Abstract: A polymer having a partial structure formed by performing radical polymerization with respect to a compound having a mesogenic group derived from at least one type of liquid crystal compound selected from a rod-like liquid crystal compound and a disk-like liquid crystal compound, and two or more polymerizable groups, in which the polymer is a branched polymer, and a composition containing the polymer, an optical film, and a liquid crystal display device.

Abstract: A binding member removal apparatus includes a removal unit that removes a binding member that binds a bound medium from the bound medium, an image capturing unit that captures an image in which a portion of the bound medium appears, a driving unit that moves the removal unit, and a control unit that controls the driving unit such that the removal unit is disposed at a predetermined position with respect to the binding member, on the basis of the image.

Abstract: A manufacturing assistance apparatus includes a learning unit and an estimator. The learning unit is configured to load a plurality of pieces of actual measurement data in each of which a gap and a plurality of parameters are associated with each other, and construct an estimation model on the basis of machine learning in which the plurality of pieces of actual measurement data serve as teacher data. The gap is provided between a first workpiece and a second workpiece that eventually structure an airframe of an aircraft and that are eventually fastened to each other. The estimation model estimates the gap from the plurality of parameters. The estimator is configured to derive an estimation value of a length of the gap on which measurement has not yet been performed, on the basis of the estimation model constructed by the learning unit and the plurality of parameters.

Abstract: A fastening member detection device includes a contact structure that moves with respect to a medium while contacting the medium, a vibration detector that detects vibration that occur in the contact structure, and a controller that determines whether there is a fastening member that fastens the medium, based on the vibration.

Abstract: An image processing system, an imager, an area detection method, and a computer program easily and highly accurately detecting an area where a target object exists in an image acquired by imaging the target object are provided. The image processing system includes a projector for projecting a projection image having a stripe pattern or a grid pattern toward a target object, and an imager for imaging a target object on which the projection image is projected, and the imager includes an input image obtaining module for obtaining an input image acquired by imaging a target object on which the projection image is projected, a height information calculator for calculating height information of each pixel in the input image by using the input image, and a target object area detector for detecting a target object area where the target object exists in the input image, based on the height information of each pixel in the input image.

Abstract: A register error amount detection apparatus obtains the register error amounts between the colors of patterns printed on a printing product based on the positions of register marks in a captured image of the printing product. The register marks have different colors including a reference color and are printed in a line at intervals a in the vertical direction. The register marks all have the reference color and are printed in a line at the intervals a in the vertical direction at positions translated from the positions of the register marks by a distance b in the horizontal direction.

Abstract: An image processing system, an imager, an area detection method, and a computer program easily and highly accurately detecting an area where a target object exists in an image acquired by imaging the target object are provided. The image processing system includes a projector for projecting a projection image having a stripe pattern or a grid pattern toward a target object, and an imager for imaging a target object on which the projection image is projected, and the imager includes an input image obtaining module for obtaining an input image acquired by imaging a target object on which the projection image is projected, a height information calculator for calculating height information of each pixel in the input image by using the input image, and a target object area detector for detecting a target object area where the target object exists in the input image, based on the height information of each pixel in the input image.

Abstract: Provided are a brightness enhancement film including a ?/4 plate, and a reflection polarizer, in which the reflection polarizer includes at least two light reflection layers formed by immobilizing a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase, one light reflection layer of the reflection layers is a layer formed of a polymerizable liquid crystal composition containing a rod-like liquid crystal compound, and the other light reflection layer is a layer formed of a polymerizable liquid crystal composition containing a disk-like liquid crystal compound, and an optical sheet member including the brightness enhancement film, and a liquid crystal display device including the optical sheet member. The brightness enhancement film of the present invention has high brightness and is able to suppress an oblique change in the shade at the time of being incorporated in a liquid crystal display device.

Abstract: The present invention provides a luminance-enhancing film including a ?/4 plate, and a reflection polarizer, including a first light reflection layer, a second light reflection layer, and a third light reflection layer from the ?/4 plate side sequentially, the light reflection layers being light reflection layers formed by fixing a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase, and including blue, green and red light reflection layers, and Rth(550) of the first light reflection layer and Rth(550) of the second light reflection layer having inverse signs; and a luminance-enhancing film including a ?/4 plate and a reflection polarizer including at least a light reflection layer formed of a rod-like cholesteric liquid crystal material and a light reflection layer formed of a disk-like cholesteric liquid crystal material. The luminance-enhancing film has high luminance and is able to suppress an oblique change in the color.

Abstract: A pipe joint includes clamp members including a pipe joint main body unit having an arc shape, flange portions protruding at both ends in an axial direction of the pipe joint main body unit, fixed flange units at both ends in a diameter direction of the pipe joint main body unit, and fixing units formed in the fixed flange units. When the clamp members are attached at end portions of pipes to be connected, and the fixing unit is inserted into insertion units, the pipe joint connects the pipes. The flange portions are provided along an entire periphery of the pipe joint main body unit, and the flange portion of one of the clamp members and the flange portion of the other of the clamp members have joint surface units that contact each other with inclinations at a same angle with respect to an axial direction of the pipe.

Abstract: An ion exchanger includes a lower casing, an upper casing, and a cartridge. The lower casing includes an upper opening and a circumferential wall, which includes an intake port and a discharge port. The upper casing includes a lid, which is arranged on the opening of the lower casing, and a cylinder, which extends downward from the lid and is accommodated in the circumferential wall. The cartridge, which is provided integrally with the inner side of the cylinder, accommodates an ion exchange resin. The cylinder includes a communication hole, through which the inner side of the cylinder is in communication with the intake port. The upper casing includes an accumulation limiting structure that limits the air remaining immediately below the lower surface of the lid in the upper casing after flowing into the cylinder together with coolant.

Abstract: A polymer having a partial structure formed by performing radical polymerization with respect to a compound having a mesogenic group derived from at least one type of liquid crystal compound selected from a rod-like liquid crystal compound and a disk-like liquid crystal compound, and two or more polymerizable groups, in which the polymer is a branched polymer, and a composition containing the polymer, an optical film, and a liquid crystal display device.

Abstract: A fastening structure includes a bolt, a nut screwed onto the bolt to fasten a target part, and a washer sandwiched between the target part and the nut. The washer is formed in a disk shape having a hole in which the bolt is inserted. The nut has a main body formed in a hexagonal pillar shape having a hole in which the bolt is inserted and a disk portion extending from an axial end of the main body. Protrusions are circumferentially distributed on a face of the disk portion, the face being on the side opposite the main body. The protrusions bite into a nut-side face of the washer to form meshed portions by screwing together the bolt and the nut.

Abstract: A pipe joint includes clamp members including a pipe joint main body unit having an arc shape, flange portions protruding at both ends in an axial direction of the pipe joint main body unit, fixed flange units at both ends in a diameter direction of the pipe joint main body unit, and fixing units formed in the fixed flange units. When the clamp members are attached at end portions of pipes to be connected, and the fixing unit is inserted into insertion units, the pipe joint connects the pipes. The flange portions are provided along an entire periphery of the pipe joint main body unit, and the flange portion of one of the clamp members and the flange portion of the other of the clamp members have joint surface units that contact each other with inclinations at a same angle with respect to an axial direction of the pipe.

Abstract: A register error amount detection apparatus obtains the register error amounts between the colors of patterns printed on a printing product based on the positions of register marks in a captured image of the printing product. The register marks have different colors including a reference color and are printed in a line at intervals a in the vertical direction. The register marks all have the reference color and are printed in a line at the intervals a in the vertical direction at positions translated from the positions of the register marks by a distance b in the horizontal direction.

Abstract: Provided are a brightness enhancement film including a ?/4 plate, and a reflection polarizer, in which the reflection polarizer includes at least two light reflection layers formed by immobilizing a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase, one light reflection layer of the reflection layers is a layer formed of a polymerizable liquid crystal composition containing a rod-like liquid crystal compound, and the other light reflection layer is a layer formed of a polymerizable liquid crystal composition containing a disk-like liquid crystal compound, and an optical sheet member including the brightness enhancement film, and a liquid crystal display device including the optical sheet member. The brightness enhancement film of the present invention has high brightness and is able to suppress an oblique change in the shade at the time of being incorporated in a liquid crystal display device.

Abstract: The present invention provides a luminance-enhancing film including a ?/4 plate, and a reflection polarizer, including a first light reflection layer, a second light reflection layer, and a third light reflection layer from the ?/4 plate side sequentially, the light reflection layers being light reflection layers formed by fixing a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase, and including blue, green and red light reflection layers, and Rth(550) of the first light reflection layer and Rth(550) of the second light reflection layer having inverse signs; and a luminance-enhancing film including a ?/4 plate and a reflection polarizer including at least a light reflection layer formed of a rod-like cholesteric liquid crystal material and a light reflection layer formed of a disk-like cholesteric liquid crystal material. The luminance-enhancing film has high luminance and is able to suppress an oblique change in the color.

Abstract: An ion exchanger includes a lower casing, an upper casing, and a cartridge. The lower casing includes an upper opening and a circumferential wall, which includes an intake port and a discharge port. The upper casing includes a lid, which is arranged on the opening of the lower casing, and a cylinder, which extends downward from the lid and is accommodated in the circumferential wall. The cartridge, which is provided integrally with the inner side of the cylinder, accommodates an ion exchange resin. The cylinder includes a communication hole, through which the inner side of the cylinder is in communication with the intake port. The upper casing includes an accumulation limiting structure that limits the air remaining immediately below the lower surface of the lid in the upper casing after flowing into the cylinder together with coolant.

Abstract: An image capturing system to capture an image of an object from various directions. The system includes a mobile terminal and an image-capturing assist device. The mobile terminal includes an image capturing unit, and a terminal-equipment controller to control the mobile terminal. The image-capturing assist device includes a turntable including a placing table to place the object thereon, a housing rotatably supporting the placing table, an actuator to rotate the placing table, and a turntable-equipment controller to control the turntable, and a mobile-terminal placing table to place the mobile terminal such that the image capturing unit and the object on the placing table face each other. The mobile terminal and the image-capturing assist device perform communication therebetween, and the terminal-equipment controller controls the actuator when starting image capturing to intermittently or continuously photograph the object on the placing table, sequentially when the placing table is rotating.

Abstract: There is provided a phase difference film which includes a substrate, an acrylic resin layer, an intermediate layer containing a main component of the substrate and a main component of the acrylic resin layer between the substrate and the acrylic resin layer, and a specific phase difference layer directly on a surface on the opposite side to the intermediate layer of the acrylic resin layer, in which the substrate contains at least one kind of resin selected from a cellulose acylate resin, a cyclic olefin resin, a polycarbonate resin, an acrylic resin, and a styrene resin, the acrylic resin layer contains an acrylic resin having a polar group, the intermediate layer has a thickness of 0.1 ?m to 10 ?m, and the phase difference layer is formed by polymerizing a polymerizable liquid crystal compound containing a vertical alignment agent.