Abstract: Provided are a cloth and a protective product, which allow for any color appearance and have excellent protection performance against electric arcs. The cloth has a woven fabric structure, wherein a front-surface spun yarn containing an infrared absorber- and/or electrically conductive agent-containing fiber and not containing carbon is located on a front surface, while a back-surface spun yarn containing a carbon-containing fiber is located on a back surface, and the cloth has an ATPV value of 8.0 cal/cm2 or more in Arc Resistance Test ASTM F1959-1999.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a press-molded body, the method having a step for disposing an X material inside a mold, a step for closing the mold and extruding a Y material, which is a kneaded material, into the mold after pressure has begun to be applied to part of the X material, and a step for cold-pressing and integrally molding the X material and the Y material inside the mold, wherein: the X material includes reinforcing fibers FA, having a weight-average fiber length LwA, and a thermoplastic resin RX; the Y material includes reinforcing fibers FB, having a weight-average fiber length LwB, and a thermoplastic resin RY; LwB<LwA; LwA is 1 mm or greater and 100 mm or less; the X material has a spring-back amount greater than 1.0 and less than 14.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides a polyolefin microporous membrane, including: a first porous layer containing a polyolefin and having a structure including a first rod-shaped crystal extending in one direction and plural first plate-shaped crystals arranged in a separated state and intersecting the first rod-shaped crystal, and a second porous layer containing a polyolefin and having a structure including a second rod-shaped crystal extending in another direction intersecting the one direction and plural second plate-shaped crystals arranged in a separated state and intersecting the second rod-shaped crystal.

Abstract: The present invention provides an electrode mixture layer for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries, which contains an electrode active material, a carbon-based conductive agent containing fibrous carbon having an average effective length of 10 ?m, and a binder, and which has a thickness of 50 ?m or more. This electrode mixture layer has an inner layer portion where the fibrous carbon is three-dimensionally dispersed in a random manner.

Abstract: A method of producing thermoplastic resin composite material in which a main base material containing thermoplastic resin and a sheet-like shaped auxiliary base material are integrally molded and are made into composite material. The production method includes the steps of: heating the auxiliary base material (step S1); disposing the heated auxiliary base material in a mold (step S2); disposing the main base material in the mold via the auxiliary base material (step S3); closing the mold, and pressing together and integrally molding the auxiliary base material and the main base material (step S4); and taking out the integrally-molded thermoplastic resin composite material from the mold.

Abstract: A filtration filter is configured from a first weld frame, a second weld frame, and a filter sandwiched and welded between the first weld frame and the second weld frame. The first weld frame and the second weld frame are configured by a flexible film having a film thickness of at least 120 ?m. The filter is configured by a substance having a higher melting point than the first weld frame and the second weld frame and having an opening area ratio of from 10% to 80%. The first weld frame is configured by a polymer that includes either a high density polyethylene having a melting point of from 120° C. to 140° C., a linear low density polyethylene having a melting point of from 105° C. to 125° C., or a mixture including at least one of the high density polyethylene or the linear low density polyethylene.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a molded article by pressing a composite material containing a resin composition and carbon fibers, wherein the resin composition contains a polyamide resin, a copper compound and potassium halide, and (1) the copper compound content is 0.1 parts by mass or more relative to 100 parts by mass of the polyamide resin.

Abstract: The present invention provides a polycarbonate copolymer having low specific gravity and high surface hardness.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a precursor fiber bundle provides precursor fiber bundles used in manufacturing carbon fiber bundles allowing high productivity and having high tensile strength with less yarn bundle divides in the fiber bundles. The method for manufacturing a precursor fiber bundle includes spinning by extruding a spinning solution through a spinneret to produce a coagulated fiber bundle, and interlacing the coagulated fiber bundle by applying a fluid onto the coagulated fiber bundle. The interlacing includes applying the fluid (18) under a pressure in a range of 0.01 to 0.05 MPa onto the coagulated fiber bundle (14) with a moisture content in a range of 25 to 50% under a tension of 0.02 g/dtex or less.

Abstract: Provided are: a package that is capable of transporting a composite material without generating fluff by suppressing shedding of carbon fibers from the composite material while holding the composite material at a fixed position during transportation; and a method for manufacturing the package. This package is prepared by stacking a composite material in the form of a plurality of plates on a mounting stand having a plurality of fitting holes, wherein: the composite material includes carbon fibers and a thermoplastic resin; the composite material is held by a plurality of holding members detachably attached to the fitting holes; of the contact surfaces of the composite material and the holding members, one of the contact surfaces of either the composite material or the holding members is curved, and the other contact surface is flat or curved.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a production method of a poly(ester)carbonate, including subjecting a diol and a carbonate ester to a transesterification reaction in the presence of a catalyst, wherein the catalyst comprises aluminum or a compound thereof, and a phosphorus compound.

Abstract: A task is to provide a cloth which is advantageous in that the cloth has extremely excellent flame retardancy, and further has excellent washing shrinkage resistance and excellent hand as well as excellent antistatic properties, preferably in that the whole of the cloth can be uniformly dyed, and a fiber product, and the task is achieved by obtaining a cloth using a spun yarn which comprises a meta-type wholly aromatic polyamide fiber, a modacrylic fiber, and a conductive fiber.

Abstract: A separator for a non-aqueous secondary battery, the separator including: a porous substrate; and an adhesive porous layer provided on one or both sides of the porous substrate and including a polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin, the adhesive porous layer would exhibit a ratio of an area intensity of a ?-phase-crystal-derived peak of the polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin to a sum of an area intensity of an ?-phase-crystal-derived peak of the polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin and the area intensity of the ?-phase-crystal-derived peak of the polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin of from 10% to 100% when an x-ray diffraction spectrum is obtained by performing measurement by an x-ray diffraction method.

Abstract: A prepreg consisting cf a fiber reinforcement material and a resin composition containing a bismaleimide resin is molded through a first heating step in which the prepreg is held at a temperature (T1) equal to or higher than a temperature at which the resin composition exhibits a viscosity of 100 (Pa·s) and equal to or lower than a temperature at which the resin composition exhibits the minimum viscosity for 30 minutes or more, followed by being held at a temperature equal to or higher than a curing temperature of the bismaleimide resin.

Abstract: Provided is a reinforcing fiber mat including a reinforcing fiber mat constituted by reinforcing fibers having an average fiber length of 3 to 100 mm. The reinforcing fibers satisfy the following i) to iv): i) a weight-average fiber width (Ww) of the reinforcing fibers satisfies the following Equation (1): 0.03 mm<Ww<5.0 mm ??(1); ii) an average fiber width dispersion ratio (Ww/Wn) defined as a ratio of the weight-average fiber width (Ww) to a number-average fiber width (Wn) of the reinforcing fibers is 1.8 or more and 20.0 or less; iii) a weight-average fiber thickness of the reinforcing fibers is smaller than the weight-average fiber width (Ww); and iv) a fiber width distribution of the reinforcing fibers included in the reinforcing fiber mat has at least two peaks.

Abstract: The invention addresses the problem of providing a cloth, a multilayered cloth, and a textile product, which have flame retardancy and heat insulation and develop a relief structure when exposed to flame or heat. As a means for resolution, a cloth characterized in that a yarn A having a high thermal shrinkage rate and a yarn B having a low thermal shrinkage rate are alternately arranged in the warp direction or weft direction is obtained, then, as necessary, a multilayered cloth is obtained using the cloth as an intermediate layer, and further, as necessary, a textile product is formed using the multilayered cloth.

Abstract: With the present invention a carbon fiber aggregate is provided that has an average fiber diameter of 100-1000 nm, and a fiber diameter variation coefficient (CV value) greater than 0.5 and less than or equal to 1.0.

Abstract: A wholly aromatic polyamide fiber has a reduced total fineness and a reduced single yarn fineness and is also excellent in quality and reinforcing property. The wholly aromatic polyamide fiber is characterized in that it has a single yarn fineness of 0. 4 dtex to 3. 5 dtex, a total fineness of 5 dtex to 30 dtex, a breaking strength of 15 cN/dtex or more, an initial tensile modulus of 500 cN/dtex to 750 cN/dtex, and the number of fibrils of less than 100/m.

Abstract: A communication circuit generates a clock signal that is a digital signal corresponding to a serial clock, and a data signal that is a digital signal corresponding to serial data to be sent. A modulation circuit generates a first modulated signal obtained by digital modulating a first carrier wave having a first frequency with the clock signal and second modulated signal obtained by modulating the second carrier wave having a second frequency different than the first frequency with the data signal, and applies the first modulated signal and the second modulated signal between a first conductor and a second conductor. A demodulation circuit includes a buffer amplifier that has high input impedance, demodulates the first modulated signal and the second modulated signal, and generates the clock signal and the data signal. The communication circuit acquires serial data on the basis of the clock signal and the data signal.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a substrate for a liquid filter, including: a polyolefin microporous membrane, in which a mean flow pore size in a pore size distribution of the polyolefin microporous membrane measured by a half dry method according to gas-liquid phase substitution is from 1 nm to 50 nm, a calcium content in the polyolefin microporous membrane is 2,000 ppb or less, and a ratio of a tensile elongation in a longitudinal direction (MD) to a tensile elongation in a width direction (TD) perpendicular to the longitudinal direction (MD/TD tensile elongation ratio) of the polyolefin microporous membrane is from 0.47 to less than 0.96 or from more than 1.25 to 7.