Abstract: A mechanical pencil which is configured so that a rotatable cam is rotationally driven with an axis of the rotatable cam relative to a holder member stabled, and smooth operation of a rotational drive mechanism is ensured. The mechanical pencil includes a rotational drive mechanism for driving rotationally a rotatable cam according to writing pressure applied to a writing lead, and transfer rotational motion of the rotatable cam to the writing lead. The rotational drive mechanism includes a holder member supporting the rotatable cam so as to be rotatable, a first fixed cam formed with a funnel-shaped inclined surface Fu and a second fixed cam formed at an obtuse angle ? relative to an axial direction. Cam faces of an upper cam and a lower cam alternately meshing with the first and second fixed cams are formed along a conical inclined surface Cs.

Abstract: Provide is an eyelash ornament cosmetic characterized by containing at least a polymer emulsion, an extender and a viscosity regulator and controlling an average particle diameter of the extender to 1 ?m more, wherein droplets put on the tips of eyelashes are dried and turned into fine spherical resin balls, and the tips of the eyelashes are ornamented to make it possible to provide the eyes with brilliantness and loveliness and further enhance stability of the quality.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a highly functional coloring material which causes less separation between a pigment and tabular inorganic powders and brings about less color separation and which is obtained by coating evenly a pigment on the surfaces of tabular colorless to white inorganic powders via a specific binder resin. The coloring material of the present invention does not bring about color deviation and color separation.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to accurately maintain a positional relationship between a lens held in a holding member and an optical fiber without requiring any complicated operation. The invention includes a holder (11), at one end of which a housing section (11c) that houses a ball lens (12) is formed and at the other end of which an insertion hole (11a) for inserting an optical fiber (13) is formed, and a magnet (14) provided outside in a direction crossing a housing direction of the ball lens at the one end of the holder, in which the magnet generates an attracting force for aligning a center of the ball lens with a center of an optical element provided in a coupling target.

Abstract: There is provided an applied liquid applicator for discharging applied liquid by turning of an operating portion provided to a barrel main body, in which filling efficiency of the applied liquid stored in the barrel main body with respect to an inside capacity of the barrel main body is improved. The applied liquid is fed to the applicator portion through the first valve and the applied liquid feed path by turning the operating portion and sliding the piston in the front-back direction by use of the cam mechanism portion.

Abstract: Provided are an ink composition for writing instruments which has a good solubility of a coloring material in an ink solvent and which is less liable to cause bleeding and feathering on the written lines and is improved in a water resistance, and a coloring material used for preparing the above ink composition. The coloring material includes a material obtained by adding at least one selected from a leuco dye, a halochromic dye and a photochromic compound to a compound represented by the following Formula (I): The ink composition for writing instruments is characterized by containing the coloring material described above.

Abstract: To provide a puncture device which prevents components constituting a puncture device from being damaged by buckling (bending) etc., secures safety, and can be handled by a weak user easily. A puncture device is provided with an outer needle, an outer needle hub for retaining a base portion of the outer needle, an inner needle whose tip portion is inserted in the outer needle, an inner needle hub for retaining a base portion of the inner needle, an outer pipe fitted inside the inner needle hub so as to be moveable to and fro, and an inner pipe having a gripping device for gripping the outer needle hub and fitted inside the outer pipe so as to be moveable to and fro, and at least the outer pipe is formed of a soft synthetic resin.

Abstract: Provided is an aqueous ink composition for a writing instrument which is excellent in storage stability of particles, such as pigments, a writing property with the passage of time, followability, and quality of the drawn lines, though having a low viscosity, as compared with aqueous ink compositions prepared by using conventional thickeners and gelling agents, such as xanthan gum. The ink composition for a writing instrument described above includes an aqueous ink composition for a writing instrument containing 0.05 to 1.5% by mass of an oxidized cellulose and having a limiting viscosity of 16 mPa·s or less derived from Casson's equation, a viscosity value of 100 to 3000 mPa·s at a shear rate of 3.83 s?1 and a viscosity value of 10 to 40 mPa·s at a shear rate of 383 s?1.

Abstract: An optical connector is characterized by having an optical coupling member (10) provided with a holder (11) where a storage portion to store a ball lens (12) is formed at one end, and an insertion hole to insert an optical fiber (13) is formed at the other end, and a magnet (14) which is provided outside in a direction crossing a storage direction of the ball lens at one end of the holder, and generates an adsorption force to align the center of the ball lens with the center of an optical element provided in a coupling target, a guide member (2) which regulates a shift of the optical coupling member, while permitting alignment operation of the optical coupling member with the coupling target, and a case (4) in which is formed storage space (4a) with an opening, and which is provided with a second adsorption member (15) for generating an adsorption force to an end face on the coupling target side.

Abstract: A pencil lead includes an organic-inorganic hybrid resin imide fine pores of a porous lead body colorant may also be included inside the fine pores. The organic-inorganic hybrid resin is preferably a silica-organic hybrid resin.

Abstract: Cam faces 24a and 24b are continuously formed in a circle on upper and lower faces which are perpendicular to an axial direction of a rotatable cam 24 which constitutes a rotational drive mechanism 21. Elastic members 23b are formed integrally with a holder member 23 for rotatably supporting the rotatable cam 24 to extend in the axial direction, and the first fixed cam and second fixed cam 23c and 23d having a small number of cam faces at butts and tips of the elastic members are arranged to face each other via the upper and lower cam faces 24a and 24b of the rotatable cam 24. The rotatable cam 24 is retreated and moved forward in the axial direction by writing pressure applied to a writing lead to be rotationally driven in one direction and rotational motion of the rotatable cam 24 is transmitted to the writing lead.

Abstract: A hair dye comprising at least 0.3 to 2% by mass of at least one of acid dyes, 0.5 to 6% by mass of a film-forming resin, 15 to 55% by mass of alcohol having 7 or less carbon atoms and 20% by mass or more of water and having a pH modified to 2 to 5, wherein the hair dye contains particles having an average particle diameter of 0.3 to 3 ?m is provided as a hair dye which does not require washing of the hairs immediately after used and which is excellent not only in a hair dyeing property immediately after applied but also such a cumulative hair dyeing property as gradually dyeing the hairs at every frequency of repeating use thereof.

Abstract: The present invention is a chuck body (13) provided with: a hollow, substantially cylindrical fastener (11) having a tapered inner surface (13) in which the diameter of the hole gradually changes along the axial direction; and a chuck (21) having a divided end part (23) divided into two or three, the divided end part (23) having a tapered outer surface (24) that can enter or exit from the fastener (11) and that comes into contact with the tapered inner surface (13) of the fastener (11) when entering the fastener (11). When the divided end part (23) of the chuck (21) closes in the fastener (11) and holds the core (10), the angle of the tapered outer surface (24) of the chuck (21) relative to the center axis line of the chuck (21) is substantially identical to the angle of the tapered inner surface (13) of the fastener (11).

Abstract: Provided are: a carbonaceous acoustic matching layer which exhibits satisfactory mechanical strength, in which losses at a layer interface are suppressed as far as possible and in which the degree of variation in acoustic impedance in the thickness direction can be increased; and a method for producing same. The carbonaceous acoustic matching layer is obtained by dispersing filler particles, which are selected on the basis of the desired acoustic impedance of each layer, in a resin such as a furan resin, a phenol resin or a vinyl chloride resin, curing, laminating, and then carbonizing the resin by heating in a non-oxidizing atmosphere, amorphous carbon, which is obtained by the resin carbonization, is integrated across all the layers. The blending proportion of the filler particles is decided so that the difference in coefficient of linear contraction caused by the carbonization is at a minimum between adjacent layers.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to simply position a lens and an optical fiber while suppressing an increase in cost. An optical coupling member includes an optical fiber (13), a holder (11) that holds the optical fiber (13) inserted from an insertion hole (11a) formed at one end, and a lens such as a collimator lens (12) accommodated in an accommodation section (11c) formed at the other end of the holder (11), in which positioning is performed by causing the lens and/or the end face of the optical fiber (13) to come into contact with a tapered surface provided at a position facing the lens (12) and the optical fiber (13) in a protruding portion (11e) formed on an inner surface in the vicinity of the accommodation section (11c) of the holder (11).

Abstract: Provided is a writing instrument suited to ballpoint pens, marking pens and the like in which a flow pressure of an ink applied to a pen tip is controlled to a fixed level to prevent an ink direct flow phenomenon reverse flow phenomenon. The above writing instrument comprises a pen tip disposed at a front part of an ink tank, an ink received in the ink tank, a follower filled at a rear part of the ink, and a capillary porous member provided with a capillary force, which is arranged at a space part between a rear part of the follower and a rear end part of the ink tank in a state in which the follower is filled, wherein the pen tip is sealed when a cap is put on the writing instrument.

Abstract: An applicator for delivering an application liquid fed from a reservoir, from a delivery port to an outside by way of an interior space of an application body, includes a spacer inserted in the interior space of the application body. In this applicator, a clearance between an exterior face of the spacer and an interior face of the application body forms a communication passage for flowing the application liquid, and the application liquid is delivered from the delivery port by way of the communication passage.

Abstract: Provided is a writing instrument or an applicator using resin parts formed, by way of two-color molding, to have an optimal guiding clearance between slide members. A plurality of resin molded parts is included. At least one of the plurality of resin molded parts is formed as a primary molding, and at least another one of the resin molded parts is formed as a secondary molding, by way of two-color molding, using a portion of a surface of the primary molding. The primary molding and the secondary molding are separated to be used as independent members. In this case, the primary molding and the secondary molding are preferably configured to slide against each other by each separating portion.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical coupling member and an optical connector using the optical coupling member, capable of improving the efficiency of an assembly work of the optical connector and positioning optical fibers in the optical connector with high accuracy. The optical coupling member (10) has: holding members (11) for being able to hold optical fibers (21) that are inserted from insertion holes (11a) formed at end parts; lenses housed in housing parts formed at opposite end parts of the holding members (11); and a joining member (13) for connecting the holding members (11) as aligned in parallel to each other, the joining member being formed of an elastic material.

Abstract: Provided is a solid drawing material containing at least a resin, waxes, a pigment and an extender, wherein it further contains at least one selected from dibasic acids having 12 to 30 carbon atoms and derivatives thereof, and the resin is at least one selected from rosin and modified products thereof, terpene resins and modified products thereof, petroleum resins, maleic acid resins and derivatives thereof, coumarone.indene resins and derivatives thereof, and isoprene base resins. The solid drawing material can draw smoothly, darkly and finely pictures not only on smooth and non-absorbing surfaces of art paper, coated paper, milk packs, plastics such as PET, metal, glass, white boards, and the like, but also on eyebrows, lips, skins and the like as well as ordinary papers such as wood free paper, drawing paper and copier paper and which can readily be erased from the non-absorbing surfaces.