Kuraray Co., Ltd.

Mitsubishi Corporation

Kyowa Gas Chemical Industry Company, Ltd.

Nihon Electronics Co., Ltd.

Junji Nakagawa

Masao Uetsuki

Koichi Saito

Yoichi Murayama

Hideki Kobayashi

Nobuhiko Kawatsuki

Tohru Shimizu

A sheet-like pad having a grid pattern constituted by X-axis grid lines and Y-axis grid lines perpendicular to the X-axis grid lines, and adapted to be placed between a document and an optical reader of a type which comprises an optical scanner for scanning the document to read an image on the document while the document is radiated with first rays of light emitted therefrom and a position sensor for reading the grid pattern for locating the position of the optical reader on the document while the document is radiated with second rays of light emitted therefrom. The sheet-like pad comprises a film-like base having upper and lower surfaces opposite to each other, reflective layers formed on the upper surface of the base for periodically reflecting the second rays of light in first and second directions perpendicular to each other, and a protective layer formed on the upper surface of the base so as to overlay the reflective layers. Each of the base and the protective layer is made of material capable of passing therethrough both of the first and second rays of light.

Transparent sheet-like pad with reflective grid layer to provide

Metal tellurium is vaporized under the atmosphere of oxygen gas and/or inert gas formed into a plasma by a high frequency power to thereby form a tellurium oxide (TeOx, 0.ltoreq.X.ltoreq.2) layer. The tellurium oxide layer formed in accordance with the present method is stabilized, and a suboxide having a high sensitivity which has been considered to be unsuitable as an optical recording medium due to the lack of stability can be utilized. High frequency power, gas pressure and vaporization speed of metal tellurium can be varied to thereby vary the value X of TeOx from 0 to 2. When the TeOx films whose value X thicknesswise is different are formed continuously within one and the same vessel and the vaporization speed is made to zero, oxidization of a film surface may be carried out. Thereby, the TeO.sub.2 film may be formed on the surface, and an optical recording medium may be obtained which is extremely stable and has excellent adhesive properties between the substrates and between the layers.

Optical recording medium formed of chalcogenide oxide and method for

A thin film waveguide path comprises a waveguide path layer overlying a substrate but separated therefrom by at least one intermediate layer. The waveguide path layer comprises a first transparent high molecular material. The at least one intermediate layer comprises a second organic high molecular material having a solubility different from that of the first material and a lower refractive index lower than that of the first material, the substrate comprises a third high molecular material different from the first and second materials for supporting the waveguide path and intermediate layers.

Thin film waveguide device and manufacturing method for making same

A plastic scintillator which comprises using as the matrix resin thereof a copolymer obtained by polymerizing (a) at least one compound represented by the general formula I: ##STR1## wherein, X and Y independently denote hydrogen atom or methyl group, providing that they do not exclusively denote methyl group, or a monomer mixture containing at least one compound of the general formula I in a weight proportion of at least 0.4 to the polymerizable monomer mixture to be used in the presence of (b) at least one monomer having at least two carbon-carbon double bonds capable of radical polymerization in the molecular unit thereof.

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Ichikawa, Japan

Junji Nakagawa