Provided is a material with improved surface hardness and abrasion resistance of a plastic substrate and a process for manufacturing the same. A plastic laminate including a plastic substrate and a hard coat layer formed on the plastic substrate, wherein the hard coat layer consists of a cured film of a hard coat agent including at least a polysilazane compound and nano-silica having an average particle size of 20 to 100 nm, wherein a continuous hardness difference is provided between the plastic substrate side of the hard coat layer and the surface layer side opposite thereto.

A method for filling a through slit in a metal layer for use in a metallic smartcard by providing a metal sheet having at least one through slit extending through the thickness of the metal sheet, applying a polymer resin to the metal sheet so as to substantially fill the slit(s), and curing the resin. A coupling frame for a smartcard, and a smartcard are also provided.

A method of providing a covering element with a connection element for covering a hinge part of a roof window comprising the steps of engraving an interior surface of the covering element to provide an engraved surface with at least one cavity by subjecting the covering element to a laser beam at a polar angle, α1, and attaching the connection element to the covering element by introducing an anchor portion of the connection element into the least one cavity.

There are provided a composition having excellent adhesiveness and wettability, an adhesive film, a laminate, a method for producing a cured product pattern, and a method for manufacturing a circuit substrate. A composition for forming an adhesive film for imprinting, includes a compound 1 or a compound group 2; and a solvent, in which the compound 1 and the like is a compound decomposable into two or more compounds in a case where a polarity conversion group is treated, and at least one compound has a molecular weight of 30 to 400, and at least one compound has a molecular weight of 1,000 or more, the compound 1: a compound is a resin having a polymerizable group and a polarity conversion group, in which the resin has the polarity conversion group in at least a main chain or a side chain, the polarity conversion group is bonded to the main chain of the resin via a linking group in a case where the polarity conversion group is provided in the side chain, and the number of atoms constituting a chain of the linking group is 8 or more; and the compound group 2: a compound that has a polymerizable group and does not have a polarity conversion group, and a compound that does not have a polymerizable group and has a polarity conversion group.

A battery module and a method of assembling a battery module are provided. The method includes selectively applying a light-cure adhesive to recesses in a first side of a carrier layer and inserting battery cells into respective recesses. The method further includes exposing the first side of the carrier layer to light to at least partially cure the light-cure adhesive with the carrier layer in a first orientation, moving the carrier layer into a second orientation, and exposing a second opposite side of the carrier layer to light to fully cure the light-cure adhesive. The recesses may include a sidewall having crush points spaced apart along the sidewall and a bottom portion having an opening between a pair of crush points, where adhesive is not disposed between the pair of crush points.

A method of manufacturing a display device includes attaching a protective film onto a display panel that includes a display area and a pad area, where the protective film includes an adhesive layer and a protective layer disposed on the adhesive layer, half-cutting the protective film along a cutting line between the display area and the pad area such that a total thickness of the protective layer and a partial thickness of the adhesive layer are cut, irradiating a partially cut portion of the adhesive layer with a laser beam along at least a portion of the cutting line, and detaching a portion of the protective film that corresponds to the pad area along the cutting line.

A display device includes a display panel; a supporter disposed on a surface of the display panel; and an adhesive layer disposed between the supporter and the display panel, wherein the supporter includes metal layers spaced apart from each other; and a cushion layer surrounding the metal layers, the adhesive layer includes a first area overlapping the metal layers in a vertical direction to the display panel; and a second area not overlapping the metal layers in the vertical direction to the display panel, and a modulus of the second area of the adhesive layer is larger than a modulus of the first area of the adhesive layer.

Disclosed herein is an intrusion resistant thermal laminating film having a first multilayer structure of a polyester polymer layer and an ethylene methyl acrylate copolymer layer adhered thereto. The first multilayer structure is exposed to UV radiation for an effective period. A first adhesive layer is on the first multilayer structure and is an ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer or an ethylene ethyl acrylate copolymer. The film also has a printed layer of a polyolefin or a polyvinyl chloride attached to the adhesive layer. The film has high clarity and is free of a primer. The printed layer cannot be separated from the first multilayer structure without destroying the film. The film exhibits no signs of orange peel.

A method of producing a cell culture chip, in which a first adhesive is film-formed on a first substrate having transparency such that a first adhesive layer and a recessed portion on which one or more cell culture flow paths are formed face each other, and a second adhesive is film-formed on the first substrate such that a second adhesive layer and a flat portion around the recessed portion face each other, thereby obtaining a cell culture flow path substrate, the first adhesive containing a polyester-based resin having a glass transition temperature of 5° C. or higher, and the second adhesive containing a polyester-based resin having a glass transition temperature of lower than 5° C.

Method of producing an image display device in which an image display member and light-transmitting cover member having principal surface portion and circumferential edge portion on which a light-shielding layer is formed with a step portion formed between the principal surface portion and the circumferential edge portion are laminated through light-transmitting resin layer formed from a liquid optical resin composition so a light-shielding layer formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member is arranged to face the image display member, when a resin dispenser is moved from one end of the light-shielding layer formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member toward the other end applying the liquid optical resin composition to the light-shielding layer formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member, the application amount of optical resin composition is changed on the principal surface portion of the light-shielding layer formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member and on the light-shielding layer.