Abstract: Disclosed is a gas barrier film having, on one surface of a substrate film, a gas-barrier layer comprising at least one organic region and at least one inorganic region, and having, as a barrier property-having layer, only a layer comprising a barrier property-having resin as the main ingredient of the layer on the other surface of the substrate film. The gas barrier film has can effectively prevent moisture penetration through the other surface thereof not having the gas-barrier layer.

Abstract: A gas barrier film having a gas barrier layer and an antistatic layer containing an acrylic or methacrylic resin obtained by copolymerizing a monomer represented by the formula (1) or an oligomer thereof: (Ac1-L1)m-M-(L2-Ac2) ??Formula (1) wherein Ac1 and Ac2 represent a (meth)acryloyl group; L1 and L2 represent an alkylene group, an arylene group, etc.; M represents a metal atom; m and n are an integer of 0-6; and the total sum of m and n is 1-6. The gas barrier film has high barrier properties.

Abstract: A gas barrier film having an inorganic layer and an organic layer containing a polymer compound and a non-polymerizable compound represented by the formula (1): wherein R1 and R2 represent an alkyl group having 1-20 carbon atoms or an aryl group having 6-20 carbon atoms. The gas barrier film has high barrier properties.

Abstract: A method of producing inorganic semiconductor- and phosphor-primary particles, which each comprises forming the particles by reacting at least one kind of precursor solution of the inorganic primary particle in a solvent, of which major component is water of a reacting vessel, under the conditions that the pressure is 0.2 to 20 MPa and the temperature is 120° C. to 370° C.; and inorganic semiconductor- and phosphor-primary particles produced by the method.

Abstract: The present invention provides a silver halide emulsion containing silver halide particles, wherein a content of silver chloride in the silver halide particles is at least 89 mol %, and wherein the silver halide particles comprising at least one of (i) at least one phase selected from the group consisting of a laminar phase containing silver bromide, a laminar phase comprising silver iodide and a phase comprising silver bromide and having a maximum point where a silver bromide content ratio is at a maximum value, which maximum point is inside the silver particles, and (ii) a phase comprising silver iodide and a phase comprising silver bromide, which phase comprising silver bromide is disposed further inside of the silver halide particles than the phase comprising silver iodide. Further, the present invention provides a silver halide photosensitive material comprising the silver halide emulsion.

Abstract: A high silver iodide photographic emulsion is provides, which has a high sensitivity and a narrow size distribution, and is a photosensitive silver halide photographic emulsion having a silver iodide content of 90 mol % or more, wherein the average grain size (R) and the average crystallite size (r) of silver halide emulsion grains in the emulsion satisfy the relationship of 1?R/r<2.

Abstract: A silver halide emulsion comprises at least a dispersion medium, water and a silver halide grain, wherein grains occupying from 40 to 100% of the total projected area of said gains have an AgI content of 85 to 100 mol %, a single kind of outer shape except for size and the equivalent-circle projected diameter of from 0.002 to 20 ?m.

Abstract: A silver halide emulsion comprises at least a dispersion medium, water and a silver halide grain, wherein grains occupying from 40 to 100% of the total projected area of said gains have an AgI content of 85 to 100 mol %, a single kind of outer shape except for size and the equivalent-circle projected diameter of from 0.002 to 20 ?m.

Abstract: A silver halide emulsion comprises at least a dispersion medium, water and a silver halide grain, wherein grains occupying from 40 to 100% of the total projected area of said gains have an AgI content of 85 to 100 mol %, a single kind of outer shape except for size and the equivalent-circle projected diameter of from 0.002 to 20 ?m.

Abstract: A method of producing inorganic semiconductor- and phosphor-primary particles, which each comprises forming the particles by reacting at least one kind of precursor solution of the inorganic primary particle in a solvent, of which major component is water of a reacting vessel, under the conditions that the pressure is 0.2 to 20 MPa and the temperature is 120° C. to 370° C.; and inorganic semiconductor- and phosphor-primary particles produced by the method.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion is disclosed, comprising silver chloroiodide grains or silver chloroiodobromide grains, having 90 mol % or more of a silver chloride content, wherein the silver chloroiodide grains or silver chloroiodobromide grains have a layer having a silver iodide content of decreasing in the depth direction from the grain surface.

Abstract: An electroluminescence phosphor, containing zinc sulfide particles that have an average particle size of 20 &mgr;m or less, of which a distribution of particle size is a monodispersion, and which have a multi-twin crystal structure therein.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion is disclosed, comprising silver chloroiodide grains or silver chloroiodobromide grains, having 90 mol % or more of a silver chloride content, wherein the silver chloroiodide grains or silver chloroiodobromide grains have a layer having a silver iodide content of decreasing in the depth direction from the grain surface.

Abstract: A high silver iodide photographic emulsion is provides, which has a high sensitivity and a narrow size distribution, and is a photosensitive silver halide photographic emulsion having a silver iodide content of 90 mol % or more, wherein the average grain size (R) and the average crystallite size (r) of silver halide emulsion grains in the emulsion satisfy the relationship of 1≦R/r<2.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion is disclosed, comprising silver chloroiodide grains or silver chloroiodobromide grains, having 90 mol % or more of a silver chloride content, wherein the silver chloroiodide grains or silver chloroiodobromide grains have a layer having a silver iodide content of decreasing in the depth direction from the grain surface.

Abstract: A silver halide emulsion comprises at least a dispersion medium, water and a silver halide grain, wherein grains occupying from 40 to 100% of the total projected area of said gains have an AgI content of 85 to 100 mol %, a single kind of outer shape except for size and the equivalent-circle projected diameter of from 0.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion is disclosed, comprising silver chloroiodide grains or silver chloroiodobromide grains, having 90 mol % or more of a silver chloride content, wherein the silver chloroiodide grains or silver chloroiodobromide grains have a layer having a silver iodide content of decreasing in the depth direction from the grain surface.

Abstract: The present invention provides a silver halide emulsion containing silver halide particles, wherein a content of silver chloride in the silver halide particles is at least 89 mol %, and wherein the silver halide particles comprising at least one of (i) at least one phase selected from the group consisting of a laminar phase containing silver bromide, a laminar phase comprising silver iodide and a phase comprising silver bromide and having a maximum point where a silver bromide content ratio is at a maximum value, which maximum point is inside the silver particles, and (ii) a phase comprising silver iodide and a phase comprising silver bromide, which phase comprising silver bromide is disposed further inside of the silver halide particles than the phase comprising silver iodide. Further, the present invention provides a silver halide photosensitive material comprising the silver halide emulsion.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion is disclosed, comprising silver chloroiodide grains or silver chloroiodobromide grains, having 90 mol % or more of a silver chloride content, wherein the silver chloroiodide grains or silver chloroiodobromide grains have a layer having a silver iodide content of decreasing in the depth direction from the grain surface.

Abstract: A differential apparatus (7) comprises: a differential casting (21) rotated by an engine power; a plurality of pinion gears (65, 66) slidably housed in accommodation holes (63, 64) formed in the differential casing; a pair of side gears (35, 37) geared with each other via the pinion gears, two opposing end surfaces thereof being slid relative to each other, either directly or via a thrust washer (61); and a block member (47, 91, 97) interposed between two inner circumferential surfaces of the two side gears so as to center the side gears, respectively. In particular, at least one oil sump (77,) is formed between the block member and the side gears, to supply lubricant to sliding portions between the bolck member (47, 91, 97) and the side gears (35, 37) and between two opposing end surfaces of the two side gears, by a centrifugal force generated by the rotating differential casing.