Abstract: A light source detector detects, from a vehicle, a light source that exists outside the vehicle. A light reactive sheet is arranged in a planar form and is located in front of the driver driving the vehicle. The light reactive sheet changes color in response to light having a specific frequency. A light source position calculating unit calculates a light source position on the surface of the light reactive sheet based on output of the light source detector. A light emitter emits light having the specific frequency from the inside of the vehicle to the light reactive sheet based on the calculated light source position.

Abstract: To provide a coating composition with which a coating film excellent in the moisture resistance, the weather resistance and the corrosion resistance can be formed by a single application and removal of an organic solvent, a method for producing such a coating film, and a coated article having a coating film obtainable by it. A coating composition comprising an organic solvent, a coating resin soluble or dispersible in the organic solvent, and a leafing aluminum pigment, wherein the surface tension of the organic solvent at 20° C. is from 10 to 22 mN/m, and a method for producing a coating film, which comprises applying the coating composition to a substrate, and removing the organic solvent in the coating composition.

Abstract: To provide a water/oil repellent composition which is excellent in the stability as a working liquid and the water repellency whereby the occurrence of scum having a high adhesion is low, to provide its production process and to provide an article of which the surface is treated with the water/oil repellent composition whereby the occurrence of dirt is suppressed. A water/oil repellent composition which comprises a nonionic surfactant having a melting point of from 50° C. to 70° C., a fluorinated copolymer (for example, a copolymer of a (meth)acrylate having a C6 perfluoroalkyl group) and a medium containing water.

Abstract: An irradiation system includes: a light position detection unit that detects a light position of an oncoming vehicle from a captured image; a driver position calculation unit that calculates a position upward and shifted in a first direction by a first distance from the light position detected by the light position detection unit, as a driver position; a shaded area generation unit that generates a first area having vertices respectively set at the light position, the driver position and a position shifted in a second direction, opposite to the first direction, by a distance between a pair of lights in the predetermined vehicle from the driver position, as a shaded area; and an irradiation unit that irradiates an area ahead of the host vehicle while shading the shaded area generated by the shaded area generation unit.

Abstract: An illumination system includes: a light irradiation unit that projects light toward a predetermined illumination area; an image acquisition unit that acquires an image of the illumination area; an object detecting unit that detects a shading object based on image information of the illumination area, acquired by the image acquisition unit; an information generating unit that generates the control information for setting each of the plurality of reflecting mirrors to an on state or an off state such that a plurality of irradiation patterns are alternately irradiated, each of the plurality of irradiation patterns having different arrangement of the dark pixels and the light pixels from each other; and an irradiation control unit that controls the light irradiation unit based on the generated control information.

Abstract: When occurrence of a failure associated with light distribution control has been detected during high beam irradiation, a low beam irradiation direction is changed upward and then the high beam irradiation is stopped, and subsequently the low beam irradiation direction is gradually returned downward. The time during high beam irradiation includes the time during which variable high beam light distribution control in which part of high beam light is shielded by a shade is being executed.

Abstract: An irradiation apparatus includes a shielded object detecting unit, an illumination setting unit, an irradiating device, and an illumination controlling unit. The shielded object detecting unit detects a shielded object. Glare is allowable to the shielded object at an upper limit of illumination brightness or less. A driver can visually recognize the shielded object at an lower limit of the illumination brightness or more. The illumination setting unit sets the illumination brightness based on the upper limit and the lower limit of the illumination brightness. The illumination controlling unit controls the irradiating device such that light is emitted in a predetermined irradiation pattern in which a first part of the shielded object is illuminated at the illumination brightness set by the illumination setting unit and a second part of the shielded object is illuminated at a higher illumination brightness than that of the first part.

Abstract: To provide a method for producing a fluorinated copolymer solution having good storage stability and having good dryability of a coating film when made into a coating composition. A monomer mixture comprising a fluoro-olefin (A), a monomer (B) having a crosslinkable group and a monomer (C) having no fluorine atom and no crosslinkable group, is polymerized in the presence of an organic solvent and a compound having a piperidyl group represented by the formula (1), wherein the molar ratio of the total molar amount of piperidyl groups contained in the compound having a piperidyl group to the total molar amount of monomers in the monomer mixture, is from 0.00105 to 0.00380: In the formula (1), each of R1, R2, R3 and R4 which are independent of one another, is a hydrogen atom, a methyl group or a hydroxy group, and Y is a hydrogen atom, an oxy radical group, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an aryl group or a hydroxy group.

Abstract: When occurrence of a failure associated with light distribution control has been detected during high beam irradiation, a low beam irradiation direction is changed upward and then the high beam irradiation is stopped, and subsequently the low beam irradiation direction is gradually returned downward. The time during high beam irradiation includes the time during which variable high beam light distribution control in which part of high beam light is shielded by a shade is being executed.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a photocurable fluorinated copolymer composition which is uniform and excellent in transparency, and a coating film layer obtainable by using it, is excellent in heat resistance and abrasion resistance and exhibits a particularly excellent weather resistance performance. The photocurable fluorinated copolymer composition comprises a specific fluorinated copolymer (A), a specific hydrolysable silane compound (B), an epoxy resin (C) having a cyclohexane ring structure, and a photoreaction initiator (D).

Abstract: To provide a coating composition for back coating, by which, in a solar heat-collecting reflector, a cured coating film layer excellent in durability such as heat resistance or water resistance and excellent in weather resistance, scratch resistance and impact resistance, can be formed, and a solar heat-collecting reflector having such a cured coating film layer. A coating composition for back coating to be used for the production of a solar heat-collecting reflector, which comprises a fluoropolymer (A) having units (A1) derived from a fluoroolefin and units (A2) having a crosslinkable group. A solar heat-collecting reflector having a cured coating film layer formed by the coating composition.

Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide a process for producing a hydrolyzable silyl group-containing fluoropolymer which is excellent in storage stability and has a sufficient pot life. At the time of producing a hydrolyzable silyl group-containing fluoropolymer by reacting an isocyanate group of an isocyanate group-containing alkoxysilane to a hydroxy group of a hydroxy group-containing fluoropolymer, the reaction is carried out in the presence a compound containing a specific metal atom at a certain concentration.

Abstract: A composition for a coating agent including a component A and a component B, wherein the proportion of component A is 10-90 mass % to the total content of component A and component B, wherein component A is a fluoropolymer containing units (A1) based on a fluoroolefin and units (A2) having a compound of formula (1) reacted with units based on a hydroxy group-containing monomer: OCN(CH2)mSiXnR3-n (1) (wherein R is a hydrogen atom or a C1-10 monovalent hydrocarbon group, X is a C1-5 alkoxy group, n is an integer of 1 to 3, and m is an integer of 1 to 5), wherein component B is a compound of formula (2) and/or a partially hydrolyzed condensate of the compound of formula (2): (R1)4-aSi(OR2)a (2) (wherein each of R1 and R2 are independently a C1-10 monovalent hydrocarbon group, and a is an integer of 1 to 4).

Abstract: To provide a coating composition for back coating, by which, in a solar heat-collecting reflector, a cured coating film layer excellent in durability such as heat resistance or water resistance and excellent in weather resistance, scratch resistance and impact resistance, can be formed, and a solar heat-collecting reflector having such a cured coating film layer. A coating composition for back coating to be used for the production of a solar heat-collecting reflector, which comprises a fluoropolymer (A) having units (A1) derived from a fluoroolefin and units (A2) having a crosslinkable group. A solar heat-collecting reflector having a cured coating film layer formed by the coating composition.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a coating composition for surface coating capable of forming a cured coating film layer that protects a reflective substrate of a solar heat-collecting reflective plate and that is excellent in the impact resistance and the weather resistance such as the heat resistance and the water resistance, as well as a solar heat-collecting reflective plate having such a cured coating film layer, and a process for its production. A coating composition for surface coating to be used for the production of a solar heat-collecting reflective plate having a reflective substrate made of metal, which comprises a fluoropolymer (A) having units (A1) derived from a fluoroolefin and units (A2) having a crosslinkable group. Further, a solar heat-collecting reflective plate having a cured coating film layer formed from the coating composition for surface coating, and a process for its production.

Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide a process for producing a hydrolyzable silyl group-containing fluoropolymer which is excellent in storage stability and has a sufficient pot life. At the time of producing a hydrolyzable silyl group-containing fluoropolymer by reacting an isocyanate group of an isocyanate group-containing alkoxysilane to a hydroxy group of a hydroxy group-containing fluoropolymer, the reaction is carried out in the presence a compound containing a specific metal atom at a certain concentration.

Abstract: To provide a photocurable fluorinated polymer composition which has a high curing rate, shows little shrinkage before and after photocuring and requires no post treatment such as heat treatment after photocuring and whereby it is possible to obtain a cured resin excellent in heat resistance and weather resistance. According to the photocurable fluorinated polymer composition comprising a fluorinated polymer (A) containing polymerized units derived from a fluoroolefin and polymerized units derived from an unsaturated monomer having an oxetanyl group or a substituted oxetanyl group, and a photoreaction initiator (B), of the present invention, it is possible to provide a photocurable fluorinated polymer composition which has a high curing rate, shows little shrinkage before and after photocuring and requires no post treatment such as heat treatment after photocuring and whereby it is possible to obtain a cured resin excellent in heat resistance and weather resistance.

Abstract: A laminated sheet comprising a woven or nonwoven fabric comprising glass fibers fixed by a binder, and a fluororesin film laminated on each other, wherein the binder contains a copolymer (A) having repeating units (a1) based on at least one fluoromonomer selected from the group consisting of tetrafluoroethylene, chlorotrifluoroethylene and hexafluoropropylene, and repeating units (a2) based on at least one non-fluoromonomer selected from the group consisting of a vinyl ether, a vinyl ester, an isopropenyl ether, an isopropenyl ester, an allyl ether and an allyl ester.

Abstract: To provide a lightweight and highly productive backsheet for a solar cell module, wherein a cured coating film layer of a fluoropolymer coating material formed on one or each side of a substrate sheet is free from problems such as cracking, fracturing, whitening and separation. A back sheet for a solar cell, comprising a substrate sheet and a cured coating film layer of a coating material formed on one side or each side of the substrate sheet, said coating material comprising a fluoropolymer (A) having repeating units based on a fluoroolefin (a), repeating units based on a crosslinkable group-containing monomer (b) and repeating units based on an alkyl group-containing monomer (c) wherein a C2-20 linear or branched alkyl group having no quaternary carbon atom, and a polymerizable unsaturated group are linked to each other by an ether bond or ester bond; and a solar cell module using such a backsheet.

Abstract: To provide a composition for a coating agent capable of forming a coating film excellent in the weather resistance, having high uniformity and having favorable gloss on the surface. A composition for a coating agent, which comprises a fluoropolymer (component A) containing units (A2) having a compound represented by the following formula (1) reacted with units based on a hydroxy group-containing monomer and units (A1) based on a fluoroolefin, and component B represented by the following formula (2), wherein the proportion of the component A is from 10 to 90 mass % to the total content of the component A and the component B: OCN(CH2)mSiXnR3-n??(1) wherein R is a hydrogen atom or a monovalent hydrocarbon group, X is an alkoxy group, n is an integer of from 1 to 3, and m is an integer of from 1 to 5, (R1)4-aSi(OR2)a??(2) wherein each of R1 and R2 which are independent of each other, is a monovalent hydrocarbon group, and “a” is an integer of from 1 to 4.