Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Panasonic Corporation

Fujifilm Corporation

Manabu Higuchi

Masaaki Yoshitome

Naoto Taguchi

Akira Nahara

Takashi Yamada

Takeshi Nakajima

Masao Yabe

Masaaki Nomura

Kenji Kanamori

Kazuto Ueno

Tsukasa Morita

Tetsuji Jitsumatsu

Hideki Matsubara

Takeshi Torimoto

Takeshi Wakita

A method for forming a thin, board-like base material has a tensile transfer step and a forming step. In the tensile transfer step, the long, thin, board-like base material is transferred by pulling the thin, board-like base material in the transfer direction while holding both ends of the thin, board-like base material along the transfer direction and pulling the ends outward in the direction intersecting the transfer direction. In the forming step, predetermined forming operations are performed with respect to the thin, board-like base material.

Method and apparatus for forming thin-board-like base material

A thin plate-shaped substrate molding device for pressing molding a pre-molded article to a prescribed irregular shape. The thin plate-shaped substrate molding device comprises a first die, a second die, a plurality of tensioning portions and a controller. The first and second dies are movably disposed to be moved towards and away from each other. The second die has protruding portions that protrude towards the first die for forming stretched portions and forming bent portions. The controller controls the first die, the second die and the tensioning portions. The bent portions are tensioned and stretched by the tensioning portions, while the stretched portions of the pre-molded article are still pressed by the first die and the protruding portions of the second die, to impart the shape of the protruding portions to the pre-molded article along the side edges of the protruding portions.

Device and method for forming thin plate-shaped substrate

A laminated work production apparatus for producing a laminated work by punching a plate-like metal material into a plate-like work of a predetermined shape and stacking a plurality of the plate-like works includes a mold for punching the metal material, a stacking jig moving mechanism for moving a stacking jig to a stacking position where the plate-like works are stacked, a retention mechanism for retaining the punched plate-like works at a retaining position different from the stacking position until a preset number is reached, and a knockout mechanism for knocking out a plurality of plate-like works in a punching direction and stacking the plate-like works on the stacking jig arranged at the stacking position when the preset number of plate-like works are retained in the retention mechanism.

Laminated work production method

An imaging apparatus that can output images with a plurality of resolutions is provided. The imaging apparatus comprises an imaging section () for imaging a subject using an imaging device () to generate an image signal and a resolution conversion section () for converting a resolution of the image signal captured by the imaging section () and outputting it. The resolution conversion section () reduces the image inputted from the imaging section () to a plurality of images of different sizes and outputs an embedded image in which the size-reduced images of different sizes are embedded in the input image size from the imaging section (). Thereby, images of a plurality of image sizes can be outputted at the same time.

Imaging apparatus

There is disclosed a defect inspection apparatus, wherein a light source projects a linear light onto a transparent film to inspect, so that a light receiver receives light beams transmitted through the film. The light receiver is placed to look down the film, with its optical axis inclined by a cross angle &#x3b8;to a normal line that is perpendicular to the film surface, and the cross angle &#x3b8;is set in a range from 30&#xb0; to 50&#xb0;. The optical axis of the light receiver is also turned about the normal line by a rotational angle &#x3b8;to a transport direction (S) of the film. The rotational angle &#x3b8;is set in a range from minus 60&#xb0; to plus 60&#xb0;, on the assumption that the transport direction is zero degree.

Apparatus and method for inspecting film defect

A magneto-optical disk comprises a substrate and at least a magneto-optical recording layer provided on the substrate. A moisture barrier layer constituted of a fluorine resin is provided on the surface of the substrate on the side opposite to the substrate surface on which the magneto-optical recording layer is provided.

Magneto-optical disk

An image forming method uses a light-sensitive material and an image receiving material. The light-sensitive material comprises a support and a light-sensitive layer provided thereon. The light-sensitive layer contains silver halide, a reducing agent, pigment particles, an ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable compound and a base precursor. The silver halide, the reducing agent, the pigment particles, the polymerizable compound and the base precursor are contained in microcapsules dispersed in the light-sensitive layer. The image forming method comprises imagewise exposing the light-sensitive material, developing the light-sensitive material to polymerize the polymerizable compound, and pressing the light-sensitive material on the image receiving material to transfer the pigment particles to the image receiving material. In the present invention, the light-sensitive material is pressed at a pressure in the range of 20 kg/cm.sup.2 to 500 kg/cm.sup.2 while heating the light-sensitive material at 30.degree. C. to 130.degree. C. The light-sensitive material and the image receiving material are usually pressed by rollers. At least one of the rollers facing the light-sensitive material preferably is a heated roller, and the light-sensitive material is heated by the heated roller. The diameters of the rollers are preferably in the range of 5 mm to 40 mm. The support of the light-sensitive material is preferably made of a polymer film. The thickness of the polymer film support is preferably in the range of 5 .mu.m to 50 .mu.m.

Image forming method of pressing light-sensitive material on image

An optical recording medium comprising at least one recording layer on a substrate and a protective layer overlying the recording layer, the protective layer comprising a UV cured resin composition containing a urethane acrylate, N-vinylpyrolidone, a trifunctional or higher functional acrylate, and a photoinitiator.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Manabu Higuchi