Abstract: An image-transfer medium includes a transparent substrate and a transferable material formed on a first surface of the substrate. A selected portion of the transferable material can be transferred in an arbitrary shape to an article to form a personalized image by a cold transfer-printing operation. Moreover, the remaining hollowed portion after the removal of the selected portion, including the transparent substrate, can be adhered to the same or another article having a light-transmitting surface to exhibit special lightening effect.

Abstract: The present invention provides an electrical connecting member and an electrical connecting method for achieving electrical connection securely through conductive particles regardless of a slight unevenness of an object matter. An electrical connecting device (10) for electrically connecting an electrical connecting portion (5) of a first object to an electrical connecting portion (3) of a second object comprises an adhesive layer (6) disposed on the first object (4) and constituted of a plurality of conductive particles (7) and a binder (8) containing the plurality of the conductive particles (7) and a paste (9) having a fluidity and disposed on the film-like adhesive layer (6).

Abstract: A method for fabricating a multilayer ceramic substrate having a cavity with multi-steps therein for mounting an electronic component is provided. A block is inserted into a lower cavity segment of the cavity formed in a green sheet laminate to be the multilayer ceramic substrate, wherein the block has substantially the same three-dimensional shape as that of the cavity segment and has a height equal to or larger than the depth of the cavity segment. Thus, the pressing step is performed in a state such that the cavity has an apparent single step.

Abstract: A method of depositing adhesives or adhesion control agents using ink jet technology. The adhesive may be used in the manufacture of assembled paper products including greeting cards. The adhesion control agents may be deposited on a plastic sheet used in laminated safety glass.

Abstract: An optical disk is manufactured by bonding a resin stamper having, on a principal plane, asperity pits on which a thin film is formed and a second substrate having a thickness of 0.3 mm or less with radiation cured resin such that the asperity pits face to the second substrate. The resin stamper is peeled off after curing the radiation cured resin to form asperity pits on the second substrate. A metal film is formed on the asperity pits on the second substrate to attain an information recording layer on the second substrate. A first substrate having an information recording layer and the second substrate having the formed information recording layer are bonded such that the both information recording layers face each other.

Abstract: An in-line method for making a water-activatable laminate. The method includes providing a polymeric film having a first surface and a second surface. An opaque water activatable material containing from about 5 to about 40 wt. % pigment and from about 60 to about 95 wt. % binder is applied to the first surface of the film using an in-line coating technique selected from a flexographic coater, a rotary screen press, and a rotogravure coating technique. The coating is then dried to provide a single water activatable opaque layer having a thickness ranging from about 0.60 mil to about 2.0 mil. The binder for the opaque coating layer includes a mixture of solvent, butyl acetate, ethylene glycol monobutyl ether and propylene glycol. The laminate may be used multiple times without adversely affecting its ability to reveal and hide images.

Abstract: A manufacturing method for a laminated ceramic electronic component is performed such that the thickness of the inner electrode is greatly increased, delamination does not occur, and reliability is superior. The manufacturing method for the laminated ceramic electronic component includes a process in which a green sheet including the inner electrode paste layer and the ceramic paste layer, is provided on a carrier sheet such that the inner electrode paste layer penetrates the green sheet from the top surface to the bottom surface thereof, and a process, in which laminates of the green sheet and the carrier film are adhered by pressing, and thereafter the carrier film is peeled off, are repeated to obtain the ceramic laminate, and the ceramic laminate is fired after pressing in the direction of the thickness to obtain the ceramic sintered body.

Abstract: A system and method for transporting an adhesive side of a sheet media, particularly a sheet media having an adhesive side with an encapsulated adhesive ruptured by an activator unit. This activation unit can include one or more of the following: a pressure roller, a pair of pressure rollers, an activator blade, a set of rotatable discs or a series of sets of rotatable discs. A sheet media having an encapsulated adhesive is fed past the activator unit in the system and method, whereby the capsules will be ruptured and the adhesive side of the sheet media is activated. A release liner device such as a belt or roll of releasable sheet media transports the activated sheet media throughout subsequent process steps, e.g. label printing, cutting, die casting, etc.

Abstract: A composite substrate in which the surface of the insulating layer is not influenced by the electrode layer and which requires neither a grinding process nor a sol-gel process, is easy to produce and can provide a thin-film EL device having a high display quality when used therein; a thin-film EL device using the substrate; and a production process for the device. The thin-film EL device is produced by forming a luminescent layer, other insulating layer and other electrode layer successively on a composite substrate comprising a substrate; an electrode layer embedded in the substrate in such a manner that the electrode layer and the substrate are in one plane; and an insulating layer formed on the surface of a composite comprising the substrate and the electrode layer.

Abstract: A friction body of porous carbon, which is infiltrated with silicon and reinforced with carbon fibers, includes at least one separate friction layer on a core body. In order to protect the friction layer against damage by outbreaking, carbon fibers in the friction layer are shorter than carbon fibers of the core body. Accordingly, different possibilities for producing a friction body with short fibers in the friction layer are possible.

Abstract: A method of generating bound documents includes the step of conveying sheets of a print medium through a printing station. A printing process is carried out on the sheets in the printing station. The sheets are conveyed through an adhesive application station. Adhesive is applied to each sheet proximate an edge of each sheet in the adhesive application station. A predetermined number of the sheets are stacked together at a stacking station, so that respective strips of adhesive are aligned with each other. A binding operation is performed on said predetermined number of sheets so that said predetermined number of sheets are bound together to define a document.

Abstract: A method of controlling shrinkage in aligned green tape stacks during firing comprises providing a topmost layer of a ceramic material having a sintering temperature higher than that of the ceramic used to make the green tapes and firing above the sintering temperature of the green tape ceramic but below the sintering temperature of the topmost layer ceramic. The method of the invention provides improved shrinkage control for green tape stacks on a support substrate.

Abstract: A method for fabricating composite light-weighted glass ceramics, suitable for use as, e.g. mirror blanks or microlithography stages, at low temperatures is disclosed. Component pieces are polished then joined at low temperature using a silicate-containing joining liquid. Assembly is then performed in such a way that the joining liquid forms an interface between each component. After a period of low or slightly elevated temperature curing, rigid joints are formed throughout and the composite is dimensionally, vibrationally, and temperature stable and can withstand tensile stresses >4000 psi. The room-temperature cured composite can be heat treated using a slow, systematic temperature increase to dehydrate the joints. A sealing coating may optionally be provided to prevent excess dried joining liquid from flaking off the formed joint.

Abstract: A conveyor system conveys a plurality of printed products along a path of travel in an imbricated stream and such that a border region of each printed product is exposed by the imbricated overlap. A contrast panel (14), which forms a text panel (12), is applied to the exposed border region of each printed product (10). The contrast panel is provided with the text (18) and the contrast panel forms a contrast with respect to the text (18), with the result that the latter can be immediately seen and read easily. In one embodiment, the contrast panel is applied by printing, and in another embodiment, the contrast panel comprises a separate label which is adhesively applied.

Abstract: Very thin cast ceramic tape, preferably approximately 12 &mgr;m in thickness, is wrapped, preferably in a reversing spiral or helix, around a mandrel, preferably a mandrel made of steel and coated with a wax releasing agent, for so many times, preferably five or greater, as achieves a desired thickness of a tube wall, preferably about 100 &mgr;m. The green ceramic tube is then laminated in a pressure laminator, preferably a hydrostatic laminator at 3000 to 5000 psi, linking polymer chains between each ceramic layer, cross-linking polymer chains within each ceramic layer, and densifying the produced ceramic laminate tube by reducing porosity.

Abstract: A ceramic green sheet having good surface roughness and few pinhole defects even when producing a thin ceramic green sheet is stably produced, to permit efficiently and securely manufacturing a multilayer ceramic electronic part in which deterioration of its life due to unevenness of interfaces between internal electrodes and ceramic layers and the occurrence of structural defects, such as delamination, bending of an electrode portion, etc., in a multilayer thin film to be suppressed. A dry sheet obtained by forming ceramic slurry to a sheet on a carrier film is smoothed by pressing using a plate press, a hydrostatic press or a calender roll under predetermined temperature and pressure conditions to improve the surface smoothness of the ceramic green sheet independently of the particle diameter of the ceramic and its dispersibility. An electrode paste is coated in a predetermine pattern on the thus-produced ceramic green sheet to form a sheet provided with an electrode.

Abstract: A method for the production of joints between ceramic bodies such as silicon carbide bodies in which a preceramic polymer mixed with a powder, such as bimodal silicon carbide, is applied in slurry form. The mechanical and hermetic properties may be enhanced by the inclusion of additional bodies constraining the polymer slurry in the joint region, such as a collar. The thermal processing of the joint is described which provides a useful joint.

Abstract: A die bonding sheet sticking apparatus and a method of sticking a die bonding sheet which, in the production of small electronic components, for example, semiconductor chips, effect sticking to a back surface of wafer a die bonding sheet capable of functioning not only as a protective tape at the time of dicing but also as an adhesive for die bonding at the time of die bonding of semiconductor chips after dicing onto a lead frame.

Abstract: The invention is a method for encapsulating rubber mats to provide an extremely cost-effective and a more durable, alternative to flooring traditionally composed of multiple layers of rubber. Such proposed flooring can withstand frequent traffic of heavy animals while ensuring a high degree of animal safety and problem-free mobility. Use of such durable flooring via encapsulating rubber mats of the present invention may be suitable to a diverse array of situations requiring a hard wearing material, such as zoos, veterinary hospitals, animal transport trailers, quality stall systems, healthcare, arena footing, supermarkets, gymnasiums and schools, as well as other commercial, institutional and sporting uses.

Abstract: An advertising placard (20) having a substrate (30) and coloration material (34) is utilized to provide an unobtrusive and nondistracting advertisement on internal viewing surfaces (22) in commercial aircraft passenger cabins (24). The substrate (30) is preferably thin and transparent, and the coloration material (34) preferably has substantially the same color hue as the viewing surface (22) to which it is applied. Further, the coloration material (34) preferably has a color lightness within approximately &Dgr;7 of the color lightness of the viewing surface (22).