A mold for a plastic lens that arranges an insert member inside a cavity formed between a pair of halved molds, injects and fills molten raw material resin to mold a plastic lens having a predetermined shape, integrally with the insert member. The insert member is arranged on a molding surface on one of the halved molds, a notch to be engaged with a positioning tab formed at a periphery of the insert member is engraved on one parting surface of the halved mold, overlapping with a gate position. Positioning of the insert member is performed by engaging the positioning tab with the notch. With this configuration, in molding a plastic lens having an insert member by injection molding including insert molding, positioning of the insert member is performed at the gate position without deteriorating the quality of a molded product and without increasing the load of post-processing after molding.

A film having a cyclic olefin resin layer including a cyclic olefin resin and a cage-shaped silosesquioxane compound wherein the cage-shaped silosesquioxane compound includes at least one substituent having one or more carbon atoms as a substituent of a Si atom. The film has a cyclic olefin resin layer with a high water vapor barrier property, low haze, and high surface hardness.

A method of drawing a material into sheet form includes forming a preform comprising at least one material as a large aspect ratio block wherein a first transverse dimension of the preform is much greater than a second transverse dimension substantially perpendicular to the first transverse dimension. A furnace having substantially linearly opposed heating elements one spaced from the other is provided and the heating elements are energized to apply heat to the preform to create a negative thermal gradient from an exterior surface along the first transverse dimension of the preform inward toward a central plane of the preform. The preform is drawn in such a manner that the material substantially maintains its first transverse dimension and deforms across its second transverse dimension.

A patterned polarizing film is provided for obtaining a thin patterned circular polarizing plate having a superior anti-reflection property. The film includes a substrate and a patterned liquid crystal cured layer laminated thereon. The layer contains a polymer of a polymerizable liquid crystal compound(s) and a dichroic dye. The patterned polarizing film includes a region (A) having a degree of polarization of 10% or lower and a single transmittance of 80% or higher, and a region (B) having a degree of polarization of 90% or higher and a single transmittance of 40% or higher.

Provided is a method capable of producing a retardation film having an elongated shape and having a slow axis in an oblique direction with high production efficiency while precisely controlling the direction of the slow axis and the variation of the direction. The method of producing a retardation film of the present invention includes: holding the left and right end portions of a film with left and right variable pitch-type clips configured to have clip pitches changing in a longitudinal direction, respectively; preheating the film; obliquely stretching the film; and releasing the clips holding the film. The oblique stretching includes making the change ratio of the clip pitch of the clips on one side in the traveling direction thereof and the change ratio of the clip pitch of the clips on the other side in the traveling direction thereof different from each other, and/or making the position at which the clip pitch of the clips on the one side in the traveling direction starts to change and the position at which the clip pitch of the clips on the other side in the traveling direction starts to change different from each other, while extending a distance between the left and right clips. In the present invention, the moving speeds of the clips are braked immediately before the holding step and/or during a time period from the holding step to the oblique stretching step.

Provided are [1] an optical laminate comprising a substrate film, a transparent conductive layer and a surface protection layer in this order, wherein an average value of a surface resistivity measured according to JIS K6911 is in the range of 1.010.sup.7/ or more and 1.010.sup.10/ or less, and a standard deviation of the surface resistivity is 5.010.sup.8/ or less, [2] an optical laminate comprising a substrate film, a transparent conductive layer and a surface protection layer in this order, wherein the substrate film is a cycloolefin polymer film, a ratio of a thickness of the substrate film to a thickness of the entire optical laminate is 80% or more and 95% or less, and a rate of elongation of the optical laminate at a temperature of 150 C., as measured using a dynamic viscoelasticity measuring apparatus under conditions of a frequency of 10 Hz, a tensile load of 50 N and a rate of temperature increase of 2 C./min, is 5.0% or more and 20% or less, and [3] an optical laminate comprising a cellulose-based substrate film, a stabilization layer and a conductive layer in this order, wherein an average value of a surface resistivity measured according to JIS K6911 is in the range of 1.010.sup.7/ or more and 1.010.sup.12/ or less, and a value obtained by dividing a standard deviation of the surface resistivity by the average value is 0.20 or less; as well as a method for producing the optical laminate, a front panel and an image display device.

A coextruded multilayered thermoplastic article including: a first layer with a first surface texture, wherein the first layer comprises a first transparent thermoplastic polymer having a first stress optical coefficient (C.sub.m1) measured at 20 C. above the glass transition temperature of the first polymer; a second layer located comprising a second transparent thermoplastic polymer having a second stress optical coefficient (C.sub.m2) measured at 20 C. above the glass transition temperature of the second matrix;wherein a relation between the first stress optical coefficient and the second stress optical coefficient is C.sub.m2>4(C.sub.m1) (Formula A) wherein the thickness of the first layer measured from the highest peaks of the first surface texture to the second side of the first layer is greater than 1.5 times Rz of the first surface texture but less than or equal to 75% of the total thickness of the article.

Arrays of integrated analytical devices and their methods for production are provided. The arrays are useful in the analysis of highly multiplexed optical reactions in large numbers at high densities, including biochemical reactions, such as nucleic acid sequencing reactions. The integrated devices allow the highly sensitive discrimination of optical signals using features such as spectra, amplitude, and time resolution, or combinations thereof. The arrays and methods of the invention make use of silicon chip fabrication and manufacturing techniques developed for the electronics industry and highly suited for miniaturization and high throughput.

The present disclosure provides a polyamide composite, including the following components in parts by weight: 77.2 parts to 94.8 parts of PAXI/XT, 5 parts to 20 parts of a semi-crystalline polyamide, and 0.2 part to 0.8 part of a powder of organosilicon elastomer including a methacryloxy functional group. The semi-crystalline polyamide is at least one selected from the group consisting of PA66, PA610, PA612, PA106, PA1010, and PA1012, and the PAXI/XT is a copolymer of an aliphatic diamine X, isophthalic acid I, and terephthalic acid T. The polyamide composite has advantages such as high light transmittance, high haze (excellent light-scattering performance), and prominent chemical resistance, and is suitable for the preparation of navigation lights for plant protection drones.

Disclosed are a polyvinyl alcohol film and a preparation method therefor. The saturated water absorption of the amorphous structure in the polyvinyl alcohol film is x, the water absorption increased due to destruction of the crystal surface defect structure in the polyvinyl alcohol film is y, and x/(x+y) is 0.82 to 0.93. The polyvinyl alcohol film has a softening point of 65 C. to 75 C., and a degree of swelling of 180% to 220%.