Abstract: Disclosed are a digital printing machine nozzle refrigerating device and a using method thereof.

Abstract: A transfer film includes a base film and a transfer layer, wherein the transfer layer includes a surface protection layer and an adhesive layer, the surface protection layer forms a surface layer of the transfer layer facing the base film, a test piece obtained by transferring the transfer layer to a 2-mm thickness polycarbonate board has a haze of 5% or more and 30% or less, and the 60-degree specular glossiness measured for a surface of the surface protection layer of the test piece is 60% or more and 120% or less.

Abstract: A thermal transfer sheet includes a substrate and a transfer layer, in which the transfer layer after transfer has a reduced peak height (Spk) of 0.6 ?m or more. A method for producing a printed material using a thermal transfer sheet including a particle layer disposed on a substrate and an image-receiving sheet including a thermal protrusion-and/or-recess forming layer and a receiving layer stacked in that order on a second substrate, the receiving layer including an image that has been formed, includes the steps of heating the image-receiving sheet to form a protrusion and/or a recess at the image-receiving sheet, and heating the thermal transfer sheet to transfer the particle layer to at least part of the protrusion of the image-receiving sheet.

Abstract: Provided is an inexpensive raised woodgrain finish decorative material that exhibits design properties similar to those of actual wood by the effect of reproducing visual appearance and feeling and has a short production timeline. The raised woodgrain finish decorative material has a substrate, a first raised section provided on one surface of the substrate, and a second raised section provided on the one surface of the substrate in a different location than the location of the first raised section, wherein the length of the first raised section is longer than the length of the second raised section in the lengthwise direction of the substrate, and the height of the first raised section is higher than the height of the second raised section in the thickness direction of the substrate.

Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide a reflection-type optical encoder scale capable of sufficiently reducing the reflectance on a low reflection region. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing a reflection-type optical encoder scale comprising a high reflection region and a low reflection region alternately placed on a substrate, wherein the low reflection region includes a low reflection portion including a metallic chromium film formed on the substrate, and a chromium oxide film and a chromium nitride film randomly formed on the metallic chromium film; and the high reflection region has higher reflectance of incident light from opposite side to the substrate of the reflection-type optical encoder scale, than the low reflection region.

Abstract: A thermal transfer printer includes a first supply unit configured to supply an intermediate transfer medium in which, on one surface of a first base, a transfer layer including a receiving layer is disposed, a second supply unit configured to supply a thermal transfer sheet in which, on one of surfaces of a second base, a colorant layer and a particle layer are disposed, a printing unit configured to heat the thermal transfer sheet, to transfer a colorant from the colorant layer to the receiving layer to form an image, and to transfer the particle layer onto the receiving layer, a third supply unit configured to supply a transfer-receiving body, and a transfer unit configured to place the intermediate transfer medium and the transfer-receiving body on top of each other such that the transfer-receiving body faces the particle layer on the receiving layer, and to heat the intermediate transfer medium.

Abstract: To reduce the time required to start a drink filling operation or the time interval between productions. In a method of sterilizing a drink filling apparatus that includes drink supply piping that feeds a drink into a filling machine through a heating sterilization part, a heated liquid or heated steam is fed to the drink supply piping, temperatures of the drink supply piping at a plurality of positions are detected at predetermined time intervals, a lowest temperature is selected from the detected temperatures, an F value is calculated for the selected lowest temperature, the calculated F value is integrated, and a sterilization step is ended when the integrated F value reaches a target value.

Abstract: A decorative sheet includes a first surface and a second surface positioned opposite to the first surface. The first surface includes a first region and a second region that is different from the first region. The decorative sheet includes a surface protective layer, a design layer, and a substrate in order from the first surface toward the second surface. The design layer includes a patterned portion disposed only in a location that overlaps the first region. An average skewness Ssk1 of the first region and the average skewness Ssk2 of the second region satisfy a relationship (i), shown below. An average kurtosis Sku1 of the first region A1 and an average kurtosis Sku2 of the second region satisfy a relationship (ii), shown below 0 < Ssk ? 2 < Ssk ? 1 < 1 ( i ) 3 < Sk ? u2 < Sku ? 1 < 5.

Abstract: A deodorizing method includes a first rinsing step of supplying first rinse water for a first circulation system to a first circulation system (25a) including at least a heat sterilizer (3) that heats a drink, a chemical circulation step of supplying and circulating a chemical for a first circulation system in the first circulation system (25a), and a second rinsing step of supplying second rinse water for a first circulation system to the first circulation system (25a). At the chemical circulation step, the chemical for a first circulation system is heated to a temperature of 70° C. or higher and 150° C. or lower in the first circulation system (25a).

Abstract: In a seal-type thermal transfer image-receiving sheet, the total thickness thereof is 250 ?m or less, a seal portion has a layered structure in which a pressure-adhesive layer, a seal portion substrate, and a receiving layer are layered in this order from a release portion side. A release portion has a layered structure in which a surface resin layer, a release portion paper substrate, and a back face resin layer are layered in this order from a seal portion side. One or both of the seal portion substrate and the surface resin layer includes a layer made of polyethylene terephthalate is 50 ?m or more. The sum of the thickness of the seal portion substrate and the thickness of the surface resin layer is four times or more the thickness of the back face resin layer, and the thickness of the back face resin layer is 20 ?m or more.

Abstract: Specifically, the present invention provides a decorative sheet comprising a laminate, the laminate comprising at least a base material sheet and a first surface-protecting layer in sequence in the thickness direction; (1) the first surface-protecting layer comprising an ionizing radiation-curable resin containing two kinds of aliphatic urethane acrylates, i.e., resin A and resin B, wherein resin A is an aliphatic urethane acrylate with an isocyanurate skeleton, and resin B is an aliphatic urethane acrylate with an alicyclic skeleton without an isocyanurate skeleton, (2) the first surface-protecting layer having a nanoindentation hardness of 160 MPa or more and 240 MPa or less, and (3) the base material sheet comprising a polyolefin resin and having a nanoindentation hardness of 30 MPa or more and 80 MPa or less.

Abstract: Micro characters are expressed by a thermal fusion transfer technique. In a printed matter manufacturing method, a printed matter is manufactured by heating a thermal transfer sheet in accordance with image data, the thermal transfer sheet including a base member, a release layer disposed on the base member and containing a wavelength conversion material that emits visible light with excitation by invisible light, and a thermally fusible ink layer disposed on the release layer, and by transferring the thermally fusible ink layer to a transfer-receiving body. In this method, the image data includes a first pattern and a second pattern. The second pattern is disposed on the first pattern and has a maximum width of a predetermined value or less.

Abstract: Provided is a decorative sheet having excellent abrasion-resistance. Also, provided is a decorative sheet capable of reducing abrasion sound. A decorative sheet is provided with; a linear irregularity pattern formed by a plurality of groove parts arranged side by side; and a protrusion pattern that coexists inside the linear irregularity pattern, is arranged at random without having any regularity with respect to the linear irregularity pattern, and is formed to have at least a height equal to or higher than a height of a protrusion part of the linear irregularity pattern. The protrusion pattern reinforces the linear irregularity pattern.

Abstract: A thermal transfer system includes a winding portion that winds an ink ribbon that includes a support layer and an ink layer after ink in the ink layer is transferred to a transfer receiver, and a heating element that transfers the ink in the ink layer of the ink ribbon to the support layer of the ink ribbon that is located inside the ink ribbon that is wound around the winding portion in a stripe-shaped disturbing pattern DP1 that extends in a direction in which the ink ribbon is conveyed in a manner in which the ink ribbon that is wound around the winding portion is heated from the support layer. The heating element includes a contact portion including multiple projecting portions that come into contact with the ink ribbon and multiple recessed portions that do not come into contact with the ink ribbon.

Abstract: A reflective screen including a lens layer having a Fresnel lens shape with a plurality of unit lenses and a reflective layer formed on the unit lenses to reflect light. The unit lenses protrude from a video source side to a back surface side in the thickness direction of the lens layer, the lens layer has a flat edge section where a portion of the back surface side serves as a flat surface, and h1min?h2>0 is satisfied, where h1min is the minimum height distance in the thickness direction of the lens layer from a position of the lens layer most on the video source side to a position of the unit lenses most on the back surface side, and h2 is the height which is the distance from the flat surface of the flat section to the position of the unit lenses most on the back surface side.

Abstract: Provided are a light guide plate, an area light source device, a display device, and manufacturing method for the light guide plate such that the occurrence of uneven luminance is suppressed. The light guide plate is characterized in that the light guide plate has a light entrance surface through which light enters, a light exit surface intersecting with the light entrance surface and through which light is output, and an opposite surface facing the light entrance surface, wherein the light entering through the light entrance surface is guided to the opposite surface side and output from the light exit surface, and the refractive index Nx in a direction perpendicular to the light entrance surface is higher than the refractive index Ny in a direction parallel to the light exit surface and parallel to the light entrance surface.

Abstract: An organic device may include a substrate, first electrodes disposed on the substrate, organic layers respectively disposed on the first electrodes, and a second electrode disposed on the organic layers. When the organic device is viewed in a direction normal to the substrate, the organic device may include a first display area that includes the second electrode at a first occupancy, and a second display area that includes the second electrode at a second occupancy lower than the first occupancy. The second display area may include the second electrode, and transmission areas each surrounded by the second electrode in plan view. The transmission areas may include a first transmission area, and a second transmission area adjacent to the first transmission area via the second electrode. The first transmission area may have a first shape, and the second transmission area may have a second shape different from the first shape.

Abstract: A liquid-filled combination container includes a container having oxygen permeability and containing liquid in a containing portion, a barrier container having oxygen barrier properties and accommodating the container, at least one oxygen reactant that can react with oxygen in the barrier container, and a fluorescent material that varies in fluorescence time or fluorescence intensity according to a surrounding oxygen concentration. The oxygen reactant is fixed to at least any one of an outer surface of the container and an inner surface of the barrier container. The fluorescent material is provided on an inner surface of the container at a fluorescent material installation location apart from the containing portion of the container.

Abstract: A metal plate used for manufacturing a deposition mask has a thickness of equal to or less than 30 ?m. An average cross-sectional area of the crystals grains on a cross section of the metal plate is from 0.5 ?m2 to 50 ?m2. The average cross-sectional area of crystal grains is calculated by analyzing measurement results obtained by an EBSD method, the measuring results being analyzed by an area method under conditions where a portion with a difference in crystal orientation of 5 degrees or more is recognized as a crystal grain boundary.