Abstract: A touch panel includes: a first electrode in which second-direction parallel bands having a plurality of conducting wires disposed to extend in parallel with one another and along a second direction intersecting with a first direction are formed repeatedly in the first direction with interposition of first-direction gaps in the first direction, and first-direction cross bands having conducting wires disposed to extend in the first direction and intersect with the second-direction parallel bands are formed repeatedly in the second direction; and a second electrode in which first-direction parallel bands are formed as defined herein, and second-direction cross bands are formed as defined herein, and the first electrode and the second electrode are laid on each other so that the second-direction cross bands correspond to positions of the first-direction gaps and the first-direction cross bands correspond to positions of the second-direction gaps.

Abstract: A formed body having a curved surface, a method of producing the formed body, a front cover for a vehicle lighting device, and a method of producing the front cover. A front cover for a vehicle lighting device, mounted to a front opening in a vehicle lighting device having a lamp body and a light source which is provided in the lamp body, wherein a heat generating body is provided in a substantially rectangular region of that surface of the front cover which faces the light source. The heat generating body maintains the relationship of Ra =(2 R0), where R0 is the electric resistance value (initial value) of the heat generating body before the heat generating body is elongated and Ra is the electric resistance value of the heat generating body after the heat generating body is elongated 5%.

Abstract: A heat generating body has a first electrode and a second electrode arranged opposed to each other, and also has a mesh-like electrically conductive membrane (mesh-like pattern) mounted in a curved surface shape between the first electrode and the second electrode. The first electrode and the second electrode are arranged so as to satisfy the relationship of (Lmax?Lmin)/((Lmax+Lmin)/2)=0.375, where Lmin is a minimum value of the distance between two opposite points which are on the first and second electrodes and on the electrically conductive membrane and Lmax is a maximum value of the distance.

Abstract: A touch panel includes: a first electrode in which second-direction parallel bands having a plurality of conducting wires disposed to extend in parallel with one another and along a second direction intersecting with a first direction are formed repeatedly in the first direction with interposition of first-direction gaps in the first direction, and first-direction cross bands having conducting wires disposed to extend in the first direction and intersect with the second-direction parallel bands are formed repeatedly in the second direction; and a second electrode in which first-direction parallel bands are formed as defined herein, and second-direction cross bands are formed as defined herein, and the first electrode and the second electrode are laid on each other so that the second-direction cross bands correspond to positions of the first-direction gaps and the first-direction cross bands correspond to positions of the second-direction gaps.

Abstract: A front cover for a vehicle lighting fixture is attached to the front opening part of the vehicle lighting fixture having a lamp body and a light source installed in the lamp body. A part of the surface of the front cover opposed to the light source includes a heating element having a three-dimensional curved surface. The heating element includes a mesh pattern having intersections of a large number of grids formed of conductive metallic filaments and a first electrode and a second electrode formed at both opposed ends of the mesh pattern. The projection shape of the outline of the entire mesh pattern is formed in a rectangular shape having the longitudinal direction, for example, between the first electrode and the second electrode.

Abstract: An optically-compensatory film comprising: a cyclic polyolefin film satisfying expression (I); and a cellulose acylate film satisfying expressions (II) and (III), or a liquid-crystal display device comprising at least one cyclic polyolefin film satisfying expression (I) and at least one cellulose acylate film satisfying expressions (II) and (III): 35?Re(630)?350 and 70?Rth(630)?400,??(I) 0?Re(630)?10 and |Rth(630)|?25, and??(II) |Re(400)?Re(700)|?10 and |Rth(400)?Rth(700)|?35,??(III) wherein Re(?) represents an in-plane retardation value (unit: nm) at a wavelength of ? nm; and Rth(?) represents a thickness-direction retardation value at a wavelength of ? nm.

Abstract: A formed body having a curved surface, a method of producing the formed body, a front cover for a vehicle lighting device, and a method of producing the front cover. A front cover (10) for a vehicle lighting device, mounted to a front opening in a vehicle lighting device (16) having a lamp body (12) and a light source (14) which is provided in the lamp body (12), wherein a heat generating body (20) is provided in a substantially rectangular region of that surface of the front cover which faces the light source (14). The heat generating body (20) maintains the relationship of Ra=(2 R0), where R0 is the electric resistance value (initial value) of the heat generating body (20) before the heat generating body is elongated and Ra is the electric resistance value of the heat generating body (20) after the heat generating body is elongated 5%.

Abstract: A cellulose acylate film is provided and is excellent in increasability of an in-plane retardation and a retardation in a thickness direction, from which an additive does not bleed out, and which is excellent in surface properties. The cellulose acylate film has a thickness of 40 ?m to 180 ?m and contains no retardation increasing agent. Retardation values Re and Rth of the cellulose acylate film meet the following formulae (III) to (V): 46?Re?100??(III) Rth=a?5.9Re??(IV) 520?a?670??(V) A polarizing plate and a VA mode liquid crystal display having wide viewing angle characteristics and small changes in color, which are using the cellulose acylate film, are provided.

Abstract: A heat generating body has a first electrode and a second electrode arranged opposed to each other, and also has a mesh-like electrically conductive membrane (mesh-like pattern) mounted in a curved surface shape between the first electrode and the second electrode. The first electrode and the second electrode are arranged so as to satisfy the relationship of (Lmax?Lmin)/((Lmax+Lmin)/2)=0.375, where Lmin is a minimum value of the distance between two opposite points which are on the first and second electrodes and on the electrically conductive membrane and Lmax is a maximum value of the distance.

Abstract: A front cover for a vehicle lighting fixture is attached to the front opening part of the vehicle lighting fixture having a lamp body and a light source installed in the lamp body. A part of the surface of the front cover opposed to the light source includes a heating element having a three-dimensional curved surface. The heating element includes a mesh pattern having intersections of a large number of grids formed of conductive metallic filaments and a first electrode and a second electrode formed at both opposed ends of the mesh pattern. The projection shape of the outline of the entire mesh pattern is formed in a rectangular shape having the longitudinal direction, for example, between the first electrode and the second electrode.

Abstract: A process for producing a cellulose acylate film comprising: casting a solution of a cellulose acylate having an acyl substitution degree of from 2.85 to 3.00 dissolved in at least one organic solvent onto an endless metal support; cooling the solution at 0° C. to ?50° C. to effect gelation, so as to form a film; peeling the film off from the endless metal support; and drying the film.

Abstract: To provide an optical film which exhibits excellent retardation values both in the film plane and along the direction perpendicular to the film plane and shows little change in retardation values depending on environmental factors such as humidity, a liquid crystal display showing little change in viewing angle characteristics due to an environmental (humidity) change, and a polarizing plate to be used in the liquid crystal display, the cellulose acylate contains a cellulose acylate which is a mixed fatty acid ester of a cellulose and satisfies formulae specified in the specification, and a polarizing plate and a liquid crystal display using this cellulose acylate film.

Abstract: A cellulose acylate film is provided and includes a cellulose acylate as a polymer component. The cellulose acylate is a fatty acid ester of cellulose, obtained by substituting a hydroxyl group of cellulose with an acetyl group or an acyl group with 3 or more carbon atoms. The cellulose acylate film is a film stretched substantially by 10% or more in a casting direction or in a transversal direction to the casting direction, the film having a linear thermal expansion rate D(MD) in a casting direction (machine direction) and a linear thermal expansion rate D(TD) in a transversal direction to casting direction (i.e., perpendicular direction to casting direction) in a specified relationship. A polarizing plate utilizing such film and a liquid crystal display equipped with such polarizing plate are provided.

Abstract: A cellulose acylate film for optics having an in-plane retardation Re (?) of 46?Re (630)?200, a retardation in a film thickness direction Rth (?) of 70?Rth (630)?350 and a thickness variation between every 10 mm in a breadth direction of 0.6 ?m or less.

Abstract: An optically-compensatory film comprising: a cyclic polyolefin film satisfying expression (I); and a cellulose acylate film satisfying expressions (II) and (III), or a liquid-crystal display device comprising at least one cyclic polyolefin film satisfying expression (I) and at least one cellulose acylate film satisfying expressions (II) and (III): 35?Re(630)?350 and 70?Rth(630)?400, ??(I) 0?Re(630)?10 and |Rth(630)|?25, and ??(II) |Re(400)?Re(700)|?10 and |Rth(400)?Rth(700)|?35, ??(III) wherein Re(?) represents an in-plane retardation value (unit:nm) at a wavelength of ? nm; and Rth(?) represents a thickness-direction retardation value at a wavelength of ? nm.

Abstract: An aim of the invention is to provide an optically-compensatory sheet having little change of optical characteristics with ambient temperature and humidity and a high degree of freedom of design of in-plane retardation Re and thickness-direction retardation Rth, and to provide a polarizing plate and a liquid crystal display device having such an excellent optically-compensatory sheet. An optically-compensatory sheet comprises an optically anisotropic layer laminated on a base film containing a cyclic olefin-based addition polymer. A polarizing plate comprises a polarizer and two sheets of protective films disposed on the respective side thereof, wherein at least one of the two sheets of protective films is an optically-compensatory sheet. A liquid crystal display device comprises at least one sheet of the polarizing plate.

Abstract: A cellulose acylate film is provided and is excellent in increasability of an in-plane retardation and a retardation in a thickness direction, from which an additive does not bleed out, and which is excellent in surface properties. The cellulose acylate film has a thickness of 40 ?m to 180 ?m and contains no retardation increasing agent. Retardation values Re and Rth of the cellulose acylate film meet the following formulae (III) to (V): 46?Re?100??(III) Rth=a?5.9Re??(IV) 520?a?670??(V) A polarizing plate and a VA mode liquid crystal display having wide viewing angle characteristics and small changes in color, which are using the cellulose acylate film, are provided.

Abstract: To provide a cellulose acylate film which exhibits excellent retardation values both in the film plane and along the direction perpendicular to the film plane, and undergoes less change in the retardation values by environmental humidity, and a polarizing plate using this film, a polarizing plate using the film, and a liquid crystal display undergoing less change in viewing angle characteristics, the cellulose acylate film satisfies formulae (I), (II), (V) and (VI), wherein Re(630) and Rth(630) is defined in the specification: 2.00?DS2+DS3+DS6?3.00??(I) DS6/(DS2+DS3+DS6)?0.

Abstract: To provide an optical film which exhibits excellent retardation values both in the film plane and along the direction perpendicular to the film plane and shows little change in retardation values depending on environmental factors such as humidity, a liquid crystal display showing little change in viewing angle characteristics due to an environmental (humidity) change, and a polarizing plate to be used in the liquid crystal display, the cellulose acylate contains a cellulose acylate which is a mixed fatty acid ester of a cellulose and satisfies formulae specified in the specification, and a polarizing plate and a liquid crystal display using this cellulose acylate film.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a cartridge filter with the use of a hydrophilic microporous filter membrane excellent in chemical resistance which is appropriately usable in, for example, processes for producing semiconductors and drugs. A microfilter cartridge is described wherein a microporous filter membrane, membrane supports, a core, an outer cover and end-plates constituting the filter cartridge are all made of a polysulfone polymer.