Abstract: Provided is a decorative sheet having extremely good bleed-out suppression and long-term weather resistance maintenance.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device to heat a recording material at a use position, an opening and closing member, and a drawer unit. In a state where the fixing device is at the use position, part of the fixing device is located in a space for the drawer unit to pass through when moved from a first inner position to a first outer position so that movement of the drawer unit from the first inner to the first outer position is restricted. The fixing device is retracted from the use position to a retracted position so that the movement of the drawer unit from the first inner to the first outer position is allowed. Part of the fixing device at the retracted position is at a position higher than a position of an upper cover portion of the opening and closing member at a closed position.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus to form an image on a recording material includes an apparatus main body having a first end provided with an opening and having a second end, a fixing device to heat the recording material, an opening and closing member, a drawer unit having a first photosensitive drum, and a transfer device. When being moved from a first inner position inside the apparatus main body to a first outer position outside the apparatus main body through the main body opening, the drawer unit is to be moved in a moving direction intersecting with a rotation axis of the first photosensitive drum, and is to be moved away from the second end. When being moved from a second inner position inside the apparatus main body to a second outer position outside the apparatus main body, the transfer device is moved away from the second end.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body, a drawer unit, and a transfer device including a belt. The drawer unit includes a first cartridge, a support member to which the first cartridge is detachably attached, and a first photosensitive drum disposed on the support member or the first cartridge. The drawer unit is moved to a first inner position inside the apparatus main body and to a first outer position outside the apparatus main body. The transfer device is moved to a second inner position inside the apparatus main body and to a second outer position outside the apparatus main body. The belt contacts the first photosensitive drum with the transfer device at the second inner position. The transfer device is moved from the second inner to the second outer position when the drawer unit is moved from the first inner to the first outer position.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body, a drawer unit, and a transfer device a including a belt. When image formation on a recording material is performed, the drawer unit is at a first apparatus main body inner position and the transfer device is at a second apparatus main body inner position. In this drawer unit state, (a) a part of the transfer device is disposed downstream of the drawer unit in a moving direction in which the drawer unit moves from the first inner position to a first apparatus main body outer position, and (b) in a vertical direction, an area where the part of the transfer device is positioned overlaps, at least in part, with an area where the drawer unit is positioned. The transfer device includes a cleaning member to clean the belt and is accommodated in the part of the transfer device.

Abstract: The present invention provides a transparent resin film that is capable of imparting excellent design properties to a decorative board and is excellent in adhesion to a picture layer, a decorative board including the transparent resin film, and a method for producing the decorative board. Provided is a transparent resin film for protecting a picture layer provided on one side of a substrate, the transparent resin film having a pattern of protrusions and depressions on a picture layer side, the pattern of protrusions and depressions having a maximum height roughness Rz defined in JIS B 0601 (2001) within a range of 15 ?m or larger and 70 ?m or smaller.

Abstract: There are provided a decorative sheet which has excellent weatherability and in which white pigment particles are dispersed well, and a decorative material using the decorative sheet, The decorative sheet includes at least a substrate and a surface protective layer, wherein the surface protective layer contains an ultraviolet absorber, and the substrate contains white pigment particles, and wherein the white pigment particles are titanium oxide particles having a coating containing Al element and Si element and formed on part or the whole of their surfaces, and contain Ti, Al and Si elements in the predetermined mass ratio, and a water vapor transmission rate of the decorative sheet satisfies the predetermined condition.

Abstract: A decorative sheet having a surface protective layer on substrate, wherein the surface protective layer is obtained by crosslinking and curing composition A containing an ionizing radiation-curable resin composition and radical scavenger; the radical scavenger contains radical scavenger i which includes ethylenic double bond polymerizable with ionizing radiation-curable resin composition and radical scavenger ii which does not include ethylenic double bond polymerizable with ionizing radiation-curable resin composition; a content of radical scavenger in composition A is not less than 0.5 parts by mass and less than 10.0 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the ionizing radiation-curable resin composition; and a water vapor transmission rate of the decorative sheet when measured in accordance with Testing Methods for Determination of the Water Vapor Transmission Rate of Moisture-Proof Packaging Materials (Dish Method) defined in JIS Z0208:1976 is not less than 0.

Abstract: A decorative material which has excellent application suitability with a high initial tight contact strength in the application process and achieves the excellent long-term adhesion free from the delamination even when used for a long term, and a decorative member having the excellent long-term adhesion. A decorative material obtained by applying decoration treatment to a substrate, and having a water vapor transmission rate when measured in accordance with Testing Methods for Determination of the Water Vapor Transmission Rate of Moisture-Proof Packaging Materials (Dish Method) defined in JIS Z0208:1976 of not less than 0.75 g/m2·0.24 h and not more than 45 g/m2·0.24 h, and a decorative member including the decorative material and a base body with an adhesive layer disposed therebetween such that the substrate of the decorative material and the base body face each other.

Abstract: A robot including: two link members with longitudinal axes that are coupled such that the link members are able to relatively rotate about an axial line; and a sensor that detects a force around the axial line acting between the link members due to an object pinched between the link members, in which the robot has such a shape that a width dimension in a direction along a plane of a cross-sectional surface of at least one of the link members, which perpendicularly intersects the axial line, on at least one sides from the longitudinal axes that intersect the axial line continuously spread from at least midway positions of the at least one of the link members in the direction of the longitudinal axes toward the axial line, respectively.

Abstract: Provided are: a decorative sheet and a decorative material having bleed-out suppression and long-term weather resistance maintenance, and a resin composition for surface protective layer. The decorative sheet has at least a substrate layer and a surface protective layer, wherein in the surface protective layer, the content of all the UV absorbents relative to 100 parts by mass of the resin therein is 10 parts by mass or less, and the surface protective layer satisfies the following: The layer contains a hydroxyphenyltriazine compound represented by general formula (I) and a hydroxyphenyltriazine compound represented by general formula (II) as UV absorbents, and the content of the hydroxyphenyltriazine compound represented by general formula (II) is 50% by mass or less relative to 100% by mass of the total of the content of the hydroxyphenyltriazine compound represented by general formula (I) and the content of the hydroxyphenyltriazine compound represented by general formula (II).

Abstract: Provided is a decorative sheet having extremely good bleed-out suppression and long-term weather resistance maintenance.

Abstract: The present invention provides a transparent resin film that has excellent embossability and is capable of reducing or preventing air entrainment to provide high design quality, a decorative material including the transparent resin film, and a method for producing a decorative material. The present invention relates to a transparent resin film to be laminated on a substrate including a picture layer, the transparent resin film including at least a base layer and a top layer sequentially from a side to be laminated on the substrate, the transparent resin film having a pattern of protrusions and depressions on a side opposite to the side to be laminated on the substrate, the base layer having a lower softening temperature than the top layer.

Abstract: The invention provides a transparent resin film that has a smooth surface on a side to be laminated on a substrate to prevent entering of air bubbles when bonded to a substrate and has a pattern of protrusions and depressions on a side opposite to the side to be laminated on a substrate to provide high design quality, a method for producing the transparent resin film, and a decorative material. The invention relates to a transparent resin film to be laminated on a substrate including a picture layer, the transparent resin film having a pattern of protrusions and depressions with a maximum height Rz of 20 ?m or higher and 200 ?m or lower on a side opposite to a side to be laminated on the substrate, the transparent resin film having a maximum height Rz of 20 ?m or lower on the side to be laminated on the substrate.

Abstract: The present invention provides a decorative board capable of exhibiting excellent weather resistance even in a depression of a pattern of protrusions and depressions even in a case where the pattern of protrusions and depressions is formed on the outermost surface of a transparent resin film, a transparent resin film, and a method for producing a decorative board. Provided is a decorative board including: a substrate; a picture layer; and a transparent resin film, in a stated order in a thickness direction, the transparent resin film comprising at least a thermoplastic resin layer and having a pattern of protrusions and depressions on a side opposite to a picture layer side, the decorative board further comprising at least one layer containing an ultraviolet absorber between the picture layer and the thermoplastic resin layer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a transparent resin film that is capable of imparting excellent design properties to a decorative board and is excellent in adhesion to a picture layer, a decorative board including the transparent resin film, and a method for producing the decorative board. Provided is a transparent resin film for protecting a picture layer provided on one side of a substrate, the transparent resin film having a pattern of protrusions and depressions on a picture layer side, the pattern of protrusions and depressions having a maximum height roughness Rz defined in JIS B 0601 (2001) within a range of 15 ?m or larger and 70 ?m or smaller.

Abstract: The present invention provides a transparent resin film which enables visual check of the adhesion state after lamination of the transparent resin film on a picture layer provided on a substrate, a decorative board including the transparent resin film, and a method for producing the decorative board. Provided is a transparent resin film for protecting a picture layer provided on one side of a substrate, the transparent resin film including at least: a thermoplastic resin layer; and an external haze layer on a picture layer side.

Abstract: The present invention provides a transparent resin film excellent in weather resistance even in a case where a pattern of protrusions and depressions is formed on the surface for the purpose of imparting excellent design properties, a decorative board including the transparent resin film, and a method for producing the decorative board. Provided is a transparent resin film for protecting a picture layer on one side of a substrate, including at least: a surface protective layer; and a transparent resin layer, laminated on each other, the transparent resin film having a pattern of protrusions and depressions on a surface protective layer side, the transparent resin film having a thickness at a depression of the pattern of protrusions and depressions of 100 ?m or larger, the transparent resin film containing an ultraviolet absorber.

Abstract: The present invention provides a decorative sheet on which fire does not easily spread even when the decorative sheet is laminated on a base having low thermal conductivity, and a decorative plate comprising the decorative sheet laminated on a base. The present invention provide a decorative sheet for laminating on a base having a thermal conductivity of less than 0.1 W/(m·K) on a side to which the decorative sheet is bonded, wherein (1) the decorative sheet comprises a metal layer having a thermal conductivity of 10 W/(m·K) or more, (2) the decorative sheet comprises a plurality of layers containing a non-halogen-based thermoplastic resin, and (3) the decorative sheet satisfies the following equation (I) y??0.0001x2+0.123x?12.26 (I), where x is the total thickness (?m) of the layers containing a non-halogen-based thermoplastic resin, and y is the thickness (?m) of the metal layer.

Abstract: A robot including: two link members with longitudinal axes that are coupled such that the link members are able to relatively rotate about an axial line; and a sensor that detects a force around the axial line acting between the link members due to an object pinched between the link members, in which the robot has such a shape that a width dimension in a direction along a plane of a cross-sectional surface of at least one of the link members, which perpendicularly intersects the axial line, on at least one sides from the longitudinal axes that intersect the axial line continuously spread from at least midway positions of the at least one of the link members in the direction of the longitudinal axes toward the axial line, respectively.