Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Fujifilm Corporation

Shintaro Washizu

Hirotaka Matsumoto

Takatoshi Kinoshita

Akinori Harada

Yuki Matsunami

Fumiaki Shinozaki

Nobufumi Mori

Toshimasa Usami

Kozo Nagata

Ken Iwakura

Masanobu Takashima

Koichi Kimura

Kozo Sato

Toshiaki Aoai

Koichi Kawamura

Junichi Yamanouchi

Hideaki Naruse

Jun Yamaguchi

Yuuichi Fukushige

Shun-ichi Ishikawa

Kanji Nakanishi

Jin Murayama

Keiso Saeki

Tadahiro Sorori

Isamu Itoh

Tetsuro Fuchizawa

Hidekazu Yamazaki

Akihiro Shimomura

Kenichi Nakagawa

Sadao Ishige

Toshiharu Tanaka

Sumitaka Tatsuta

Munehisa Fujita

Kimi Ikeda

Kazuyuki Koike

Tetsuo Kawano

Tomohiro Kodama

Akio Watanabe

Kazunori Nigorikawa

Hidenori Gotoh

Toshiaki Endo

Keisuke Ozeki

Fumitoshi Toyokawa

Kyoko Hanasaki

Jun Yamaguichi

Keiichiro Ozawa

A gas sensing material includes a nonphotosensitive organic silver salt. A gas inspecting method includes adhering a gas sensing material to a surface of an inspection object, wherein the gas sensing material includes a nonphotosensitive organic silver salt; and heat developing the gas sensing material.

Gas sensing material and gas inspecting method

Provided are target detection substrate for target detecting apparatuses capable of detecting various targets such as pathogens, biological substances and toxic substances without using a costly measuring apparatus; which can detect these targets with a low measurement error, high efficiency, simplicity, speed and sensitivity; and which can make a quantitative detection thereof. The target detection substrate includes at least a target interaction part which can interact with a target on an optical interference substrate, which optical interference substrate includes a substrate and a different refractive index film having a different refractive index from that of the substrate disposed on the substrate, and interferes irradiated light to radiate it as interference light where the total number of peak tops and peak bottoms in a graph of transmittance against wavelength of the interference light is from 1 to 20 in an arbitrary wavelength range of 100 nm.

Optical interference substrate, target detecting substrate, target detecting apparatus, and target detecting process

It is an object of the present invention to provide a process for producing nano-particles, capable of efficiently producing monodisperse nano-particles substantially uniform in particle size and composition, and freely controllable in particle size and composition at low cost. The process for producing nano-particles comprises a particle precursor capturing step in which a liquid containing the particle precursor is incorporated in another liquid containing dendritic branching molecules to capture the particle precursor by the dendritic branching molecule, and particle forming step in which the particle precursor captured by the dendritic branching molecule is transformed into the particle.

Nano-particles and process for producing nano-particles

Disclosed is a photopolymerizable composition containing a polymerizable compound having an addition-polymerizable unsaturated bond, an organic dye, and an organoboron compound represented by the following general formula (I), wherein at least one kind of the organoboron compound is included and the proportion thereof is one mole or more per mole of the organic dyeBR)X.&#x2003;&#x2003;General formula (I)

Photopolymerizable composition and recording material and recording process using the same

An MEM unit according to the invention comprises an Si (silicon) substratehaving such a thickness as to transmit a visible light therethrough, an insulating layerformed in contact with the upper surface of the Si substrate, a lower electrode layerformed in contact with the upper surface of the insulating layer, a sacrificial layer gapof a space formed in the partial region of the upper surface of the lower electrode layer, a movable filmformed on the upper surface of the lower electrode layerto cover the sacrificial layer gap, an upper electrodeformed in contact with the upper part of the movable film, a contact holepenetrating to reach the surface of the lower electrode layerfrom the surface of the movable film, and a lower electrodeformed from the surroundings of the upper part of the contact holeto the surface of the lower electrode layerthrough the contact hole

Image display unit and method of manufacturing the same

A target detection apparatus is provided which can detect and quantitatively measure various detection targets such as pathogens. For this purpose, the apparatus comprises an optical irradiation unit which irradiates light; an optical interference unit which can interact with the detection target, interferes with the light irradiated from the optical irradiation unit and radiates it as interference light and change the wavelength of the interference light after interaction with the detection target; and an wavelength change detecting unit which detects the wavelength change of the interference light radiated by the optical interference unit. The wavelength change detecting unit preferably measures spectrums before and after wavelength change of the interference light, and their differential spectrum. Also provided is a target detection substrate comprising a film-like material on a substrate which, when interacting with a detection target, changes the wavelength of the interference light.

Target detecting apparatus, target detection method and target detection substrate

A particle size (or particle diameter) variable reactor comprises a granular substrate and a capturing unit fixed onto the surface of the granular substrate. The capturing unit comprises a rod-shaped body having a length of 810 nm or less, a configuration variable element which may be structurally transformed when stimulation is applied, and a capturing structured body which specifically captures an object to be captured. The particle size variable reactor is highly biodegradable and environmentally friendly, and can specifically act on and thus selectively capture its target alone. The reactor may preferably be used in various fields including medical and industrial fields.

Particle size variable reactor

A molecular electric wire that is formed of an environmentally benign ecological material and enables a microscopic wiring, a molecular electric wire circuit using the molecular electric wire, and the like are provided. The molecular electric wire comprises a rod-shaped organic molecule and an electroconductive material, the electroconductive material being carried by the rod-shaped organic molecule, and the molecular electric wire circuit is formed by using the molecular electric wire.

Molecular electric wire, molecular electric wire circuit using the same and process for producing the molecular electric wire circuit

Provided are optical switches applicable to various safety apparatuses which can control an operation of a circuit by detecting a switching signal such as pathogens and toxic substances, and safety apparatuses using the optical switches. The optical switch comprises an optical irradiation unit to irradiate light; an optical interference unit which can interact with a switching signal, interferes with light irradiated from the optical irradiation unit and radiates it as interference light, and can vary the wavelength of the interference light after interaction with the switching signal; and a switching unit which is provided in the path of the interference light, detects a wavelength change of the interference light, and conducts one of activating and deactivating a circuit. The safety appatatus comprises the optical switch and a hazard evasive apparatus activating unit which activates a hazard evasive apparatus using the optical switch.

Optical switch and safety apparatus using the same

An image-recording apparatus. In a housing of the apparatus are a casing section that encases a light and heat sensitive recording material, an optical recording section that exposes the light and heat sensitive recording material fed from the casing section to record a latent image, a thermal developing section that develops the latent image by heating, an optical fixing section that fixes the developed image by irradiating it with light, and an outlet through which the image-recorded material is taken out.

Light and thermal energy image-recording apparatus

The present invention relates to a hybridization probe having a rod-shaped boby and nucleic acid which is bonded to the rod-shape material and specifically bonds to a target nucleic acid and also relates to a target nucleic detecting kit, a target nucleic acid detecting apparatus and a target nucleic acid detecting method using the same.

Hybridization probe and target nucleic acid detecting kit, target nucleic acid detecting apparatus and target nucleic acid detecting method using the same

The present invention provides a photopolymerizable composition, which is highly sensitive to visible light rays to IR rays and has an excellent raw storage property, and a recording material capable of carrying out highly sensitive image recording and having an excellent raw storage property and humidity dependency. Namely, the invention provides a photopolymerizable composition containing at least a polymerizable compound having an ethylenic unsaturated bond, a photoradical generating agent, and a thiol compound represented by the following general formula (I) and a recording material using the photopolymerizable composition:[R represents an alkyl or an aryl, either of which may have substituents; A represents an atom group forming a 5-member or 6-member heteroring having an N&#x2550;C&#x2014;N portion and carbon atoms and A may further have a substituent group.].

Photopolymerizable composition and recording material using the same

A process of producing an optical diffusion film which comprises at least a transparent base layer on a transparent substrate, a layer of transparent microspheres over the transparent base layer and a light absorbing layer over said transparent base layer comprises the steps of: distributing transparent microspheres in a layer over the transparent base layer so that each the transparent microsphere is partly embedded in the transparent base layer; and by coating a solution layer of coloring material that is convertible into fine metal particles and treating the solution layer of coloring material under specified conditions so as thereby to convert the solution layer of coloring material into a layer of fine metal particles that are light absorbable.

Optical diffusion film and process of producing optical diffusion film

The present invention provides a recording material comprising a support, a recording layer provided on the support, and at least one protective layer provided on the recording layer, wherein, the recording layer contains a coloring component A encapsulated in heat-responsive microcapsules, and a substantially colorless compound B, which is outside the heat-responsive microcapsules and has a coloring site that colors when reacted with the coloring component A, and wherein, at least one of the protective layer or a layer adjacent thereto comprises a layer containing titanium oxide.

Recording material and image forming apparatus

A microcapsule which includes a polymer as a capsule wall of the microcapsule, in which the polymer is obtained by polymerizing a dendritic branching molecule having a hydroxyl group in a terminal thereof, an isocyanate compound, and a compound having two or more active hydrogen atoms in a molecule thereof. A process for manufacturing a microcapsule includes the step of polymerizing an isocyanate compound, a dendritic branching molecule having a hydroxyl group in a terminal thereof, and a compound having two or more active hydrogen atoms in a molecule thereof, so as to form a capsule wall of the microcapsule.

Microcapsule and process for manufacturing the same

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Shizuoka-ken, Japan

Shintaro Washizu