Abstract: Surface covering components that include a topcoat layer with different gloss levels in various regions on the top coat layer, and methods of manufacturing such surface covering components, are disclosed. The surface covering components include a coating layer that includes regions that have a relatively higher gloss, and regions with a relatively lower gloss. The differential gloss is provided by coating a substrate with a UV-curable coating composition, subjecting a first region of the surface coating to polymerization under a first set of conditions, and subjecting a second region of the surface coating to polymerization under a second set of conditions. The UV-curable coating compositions include UV-curable components and one or more flatting agents. The different polymerization conditions involve applying various photoinitiators, thermal initiators and/or cure altering agents to some regions of the coated substrate, and not applying these components to other regions of the substrate.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a laminated member with an recorded information code, having a high reading accuracy, which do not detract from product design and which do not require a special reading apparatus. A laminated member 10 of the present invention comprises a transparent material layer 12 on which an information code is recorded, and a reflection-reduction layer 14 provided at the opposite side from a side where the information code is observed. The transparent layer 12 comprises low-reflectance portions 18 and high-reflectance portions 16 having a higher reflectance than the low-reflectance portions 18. The information code is recorded as a distributed pattern of the high-reflectance portions 16. The reflection-reduction layer 14 reduces reflected light advancing to the transparent material layer 12.

Abstract: An indicator panel for an instrument includes a translucent resin substrate having a first face and a second face opposite to the first face, and a design film on the first face of the substrate. The design film includes a translucent portion through which a light from the second surface of the substrate is transmitted, and an opaque portion which does not transmit the light from the second face of the substrate. The design film is produced by jetting droplets of a UV hardening type colored ink to the first face of the substrate in an inkjet printing, and radiating ultraviolet rays for a time within one second from the jetting so as to harden a mass of the droplets, in which a volume of the droplets is equal to or less than 30 pl.

Abstract: An indicator panel is shaped by thermoforming an indicator panel. The indicator panel includes a resin substrate and an inkjet design film on the substrate. The design film is formed by printing a UV hardening ink in an inkjet printing, and hardening. A crack and a removal of the design film can be decreased such that the formed indicator panel can have a high-quality design.

Abstract: A reinforced matrix composite containment duct for gas turbine engines comprising a reinforced matrix composite containment duct having high strength integral flanges and pre-stressed reinforcing fibers, the reinforced matrix composite having uniform distribution of matrix material; and the reinforced matrix composite having less than or equal to 2.5% void space.

Abstract: A decorative sheet includes a base member, made of a resin material and having a first and a second principal surfaces opposite to each other, a decoration layer provided on the first principal surface of the base member and having a pattern area representing a predetermined pattern, and a spread suppressing member provided in a position corresponding to the pattern area on the side of the first principal surface or on the side of the second principal surface of the base member, for suppressing the spread of the pattern area of the decoration layer.

Abstract: A laminated body for printing with a temporary display layer is configured so that the temporary display layer capable of being peeled, which includes at least one layer capable of printing and displaying, and a substrate layer including at least one layer are laminated. A surface side of the temporary display layer that does not contact with the substrate layer has a property of absorbing ink that contains a sublimable dye and includes a resin composition that does not generate a blocking phenomenon during a heat treatment for sublimating the sublimable dye to diffuse into the substrate layer and to dye the substrate layer. This laminated body allows the dye in the temporary display layer to sublimate by the application of heat so as to print an image in the substrate layer. By peeling the temporary display layer, original display can be presented with excellent long term durability and dimensional stability against heat.

Abstract: The present invention provides a heat-sensitive recording material comprising a substrate; and at least two heat-sensitive recording layers provided on the substrate, the heat-sensitive recording layers including microcapsules encapsulating an electron-donating dye precursor, and an electron-accepting compound, which reacts with the electron-donating dye precursor to develop a color and is disposed outside of the microcapsules, wherein the microcapsules include at least two kinds of microcapsules having different glass transition temperatures. A difference between each of the glass transition temperatures of the at least two microcapsules having different glass transition temperatures is preferably in a range from 20° C. to 70° C. According to the invention, a heat-sensitive recording material, which is superior in the reproduction of the gradation of an image and enables recording at high density, is obtained.

Abstract: An ink jet recording medium containing a support and an ink receiving layer on the support, in which the ink receiving layer includes at least a complex formed from a metal with a valence of two or more and an acidic group-containing compound having a substituent group containing a nitrogen atom, an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom. The acidic group-containing compound is preferably a compound represented by the following general formula (I).

Abstract: A thermal transfer protective sheet, a print, and a print with a window member are provided. The thermal transfer protective sheet includes a release layer and a topcoat layer having adhesiveness to an object to be transferred, which are stacked in this order on a base material, wherein the release layer and the topcoat layer are cold-peeled and transferred to the surface of the object to be transferred by the fusion thermal transfer recording method. The release layer comprises a first resin consisting of a thermoplastic resin and a second resin incompatible with the first resin in a mixed state. The first resin is an acrylic resin, and the second resin is a thermoplastic resin having a glass transition point of 50° C. or less. The mixing ratio of the first resin to the second resin is 80:20 or more and 99:1 or less in a weight ratio.

Abstract: The invention relates to a dye image receiver sheet comprising a dye-receiving layer comprising a cross-linked copolymer of polyester and a lubricator polymer, wherein said polyester component of said cross-linked copolymer is present in an amount of between 75% and 99% by weight.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a polymer emulsion used for manufacturing a recording medium, characterized in comprising at least a polymer compound (A) which shows hydrophilicity at a temperature region not higher than a specific temperature (temperature-sensitive point), whereas lipophilicity in a temperature region above the temperature-sensitive point.

Abstract: An optical information storage medium includes a first substrate, a first recording layer, a first reflective layer, a spacer layer, a second recording layer, a second reflective layer, and a second substrate. In this case, the first recording layer is disposed above the first substrate. The first reflective layer is disposed above the first recording layer. The spacer layer is disposed above the first reflective layer. The second recording layer is disposed above the spacer layer, and the second recording layer is made of an inorganic material. The second reflective layer is disposed above the second recording layer. The second substrate is disposed above the second reflective layer.

Abstract: An optical information recording medium includes a transparent substrate on which a recording layer, a reflection layer, a hydrophobic protective layer, a hydrophobic intermediate layer, and an ink receiving layer are successively overlaid.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical information medium that is less susceptible to warp in the disk surface while offering significantly high scratch resistance and abrasion resistance, and a method for producing the optical information medium. An optical information medium (1) comprising a supporting substrate (2) and a film element, the film element disposed on the supporting substrate (2) and composed of one or more layers including at least a recording layer (5) or a reflective layer (3), wherein at least one of the supporting substrate-side surface and the film element-side surface is formed of a hard coat layer (9) of a cured product of a composition comprising (A) inorganic fine particles with an average particle size of 100 nm or less, (B) a reactive silicone, and (C) an active energy ray-curable compound.

Abstract: A heat transfer recording medium includes a protective layer containing mainly a polyvinylbutyral resin, phenoxy resin, or polyvinylacetal resin, an adhesive layer having a glass transition point Tg1 falling within the range Tg1?T?80° C., an ink image receiving layer/adhesive layer having a glass transition point Tg2 falling within the range 60° C.?Tg2?Tg?50° C., and a hot-melt ink image receiving layer/adhesive layer in which a first resin component having a number-average molecular weight of 16,000 or more and a glass transition point of Tg?80° C. or less and a second resin component having a number-average molecular weight of 16,000 or less and a glass transition point of Tg?50° C. or more are mixed at a weight ratio of 1:9 to 5:5.

Abstract: A substantially light-insensitive black and white monosheet thermographic recording material comprising a support and a thermosensitive element, said thermosensitive element containing a substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt, an organic reducing agent therefor in thermal working relationship therewith, a binder and at least one 2-mercapto-benzothiazole compound represented by formula (I): wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 are independently hydrogen, an optionally substituted alkyl group, an optionally substituted aryl group, an alkoxy group, an ester group, a carbamate group, a carbonate group, a SO2R5 group, a —NR6R7 group, a nitro group, a cyano group, an acyl group, a halogen atom, an optionally alkyl or alkoxy-substituted —SO2NH-phenyl group, a perfluoro-alkyl group, a —CONHR8 group, a —NHOCR9 group, a —OCOOR10 group or a —NHCOOR11 group; R5, R9, R10 and R11 are independently an optionally substituted alkyl or an aryl group; R6, R7 and R8 are independently a hydrogen atom, an optionally substitu

Abstract: Disclosed herein are compositions, systems, and methods for making a labeling systems capable of being labeled using either electromagnetic radiation, or ink, or both.

Abstract: A reversible multicolor recording medium includes a supporting substrate, and recording layers which have, respectively, a plurality of reversible thermal coloring compositions having different colors. The recording layers are separated from and stacked on one another on the supporting substrate. The reversible thermal coloring compositions respectively include light-to-heat transforming materials which respectively absorb infrared rays having different wavelength ranges to generate heat.

Abstract: An information recording-displaying card, includes: core sheet; and over sheet bonded to core sheet, including: a support including an amorphous polyester resin, and a reversible thermosensitive recording layer on the support, including: an electron-donating coloring compound, and an electron-accepting compound. The reversible thermosensitive recording layer is capable of forming coloring state and decolorizing state, with difference in at least one of the following: heating temperature, and cooling rate after heating. The over sheet is embossable in upper portion thereof, functions as image displaying section, and meets the following conditions (A), (B) and (C): (A) (over sheet's upper limit temperature for erasing?30° C.)>(over sheet's temperature of storage elasticity E? (1.0 E+08) Pa), (B) 10 ?m or less of surface waviness WCM, and (C) 1.0 E+02 Pa?(storage elasticity E? of reversible thermosensitive over sheet at 180° C.)?5.0 E+07 Pa.