Abstract: A method for manufacturing a plasma display panel is provided. The method includes making a front substrate and a rear substrate individually and applying a low melting point glass paste including non-porous bead onto a portion of the front substrate or the rear substrate so that the applied low melting point glass paste forms a frame-like shape having a height greater than that of the structural member. The method includes assembling the front substrate and the rear substrate in a face-to-face relation with each other and burning the applied low melting point glass paste while vacuuming a discharge gas space between the front substrate and the rear substrate so as to seal the front substrate and the rear substrate.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide an optical recording medium that is provided with a recording layer for recording information by holography, has an uncomplicated laminate structure, is capable of performing recording and reproducing control such as tracking control and is capable of high-density multiple recording, as well as an optical recording method, an optical recording apparatus and an optical reproducing method. To this end, the present invention provides an optical recording medium which is a transmission medium for recording information based on a holographic principle using an information beam and a reference beam and performing tracking control using a servo beam, the medium including at least a first substrate, a recording layer, a filter layer that selectively reflects the servo beam, and a second substrate being disposed in this order as viewed from the light irradiation side of the information beam and the reference beam.

Abstract: A screen mask includes a screen mesh with a tensioning force of 196 to 392 N/mm; a tension mesh with a tensioning force of 49 to 98 N/mm; a resin plate (fixing part) arranged so as to surround the outer periphery of the screen mesh for fixing a part of the tension mesh with a tensioning force of 392 to 980 N/mm; and a screen frame. A length Ls of the screen mesh in a first direction intersecting a direction in which a squeegee squeegees on the screen mesh when performing a screen printing is 0.6 to 0.9 times a length Lt of the tension mesh in the first direction, a length Lk of the resin plate, the length Ls, and the length Lt in the first direction satisfy a relationship Lk=a(Lt+Ls)/2, where “a” is a coefficient in a range of 0.5 to 1.2.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a plasma display panel is provided. The method includes making a front substrate and a rear substrate individually and applying a low melting point glass paste including non-porous bead onto a portion of the front substrate or the rear substrate so that the applied low melting point glass paste forms a frame-like shape having a height greater than that of the structural member. The method includes assembling the front substrate and the rear substrate in a face-to-face relation with each other and burning the applied low melting point glass paste while vacuuming a discharge gas space between the front substrate and the rear substrate so as to seal the front substrate and the rear substrate.

Abstract: The present invention provides a filter for optical recording media capable of preventing diffused reflection from a reflective layer caused by an information beam and a reference beam in the optical recording medium and preventing occurrences of noise without causing deviation in selective reflection wavelength even when an incidence angle is changed, a holographic optical recording medium that has not yet been conventionally provided, using the filter for optical recording media, a method for producing the optical recording medium efficiently at low-cost, and an optical recording and reproducing method using the optical recording medium using the optical recording medium. To this end, the present invention provides a filter for optical recording media containing two or more cholesteric liquid crystal layers laminated to one another, and a holographic optical recording medium using the filter for optical recording media.

Abstract: A screen mask includes a screen mesh with a tensioning force of 196 to 392 N/mm; a tension mesh with a tensioning force of 49 to 98 N/mm; a resin plate (fixing part) arranged so as to surround the outer periphery of the screen mesh for fixing a part of the tension mesh with a tensioning force of 392 to 980 N/mm; and a screen frame. A length Ls of the screen mesh in a first direction intersecting a direction in which a squeegee squeegees on the screen mesh when performing a screen printing is 0.6 to 0.9 times a length Lt of the tension mesh in the first direction, a length Lk of the resin plate, the length Ls, and the length Lt in the first direction satisfy a relationship Lk=a(Lt+Ls)/2, where “a” is a coefficient in a range of 0.5 to 1.2.

Abstract: The invention provides a technique which can improve a printing precision of a screen printing. A fixing mechanism for fixing a screen mask of a printer to a mask holder is structured such as to include a first fixing mechanism fixing sides of four sides of a frame existing in an outer peripheral edge of the screen mask arranged along an arrow corresponding to a sliding direction of a squeegee, and the mask holder, and a second fixing mechanism fixing a side of four sides of the frame arranged along a direction intersecting the arrow and in an opposite direction to the arrow as seen from the slide starting position, and the mask holder.

Abstract: A technique which enables screen printing on a large printed object is provided. A screen frame of a screen mask has a lower surface (third surface), a screen-mesh holding unit which holds a screen mesh, a surface (fourth surface) which is different from the lower surface, and a screen-frame fixing unit which is fixed in a state in which a first contact region which is a part or the entirety of the surface is in contact with a screen-frame holder of a printing device. The position of the first contact region in a cross section of the screen frame cut from the upper surface toward the lower surface is present above the lower surface.

Abstract: A recording material comprises, on a support, a recording layer including a diazo compound, a coupler compound that can react with the diazo compound to form a color, and a metal salt, wherein the coupler compound is represented by the general formula (1): General Formula (1) wherein R1, R2, R3, and R4 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkoxy group, or an amino group; R5, R6, R7, R8, and R9 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, an alkylthio group, an arylthio group, an alkylsulfonyl group, an arylsulfonyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an aryloxycarbonyl group, an acyloxy group, an acyl group, a carbamoyl group, an acylamino group, a sulfamoyl group, a sulfonamide group, a cyano group, or a nitro group; and X represents an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom.

Abstract: The objects of the present invention are to provide a composition for hologram recording media that can produce high-quality hologram recording media efficiently with less time-consuming and without being affected by moisture, to provide volume-type hologram recording media that are adapted to high-density recording, to provide a method for producing the volume-type hologram recording media that can produce efficiently the hologram recording media with lower cost, and also to provide a hologram-recording method and to provide a hologram-reproducing method that utilizes the hologram recording media respectively. Accordingly, the present invention relates to a composition for hologram recording media, comprising a polymerizable monomer, a photopolymerization initiator, a non-polymerizable compound, and an organic gelling agent and the like.

Abstract: An optical recording medium includes a servo substrate formed so that at least servo information is capable of being detected, a first recording layer in which information is recorded by holography, a first top substrate, a first gap layer G1, a first gap layer G2, a first filter layer, a second recording layer, a second top substrate, a second gap layer G1, a second gap layer G2 and a second filter layer, wherein the first recording layer, the first top substrate, the first gap layer G1, the first gap layer G2, and the first filter layer are arranged on one surface side of the servo substrate, and the second recording layer, the second top substrate, the second gap layer G1, the second gap layer G2, and the second filter layer are arranged on the other surface side of the servo substrate.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical recording medium, which contains a substrate; and a recording layer disposed on the substrate, wherein the recording layer is subjected to recording of information using holography, wherein the recording layer contains a gas generating substance encapsulated in minute receptacles, and wherein the gas generating substance generates gas upon radiation of light. The present invention also provides an optical recording method, and an optical information reproducing method using such the optical recording medium.

Abstract: A method of forming an electrode for a plasma display panel, in which the method includes the steps of forming a first metal film on a second metal film after formation of the second metal film on a substrate, forming a resist pattern on the laminated metal films, and etching the laminated metal films with an etching solution, thereby forming an electrode of the laminated films. A first metal is different from a second metal, and the first metal and the second metal have properties such that the surface potential of the first metal decreases when the first metal and the second metal in the state of being soaked in an etching solution of the first metal are short-circuited. During or after the formation of the first metal film, a diffusion step is performed in which an atmospheric temperature is kept at such a temperature that the metal atoms of the second metal film diffuse in and on the surface of the first metal film.

Abstract: A method of applying a phosphor paste of PDP includes the steps of disposing a screen mask on a substrate formed with a number of barrier ribs, applying a phosphor paste on the screen mask, and filling phosphor paste into cells by discharging the phosphor paste from apertures of the screen mask. The barrier ribs are formed on the substrate so that the each concave part becoming the cell forms independent space. The screen mask includes filling apertures and discharging apertures. Each of filling apertures is formed on a position corresponding to the concave part becoming the cell. Each of the discharging apertures is formed between the filling apertures so as to remove air outside, the air being accumulated within the cell when the phosphor paste is filled in the cell.

Abstract: A microcapsule in which a capsule wall of the microcapsule comprises a first polymer component. A surface of the capsule wall is modified with a second polymer component that is formed from a monomer having an ethylenic unsaturated bond.

Abstract: A plasma display panel includes a front substrate and a rear substrate that are opposed to each other with a discharge gas space between them, and a sealing material for sealing the front substrate and the rear substrate at their peripheral portions. The sealing material contains an appropriate quantity of spacers so that a thickness of the plasma display panel is uniform along the entire perimeter of the sealing portion between the front substrate and the rear substrate. The sealing material contains non-porous beads as the spacers, preferably at a ratio within the range of 0.05-2.0 wt %.

Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording material includes a support having disposed thereon a heat-sensitive layer including microcapsules, which contain an achromic or hypochromic electron-donating dye precursor, and a developer, wherein the microcapsules contain at least one metal compound.

Abstract: A microcapsule in which a capsule wall of the microcapsule comprises a first polymer component. A surface of the capsule wall is modified with a second polymer component that is formed from a monomer having an ethylenic unsaturated bond.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a heat sensitive recording material which can develop color at high density by the inclusion of a novel guanidine compound which is strongly basic and superior in diffusion resistance. The present invention for attaining the above-described object is a heat sensitive recording material comprising a substrate supporting thereon a heat sensitive recording layer containing a diazonium salt compound, a coupler which reacts with the diazonium salt compound when heated to develop color, and a base, wherein the heat sensitive recording layer includes as the base at least one of the guanidine compounds represented by the general formula (1): wherein, in the general formula (1), R1 and R2 represent an alkyl group or aryl group and may be the same or different, R3 and R4 represent a hydrogen atom, alkyl group or halogen atom and may be the same or different, and X represents a divalent connecting group.

Abstract: A recording material comprises, on a support, a recording layer including a diazo compound, a coupler compound that can react with the diazo compound to form a color, and a metal salt, wherein the coupler compound is represented by the general formula (1):