Abstract: The present invention is a scintillator panel including: a substrate, a barrier rib formed on the substrate, and a scintillator layer containing a phosphor filling cells divided by the barrier rib, wherein the scintillator layer is formed of a plurality of layers having different phosphor concentrations. The present invention provides a scintillator panel in which formation of the barrier rib makes it possible to improve image clarity and obtain a sufficient amount of emitted light.

Abstract: The present invention is a scintillator panel including: a substrate, a barrier rib formed on the substrate, and a scintillator layer containing a phosphor filling cells divided by the barrier rib, wherein the scintillator layer is formed of a plurality of layers having different phosphor concentrations. The present invention provides a scintillator panel in which formation of the barrier rib makes it possible to improve image clarity and obtain a sufficient amount of emitted light.

Abstract: Provided is a mounting structure of an external device, including an apparatus body in which an exhaust port or a suction port are formed, an external device that is connected to the apparatus body, and a mounting member that includes a body section having one side on which the external device is mounted and the other side which is mounted on the apparatus body so as to cover the exhaust port or the suction port, and plural protruding sections which protrude from the body section and come into contact with the apparatus body in positions different from the exhaust port or the suction port, and that is provided to make flow paths at portions other than the plural protruding sections so as to intersect or branch between the body section and the apparatus body, and at a center portion of the body section.

Abstract: Provided is a mounting structure of an external device, including an apparatus body in which an exhaust port or a suction port are formed, an external device that is connected to the apparatus body, and a mounting member that includes a body section having one side on which the external device is mounted and the other side which is mounted on the apparatus body so as to cover the exhaust port or the suction port, and plural protruding sections which protrude from the body section and come into contact with the apparatus body in positions different from the exhaust port or the suction port, and that is provided to make flow paths at portions other than the plural protruding sections so as to intersect or branch between the body section and the apparatus body, and at a center portion of the body section.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a switching member which is attached to a main unit of the apparatus; a fixing member which is placed to be movable in a direction along a surface of a supporting portion that is an attaching portion for the switching member, and that contacts with and supports the switching member, which is disposed separately from or integrally with the switching member, and which fixes the switching member; an opening/closing member which has an opening for operating the switching member, and which is openably and closably disposed with respect to the main unit to cover a periphery of the switching member; and a positioning member as defined herein.

Abstract: A container box for containing a first substrate mounted to a second substrate having a standing wall with a bottom edge includes top and bottom surfaces, first and second side surfaces, and first to third edges along which the bottom and first side surfaces, the bottom and second side surfaces, and the first and second side surfaces contact. If the top surface is opened, the first and second side surfaces are separable. A length of the third edge is substantially equal to a shortest length between the bottom edge and a contact line between the second substrate and the standing wall. The first edge is longer than an edge of the first substrate and a half length of an edge of the second substrate. The second edge is longer than another edge of the first substrate and a half length of another edge of the second substrate.

Abstract: A manufacturing method for a plasma display member wherein generation of defects such as interruption and short-circuit of a pattern obtained after exposure and development is suppressed and yield is improved, even when a foreign material is adhered on a photo mask or photo mask is scratched. An exposing method for a display member wherein a display member having a photosensitive layer formed on a base substrate is exposed through a photo mask having a desired pattern. The exposing method for the display member is characterized in that the photo mask and the base substrate are relatively shifted during exposure operation.

Abstract: A container box for containing a first substrate mounted to a second substrate having a standing wall with a bottom edge includes top and bottom surfaces, first and second side surfaces, and first to third edges along which the bottom and first side surfaces, the bottom and second side surfaces, and the first and second side surfaces contact. If the top surface is opened, the first and second side surfaces are separable. A length of the third edge is substantially equal to a shortest length between the bottom edge and a contact line between the second substrate and the standing wall. The first edge is longer than an edge of the first substrate and a half length of an edge of the second substrate. The second edge is longer than another edge of the first substrate and a half length of another edge of the second substrate.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a switching member which is attached to a main unit of the apparatus; a fixing member which is placed to be movable in a direction along a surface of a supporting portion that is an attaching portion for the switching member, and that contacts with and supports the switching member, which is disposed separately from or integrally with the switching member, and which fixes the switching member; an opening/closing member which has an opening for operating the switching member, and which is openably and closably disposed with respect to the main unit to cover a periphery of the switching member; and a positioning member as defined herein.

Abstract: A plasma display member comprises a plurality of substantially stripe-shaped address electrodes (7) formed on a substrate (5), a dielectric layer (6) covering the address electrodes, main barrier ribs (8) located on the dielectric layer and formed substantially in parallel with the address electrodes, and auxiliary barrier ribs (9) formed orthogonal to the main barrier ribs. In the plasma display member, the pitch (Pt1) between the outermost main barrier rib of the main barrier ribs located in the non-display region on both sides in the lateral direction of a display region and the main barrier rib adjacent to the outermost main barrier rib is integer times the pitch (Pt2) between the main barrier ribs located in the display region, where the integer is two or more. In addition, exposure processing is performed a plurality of times by using a photomask having a specific shape, thereby making it possible to obtain a plasma display having a high display quality and a high productivity.

Abstract: A plasma display member comprises a plurality of substantially stripe-shaped address electrodes (7) formed on a substrate (5), a dielectric layer (6) covering the address electrodes, main barrier ribs (8) located on the dielectric layer and formed substantially in parallel with the address electrodes, and auxiliary barrier ribs (9) formed orthogonal to the main barrier ribs. In the plasma display member, the pitch (Pt1) between the outermost main barrier rib of the main barrier ribs located in the non-display region on both sides in the lateral direction of a display region and the main barrier rib adjacent to the outermost main barrier rib is integer times the pitch (Pt2) between the main barrier ribs located in the display region, where the integer is two or more. In addition, exposure processing is performed a plurality of times by using a photomask having a specific shape, thereby making it possible to obtain a plasma display having a high display quality and a high productivity.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a main body discharge tray disposed in an image forming apparatus main body, onto which a sheet with an image recorded is discharged; a main body discharge member that discharges the sheet onto the main body discharge tray; an optional discharge device disposed above the main body discharge member, the optional discharge device having an optional transport path through which the sheet passes and an optional discharge member that discharges the sheet; a postprocessing device that performs postprocessing on the sheet; and a postprocessing transport device disposed above the main body discharge tray, the postprocessing transport device having a lower portion, an upper portion on which the sheet discharged from the optional discharge member is placed and a postprocessing transport path formed between the lower and upper portions, the postprocessing transport path transporting the sheet discharged from the main body discharge member to the postprocessing device.

Abstract: A manufacturing method for a plasma display member wherein generation of defects such as interruption and short-circuit of a pattern obtained after exposure and development is suppressed and yield is improved, even when a foreign material is adhered on a photomask or photomask is scratched. An exposing method for a display member wherein a display member having a photosensitive layer formed on a base substrate is exposed through a photomask having a desired pattern. The exposing method for the display member is characterized in that the photomask and the base substrate are relatively shifted during exposure operation.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a main body discharge tray disposed in an image forming apparatus main body, onto which a sheet with an image recorded is discharged; a main body discharge member that discharges the sheet onto the main body discharge tray; an optional discharge device disposed above the main body discharge member, the optional discharge device having an optional transport path through which the sheet passes and an optional discharge member that discharges the sheet; a postprocessing device that performs postprocessing on the sheet; and a postprocessing transport device disposed above the main body discharge tray, the postprocessing transport device having a lower portion, an upper portion on which the sheet discharged from the optional discharge member is placed and a postprocessing transport path formed between the lower and upper portions, the postprocessing transport path transporting the sheet discharged from the main body discharge member to the postprocessing device.

Abstract: A heat exchanger tube for a falling film evaporator has fins provided on the outer periphery of the tube body and extending in a direction transverse or in oblique to the axial direction of the tube. The fins have heights in a range of 0.2 to 0.8 mm. The fins are arranged in a density to have 905 to 1102 in number of fins per 1 m in the axial direction. Grooves formed in the tip end of the fins and extending substantially along the fins, the mutually opposing inner peripheral wall surface of the groove defining an angle within a range of 70° to 150°. Cut-outs formed in the tip end of the fins, the cut-outs being provided at a pitch in a range of 0.5 to 1.0 mm. With this construction, the heat exchanger tube for the falling film evaporator which exhibits a high refrigerant wetting and spreading ability as well as large surface area for providing remarkably improved heat transmission performance.

Abstract: A transmission type liquid crystal display device having a liquid crystal cell and a microlens array sheet attached to the observation surface of the liquid crystal cell, wherein the microlens array sheet has at least one diffusion axis in the plane and the direction of the diffusion axis is conformed to a direction of the liquid crystal orientation of the liquid crystal cell, and a transmission type liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal cell, a microlens array sheet attached to the observation surface of the liquid crystal cell and a backlight source, wherein a specified relationship is provided between the directivity of light emission of the backlight source and the pitch of arrangement of display elements of the liquid crystal cell in a minute unit lens arrangement direction. This liquid crystal display device is substantially independent of view angle and has a wide visible angle and high image quality.

Abstract: Disclosed is a microlens array sheet for a liquid crystal display including a first substance layer and a second substance layer having a refractive index less than that of the first substance layer. A plurality of minute unit lenses are formed by providing concaves and/or convexes to an interface between the first and second substance layers. When a ray having entered into the sheet from the normal-line direction of the second substance layer exits from the surface of the first substance layer, an refractive angle relative to the normal line of the surface of first substance layer is not less than 30 degrees. When this microlens array sheet is attached to the surface of a liquid crystal cell of a liquid crystal display, an improved large angle of visibility can be obtained.

Abstract: In a hot-runner plastic injection system, part of a resin passage connecting the nozzle of an injection molding machine and cavities of a mold adjacent to each of the cavities is formed of a tubular member of material which can be heated by high frequency induction heating. High frequency induction heating windings are wound around the tubular members and are connected to a high frequency power source in series with each other. There is provided a temperature controller for controlling the temperature of the tubular members by controlling the power to be supplied to the heating windings.

Abstract: A method for producing a boiling heat transfer pipe having in the circumferential wall thereof one or a number of helical or annular cavities under a ceiling wall containing a row of openings regularly spaced at predetermined intervals along the length of the cavities, such method partly including in an arbitrary order the steps of: (a) pressing a set of groove-rolling discs of gradually increased diameters against the outer surface of a blank pipe to form a fin around the circumference of the pipe; (b) pressing a notching gear against the outer side of the fin to cut notches in upper fin portions at predetermined intervals along the length of the fin; (c) pressing a set of splitting roller discs with splitting edges of gradually increased angles substantially along a center line on the outer side of the fin to split and spread apart the upper fin portions in the axial direction of the pipe; and (d) pressing a press roller centrally against the split upper fin portions to form flat side wings on lateral sides