Abstract: The present invention provides a mirror display that can suppress warp of a half mirror plate with a reflective polarizer under heat to prevent distortion of a reflected image in a mirror mode. The mirror display of the present invention includes a half mirror plate that includes a first reflective polarizer and a first base material, a display device, and a warp-suppressing member that suppresses shrinking of the first reflective polarizer under heat. The first reflective polarizer and the first base material are integrated, and the display device is disposed on the back surface side of the half mirror plate.

Abstract: One aspect of the present invention provides a touch panel-equipped mirror display that can reduce distortion and ghosting in mirror images while also reducing the rainbow effect in displayed images. The touch panel-equipped mirror display according to one aspect of the present invention includes, in order from a rear side: a display device that includes a polarizer; a touch panel; and a mirror plate that includes a reflective polarizer and a substrate, wherein the reflective polarizer and the substrate are fixed together, and wherein the touch panel does not create a phase difference in light. It is preferable that the substrate be a glass substrate with a thickness of greater than or equal to 0.1 mm and less than or equal to 0.4 mm.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a transmissive region and a reflective region, and includes a backlight unit and a liquid crystal display panel including a first substrate, a first alignment film, a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules having positive anisotropy of dielectric constant, a second alignment film, and a second substrate in the given order from closest to farthest from the backlight unit, the first substrate including a first electrode disposed in the transmissive region and the reflective region and a second electrode disposed in the transmissive region, the first substrate or the second substrate including a third electrode disposed in the reflective region, the first electrode including one or more first linear electrode portions in the transmissive region, with no voltage applied to the liquid crystal layer, the liquid crystal molecules in the transmissive region forming a given twist angle ?1, the liquid crystal molecules in the reflective region forming a given t

Abstract: A mirror display system that enables simultaneous perception of a mirror image and a video image with suppressed uncomfortable feeling includes a half mirror plate including a half mirror layer; a 3D display device; and a control unit being configured to supply a video signal to the 3D display device. The 3D display device is disposed on the back surface side of the half mirror plate and is configured to display, by the video signal, a video image for the left eye and a video image for the right eye that give a parallax on a display surface of the 3D display device. The parallax is set such that a fused video image of the video image for the left eye and the video image for the right eye is perceived on the back surface side behind the display surface of the 3D display device.

Abstract: The present invention provides a mirror display that exhibits non-deteriorated display quality in a display mode and is capable of adjusting the color of reflected light in a mirror mode.

Abstract: The present invention provides a mirror display that sufficiently prevents a decrease in the screen luminance in the display mode while sufficiently increasing the reflectance in the mirror mode, and also gives excellent production efficiency.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display panel (100C) including a transverse electric field mode liquid crystal cell (10), a first polarizing plate (22C) disposed on a back surface side of the liquid crystal cell (10), and a second polarizing plate (24C) disposed on an observer side of the liquid crystal cell (10), wherein: letting ?n be birefringence of nematic liquid crystals and d be a thickness of the liquid crystal layer for a liquid crystal layer (18), ?nd is less than 550 nm, the liquid crystal layer is in a twisted alignment state when no voltage is applied, and when polarized light for which the absolute value |S3| of the Stokes parameter S3 is 1.00 is incident, the |S3| of the polarized light transmitted through the liquid crystal layer (18) is greater than or equal to 0.85; and the first polarizing plate (22C) and the second polarizing plate (24C) are circular polarizing plates or elliptical polarizing plates having an ellipticity of 0.

Abstract: The present invention provides a mirror plate capable of suppressing the occurrence of orange peel-like unevenness. The mirror plate includes a mirror film including a mirror layer and an adhesive layer; and a substrate. The adhesive layer is attached to one surface of the substrate. The one surface of the substrate has an arithmetic average roughness of less than 0.03 ?m. The mirror film includes no hard coat layer containing cured resin. The thicknesses of the mirror layer and the adhesive layer have a relation satisfying: tA/tM?0.18, where tM represents the thickness of the mirror layer and to represents the thickness of the adhesive layer.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel (100A) includes a first polarizing plate (22) and a first phase difference plate (32a) disposed on an observer side, and a second polarizing plate (24) and a second phase difference plate (34a) disposed on a back surface side. ?nd of a liquid crystal layer having a homogeneous alignment when no electrical field is applied is 360 nm or greater and 490 nm or less, and an in-plane retardation R1 of the first phase difference plate is 100 nm or greater and 160 nm or less. A thickness direction retardation of at least one of the first and second phase difference plates has a negative value. The slow axes of the first and second phase difference plates are substantially parallel to each other and substantially orthogonal to an azimuthal direction of the liquid crystal director.

Abstract: The present invention provides a mirror display that can match the peripheral environment having diffusely reflecting surfaces in the mirror mode, and an electronic device including the mirror display. The mirror display includes a half mirror plate that includes a reflective polarizer and a display device. The half mirror plate further includes a light-diffusing member that diffuses at least part of incident light. The mirror display includes, in the order from the back surface side, the display device, the reflective polarizer, and the light-diffusing member.

Abstract: The present invention prevents an advance of a crack in a covering layer, without exposing a support. In a region between an edge part of a moistureproof layer (12) and a display region (2), wavy recessed patterns (7a, 7b, and 7c) are continuously or discontinuously provided so to connect one end of the moistureproof layer (12) and another end of the moistureproof layer (12). Each of the wavy recessed patterns (7a, 7b, and 7c) is recessed and is configured to change a direction in which a crack having appeared in the edge part of the moistureproof layer (12) advances.

Abstract: A method for positioning a welding clamp includes: a first step of determining a reference clamp position on a first workpiece (STEP 2); a second step of determining a first workpiece state in welding and determining the presence or absence of a site having a deflection larger than a predetermined deflection amount in the first workpiece (STEPs 3 to 5); and a third step of, if the second step determines the presence, determining the site as an additional clamp position (STEP 6). The method suitably determines a limited number of clamp positions that cause no welding target workpiece deflection exceeding the predetermined deflection amount by repeating the second step and the third step until the second step determines the absence.

Abstract: The present invention provides a mirror display that exhibits non-deteriorated display quality in a display mode and is capable of adjusting the color of reflected light in a mirror mode.

Abstract: Disclosed is a display device including: a display panel 40 including an element substrate 20 having a first resin substrate 10a over which a first underlayer film 11a and a plurality of switching elements are provided, and a counter substrate 30 having a second resin substrate 10b on which a second underlayer film 11b is provided; and a functional sheet 45 bonded to a surface, of the display panel 40, close to the counter substrate 30. The display device has a curved portion C in which the display panel 40 is able to be curved at a predetermined radius of curvature, and a pair of flat portions between which the curved portion C is interposed and a predetermined angle is formed, and in which the display panel 40 is held flatly. The functional sheet 45 is bonded such that the curved portion C is able to be maintained at the predetermined radius of curvature.

Abstract: The present invention provides a mirror display that can be enlarged without quality deterioration. The mirror display includes, in the order from a viewing surface side, a half mirror plate including a reflective polarizer, a polarization conversion layer, and a display device including an absorptive polarizer on a side of the polarization conversion layer. The reflective polarizer includes a transmission axis parallel to the longitudinal direction of the display device and is jointless. The absorptive polarizer includes a transmission axis perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the display device and is jointless. The polarization conversion layer is configured to convert the polarization of polarized light passed through the absorptive polarizer.

Abstract: One aspect of the present invention provides a touch panel-equipped mirror display that can reduce distortion and ghosting in mirror images while also reducing the rainbow effect in displayed images. The touch panel-equipped mirror display according to one aspect of the present invention includes, in order from a rear side: a display device that includes a polarizer; a touch panel; and a mirror plate that includes a reflective polarizer and a substrate, wherein the reflective polarizer and the substrate are fixed together, and wherein the touch panel does not create a phase difference in light. It is preferable that the substrate be a glass substrate with a thickness of greater than or equal to 0.1 mm and less than or equal to 0.4 mm.

Abstract: An optical fiber cutting apparatus includes a body portion on which an optical fiber is mounted, a cover member that is rotatably connected to the body portion and fixes the optical fiber between the body portion and the cover member by rotating toward the body portion, a blade member configured to form a flaw on a glass fiber portion of the optical fiber which is fixed, and a holding member mounted on the body portion, the holding member configured to hold the blade member. The cover member presses the holding member and thereby the blade member imparts an arc movement to form the flaw on the glass fiber portion.

Abstract: The present invention provides a mirror display that enables simultaneous perception of a mirror image and an image with suppressed uncomfortable feeling. The mirror display of the present invention includes a half mirror plate including a half mirror layer, and a display device. The display device is disposed on the back surface side of the half mirror plate. The distance between a display surface of the display device and a display surface of the half mirror plate is not smaller than 100 mm. The half mirror layer preferably includes a reflective polarizer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a mirror display system that enables simultaneous perception of a mirror image and a video image with suppressed uncomfortable feeling. The mirror display system of the present invention includes a half mirror plate including a half mirror layer; a 3D display device; and a control unit being configured to supply a video signal to the 3D display device. The 3D display device is disposed on the back surface side of the half mirror plate and is configured to display, by the video signal, a video image for the left eye and a video image for the right eye that give a parallax on a display surface of the 3D display device. The parallax is set such that a fused video image of the video image for the left eye and the video image for the right eye is perceived on the back surface side behind the display surface of the 3D display device.

Abstract: The present invention provides a mirror display which prevents the boundary line between a frame region and a display region from being observed in a mirror mode and which thus has improved design quality. The mirror display of the present invention includes a half mirror plate including a half mirror layer, and a display device disposed behind the half mirror plate, the display device including a display panel and a frame component that supports a peripheral portion of the display panel, and the mirror display including a reflectance adjuster that makes equal the reflectance in a display region where the half mirror layer and the display panel face each other and the reflectance in a frame region where the half mirror layer and the frame component face each other.