Provided is a method capable of producing a retardation film being excellent in axial accuracy, showing small changes in retardation and dimensions at the time of its heating, and having a slow axis in an oblique direction with high production efficiency. The production method for a retardation film of the present invention includes: holding 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; causing the clip pitches of the left and right clips to each independently change to obliquely stretch the film; reducing the clip pitches of the left and right clips to shrink the film in the longitudinal direction; and releasing the film from being held with the clips.

Provided is a light transmitting member, which maintains an antifogging property over a long period of time, and is less liable to be contaminated with organic matter, the light transmitting member including, on a base material, a porous layer containing silicon oxide particles and a layer formed of a hydrophilic polymer, wherein a polymer ratio at a depth of 10 nm from a surface of the light transmitting member is 0.15 or more and 0.40 or less.

There are provided a transparent conductive film, as well as a heater, a touch panel, a solar battery, an organic EL device, a liquid crystal device, and an electronic paper that are provided with the transparent conductive film, the transparent conductive film being capable of easing a decline in optical transmittance when graphene is laminated, and of achieving optical transmittance higher than an upper limit of optical transmittance of a single layer of graphene. The transparent conductive film includes a single-layered conductive graphene sheet. The single-layered conductive graphene sheet includes a first region and a second region, the first region being configured of graphene, and the second region being surrounded by the first region and having optical transmittance that is higher than optical transmittance of the first region.

A roll-to-roll method for manufacturing 2D/3D grating switch membrane is performed in such a way that: Step 1 and Step 2 are simultaneously performed, then Step 3 is performed, and finally Step 4 is performed: Step 1, subjecting a concave grating facing down to rubbing and liquid crystal dropping; Step 2, uniformly coating a PI liquid onto a surface layer of a mirror-face metal roller, and performing self-hating and rubbing; Step 3, making the concave grating rubbed and dropped with liquid crystals in Step 1 and PI layer coated and directionally-rubbed on the mirror-face metal roller in Step 2 attached to each other, forming a grating membrane, and rotating and pre-baking the grating membrane with the mirror-face metal roller; Step 4, curing the attached and baked grating membrane by the UV curing means and after stripping, collecting and winding through the 2D/3D grating switch membrane collecting roller.

This invention relates to novel compositions comprising regioselectively substituted cellulose esters. One aspect of the invention relates to processes for preparing regioselectively substituted cellulose esters from cellulose dissolved in ionic liquids. Another aspect of the invention relates to the utility of regioselectively substituted cellulose esters in applications such as protective and compensation films for liquid crystalline displays.

The invention provides a wavelength conversion member including a wavelength conversion layer which includes a second cured product and a first cured product dispersed as spheres in the second cured product, the first cured product being obtained by curing a first polymerizable composition including a quantum dot and a first polymerizable compound, and the second cured product being obtained by curing a second polymerizable composition including a second polymerizable compound. The invention further provides a backlight unit and a liquid crystal display device including the wavelength conversion member.

Disclosed herein is an antiglare glass sheet article for display devices in which at least one main surface of the glass sheet is roughened. The article has a roughened surface that includes: a surface with continuous irregularities having an arithmetic average roughness (Ra) of 0.01 to 0.1 μm, and an average interval (RSm) of 1 to 20 μm; and depressions dispersed over the surface and each having a circular entrance portion measuring 3 to 20 μm in diameter, and a depth of 0.2 to 1.5 μm from the entrance portion, the roughened surface having 60 to 600 of the depressions in an observed 250 μm ×250 μm region. The article has desirable antiglare properties with reduced sparkling.

Provided is a functional laminated film having a functional layer formed by dispersing functional materials in a binder, in which the functional laminated film can inhibit generation of bubbles in the functional layer, and can prevent the functional material from being deteriorated by water or oxygen. The functional layer is formed by dispersing functional materials in a binder, and the binder is formed by polymerizing monomers. The monomers include 50% by mass or more of monomers X having a molecular weight of 100 to 1,500 with respect to the total mass of the monomers, and the gas barrier performance of a gas barrier film is 0.005 [g/(m.sup.2.Math.day)] to 0.8 [g/(m.sup.2.Math.day)].

A curved lens protector can include a tempered glass body having a self-supporting x-y axis curve with a concave inner surface and a convex outer surface opposite the inner surface. The tempered glass body can have an outer boundary of a predetermined shape to substantially match and fit with respect to an inner boundary of a lens holder portion of a predetermined lens frame. The tempered glass body can be configured for attachment to a predetermined curved lens without the use of an adhesive.

A method for manufacturing a liquid crystal aligning film includes preparing a multilayer structure in which a substrate, a conductive layer, a liquid crystal alignment layer, and a passivation film are sequentially provided, etching one area of the liquid crystal alignment layer by irradiating a pulse laser to the multilayer structure, and exposing one area of the conductive layer by removing the passivation film, wherein the pulse laser is irradiated to the liquid crystal alignment layer from the passivation film. The method is compatible with a continuous process.