Abstract: Described herein is an array of finished products, each finished product in the array having a length relative error of less than 0.81% of a target length, H is disclosed. The finished products, which may be toilet paper and kitchen towels, are formed from transversally cutting elongate logs of convolutely wound web materials.

Abstract: A fiber composite material and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The fiber composite material includes: a fiber prepreg layer including a first resin and fibers impregnated with the first resin; and a plurality of strip-shaped composite resin layers including multi-layered carbon nanotubes and a second resin disposed on the fiber prepreg layer, wherein the plurality of the strip-shaped composite resin layers and the fiber prepreg layer together form a hollow tubular body, and a length direction of the plurality of strip-shaped composite resin layer is at an angle of from 0 degree and less than 90 degrees with respect to an extending direction of the fiber prepreg layer.

Abstract: A plasticized ultraviolet electron beam (UV/EB) canonically cured coating, such as a release layer or print from UV/EB cured inks, comprises polymers with a reactive plasticizer incorporated therein. The cured coating contains the plasticizing additives permanently attached to the polymer matrix, locking them in place, and permanently flexibilizing the cured coating. The cured coating finds use on varied substrates including printable substrates used in conventional printers and those with release layers for adhesive labels. Coating formulations which form these canonically cured coatings comprise canonically polymerizable monomers and/or oligomers, a reactive plasticizer which is food grade, cosmetic grade, medical grade or biologically benign when incorporated in the polymer backbone, and a catalyst.

Abstract: Printed matter that includes a light-transmissive substrate, a laminated clear layer, and a light adjustment layer. The laminated clear layer is disposed above a main surface of the substrate, and is composed of clear element layers that are light-transmissive. The light adjustment layer has a function of adjusting an amount of light transmitted therethrough and is disposed on the laminated clear layer and/or interposed between a plurality of the clear element layers. The adjustment layer includes light reflective particles and covers a portion of a surface of a layer thereunder. Each of the light reflective particles is granular and has a light reflective surface. The light adjustment layer, in terms of surface area ratio in plan view, covers from 2% to 50% of the surface of the layer thereunder.

Abstract: There is provided a luminescent medium which requires difficult analysis of light emitted from a luminescent material of the medium. A luminescent medium includes a substrate, and a luminescent material comprising a first luminescent material which, when irradiated with visible light, infrared light or ultraviolet light, emits first infrared light “a”, and a second luminescent material which, when irradiated with visible light, infrared light or ultraviolet light, emits second infrared light “b”. The first luminescent material is formed in a first planar area, and the second luminescent material is formed in a second planar area. The first planar area and the second planar area overlap each other, forming an overlapping planar area in which the luminescent materials each have a concentration gradation.

Abstract: An active-energy-ray-curable composition including at least one monofunctional (meth)acrylate, at least one multifunctional (meth)acrylate, and at least one chlorinated-olefin-structure-containing polymer.

Abstract: A sealing for arrangement between a wall and a wall covering includes a sealing sheet and an adhesive tape. The sealing sheet and the adhesive tape each have a carrier layer of a preferably closed-cell foam plastic. Furthermore, the sealing sheet can bear a nonwoven fabric preferably on the wall-facing side, wherein border strips remain free of the nonwoven fabric for underlapping with an adhesive tape.

Abstract: The foam product includes a foam core, a first outer layer, and a first binding layer. The foam core has a top surface and a bottom surface. The first outer layer is disposed on the top surface and has an outer surface with a visible pattern. The first binding layer is disposed between the first outer layer and the top surface of the foam core for firmly binding the first outer layer, the binding layer, and the foam core together as an integral structure. The binding layer consists of: 10 to 40 wt % of anhydride modified ethylene acrylate resin; 3 to 10 wt % of butane; 0.05 to 0.2 wt % of foaming agent; 0.05 to 3.0 wt % of stabilizer; and remaining part of low density polyethylene (LDPE) resin. So, the entire structure is simple. In addition, it can improve the adhering effect and the safety.

Abstract: A hybrid inkjet ink comprising a water miscible organic solvent, a UV radiation-curable material and appropriate photoinitiator, and an epoxide-containing material and printed decorations produced by applying the inkjet ink images to an aluminum substrate.

Abstract: An inkjet printing method and inkjet compositions are disclosed. The method includes selectively depositing by inkjet printing, layer by layer, a first composition and a second composition onto a receiving media from different dispensers to form polymerizable deposited layers. The first composition includes one or more free-radical polymerizable compounds and a cationic photoinitiator and is devoid of compounds able to undergo cationic photopolymerization within the first composition. The second composition includes one or more cationic polymerizable compounds and is devoid of cationic photoinitiators. At least one of the compositions includes a radical photoinitiator. The method further includes exposing the deposited layers to actinic radiation to initiate polymerization of the free-radical polymerizable compounds and the cationic polymerizable compounds within the deposited layers.

Abstract: Provided herein is a printing ink comprising at least two binders, at least one pigment, an aqueous carrier, and optional additives, wherein one binder is a specific polyurethane dispersion binder and a further binder is a specific poly(meth)acrylate dispersion binder.

Abstract: A white ink includes a hollow resin particle, an organic solvent, an acrylic silicone resin, and water, wherein the acrylic silicone resin has a resin solubility parameter smaller than that of the hollow resin particle.

Abstract: The present invention relates to relay thermal conductor made of material having better thermal conductivity coefficient, wherein which is thermal conductively coupled with heating or cooling first thermal body at one end or face thereof, and is coupled with interface thermal conductor having higher specific heat capacity at the other end or face thereof; the relay thermal conductor directly performs thermal conduction with second thermal body at another part thereof; and the interface thermal conductor having higher specific heat capacity is the thermal conducting carrier between the relay thermal conductor and the second thermal body.

Abstract: The present invention provides lactic acid polyester resins that are readily soluble in acrylates, and novel acrylated polyester resins thereof. The present invention further provides novel energy curable inks and coating compositions comprising the lactic acid polyester resins, and/or acrylated polyesters. The energy curable inks and coating compositions are especially useful for lithographic and flexographic printing.

Abstract: An ink is provided. The ink includes a colorant, an organic solvent, a resin particle including an anionic urethane resin, and an organic amine compound having a boiling point in the range of from 120° C. to 200° C. and a molecular weight of 100 or less, and water, and the mass ratio of the organic amine compound to the resin particle is in the range of from 0.01 to 1.00.

Abstract: There is provided a titanium alloy member including a base metal portion, and an outer hardened layer formed on an outer layer of the base metal portion, the cross sectional hardness of the base metal portion is 330 HV or higher and lower than 400 HV, the cross sectional hardnesses at positions 5 ?m and 15 ?m from the surface of the outer hardened layer are 450 HV or higher and lower than 600 HV, the outer hardened layer includes an oxygen diffusion layer and a nitrogen diffusion layer, the oxygen diffusion layer is at a depth of 40 to 80 ?m from the surface of the outer hardened layer, and the nitrogen diffusion layer is at a depth of 2 to 5 ?m from surface of the outer hardened layer. This titanium alloy member includes an outer hardened layer, is high in cross sectional hardness of the base metal portion, and is excellent in fatigue strength and wear resistance.

Abstract: Disclosed is a substrate which has thereon a marking or layer comprising a salt-free cured chiral liquid crystal precursor composition which comprises one or more nematic compounds A and one or more chiral dopant compounds B which are capable of giving rise to a cholesteric state of the chiral liquid crystal precursor composition and are of formula (I) as set forth herein. A modifying resin made from one or more polymerizable monomers comprising an average of at least one ether functionality per polymerizable group is disposed between the substrate and the marking or layer and in contact with the marking or layer in one or more areas thereof. The modifying resin changes the position of a selective reflection band exhibited by the cured chiral liquid crystal precursor composition on the substrate in the one or more areas.

Abstract: Provided are novel ink formulations based on metal salts and metal complexes. The formulations include a sole metal precursor in the form of metal salt nanoparticles dispersed in a medium. In addition, the metal salt nanoparticles may include an anion. The novel ink formulations may be used for producing conducting patterns.

Abstract: An ink composition that offers a recorded image having rubfastness and having high quality without causing a mottling phenomenon, an inkjet recording method using the same, and a colored article. The ink composition includes a compound represented by the following formula (1): a colorant, a dispersant, and a C4-C12 alkanediol, in which the content of the compound represented by formula (1) is 0.1 to 5% by mass. In the formula (1), R1 represents a hydroxy group or the like, R2 represents an alkyl group or the like, R3 represents an alkyl group or the like, R4 represents a hydrogen atom or the like, and R5 represents an alkyl group.

Abstract: This invention provides an inkjet ink comprising: an ?,?-unsaturated ether monomer in which the only radiation-curable functional groups present in the monomer are ?,?-unsaturated ether groups; a tri- or higher functionality (meth)acrylate monomer in which the only radiation-curable functional groups present in the monomer are acrylate groups; and a colouring agent; wherein the ink contains less than 5% by weight of water and volatile organic solvents in total, and less than 10% by weight of mono-and di-functional monomers in total, other than the ?,?-unsaturated ether monomer, where the amounts by weight are based on the total weight of the ink, and wherein the ink has a viscosity of less than 100 mPas at 25° C. The ink is particularly suitable for printing onto food packaging.