Abstract: A lubrication method including lubricating a sliding member which contains at least one selected from the group consisting of a liquid crystal polymer and polyetheretherketone by using a lubricating oil composition which contains an ester as a lubricating base oil.

Abstract: A lubrication method including lubricating a sliding member which contains at least one selected from the group consisting of a liquid crystal polymer and polyetheretherketone by using a lubricating oil composition which contains at least one selected from the group consisting of a mineral oil and alkyl benzene as a lubricating base oil.

Abstract: A lubrication method including lubricating a sliding member which contains at least one selected from the group consisting of a liquid crystal polymer and polyetheretherketone by using a lubricating oil composition which contains an ester as a lubricating base oil.

Abstract: A lubrication method including lubricating a sliding member which contains at least one selected from the group consisting of a liquid crystal polymer and polyetheretherketone by using a lubricating oil composition which contains at least one selected from the group consisting of a mineral oil and alkyl benzene as a lubricating base oil.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide an ethylene-?-olefin copolymer that is highly effective in improving the molding properties of polyolefin resins and at the same time highly effective improving the balance between impact strength and stiffness. [Solution] Provided is an ethylene-?-olefin copolymer having a specific MFR, a specific density, and a specific molecular weight distribution, containing a suitable amount of a long-chain branching structure characterized by a branching index, and having a specific composition distribution structure characterized by solvent fractionation behavior.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide an ethylene-?-olefin copolymer that is highly effective in improving the molding properties of polyolefin resins, improving the balance between impact strength and stiffness, and improving transparency. [Solution] Provided is an ethylene-?-olefin copolymer having a specific MFR, a specific density, and a specific molecular weight distribution, containing a suitable amount of a long-chain branching structure characterized by a branching index, and having a specific composition distribution structure characterized by solvent fractionation behavior.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide an ethylene-?-olefin copolymer having high mechanical strength and good molding properties. [Solution] Provided is an ethylene-?-olefin copolymer having a specific MFR, a specific density, and a specific molecular weight distribution, containing a suitable amount of a long-chain branching structure characterized by a branching index, and having a specific composition distribution structure characterized by solvent fractionation behavior.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide an ethylene-?-olefin copolymer having high mechanical strength and good molding properties. [Solution] Provided is an ethylene-?-olefin copolymer having a specific MFR, a specific density, and a specific molecular weight distribution, containing a suitable amount of a long-chain branching structure characterized by a branching index, and having a specific composition distribution structure characterized by solvent fractionation behavior.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide an ethylene-?-olefin copolymer that is highly effective in improving the molding properties of polyolefin resins and at the same time highly effective improving the balance between impact strength and stiffness. [Solution] Provided is an ethylene-?-olefin copolymer having a specific MFR, a specific density, and a specific molecular weight distribution, containing a suitable amount of a long-chain branching structure characterized by a branching index, and having a specific composition distribution structure characterized by solvent fractionation behavior.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide an ethylene-?-olefin copolymer that is highly effective in improving the molding properties of polyolefin resins, improving the balance between impact strength and stiffness, and improving transparency. [Solution] Provided is an ethylene-?-olefin copolymer having a specific MFR, a specific density, and a specific molecular weight distribution, containing a suitable amount of a long-chain branching structure characterized by a branching index, and having a specific composition distribution structure characterized by solvent fractionation behavior.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: a solid-state imaging device having pairs of phase-difference pixels for detecting a phase difference; a position control section which changes the relative position of an imaging optical system and the solid-state imaging device; a control section which causes the solid-state imaging device to perform plural provisional imagings while changing the relative position; and a regular-imaging position determination section which determines one of the relative positions that are obtained when the provisional imagings are performed, as a relative position in regular imaging, on the basis of, among plural captured image signals which are obtained in the provisional imagings, output signals which correspond to a part or all of the pairs included in the solid-state imaging device, and which are obtained from pixels in areas including the pairs.

Abstract: In a digital camera, when a shutter button is depressed into its half stroke, a subject is photographed as a preparatory image, in which the face of a person is identified as a face area. Such a face area at the latest time is compared with a corresponding face area in another preparatory image taken immediately preceding to the latest time. If no substantial difference exists between both, the face area is determined as a stationary object and excluded from a set of identified face areas, of which the remaining ones are adopted as the face areas selected, based on which, optimum exposure and focusing values are calculated. When the shutter button is depressed into its full stroke, the calculated optimum exposure is carried out with the optimum focusing value to photograph a subject as a live image. The face area of the subject is freely selectable.

Abstract: The present processing apparatus blocks off such a portion of a flow of a plating solution (17) that is other than a vicinity of a liquid surface, by using a first partition plate (15) whose lower end is in close contact with a bottom of a plating tank (11) and whose upper end is at a position lower than a liquid surface. Therefore, the plating solution (17) flowing at the bottom of the plating tank (11) flows upwards along the first partition plate (15). At this time, heavy foreign substances do not tend to follow such an upward movement of the plating solution (17), and therefore sink and accumulate in a vicinity of the lower end of the first partition plate (15), so as not to flow into a downstream side of the plate. With this arrangement, the present processing apparatus can remove the heavy foreign substances from the plating solution (17) without relying solely on a filter of a circulation pipe (10).

Abstract: The present processing apparatus blocks off such a portion of a flow of a plating solution (17) that is other than a vicinity of a liquid surface, by using a first partition plate (15) whose lower end is in close contact with a bottom of a plating tank (11) and whose upper end is at a position lower than a liquid surface. Therefore, the plating solution (17) flowing at the bottom of the plating tank (11) flows upwards along the first partition plate (15). At this time, heavy foreign substances do not tend to follow such an upward movement of the plating solution (17), and therefore sink and accumulate in a vicinity of the lower end of the first partition plate (15), so as not to flow into a downstream side of the plate. With this arrangement, the present processing apparatus can remove the heavy foreign substances from the plating solution (17) without relying solely on a filter of a circulation pipe (10).