Abstract: A process for producing a fluoroalkyl iodide as a telomer Rf(CF2CF2)nI (wherein Rf is a C1-10 fluoroalkyl group, and n is an integer of from 1 to 6) by telomerization from a fluoroalkyl iodide represented by the formula RfI (wherein Rf is as defined above) as a telogen and tetrafluoroethylene (CF2CF2) as a taxogen, which comprises a liquid phase telomerization step of supplying a homogeneous liquid mixture of the telogen and the taxogen from the lower portion of a tubular reactor, moving the mixture from the lower portion towards the upper portion of the reactor in the presence of a radical initiator over a retention time of at least 5 minutes while the reaction system is kept in a liquid phase state is under conditions where no gas-liquid separation will take place, so that the taxogen supplied to the reactor is substantially consumed by the reaction in the reactor, and drawing the reaction product from the upper portion of the reactor.

Abstract: A component sales system sells, a plurality of components that constitutes each of a plurality of mechanisms constituting a machine at an electronic store. The component sales system includes an electronic store providing device that provides the electronic store through a communication line to a customer terminal used by a customer. The electronic store providing device includes a selected component data receiving unit, a maintenance type specifying unit, a dismounted component specifying unit, a replacement component specifying unit, a sales page generating unit, and a web page transmitting unit.

Abstract: An inflator of the present invention is a hybrid type inflator in which an inside of a housing is charged with a pressurized gas and a gas generating agent capable of generating a gas at time of combustion. In the inflator of the present invention, a quantity of heat generated by the gas generating agent at the time of the combustion is set within a range of 6,000 to 10,000 J/g, and a molar ratio of the pressurized gas and the combustion gas generated by the combustion of the gas generating agent is set within a range of 80 to 130.

Abstract: An injection device is provided with a stationary-side frame supporting a barrel, a movable-side frame rotatably supporting a screw, a pair of ball screws, and injection drive mechanisms includes servomotors configured to rotate the ball screws. A force detector such as a load cell and the like is disposed between the first ball screw and the movable-side frame. A dummy member is disposed between the second ball screw and the movable-side frame. A control unit controls the first injection drive mechanism based on the output of the force detector and controls the second injection drive mechanism based on the output of the force detector and an arithmetic operation performed in consideration of the respective spring constants of the force detector and the dummy member.

Abstract: A chain, wound to span between two pulleys each having facing conical surfaces able to change a distance therebetween and sandwiched by the facing conical surfaces, includes: link units each configured such that plate-shaped links, each having openings, are oriented in a chain circumferential direction and arranged in a chain width direction; and pins each extending through the openings of the links of the link units adjacent in the chain circumferential direction and each contacting the conical surfaces of sheaves at both ends thereof. A curvature radius of a shape curve representing a shape of each end face of each pin in a plane perpendicular to the chain circumferential direction is larger at an inner side in a pulley radial direction than at an initial contact point that is a contact point at the time when a load on each pin is 0.

Abstract: A consumable component sales system of the invention is a consumable component sales system that sells, at an electronic store, a plurality of consumable components to be periodically replaced, among a number of components constituting a machine. The consumable component sales system includes an electronic store providing device that provides an electronic store through a communication line to a customer terminal used by a customer. The electronic store providing device includes a correlation value data receiving unit, a time-for-replacement estimating unit, a recommended replacement component specifying unit, a sales page generating unit, and a web page transmitting unit.

Abstract: Disclosed is a cell culture vessel that can prevent liquid leakage from the cell culture space and entry of particles containing microorganisms from outside the cell culture space, and that can prepare regenerated tissue in a manner that is safe and results in peace of mind. The cell culture vessel is mounted to a cell culture device, holds/cultures cells, and is characterized by being provided with: a culture solution holding section that holds a culture solution, a protruding structure section that is for supplying and discharging the aforementioned culture solution; and a culture solution duct that passes from the aforementioned protruding structure section to the aforementioned culture solution holding section.

Abstract: A tubular burner has: a mixing tube inclusive of an inlet port, a venturi section, and a tapered tube section; and a flame hole member having a plurality of flame holes and being adapted to be fitted into a front end region of the mixing tube. A flame hole member has a front plate and a rear plate, both of sheet metal make. The front plate has a first flame hole in the central portion of the front plate, and a plurality of second flame holes located around a periphery of the first flame hole. The rear plate has a first ventilation hole in the center thereof so as to lie opposite to the first flame hole, and a plurality of second ventilation holes of smaller diameter than the first ventilation hole.

Abstract: A tubular burner includes a mixing tube and a flame hole member having a plurality of flame holes. The flame hole member is made of a sheet metal plate and has: a circular disk part having the plurality of flame holes formed therein; and a fitting tubular member which is elongated backward from a periphery of the circular disk part and is adapted to be fitted into an inner circumference at the front end region of the mixing tube. A clearance-generating section is formed at a front of the fitting tubular member so as to generate an annular clearance between the clearance-generating section and the inner circumference at the front end region of the mixing tube. A plurality of flame retention holes are formed in the clearance-generating section at a circumferential distance from one another.

Abstract: At the time of manufacturing an inflator, a blocking body is first disposed at an opening so as to allow the interior and the exterior of a housing to communicate with each other. The blocking body is abutted against a peripheral edge of the opening so as to ensure sealability between the blocking body and the peripheral edge of the opening. A filling nozzle injecting a pressurized gas is then pressed against a periphery of an inlet port of the blocking body, and the pressurized gas is injected from the filling nozzle so as to fill the pressurized gas into the housing through a filling channel. Subsequently, to block the filling channel, the blocking body is energized with a resistance-welding current to resistance-weld an inner peripheral portion of the filling channel. At the same time, the blocking body is fixed to the peripheral edge of the opening by resistance-welding so as to maintain sealability, thereby manufacturing the inflator.

Abstract: A component sales system sells, a plurality of components that constitutes each of a plurality of mechanisms constituting a machine at an electronic store. The component sales system includes an electronic store providing device that provides the electronic store through a communication line to a customer terminal used by a customer. The electronic store providing device includes a selected component data receiving unit, a maintenance type specifying unit, a dismounted component specifying unit, a replacement component specifying unit, a sales page generating unit, and a web page transmitting unit.

Abstract: At the time of manufacturing an inflator, a blocking body is first disposed at an opening so as to allow the interior and the exterior of a housing to communicate with each other. The blocking body is abutted against a peripheral edge of the opening so as to ensure sealability between the blocking body and the peripheral edge of the opening. A filling nozzle injecting a pressurized gas is then pressed against a periphery of an inlet port of the blocking body, and the pressurized gas is injected from the filling nozzle so as to fill the pressurized gas into the housing through a filling channel. Subsequently, to block the filling channel, the blocking body is energized with a resistance-welding current to resistance-weld an inner peripheral portion of the filling channel. At the same time, the blocking body is fixed to the peripheral edge of the opening by resistance-welding so as to maintain sealability, thereby manufacturing the inflator.

Abstract: A check ring is mounted around a shaft of a screw tip that is mounted on a front part of a screw, whereby a resin is prevented from flowing back from ahead of a conical portion toward the screw. Projections are provided on a front end surface of the check ring. In measurement, a rear end surface of the conical portion of the screw tip and respective end surfaces of the projections are brought into contact with one another, whereby gaps are created between the screw tip and respective root surfaces of teeth of the check ring. By doing this, resin passages can be secured around contact surfaces between the rear end surface of the screw tip and the respective end surfaces of the projections of the check ring.

Abstract: To provide a process for producing a polymer, whereby a less colored polymer can be obtained without reducing vinyl monomers by a side reaction, a less colored coating composition, and a coated article having a less colored coating film. A polymer is used which is obtained by a process for producing a polymer, which comprises a step of polymerizing a vinyl monomer mixture containing a quinone compound to obtain a polymer, and a step of adding an oxidizing agent or a reducing agent to a liquid containing the polymer.

Abstract: A process for producing a fluoroalkyl iodide as a telomer Rf(CF2CF2)nI (wherein Rf is a C1-10 fluoroalkyl group, and n is an integer of from 1 to 6) by telomerization from a fluoroalkyl iodide represented by the formula RfI (wherein Rf is as defined above) as a telogen and tetrafluoroethylene (CF2CF2) as a taxogen, which comprises a liquid phase telomerization step of supplying a homogeneous liquid mixture of the telogen and the taxogen from the lower portion of a tubular reactor, moving the mixture from the lower portion towards the upper portion of the reactor in the presence of a radical initiator over a retention time of at least 5 minutes while the reaction system is kept in a liquid phase state is under conditions where no gas-liquid separation will take place, so that the taxogen supplied to the reactor is substantially consumed by the reaction in the reactor, and drawing the reaction product from the upper portion of the reactor.

Abstract: A screw tip is provided in front of a screw with a shaft interposed therebetween, and a check ring is fitted around the shaft. The check ring is separated from a front end portion of the screw when the screw is rotated in a forward direction. The check ring contacts the front end portion of the screw when the screw is advanced. A front end surface of the check ring is provided with teeth, and a rear end surface of the screw tip is provided with grooves with which the respective teeth are engaged. Respective one side surfaces of the grooves and the teeth which are pressed against each other when the screw is rotated in the forward direction are formed vertical to the front end surface of the check ring, and side surfaces thereof located on the reverse sides of the above respective one side surfaces are inclined.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a method of prophylactically or therapeutically treating an animal for an ocular-related disorder. The method comprises administering to an eye of the animal an expression vector comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding an adenoviral-responsive gene product. The expression vector transduces a host cell and the nucleic acid sequence is expressed to produce the adenoviral-responsive gene product to treat prophylactically or therapeutically the ocular-related disorder. The invention also provides a method of reducing or inhibiting angiogenesis or photoreceptor cell loss in an eye. The method comprises administering to the eye an expression vector comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding an adenoviral-responsive gene product. The expression vector transduces a host cell and the nucleic acid sequence is expressed to produce the adenoviral-responsive gene product thereby reducing or inhibiting angiogenesis or photoreceptor cell loss in the eye.

Abstract: A method is provided for selectively occluding neovascular vessels formed in the ocular fundus of an eye, which includes intravenously administering a mono-L-aspartyl chlorin compound to a patient; subsequently estimating an appropriate time point when the mono-L-aspartyl chlorin compound has decreased in its concentration or has been eliminated from the retinal normal vascular vessels of the patient but is still remaining at an appropriate concentration in the vascular walls of the neovascular vessels of the ocular fundus; irradiating a laser light at a 664 nm-wavelength which is initiated at the appropriate time; and using the irradiation of the laser light to target lesions comprising the neovascular vessels, at a controlled power.

Abstract: A screw tip is provided in front of a screw with a shaft interposed therebetween, and a check ring is fitted around the shaft. The check ring is separated from a front end portion of the screw when the screw is rotated in a forward direction. The check ring contacts the front end portion of the screw when the screw is advanced. A front end surface of the check ring is provided with teeth, and a rear end surface of the screw tip is provided with grooves with which the respective teeth are engaged. Respective one side surfaces of the grooves and the teeth which are pressed against each other when the screw is rotated in the forward direction are formed vertical to the front end surface of the check ring, and side surfaces thereof located on the reverse sides of the above respective one side surfaces are inclined.

Abstract: A grommet for a door is provided with a door mounting base portion, an automobile mounting base portion and a bellows portion. The door mounting portion includes a front side portion, from which the bellows portion extends, a passenger compartment side portion, which includes a wire harness through-hole, and a wire harness protecting portion extending diagonally between the front side portion and the passenger compartment side portion. The vertical width of the grommet is made short to reduce an area of the grommet that is exposed to the exterior and that is overlapped with the weather strip. Due to the structure described above, the grommet can be efficiently mounted to the door body, and waterproofness can be ensured.