Abstract: A console box includes a box body including a storage that has an upper opening and a lid detachably coupled to the box body and configured to open and close the upper opening. The lid includes an additional function portion that allows a user to use the lid in a manner that is different from the opening and closing of the upper opening.

Abstract: A heat meltable ink image-receiving sheet used in a melting type thermal transfer method, comprising a sheet substrate and a porous ink-receiving layer, comprising a resin formed on at least one side of the sheet substrate, the porous ink-receiving layer having a thickness of 3 to 50 &mgr;m and a water vapor permeability (JIS L 1099) of not less than 300 g/(m2·hour) and less than 1,000 g/(m2·hour).

Abstract: A color image-forming method, comprising the steps of: using a transfer sheet comprising a foundation, a release layer and a colored ink layer stacked in this order on one side of the foundation wherein the release layer is capable of being fused or softened by heat at the time of a thermal transferring process and the colored ink layer is incapable of being softened by heat at the time of the thermal transferring process; and an image receiving body having at least a surface layer capable of being fused or softened by heat at the time of the thermal transferring process, superposing the colored ink layer of the transfer sheet onto the image receiving body and heating the transfer sheet/image receiving body from the transfer sheet side to form a color image on the image receiving body.

Abstract: An ink image-receiving sheet for use in a method of forming an image, comprising an ink-receiving layer having a porous structure formed according to a wet-solidification method, the ink-receiving layer comprising a binder resin and aragonite-type calcium carbonate as main components, and a method of forming an image using the ink image-receiving sheet.

Abstract: A heat meltable ink image-receiving sheet used in a melting type thermal transfer method, comprising a sheet substrate and a porous ink-receiving layer comprising a resin formed on at least one side of the sheet substrate, the porous ink-receiving layer having a thickness of 3 to 50 &mgr;m and a water vapor permeability (JIS L 1099) of not less than 300 g/(m2·hour) and less than 1,000 g/(m2·hour).

Abstract: A thermal transfer recording medium comprising a foundation, and a release layer, a protective layer and a colored ink layer provided on the foundation in this order, the protective layer comprising an acrylic resin and a diallyl phthalate resin.