Abstract: The present invention provides a shaping sheet that includes a base material having at least an ink layer provided on the whole surface thereof and a surface shaping layer that is present on the ink layer, contacts the ink layer, and covers the whole surface of the ink layer, in which the surface shaping layer is a crosslinked and cured product of a curable resin composition and the surface shaping layer has a concavoconvex pattern on a surface thereof. There can be obtained: a shaping sheet that has a fine concavoconvex pattern, allows elaborated shaping with a high-grade feeling, and has excellent releasability; a shaping sheet having excellent design properties and releasability that can readily control a lustrous portion and a matted portion; and further a shaping sheet whose surface is free of contamination by impurities separated out of the base material even when it is repeatedly used.

Abstract: A nitrile-group-containing highly saturated copolymer rubber comprising ?,?-ethylenically unsaturated nitrile monomer units (a) in 5 to 60 wt %, ?,?-ethylenically unsaturated dicarboxylic acid mono ester monomer units (b) in 0.1 to 20 wt %, (meth)acrylic acid alkoxyalkyl ester monomer units which have alkoxyalkyl groups with 2 to 8 carbon atoms (c) in 11 to 50 wt %, and conjugated diene monomer units (d) in 20 to 83.9 wt %, where at least part of the conjugated diene monomer units (d) are hydrogenated.

Abstract: A multifocal intraocular lens simulator includes an optical system enabling an object to be observed therethrough, and a test lens holder which holds a prescribed test intraocular lens. The intraocular lens holder is installed at a position optically conjugate with a position at which an eye of an observer is to be placed. The present invention also teaches a method of simulating a multifocal intraocular lens.

Abstract: A multifocal intraocular lens simulator includes an optical system enabling an object to be observed therethrough, and a test lens holder which holds a prescribed test intraocular lens. The intraocular lens holder is installed at a position optically conjugate with a position at which an eye of an observer is to be placed. The present invention also teaches a method of simulating a multifocal intraocular lens.

Abstract: A shaping sheet which has a delicate and daring concave-convex shape, is capable of realizing minute shaping with excellent design and touch feeling and having an air of luxuriousness and is excellent in release properties; a resin decorative plate obtained by using the shaping sheet; and a method for manufacturing a resin decorative plate capable of shaping a body to be shaped using the shaping sheet are provided.

Abstract: In a reflective scanning optical system employing an imaging optical system having a curved mirror with a rotationally symmetrical reflecting surface configuration, the change in magnification of the imaging optical system in the auxiliary scanning direction is reduced and thereby the beam spot diameter on the scan target surface is equalized, as well as equalizing the scan line interval on the scan target surface when the system is applied to a multibeam scanning optical system. The imaging optical system of the reflective scanning optical system includes a curved mirror with a rotationally symmetrical reflecting surface and a lens having an anamorphic lens surface configuration on its one side. In the anamorphic lens surface configuration, slope and curvature of the line of intersection of the lens surface and a plane parallel to the auxiliary scanning cross section change independently of each other as the position in the main scanning direction changes.

Abstract: A process is executed in which a weight value transmitted from a scale device having a placing part for placing an article, is stored in a memory as a former weight under predetermined condition, when an article code is input through a user interface, a price and a weight range corresponding to the input article code is searched from an article data file, a weight check is executed in which whether or not a weight difference between a weight value acquired by placing the article code input article on the placing part and the former weight stored in the memory falls within the searched weight range, and an article information registration process is executed only when the weight check is gone through.

Abstract: A pearl-like decorative paper and a thermosetting resin decorative sheet having postforming suitability with no blisters or cracking generation by the postforming process even in the case of the pearl-like design are provided. In the pearl-like decorative paper 10 having a pearl ink layer 3 containing a pearl pigment on a paper substrate 1, a pearl pigment of a scaly foil of mica covered with a titanium dioxide and/or an iron oxide, and the surface thereof further treated with a zirconium oxide hydrate is used as the pearl pigment. By providing a pattern ink layer 2 of an ordinary ink therebetween, a further better design can be provided.

Abstract: In providing the brightness to the design of a thermosetting resin decorative sheet, or a decorative paper therefor, the surface irregularity of the brightness (feeling) generated at the time of resin impregnation or thermal pressure molding is prevented without an additional transparent ink layer provided on the paper surface. A decorative paper exhibiting brightness 10, with a bright ink layer 3 containing a bright pigment including the scaly foil of the bright substance on a paper base material 1 as the uppermost layer, using an ink with an urethane resin emulsion used in combination with a water based resin such as a casein resin and an acrylic resin for the ink resin of the bright ink layer, is provided. By providing a pattern ink layer 2 of an ordinary ink therebetween, a better design can be achieved.

Abstract: An scanning optical system includes a light source having a plurality of light emitting points each of which emits a beam, a first optical system that collimates the beams emitted by the light emitting points in regard to a main scanning direction while converging the beams in an auxiliary scanning direction, a deflecting system that dynamically deflects the beams simultaneously in the main scanning direction, and a second optical system that converges the deflected beams on the scan target surface. Further, the second optical system includes a magnification adjustment element whose magnification mS in the main scanning direction on an optical axis thereof is approximately +1 and whose magnification mP in the auxiliary scanning direction on the optical axis thereof is approximately ?1.

Abstract: A rotary filter type particulate removing device is provided. A rotary cylinder (2) rotates in a stationary cylinder (1) to change an exhaust gas introduced into the stationary cylinder (1) to a circulating flow so as to apply a centrifugal force on particulates in the exhaust gas in order to collect the particulates circulating in the stationary cylinder (1) into a trap (15) provided at a lower part of the particulate removing device. A filter is located on an inner wall of the rotary cylinder (2) and a huge number of punching holes (8) are formed in the lateral wall of the rotary cylinder. A fan (7) is secured on the rotary cylinder (2) which projects to the outside from the stationary cylinder (1) to constitute a sirocco fan. The exhaust gas passes through the punching holes (8) of the rotary cylinder (2) and flows into the interior of the filter. The exhaust gas further flows towards the sirocco fan.

Abstract: The base of a conventional bookstand on which to support a book is a rectangular base having an area substantially as large as an opened book whereas the invention employs a method of placing a book on a crisscross form defined by a horizontal base and a vertical base crossing each other. The horizontal and vertical bases are in the form of elongated rectangles of substantially the same size, and the vertical base placed on the horizontal base is supported for slide turning movement around a support shaft of the horizontal base. On the right and left sides of the horizontal base, the right and left side pages of a book are held down by transparent page binders having guide rods slidable in guide grooves formed inside the horizontal base. An opening/closing stand is provided on the back surface of the horizontal base. The bookstand of the invention has the four parts laminatable in the plane of the horizontal base so as to reduce the size.

Abstract: There is provided a reflective scanning optical system, which includes a light source unit for emitting a beam, a polygon mirror, and a single f? optical element. Magnification mz of the f? optical element in an auxiliary scanning direction is set to satisfy: ?4<mz<?2 . . . (1). The light source unit is set so that a central axis of the beam incident upon the polygon mirror from the light source unit will be in a plane orthogonal to the rotation axis of the polygon mirror and out of an effective scan range of the beam dynamically deflected by the polygon mirror in regard to a main scanning direction. Each reflecting surface of the polygon mirror and the scan target surface are optically conjugate with each other in regard to the auxiliary scanning direction. The beam incident upon the first surface of the f? optical element and the beam emerging from the first surface are separated from each other in the auxiliary scanning direction.

Abstract: A scanning optical system has a scanning optical apparatus, which is provided with a laser diode, a collimating lens that collimates a laser beam emitted by the laser diode, a support member that holds and supports the laser diode and the collimating lens, a deflection member that dynamically deflects the laser beam collimated by the collimating lens in a main scanning direction, and a plastic scanning lens that converges the deflected laser beam onto a target surface. The scanning optical apparatus is configured to satisfy following conditions: 10 < f fc < 20 ; and ? ? fc · nc > t > fc ? ( nc nc + 1 ) , where, f denotes a focal length of the scanning lens in the main scanning direction, fc denotes a focal length of the collimating lens, nc denotes a refractive index of the collimating lens, and t denotes a thickness of the collimating lens along an optical axis.

Abstract: A laser beam emitted by a light source is incident on one of reflecting surfaces of a polygon mirror. The laser beam reflected by the reflecting surface is dynamically deflected in a main scanning direction due to the revolution of the polygon mirror and enters a scanning lens. The first surface of the scanning lens is provided with anti-reflection coating only when the following condition (1) is satisfied: H/2>|2?D(D?Rz1)/Rz1|??(1) where “H” denotes the width of each reflecting surface of the polygon mirror in a auxiliary scanning direction, “?” denotes the incident angle [radian] of the laser beam on the reflecting surface of the polygon mirror in the auxiliary scanning direction, “D” denotes the distance between the reflecting surface and the first surface of the scanning lens, and “Rz1” denotes the curvature radius of the first surface in an auxiliary scanning cross section.

Abstract: A multi-beam scanning optical system is provided with light sources that emit a plurality of laser beams having different wavelengths, respectively, a single deflector which deflects the plurality of laser beams simultaneously, an imaging optical system that converges the plurality of laser beams deflected by the single deflector on the surface to be scanned, and a beam detector that receives the plurality of laser beams directed to outside of the predetermined imaging area via at least one of lens elements included in the imaging optical system, a synchronizing signal being generated upon detection of each of the plurality of light beams by the beam detector. It should be noted that an optical characteristic of the imaging optical system is configured such that the laser beams directed to the predetermined imaging area are aligned in a scanning direction, while the beams directed to the beam detector are shifted in the scanning direction.

Abstract: A scanning optical system includes a polygonal mirror that deflects the even number of beams, which are incident thereon along optical paths arranged symmetrically with respect to a plane perpendicular to a rotation axis thereof. An imaging optical system for converging the beams includes lenses for converging the beam, in an auxiliary scanning direction, respectively. The lenses have the same shapes, and are arranged symmetrically with respect to the plane. The orientation of the lenses on one side of the plane is oriented oppositely, in the auxiliary scanning direction, to the other lenses located on the other side of the plane.

Abstract: A scanning optical system includes a light source that emits a plurality of beams, a deflector disposed on optical paths of the beams emitted from light source, which deflector deflects the beams toward an object surface so that beam spots formed by the beams scan on the object surface in a main scanning direction, and a birefringent double-image member disposed on the optical paths of the beams. The birefringent double-image member splits each of the beams passing therethrough into an ordinary ray and an extraordinary ray that is displaced from the ordinary ray in an auxiliary scanning direction and travels in a vicinity of the ordinary ray. Note that the auxiliary scanning direction is a direction perpendicular to the main scanning direction.

Abstract: The base of a conventional bookstand on which to support a book is a rectangular base having an area substantially as large as an opened book whereas the invention employs a method of placing a book on a crisscross form defined by a horizontal base and a vertical base crossing each other. The horizontal and vertical bases are in the form of elongated rectangles of substantially the same size, and the vertical base placed on the horizontal base is supported for slide turning movement around a support shaft of the horizontal base. On the right and left sides of the horizontal base, the right and left side pages of a book are held down by transparent page binders having guide rods slidable in guide grooves formed inside the horizontal base. An opening/closing stand is provided on the back surface of the horizontal base. The bookstand of the invention has the four parts laminatable in the plane of the horizontal base so as to reduce the size.

Abstract: A scanning optical system includes a light source including a multi-mode laser diode that emits a laser beam, and a polygonal mirror that deflects the laser beam emitted by the light source. An f? lens converges the laser beam deflected by the polygonal mirror on an object to be scanned. The f? lens includes at least one refractive lens and a diffractive lens structure formed on at least one surface of the at least one refractive lens, the diffractive lens structure being configured to compensate for chromatic aberrations provided by a refractive lens structure of the f? lens.