Abstract: A sensor that includes a switch unit and that detects a pressure applied from the front side to the switch unit or a finger approaching the switch unit from the front side is located on the back side of upholstery. A base member has a protruding portion on its surface. The upholstery includes: a light-transmitting region that is located over a light guide portion of the base member and the switch unit of the sensor and that allows light from a light source to transmit therethrough to the front side; and a non-light-transmitting region that blocks the light from the light source. A raised portion that is raised on the front side of the upholstery is located near the light-transmitting region in the non-light-transmitting region of the upholstery. The protruding portion of the base member is placed in the raised portion from the back side of the upholstery.

Abstract: A transport device includes: a first rotating body including a shaft portion, a cylindrical portion on an outer periphery of the shaft portion, and a recessed portion in an outer surface of the cylindrical portion; a second rotating body capable of moving from the first rotating body while contacting an outer surface of the first rotating body and nipping a recording medium; a transport unit that includes a holding portion that holds the recording medium, and that transports the recording medium by moving the holding portion in a rotation direction of the first rotating body while the holding portion is disposed in the recessed portion; and a moving mechanism including a cam portion on a side of the cylindrical portion and a contact portion connected to the second rotating body and that comes into contact with the cam portion to separate the second rotating body from the first rotating body.

Abstract: A recording medium transport device includes: a circulating member that forms a part of a transport path for transporting a recording medium; a holding member that is fixed to the circulating member and thereby circulates and holds a front end portion of the recording medium; plural transport cylinders around which the circulating member is suspended and having a recessed part in which the holding member is stored; and a selection part that selects any one of the plural transport cylinders. A mode for stopping the selected one of the plural transport cylinders so that the recessed part of the selected one of the plural transport cylinders is located at a maintenance position is prepared.

Abstract: A sensor that includes a switch unit and that detects a pressure applied from the front side to the switch unit or a finger approaching the switch unit from the front side is located on the back side of upholstery. A base member has a protruding portion on its surface. The upholstery includes: a light-transmitting region that is located over a light guide portion of the base member and the switch unit of the sensor and that allows light from a light source to transmit therethrough to the front side; and a non-light-transmitting region that blocks the light from the light source. A raised portion that is raised on the front side of the upholstery is located near the light-transmitting region in the non-light-transmitting region of the upholstery. The protruding portion of the base member is placed in the raised portion from the back side of the upholstery.

Abstract: A particle diameter is decreased and a surface area per unit flow amount is increased by spraying a VOC-containing liquid from a spraying device spraying that is a two-fluid nozzle in a vacuum container, so that only water in the VOC-containing liquid can be greatly evaporated and exhausted, and a concentrated VOC-containing liquid having high concentration can be refined and processed.

Abstract: A particle diameter is decreased and a surface area per unit flow amount is increased by spraying a VOC-containing liquid from a spraying device spraying that is a two-fluid nozzle in a vacuum container, so that only water in the VOC-containing liquid can be greatly evaporated and exhausted, and a concentrated VOC-containing liquid having high concentration can be refined and processed.

Abstract: A transport object is sealed in a sterilized sealed bag including a volume adjuster, the volume of which is changed according to a temperature change. The sealed bag is placed into a metal sealed container. The sealed container is placed into a temperature-controlled metal soaking container. In a state where the soaking container is fixed to the inside of an insulated container with an insulation material disposed around the soaking container, the internal pressure of the sealed container is maintained at a constant atmospheric pressure by changing the state of a pressure adjustment valve from a closed state to an open state, the pressure adjustment valve being provided in an air ventilation tube which is disposed to extend to the outside of the soaking container and the insulated container from the sealed container.

Abstract: The invention also relates to a method to increase stain resistance and penetration resistance of aqueous coating compositions which method comprises providing a coating composition which contain at least one pigment, at least one film-forming polymer in the form of an aqueous polymer dispersion and at least one anionic surfactant, wherein the anionic surfactant comprises at least 85% by weight, preferably at least 90% by weight, more preferably at least 95% by weight, based on the total weight of anionic surfactant in the coating composition, of at least one anionic surfactant S, which is selected from semi-esters of sulfuric acid or phosphoric acid with an alcohol, which alcohol carries at least one alkyl radical having from 8 to 30 carbon atoms or an alkyl substituted phenyl radical wherein alkyl has from 4 to 30 carbon atoms and which alcohol may carry an oligo-C2-C3-alkylene-ether group provided that the number of repeating units in the oligo-C2-C3-alkylene-ether group is at most 15, or a salt thereof.

Abstract: A deposition apparatus includes a processing chamber internally having a reduced-pressure space for deposition process to be carried out therein, a base material holding member for holding a base material to be subjected to the deposition process, a target support member for supporting a target thereon, and a power supply unit for applying electric power to the target support member to generate a plasma in the reduced-pressure space. In the deposition apparatus, deposition process is carried out by using the target, which has a recess portion in its surface and in which a powder target formed of a powder material is placed in an inner surface of the recess portion. Thus, the in-plane uniformity of deposition rate is improved and a stable film deposition is fulfilled.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a polymer dispersion (PD) comprising at least one polymer (P), obtainable by free-radical emulsion polymerization of at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer (M1) and at least one monomer (M2) different therefrom and selected from esters of phosphonic acid or of phosphoric acid with unalkoxylated or alkoxylated hydroxyalkyl(meth)acrylates, and at least one emulsifier (E) selected from phosphoric esters with unalkoxylated or alkoxylated C8-C30 alkanols, and their salts, in coating materials to improve the scrub resistance of the coatings produced therefrom and/or to improve the burnish resistance of the coatings produced therefrom and/or to improve the stain resistance of the coatings produced therefrom and/or to improve the pigment distribution in the coatings produced therefrom and/or to reduce the emission of volatile organic compounds by the coatings produced therefrom, to polymer dispersions used in accordance with the invention, and to coating materials c

Abstract: A plasma display panel including a front panel having a first substrate, a first electrode, a first dielectric layer and a protective layer wherein the first electrode is formed on the first substrate, the first dielectric layer is formed over the first substrate so as to cover the first electrode, and the protective layer is formed on the first dielectric layer, and a rear panel having a second substrate, a second electrode, a second dielectric layer and a phosphor layer wherein the second electrode is formed on the second substrate, the second dielectric layer is formed over the second substrate so as to cover the second electrode, the phosphor layer is formed on the second dielectric layer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a polymer dispersion (PD) comprising at least one polymer (P), obtainable by free-radical emulsion polymerization of at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer (M1) and at least one monomer (M2) different therefrom and selected from esters of phosphonic acid or of phosphoric acid with unalkoxylated or alkoxylated hydroxyalkyl (meth)acrylates, and at least one emulsifier (E) selected from phosphoric esters with unalkoxylated or alkoxylated C8-C30 alkanols, and their salts, in coating materials to improve the scrub resistance of the coatings produced therefrom and/or to improve the burnish resistance of the coatings produced therefrom and/or to improve the stain resistance of the coatings produced therefrom and/or to improve the pigment distribution in the coatings produced therefrom and/or to reduce the emission of volatile organic compounds by the coatings produced therefrom, to polymer dispersions used in accordance with the invention, and to coating materials

Abstract: In the manufacturing method of the plasma display panel, the protective layer of the front plate has a base film evaporated on a dielectric layer, and this base film is surface-treated, and an ink film formed of agglomerated particles agglomerating a plurality of crystal particles of metal oxide and an organic solvent is formed, and after vacuum drying, the organic solvent is removed from the ink film, and thereby the plurality of agglomerated particles are bonded and formed on the base film.

Abstract: The present invention provides a front panel for a plasma display panel which can suppress the incidence of chipping of the barrier rib of a rear panel for a PDP, can enhance the stability of initial electron emission in a dielectric layer, and can reduce a voltage required for maintaining a wall charge. The front panel for a plasma display panel includes a substrate, a plurality of electrodes formed on the substrate, a dielectric layer formed to cover the respective electrodes and the substrate, a dielectric-protection layer formed to cover the dielectric layer, and powder components dispersed on the dielectric-protection layer, wherein an annealed layer having a thickness of 10 to 300 nm is formed on at least the exposed surface of each of the powder components, wherein said exposed surface does not contact the dielectric-protection layer.

Abstract: A PDP, which has a plurality of display electrodes formed therein, and is provided with a front plate in which the display electrodes are covered with a first dielectric layer and a protective film and a back plate having a plurality of address electrodes that are formed in a direction orthogonal to the display electrode, and covered with a second dielectric layer (backing dielectric layer, is designed so that the protective film has a structure in which grain-state crystals are aggregated and a grain size of the crystals is large, with a void between adjacent crystals being formed with a small size.

Abstract: The present invention provides a front panel for a plasma display panel which can suppress the incidence of chipping of the barrier rib of a rear panel for a PDP, can enhance the stability of initial electron emission in a dielectric layer, and can reduce a voltage required for maintaining a wall charge. The front panel for a plasma display panel includes a substrate, a plurality of electrodes formed on the substrate, a dielectric layer formed to cover the respective electrodes and the substrate, a dielectric-protection layer formed to cover the dielectric layer, and powder components dispersed on the dielectric-protection layer, wherein an annealed layer having a thickness of 10 to 300 nm is formed on at least the exposed surface of each of the powder components, wherein said exposed surface does not contact the dielectric-protection layer.

Abstract: A plasma display panel comprising: a front panel comprising a first substrate, a first electrode, a first dielectric layer and a protective layer wherein the first electrode is formed on the first substrate, the first dielectric layer is formed over the first substrate so as to cover the first electrode, and the protective layer is formed on the first dielectric layer; and a rear panel comprising a second substrate, a second electrode, a second dielectric layer and a phosphor layer wherein the second electrode is formed on the second substrate, the second dielectric layer is formed over the second substrate so as to cover the second electrode, the phosphor layer is formed on the second dielectric layer, wherein the front panel and the rear panel are disposed so that the protective layer and the phosphor layer are opposed to each other, and thereby a discharge space is formed between the front panel and the rear panel; characterized in that at least the first dielectric layer has a carbon concentration of from

Abstract: The invention also relates to a method to increase stain resistance and penetration resistance of aqueous coating compositions which method comprises providing a coating composition which contain at least one pigment, at least one film-forming polymer in the form of an aqueous polymer dispersion and at least one anionic surfactant, wherein the anionic surfactant comprises at least 85% by weight, preferably at least 90% by weight, more preferably at least 95% by weight, based on the total weight of anionic surfactant in the coating composition, of at least one anionic surfactant S, which is selected from semi-esters of sulfuric acid or phosphoric acid with an alcohol, which alcohol carries at least one alkyl radical having from 8 to 30 carbon atoms or an alkyl substituted phenyl radical wherein alkyl has from 4 to 30 carbon atoms and which alcohol may carry an oligo-C2-C3-alkylene-ether group provided that the number of repeating units in the oligo-C2-C3-alkylene-ether group is at most 15, or a salt thereof.

Abstract: A deposition apparatus includes a processing chamber internally having a reduced-pressure space for deposition process to be carried out therein, a base material holding member for holding a base material to be subjected to the deposition process, a target support member for supporting a target thereon, and a power supply unit for applying electric power to the target support member to generate a plasma in the reduced-pressure space. In the deposition apparatus, deposition process is carried out by using the target, which has a recess portion in its surface and in which a powder target formed of a powder material is placed in an inner surface of the recess portion. Thus, the in-plane uniformity of deposition rate is improved and a stable film deposition is fulfilled.

Abstract: A phase-locked loop oscillator with loop gain compensation. The phase-locked loop oscillator includes a phase comparator, a loop filter, a voltage-controlled oscillator, a control device, and a variable-gain amplifier disposed between the phase comparator and the loop filter. The oscillator detects the output signal voltage of the loop filter and controls the amplification rate of the variable-gain amplifier so that the loop gain is compensated and held constant, without sacrificing continuity.