Konica Corporation

Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.

Konica Minolta Medical and Graphic, Inc.

Nec Corporation

Sony Nec Optiarc Inc.

Eiichi Ueda

Akihisa Nakajima

Yasuo Kurachi

Chiaki Nagaike

Takayuki Sasaki

Noriki Tachibana

Hiromitsu Araki

Nobuaki Kagawa

Nobuo Kubo

Tadashi Arimoto

Masahito Takada

Kusunoki Higashino

Tohru Kobayashi

Yasuhiro Sando

Nobuhisa Ishida

Kenji Ohnuma

Kosaku Masuda

Yoshihiro Mochizuki

Hitoshi Adachi

Hideo Ota

Taku Tsuboi

Kazuo Kato

Ryuichi Katayama

Toru Kobayashi

Takeshi Habu

Toshihiko Yagi

Takatoshi Yajima

Kiyokazu Morita

Yasuhiko Takamuki

Noboru Mizukura

Yoshitaka Yasufuku

Noboru Fujimori

Shinji Kudo

Toshiyuki Ikariya

Fumie Fukazawa

Yuji Hosoi

Hidetoshi Ezure

Minoru Ishikawa

Yasuhisa Yamauchi

Shinji Yoshimoto

Miyuki Teranishi

Naoko Fukuwatari

Yasuyuki Motokui

Chiaki Kotani

Masayoshi Yamauchi

An optical pickup apparatus capable of irradiating an optical recording medium having a plurality of recording layers on which a signal is recorded with laser light includes a light source emitting the laser light, a light-concentrating element concentrating the laser light emitted from the light source on the optical recording medium, a phase difference element having a region divided into at least two regions which the laser light reflected by the optical recording medium enters and producing a phase difference between first light and second light reflected by a non-target layer which is not a target of recording or reproduction of the signal out of the plurality of recording layers and entering the at least two regions such that the first and the second light weaken each other, and a photodetector receiving the laser light emitted from the phase difference element.

Optical pickup apparatus, optical recording medium driving apparatus, and signal recording/reproducing method

A micro-reactor for analyzing a sample, comprises (1) a plate-shaped chip; (2) a plurality of regent storage sections each having a chamber to store respective agents; (3) a regent mixing section to mix plural regents fed from the plurality of regent storage sections so as to produce a mixed reagent; (4) a sample receiving section having an injection port through which a sample is injected from outside; and (5) a reacting section to mix and react the mixed regent fed from the reagent mixing section and the sample fed from the sample receiving section. The plurality of regent storage sections, the regent mixing section, the sample receiving section and the reacting section are incorporated in the chip and are connected through flow paths, and the regent mixing section includes a feed-out preventing mechanism to prevent an initially-mixed regent from being fed out to the reacting section.

Testing microreactor, testing device and testing method

A near-infrared fluorescing contrast medium which exhibits superior imaging capability and is also difficult to accumulate in a living body, is disclosed, comprising a cyanine compound containing water-solubilizing groups and represented by the following formula. The imaging method by use thereof is also disclosed. 

Near-infrared fluorescent contrast medium

A method of pereparing a rediographic contrast medium containing liposomes is disclosed, comprising (a) dissolving a phospholipid and a sterol in a supercritical or subcritical carbon dioxide in the presence of a compound containing a hydroxyl group or a polyalkyleneoxide group, (b) adding thereto an aqueous solution containing an iodine compound to form micelles and (c) discharging the carbon dioxide to form liposomal vesicles enclosing the iodine compound.

Liposome-containing radiographic contrast medium and preparation method thereof

The object of the present invention is to provide a micro-reactor, equipped with a high-precision liquid feed system of simple structure, capable of high-precision analysis of at least one item. The present invention provides a micro-reactor for biological substance inspection including a sample storage section, a reagent storage section, a sample pre-processing section, a micro-pump connecting section and a branched minute flow path. And a sample pre-processed by the sample pre-processing section is fed into the minute flow path branched off into at least two parts by a micro-pump and a liquid dividing section, and on the downstream side of each of the branched minute flow paths, the sample is fed to a flow path constituting a reaction site, and then to a flow path constituting the detection site, thereby providing simultaneous measurement of a plurality of items of a sample.

Micro-reactor for biological substance inspection and biological substance inspection device

A silver salt photothermographic dry imaging material comprising a support having thereon a photosensitive layer and a polymer layer, wherein the polymer layer comprises a copolymer of: (i) a fluorine containing acrylate or a fluorine containing methacrylate; and (ii) a monomer having a hydrophobic group in the molecule.

Silver salt photothermographic dry imaging material

In an optical head apparatus including a first light source for emitting a first light beam having a first wavelength, a second light source for emitting a second light beam having a second wavelength different from the first wavelength, an objective lens, a photodetector, and first and second optical combining/splitting elements, the first optical combining/splitting element receives the first light beam from the first light source to outgo most of the first light beam therefrom to the second optical combining/splitting element and receives the first and second light beams from the second optical combining/splitting element to outgo most of the first and second light beams therefrom to the photodetector. The second optical combining/splitting element receives the first light beam from the first optical combining/splitting element and the second light beam from the second light source to outgo most of the first and second light beams therefrom to the objective lens and receives the first and second light beams from the objective lens to outgo most of the first and second light beams therefrom to the first optical combining/splitting element.

Optical head apparatus including two light sources and one photodetector

A water-based coating composition is disclosed, comprising a latex comprising a polymer impregnated with an infared absorbing compound and a water-soluble polyester or latex comprising polymer containing an active methylene group. An infrared absorbing film and a photothermographic material by use thereof are also disclosed.

Water-based coating composition, infrared absorbing film, and photothermographic material by use thereof

An ink-jet recording medium including a support having thereon an ink receptive layer, wherein the support includes a white-colored substrate and a blue-colored substrate laminated with each other.

Ink jet recording medium

A silver salt photothermographic imaging material is disclosed, comprising a support provided thereon with a light sensitive layer containing an organic silver salt, a light sensitive silver halide, a reducing agent and a binder, wherein at least one side of the support is provided with a sublayer containing a metal oxide in an amount of 5 to 50% by volume and the surface of the sublayer exhibiting a maximum height (R ) of not more than 0.1 &mgr;m.

Silver salt photothermographic imaging material

An image forming material comprising a support is disclosed. The support has, on at least one surface, a sublayer comprised of a styrenes-diolefin based copolymer, thereon an antistatic layer comprised of an electrically conductive composition prepared by mixing polymer particles having a functional group on the side chain with a water-soluble polymer, which interacts with said functional group, and thermally treating the resulting mixture at 50 to 90&deg; C., and further having, on said antistatic layer, a layer comprised of a hydrophilic resin.

Image forming material

A photothermographic dry imaging material is disclosed. The imaging material comprises a support, a photosensitive layer containing at least an organic silver salt, photosensitive silver halide, reducing agent and a binder, and a subbing layer containing a water-soluble polymer having a hydroxy group, provided on the support.

Photothermographic dry imaging material easy to separate emulsion layer from support and method for separation

A latex comprising a polymer having an ethylenically unsaturated monomer unit containing an active methylene group and an ethylenically unsaturated monomer unit selected from methacrylic acid ester, acrylic acid ester, maleic acid ester and diene derivative, wherein said polymer is produced in the presence of a water soluble polymer through emulsion polymerization.

Latex and silver halide photographic light-sensitive material containing the same

A latex is prepared by polymerizing a polymerizable monomer having an active methylene group in the presence of a hydrophilic polymer. The hydrophilic polymer comprises an isoprene sulfonic acid or salts thereof as a monomer unit. A sheet material is prepared having a support with a hydrophilic layer containing the latex thereon.

Active-methylene functionalized latex polymer prepared in the presence of a hydrophilic isoprene sulfuric acid polymer, and sheet material comprising same

An adhesive composition is disclosed, comprising an ethylenic copolymer comprising a repeating unit derived from an ethylenically unsaturated monomer containing an active methylene group and at least a repeating unit derived from an ethylenically unsaturated monomer, and a copolyester containing, as a copolymerizing component, a repeating unit derived from a dicarboxylic acid containing a sulfonate group or a repeating unit derived from a diol containing a sulfonate group.

Adhesive composition and image forming material

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Eiichi Ueda