Abstract: A flavor inhaler comprising: a tubular holder that extends from a mouthpiece end to a distal end; a combustion type heat source that is provided at the distal end, contains activated carbon, and carries a first flavorant; and a flavor source that is held in the holder and carries a second flavorant, wherein the first flavorant contains at least one selected from the group consisting of anethole, 2-pinene, 3-citronellol, linalyl acetate, limonene, anisaldehyde, 4-terpineol, 2-?-pinene, jasmone, sabinene, linalool, 1,8-cineole, phenethyl alcohol, and myristicin, and the second flavorant contains at least one selected from the group consisting of ?-terpinene, ?-terpinene, nerol, geraniol, and decanal.

Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes: a negative electrode active material represented by the Formula (1)=? (Si material)+? (carbon material), wherein the Si material is one or more kinds selected from the group consisting of SiOx that is a mixture of amorphous SiO2 particles and Si particles and a Si-containing alloy; ? and ? represent % by mass of each component in the layer; and 80??+??98, 0.1???40, and 58???97.9 are satisfied, and a difference between the maximum value and the minimum value of an area proportion (%) of a binder in an area of the field of view of each image of cross-sections of the layer in a case where a plurality of arbitrary places is selected in a plane of the negative electrode active material layer is within 10%.

Abstract: A flavor inhaler includes: a tubular holder extending from a mouthpiece end to a distal end; a flavor source held in the holder; and a combustion type heat source provided at the distal end, containing activated carbon, and carrying a flavorant, in which the activated carbon has a BET specific surface area of 1300 m2/g or more.

Abstract: A flavor inhaler includes a tubular holder that extends from a mouthpiece end toward a distal end, a flavor source that is provided in the holder, and a combustion type heat source that is provided at the distal end, and includes a protruding portion protruding from the distal end and a flavorant carried on the protruding portion.

Abstract: A laminated film having a haze of 1.0% or less and including two kinds of silica particles (silica particles A and silica particles B) in a cured layer, wherein the occupied area proportion of the silica particles A on a cross-sectional TEM image of the cured layer is 0.5% to 20.0% and satisfies the following relationship with the occupied area proportion of the silica particles B: 0.005?occupied area proportion of silica particles A/occupied area proportion of silica particles B?0.400, the variation coefficient of the occupied area proportion of the silica particles A on the cross-sectional TEM image of the cured layer is more than 0.5% and 3.0% or less, and the variation coefficient of the occupied area proportion of the silica particles B is 0.0% to 0.5%; a production method thereof; a polarizing plate; a liquid crystal panel; a liquid crystal display; and a touch panel.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical film which ensures adhesiveness between a polymer film and a liquid crystal layer without deteriorating the alignment of a liquid crystal compound; a polarizing plate using the same; an image display device; a method for producing an optical film; and a method for producing a polarizing plate. The optical film includes a polymer film including a cycloolefin-based polymer, and a liquid crystal layer that is provided adjacent to the polymer film, in which the liquid crystal layer is formed by using a liquid crystal composition containing a liquid crystal compound and a compound having a specific structure, where the liquid crystal composition contains the compound having a specific structure at a content of 0.5% to 7.0% by mass with respect to a mass of the liquid crystal compound, and a predetermined eccentricity value is 20% to 80%.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a method for manufacturing a hardcoat film including a hardcoat layer having a surface of which a water contact angle is 65° or less by applying, drying, and curing a composition for forming the hardcoat layer on a base material film, in which the composition for forming the hardcoat layer contains the components (a) to (d) as defined herein, and, in a case in which a total solid content of the composition for forming the hardcoat layer is set to 100% by mass, a content of the component (b) is 40% to 80% by mass, a content of the component (c) is 10% to 40% by mass, and a content of the component (d) is 10% to 40% by mass.

Abstract: The laminated film includes a substrate film; and a cured layer obtained by curing a polymerizable composition includes a compound having a cyclic ether group, a polyfunctional (meth)acrylate compound having three or more (meth)acryloyl groups in one molecule, a radical polymerization initiator, and a cation polymerization initiator, in which an absorbance ratio P1/P2 in an infrared absorption spectrum of the cured layer is in a range of 4.40 to 15.00, and an absorbance ratio P2/P3 is in a range of 0.01 to 0.08, P1 is an absorbance at an absorption maximum peak in a wave number range of 3,650 to 3,200 cm?1, P2 is an absorbance at an absorption maximum peak in a wave number range of 800 to 770 cm?1, and P3 is an absorbance at an absorption maximum peak in a wave number range of 1,740 to 1,690 cm?1.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical laminate which is suppressed in film thickness unevenness of an optically anisotropic layer and is free from point defects, a method of producing the same, and a polarizing plate and an organic EL display device using the optical laminate. The method of producing an optical laminate having an optically anisotropic layer A and an optically anisotropic layer B, includes where the layer A and the layer B are provided in direct contact with each other. The method further includes where both a composition a for forming the layer A and a composition b for forming the layer B contain a fluorine compound, and when the layer A is formed using composition a and layer B is formed using composition b, layer A and layer B are formed in this order under the condition that composition a and composition b satisfy predetermined surface tension relationships.

Abstract: There is provided a method of manufacturing a hard coat film having a hard coat layer on at least one side of a transparent support, the method includes curing a hard coat layer forming composition containing (a) a compound having one alicyclic epoxy group and one ethylenically unsaturated double bond group in a molecule and having a molecular weight of 300 or less, (b) a compound having three or more ethylenically unsaturated double bond groups in a molecule, (c) a radical polymerization initiator, and (d) a cationic polymerization initiator in a specific amount.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a method for manufacturing a hardcoat film including a hardcoat layer having a surface of which a water contact angle is 65° or less by applying, drying, and curing a composition for forming the hardcoat layer on a base material film, in which the composition for forming the hardcoat layer contains the components (a) to (d) as defined herein, and, in a case in which a total solid content of the composition for forming the hardcoat layer is set to 100% by mass, a content of the component (b) is 40% to 80% by mass, a content of the component (c) is 10% to 40% by mass, and a content of the component (d) is 10% to 40% by mass.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical laminate which is suppressed in film thickness unevenness of an optically anisotropic layer and is free from point defects, a method of producing the same, and a polarizing plate and an organic EL display device using the optical laminate. The method of producing an optical laminate having an optically anisotropic layer A and an optically anisotropic layer B, includes where the layer A and the layer B are provided in direct contact with each other. The method further includes where both a composition a for forming the layer A and a composition b for forming the layer B contain a fluorine compound, and when the layer A is formed using composition a and layer B is formed using composition b, layer A and layer B are formed in this order under the condition that composition a and composition b satisfy predetermined surface tension relationships.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a multi-wire saw including a wire, a set of guide rollers, an adjusting unit for adjusting tension of the wire wrapped around the guide rollers, a fixing base for fixing a workpiece to be cut by the wire wrapped around the guide rollers, and a moving mechanism for moving the workpiece fixed to the fixing base toward the wire. The adjusting unit includes an adjust roller around which the wire is wrapped, a rotational speed control section for controlling the rotational speed of the adjust roller, and a supply roller around which the wire is wrapped to be supplied to the adjust roller. The supply roller is provided with a wire shifting mechanism for suitably changing the axial position of the wire in the axial direction of the supply roller to thereby prevent the axial position of the wire wrapped around the adjust roller from being fixed.

Abstract: The imaging device disclosed herein includes: a plurality of photodetection sections having a light-receiving face, the plurality of photodetection sections being disposed in a two-dimensional array along a first direction and along a second direction different from the first direction, such that the light-receiving faces of the plurality of photodetection sections constitute an imaging plane; a transparent layer; and a plurality of spectroscopic sections having a greater refractive index than the transparent layer and being disposed in a two-dimensional array in a plane of arrangement. Zeroth order diffracted light and ±first order diffracted light, derived from light transmitted through each spectroscopic section and a portion of the transparent layer neighboring the spectroscopic section, respectively enter distinct photodetection sections among the plurality of photodetection sections.

Abstract: There is provided a polarizing plate protective film including: a hard coat layer with a thickness of 3 to 10 ?m on at least one surface of a cellulose acylate film with a thickness of 15 to 40 ?m, wherein the hard coat layer is a layer formed by curing a composition for forming a hard coat layer containing specific components, and the polarizing plate protective film has a WVTRA of 300 g/m2/day or less and a ratio WVTRA/WVTRB of 0.6 to 1.0, wherein WVTRA represents a water vapor transmission rate under environments of a temperature of 40° C. and a relative humidity of 90% and WVTRB represents a water vapor transmission rate under environments of a temperature of 40° C. and a relative humidity of 90% after being exposed to the environments of a temperature of 85° C. and a relative humidity of 85% for 24 hours.

Abstract: A battery main body housed in a case comprises one laminated body composed of a plurality of bipolar electrodes laminated with an electrolyte layer therebetween or comprises a plurality of laminated bodies connected in series. A positive electrode current collecting plate and a negative electrode current collecting plate each having one surface joined to the inner peripheral surface of the case and the other surface joined to one end of the battery main body respectively extend to the outside of the case. By providing a cutoff mechanism for cutting off an electrical connection between the positive electrode current collecting plate and the negative electrode current collecting plate via the battery main body according to an expansion deformation of the case, a current path in a bipolar secondary battery is interrupted when the short-circuit current occurs, thereby protecting the bipolar secondary battery from a short-circuit current.

Abstract: In a terminal that judges whether to trigger a handover from a serving cell to another cell, a RSRQ/RSRP measurer measures a first received quality value by using a cell-specific reference signal transmitted from the neighboring cell or a second received quality value by using a cell-detection reference signal transmitted from the neighboring cell. An offset adder calculates a third received quality value by adding an offset value to the second received quality value. A judging circuitry judges whether the first received quality value or the third received quality value satisfies a handover triggering condition with reference to the cell-specific reference signal. A transmitter transmits trigger information to the neighboring cell in order to activate handover from a serving cell to the neighboring cell, based on the judgement results.

Abstract: There is provided a hard coat film having a hard coat layer made from a hard coat layer forming composition on at least one side of a transparent support. The hard coat layer forming composition includes a resin which has a repeating unit including, in a same side chain thereof, at least one selected from a fluorine atom and a silicon atom, and a polarity conversion group capable of being hydrolyzed by the action of an alkali solution to increase the hydrophilicity.

Abstract: A grinding apparatus for grinding a wafer stored in a cassette composed of a container for storing the wafer and a lid for enclosing the container. The grinding apparatus includes a cassette table for placing the cassette thereon, a lid removing unit for removing the lid from the cassette placed on the cassette table and leaving only the container on the cassette table, a chuck table for holding the wafer under suction, a chuck table moving unit for moving the chuck table to a grinding area, a grinding unit provided in the grinding area, the grinding unit having a grinding wheel for grinding the wafer held on the chuck table, a grinding water supplying unit for supplying a grinding water to abrasive members of the grinding wheel, and a waste water collecting unit for collecting waste water generated in grinding the wafer by operating the grinding unit.

Abstract: There is provided a polarizing plate protective film including a transparent support having a thickness of 40 ?m or less, and a hard coat layer having a film thickness of from 3 ?m to 15 ?m, wherein the hard coat layer is a layer formed by curing a hard coat layer forming composition containing at least the specific compounds, and a polarizing plate comprising: a polarizer, and at least one polarizing plate protective film, as a protective film for the polarizer.