Abstract: A method of manufacturing an antistatic film includes a preparation step of preparing a mixed liquid by mixing a polyvinyl alcohol with an aqueous conductive polymer dispersion in which a conductive composite containing a ?-conjugated conductive polymer and a polyanion is included in a water-based dispersion medium; a coating step of obtaining a coating film by coating at least one surface of a film base with the mixed liquid; and a drying and stretching step of drying and stretching the coating film with heating.

Abstract: A capacitive sensor sheet producing method for producing a capacitive sensor sheet uses a base having an insulative base layer on which a binder resin layer including conductive nanowires is formed. The conductive nanowires partially projecting from a surface of the binder resin layer. The method includes removing a binder resin from projections of conductive nanowires partially projected from a plurality of detection electrodes by implementing a surface etching and shaping treatment on a surface of the binder resin layer, or surface ends of at least partial detection electrodes of the plurality of detection electrodes, forming wiring lines of the conductive pattern layer, and connecting the wiring lines to the surface ends of at least partial detection electrodes in the pattern layer. The projections of the conductive nanowires removed the binder resin are put into contact with the connecting portions.

Abstract: Input device in which a defect of a control disk is eliminated while making use of an advantage of the control disk and an electronic device using the input device. The input device may include: an operation panel, which may be operated by a user; a board, which may be arranged to be opposed to a surface opposite to an operation surface of the operation panel operated by the user; a conductive elastic body and a pusher, which may be fixed on the operation panel; and a sensor portion and a member to be pressed, which may be placed on the board to be opposed to the conductive elastic body and the pusher, respectively.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an antistatic release agent comprising an aqueous solution of an electrically conductive polymer complex composed of a ?-conjugated electrically conductive polymer and a polyanion having an anionic group in a molecule thereof, an alkaline compound, a silicone emulsion and a dispersion medium, wherein the alkaline compound is at least one type of compound selected from the group consisting of an inorganic alkali, as amine compound and a nitrogen-containing aromatic cyclic compound, the content of the alkaline compound in the antistatic release agent is 0.7 times or more relative to the number of moles of the neutralization equivalent of the electrically conductive polymer complex, and the pH of the antistatic release agent at 25° C. is 10 or lower. The present invention can provide an antistatic release agent having superior storage stability for forming an antistatic release coated film.

Abstract: Disclosed are a low-cost radio wave-transmitting decorative film which has excellent stretch moldability, radio wave transmissibility, and mirror-like metallic gloss that does not easily disappear, and a decorative member employing the radio wave-transmitting decorative film. Specifically disclosed are a decorative film which includes a first polymer film, a second polymer film, and a light-reflecting layer which is arranged between the polymer films and formed by the physical vapor deposition of an alloy of silicon and a metal, and a decorative member in which the decorative film is provided on the surface of a base.

Abstract: A production method of a capacitive sensor sheet, comprising: a film forming step forming of a optically-transparent electroconductive film 11 on the surface of a substrate 2 having optical transparency; a supplemental electrode forming step of setting an electrode region 3a which functions as the transparent electrode 3 at least in part of the film 11, and laminating a supplemental electrode 4a which has a lower electrical resistance than the electrical resistance of the film 11 to cover at least part of a periphery of the electrode region 3a; a wire forming step of laminating a wire 4b in which one end thereof is connected to the supplemental electrode 4a on the film 11; a resist laminating step of laminating a resist 12 to cover all of the electrode region 3a and at least part of the supplemental electrode 4a; and a conductive film removing step of removing a part of the film 11 formed on the substrate 2 having optical transparency placed at a position not overlapping with the resist 12, the supplemental e

Abstract: A transparent electrode capacitance sensor includes a transparent resin substrate; at least one transparent electrode formed on the transparent resin substrate; a pseudo auxiliary electrode formed in at least a portion of an outer periphery of the transparent electrode; and a lead wire connected to the pseudo auxiliary electrode, wherein the pseudo auxiliary electrode is thicker than the transparent electrode, and includes the same material as the transparent electrode.

Abstract: A substrate storing container includes: a container body for storing semiconductor wafers; a door that is fitted to the front of the container body; and a locking mechanism locking the door. The locking mechanism includes: a rotary driver that is supported by the door and operated from a cover plate side; and a locking bar that vertically slides as the rotary driver rotates to bring the distal end into, and out of, a locking hollow of the container body. The rotary driver is separated into first and second rotary drivers. The first and second rotary drivers are formed with first and second cam portions, respectively. The first and second cam portions are made to support the proximal end of the locking bar therebetween so that the locking bar can sway in the thickness direction of the door.

Abstract: There is provided a radio wave transmitting decorative member which has radio wave transmitting properties as well as mirror-surface like metallic luster, the radio wave transmitting decorative member which hardly loses its metallic luster and which can be produced at a low cost. More specifically, disclosed is a radio wave transmitting decorative member including a substrate, and a light reflecting layer provided on top of the substrate and formed of an alloy composed of either silicon or germanium and a metal, wherein the light reflecting layer is preferably a deposition film formed by a physical vapor deposition of an alloy composed of either silicon or germanium and a metal.

Abstract: The invention relates to a composition for an antistatic release agent comprising: a release component, a conductive component, an organic solvent, and water, wherein the release component contains a condensation-type organopolysiloxane, the conductive component contains a complex with a ?-conjugated electrically conductive polymer and a polyanion having a molecular weight of 20,000 to 900,000, an amount of the conductive component is 1 to 300 parts by mass, relative to 100 parts by mass of the release component, at least one amine compound selected from the group consisting of a secondary amine, a tertiary amine or a quaternary ammonium salt is coordinated to or bonded to portion of anion groups in the polyanion as an ion pair, and the water content is 5% by mass or less, relative to a total amount of the composition for an antistatic release agent.

Abstract: A member for an electrostatic capacitance-type sensor which suppresses a decrease in the variation amount of the electrostatic capacitance caused between an input body and the electrode through a proximate operation or a touch operation by the input body and has a metallic luster appearance which does not degrade with time, and is economical, and an electrostatic capacitance-type sensor using the same. The disclosed member includes a sheet member having an operation surface S on which a proximate operation or a touch operation by an input body is carried out and an electrode which is disposed on the opposite side of the operation surface of the sheet member, in which the sheet member includes a decorative layer having a metallic luster, and the decorative layer is a continuous film made of silicon or an alloy of silicon and a metal.

Abstract: The substrate storage container includes: a container body for storing a semiconductor wafer; a lid body for opening and closing a front of the container body; and a locking mechanism for locking the lid body that has closed the front of the container body. The lid body is formed of a lid main body to be fitted to the front of the container body and a cover plate for covering a front face of the lid main body. The locking mechanism includes a rotating operation portion that is pivotally supported by the lid main body and rotationally operated from an outside of the cover plate. A plurality of posture control members for the rotating operation portions are provided for, at least, the cover plate, among the cover plate and the rotating operation portion.

Abstract: A cover lay film includes an electromagnetic wave shielding layer formed of a conductive material, a resistor layer having a greater surface resistance than the electromagnetic wave shielding layer, and an insulating resin layer provided between the electromagnetic wave shielding layer and the resistor layer, wherein a plurality of openings penetrating in a thickness direction of the electromagnetic wave shielding layer are provided in the electromagnetic wave shielding layer.

Abstract: The invention relates to an antistatic release agent comprising: a release component that contains a condensation-curing type organopolysiloxane, a conductive component that contains a complex of a ?-conjugated electrically conductive polymer and a polyanion and an organic solvent, wherein the amount of the conductive component relative to 100 parts by mass of the release component is 1 to 300 parts by mass, at least one amine-type compound selected from the group consisting of a secondary amine, a tertiary amine or a quaternary ammonium salt is coordinated to or bonded to portion of anion groups in the polyanion as an ion pair, and the amine-type compound has one or more substituent selected from the group consisting of an alkyl group having 4 or more carbon atoms, an aryl group, an aralkyl group, an alkylene group, an arylene group, an aralkylene group and an oxyalkylene group.

Abstract: Provided are: a cover-lay film which has an electromagnetic wave shielding function and excellent flexibility, enables a reduction in the thickness of a flexible printed wiring board, and eliminates the necessity of connecting a layer for shielding electromagnetic noise, to the ground circuit of the flexible printed wiring board; a method for manufacturing the same; and a flexible printed wiring board. Employed is a cover-lay film including: a base material film which has a roughened surface (textured surface) created on at least a part of one surface, and an unroughened surface (non-textured surface) excluding the roughened surface; and a deposition film made of a conductive material which is formed on a surface of the base material film on the side where the roughened surface has been created.

Abstract: Provided are a developing roller having an elastic layer formed on an outer circumferential face of a shaft and a coating layer formed on an outer circumferential face of the elastic layer, wherein the coating layer is composed of first coating layers that are formed at respective edges across the elastic layer, and a second coating layer formed between the first coating layers, and wherein the first coating layers contain a resin obtained through a reaction of a polyol with a silane-coupling agent, fluororesin particles, and an electric conductivity agent; and the second coating layer contains a urethane resin, an ionic liquid, an electric conductivity agent, and filler particles; and a development apparatus and an image-forming device having the developing roller. The provided are capable of keeping the image quality high and of arresting leakage of the toner satisfactorily.

Abstract: When extrusion of a molten resin by means of an extruder is started, a simple polyetherimide resin is melt extruded from a lip portion 7a of a T-die 7, and a film of the simple polyetherimide resin is molded. The molding material is then switched to a resin composition including the polyetherimide resin and a fluorine resin and then a film of the resin composition is continuously extruded and molded from the T-die 7. Having been covered with a very thin film 8a of the simple polyetherimide resin, on a flow passage face of the lip portion 7a of the T-die 7, a resin composition layer 8b including a polyetherimide resin and a fluorine resin, which has affinity with the film 8a, is then formed at a center part.

Abstract: A printed wiring board, including a printed wiring member which respectively has object conductor that is subjected to electromagnetic wave shielding on at least one surface of an insulating layer; and an electromagnetic wave shielding member which has an electromagnetic wave shielding layer composed of a low-resistance section and a high-resistance section on at least one surface of a base film. The printed wiring member and the electromagnetic wave shielding member are bonded together with interposition of insulating adhesive layers, and with arrangement of the electromagnetic wave shielding layer separately and in opposition so that the object conductor is covered. The electromagnetic wave shielding layer and the object conductor are composed of the same type of conductive material, and the electromagnetic wave shielding layer is not exposed at the circumferential end faces of the printed wiring board.

Abstract: As a permeable membrane of an air conditioning system that performs as supply to a space to be air conditioned through the permeable membrane and/or gas discharge from the space to be air conditioned through the permeable membrane, an asymmetric membrane is used. The asymmetric membrane is made of a cyclic olefin addition polymer obtained by addition polymerization of a cyclic olefin functionality siloxane, or by addition polymerization of the cyclic olefin functionality siloxane and a cyclic olefin compound, and in which a rate of a structural unit derived from the cyclic olefin functionality siloxane is 5 to 100 mol % of the addition polymer, and a number average molecular weight (Mn) is 10,000 to 2,000,000 in terms of polystyrene conversion measured by a GPC using tetrahydrofuran as a solvent.

Abstract: This invention provides an electrically conductive roller capable of forming an image without fogging even in a low humidity environment and an image-forming device. Specifically, the invention relates to an electrically conductive roller has an elastic layer formed on an outer circumferential surface of a shaft and a urethane coat layer formed on an outer circumferential surface of the elastic layer, wherein the urethane coat layer includes a urethane resin, and at least one ionic liquid selected from the group consisting of pyridinium ionic liquids and amine ionic liquids, in an amount from 1 to 20 parts by mass to 100 parts by mass of the urethane resin; and an image-forming device equipped with the electrically conductive roller.