Abstract: A latch circuit has: a data input unit to which an input data is input; and a data retention unit including a node connected to the data input unit. The data input unit transmits a data depending on the input data to the node, when both of a first clock signal and a second clock signal that are driven independently from each other are at a first level. The data retention unit holds a data at the node, when at least one of the first clock signal and the second clock signal is at a second level that is an inverted level of the first level.

Abstract: Provided is a collision energy absorbing apparatus capable of mitigating loads to the car body proper, passengers and the like by adding a structure combining a prescribed static strength and collision energy absorption performance to an energy absorbing body of the collision energy absorbing apparatus. In a limited inner space of a car body, a cover 80 that covers energy absorbing bodies 51, 52 combines a prescribed static strength and collision energy absorption performance. The cover 80 prevents irregularities, such as the breakage of cylindrical bodies of aluminum alloy, i.e., the energy absorbing bodies 51, 52 in each of the stages of transportation, storage, assembling and the like of the collision energy absorbing apparatus 50.

Abstract: A rail vehicle capable of preventing reduction in strength and noise occurrence in a connecting portion of a low roof construction body to a roof construction or a side construction body, and facilitating mounting of the low roof construction body to the roof construction body or the side construction body, its manufacturing method and a hollow shape member used for the same are provided. In joining a hollow shape member 120 constructing a side construction body and a hollow shape member 210 constructing a low roof construction body 20, an uppermost portion above a spot to be a joint portion of the hollow shape member 120 to the low roof construction body 20 is cut, and a first protruded rib 124 and a second protruded rib 125 are left at an upper end portion 128 of the hollow shape member 120 toward the low roof construction body 20.

Abstract: The invention provides a railway car with superior riding quality by improving the flexural rigidity of the car body structure while suppressing increase of body structure mass. A reinforcing plate 7 is attached to a roof construction 1 on the side facing an inner side of the car body at a longitudinal center portion of a railway car body structure 10 composed of a roof construction 1, a side construction 2, an underframe 3 and an end construction 4. The range in which the reinforcing plate 7 is adhered in the longitudinal direction of the railway car body structure 10 is between two body bolsters 6, and the range in which the plate 7 is adhered in the horizontal direction of the roof construction 1 is approximately half the length of the roof construction 1 in the horizontal direction. The thickness of the reinforcing plate 7 is increased gradually as the height of the roof construction 1 in the vertical direction increases.

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a word line extending along a first direction, a first and a second N-well regions, a P-well region disposed between the first and the second N-well regions, a memory cell having a first, second, third, and fourth PMOS transistors, and a first and second NMOS transistors, the first and the second PMOS transistors disposed in the first N-well region along a second direction which is different from the first direction, the first and the second NMOS transistors disposed in the P-well region, and the third and the fourth PMOS transistors disposed in the second N-well region along the second direction.

Abstract: The present invention provides a heat transfer sheet comprising a support, a light-to-heat converting layer and an image forming layer, wherein the image forming layer contains at least a white pigment and an amorphous organic polymer having a softening point of 40° C. to 150° C., an average particle size of the white pigment is from 0.01 ?m to 0.32 ?m, an amount of the white pigment is from 40% by weight to 90% by weight based on the total weight of the image forming layer, an amount of the amorphous organic polymer is from 10% by weight to 60% by weight based on the total weight of the image forming layer, and a thickness of the image forming layer is from 0.5 ?m to 3.0 ?m; an image forming material comprising the heat transfer sheet; and an image forming method using the image forming material.

Abstract: The present invention provides a light-shielding image-carrying substrate including a substrate and a light-shielding image formed on at least part of at least one face of the substrate, wherein the light-shielding image includes at least two layers, and at least one of the at least two layers is a light-absorbing layer containing shape-anisotropic fine metal particles, and at least one layer of the at least two layers is a reflected light-absorbing layer.

Abstract: It is intended to provide a multicolor image forming material for laser heat transfer comprising an image receiving sheet having an image receiving layer and at least four heat transfer sheets having different colors each comprising a substrate and a light-heat conversion layer and an image forming layer provided thereon, characterized in that (a) Ra and Rz showing the surface roughness of the image receiving sheet satisfy the following relationships 3?Rz/Ra?20 and 0.5 ?m?Rz?3 ?m.

Abstract: A colored photosensitive resin composition comprising (1) an alkali-soluble binder, (2) a monomer or an oligomer, (3) a photopolymerizaton initiator or a photopolymerization initiator system, and (4) a coloring agent, wherein the coloring agent is a specific pigment in a specific quantity. Also provided is a color filter obtained by using the colored photosensitive resin compositions for formation of the respective photosensitive resin layers of R, G and B.

Abstract: A heat transfer sheet comprising: a substrate; a light-heat conversion layer; and an image forming layer, wherein the light-heat conversion layer comprises polyamide-imide as a binder and a colorant having a water content of 3% by weight or more as measured under a condition of 23° C. and 60% RH.

Abstract: An image forming unit comprising: a thermal transfer material containing an image forming layer; an image receiving material; and a material to be transferred, onto which an image formed on the image receiving material by transferring the image forming layer onto the image receiving material is to be transferred by heat, wherein the image forming layer transferred onto the image receiving material has a surface energy of more than 24.0 mJ/m2.

Abstract: A multicolor image-forming material comprising: an image-receiving sheet comprising a support and an image-receiving layer; and at least four thermal transfer sheets each comprising a support, a light-to-heat converting layer and an image-forming layer, and each having a different color, wherein an image is formed by the method comprising the steps of: superposing each one of the at least four thermal transfer sheets on the image-receiving sheet to be in a state of the image-forming layer being in contact with the image-receiving layer; and irradiating the thermal transfer sheet with a laser beam to transfer an image in an area of the image-forming layer subjected to irradiation onto the image-receiving layer, and at least one layer selected from layers comprised in the image-receiving sheet and the at least four thermal transfer sheets comprises a fluorine-series surface active agent which is a homopolymer comprising a polymerizable monomer represented by the formula (1) and having a weight average molecular

Abstract: It is intended to provide a multicolor image forming material for laser heat transfer comprising an image receiving sheet having an image receiving layer and at least four heat transfer sheets having different colors each comprising a substrate and a light-heat conversion layer and an image forming layer provided thereon, characterized in that (a) Ra and Rz showing the surface roughness of the image receiving sheet satisfy the following relationships 3?Rz/Ra?20 and 0.5 ?m?Rz?3 ?m; a multicolor image forming material characterized in that: (b) the image forming layer of each of the heat transfer sheets has an optical density (OD) to film thickness ratio (OD/film thickness) of 1.

Abstract: Two extruded shape members to be subjected to friction stir welding have joining ends butted against each other to form a joining surface of the joint portion. A first extruded shape member has a protrusion projecting from an upper surface of a flat panel portion toward a direction from which a friction stir welding tool is to be inserted. A side surface of the protrusion is connected to the upper surface of the flat panel portion via a small arc R2 and a large arc R3. A second extruded shape member is formed substantially in the same manner. The friction stir welding tool has a small diameter portion formed to the end thereof, and carries out friction stir welding with the center of the small diameter portion positioned to correspond to the joining surface. A joint portion of the welded members has a flat upper surface, and on both sides thereof are formed weld flashes B1. The weld flashes B1 are cut and removed to finish the joint portion.

Abstract: A multicolor image forming material comprising: an image receiving sheet comprising a substrate and an image receiving layer; and at least four heat transfer sheets each comprising a substrate and an image forming layer, each of the heat transfer sheets being adapted to be superposed on the image receiving sheet with the image forming layer facing the image receiving layer and irradiated with laser light to transfer the irradiated area of the image forming layer to the image receiving layer to form an image on the image receiving sheet, wherein the at least four heat transfer sheets comprise a heat transfer sheet (X) of which the image forming layer has a hue selected from the group defined herein and an absolute difference ?D between an optical density of the image forming layer of each of the at least four heat transfer sheets and a corresponding target optical density is equal to or smaller than 0.2.

Abstract: An image forming method comprising the steps of: superposing an image receiving sheet containing an image receiving layer and a heat transfer sheet containing a substrate, a light-heat conversion layer and an image forming layer on each other with the image forming layer of the heat transfer sheet facing the image receiving layer of the image receiving sheet; and imagewise irradiating the superposed heat transfer sheet with laser light to cause the irradiated area of the image forming layer to be transferred to the image receiving layer, wherein the image forming layer shows a deformation of 110% or more as observed under a transmission electron microscope upon being irradiated with a laser beam, the deformation being represented by equation: Deformation (%)=[(a+b)/b]×100 wherein a represents an increase of a cross-sectional area of an irradiated part of the image forming layer; and b represents a cross-sectional area of that part of the image forming layer before irradiation.

Abstract: A multicolor image-forming material comprising: an image-receiving sheet comprising an image-receiving layer; and at least four thermal transfer sheets each comprising a support, a photothermal converting layer and an image-forming layer, and each having a different color, wherein an image is formed by the method comprising the steps of: superposing each one of the at least four thermal transfer sheets on the image-receiving sheet to be in a state of the image-forming layer being in contact with the image-receiving layer; and irradiating the thermal transfer sheet with a laser beam to transfer an image in an area of the image-forming layer subjected to irradiation onto the image-receiving layer, and a ratio of the reflection optical density (ODr) of the image-forming layer to a thickness of the image-forming layer (?m unit) is 1.50 or more to 1, and a contact angle in relation to water of the image-forming layer and the image-receiving layer is from 7.0 to 120.0°.

Abstract: A multicolor image-forming material comprising: an image-receiving sheet comprising a support and an image-receiving layer; and at least four thermal transfer sheets each comprising a support, a light-to-heat converting layer and an image-forming layer, and each having a different color, wherein an image is formed by the method comprising the steps of: superposing each one of the at least four thermal transfer sheets on the image-receiving sheet to be in a state of the image-forming layer being in contact with the image-receiving layer; and irradiating the thermal transfer sheet with a laser beam to transfer an image in an area of the image-forming layer subjected to irradiation onto the image-receiving layer, and at least one layer selected from layers comprised in the image-receiving sheet and the at least four thermal transfer sheets comprises a fluorine-series surface active agent which is a homopolymer comprising a polymerizable monomer represented by the formula (1) and having a weight average molecular

Abstract: A multicolor image-forming material comprising: an image-receiving sheet comprising a support and an image-receiving layer; and at least four thermal transfer sheets each comprising a support, a light-to-heat converting layer and an image-forming layer, and each having a different color, wherein an image is formed by the method comprising the steps of: superposing each one of the at least four thermal transfer sheets on the image-receiving sheet to be in a state of the image-forming layer being in contact with the image-receiving layer; and irradiating the thermal transfer sheet with a laser beam to transfer an image in an area of the image-forming layer subjected to irradiation onto the image-receiving layer, and at least one layer selected from layers comprised in the image-receiving sheet and the at least four thermal transfer sheets comprises a fluorine-series surface active agent which is a homopolymer comprising a polymerizable monomer represented by the formula (1) and having a weight average molecular

Abstract: An image forming method comprising the steps of: superposing an image receiving sheet containing an image receiving layer and a heat transfer sheet containing a substrate, a light-heat conversion layer and an image forming layer on each other with the image forming layer of the heat transfer sheet facing the image receiving layer of the image receiving sheet; and imagewise irradiating the superposed heat transfer sheet with laser light to cause the irradiated area of the image forming layer to be transferred to the image receiving layer, wherein the image forming layer shows a deformation of 110% or more as observed under a transmission electron microscope upon being irradiated with a laser beam, the deformation being represented by equation: Deformation (%)=[(a+b) /b]×100 wherein a represents an increase of a cross-sectional area of an irradiated part of the image forming layer; and b represents a cross-sectional area of that part of the image forming layer before irradiation.