Abstract: The ionizer of the present invention comprises a chamber which has an ionization part that ionizes a portion of an ion carrier gas that is supplied to the interior of this chamber, and a blowing part which feeds the ion carrier gas toward a charged body. The ionization part is constructed from an ionization source which is contained in the chamber, and a control device which is connected with this ionization source via a high-voltage cable. Either the generating part of a soft X-ray generating device, the generating part of a low-energy electron beam generating device or the generating part of an ultraviolet radiation generating device is used as the ionization source. The control device, the connecting part between the control device and the high-voltage cable and the connecting part between the ionization source and the high-voltage cable are formed with an explosion-proof structure.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a transparent sheet which is excellent in transparency, and is also excellent in impact resistance and viscoelasticity, and a method for producing thereof. The transparent sheet of the present invention comprises a transparent flexible composition layer having 500 to 5,000 parts by mass of a liquid material (B) based on 100 parts by mass of a thermoplastic elastomer component (A) containing at least one elastomer (A-1) selected from the group consisting of a hydrogenated block polymer of a conjugated diene, a hydrogenated block copolymer of an aromatic vinyl compound and a conjugated diene, and an ethylene·?-olefin-based rubber, and other elastomer (A-2), and having a total transmittance of 90% or higher at 25° C. and at a thickness of 0.5 mm, and a transparent resin layer on surface of the transparent flexible composition layer.

Abstract: An image-forming color toner contains at least a colorant, a resin (A), a modified resin (B) and a wax (a) as a mold releasing agent, the image-forming color toner having a phase separated structure comprising the modified resin (B) as a domain in the resin (A) as a continuous phase, and wax (a) being effectively contained the modified resin (B). The modified resin (B) has a wax part containing a wax component (b), and a modified part formed of a vinyl monomer unit and an average ester group concentration of 8% by weight to 30% by weight.

Abstract: A toner composition including toner particles including a binder resin including a modified polyester resin, and a second resin having a weight average molecular weight of from 2,000 to 10,000; a colorant; a release agent; and a particulate material which is present at least a surface portion of the toner particles while embedded into the surface portion, wherein the binder resin has a glass transition temperature not lower than 35° C. and lower than 55° C., and wherein the particulate material has an average particle diameter of from 0.002 to 0.2 times that of the toner particles. A developer including the toner composition and a carrier having a layer thereon which includes at least an acrylic resin and a silicone resin, and a method for fixing an image of the toner composition are also provided.

Abstract: The ionizer of the present invention comprises a chamber which has an ionization part that ionizes a portion of an ion carrier gas that is supplied to the interior of this chamber, and a blowing part which feeds the ion carrier gas toward a charged body. The ionization part is constructed from an ionization source which is contained in the chamber, and a control device which is connected with this ionization source via a high-voltage cable. Either the generating part of a soft X-ray generating device, the generating part of a low-energy electron beam generating device or the generating part of an ultraviolet radiation generating device is used as the ionization source. The control device, the connecting part between the control device and the high-voltage cable and the connecting part between the ionization source and the high-voltage cable are formed with an explosion-proof structure.

Abstract: A transition section for relieving the temperature difference between a front and a back of a substrate is provided before a temperature section at which constituent elements are fired. As a result, a method of manufacturing a plasma display panel and a firing apparatus, where the temperature difference between the front and the back of the substrate in a substrate-moving direction is prevented and the constituent elements are fired well, can be provided.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a transparent flexible composition which is excellent in transparency, and is also excellent in impact resistance and viscoelasticity. The transparent flexible composition of the present invention comprises 100 parts by mass of a thermoplastic elastomer component (A) comprising a hydrogenated block polymer by hydrogenating an olefinic unsaturated bond in a block copolymer having, in its molecule, at least one butadiene polymer block (I) having a vinyl bond content of 5 to 25% in the block and at least one polymer block (II) having a mass ratio of a conjugated diene to other monomer of (100 to 50)/(0 to 50) and having a vinyl bond content of 25 to 95% by mass and a butyl rubber, and 500 to 5,000 parts by mass of a liquid material (B), and has a total transmittance of 90% or higher at 25° C. and at a thickness of 0.5 mm.

Abstract: A toner for developing a latent electrostatic image to a toner image, including a binder resin, and a magnetic material which is blackened by coating the surface of a magnetic powder with a coloring agent, the magnetic material being in an amount of 10 wt.% to 40 wt.% of the entire weight of the toner, a method of forming an image, using a two-component developer containing the toner, an image formation apparatus using the two-component developer, and a toner container containing therein the toner, and an image formation apparatus equipped with the toner container are proposed.

Abstract: An image-forming color toner contains at least a colorant, a resin (A), a modified resin (B) and a wax (a) as a mold releasing agent, the image-forming color toner having a phase separated structure comprising the modified resin (B) as a domain in the resin (A) as a continuous phase, and wax (a) being effectively contained the modified resin (B). The modified resin (B) has a wax part containing a wax component (b), and a modified part formed of a vinyl monomer unit and an average ester group concentration of 8% by weight to 30% by weight.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a polishing method for producing, in a relatively short period of time, a tubular brittle material having an inner surface of high surface precision with a maximum roughness Rmax of 0.1 ?m or smaller and a center line average roughness Ra of 0.01 ?m or smaller, and to provide a tubular brittle material with high precision using said polishing method. The polishing method according to the invention is characterized by that the inner surface of the tubular material being pre-cut into a tubular shape using a honing machine is further polished with a sheet material having diamond abrasives attached thereon. Also claimed is a tubular brittle material obtained by said polishing method.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing plasma display panels includes using a firing device that allows preferable firing of panel components by cleaning each setter. A cleaning section provided in a lower passage of the firing device allows removal and cleaning of abrasion powder generated while setter is transported by rotation of rollers. This reduces attachment or mixing of abrasion powder to a panel component.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of manufacturing PDPs, and a firing device that allows preferable firing of panel components by controlling each setter. Transportation structure configured by disposing rollers in a transport direction of a substrate allows firing of a panel component while transporting the substrate placed on a setter. An ID identification device for identifying a setter using an ID area provided on the setter is provided on a firing device. Panel components are fired using this firing device for controlling information such as a number of heatings of each setter.

Abstract: A radio frequency apparatus comprising a printed circuit board mounting an electronic component including a coil as an inductance element, a metal frame body covering this printed circuit board and connected to the ground, a lid formed integrally with the frame body, covering the inductance element mounting side of the frame body, and a leg formed by cutting and bending from the lid, having a width nearly same as the width of the coil, in which the leg is disposed closely to the coil.

Abstract: A color toner including toner particles including a colorant, a binder resin, and a wax; and an external additive including at least one of an inorganic particulate material and a particulate resin, wherein the binder resin includes a polyester resin (A) having a crystallinity and a formula (—O—CO—CR1=CR2-CO—O—(CH2)n—)m, wherein R1 and R2 independently represents a hydrocarbon, and n and m are repeating numbers; a resin (B); and a resin (C), wherein the resins (B) and (C) and the wax have an island-sea structure such that the resin (C) is present like islands in a sea of the resin (B) and the wax is substantially included in the resin (C). A toner container, an image forming method, an image forming apparatus and a process cartridge including the color toner are also provided.

Abstract: A color toner composition including at least toner particles including at least a binder resin; a colorant and a release agent dispersed in the binder resin; and a titania as an external additive, wherein the colorant has an average dispersion particle diameter not greater than 0.5 ?m; the release agent and the binder resin are insoluble to each other; the toner particles satisfy the relationship: 0.05?Dw/D4?0.4, wherein Dw represents an average dispersion particle diameter of the release agent and D4 represents a weight-average particle diameter of the toner particles; and the titania has a segregation rate of from 0.5 to 5%.

Abstract: A baking system for a plasma display panel which comprises a clean room 1 and a baking furnace having an upper passage 11 for conveying a plasma display panel glass substrate 5 during baking from an inlet 15 of the furnace 3, and a lower passage 13 for conveying the baked substrate 5 in the upper passage 11 towards an outlet of the furnace 3, both of the inlet and the outlet being provided at the same end of the furnace 3, characterized in that only the inlet 15 and the outlet 17 are connected to a clean room 1, while keeping a body thereof outside the clean room 1. Also, there is disclosed a layout method for such a baking system.

Abstract: A receiver is operable even if including a local oscillator generating a signal at high frequencies but not in a wide frequency range. The receiver includes: a first frequency converter for mixing a received signal with a first local oscillation signal to convert the received signal into respective signals of plural first intermediate frequencies corresponding to a frequency of the received signal; and a second frequency converter for converting the signals of the first intermediate frequencies into a signal of a second intermediate frequency.

Abstract: In association with a solenoidal coil 10 being energized to unlock a shift lever, a first movable core 9 and a second movable core 11 magnetically stick together so as to rotationally move in unison from an original position in which the first movable core 9 engages with the second movable core 11. Because the first movable core 9 and the second movable core 11 stick together before unlocking the shift lever, it is possible to avoid the first movable core 9 from hitting the second movable core 11 so as to eliminate an operational noise which would otherwise be produced by hitting the first movable core 9 against the second movable core 11. A lock plate 7 and a link plate 8 are rotatably provided around a rotational center 6 in relative to the solenoidal coil 10. This prevents the lock plate 7 and the link plate 8 from moving rotationally in unison with the solenoidal coil 10, thus enabling the lock plate 7 and the link plate 8 to a smooth and quick rotational movement.

Abstract: A charge control agent containing a calcium salt of a sulfoisophthalic acid compound. A toner for developing an electrostatic latent image including the above charge control agent, a binder resin and a colorant.

Abstract: A color toner including toner particles including a colorant, a binder resin, and a wax; and an external additive including at least one of an inorganic particulate material and a particulate resin, wherein the binder resin includes a polyester resin (A) having a crystallinity and a formula (—O—CO—CR1?CR2—CO—O—(CH2)n—)m, wherein R1 and R2 independently represents a hydrocarbon, and n and m are repeating numbers; a resin (B); and a resin (C), wherein the resins (B) and (C) and the wax have an island-sea structure such that the resin (C) is present like islands in a sea of the resin (B) and the wax is substantially included in the resin (C). A toner container, an image forming method, an image forming apparatus and a process cartridge including the color toner are also provided.