to the plane in which the carriage rotates. The cutting area is folded and overlapped at a predetermined position in a state in which the support base member is cut out by punching so as to provide a predetermined height.