Abstract: Method for producing an optical member, in which at least two optical substrates, of which at least either has a light shielding portion, are bonded to each other using an ultraviolet ray cured resin composition containing (A) a (meth)acrylate and (B) a photopolymerization initiator, an optical member obtained by the producing method, the use of an ultraviolet ray cured resin composition containing (A) a (meth)acrylate and (B) a photopolymerization initiator, and the ultraviolet ray cured resin composition. A bonded optical member causing little damage to an optical substrate, and exhibiting favorable productivity and excellent cure extent and adherence, for example, a touch panel or a display body unit having an optical substrate having a light shielding portion can be produced by the producing method of the present invention, and an optical member exhibiting high cure extent of resin at a light shielding portion and high reliability can be obtained.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an ultraviolet-curable adhesive to be used for laminating a first optical base material and a second optical base material having a light-shielding portion on a surface thereof to each other, the ultraviolet-curable adhesive containing (A) a specified compound represented by the following formula (1), (B) a photopolymerizable compound, and (C) a photopolymerization initiator; a cured product obtained by irradiating the adhesive with an ultraviolet ray; and an optical member having the cured product, such as a touch panel:

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing an optical member wherein an optical substrate having a light-blocking part on the surface is bonded to an optical substrate for bonding. The method for producing an optical member uses a UV-curable resin composition and comprises specific (Process 1) through (Process 3). The present invention also relates to the use of a UV-curable resin composition comprising a (meth)acrylate (A) and a photopolymerization initiator (B) for the production method, and a UV-curable resin composition. It is possible to produce a bonded optical member having good curability and adhesiveness, such as a touch panel or display unit having an optical substrate comprising a light-blocking part, with good productivity but with little damage to the optical substrate. It is thereby possible to obtain an optical member having a high degree of resin curing at the light-blocking part and high reliability.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing an optical member, in which at least two optical substrates, of which at least either has a light shielding portion, are bonded to each other using an ultraviolet ray cured resin composition containing (A) a (meth)acrylate and (B) a photopolymerization initiator, the method having specific Process 1 to Process 3, an optical member obtained by the producing method, the use of an ultraviolet ray cured resin composition containing (A) a (meth)acrylate and (B) a photopolymerization initiator, and the ultraviolet ray cured resin composition.

Abstract: A cell-image analyzing apparatus includes: a cell imaging system having an imaging optical system and an image sensor, for imaging cells that exist in a vessel; a cell-image analyzer for automatically analyzing a predetermined characteristic quantity on the cells using a cell image captured via the cell imaging system, upon delimiting cell regions; and a cell-contour emphasizing system for automatically emphasizing contour portions of images of the cells that exist in the vessel, which is arranged at a shot position of the cell imaging system.

Abstract: Provided is a cell observation apparatus and an observation method with which only an observation target cell in an region of interest is illuminated with illuminating light to prevent photobleaching of cells that are not the observation target.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an ultraviolet-curable adhesive to be used for laminating a first optical base material and a second optical base material having a light-shielding portion on a surface thereof to each other, the ultraviolet-curable adhesive containing (A) a specified compound represented by the following formula (1), (B) a photopolymerizable compound, and (C) a photopolymerization initiator; a cured product obtained by irradiating the adhesive with an ultraviolet ray; and an optical member having the cured product, such as a touch panel:

Abstract: The present invention relates to: an ultraviolet-curable adhesive to be used for laminating a first optical base material and a second optical base material having a light-shielding portion on a surface thereof to each other, the ultraviolet-curable adhesive comprising (A) an organic compound capable of absorbing an ultraviolet ray to emit light and having a specified light absorption wavelength and a specified light emission maximum wavelength, (B) a photopolymerizable compound, and (C) a photopolymerization initiator; a cured product obtained by irradiating the adhesive with an ultraviolet ray; and an optical member comprising the cured product, such as a touch panel.

Abstract: The present invention relates to: an ultraviolet-curable adhesive to be used for laminating a first optical base material and a second optical base material having a light-shielding portion on a surface thereof to each other, the ultraviolet-curable adhesive containing (A) a compound capable of absorbing an ultraviolet ray to emit light, (B) a photopolymerizable compound, and (C) a photopolymerization initiator; a cured product obtained by irradiating the adhesive with an ultraviolet ray; and an optical member having the cured product, such as a touch panel.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical member fabricated by laminating together at least two substrates by means of a cured product layer of an ultraviolet-curable resin composition containing (A) a (meth)acrylic polymer having a weight average molecule weight of 1,500 to 30,000, (B) a (meth)acrylate compound having a (meth)acrylic equivalent of 200 g/eq. or more and having at least two (meth)acryloyl groups, and (C) a photopolymerization initiator, and an ultraviolet-curable resin composition for laminating together at least two substrates, and is useful as an optical transparent adhesive exhibiting high curability, allowing for lesser shrinkage during curing, and being excellent in the transparency of the cured product as well as in the adhesiveness to a substrate and the flexibility.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing an optical member wherein an optical substrate having a light-blocking part on the surface is bonded to an optical substrate for bonding. The method for producing an optical member uses a UV-curable resin composition and comprises specific (Process 1) through (Process 3). The present invention also relates to the use of a UV-curable resin composition comprising a (meth)acrylate (A) and a photopolymerization initiator (B) for the production method, and a UV-curable resin composition. It is possible to produce a bonded optical member having good curability and adhesiveness, such as a touch panel or display unit having an optical substrate comprising a light-blocking part, with good productivity but with little damage to the optical substrate. It is thereby possible to obtain an optical member having a high degree of resin curing at the light-blocking part and high reliability.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing an optical member, in which at least two optical substrates, of which at least either has a light shielding portion, are bonded to each other using an ultraviolet ray cured resin composition containing (A) a (meth)acrylate and (B) a photopolymerization initiator, the method having specific Process 1 to Process 3, an optical member obtained by the producing method, the use of an ultraviolet ray cured resin composition containing (A) a (meth)acrylate and (B) a photopolymerization initiator, and the ultraviolet ray cured resin composition.

Abstract: A motor-operated microscope system has a motor-operated microscope section including an illumination optical system, an electric stage, an image forming optical system having an objective lens and an image forming lens, and an image pickup device; a housing; a control device having a screen display and an arithmetic processing section; and software displaying an operating condition setting screen of the motor-operated microscope section on the screen display and controlling an operation of the motor-operated microscope section in accordance with a set condition.

Abstract: An arbitrary entire region of a specimen, or a plurality of individual regions, is simultaneously stimulated without a time lag, or a strong stimulus is applied to an arbitrary region of a specimen. The invention provides a microscope apparatus including a first stimulation optical system having a galvanometer mirror that scans a specimen with first stimulus light, which applies an optical stimulus to a specimen, on the specimen; a second stimulation optical system which has a plurality of two-dimensionally arrayed movable mirrors and which switches the angle of each movable mirror so that second stimulus light, which applies an optical stimulus to the specimen, can be selectively deflected towards the specimen; and a dichroic mirror that combines a light path of the first stimulation optical system and a light path of the second stimulation optical system.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a multilayer optical disc having, as an intermediate layer, a cured product layer of an ultraviolet-curable resin composition containing an urethane (meth)acrylate (A) having one or two (meth)acrylate groups in one molecule obtained by reacting a monofunctional or bifunctional organic isocyanate (a) having a molecular weight of 350 or less with a mono(meth)acrylate (b) having a hydroxy group, a (meth)acrylate monomer (B) and a photopolymerization initiator (C), where the content of the (A) component is 5 to less than 40% by weight based on the total amount of the (A) component and the (B) component and the rest is (B), and to a resin composition for said cured product layer.

Abstract: In acquisition of an image of cells, a focal position is accurately set at highly active cells rather than focusing on dead cells. Provided is an automatic focusing apparatus (8) used in a microscope (1) that image captures fluorescence emitted from cells to acquire a cell image, the automatic focusing apparatus (8) including a setting unit (5) that sets a luminance range indicating a region where viable cells exist on the basis of a luminance distribution of the acquired cell image; and a focus-detecting unit that detects a focal position on the basis of a luminance of an image of nuclei of the cells within the luminance range set by the setting unit (5).

Abstract: An illumination apparatus that includes a plurality of LEDs of different center emission wavelengths, a photodetector, a path sharing device for introducing light emitted from the plurality of LEDs into the common optical path, a light-introducing device located on the common optical path to introduce part of the light emitted from the plurality of LEDs passing through the common optical path into the photodetector, a feedback controller controlling turning-on states of the LEDs over preset states in accordance with the amount of light emitted from the plurality of LEDs detected by the photodetector, and an illumination light supplying device located on the common optical path to supply light which is emitted from the plurality of LEDs to pass through the common optical path and is not introduced into the photodetector through the light-introducing device, as illumination light for a cellular analysis.

Abstract: Provided are an observation apparatus and an observation method that allow a state change of an observation target to be observed after image-acquisition is started. An observation apparatus 1 is employed which includes an optical microscope observation unit 20 that acquires images of a sample A, a cell-state determination section 43 that determines a state change of the sample A by comparing a plurality of the images acquired at time intervals by the optical microscope observation unit 20, an area extraction section 44 that extracts an area in which a state change is detected by the cell-state determination section 43, and a scanning microscope observation unit 30 that acquires an image of the area extracted by the area extraction section 44 at higher resolution than that acquired by the optical microscope observation unit 20.

Abstract: A sharp image showing a thin projecting part is acquired without using a complex dyeing method, and the analysis accuracy is improved. An automatic cell analyzer (1) comprises: an imaging unit (4) for capturing fluorescence emitted from a cell (S) and acquiring a cell image; an exposure changing section (5) for changing the exposure condition when the imaging unit (4) captures cell images; and a processing section (5) for analyzing the cell (S) on the basis of a plurality of cell images respectively captured under the changed exposure conditions.

Abstract: Cells showing specific characters can be separated from noise, extracted, and analyzed, through processing of a cell image. It is intended to provide a cell image processor (1) comprising: a characteristic quantity measuring section (11) which processes a cell image obtained by photographing cells to measure characteristic quantities of respective cells in the cell image; a characteristic quantity distribution forming section (12) which forms the distribution of the thus measured characteristic quantities; a group forming section (13) which divides cells having continuously distributed characteristic quantities into groups in the thus formed characteristic quantity distribution; and a specific cell extracting section (14) which extracts cells having characteristic quantities falling within a predetermined range at both ends of a characteristic quantity distribution in each group, as specific cells.