Abstract: A payment terminal includes a camera configured to capture an image, a card slot for inserting a contact type IC card, and a panel arrangement surface on which a touch panel is arranged. A lens of the camera, the card slot, and the panel arrangement surface are arranged in order in the height direction from a placement surface of the payment terminal. The panel arrangement surface is oriented obliquely upward toward a user positioned in front of the card slot. An optical axis direction of the lens is obliquely upward toward the user, and the lens is provided closer to the user than the card slot.

Abstract: A piezoelectric element includes a piezoelectric body and first, second, third, and fourth electrode layers disposed in the piezoelectric body. Each of the first, second, third, and fourth electrode layers includes a pair of first electrodes and a pair of second electrodes. The first and second electrodes included in the first electrode layer oppose the second and first electrodes included in the second electrode layer, respectively, with a part of the piezoelectric body. The first and second electrodes included in the second electrode layer oppose the first and second electrodes included in the third electrode layer, respectively, with a part of the piezoelectric body. The first and second electrodes included in the third electrode layer oppose the second and first electrodes included in the fourth electrode layer, respectively, with a part of the piezoelectric body.

Abstract: A box and a lid that form a fuel filler hole or a charging socket of a car body, the lid including a lid mounting part, and a box mounting arm including a box engaging pin. An open/close spring is attached to the box mounting arm. The box includes a box body, and an arm housing part extending from the box body and including an arm guide that guides the box mounting arm. The box engaging pin of the box mounting arm of the lid is guided into the arm guide of the box and attached to an arm engaging part of the box, while the open/close spring abuts on a connecting point (a spring mounting portion) between an inclined part and a step part of the arm housing part.

Abstract: A box and a lid that form a fuel filler hole or a charging socket of a car body, the lid including a lid mounting part, and a box mounting arm including a box engaging pin. An open/close spring is attached to the box mounting arm. The box includes a box body, and an arm housing part extending from the box body and including an arm guide that guides the box mounting arm. The box engaging pin of the box mounting arm of the lid is guided into the arm guide of the box and attached to an arm engaging part of the box, while the open/close spring abuts on a connecting point (a spring mounting portion) between an inclined part and a step part of the arm housing part.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a film base material for an adhesive skin patch, which includes an elastomer film unevenly having unevenness on at least one surface thereof, in which, in one unevenness in which the distance perpendicular to the surface of the elastomer film between the top of the unevenness and the bottom thereof is the longest among the plurality of unevenness, the distance is within the range of from 1 to 5 ?m; in another unevenness in which the distance perpendicular to the surface of the elastomer film between the top of the unevenness and the bottom thereof is the shortest among the plurality of unevenness, the distance is within the range of from 0.1 to 0.9 ?m; and the 10-point average roughness of the surface is within the range of from 0.5 ?m to 3 ?m, and which is decreased in glossy texture on the surface thereof and inconspicuous when it is applied to the skin or the like; and the adhesive skin patch including the film base material.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a film base material for an adhesive skin patch, which includes an elastomer film unevenly having unevenness on at least one surface thereof, in which, in one unevenness in which the distance perpendicular to the surface of the elastomer film between the top of the unevenness and the bottom thereof is the longest among the plurality of unevenness, the distance is within the range of from 1 to 5 ?m; in another unevenness in which the distance perpendicular to the surface of the elastomer film between the top of the unevenness and the bottom thereof is the shortest among the plurality of unevenness, the distance is within the range of from 0.1 to 0.9 ?m; and the 10-point average roughness of the surface is within the range of from 0.5 ?m to 3 ?m, and which is decreased in glossy texture on the surface thereof and inconspicuous when it is applied to the skin or the like; and the adhesive skin patch including the film base material.

Abstract: To have acceptable moisture permeability and enable prevention of deformation due to swelling, the film base material for an adhesive skin patch includes an ether-based urethane resin obtained from at least one member selected from the group consisting of polyoxytetramethylene glycol, butanediol, polyethylene glycol, and polypropylene glycol as a diol component, and methylene diphenyl-diisocyanate as an isocyanate component. The film base material for an adhesive skin patch has a moisture permeability of preferably 800 to 4,000 g/m2·24 hrs. The adhesive skin patch can be produced by forming a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer on one side of the film base material for an adhesive skin patch.

Abstract: To provide a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet that is free of swelling or deformation of a substrate due to migration of a liquid component from the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer and has acceptable processability, the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet includes a carrier film; an elastomer film provided on one surface of the carrier film; and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer provided on the elastomer film, in which the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer includes a composition that contains an acrylic polymer as a main component and a compatible component being compatible with the acrylic polymer and liquid or paste-like at room temperature, and in which the carrier film has a heat shrinkage of 3.0% or more and 4.5% or less in the longitudinal direction and 1.2% or more and 4.2% or less in the transverse direction.

Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet for application to the skin which employs a substrate film made of a chlorine-free material is provided as a substitute for the substrate film made of a flexible vinyl chloride resin. A pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet for application to the skin, which comprises (1) a substrate film comprising a resin composition comprising from 20 to 80% by weight of an ethylene/vinyl acetate copolymer having a weight-average molecular weight higher than 1×105 and not higher than 1×106, a melt flow rate of 1.0 g/10 min or lower, and a vinyl acetate content higher than 28% by weight and not higher than 35% by weight and from 80 to 20% by weight of at least one polyolefin resin selected from the group consisting of polyethylene, polypropylene, ethylene/propylene copolymers, and mixtures thereof and having a melt flow rate in the range of from 0.3 to 4.0 g/10 min and, (2) a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer for application to the skin.

Abstract: The present invention provides a medical adhesive composition containing a copolymer obtained by copolymerization of a monomer mixture containing an acrylic acid alkyl ester having C4-C12 alkyl group, a (meth)acrylic acid, and a methacrylic acid alkyl ester having C1-C4 alkyl group, which mixture is free of a multifunctional monomer having two or more unsaturated double bonds in a molecule, wherein the copolymer has a gel-sol ratio of 35:65 to 55:45 and a weight average molecular weight of the sol portion of 300,000 to 500,000, or a copolymer obtained by copolymerization of the above-mentioned monomer mixture and having a gel fraction of 35 to 55% and a swelling ratio of a gel portion of 50 to 90 times. The medical adhesive of the present invention is superior in the balance between adhesiveness and cohesiveness and can be preferably used for various medical adhesive tapes or sheets.

Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive composition comprises: 100 parts by weight of a rubber component that is solid in an ordinary temperature; 30 to 170 parts by weight of a rubber component that is liquid in an ordinary temperature; and 50 to 400 parts by weight of a tackifier, wherein the amount of the tackifier is 25 to 80 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the total amount of the rubber components.

Abstract: The present invention provides a medical adhesive composition containing a copolymer obtained by copolymerization of a monomer mixture containing an acrylic acid alkyl ester having C4-C12 alkyl group, a (meth)acrylic acid, and a methacrylic acid alkyl ester having C1-C4 alkyl group, which mixture is free of a multifunctional monomer having two or more unsaturated double bonds in a molecule, wherein the copolymer has a gel-sol ratio of 35:65 to 55:45 and a weight average molecular weight of the sol portion of 300,000 to 500,000, or a copolymer obtained by copolymerization of the above-mentioned monomer mixture and having a gel fraction of 35 to 55% and a swelling ratio of a gel portion of 50 to 90 times. The medical adhesive of the present invention is superior in the balance between adhesiveness and cohesiveness and can be preferably used for various medical adhesive tapes or sheets.

Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet for skin adhesion in which an adhesive force of the pressure-sensitive adhesive on the backing film does not lower greatly even with the lapse of long term and the initial adhesive force is substantially maintained, and a first-aid adhesive plaster using the same are disclosed. The pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet for skin adhesion comprises a backing film and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer for skin adhesion formed on one side of the backing film, wherein the backing film comprises about 40 to about 70 parts by weight of a polyester plasticizer having a number average molecular weight of about 1,500 to about 3,000, an appropriate amount of a stabilizer comprising at least one metallic soap selected from the group consisting of fatty acid calcium, fatty acid zinc and fatty acid barium, and about 0.1 to about 1.0 part by weight of hydrotalcite per 100 parts by weight of a vinyl chloride polymer.

Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet for skin adhesion in which an adhesive force of the pressure-sensitive adhesive on the backing film does not lower greatly even with the lapse of long term and the initial adhesive force is substantially maintained, and a first-aid adhesive plaster using the same are disclosed. The pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet for skin adhesion comprises a backing film and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer for skin adhesion formed on one side of the backing film, wherein the backing film comprises about 40 to about 70 parts by weight of a polyester plasticizer having a number average molecular weight of about 1,500 to about 3,000, an appropriate amount of a stabilizer comprising at least one metallic soap selected from the group consisting of fatty acid calcium, fatty acid zinc and fatty acid barium, and about 0.1 to about 1.0 part by weight of hydrotalcite per 100 parts by weight of a vinyl chloride polymer.

Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive composition comprises: 100 parts by weight of a rubber component that is solid in an ordinary temperature; 30 to 170 parts by weight of a rubber component that is liquid in an ordinary temperature; and 50 to 400 parts by weight of a tackifier, wherein the amount of the tackifier is 25 to 80 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the total amount of the rubber components.

Abstract: A substrate for an adhesive dressing comprising an ethylene/vinyl acetate copolymer having a weight average molecular weight of 1×104 to 1×105, a molecular weight distribution of 4.0 or less, a melt flow rate of 3.0 g/10 minutes or less, and a vinyl acetate content of 15 to 28% by weight is provided and a medical adhesive dressing can be prepared by forming a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer on one surface of the substrate. Further, an adhesive tape can be made by arranging a pad for covering and protecting a wounded portion, on a part of a surface of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer.

Abstract: A medical adhesive dressing comprising a polyolefin-based backing film having a medical pressure-sensitive adhesive layer on one surface thereof and a print layer on the other surface thereof, the adhesive dressing having surface properties that cause no wrinkle upon winding and unwinding thereof. For example, the surface of the polyolefin-based film preferably has a surface roughness (10-point average roughness) of 2 to 12 &mgr;m on the side where a print layer is to be formed. The olefin-based film is preferably an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer film or a three-layer film comprising an ethylene-methyl methacrylate copolymer layer/A-B-A type block copolymer layer/ethylene methyl methacrylate copolymer layer. It is used for application to skin as a first-aid adhesive tape, large-size adhesive tape, dressing, or draping used in the field of medical and hygiene fields. It can provide medical adhesive dressing and first-aid adhesive tape whose surface causes no printing failure.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a cutter and attaching the cutter to a carton including a vertically movable upper mold provided with an upper blade having an edge and a suction device for sucking and holding a severed nonmetallic cutter, a fixed lower mold provided with a lower blade having an edge where the lower mold engages with the upper mold, a feeding device for intermittently feeding a sheet on the lower mold, and a conveying device for conveying and setting sequentially the cartons one-by-one to a bottom dead center of the upper mold. In the alternative, the lower mold can be vertically movable and include the section device while the upper mold is fixed.

Abstract: A blank material washing booth includes a chamber for washing a blank material with a washing liquid. The chamber has a pair of upper and lower vacuum rolls for removing a used washing liquid. The washing booth also has a liquid droplet collecting device which is positioned upstream of a mist collecting device and removes a mist generated when the blank material is washed under a high pressure. The chamber has a swingable door at an inlet and an outlet for the blank material so as to achieve improved seal.

Abstract: A pouring spout 5 is mounted on the front surface of a carton 2. The pouring spout 5 pierces through an inner bag. Only a region which is slightly larger than the half of the inner bag 3 on the pouring spout side is adhered to the inner surfaces of the carton by a paste. As the content is discharged, since the movable portion of the inner bag is injected into the fixed portion fixed on the inner surfaces of the carton, as the content is discharged, the volume of the inner bag is decreased.