Abstract: A method for manufacturing a smart card capable of achieving excellent connection reliability and bending resistance, a smart card, and a conductive particle-containing hot-melt adhesive sheet. A conductive particle-containing hot-melt adhesive sheet containing solder particles of a non-eutectic alloy in a binder containing a crystalline polyamide having a carboxyl group is interposed between a card member and an IC chip and subjected to thermocompression bonding. The crystalline polyamide having a carboxyl group improves the solder wettability of the non-eutectic alloy, thereby achieving excellent connection reliability. This effect is considered to be a flux effect due to the carboxyl group present in the crystalline polyamide, and as a result, it is possible to prevent the decrease in the elastic modulus of the adhesive layer which would be caused by the addition of a flux compound and to achieve excellent bending resistance.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a mounting body comprising: a mounting step of mounting an electronic component onto a wiring board via an anisotropic conductive film containing a binder having an epoxy resin as a primary constituent and conductive particles having a compressive hardness (K) of 500 kgf/mm2 or more when compressively deformed by 10%, wherein a relation between a thickness (A) of the binder and an average particle diameter (B) is 0.6?B/A?1.5 and an elastic modulus of the binder after curing is 50 MPa or more at 100° C.; and a remounting step of mechanically peeling to detach the electronic component and the wiring board in the case of a problem occurring in mounting of the mounting step and reusing the wiring board to perform the mounting step.

Abstract: An anisotropic conductive film for anisotropically conductively connecting a terminal of a first electronic component and a terminal of a second electronic component, the anisotropic conductive film including: a conductive particle-containing layer, which contains an adhesive layer-forming component and conductive particles, wherein the conductive particle-containing layer has two endothermic peaks in differential scanning calorimetry where endothermic peak temperatures are measured under conditions that a measuring temperature range is from 10° C. to 250° C. and a heating speed is 10° C./min, and wherein T2 is 30° C. or higher, and T4?T2 is greater than 0° C. but 80° C. or less, where T2 is a temperature of the endothermic peak present at a lower temperature side, and T4 is a temperature of the endothermic peak present at a higher temperature side.

Abstract: An anisotropic conductive film for anisotropically conductively connecting a terminal of a first electronic component and a terminal of a second electronic component, the anisotropic conductive film including: a conductive particle-containing layer, which contains an adhesive layer-forming component and conductive particles, wherein the conductive particle-containing layer has two endothermic peaks in differential scanning calorimetry where endothermic peak temperatures are measured under conditions that a measuring temperature range is from 10° C. to 250° C. and a heating speed is 10° C./min, and wherein T2 is 30° C. or higher, and T4?T2 is greater than 0° C. but 80° C. or less, where T2 is a temperature of the endothermic peak present at a lower temperature side, and T4 is a temperature of the endothermic peak present at a higher temperature side.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a mounting body comprising: a mounting step of mounting an electronic component onto a wiring board via an anisotropic conductive film containing a binder having an epoxy resin as a primary constituent and conductive particles having a compressive hardness (K) of 500 kgf/mm2 or more when compressively deformed by 10%, wherein a relation between a thickness (A) of the binder and an average particle diameter (B) is 0.6?B/A?1.5 and an elastic modulus of the binder after curing is 50 MPa or more at 100° C.; and a remounting step of mechanically peeling to detach the electronic component and the wiring board in the case of a problem occurring in mounting of the mounting step and reusing the wiring board to perform the mounting step.

Abstract: A method for producing a laminated soft-magnetic sheet including: laminating at least two curable soft-magnetic sheets obtained by applying a soft-magnetic composition, which contains a flat soft-magnetic powder, to a release base; and drying the soft-magnetic composition at a temperature T1 at which curing reaction does not substantially take place, compressing the laminate at a temperature T2 at which the curing reaction does not substantially take place, using a laminator for applying a linear pressure thereon while the linear pressure is sequentially changed, and by applying surface pressure, compressing the compressed laminate at a temperature T3 at which the curing reaction takes place.

Abstract: A magnetic sheet, which contains: a magnetic layer including a magnetic powder and a resin composition containing the magnetic powder therein; and a convex-concave forming layer, in which the convex-concave forming layer has Bekk smoothness of 70 sec/mL or less. A method for producing a magnetic sheet, which contains: adding a magnetic powder to a resin composition to prepare a magnetic composition, and giving the magnetic composition a shape to form a magnetic layer; and placing and stacking a convex-concave forming layer and a pattern transferring material on a surface of the magnetic layer in this order, and hot pressing the stacked layers so as to bond the convex-concave forming layer with the magnetic layer to form a laminate, as well as to transfer a surface configuration of the pattern transferring material to a surface of the laminate of the convex-concave forming layer and the magnetic layer.

Abstract: A magnetic sheet, which contains: a magnetic layer including a magnetic powder and a resin composition containing the magnetic powder therein; and a convex-concave forming layer, in which the convex-concave forming layer has Bekk smoothness of 70 sec/mL or less. A method for producing a magnetic sheet, which contains: adding a magnetic powder to a resin composition to prepare a magnetic composition, and giving the magnetic composition a shape to form a magnetic layer; and placing and stacking a convex-concave forming layer and a pattern transferring material on a surface of the magnetic layer in this order, and hot pressing the stacked layers so as to bond the convex-concave forming layer with the magnetic layer to form a laminate, as well as to transfer a surface configuration of the pattern transferring material to a surface of the laminate of the convex-concave forming layer and the magnetic layer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a magnetic sheet with improved resistance to folding while maintaining good magnetic characteristics and reliability; a method for producing the magnetic sheet; an antenna; and a portable communication device. A magnetic sheet of the present invention includes a flat magnetic powder, and a resin binder capable of dissolving in a solvent, wherein the magnetic sheet has a gradient of the content ratio of the magnetic powder to the resin binder in a thickness direction thereof, wherein, in use, the magnetic sheet is folded so that, of the front and back surfaces thereof, one surface whose magnetic powder content is lower than that of the other is folded inward, and wherein the difference in glossiness measured at a light-incident angle of 60° between the front and back surfaces is 9.4 or more.

Abstract: A magnetic sheet, which contains: a magnetic layer including a magnetic powder and a resin composition containing the magnetic powder therein; and a convex-concave forming layer, in which the convex-concave forming layer has Bekk smoothness of 70 sec/mL or less. A method for producing a magnetic sheet, which contains: adding a magnetic powder to a resin composition to prepare a magnetic composition, and giving the magnetic composition a shape to form a magnetic layer; and placing and stacking a convex-concave forming layer and a pattern transferring material on a surface of the magnetic layer in this order, and hot pressing the stacked layers so as to bond the convex-concave forming layer with the magnetic layer to form a laminate, as well as to transfer a surface configuration of the pattern transferring material to a surface of the laminate of the convex-concave forming layer and the magnetic layer.

Abstract: The present invention is to impart, to a sheet-like soft magnetic material, a configuration in which sheet thickness change is suppressed and in which fluctuation in magnetic permeability is small even under a high-temperature or a high-temperature, high-humidity environment, even when a plurality of thin curable soft magnetic sheets produced by a coating method are laminated. The sheet-like soft magnetic material is formed from a soft magnetic composition which is formed by mixing at least a flat soft magnetic powder, an acrylic rubber, an epoxy resin, a curing agent for the epoxy resin, and a solvent. The flat soft magnetic powder is arranged in an in-plane direction of the sheet-like soft magnetic material. An acrylic rubber having a glycidyl group is used for the acrylic rubber. The weight ratio of the flat soft magnetic powder with respect to the total amount of the acrylic rubber, the epoxy resin, and the curing agent for the epoxy resin is 3.7 to 5.8.

Abstract: The present invention provides a magnetic sheet with improved resistance to folding while maintaining good magnetic characteristics and reliability; a method for producing the magnetic sheet; an antenna; and a portable communication device. A magnetic sheet of the present invention includes a flat magnetic powder, and a resin binder capable of dissolving in a solvent, wherein the magnetic sheet has a gradient of the content ratio of the magnetic powder to the resin binder in a thickness direction thereof, wherein, in use, the magnetic sheet is folded so that, of the front and back surfaces thereof, one surface whose magnetic powder content is lower than that of the other is folded inward, and wherein the difference in glossiness measured at a light-incident angle of 60° between the front and back surfaces is 9.4 or more.

Abstract: The present invention is to impart, to a sheet-like soft magnetic material, a configuration in which sheet thickness change is suppressed and in which fluctuation in magnetic permeability is small even under a high-temperature or a high-temperature, high-humidity environment, even when a plurality of thin curable soft magnetic sheets produced by a coating method are laminated. The sheet-like soft magnetic material is formed from a soft magnetic composition which is formed by mixing at least a flat soft magnetic powder, an acrylic rubber, an epoxy resin, a curing agent for the epoxy resin, and a solvent. The flat soft magnetic powder is arranged in an in-plane direction of the sheet-like soft magnetic material. An acrylic rubber having a glycidyl group is used for the acrylic rubber. The weight ratio of the flat soft magnetic powder with respect to the total amount of the acrylic rubber, the epoxy resin, and the curing agent for the epoxy resin is 3.7 to 5.8.

Abstract: A magnetic sheet, which contains: a magnetic layer including a magnetic powder and a resin composition containing the magnetic powder therein; and a convex-concave forming layer, in which the convex-concave forming layer has Bekk smoothness of 70 sec/mL or less. A method for producing a magnetic sheet, which contains: adding a magnetic powder to a resin composition to prepare a magnetic composition, and giving the magnetic composition a shape to form a magnetic layer; and placing and stacking a convex-concave forming layer and a pattern transferring material on a surface of the magnetic layer in this order, and hot pressing the stacked layers so as to bond the convex-concave forming layer with the magnetic layer to form a laminate, as well as to transfer a surface configuration of the pattern transferring material to a surface of the laminate of the convex-concave forming layer and the magnetic layer.

Abstract: A method for producing a laminated soft-magnetic sheet is provided by laminating thin soft-magnetic sheets produced by an application method. A change in sheet thickness can be suppressed and variations in the magnetic permeability are small.

Abstract: A sublimation thermal transfer recording medium and a thermal transfer recording method that can remove background stain and the like, and can realize gradation printing with good accuracy and high correlation between the applied heat quantity and the coloring density are provided. The sublimation thermal transfer recording medium includes a base sheet having formed on one surface thereof a number of thermal transfer dye layers having different hues in planar sequence one another. The thermal transfer dye layers contain a phenoxy resin as a main component of a binder resin, and contain a block copolymer silicone resin. The silicone resin preferably includes an amount of Si that ranges from 5% to 30% by weight, and a mixing ratio of a resin material and the silicone resin is preferably from 99:1 to 70:30.

Abstract: A sublimation thermal transfer recording medium and a thermal transfer recording method that can remove background stain and the like, and can realize gradation printing with high accuracy and good correlation between the heat quantity applied and the coloring density are provided. The sublimation thermal transfer recording medium includes a base sheet having formed on one surface thereof a number of thermal transfer dye layers having different hues in parallel to each other. The thermal transfer dye layers contain a resin material having a weight average molecular Mw of about 100,000 or less, and preferably about 60,000 or less, as a main component of a binder resin, and contain a block copolymer silicone resin. The silicone resin preferably includes an amount of Si that ranges from about 5% to about 30% by weight, and a mixing ratio of the resin material and the silicone resin is preferably from about 99:1 to about 70:30.

Abstract: A sublimation thermal transfer recording medium and a thermal transfer recording method that can remove background stain and the like, and can realize gradation printing with high accuracy and good correlation between the heat quantity applied and the coloring density are provided. The sublimation thermal transfer recording medium includes a base sheet having formed on one surface thereof a number of thermal transfer dye layers having different hues in parallel to each other. The thermal transfer dye layers contain a resin material having a weight average molecular Mw of about 100,000 or less, and preferably about 60,000 or less, as a main component of a binder resin, and contain a block copolymer silicone resin. The silicone resin preferably includes an amount of Si that ranges from about 5% to about 30% by weight, and a mixing ratio of the resin material and the silicone resin is preferably from about 99:1 to about 70:30.

Abstract: The present invention provides a thermal transfer ink ribbon which has good ink transferability and is capable of producing transferred images which are sharp and have high durability. As the main constituent of a binding material of thermally fusible resin, fine particles of low slipperiness which are not softened at a temperature at which the binding material is softened are contained in an ink layer 13 when the ink layer 13 is deposited to produce a thermal transfer ink ribbon 1. Since the thermally fusible resin is used, the durability of transferred images is high. Because the fine particles are contained, the ink layer can be separated sharply from the thermal transfer ink ribbon 1. As the fine particles are of low slipperiness, no slippage occurs between the thermal transfer ink ribbon 1 and a transfer medium. The fine particles of low slipperiness have an average diameter ranging from 0.3 .mu.m to 3.0 .mu.