Abstract: An image-recording system with a first conveying path along which a light and heat sensitive recording material is conveyed from an accommodating cassette at an accommodating section toward a pair of conveying rollers, a second conveying path along which the recording material is conveyed forward and backward through an optical recording section and a heat-developing section, and a third conveying path along which the recording material, after development of an image thereon, is conveyed to an optical fixing section.

Abstract: An MEM unit according to the invention comprises an Si (silicon) substrate 1 having such a thickness as to transmit a visible light therethrough, an insulating layer 2 formed in contact with the upper surface of the Si substrate 1, a lower electrode layer 3 formed in contact with the upper surface of the insulating layer 2, a sacrificial layer gap 4 of a space formed in the partial region of the upper surface of the lower electrode layer 3, a movable film 5 formed on the upper surface of the lower electrode layer 3 to cover the sacrificial layer gap 4, an upper electrode 6 formed in contact with the upper part of the movable film 5, a contact hole 7 penetrating to reach the surface of the lower electrode layer 3 from the surface of the movable film 5, and a lower electrode 8 formed from the surroundings of the upper part of the contact hole 7 to the surface of the lower electrode layer 3 through the contact hole 7.

Abstract: A sensor produced by aligning a capturing body including an amphiphilic rod-shaped body onto a substrate material in a film form or a sensor including an amphiphilic rod-shaped body and a capturing structure body being bonded to the rod-shaped body and specifically capturing a target substance, and a color sensor and apparatus for inspection using the sensors.

Abstract: The present invention provides a photopolymerizable composition, which is highly sensitive to visible light rays to IR rays and has an excellent raw storage property, and a recording material capable of carrying out highly sensitive image recording and having an excellent raw storage property and humidity dependency.

Abstract: The present invention provides a photopolymerizable composition containing a polymerizable compound having an ethylenically unsaturated bond, a compound represented by the following general formula (I), and a radical generating agent capable of generating a radical by interacting with the compound represented by the following general formula (I).

Abstract: The present invention provides a photopolymerizable composition comprising a polymerizable compound including an addition-polymerizable unsaturated bond, a photo-radical-generating agent, and an amine compound represented by the following general formula (I) and a recording material comprising a recording layer containing the photopolymerizable composition: 1

Abstract: An image forming element is disclosed which is easy to manufacture, which can form images easily and at a low cost, and which is stable without fear of environmental problems arising at a time of disposal. Also disclosed is an image forming device which utilizes the image forming element and which can form color images. The image forming element contains at least a film in which rod-shaped bodies are oriented and which reflects incident light as colored interference light. The image forming device is equipped with at least the image forming element, and a means for irradiating light for irradiating light onto the image forming element. The image forming element reflects, as interference light, light irradiated by the means for irradiating light. The wavelength of the interference light is 300 to 810 nm.

Abstract: A waste water inspecting agent is used as an additive to a specimen solution and comprises a rod-shaped body and a capturing structured element bonded to the rod-shaped body which specifically captures an object to be captured in the specimen solution.

Abstract: An image-recording device that improves processing speed for image-recording that is carried out using a light and heat sensitive recording material. At the same time as irradiation of the light and heat sensitive recording material with light by a light source for fixing, a heating device heats the light and heat sensitive recording material. Because photo-fixing/photo-decolorization is carried out while the light and heat sensitive recording material is heated, viscosity of the system decreases, and dispersibility of active radicals increases. Due to this activation of radicals, a photopolymerization reaction and a photo-decolorization reaction accelerate, so that efficiencies of fixing and decolorizing increase.

Abstract: An image-recording apparatus including a casing section that encases a light and heat sensitive recording material therein; an optical recording section that exposes to light a light and heat sensitive recording material fed from the casing section, and thereby records a latent image thereon; a thermal developing section that develops the latent image with heat; a moisture content-controlling section that controls moisture content of the light and heat sensitive recording material after exposure and before development; and an optical fixing section that fixes the developed image by irradiating it with light. The image-recording apparatus can be a completely dry system that is capable of forming good print images without producing waste materials such as image transfer sheets. By controlling moisture content of the recording material, problems such as mottling of images can be prevented.

Abstract: The present invention provides a recording material comprising a support, a recording layer provided on the support, and at least one protective layer provided on the recording layer, wherein, the recording layer contains a coloring component A encapsulated in heat-responsive microcapsules, and a substantially colorless compound B, which is outside the heat-responsive microcapsules and has a coloring site that colors when reacted with the coloring component A, and wherein, at least one of the protective layer or a layer adjacent thereto comprises a layer containing titanium oxide.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a hybridization probe having a rod-shaped boby and nucleic acid which is bonded to the rod-shape material and specifically bonds to a target nucleic acid and also relates to a target nucleic detecting kit, a target nucleic acid detecting apparatus and a target nucleic acid detecting method using the same.

Abstract: An antigen detecting agent having a rod-shaped body and an antibody bonded to the rod-shaped body which specifically bonds to a target antigen, an antigen detecting kit, an antigen detecting apparatus and an antigen detecting method using the antigen detecting agent are disclosed.

Abstract: A particle size (or particle diameter) variable reactor comprises a granular substrate and a capturing unit fixed onto the surface of the granular substrate. The capturing unit comprises a rod-shaped body having a length of 810 nm or less, a configuration variable element which may be structurally transformed when stimulation is applied, and a capturing structured body which specifically captures an object to be captured. The particle size variable reactor is highly biodegradable and environmentally friendly, and can specifically act on and thus selectively capture its target alone. The reactor may preferably be used in various fields including medical and industrial fields.

Abstract: The invention discloses a photopolymerizable composition comprising at least one, ethylenic unsaturated bond-containing compound, a hexaaryl-biimidazole compound, and an organoboron compound represented by a specific general formula; and discloses a photosensitive thermal recording material having a recording layer that contains the photopolymerizable composition. The photopolymerizable composition and the photosensitive thermal recording material of the invention are highly sensitive to UV rays and visible to IR rays falling within a wavelength range that includes wavelengths not longer than 450 nm, and are effective for decoloring a dye component that absorbs the rays falling within the wavelength range.

Abstract: The agent for health inspection of the present invention is used as additive to a specimen solution and comprises a rod-shaped body and a capturing structured element bonded to the rod-shaped body which specifically captures a disease marker in the specimen solution.

Abstract: A molecular electric wire that is formed of an environmentally benign ecological material and enables a microscopic wiring, a molecular electric wire circuit using the molecular electric wire, and the like are provided. The molecular electric wire comprises a rod-shaped organic molecule and an electroconductive material, the electroconductive material being carried by the rod-shaped organic molecule, and the molecular electric wire circuit is formed by using the molecular electric wire.

Abstract: A process of producing an optical diffusion film which comprises at least a transparent base layer on a transparent substrate, a layer of transparent microspheres over the transparent base layer and a light absorbing layer over said transparent base layer comprises the steps of: distributing transparent microspheres in a layer over the transparent base layer so that each the transparent microsphere is partly embedded in the transparent base layer; and by coating a solution layer of coloring material that is convertible into fine metal particles and treating the solution layer of coloring material under specified conditions so as thereby to convert the solution layer of coloring material into a layer of fine metal particles that are light absorbable.

Abstract: A color filter having a light-transmissive support and two or more color-developing layers, which develop hues differing from each other, laminated on the support. Each color-developing layer is developed into a predetermined color pattern including pixels. The pixels of the developed color patterns of the layers either overlap in a direction of lamination or do not overlap in the direction of lamination. Also provided are a color filter forming material produced by laminating the two or more photosensitive and heat-sensitive color-developing layers on the light-transmissive support, and a process for producing a color filter by exposing each photosensitive and heat-sensitive color-developing layer of the above color filter forming material to form a predetermined pattern, heating the photosensitive and heat-sensitive color-developing layers, and fixing the developed color patterns.

Abstract: An image-recording system with a first conveying path along which a light and heat sensitive recording material is conveyed from an accommodating cassette at an accommodating section toward a pair of conveying rollers, a second conveying path along which the recording material is conveyed forward and backward through an optical recording section and a heat-developing section, and a third conveying path along which the recording material, after development of an image thereon, is conveyed to an optical fixing section.