Abstract: The invention is to provide a folding device comprising a fewer number of components and low in cost and a method of mounting the same to a various kinds of electronic apparatuses. Folding device 25 is constructed with holding member 23 mounted rotatably on an end portion of movable case 21, which is formed on its periphery with convex wall portion 21A, and which houses fixed member 1 and movable member 3. Holding member 23 provided in folding device 25 is rotated to fix movable case 21 in movable housing 13 after movable case 21 is inserted in movable housing 13.

Abstract: The invention relates to a folding device used for a various kinds of electronic apparatuses and is to provide a folding device capable of easy process of parts and lowering in cost. Inner cases 16 and 17 are mounted in outer case 15, which houses fixed member 1 and movable member 13. Groove portions 16A and 17A for holding movable member 13 for movement in the axial direction are provided in inner cases 16 and 17 to construct a folding device.

Abstract: An X-ray diagnostic imaging apparatus including an input device which inputs a desired visual field size, and a method for setting a detection field size of an image intensifier I.I. and a magnification ratio of collected image data in a processor in accordance with the inputted visual field size to reduce an operator's burden for setting a condition.

Abstract: The invention provides a coating implement for applying a nonvolatile liquid for protection treatment, which does not dissolve a coloring material, to a recorded product which is provided with a porous layer as an ink-receiving layer on the surface of a substrate, and on which an image has been formed with the coloring material adsorbed on at least the porous layer, thereby protecting the image, wherein a coating surface for applying the liquid to the porous layer having the image is supported by a supporting member, and the coating surface can hold the liquid.

Abstract: The present invention provides a recording medium for ink jet printers in which superior image recording quality and color stability are exhibited. In a recording medium for ink jet printers in which an ink receiving layer contained at least pigment and binder resin is provided on a supporting material, partially saponified PVA having a degree of saponification of 85.0 to 73.0 mol % and a degree of polymerization of 300 to 1500, is contained in the ink receiving layer as a color stability improving component.

Abstract: An EL element includes a) an outer connecting part, b) a substrate comprising a light-transmitting and insulating sheet, c) a light-transmitting electrode layer formed on the substrate wholly or except the outer connecting part in a specific pattern, d) a light emitting layer formed on the light-transmitting electrode layer in a specific pattern, e) a dielectric layer formed on the light emitting layer in a specific pattern, f) a backside electrode layer formed on the dielectric layer in a specific pattern, g) an insulating layer formed on the backside electrode layer and the light-transmitting electrode layer except the outer connecting part, and h) a shielding layer formed on the insulating layer in a specific pattern. The light-transmitting electrode layer or the backside electrode layer is coupled with the shielding layer. The EL element is thus arranged so that it can have its outer connecting part of a reduced size, and so that coupling with the electronic device becomes easy.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an image weatherability testing process for evaluating the weatherability of an image, which comprises the steps of placing the image in a mixed gas atmosphere of ozone and at least another gas than ozone and irradiating the image under the mixed gas atmosphere with light having a prescribed wavelength in a prescribed quantity of light, and an apparatus used in this process.

Abstract: A lighted switch sheet of the invention has a structure, which comprises a sheet having a plurality of movable contacts of a hemispherical shape disposed in a plurality of fixing holes, and an EL element affixed on an upper surface of the sheet. The EL element has an optically transmitting substrate provided with an optically transmitting electrode layer, light-emitting layer and back electrode layer formed in an overlapping manner on an underside surface thereof, and through holes of a size slightly smaller than an outer diameter of the movable contacts formed above their respective movable contacts. The invention provides for the lighted switch sheet with a small number of structural components and a simple structure at low cost.

Abstract: An EL sheet is used as a back light of an operating section of various electronic apparatuses. The EL sheet generates a stable click feel and is easily processed. A switch employing the EL sheet is also provided. An EL element layer is not formed at a bent section or its vicinity around a root section of a diaphragm. Only conductive patterns, which are coupled to a light-transmissible electrode layer and a back electrode layer respectively, are formed there. Instead of the conductive patterns, insulating film can be exposed there.

Abstract: An illumination type push button switch includes EL element 20 mounted to a bottom surface of board 17 below switch contact 2. Board 17 has through-holes 17A and 17B near the contact. EL element 20, which is capable of lighting plural push buttons simultaneously by surface-light emission, emits light via through-holes 17A and 17B of board 17 to light push buttons 11 and 12. The illumination type push button switch thus lighting the push buttons clearly includes a small number of components and is inexpensive.

Abstract: A recording medium for ink jet printers having superior effects in preventing recorded image deterioration such as lowering of image clarity, decrease in density, change in color tone, etc., under high temperature and high humidity, is provided. An ink receiving layer is formed on a base material by coating acrylic copolymer containing at least (meth)acrylate having a solubility parameter (&dgr;) of 15.0 to 23.0 MPa½ as a copolymerizing component, and thereby a recording medium for ink jet printers is produced.

Abstract: Provided is a solubility-controallable compound being soluble in a solvent due to a solvent-philic group thereof, of which solubility in the solvent is irreversibly lowered when the group is removed by retro-Diels-Alder reaction.

Abstract: An X-ray diagnostic imaging apparatus including an input device which inputs a desired visual field size, and a method for setting a detection field size of an image intensifier I.I. and a magnification ratio of collected image data in a processor in accordance with the inputted visual field size to reduce an operator's burden for setting a condition.

Abstract: An illumination type push button switch includes EL element 20 mounted to a bottom surface of board 17 below switch contact 2. Board 17 has through-holes 17A and 17B near the contact. EL element 20, which is capable of lighting plural push buttons simultaneously by surface-light emission, emits light via through-holes 17A and 17B of board 17 to light push buttons 11 and 12. The illumination type push button switch thus lighting the push buttons clearly includes a small number of components and is inexpensive.

Abstract: A vehicular cooling system and a related method are disclosed as including a heat-source heat radiator 11 for cyclically supplying coolant water to a heat source 1 for cooling the same, and a moistening-water-condenser heat radiator 19 for cyclically supplying coolant water to and cooling a moistening-water recapturing condenser 5 which condenses and recaptures water from exhaust gases of the fuel cell 1 for moistening the same.

Abstract: The invention provides an ink-jet recording sheet having an excellent preventive effect on overall. degradation by light such as degradation of image clarity, and decrease in density or change of tone of images, and a resin composition for ink-jet recording media used in the formation thereof. The recording sheet of the invention comprises a substrate and as an ink-receiving layer provided on the substrate, a layer containing an acrylic resin comprising, as copolymerizable monomers, (a) a dialkylaminoalkyl methacrylate, (b) acrylamide and (c) at least one monomer selected from among an. alkoxypolyethylene glycol methacrylate, a 2-hydroxyalkyl methacrylate and a 2-hydroxyalkyl acrylate.

Abstract: A recording medium for ink jet printers having superior recording properties for ink jet printers and having superior surface strength in which recorded images are not easily peeled. Acrylic type copolymer in which at least three components of an A component: (metha)acrylate; a B component: hydroxyalkyl (metha)acrylate; and a C component: antioxidation monomer and/or ultraviolet ray absorptivity monomer are copolymerizing components is contained in a coating solution, an ink receiving layer is provided by coating this solution on a base material, whereby a recording medium for ink jet printers is formed.

Abstract: The invention provides a coating implement for applying a nonvolatile liquid for protection treatment, which does not dissolve a coloring material, to a recorded product which is provided with a porous layer as an ink-receiving layer on the surface of a substrate, and on which an image has been formed with the coloring material adsorbed on at least the porous layer, thereby protecting the image, wherein a coating surface for applying the liquid to the porous layer having the image is supported by a supporting member, and the coating surface can hold the liquid.

Abstract: An EL sheet is used as a back light of an operating section of various electronic apparatuses. The EL sheet generates a stable click feel and is easily processed. A switch employing the EL sheet is also provided. An EL element layer is not formed at a bent section or its vicinity around a root section of a diaphragm. And only conductive patterns, which are coupled to a light-transmissible electrode layer and a back electrode layer respectively, are formed there. Instead of the conductive patterns, insulating film can be exposed there.

Abstract: A vehicular cooling system and a related method are disclosed as including a heat-source heat radiator 11 for cyclically supplying coolant water to a heat source 1 for cooling the same, and a moistening-water-condenser heat radiator 19 for cyclically supplying coolant water to and cooling a moistening-water recapturing condenser 5 which condenses and recaptures water from exhaust gases of the fuel cell 1 for moistening the same.