A household appliance component has a base element with at least one photoluminescent layer and at least one light guide. The light guide is configured to couple in and transmit light containing at least one excitation wavelength of the photoluminescent layer to the photoluminescent layer. An optical switch is assigned to the light guide to route light coupled in the light guide depending on the temperature of the optical switch. Further a household appliance contains the at least one household appliance component.

An in-cell type liquid crystal panel is disclosed containing an in-cell type liquid crystal cell, a first polarizing film disposed on a viewing side of the in-cell liquid crystal cell, a second polarizing film disposed opposite to the viewing side, and a first pressure-sensitive adhesive layer disposed between the first polarizing film and the in-cell type liquid crystal cell, wherein: a surface resistance value of the first pressure-sensitive adhesive layer side is 1.0×10.sup.8 to 1.0×10.sup.11Ω/□ at the time of producing a first pressure-sensitive adhesive layer attached polarizing film in a state where the first pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is provided on the first polarizing film and a separator is provided on the first pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, and peeling off the separator immediately after the production, and a moisture permeability of the transparent protective film at 40° C.×92% RH is 900 g/(m.sup.2.Math.24 h) or less.

An antireflection plate has a structure in which a hard coat layer, an antireflective layer having a low refractive index layer, a protective layer, and an overcoat layer are laminated in this order on a transparent resin substrate. The low refractive index layer is a cured body of a curable composition containing 50 to 200 parts by mass of (B-2) hollow silica fine particles, and the low refractive index layer has a refractive index of 1.20 to 1.45. The protective layer is a cured body of a curable composition containing 7.5 to 35 parts by mass of (B-3) spherical silica fine particles, and the protective layer has a thickness of 10 to 15 nm and a refractive index of 1.45 to 1.50. The overcoat layer includes a polymer of a fluorine-containing silicon compound.

A laminated film having a haze of 1.0% or less and including two kinds of silica particles (silica particles A and silica particles B) in a cured layer, wherein the occupied area proportion of the silica particles A on a cross-sectional TEM image of the cured layer is 0.5% to 20.0% and satisfies the following relationship with the occupied area proportion of the silica particles B: 0.005≤occupied area proportion of silica particles A/occupied area proportion of silica particles B≤0.400, the variation coefficient of the occupied area proportion of the silica particles A on the cross-sectional TEM image of the cured layer is more than 0.5% and 3.0% or less, and the variation coefficient of the occupied area proportion of the silica particles B is 0.0% to 0.5%; a production method thereof; a polarizing plate; a liquid crystal panel; a liquid crystal display; and a touch panel.

A polarizing plate including a polarizer, and a protective film layer formed on at least one surface of the polarizer, wherein the protective film layer is formed of a protective resin having a volatile component content of 0.03% by weight or less, and a thickness d of the protective film layer satisfies the formula (1): 0.01 μm≤d≤0.5 μm (1).

Described herein are heterocyclic liquid crystal compositions that can allow for the adjustment of their refractive indices by the application of an electric field. In addition, selectively dimmable reverse-mode polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) elements and devices using these compositions are also described, which are transparent when no voltage is applied and opaque when a voltage is applied.

The present invention provides a laminate film and a display member including the laminate film, which are excellent in visibility of external information such as scenery and displayability of information from a projection member, and are also excellent in color tone reproducibility. The laminate film includes a laminate of 50 or more alternately arranged layers of a plurality of different thermoplastic resins, the laminate film having a transmittance of light incident perpendicularly to a film surface of 50% or more, the laminate film satisfying a relationship of R20≤R40<R70, wherein R20, R40, and R70 are reflectances of a P-wave incident at angles of 20°, 40°, and 70°, respectively, to the normal to the film surface, the reflectance of R70 being 30% or more, reflected light of the P-wave incident at 70° to the normal to the film surface having a saturation of 20 or less.

An object of the present invention is to provide a polymerizable liquid crystal composition used for formation of an optically anisotropic film having excellent moisture-heat resistance and an excellent surface condition, an optically anisotropic film, an optical film, a polarizing plate, and an image display device. The polymerizable liquid crystal composition of an embodiment of the present invention is a polymerizable liquid crystal composition containing a polymerizable liquid crystal compound and a compound represented by Formula (1): L.sup.1-SP.sup.1-(E.sup.3-A.sup.1).sub.m-E.sup.1-G.sup.1-C(═O)—O—C(═O)-G.sup.2-E.sup.2-(A.sup.2-E.sup.4).sub.n-SP.sup.2-L.sup.2, in which a content of the compound represented by Formula (1) is 0.01 to 5 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the polymerizable liquid crystal compound.

Disclosed are a polarizer, a method for manufacturing the same, and a display device. The polarizer includes an optical retardation layer and a linear polarization layer which are laminated, wherein the optical retardation layer includes at least two types of retardation regions for performing phase retardation on incident light, a phase retardation amount of each type of retardation region including a quarter of a wavelength of light of one color, and the phase retardation amounts of the at least two types of retardation regions including quarters of wavelengths of light of at least two different colors. The present disclosure is favorable to improving the color cast of the display device.

The present disclosure provides an optical laminate including a polymer substrate and an antiglare layer, wherein rubber particles having a cross-sectional diameter of 10 to 500 nm exist within 50% of the thickness of the antiglare layer from the interface between the polymer substrate and the antiglare layer, a polarizing plate including the optical laminate, and a liquid crystal display and a display device including the polarizing plate.