Abstract: Disclosed is a heat insulating plate including a plurality of superposed, heat-resisting, synthetic paper sheets integrally bonded with each other, and one or more metal films interposed between adjacent two of the plurality of synthetic paper sheets.

Abstract: A method and device for checking a joint of an electronic component is arranged to apply heat energy to a joint containing a heat conductive material and receive the infrared ray radiated from said joint with an infrared camera. By processing the image information output from the infrared camera, the method and device can offer an area of a defect, an area ratio of a defect, pixel coordinates, a temperature distribution pattern, a distance between central axes of a particular portion of the joint, or a gradient angle. The obtained value is compared with a predetermined value for determining the kind of a defect and whether or not the joint is defective.

Abstract: A novel heat transfer image-receiving material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon at least one image-receiving layer capable of accepting a dye moved from a heat transfer dye-providing material upon heating to form an image, wherein said image-receiving layer comprises a composition comprising a dye-accepting substance dispersed in a water-soluble binder, and the uppermost layer constituting the image-receiving surface of said image-receiving material comprises a co-dispersion of (a) an ultraviolet light absorbent and/or a silicone compound and (b) a plasticizer having an (organic property/inorganic property) value of 1.5 or more.

Abstract: A thermal transfer image receiving material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon at least one image receiving layer capable of accepting a dye which migrates from a thermal transfer dye providing material when heated, to form an image, wherein the image receiving layer is formed by coating a coating solution and drying it, the coating solution being obtained by dispersing an aqueous solution of fine particles of a dye accepting polymer and a high-boiling organic solvent and/or a thermal solvent in a water-soluble binder solution.

Abstract: An ink recording sheet comprising a transparent support having thereon an ink recording layer comprising a mixture of an amino group-deactivated gelatin derivative and a polyalkylene oxide.

Abstract: A recording liquid comprising an organic solvent and at least one compound represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an aryl group, a carboxylic acid ester group or a carbamoyl group; R.sub.2 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an aryl group; and R.sub.3 represents an aryl group provided that none of R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 is substituted with a sulfonic acid group. The yellow recording liquid has good color and excellent light resistance with good solubility.

Abstract: A recording liquid containing at least one compound represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein Z represents an atomic group forming at least one substituted or unsubstituted 5-membered to 7-membered aromatic or heterocyclic ring; Z' represents at least one substituted or unsubstituted 5-membered to 7-membered aromatic or heterocyclic ring which contains in its ring (i) a nitrogen atom acting as a coordinating atom or (ii) a carbon atom to which a nitrogen atom acting as a coordinating atom is directly bonded at a position adjacent to the position to which the azo group is bonded; and G is a metal-chelating group. The recording liquid exhibits improved light-resistance and water-resistance as well as satisfactory hue and absorbance.

Abstract: Photographic light-sensitive materials particularly useful in connection with instant photography are disclosed. The disclosed photographic materials include films for instant photography which have a reduced image appearing time, a high Dmax and low Dmin. The disclosed materials include force-oxidized carbon black in liquid phase, which has a dispersibility of at least 4 in water.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion chemically sensitized by a sulfur compound of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a 5-membered or 6-membered heterocyclic ring containing a nitrogen atom; R.sub.2 represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, an allyl group, an aryl group, or an aralkyl group; and R.sub.3 has the same definition as R.sub.1 or R.sub.2 ; or R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 may join to form a heterocyclic ring; is disclosed.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion which comprises at least one compound represented by the formula (I): ##STR1## where Z represents an atomic group necessary to complete an oxazole nucleus, a benzoxazole nucleus or a naphthoxazole nucleus, R.sub.1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, R.sub.2 represents an alkoxycarbonylalkyl group, a hydroxyalkyl group, a hydroxyalkoxyalkyl group, a carbamoylalkyl group, a hydroxyphenyl group or a hydroxyalkylphenyl group, and R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 which may be the same or different each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a chlorine atom or a carboxyl group, and a lithographic silver halide material containing the same.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion containing, in supersensitizing amounts, a combination ofat least one benzimidazolocarbocyanine dye wherein an aralkyl group substituted with an acidic group is connected to at least one nitrogen atom in the imidazole ring, which is represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein V.sub.1, V.sub.2, V.sub.3 and V.sub.4, which may be the same or different, each represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an acyl group, an acyloxy group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, a carbamoyl group, a sulfamoyl group, a cyano group, a trifluoromethyl group or a hydroxy group; R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3, which may be the same or different, each represents an aliphatic group; A represents a sulfo group of a carboxy group; X.sub.1 represents an acid residue; h represents an integer from 1 to 6; and i represents 0 or 1; andat least one cyanine dye represented by the following general formula (II): ##STR2## wherein Z.sub.

Abstract: A spectrally sensitized silver halide photographic emulsion comprising a silver halide emulsion containing a combination of at least one sensitizing dye represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## at least one sensitizing dye represented by the following general formula (II): ##STR2## and at least one organic heterocyclic compound represented by the following general formula (III) or (IV): ##STR3## wherein Z.sup.1 and Z.sup.2, which may be the same or different, each represents a group of atoms necessary for forming a thiazole nucleus or a selenazole nucleus; Z.sup.3 has the same meaning as Z.sup.1 and Z.sup.2 ; Z.sup.4 represents a group of atoms necessary for forming an imidazole nucleus or an oxazole nucleus; Z.sup.5 represents a group of atoms necessary for forming an imidazole nucleus; R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.4, R.sup.5 and R.sup.7, which may be the same or different, each represents an alkyl group, with at least one of R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.4 and R.sup.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion containing, in supersensitizing amounts, the combination ofat least one compound represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein Z.sub.1 represents the atoms necessary for forming a benzene ring or a naphthalene ring; W.sub.1 represents a sulfur atom or a selenium atom; Y represents an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom; R.sub.1 represents an alkyl group or an aryl group; and R.sub.2 represents a lower alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms in the alkyl moiety or an aryl group;At least one carbocyanine dye represented by the following general formula (II): ##STR2## wherein Z.sub.2 represents the atoms necessary for forming a thiazole ring, a selenazole ring, an oxazole ring, an imidazole ring or a pyrroline ring; Z.sub.3 represents the atoms necessary for forming an oxazole ring or an imidazole ring; R.sub.4 and R.sub.5, which may be the same or different, each represents an alkyl group; R.sub.

Abstract: A method of producing a lithographic photosensitive material comprising adding a water soluble iridium compound to the photographic emulsion in a ratio of about 10.sup.-6 to 10.sup.-4 mole per mole of the silver halide at the first or second ripening procedure of a silver halide photographic emulsion containing at least 60 mole% silver chloride, further adding a hydroxytetrazaindene compound and a polyoxyethylene compound to the photographic emulsion and coating the photographic emulsion on a support.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing coal briquettes which comprises pulverizing a starting coal mixture, incorporating therein a caking agent, kneading the resulting mixture and molding it and more particularly to a process for preparing coal briquettes which comprises pulverizing said starting coal to the desired degree, incorporating said caking agent in the starting coal mixture at an appropriate temperature in the presence of an appropriate water content, thereby uniformly coating the surface of the starting coal mixture with the caking agent under precise control to obtain an excellent molding material, and then briquetting the latter, as well as to an apparatus for carrying out the process.

Abstract: A continuous method for producing halftone images comprising:1. image-wise exposing a lith-type silver halide photographic material comprising a silver halide emulsion with not less than about 85 mol% silver chloride and not more than about 8 mol% of silver iodide and containing at least one organic silver complex compound which is substantially insoluble in water in contiguous relationship with a photosensitive silver halide emulsion which contains not less than 60 mol% silver chloride and which is chemically and spectrally sensitized; and2. developing the photographic material in a continuous fashion with a developer containing hydroquinone and a carbonyl-bisulfite adduct in the presence of a polyalkylene oxide of a molecular weight not less than 1000.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic lithographic light-sensitive material having high halftone contrast comprising a support having thereon at least one hydrophilic colloid containing layer and containing at least one compound represented by the following formulae ##STR1## wherein R and R' each represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group containing from 1 to 18 carbon atoms, m is an integer of 1 or 2, and n is an integer of from 10 to 150, and at least one anionic surface active agent having a sulfonic group.

Abstract: an internal latent image type silver halide photographic emulsion which provides a direct positive image by surface development in the presence of a fogging agent and which is useful in a light-sensitive material for the diffusion transfer process, which emulsion is spectrally sensitized with a supersensitizing combination of at least one sensitizing dye represented by the following general formula (I) or (II) ##STR1## wherein Z.sub.1 represents a non-metallic atomic group necessary to complete a 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic ring; and R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, which may be the same or different, each represents an alkyl group; ##STR2## wherein Z.sub.2 represents a non-metallic atomic group necessary to complete a 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic ring; R.sub.3 represents an alkyl group or an aryl group; R.sub.4 represents an alkyl group or a substituted alkyl group; R.sub.18 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkylene group necessary to complete a ring when R.sub.4 and R.sub.