Abstract: An inkjet recording medium comprising a resin coated sheet formed from a base paper having both sides coated with a resin, and ink receiving layers provided on both sides of the resin coated sheet as outermost layers, wherein a static friction coefficient between at least one of the ink receiving layers and a metal roller onto which wear-resistant particles are adhered is from 0.3 to 0.6.

Abstract: There are provided an inkjet recording medium having on a substrate an ink-receiving layer containing inorganic fine particles and a sulfur compound, with the sulfur compound being contained in a greater quantity in half of the ink-receiving layer at a side nearer to the substrate than in half of the ink-receiving layer at a side further from the substrate when the ink-receiving layer is divided into two equal parts by a plane parallel to the substrate, and a manufacturing method thereof.

Abstract: An inkjet recording medium having on a substrate an ink-receiving layer containing inorganic fine particles and organic nitrogen-containing cationic polymer, with the organic nitrogen-containing cationic polymer being contained in a greater quantity in a half of the ink-receiving layer at a side nearer to the substrate (a near-substrate side) than in a half of the ink-receiving layer at a side further from the substrate (a far-substrate side) when the ink-receiving layer is divided into two equal parts by a plane parallel to the substrate.

Abstract: A package for an ink jet recording material is provided, capable of mitigating the burden on the environment caused by discarding packaging materials, and capable of suppressing yellowing on the surface of an ink jet recording material contained therein, a printed portion of the ink jet recording material having favorable ozone resistance when printed by a dye ink printer, and capable of suppressing bronzing when printed on by a pigment ink printer. The packaging material of the package for the ink jet recording material is formed of a packaging material including a polylactic acid resin and a polyalkylene carbonate, the ink jet recording material contained therein is formed of an ink jet recording material in which an ink receiving layer including fine inorganic particles and a thioetheric compound is disposed on a support, and a layer including a colloidal silica and a cationic compound is disposed at the ink receiving layer.

Abstract: A memory access apparatus for carrying out access to memories for which types of access control signals required for accessing are different from each other, has an access control signal type information obtaining part configured to obtain information of a type of the access control signal for the memory to access.

Abstract: A monitoring system of the present invention achieves highly reliable switching control by having a monitored response time creating/calculating unit calculate a maximum value and a minimum value between which a response time is judged as normal from a response time of the last measurement and from a response time of the last but one measurement, and by having a monitored response time comparing unit set a range in which a response time is judged as normal in a manner that agrees with past response times.

Abstract: A thermosensitive recording material having at least a thermosensitive recording layer on one surface of a support and a back coat layer on the other surface of the support, wherein the black coat layer includes multiple layers, and an outermost layer of the back coat layer furthest from the support contains polyvinyl alcohol, an inorganic stratiform compound, and an inorganic pigment. According to the thermosensitive recording material curling caused by a change in environment or by application of heat during recording can be prevented and a coefficient of friction of a back coat layer can be regulated to within a predetermined range.

Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording material comprising a heat-sensitive recording layer and a protective layer on a support, wherein the protective layer contains an acetylene glycol represented by the following formula (1): Wherein; R1 to R4 respectively represents a hydrogen atom, a branched, straight-chain or cyclic unsubstituted or substituted alkyl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms or an unsubstituted or substituted aryl group having 6 to 10 carbon atoms; R5 to R8 respectively represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; and n and m independently denotes an integer from 0 to 50.

Abstract: A signal separation apparatus is capable of extracting original signals of two different systems with a high quality from received signals containing the original signals superposed each other in the course of transmission. In signal transmission from senders to receiver equipment, the signals to be sent separately are susceptible to mutual interference and superposition with given amplification factors in the course of transmission through respective transmission channels to such an extent that these signals can no more be discerned from each other by a receiver.

Abstract: A thermosensitive recording material having at least a thermosensitive recording layer on one surface of a support and a back coat layer on the other surface of the support, wherein the back coat layer includes multiple layers, and an outermost layer of the back coat layer furthest from the support contains polyvinyl alcohol, an inorganic stratiform compound, and an inorganic pigment. According to the thermosensitive recording material curling caused by a change in environment or by application of heat during recording can be prevented and a coefficient of friction of a back coat layer can be regulated to within a predetermined range.

Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording material comprising a heat-sensitive recording layer and a protective layer on a support, wherein the protective layer contains an acetylene glycol represented by the following formula (1):

Abstract: On a subscriber's line between an optical network unit and an optical line terminator according to the present invention, an ATM-PON transmission frame is able to be transmitted with an STM signal inserted therein, and an STM-PON transmission frame is able to be transmitted with an ATM signal inserted therein. The ATM signal and the STM signal are transmitted coexisting with each other, whereby an STM network and an ATM network can be integrated on the subscriber's line.

Abstract: A heat development type duplicating material having a recording layer which is formed on a support. The recording layer comprises a photosensitive diazo compound and a coupler that reacts with the diazo compound to develop color. Furthermore, the duplicating material contains an ascorbic acid derivative. The heat development type duplicating material generates little stain in background areas, exhibits satisfactory storage stability, and provides a high image density.

Abstract: A diazo-type recording material comprising a support having thereon a recording layer comprising a photosensitive diazo compound enclosed in microcapsules, a coupling component which reacts with said diazo compound by heating at a basic pH to develop a color, and a 1-phenyl-3-pyrazolidone compound represented by the formula: ##STR1## wherein the substituents X, and R.sub.1 -R.sub.4 are defined in the specification.

Abstract: A novel diazo type recording material is provided comprising a recording layer containing at least one light-sensitive diazo compound incorporated in microcapsules and a coupling component which undergoes reaction with said diazo compound in a basic atmosphere to develop a color on a support, wherein said coupling component is a mixture of at least one compound represented by the following general formula [I] and at least one compound represented by the following general formula [II]: ##STR1## wherein A represents an alkylene group having from 1 to 22 carbon atoms containing an ether or thioether bond; B represents hydrogen atom, cyclohexyl group, morpholino group or piperidino group; and R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 each represent hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having from 1 to 5 carbon atoms, alkoxy group having from 1 to 5 carbon atoms or halogen atom.

Abstract: A heat-developable copying material comprising a support having thereon a heat-developable light-sensitive layer comprising microcapsules containing a diazo compound and substantially no solvent, a coupling component and a color basic substance.

Abstract: The present invention is directed toward a heat development copying material, comprising a support having provided thereon a photosensitive layer containing a diazo compound, a coupling component, a color-forming assistant, and a film-forming high polymeric binder; and a light-insensitive intermediate laeyr containing a film-forming high polymeric binder, and at least one member selected from the group consisting of a coupling component and a color-forming assistant, wherein the light-insensitive intermediate layer is provided between the support and the photosensitive layer, and a method for forming an image using the above-described copying material.