Abstract: A copper oxide thin film mainly containing CuO is formed by a plasma film-forming process on a substrate for film formation. The friction coefficient of the copper oxide thin film can be controlled remarkably low.

Abstract: The present invention provides a surface light source device and a transmission display device, which can exhibit smoother output light properties and higher front luminance, and avoid occurrence of moiré. A surface light source device 10A includes a light source portion 13A, a light controlling sheet 15 located on the output light side of the light source portion 13A, and a light diffusing sheet 16 located on the output light side of the light controlling sheet 15 and including micro-convex structures. The light diffusing sheet 16 includes a transparent base film 16a, and a light diffusing layer 16d coated on a surface of the transparent base film 16a. Micro-beads 16b incorporated in the light diffusion sheet 16 can exhibit a lens effect and provide a light condensing effect and a light diffusing effect. As such, the output light properties of the surface light source device 10A can be changed smoother, thereby providing higher front luminance and avoiding occurrence of moiré.

Abstract: The present invention provides a diffusing sheet, a surface light source device, and a transmission type display, that can attain uniform illumination so that the brightness of light on the display screen appears uniform regardless of the position from which the display screen is observed. A transmission type display 10 comprises an LCD panel 11, and a surface light source device 16 for illuminating the LCD panel 11 from its rear. The surface light source device 16 includes a plurality of cathode ray tubes 13 that are arranged in parallel. A diffusing sheet 14 and a convergent sheet 12 are placed between the cathode ray tubes 13 and the LCD panel 11 in the surface light source device 16. The diffusing sheet 14 includes, on its light-emerging side surface, a diffusion lens array 141.

Abstract: There is provided a Fresnel lens sheet for converging light rays fallen thereon from oblique directions, and capable of reducing the reflection of external light, of enabling displaying images in satisfactory contrast, of suppressing the occurrence of moiré and of being easily manufactured. The Fresnel lens sheet 10 includes: a flat base part 11; a plurality of prisms 12 formed on the entrance surface of the base part 11, a plurality of V grooves 13 formed in the exit surface of the base part 11, and a plurality of wedge-shaped light absorbing parts 14 embedded in the V grooves 13, respectively. Each prism 12 has a refraction facet 12a that refracts light rays fallen thereon and a total-reflection facet 12b that totally reflects light rays fallen thereon. The prisms 12 refract and reflect light rays L1 incident thereon at large incident angles to deflect the light rays L1 for travel in a direction substantially perpendicular to the base part 11.

Abstract: The present invention provides a pharmaceutical preparation that significantly reduces leakage of a low-molecule medicine in a strong acidic environment, while allowing release of the low-molecule medicine in the enteric canal or the like which is in a weak acidic to neutral environment. The S/O type pharmaceutical preparation of the present invention is characterized in comprising a medicine-containing complex dissolved or dispersed in an oil phase, wherein the complex contains a mixture and a surfactant, the mixture is covered by the surfactant, and the mixture contains a hydrophilic low molecule medicine, and a hydrophilic medicine-leakage-suppressive protein and/or a medicine-leakage-suppressive polysaccharide.

Abstract: A Fresnel lens sheet holding structure holds a thin Fresnel lens sheet formed on a forming mold easily releasable from the forming mold in a satisfactory planarity on a rear projection display. A rear projection display is provided with the Fresnel lens sheet holding structure. The Fresnel lens sheet holding structure holds a Fresnel lens sheet of 3 mm or below in thickness having an entrance surface provided with prisms of a triangular cross section each having an entrance facet and a total-reflection facet that reflects part or all of light fallen on the entrance facet in a total-reflection mode to deflect the light in a desired direction. The Fresnel lens sheet holding structure includes a hanging member to be attached to the upper side of the Fresnel lens sheet, and a support member for supporting the hanging member. Preferably, a tensioning member is attached to the Fresnel lens sheet.

Abstract: A view angle control sheet having a wide view angle, in which diffuse light from a screen image source is effectively utilized to suppress a decrease in screen brightness while a decrease in image contrast caused by an outside light beam is suppressed to prevent generation of a ghost to improve contrast. The lens portions have trapezoidal shapes in section arranged at predetermined intervals. A wedge-shaped portion between the lens portions has a bottom surface on a screen image source side while having a leading end on an observer side, and the following relationships hold: Nx £Ny and ?0.01 <Dn ?cosq <0.002, where Nx is a refractive index of a material constituting at least a slope portion of the wedge-shaped portion, Ny is a refractive index of a material constituting the lens portion, and Dn is a ratio (Nx/Ny).

Abstract: The present invention is a light-controlling sheet for making light emitted from light sources uniform and/or converging the light. The light-controlling sheet includes a lens part having a large number of rod-like unit lenses arranged in parallel, with a lens surface of each unit lens facing to the light-exiting side. A cross section of the lens surface of each rod-like unit lens taken perpendicularly to the longitudinal direction of the unit lens is asymmetrical. The lens surface of each unit lens has a flat surface part in the shape of a flat surface, and a curved surface part in the shape of part of a cylindrical surface.

Abstract: To make it possible to fix various organic molecules in an arbitrary configuration or arrangement on a micro/nano scale as a cheap and simple process by irradiating a photocurable resin containing an organic molecule on a substrate with light, thereby curing the photocurable resin in a given pattern and removing an uncured portion, thereby fixing the organic molecule in the given pattern on the substrate.

Abstract: A light controlling sheet 14 is provided in a surface light source device 10a including a light source portion 13a. The light controlling sheet 14 includes an outgoing light side lens portion 141a having multiple unit lenses 141 arranged to project toward the outgoing light side, and transparent portions 143 and reflecting portions 144 provided on the incident light side. The transparent portions 143 and the reflecting portions 144 are arranged alternately, and the transparent portions 143 comprise 40% to 60% of the total area of the light controlling sheet 14 when viewed form a direction orthogonal to the sheet surface 14S on the incident light side.

Abstract: A substrate for the immobilization of proteins is made by treating a carrier with an amino group-containing silicon compound represented by the following general formula: (RO)3Si—(CH2)k—(C6H4)1—(CH2)m—(NHCH2CH2)n—NH2 (wherein R is an alkyl group, and k is 1, 2, 3 . . . , l is 0, 1, 2, 3 . . . , m is 0, 1, 2, 3 . . . , and n is 1, 2, 3 . . . ).

Abstract: A light diffusion sheet or film including a plurality of unit lenses formed of a material having a refractive index N1, each unit lens having a trapezoidal cross-section. At least one between lens portion, having a triangular cross-section, positioned between two of the unit lenses. The between lens portion is formed of a material having a refractive index N2 that is less than N1. If ? represents an angle defined by a side of the trapezoidal cross-section and a line normal to a base of the trapezoidal cross-section, then sin(90??)>N2/N1 and N1<1/sin(2?).

Abstract: A view angle control sheet which can suppress a decrease in screen brightness is provided. Lens portions having trapezoidal shapes in cross section are arranged at predetermined intervals, and a wedge-shaped portion between the lens portions adjacent to each other is filled with the same material as the lens portion or with a material different from the lens portion. In the wedge-shaped portion, a bottom surface is provided on a screen image side while a leading edge is provided on an observer side, and at least a slope portion of the wedge-shaped portion is made of a material having a refractive index lower than that of a lens portion material.

Abstract: A converging sheet includes a light-emerging-side lens member formed of a plurality of unit lenses of convex shape that are arranged on a light-emerging side, and a scattering layer that is formed along a surface of each unit lens and scatters light. The scattering layer includes light diffusing particles. A thickness t of the scattering layer is equal to or more than one-tenth the lens pitch p. The converging sheet satisfies the following relationships: d×((t+h+p)/?)>50% and d×(t/?)<50%, in which d represents a volume ratio (%) of the light diffusing particles mixed in the scattering layer relative to the scattering layer, ? represents an average grain diameter (mm) of the light diffusing particles, and h represents a height from the apex to a bottom of the convex shape of the unit lens.

Abstract: The present invention provides an oil-in-water emulsified food product containing plant sterol, which has the effect of reducing the level of cholesterol in the blood, and having a smooth texture and excellent emulsification stability. Means for Solving the Problems: An oil-in-water emulsified food product containing a complex of plant sterol with egg yolk lipoprotein is provided. This oil-in-water emulsified food product can be obtained by a production method having a step wherein a liquid dispersion of a complex is prepared by adding a water-based medium as needed to egg yolk lipoprotein and plant sterol followed by stirring and mixing; a step wherein water-phase ingredient(s) are added as needed, stirred and mixed; and a step wherein oil-phase ingredient(s) are added and an emulsification treatment is performed.

Abstract: A light-diffusing sheet having a flat entrance surface and an exit surface parallel to the entrance surface, said light-diffusing sheet includes a sheet body, and a plurality of wedge-shaped parts, each being embedded on the side of the exit surface of the sheet body and expanding toward the exit surface. The wedge-shaped parts have a refractive index lower than that of the sheet body. Each of side surfaces of each of the wedge-shaped parts is formed of inclined surfaces constituting a polygonal surface. Angles formed by the inclined surfaces of each side surface and the perpendicular to the exit surface gradually become greater toward the exit surface. An end of each of the wedge-shaped parts on the side of the entrance surface is flat surface parallel to the entrance surface.

Abstract: According to the present invention, sufficient light trapping effect can be exhibited and series resistance can be kept small, by sequentially forming a silicon based low refractive index layer and a thin silicon based interface layer on a backside of a photoelectric conversion layer observed from a light incident side, and as a result a silicon based thin film solar cell may be provided efficiently and at low cost.

Abstract: A projection screen 111 comprises a total reflection prism lens 114 and a lenticular lens 115 provided on the viewer's side of the total reflection prism lens 114. The total reflection prism lens 114 has a plurality of unit prisms 113 on its back surface (the outermost plane of incidence) on which imaging light L is incident. Each unit prism 113 has an apical angle ? that corresponds to the angle between the plane of incidence 113a and the plane of total reflection 113b, and the apical angles ? of the unit prisms 113 vary with the position of each unit prism 113 on the screen plane. In particular, the unit prisms 113 have apical angles ? varying continuously from 30° to 45° so that the apical angles ? on the side distant from the center O of the concentric circles are greater than the apical angles ? on the side close to this center O.

Abstract: A combinatorial deposition method is characterized in that, in a method of performing thin-film coating onto a substrate disposed in a vacuum, two or more substrates are moved between a deposition position and a cooling position, sequentially only substrates to be coated is moved to the deposition position while substrates at the cooling position are cooled by a cooling mechanism, and substrates are respectively deposited under different deposition conditions in only one vacuum evacuation process. Various deposition conditions with regard to sputtering and the like are accurately controlled, so that coating films can be efficiently produced under different deposition conditions.

Abstract: A view angle controlling sheet to be disposed between the light source and the liquid crystal panel of a liquid crystal display apparatus, wherein the view angle controlling sheet has lens parts having a trapezoidal cross sectional shape arranged by a predetermined interval and the wedge parts between the adjacent lens parts is filled with a light absorbing material such that the wedge part has the top end disposed to the observer side and the bottom surface to the light source side and a light reflection layer provided to at least the bottom surface part on the light source side of the wedge part and with the premise that the angle formed by the slant face portion of the wedge part and the normal of the light output plane is ?, ? is in a range of 3°???15°.