Konica Corporation

Konica Minolta Medical and Graphic, Inc.

Konica Minolta, Inc.

Konica-minolta Holdings, Inc.

Tomonori Kawamura

Kunihiro Koshizuka

Shigehiro Kitamura

Masataka Takimoto

Atsushi Nakajima

Toshihisa Takeyama

Ai Katsuda

Shigeharu Koboshi

Yoshitaka Goto

Masayuki Kurematsu

Nobutaka Goto

Hiroshi Watanabe

Kiyoshi Hagiwara

Chiyoko Takemura

Katsuji Kondo

Yasunobu Kobayashi

Provided are a barrier film production method and a barrier film comprising at least one organic layer and two or more inorganic layers on a surface of a plastic film, wherein, under an atmosphere of at least 0.3 atmospheric pressure and at most 1.1 atmospheric pressure (1 atmospheric pressure is 1.01325&#xd7;105 Pa), an organic layer coating liquid is applied on at least one surface of the plastic film, and dried to form the organic layer, thereafter, an inorganic layer coating liquid containing an inorganic compound is applied and dried on the organic layer to laminate at least 2 to 6 inorganic layers, and thereafter, at least two layers of the laminated inorganic layers are subjected to a conversion process.

Method of producing barrier film exhibiting excellent gas barrier property, and barrier film

Disclosed is a gas barrier film which has both high gas barrier performance and high cracking (bending) resistance. Specifically disclosed is a gas barrier film which comprises, on a substrate in the following order, at least one silanol-containing layer and at least one gas barrier layer that contains silicon atoms and hydrogen atoms. The gas barrier film is characterized in that the relative SiOH ion strength in the central part of the silanol-containing layer in the film thickness direction as detected by time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (Tof-SIMS) is 0.02-1.0 when the relative Si ion strength is taken as 1. Also disclosed is an organic photoelectric conversion element which comprises the gas barrier film.

Gas barrier film, method of manufacturing gas barrier film, and organic photoelectric conversion element

Disclosed is an image forming method possessing the steps of producing a planographic printing plate via a development treatment of exposing a hydrophilic surface of an aluminum support by removing a thermosensitive image formation layer provided on the hydrophilic surface, that is not imagewise heated on a printing press, after imagewise heating a planographic printing plate material having the thermosensitive image formation layer provided on the hydrophilic surface of the aluminum support, and of treating the planographic printing plate with an ink cleaning agent after printing, wherein the hydrophilic surface is colored by a colorant having a solubility of 5-100 g, based on 1 liter of n-decane, and the colorant on the hydrophilic surface exposed after removing the thermosensitive image formation layer is removed in the above step of treating the planographic printing plate with an ink cleaning agent.

Image formation process and planographic printing plate material

Disclosed is a printing plate material comprising a hydrophilic support and provided thereon, an image formation layer containing thermoplastic resin particles in an amount of from 60 to 100% by weight, the thermoplastic resin particles having a glass transition point (Tg) and an average particle size of from 0.01 to 2 &#x3bc;m.

Printing plate material

Disclosed is a printing process employing a printing plate material obtained by providing, on a support, a coating solution for an image formation layer capable of forming an image by heating, the process comprising the steps of imagewise heating the printing plate material, and then carrying out printing supplying printing ink and a dampening solution to the heated printing plate material, wherein the acid base property of the coating solution is the reverse of that of the dampening solution.

Printing process and manufacturing process of printing plate material

A method for forming an image having a protective layer is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of

Method for forming image having protective layer thereon

An image forming material is disclosed which comprises an image receiving sheet having been laminated on an imaging sheet, the imaging sheet comprising a support and provided thereon, an image forming layer contacting the image receiving sheet, an image being formed by exposing the material to a high density energy light to reduce adhesion between the image forming layer and the support at exposed portions without substantially changing adhesion between the image forming layer and the image receiving sheet and then peeling the image receiving sheet from the image forming layer to transfer the image forming layer at exposed portions to the image receiving sheet, wherein both surfaces of the image receiving sheet before the lamination have an average surface roughness Ra of 0.05 to 0.4 .mu.m.

Image forming material and image forming method employing the same

An image forming material is disclosed which comprises a support and provided thereon, an image forming layer and an image protective layer in that order, the image forming layer containing a colorant and a first binder resin, and the image protective layer containing fine particles in an amount of 2 to 150 mg/M.sup.2 and a second binder resin and having a thickness of 0.03 to 1.0 .mu.m, wherein an image is formed by exposing the material to a high density energy light to reduce adhesion between the image forming layer and the support and then removing the image forming layer at exposed portions.

An image forming method is disclosed. In the method, an image-forming element comprising a support provided thereon a first layer containing substantially of one or two components selected from three kinds of components, (1) a cobalt (III) complex having an ammonia ligand or a primary amine ligand, (2) a compound capable of being changed in the absorption wavelength thereof by ammonia or primary amine and (3) a compound or a precursor thereof which makes ammonia or primary amine contained in the cobalt (III) complex as a ligand to be easily released from the complex is used, and the method comprises the steps of;

Image forming method

An image forming material is disclosed which comprises a support and provided thereon, an image forming layer containing colorant particles and a binder, the image forming layer having an optical density of 3.0 or more per 1 .mu.m thickness of the image forming layer at .lambda.max which is a wavelength giving a maximum transparent density in the spectral absorption wavelength range of 350 to 1200 nm of the image forming layer, wherein an image is formed by removing exposed portions of the image forming layer of the image forming material.

Image forming material, method of preparing the same and image forming

An image forming material is disclosed which comprises a support and provided thereon, an image forming layer containing a colorant, the image forming layer being hardened, wherein an image is formed by imagewise exposing the image forming layer to a high density energy light to reduce an adhesive force between the image forming layer and the support and by removing the exposed portions of the image forming layer of the image forming material.

An IC card in which an IC chip is incorporated between a first and second base boards, comprises an image receiving layer on which an ink image is transferred by a thermal transfer method and a cushion layer provided between the IC chip and the image receiving layer so that the cushion layer smooths irregularity caused by the IC chip and improves a flatness of the image receiving layer.

IC card having image information

A method for treating a thermally transferred image is disclosed. The method comprising the steps of (1) thermally transferring an image from the ink layer of a ink sheet which comprises a support and a ink layer comprising a sublimation dye provided on the support, to the surface of an image receiving layer of a image receiving element which comprises a support and a image receiving layer provided on the support, by means of imagewise heating by a first thermal head, and (2) heating the surface of the image receiving layer having the transferred image by a second thermal head through a plastic film contacted to the surface of the image receiving layer.

Method for treating thermally transferred image

An ID card material comprises a thermal transfer image-receiving layer, and provided thereon, a substrate layer and a writing layer in this order, the substrate layer comprising a biaxially oriented polyester film layer having a thickness of 300 to 500 .mu.m and a resin layer having a thickness of 30 to 500 .mu.m selected from the group consisting of a polyolefin layer, a polyvinyl chloride type resin film layer and an ABS resin film layer.

Material for making identification cards

A process for developing and its after-treatment of an exposed silver halide photographic material which is capable of replacing a step of rinsing by water washing and a step of final stabilization by formaldehyde, with a single stabilizing step without water rinsing followed by directly to a drying step is disclosed. The process comprises a solution capable of bleaching containing a ferric complex salt of organic acid, diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid and a like, and a stabilizing solution containing a certain aldehyde compound.

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Hino, Japan

Tomonori Kawamura