Abstract: An image forming apparatus which is capable of canceling jobs upon a lapse of a predetermined time period depending on types of the jobs. Whether or not to cancel a job is determined with respect to each type of jobs. When occurrence of an error related to printing is detected during printing of a job, the job is suspended. When a time period of grace set in advance has elapsed since the job was suspended, the suspended job is canceled in a case where a setting to perform cancellation is made for a type of the suspended job.

Abstract: Sufficiently sharp directivity can be secured with a simple configuration in a configuration that improves the efficiency of utilizing the light exiting from a primary light source using a reflective polarizing plate. A backlight unit (2) supplies light exiting from an exit surface of a light guide plate (12) to a liquid-crystal display panel (3) via a reflective polarizing plate (16) after correcting directivity of the exiting light using a prism sheet (14) having a downwardly convex shape. A ¼-wavelength plate (15) is provided between the prism sheet (14) and the reflective polarizing plate (16), between the prism sheet (14) and the light guide plate, or between the light guide plate and a reflective sheet disposed on a surface of the light guide plate opposite to the prism sheet (14).

Abstract: Provided is an electroconductive film including a base material film provided with a light transmissive base material (20), and one or more functional layers laminated on a single or both sides of the light transmissive base material; a transparent electroconductive layer, which is provided on the functional layer, and patterned; and a lead-out electrode electrically connected with the transparent electroconductive layer; wherein when the base material film is irradiated with light from a surface side of the functional layer while an incidence angle is varied every five degrees in a range of 5° or more and 75° or less to determine a* and b* values of the base material film in a L*a*b* color system from reflected light toward each regular reflection direction, a variation of the a* values is 1.0 or less, and a variation of the b* values is 3.0 or less.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus capable of canceling a job after the lapse of a time period appropriately set on an error factor basis. A CPU detects occurrence of an error in printing and a factor of the error. A job control processing module suspends a job at which occurrence of an error is detected. A printing processing module sets a grace period according to an error factor of the detected error. When the grace period elapses after the job is suspended, the job control processing module cancels the suspended job.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus which is capable of canceling jobs upon a lapse of a predetermined time period depending on types of the jobs. Whether or not to cancel a job is determined with respect to each type of jobs. When occurrence of an error related to printing is detected during printing of a job, the job is suspended. When a time period of grace set in advance has elapsed since the job was suspended, the suspended job is canceled in a case where a setting to perform cancellation is made for a type of the suspended job.

Abstract: The present invention provides a polarizer excellent in transmittance even if it includes a light-transmitting substrate having no in-plane phase difference. The present invention relates to a polarizer configured to be disposed on a backlight source side in an image display device, the polarizer including at least a light-transmitting substrate having in-plane birefringence and a polarizing element layered in said order from the backlight source side, the light-transmitting substrate receiving incidence of polarized light, the light-transmitting substrate and the polarizing element being layered such that a fast axis of the light-transmitting substrate along a direction in which the substrate shows a smaller refractive index and a transmission axis of the polarizing element form an angle of 0°±30° or 90°±30°.

Abstract: There is provided an intermediate base material film including: a transparent base material; a transparent layer having a refractive index of from 1.47 to 1.57 and a film thickness of 1 ?m or more; a high-refractive-index layer having a refractive index of from 1.62 to 1.72 and a film thickness of from 20 nm to 80 nm; and a low-refractive-index layer having a refractive index of from 1.44 to 1.54 and a film thickness from of 3 nm to 45 nm, wherein when the intermediate base material film is irradiated with light to determine a* and b* values in a L*a*b* color system from reflected light toward each regular reflection direction, a variation of the a* values is 1.0 or less, and a variation of the b* values is 1.6 or less.

Abstract: Provided is an ion implantation method of transporting ions generated by an ion source to a wafer and implanting the ions into the wafer by irradiating an ion beam on the wafer, including, during the ion implantation into the wafer, using a plurality of detection units which can detect an event having a possibility of discharge and determining a state of the ion beam based on existence of detected event having a possibility of discharge and a degree of influence of the event on the ion beam.

Abstract: A print unit configured to print an image on a sheet; an operation unit configured to accept an instruction from a user; a control unit configured to cause printing by the print unit to stop based on acceptance of a print stop instruction via the operation unit, and to cause printing by the print unit to resume based on acceptance of a print resume instruction via the operation unit; and an acquisition unit configured to acquire a number of copies printed from when the print unit started printing to when printing is stopped by the control unit are comprised. The control unit, after causing printing by the print unit to resume, causes printing by the print unit to stop based on the number of copies that the acquisition unit acquired.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a liquid crystal display device highly suppressing occurrence of rainbow interference pattern in displayed images. The present invention is a liquid crystal display device including: a back light source, a liquid crystal cell, a color filter, a polarizer, and a polarizer protective film arranged in the stated order, wherein the polarizer protective film has a retardation of not less than 6000 nm, and a difference (nx?ny) of not less than 0.05 between a refractive index (nx) in a slow axis direction that is a highest refractive index direction and a refractive index (ny) in a fast axis direction that is orthogonal to the slow axis direction, and an absorption axis of the polarizer and the slow axis of the polarizer protective film are arranged to form an angle within a range of 0°±30° or 90°±30°.

Abstract: Provided is an antiglare film having a hard coat property, capable of highly suppressing generation of a rainbow interference pattern and interference fringes in display images, preventing white muddiness and scintillation of a display screen, while giving high contrast in a bright room and a dark room. The antiglare film includes an antiglare layer having an uneven form on its surface and formed on one face of a transparent substrate having an in-plane birefringence and a retardation of 3000 nm or higher. The antiglare layer contains silica fine particles, organic fine particles, and a binder resin. The silica particles include particles forming agglomerates to be contained coarsely and densely in the antiglare layer. The agglomerates are distributed densely around the organic fine particles, and some agglomerates adhere to surfaces of the organic particles and/or some silica particles are impregnated in the inside of the organic particles.

Abstract: A curable resin composition for a hard coat layer capable of forming a hard coat layer having high hardness even with thin thickness and/or excellent in abrasion resistance and hardness, and a hard coat film using the curable resin composition.

Abstract: There is provided a polarizing plate including: a polarizer; and a light transmissive film with a birefringent property in a plane, disposed on one surface of the polarizer, wherein the light transmissive film satisfies a relationship of the following expression (1): nx>N>ny??(1) where a refractive index in a slow-axis direction which is a direction with a greatest refractive index in a plane of the light transmissive film is nx, a refractive index in a fast-axis direction which is a direction orthogonal to the slow-axis direction in the plane is ny, and an average refractive index of the light transmissive film is N; and wherein the polarizer and the light transmissive film are placed so that both fast-axis direction of the light transmissive film and absorption-axis direction of the polarizer are along a horizontal direction.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a liquid crystal display device highly suppressing occurrence of rainbow interference pattern in displayed images. The present invention is a liquid crystal display device including: a back light source, a liquid crystal cell, a color filter, a polarizer, and a polarizer protective film arranged in the stated order, wherein the polarizer protective film has a retardation of not less than 6000 nm, and a difference (nx?ny) of not less than 0.05 between a refractive index (nx) in a slow axis direction that is a highest refractive index direction and a refractive index (ny) in a fast axis direction that is orthogonal to the slow axis direction, and an absorption axis of the polarizer and the slow axis of the polarizer protective film are arranged to form an angle within a range of 0°±30° or 90°±30°.

Abstract: In an inkjet printer, a cap part for receiving ink from a head unit during maintenance includes a liquid receiving part and an exhaust part disposed laterally to the liquid receiving part. In the liquid receiving part, a second liquid receiving chamber is disposed further from the exhaust part than is a first liquid receiving part. A second flow path is disposed below the first liquid receiving chamber without passing through the first liquid receiving chamber. In the exhaust part, a first fan part is connected to the first liquid receiving chamber, and a second fan part is connected to the second liquid receiving chamber through the second flow path. Accordingly, it is possible to appropriately exhaust a gas contained within the second liquid receiving chamber, independently of the first liquid receiving chamber. Consequently, a mist in the liquid receiving part can be discharged efficiently.

Abstract: On the basis of the type of a preceding job, it is decided whether or not to continue double-sided circulation between the preceding job and a subsequent job. A printing apparatus executes, based on a type of a first job, a first printing process in which, after an image has been printed on a first side and a second side of a sheet by executing the first job, an image starts to be printed on a sheet by executing a second job to be executed following the first job, and a second printing process in which, after an image has been printed on a first side of a sheet by executing the first job and before an image is printed on a second side of the sheet, an image starts to be printed on a sheet of the second job to be executed following the first job.

Abstract: An inkjet printer includes a cleaning unit to be brought into contact with a head lower surface of an ejection head, and a unit movement mechanism for moving the cleaning unit. The cleaning unit includes a base part, a cleaning liquid ejecting part protruding above the base part, and a pair of positioning parts. The positioning parts are brought into contact with a block lower surface of a head fixation block on opposite sides of the cleaning liquid ejecting part to keep an under-head gap for holding the cleaning liquid between the cleaning liquid ejecting part and the head lower surface. Since the positioning parts are spaced from the cleaning liquid ejecting part, it is possible to prevent the cleaning liquid that has spread from the under-head gap to the surrounding area from adhering to the block lower surface via the positioning parts.

Abstract: Provided is an electroconductive film including a base material film provided with a light transmissive base material (20), and one or more functional layers laminated on a single or both sides of the light transmissive base material; a transparent electroconductive layer, which is provided on the functional layer, and patterned; and a lead-out electrode electrically connected with the transparent electroconductive layer; wherein when the base material film is irradiated with light from a surface side of the functional layer while an incidence angle is varied every five degrees in a range of 5° or more and 75° or less to determine a* and b* values of the base material film in a L*a*b* color system from reflected light toward each regular reflection direction, a variation of the a* values is 1.0 or less, and a variation of the b* values is 3.0 or less.

Abstract: An optical sheet including a body portion, unit optical elements arranged on one surface of the body portion, and an uneven coating having an uneven surface with micro-protrusions, provided on the other surface of the body portion. When the hardness He of the optical element surface Pe and the hardness Hm of the uneven coating surface Pm are evaluated in terms of the pencil hardness measured in accordance with JIS K5600-5-4 (1999) (load: 1000 g; speed: 1 mm/s), the hardness Hm is not less than the hardness He (hardness Hm?hardness He) and the hardness Hm is preferably not less than F. Further, the hardness He and the hardness Hm preferably satisfy the following relation: hardness He+3?hardness Hm?hardness He+2 wherein the expression “He+1” indicates a hardness harder than He by one unit on the pencil hardness scale.

Abstract: Sufficiently sharp directivity can be secured with a simple configuration in a configuration that improves the efficiency of utilizing the light exiting from a primary light source using a reflective polarizing plate. A backlight unit (2) supplies light exiting from an exit surface of a light guide plate (12) to a liquid-crystal display panel (3) via a reflective polarizing plate (16) after correcting directivity of the exiting light using a prism sheet (14) having a downwardly convex shape. A ¼-wavelength plate (15) is provided between the prism sheet (14) and the reflective polarizing plate (16), between the prism sheet (14) and the light guide plate, or between the light guide plate and a reflective sheet disposed on a surface of the light guide plate opposite to the prism sheet (14).