Shiseido Company, Limited

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Figla Company, Ltd.

Tsutomu Saito

Kazuhisa Ohno

Hiroshi Fukui

Takashi Ogawa

Asa Kimura

Yutaka Ohtsu

Taketoshi Kanda

Motokiyo Nakano

Toshio Yoneyama

Kazuo Tokubo

Hideo Morohoshi

Okitsugu Nakata

Junichi Koyama

Ryujiro Namba

Kunihiro Kawaguchi

Yuzo Shimizu

Kenichi Tomita

Takahisa Nakano

Fukuji Suzuki

Takahiro Yamamoto

Keiji Mihayashi

Satoshi Takayama

Hitoshi Nagato

Shuzo Hirahara

Kazuhiro Itsumi

Hideki Nukada

Seiji Ikari

Shunsuke Hattori

Takanobu Nishimura

Osamu Sakurai

Junji Miura

Nobuhisa Tsujita

Kazumi Saito

Sakae Tamura

Yoshimi Kanada

Kenichi Tommita

Tetuo Okuyama

Toshiaki Ougiya

According to one embodiment, an inspection apparatus includes an optical system portion on which a plurality of reflected light rays corresponding to a plurality of observation directions with respect to an optical variable image device are incident and which images the plurality of reflected light rays incident thereon, an imaging portion that images the plurality of reflected light rays imaged by the optical system portion and thereby generates reflected light images corresponding the plurality of respective observation directions, an object relation determination portion that determines whether or not there is a predetermined geometric difference between objects that are contained in reflected light images imaged by the imaging portion and corresponding to different observation directions, and an authenticity determination portion that determines authenticity of the optical variable image device based on a result of the determination by the object relation determination portion.

Inspection apparatus

A stiffness detector transmits acoustic waves to a paper sheet at a predetermined angle to excite Lamb waves. The stiffness detector receives leaky waves of the Lamb waves propagated through the paper sheet at different angles with respect to the paper sheet by a plurality of reception sensors. The stiffness detector is configured to specify a maximum leak angle at which a leak amount of the acoustic waves from the paper sheet becomes maximum based on outputs from the plurality of reception sensors in the reception module and to judge a degree of fatigue of the paper sheet based on the specified maximum leak angle.

Stiffness detector, stiffness detection method, and paper sheet processor including stiffness detector

A photochromic ultra-violet ray shield material principally composed of titanium oxide particles, which have a specific surface area of 25 m2/g or above and also have .DELTA.E=5.ltoreq.A (discoloration degrees) and B (at restoration)&lt;.DELTA.E=3, a method of manufacturing the same and a skin external preparation using the same. Both photochromic property and excellent ultra-violet ray shield effect are obtained.

Photochromic ultra-violet ray shield powder, method of manufacturing the

An ink-jet recording apparatus which includes a recording medium for carrying an electrostatic image, an ink-ejecting section opposing the recording medium and located in non-contact state with respect to the recording medium medium, and having an ink holding section for holding ink and an opening section for ejecting ink, at least one counter electrode located in the ink-ejecting section to be immersed in ink. The ink is ejected by virtue of an electric field between the electrostatic image formed on the recording medium and the counter electrode.

Ink-jet recording apparatus which allows shifting or changing of ink

The present invention provides fundamental materials excellent in general purpose used for buildings, etc. as windows and interior and exterior walls of general buildings, houses, cars, etc., concretely, various laminates with the flip-flop effect (the effect of delicately changing in color, depending on the angles of view) and a decorative effect due to a colored mirror face, which are composed at least of a light-transmitting or light-intercepting base and a brightening pigment prepared by covering mica grains on the surfaces with titanium oxides including low-valent titanium oxides.

Laminates

A modified powder or particulate material having a silicone polymer film coated on substantially the entire surface thereof, this powder or particulate material being produced by bringing at least one silicone compound, in the form of a vapor, having the general formula (I):

Modified powder or particulate material

A modified powder or particulate material coated on substantially the entire surface thereof with a film of a silicone polymer carrying a pendant group thereon, this powder or particulate material being produced by a process comprising the steps of

Modified powder

Cosmetic compositions containing modified powder or particulate material

A silver halide light-sensitive material is disclosed. The material is comprised of a support comprising thereon at least two emulsion layers having the same color sensitivity and being different light-sensitivities, with a layer containing comparatively light-insensitive silver halide grains of 0.05 to 0.6 .mu.m in average grain size being positioned in at least one of interspaces defined by every two adjacent members of said at least two emulsion layers. The resulting material has both raised sensitivity and improved graininess.

Silver halide light-sensitive material

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Kanagawa, Japan

Tsutomu Saito