Abstract: A buried layer of a second conductivity type and a lower layer of a second conductivity type are formed in a drift layer. A boundary insulating film is formed in the boundary between the lateral portion of the buried layer of a second conductivity type and the drift layer. The lower layer of a second conductivity type is in contact with the lower end of the buried layer of a second conductivity type and the lower end of the boundary insulating film. The buried layer of a second conductivity type is electrically connected to a source electrode. A high-concentration layer of a second conductivity type is formed in the surface layer of the buried layer of a second conductivity type.

Abstract: A buried layer of a second conductivity type and a lower layer of a second conductivity type are formed in a drift layer. A boundary insulating film is formed in the boundary between the lateral portion of the buried layer of a second conductivity type and the drift layer. The lower layer of a second conductivity type is in contact with the lower end of the buried layer of a second conductivity type and the lower end of the boundary insulating film. The buried layer of a second conductivity type is electrically connected to a source electrode. A high-concentration layer of a second conductivity type is formed in the surface layer of the buried layer of a second conductivity type.

Abstract: Captured or input image data is converted into an image of a size of a specific number of pixels. Then, predetermined plural types of different effects are applied to image data obtained through the conversion. Several types of image data items with the applied effects are arranged and simultaneously displayed.

Abstract: It is an object of the invention to evaluate a tracheal intubation technique in consideration of various points to remember related to a tracheal intubation treatment. A tracheal intubation training apparatus (10) is provided with a model (14) which has an appearance modeled on the upper body portion of a human body and an evaluation means (15) which evaluates the tracheal intubation technique carried out to the model (14). The model (14) has pressure sensors (46, 57, 62, 66) which measure pressurizing force when a tracheal intubation device (12) touches respective sections (31, 32, 34, 36, 41, 63) modeled on sections from the inside of the mouth through to that of the trachea of a living body, position detection sensors (69, 76) which detect whether the tracheal intubation device (12) exists in the predetermined areas of the tracheal part (63) and an esophageal part (64), and angle sensors (79 to 81) which detect the postures of a head/face part (28A), a neck/chest part (28B), and a lower jaw part (31).

Abstract: It is intended to provide a multicolor image forming material for laser heat transfer comprising an image receiving sheet having an image receiving layer and at least four heat transfer sheets having different colors each comprising a substrate and a light-heat conversion layer and an image forming layer provided thereon, characterized in that (a) Ra and Rz showing the surface roughness of the image receiving sheet satisfy the following relationships 3?Rz/Ra?20 and 0.5 ?m?Rz?3 ?m.

Abstract: A multicolor image forming material in which a laser beam irradiated region of an image forming layer of a thermal transfer sheet is transferred onto an image receiving layer of an image receiving sheet, wherein: (a) a rate of heat shrinkage in the machine direction and a rate of heat shrinkage in the traverse direction of the image receiving sheet are both not more than 1% with the rate of heat shrinkage in the traverse direction being smaller than the rate of heat shrinkage in the machine direction, (b) a coefficient of dynamic friction between the thermal transfer sheet surface and the image receiving sheet surface is not more than 0.70, (c) a stiffness in the machine direction (Msh) and a stiffness in the traverse direction (Tsh) of the thermal transfer sheet are both from 30 to 70 g, a stiffness in the machine direction (Msr) and in the traverse direction (Tsr) of the image receiving sheet are both from 40 to 90 g, Msh/Tsh and Msr/Tsr are each from 0.75 to 1.

Abstract: A multi-color image-forming process is provided, which comprises a step of transferring an image to an image-receiving sheet by irradiating a heat transfer sheet with laser light in a recording device provided with a recording drum to form the image on the image-receiving sheet, wherein (a) the heat trasfer sheet comprises a image forming layer having Rz of the surface of 0.5 to 2.5 ?m, the image-receiving sheet comprises a image-receiving layer having Rz of the surface of 0.5 to 1.5 ?m, the image-receiving sheet has a longitudinal thermal shrinkage of 1.0% or less, the image-receiving sheet has a crosswise thermal shrinkage of 1.0% or less, and the a multi-color image-forming process comprises a step of retransferring the image which has been transferred to the image-receiving sheet to a final image carrier, the retransferring is effected using a pair of heated rolls each having a diameter ranging from 50 mm to 350 mm wherein the temperature of the various rolls are set to from 80° C. to 250° C.

Abstract: An image forming method comprises: keeping a face of a final medium to be transferred towards a face of an intermediate transfer medium, wherein the final medium to be transferred comprises a transparent support having a readily adhesive layer, and the intermediate transfer medium has an image recorded on an image receiving layer; transferring the image onto the readily adhesive layer, so as to form a transferred image; and subjecting a surface of the readily adhesive layer having the transferred image to a smoothening treatment. And a final medium to be transferred for the image forming method comprises: a transparent support; and a readily adhesive layer provided on a surface of the transparent support onto which an image is to be transferred, wherein the readily adhesive layer has a surface roughness of from 0.5 to 7 ?m in terms of Rz.

Abstract: A multicolor image-forming material comprises: an image-receiving sheet having an image-receiving layer and a support; and at least four thermal transfer sheets each including a support, a light-to-heat converting layer and an image-forming layer, in which each of the thermal transfer sheets has a different color, wherein a multicolor image is formed by: superposing the image-forming layer in each of the at least four thermal transfer sheets on the image-receiving layer, such that the image-forming layer is opposed to the image-receiving layer; irradiating the image-forming layer with a laser beam; transferring the irradiated area of the image-forming layer onto the image-receiving layer to form an image; and transferring the image on the image-receiving layer onto an actual printing paper, and each of the at least four thermal transfer sheets has a recording area being defined by a product of a length of 515 mm or more and width of 728 mm or more, and each of the at least four thermal transfer sheets is larg

Abstract: A multicolor image-forming material comprising: an image-receiving sheet comprising a support and an image-receiving layer; and at least four thermal transfer sheets each comprising a support, a light-to-heat converting layer and an image-forming layer, and each having a different color, wherein an image is formed by the method comprising the steps of: superposing each one of the at least four thermal transfer sheets on the image-receiving sheet to be in a state of the image-forming layer being in contact with the image-receiving layer; and irradiating the thermal transfer sheet with a laser beam to transfer an image in an area of the image-forming layer subjected to irradiation onto the image-receiving layer, and at least one layer selected from layers comprised in the image-receiving sheet and the at least four thermal transfer sheets comprises a fluorine-series surface active agent which is a homopolymer comprising a polymerizable monomer represented by the formula (1) and having a weight average molecular

Abstract: It is intended to provide a multicolor image forming material for laser heat transfer comprising an image receiving sheet having an image receiving layer and at least four heat transfer sheets having different colors each comprising a substrate and a light-heat conversion layer and an image forming layer provided thereon, characterized in that (a) Ra and Rz showing the surface roughness of the image receiving sheet satisfy the following relationships 3?Rz/Ra?20 and 0.5 ?m?Rz?3 ?m; a multicolor image forming material characterized in that: (b) the image forming layer of each of the heat transfer sheets has an optical density (OD) to film thickness ratio (OD/film thickness) of 1.

Abstract: To provide a multicolor image forming material in which upon irradiation with laser beam, a laser beam irradiated region of an image forming layer is transferred onto an image receiving, layer of an image receiving sheet to undergo multicolor image recording, wherein the multicolor image forming material is (a) a multicolor image forming material wherein a ratio of an optical density (OD) to a film thickness of the image forming layer of each thermal transfer sheet is 1.

Abstract: A laser thermal transfer recording method comprises: dispensing a thermal transfer sheet and an image-receiving sheet to an exposure recording device; cutting each of the sheets into pieces of a predetermined length; superposing each of the cut pieces of the image-receiving sheet on each of the cut pieces of the thermal transfer sheet; loading an exposure drum installed in the exposure recording device with the thus superposed pieces of sheets; and irradiating the sheets loaded on the exposure drum with a laser beam according to image information, in which the laser beam is absorbed in the thermal transfer sheet and converted into a heat, and an image is transferred onto the image-receiving sheet by the heat converted from the laser beam, wherein each surface of the thermal transfer sheet and the image-receiving sheet is cleaned by contacting with an adhesive roller that includes an adhesive material on its surface, in which the adhesive roller is disposed in any one of a feeding part and a conveying part of

Abstract: A method for forming a multicolor image comprises: preparing: an image-receiving sheet having a support and an image-receiving layer; and at least four thermal transfer sheets each including a support, a light-to-heat converting layer and an image-forming layer, in which each of the at least four thermal transfer sheets has a different color and each of the image-forming layers in the at least four thermal transfer sheets has a ratio of an optical density (OD) to a layer thickness: OD/layer thickness (?m unit) of 1.

Abstract: A multicolor image-forming material comprises: an image-receiving sheet having an image-receiving layer; and at least four thermal transfer sheets each including a support, a light-to-heat converting layer and an image-forming layer, in which each of the thermal transfer sheets has a different color, wherein an image is formed by: superposing the image-forming layer in each of the at least four thermal transfer sheets on the image-receiving layer in the image-receiving sheet, in which the image-forming layer is opposed to the image-receiving layer; irradiating the image-forming layer in the thermal transfer sheet with a laser beam; and transferring the irradiated area of the image-forming layer onto the image-receiving layer in the image-receiving sheet, and each of the light-to-heat converting layers in the at least four thermal transfer sheets has a ratio of an optical density (OD) to a layer thickness: OD/layer thickness (&mgr;m unit) of 0.57 or more.

Abstract: A multicolor image-forming material comprising: an image-receiving sheet comprising a support and an image-receiving layer; and at least four thermal transfer sheets each comprising a support, a light-to-heat converting layer and an image-forming layer, and each having a different color, wherein an image is formed by the method comprising the steps of: superposing each one of the at least four thermal transfer sheets on the image-receiving sheet to be in a state of the image-forming layer being in contact with the image-receiving layer; and irradiating the thermal transfer sheet with a laser beam to transfer an image in an area of the image-forming layer subjected to irradiation onto the image-receiving layer, and at least one layer selected from layers comprised in the image-receiving sheet and the at least four thermal transfer sheets comprises a fluorine-series surface active agent which is a homopolymer comprising a polymerizable monomer represented by the formula (1) and having a weight average molecular

Abstract: A multicolor image-forming material comprising: an image-receiving sheet comprising a support and an image-receiving layer; and at least four thermal transfer sheets each comprising a support, a light-to-heat converting layer and an image-forming layer, and each having a different color, wherein an image is formed by the method comprising the steps of: superposing each one of the at least four thermal transfer sheets on the image-receiving sheet to be in a state of the image-forming layer being in contact with the image-receiving layer; and irradiating the thermal transfer sheet with a laser beam to transfer an image in an area of the image-forming layer subjected to irradiation onto the image-receiving layer, and at least one layer selected from layers comprised in the image-receiving sheet and the at least four thermal transfer sheets comprises a fluorine-series surface active agent which is a homopolymer comprising a polymerizable monomer represented by the formula (1) and having a weight average molecular

Abstract: A multicolor image-forming material comprises: an image-receiving sheet having an image-receiving layer and a support; and at least four thermal transfer sheets each including a support, a light-to-heat converting layer and an image-forming layer, in which each of the thermal transfer sheets has a different color, wherein a multicolor image is formed by: superposing the image-forming layer in each of the at least four thermal transfer sheets on the image-receiving layer, such that the image-forming layer is opposed to the image-receiving layer; irradiating the image-forming layer with a laser beam; transferring the irradiated area of the image-forming layer onto the image-receiving layer to form an image; and transferring the image on the image-receiving layer onto an actual printing paper, and each of the at least four thermal transfer sheets has a recording area being defined by a product of a length of 515 mm or more and width of 728 mm or more, and each of the at least four thermal transfer sheets is larg

Abstract: A multi-color image-forming material is disclosed comprising image-receiving sheets each having an image-receiving layer and heat transfer sheets for at least four colors, including yellow, magenta, cyan and black, each having at least a light-to-heat conversion layer and an image-forming layer on a support, the heat transfer sheets and the image-receiving sheets being respectively laminated such that the image-forming layer of the heat transfer sheet and the image-receiving layer of the image-receiving sheet are opposed to each other, whereby the irradiation with laser beam causes the area irradiated with laser beam on the image-forming layer to be transferred onto the image-forming layer in the image-receiving sheet to effect image recording, wherein the thickness of the image-forming layer in the heat transfer sheets is from 0.01 &mgr;m to 1.5 &mgr;m and the width of lines in laser-transferred image is from 0.8 to 2.0 times a half of the half-width (i.e.

Abstract: A multicolor image-forming material comprises: an image-receiving sheet having an image-receiving layer and a support; and at least four thermal transfer sheets each including a support, a light-to-heat converting layer and an image-forming layer, in which each of the thermal transfer sheets has a different color, wherein a multicolor image is formed by: superposing the image-forming layer in each of the at least four thermal transfer sheets on the image-receiving layer, such that the image-forming layer is opposed to the image-receiving layer; irradiating the image-forming layer with a laser beam; transferring the irradiated area of the image-forming layer onto the image-receiving layer to form an image; and transferring the image on the image-receiving layer onto an actual printing paper, and each of the at least four thermal transfer sheets has a recording area being defined by a product of a length of 515 mm or more and width of 728 mm or more, and each of the at least four thermal transfer sheets is larg