Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Fujifilm Corporation

Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Fuji Photo Film, Inc.

Yoshisada Nakamura

Yutaka Nogami

Yoshio Tani

Yoshio Kanesawa

Koji Tamoto

Ashita Murai

Yasushi Ohki

Masakazu Morigaki

Keiji Mihayashi

Mitsunori Ono

Seiji Ichijima

Nobuo Seto

Shigehisa Tamagawa

Isamu Itoh

Kenji Matsumoto

Jun Arakawa

Yasutomo Goto

Hiroyuki Hiiro

Keizo Koya

Shinichiro Serizawa

Masataka Murata

Tadakazu Edure

Hiroshi Arakatsu

Hiroki Takahashi

Tomoko Tashiro

Hisahiro Mori

Kozo Sato

Shigeru Ohno

Hiroshi Yamamoto

Hiroyuki Watanabe

Junichi Yamanouchi

Yoshio Ishii

Hideo Nakayama

Kei Sakanoue

Yasuo Sakaguchi

Tsutomu Hamada

Yasuhiro Ogata

Shingo Sato

Mikihiko Kato

Osamu Ueno

Takayoshi Kamio

Kazuhiko Matsumoto

Shun-ichi Ishikawa

Hirokazu Kondo

Takanori Sato

Shigetoshi Ono

Shinya Kyozuka

Yoshihiko Shibahara

Masaharu Toriuchi

Tomo Baba

Yuichi Ohashi

Masataka Sato

Tomomi Tateishi

Yasuyuki Mizushima

Hironori Hiyoshi

Katsuya Takemasa

Mitsuru Ito

A water-based cosmetic that includes: (A) ceramidic compound-containing particles that include a ceramidic compound and that are dispersed as an oil phase in an aqueous phase; (B) a fatty acid component composed of at least one selected from the group consisting of fatty acids and fatty acid salts; and (C) a polyhydric alcohol component that includes a first polyhydric alcohol having an IOB of 2.2 or more and a total content in the composition of from 3% by mass to 20% by mass, and a second polyhydric alcohol having an IOB of 2.0 or less and a total content in the composition of 0% by mass or not more than 3% by mass, wherein a total content of surfactant in the composition is 0% by mass or not more than 1% by mass, and a total mass of ceramidic compound in the composition is at least 3.0 times a total mass of the fatty acid component in the composition.

Water-based cosmetic and manufacturing method thereof

The present invention provides a ceramide dispersion which includes (1) ceramide-containing particles which contains a ceramide, which are dispersed in an aqueous phase as an oil-phase component, and which have a volume average particle diameter from 1 nm to 100 nm; and (2) a fatty acid component which is at least one of a fatty acid having a melting temperature not higher than 30&#xb0; C. or a fatty acid salt; the amount of nonionic surfactant being 0 or not more than 0.1 times the total mass of the ceramide; the amount of an ionic surfactant other than the fatty acid component being 0 or less than 0.05 times the total mass of the ceramide; and the pH being from 6 to 8.

Ceramide dispersion and method for producing same

A POF includes an inner core having a refractive index distribution and an outer core provided on periphery of the inner core. A ratio Ra/Rb of an outer diameter of the inner core to the outer core satisfies 0.67&#x2266;(Ra/Rb)&#x2266;0.87 such that an outgoing beam from an end of the POF may have a parallel area of at least 200 &#x3bc;m. Thus a space between the end for exiting the exit light and a light receiving device can be kept at least 200 mm without members or devices for collimating.

Preform for plastic optical material, production method thereof, optical coupling method of plastic optical fiber and connector used for optical coupling

An electrophotographic image-receiving sheet which includes a support, a toner-receiving layer which contains thermoplastic resin. The fixing belt electrophotographic sheet has an optimized separation force at a surface of the electrophotographic image-receiving sheet from the toner-receiving layer. Having a highly improved long-run properties, the fixing belt electrophotographic sheet realizes a stable paper feed without offset, and provides a good quality image with rich photographic features.

Electrophotographic image-receiving sheet and image-forming process using the same

In an optical signal transmission system which can perform high-speed optical transmission not lower than 1 Gbps, VCSEL has light-emission points. A core diameter of an optical fiber GI-POF is set to not lower than 200 &#x3bc;m, and the light-emission points of VCSEL are arranged inside an outer periphery at an end face of GI-POF. A polymerization composition material constituting the core of GI-POF is made of a compound containing deuterated poly methacrylic ester. A wavelength of the light beam of VCSEL is set to the range of 770 nm to 810 nm.

Optical fiber transmission system with a plural emitting point transmitter

A plastic optical fiber () has a core () and a clad (). The clad () is composed of an outer clad () and an inner clad (). The refractive index in the core () gradually increases as the distance from the center thereof decreases. The refractive index in the inner clad () is equal to the minimum value of the refractive index in the core (), and the refractive index in the outer clad () is smaller than that in the inner clad (). For the purpose of decreasing the transmission loss between the plastic optical fiber () and a light emission device or the light receiving device, the diameter dof the core () and the outer diameter dof the inner clad () satisfy the following conditions;100(&#x3bc;m)&#x2266;&#x2266;700(&#x3bc;m)200(&#x3bc;m)&#x2266;&#x2266;1000(&#x3bc;m)d&#x3c;d

Optical connection method and optical transmission apparatus

An object is to provide a method for efficiently producing a powder-coated support, which does not require a drying process and can use, without limitation, even a resin that hardly forms a latex or an aqueous solution, and to provide a powder-coated support obtained by the production method, which exhibits less swelling of its base paper and has excellent smoothness and glossiness. A method produces a powder-coated support by applying a powdery resin composition containing at least a thermoplastic resin to at least one side of a base paper, and hot-pressing the resulting article. The hot pressing is preferably performed by heating the article at a temperature equal to or higher than the melt-starting temperature of the thermoplastic resin and cooling the same to a temperature of 80&#xb0; C. or lower using a powder coating machine of cooling-removing system.

Powder-coated support and production method thereof

To provide a digital printing system that can satisfactorily reproduce yellow, magenta, and cyan colors, respectively, and can excellently reproduce specific skin tones and have significantly improved sensory image quality, a digital printing system reproduces a yellow (Y) color having a* and b* values of &#x2212;15 to 0 and +71 to +85, respectively, in the CIE 1976 (L*a*b*) color space at a blue density of 1.0; a magenta (M) color having a* and b* values of +50 to +65 and &#x2212;30 to 0, respectively, at a green density of 1.0; and a cyan (C) color having a* and b* values of &#x2212;45 to &#x2212;15 and &#x2212;40 to &#x2212;5, respectively, at a red density of 1.0 and produces a print having L*, a*, and b* values of +58 to +78, +20 to +30, and +25 to +32, respectively, from digital image data with RGB values of 239, 167, and 127, respectively.

Digital printing system and digital print

There is provided a process for cleaning wherein a cleaning sheet fed through an image forming apparatus is heated and pressured by at least one of a fixing belt and a fixing roller, and the cleaning sheet removes stains, wherein the cleaning sheet has a support and a layer containing a thermoplastic resin over the support, and satisfies at least one of the following formulae:L(cm)&#x3e;L(cm) andL(cm)&#x3e;L(cm)wherein Lis a length of the cleaning sheet in a direction of feeding the cleaning sheet, La perimeter of the fixing roller, and La perimeter of the fixing belt, and the process satisfies at least one of the following formulae:L(cm)&#x3e;L(cm) andL(cm)&#x3e;L(cm)wherein Lrepresents a length of a smallest electrophotographic image-receiving sheet in a direction of feeding the electrophotographic image-receiving sheet.

Process for cleaning and image forming apparatus therefor

The present invention aims to provide an process for image formation using an electrophotographic image-receiving sheet having excellent anti-offset properties, adhesion resistance, paper transport properties and gloss, and being resistant to cracks, and able to form a high-definition image. For this purpose, there is provided an electrophotographic image-receiving sheet which includes a toner image-receiving layer containing at least a thermoplastic resin and natural wax having an light transmittance of 78% or less, on a support having an light transmittance of 30% or less, and an process for image formation using this electrophotographic image-receiving sheet.

Electrophotographic image-receiving sheet and process for image formation using the same

Provided is an image forming apparatus, in which liable to produce remaining curl, highly effective curl correction is performed. The image forming apparatus includes: a roll receiving portion for receiving a continuous recording sheet wound into a roll shape; a sheet transporting portion for transporting the continuous recording sheet from the roll receiving portion; a cutting portion for cutting the continuous recording sheet sent out into a desired size; an image forming portion for forming a toner image on the recording sheet (which has been cut); a fixing portion for fixing the toner image to the recording sheet by heating the recording sheet on which the toner image is formed; a cooling portion for cooling the recording sheet to which the toner image has been fixed; and a curl correcting portion for correcting a curl of the recording sheet when the recording sheet is cooled.

Image forming apparatus

The present invention aims to provide a recording material support having superior excellent surface smoothness and water resistance compared to the related art, to a process for efficiently manufacturing this recording material support, to a recording material which can form an image having excellent quality and gloss using this recording material support, and to process for image formation using this recording material. For this purpose, the recording material support comprising at least raw paper satisfies at least one condition selected from the Cobb size (30 seconds) of the surface on the side provided with the image-forming layer of the support, Oken type smoothness, St&#xf6;kigt sizing degree, central square average roughness (SRa) and variation amount (&#x394;SRa) of SRa.

Recording material support, process for manufacturing the same, recording material and process for image formation

An object is to provide an image forming process, an image forming apparatus, and a color electrophotographic print that can provide a color electrophotograph that has a sufficient density in its dark area, has gloss, has a high glossiness over the entire densities covering bright areas (a white area and a highlight area), areas at intermediate densities, and dark areas (a black area and a shadow area) and can achieve high image quality equivalent to silver halide photographs. An image forming process produces an electrophotographic print which has a black density of 2.0 or more, a black color satisfying the following condition in the CIE 1976 (L*a*b*) color space: (a*)+(b*)&#x2266;9, and a 20-degree minimum glossiness of 60 or more.

Image forming process and image forming apparatus, electrophotographic image-receiving sheet, and electrophotographic print

An electrophotographic image receiving sheet with a toner image receiving layer containing a release agent and formed on a support sheet for use in a fixing belt type electrophotography is disclosed. The toner image receiving layer satisfies the following condition:&#x3b3;&#x2267;2.5[mJ/m]where &#x3b3;spand &#x3b3;spare values of a polar component of surface free energy of the image receiving layer before heating the image receiving sheet and after having heated the image receiving sheet to 120&#xb0; C. and then cooled it to 25&#xb0; C., respectively.

Image receiving sheet for fixing belt type electrophotography and image forming method using the same

Growing community of inventors

Shizuoka, Japan

Yoshisada Nakamura