Minolta Company, Ltd.

Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha

Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Osaka Soda Co., Ltd.

Daiso Co., Ltd.

Nara Institute of Science and Technology

Toyo Ink Mfg. Co., Ltd.

Osaka Prefecture University Public Corporation

Osaka City University

Kyoto Prefectural Public University Corporation

University Public Corporation Osaka

National University Corporation Nara Institute of Science and Technology

Hideaki Ueda

Nobuyuki Kobayashi

Masako Iwamatsu

Keiichi Furukawa

Takeshi Kitahora

Akihito Hisamitsu

Yoshihisa Terasaka

Mitsutoshi Nakamura

Shoji Kotani

Noboru Ueda

Fumie Motoori

Tsuyoshi Nozaki

Seishi Ojima

Mitsuyo Matsumoto

Shigeaki Tokutake

Yuki Shimada

Yasumitsu Fujino

Masahiro Anno

Hideo Hotomi

Ichiro Demizu

Eiji Yamakawa

Keiichi Inagaki

Yukio Tanigami

Yasuki Nagai

Kimiyuki Ito

Takashi Matsuo

Katsuhito Miura

Takamasa Ueda

Mitsutoshi Sakamoto

Masato Tabuchi

Shino Hirao

Izumi Osawa

Kenji Masaki

Masakazu Okada

Naoki Masazumi

Kiyofumi Hashimoto

Shizuo Yuge

Toshio Suzuki

Mitsunori Kirihata

Akihiro Nakamura

Kenji Nishiguchi

Shinichi Tamura

Osamu Ebisu

Hiromitsu Katsura

Motohiko Kashioka

Atsushi Ikeda

Masakazu Takata

Katsutoshi Konishi

Takeshi Nagasaki

Naoya Suzuki

Noaya Suzuki

Munenori Numata

Masato Ohashi

A low-cost electrochemical capacitor is provided which has high capacity and excellent charging and discharging characteristics, simultaneously has excellent safety and reliability, and has the basic performance as a capacitor, achieved in that between a negative electrode and a positive electrode, a solution of a specific polyether copolymer, an inorganic or organic filler, and an electrolyte salt is selected as appropriate as the electrolyte and is held between the two electrodes. This low-cost electrochemical capacitor has the basic performance of a capacitor, has high capacity and excellent charging and discharging characteristics, and simultaneously has excellent safety and reliability.

Electrochemical capacitor

A low-cost electrochemical capacitor is provided which has high capacity and excellent charging and discharging characteristics, simultaneously has excellent safety and reliability, and has the basic performance as a capacitor, achieved in that, as the electrolyte between a negative electrode and a positive electrode, a solution of an ambient temperature molten salt and a specific polyether copolymer is allowed to gel using a specific photoreaction initiator and is held between the two electrodes. This low-cost electrochemical capacitor has the basic performance of a capacitor, has high capacity and excellent charging and discharging characteristics without use of a separator, and simultaneously has excellent safety and reliability.

Provided is a complex comprising a hydrophobic cluster compound and a &#x3b2;-1,3-1,6-D-glucan having a degree of branching (a ratio of &#x3b2;-1,6 linkages to &#x3b2;-1,3 linkages) of 50 to 100%.

Process for imparting water solubility or water dispersibility to hydrophobic cluster compound

An information display sheet includes: a transparent first substrate; a second substrate spaced away from and parallel to the transparent first substrate; a sound reproducer provided in a space formed by side edges stipulated by the transparent first substrate and the second substrate; and an information display unit provided in the space, having an information displaying section arranged facing the transparent first substrate for displaying image information.

Information display sheet

An electrostatic charge image developing toner comprises core particles formed by flocculating and fusion-bonding at least polyester resin particles containing wax and colorant particles, and a coating layer containing a resin formed over the core particles.

Electrostatic charge image developing toner and production process for the same

An electrostatic latent image developing toner contains toner particles each of which has a shell layer on the surface of a core particle comprising at least a first binder resin having a softening point of less than 100&#xb0; C., a second binder resin having a softening point of not less than 100&#xb0; C. and a colorant, being applicable to a low-temperature fixing process, and making it possible to achieve conflict functions, such as a heat-resistant storing property, mechanical strength and charge environmental stability.

Electrostatic latent image developing toner

A toner includes core particles containing a resin and a colorant, and a coating layer formed over the core particles. The coating layer includes at least one type of coating particles selected from the group consisting of wax-containing resin microparticles containing a resin and a wax, and colorant-containing resin microparticles containing a resin and a colorant, the coating particles fusion-bonded to the surface of the core particles.

Toner and production process for the same

A toner including core particles containing at least a resin and a colorant and coated with a resin coating layer is provided. The core particles are formed by flocculating and fusion-bonding at least resin microparticles and colorant microparticles dispersed in fluid dispersion, while two or more coating layers are formed over the core particles. A wax is added to at least one of the coating layer(s) but for the outermost coating layer, and the core particles. A ratio d/r between an average thickness d of the overall coating layers and a volume average particle size r of the core particles is adjusted to 0.01 to 0.6.

The present invention relates to a non-magnetic one-component toner that is characterized by containing toner particles that have a volume-average particle size of 2 to 8 &#x3bc;m, a ratio of the volume-average particle size/number-average particle size of not more than 1.22, an average degree of roundness of not less than 0.92 and a Vickers hardness of not less than 13.5HV0.01 (10 g), and also concerns a non-magnetic one-component contact developing device using such a toner and an image-forming apparatus using such a developing device.

Non-magnetic one-component toner, non-magnetic one-component contact developing device and image-forming apparatus

The present invention relates to an image-forming method and a image-forming device, wherein a specific photosensitive member, an exposing process and a toner are adopted in combination.

Photosensitive member having layer containing fluorine resin particles and resin fine particles and image-forming method and apparatus using same

The purpose of the invention is to provide an organic electroluminescent element having stable luminescent characteristics with a low luminescence starting voltage and without non-luminescing black spots in the luminescing surface. The invention relates to a method of manufacturing an organic electroluminescent element and an organic electroluminescent element produced by said method, said method of manufacturing an organic electroluminescent element comprising a process for forming a positive electrode substrate by dry etching a transparent electrode in a vacuum, a process for dry washing said positive electrode substrate in a continuous vacuum without exposure to air, a process for forming an organic layer incorporating an organic luminescing layer on said positive electrode substrate, and a process for forming a negative electrode on said organic layer.

Organic electroluminescent element and method of manufacturing same

Disclosed is a liquid crystal display apparatus comprising a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer provided between the substrates, the liquid crystal layer containing a liquid crystal composition that exhibits a cholesteric phase. The liquid crystal composition contains a mixture of a chiral material and nematic liquid crystal. The liquid crystal display layer is configured to satisfies the following conditions:

Liquid crystal display element

The present invention is based on a chiral nematic liquid crystal composition which shows cholesteric liquid crystal phase and be able to reflect light in visible region selectively, comprising:

Preparation method of chiral nematic liquid crystal composition and liquid crystal display

The present invention relates to an electrostatic-latent-image developing toner which contains at least a binder resin, a coloring agent and a wax that does not exhibit a clear peak on a low-temperature side of a main fusing peak in a DSC curve, the wax being represented by the formula; R&#x2014;(OCO&#x2014;R)in which Rand Rindependently represent a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 40 carbon atoms that may have a substituent, and n is an integer of 1 to 4.

Electrostatic-latent-image developing toner

A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a first liquid crystal layer having first liquid crystal exhibiting a cholesteric phase at a room temperature, and being tuned to selectively reflect light of a wavelength &lgr; within a visible wavelength range; and a second liquid crystal layer disposed on the first liquid crystal layer, having second liquid crystal exhibiting a cholesteric phase at the room temperature, and being tuned to selectively reflect light of a wavelength &lgr; within the visible wavelength range, wherein a difference between the selective reflection wavelengths &lgr; and &lgr; is in a range from 100 nm to 150 nm.

Two layer liquid crystal display apparatus

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Hideaki Ueda