Abstract: A lithographic printing plate precursor is provided that exhibits less blooming without using a specific polymerization initiator, infrared radiation absorbing agent and the like. The lithographic printing plate precursor comprises a substrate having thereon an image forming layer comprising a radiation-sensitive composition which comprises a radical polymerizable component, an infrared radiation absorbing agent and a radical polymerization initiator, wherein the radiation-sensitive composition comprises a fluorinated copolymer substantially having no hydrophilic moiety.

Abstract: A cermet has a hard phase which contains W and nitrogen, and includes at least one selected from a carbide, nitride and carbonitride of a metal having Ti as a main component, and a binder phase having an iron group metal as a main component. A W amount contained in the whole cermet is 5 to 40% by weight, an interfacial phase including a complex carbonitride with a larger W amount than a W amount of the hard phase being present between grains of the hard phase, and when a W amount contained in the interfacial phase based on the whole metal element is represented by Wb (atomic %), and a W amount contained in the hard phase based on the whole metal element is represented by Wh (atomic %), then, an atomic ratio of Wb to Wh (Wb/Wh) is 1.7 or more. The cermet is excellent in fracture resistance and wear resistance.

Abstract: The invention enhances a cooling effect on a press die for hot press. A lower die includes a first base, a second base mounted on the first base and having an opening in the center, a support table provided in the opening of the second base, and a die portion detachably mounted on the support table and including die pieces. The die portion is divided in die pieces disposed adjoining each other, and cold water pipes are provided in the die pieces respectively. The cold water pipes are bent in a U shape and inserted in the die pieces respectively, and extended downward from the lower ends of the die pieces respectively. The cold water pipes have cooling water injection ends and cooling water ejection ends in a space between the first base and the support table.

Abstract: A control device for a hybrid vehicle is equipped with an engine, an electric motor, and a damper that is interposed in a motive power transmission path between the engine and the electric motor. The control device is equipped with a hysteresis mechanism and a controller. The hysteresis mechanism is provided in the damper, is configured to have a characteristic that a hysteresis torque that is generated due to a twist of the damper, which transmits a driving force from the electric motor toward the engine, in a negative direction is larger than a hysteresis torque that is generated due to a twist of the damper, which transmits a driving force from the engine toward the electric motor, in a positive direction, and is configured to reduce an engine rotational speed by the electric motor in stopping the engine.

Abstract: A process for producing a pigment-containing curable resin solution composition which comprises a pigment and a modified polysiloxane is disclosed. The process comprises the steps of: (a) preparing a pigment-dispersed liquid, wherein a pigment is dispersed in an organic solvent in the presence of a first modified polysiloxane; and (b) mixing the pigment-dispersed liquid with a resin solution which comprises at least a second modified polysiloxane. This process provides a pigment-containing curable resin solution composition with excellent dispersion stability of pigment.

Abstract: A receptacle connector includes: a shielding case; an insulator accommodated in the shielding case; and a first contact arranged on a terminal supporting part of the insulator. A clearance is provided between a tip of the terminal supporting part of the insulator and a tip of the first contact. The tip of the terminal supporting part has an inclined surface to provide the clearance.

Abstract: An aluminum-containing substrate can be provided for use in lithographic printing plate precursors. Before radiation-sensitive layers are applied, a grained and sulfuric acid anodized aluminum-containing support is treated with an alkaline or acidic pore-widening solution to provide its outer surface with columnar pores. The diameter of the columnar pores at their outermost surface is at least 90% of the average diameter of the columnar pores. Directly on this treated surface, a hydrophilic layer is applied, which hydrophilic layer contains a non-crosslinked hydrophilic polymer having carboxylic acid side chains.

Abstract: A control device of a vehicle includes: an engine; a connection/disconnection device configured to connect/interrupt the engine; a rotating machine disposed to enable transmission of drive power to the wheels; and a running position selection device, the control device including a first manual mode selected by performing a deceleration increasing operation by a driver for increasing vehicle deceleration while the automatic running position is selected and a second manual mode selected by performing a deceleration increasing operation by a driver for increasing the vehicle deceleration while the manual running position is selected, while the vehicle is running with the engine interrupted from the wheels, if the first manual mode is selected, the vehicle deceleration being generated only by the rotating machine, and if the second manual mode is selected, the connection/disconnection device being put into the connected state to generate the vehicle deceleration at least by the engine.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a first correcting unit that reads a gradation pattern output onto a predetermined medium and corrects a gradation conversion information; a second correcting unit that reads a gradation pattern formed on an image carrier included in the image forming apparatus and corrects a gradation conversion information; a detecting unit that detects a gradation characteristic of the gradation pattern formed on the image carrier at the time of execution of correction by the second correcting unit; and a determining unit that determines whether to execute correction by the first correcting unit on the basis of the detected gradation characteristic.

Abstract: On-press developable, negative-working lithographic printing plate precursors have a sulfuric acid anodized aluminum-containing substrate in which the oxide layer pores have been widened using an acidic or alkaline treatment. Over the widened pores, a hydrophilic coating is applied, which coating comprises a non-crosslinked hydrophilic polymer having carboxylic acid side chains. This particular substrate provides improved adhesion and printing durability for on-press development and printing.

Abstract: The invention provides a compact multistage furnace of which the installation area in a factory is decreased. A multistage furnace is configured by piling up a plurality of furnace units in the vertical direction. Each of the furnace units includes an upper heater and a lower heater layered in the vertical direction and holding a heat insulator therebetween, a support pipe disposed on one end of the upper heater and extending in the horizontal direction, a support pipe disposed on other end of the upper heater and extending in the horizontal direction, and a plurality of work support bars mounted over the support pipes. The back surface of a work supported by the work support bars is opposed to the upper heater and the front surface of the work is opposed to the lower heater of the adjacent furnace unit disposed above.

Abstract: The invention provides a multistage heating system including a compact multistage furnace of which the installation area in a factory is decreased and a work carrier machine. A multistage furnace is configured by piling up a plurality of furnace units in the vertical direction. Each of the furnace units includes an upper heater and a lower heater, support pipes disposed on the upper heater and extending in the horizontal direction, and a plurality of work support bars mounted over the support pipes. A work carrier machine includes work carrier bars extending in the horizontal direction, a horizontal motion mechanism connecting the ends of the work carrier bars and move the work carrier bars on horizontal rails, and a vertical motion mechanism moving the body of the work carrier machine including the horizontal rails on vertical rails.

Abstract: A first shielding case of a receptacle respectively has arms extending to a forward side to be forwardly folded back from proximal ends fixed to a back end of an upper surface wall, stopper walls formed on free ends of the arms and projecting from outside to inside of the first shielding case and abut on an unauthorized plug in inserting the unauthorized plug, plug pickup parts formed on the free ends of the arms and are integrally formed in parallel with the stopper walls and projecting from outside to inside of the first shielding case and abut on an authorized plug in of inserting the authorized plug, and holes formed near to an opening of the upper surface wall, the holes into which the stopper walls and the plug pickup parts are inserted, on both ends of a width direction.

Abstract: A vehicular indicator device for a hybrid vehicle which is provided with vehicle drive power sources in the form of an engine and an electric motor and which is driven in one of a plurality of vehicle drive modes including an EV drive mode, a series HV drive mode and a parallel HV drive mode that is automatically selected according to a vehicle drive power, said indicator device being configured to indicate the selected vehicle drive mode and said vehicle drive power, the vehicular indicator device being configured to indicate a running state of the hybrid vehicle as represented by said vehicle drive power and said selected vehicle drive mode, in a two-dimensional coordinate system on a display screen, which coordinate system is defined by said vehicle drive power and said selected vehicle drive mode.

Abstract: A control apparatus for a hybrid vehicle includes: engine starting means for starting an engine when a need for switching to a 4-wheel drive mode has been forecasted, the hybrid vehicle having a series HV drive mode in which the hybrid vehicle is run with a second electric motor, in the released state of a connecting/disconnecting device, while a first electric motor is operated with a drive force of said engine to generate an electric energy, the control apparatus further including, as said engine starting means, series HV drive controlling means for starting said engine and enlarging a series HV drive mode region for running the hybrid vehicle in said series HV drive mode, so as to cover a portion or an entirety of an original EV drive mode region for running the hybrid vehicle in said EV drive mode, when the need for switching to said 4-wheel drive mode has been forecasted.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a hue identifying unit that identifies to which hue region among three or more hue regions provided in a color space a hue of each pixel contained in input image data belongs; an output-color converting unit that converts a color of each pixel to a predetermined output color in accordance with the identified hue region; a luminance calculating unit that selects a luminance calculation coefficient corresponding to the identified hue region of each pixel from among luminance calculation coefficients determined for the respective hue regions, and calculates luminance to be applied to each pixel of image data converted to the output color, on the basis of the selected luminance calculation coefficient; and an image-data generating unit that applies the calculated luminance to each pixel in the converted image data to generate color-reduced image data containing a reduced number of colors than the input image data.

Abstract: A phosphorus-atom-containing oligomer is used as a curing agent for epoxy resin, the phosphorus-atom-containing oligomer being a mixture of a phosphorus-atom-containing compound represented by structural formula (1) below with n representing 0 and a phosphorus-atom-containing oligomer represented by structural formula (1) below with n representing 1 or more: (where R1 to R5 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or the like; X represents a hydrogen atom or a structural unit represented by structural formula (x1) below: where, in structural formula (x1), R2 to R5 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or the like), wherein a content of the phosphorus-atom-containing oligomer represented by general structural formula (1) with n representing 1 or more is in the range of 5 to 90% on a peak area basis in GPC measurement.

Abstract: A phosphorus-containing oligomer is represented by formula (1): (R1 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or a phenyl group; n is the number of repeating units and an integer of 1 or more; X is a structural unit represented by structural formula (x1) or (x2) below; Y is a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group, or a structural unit represented by the formula (x1) or (x2); and, in the formula (x1) or (x2), R2, R3, R4, and R5 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, a phenyl group, or an aralkyl group), wherein the content of components whose n is 2 or more in the formula (1) is in the range of 5% to 90% in peak area in GPC measurement.

Abstract: Provided is a high hardness ultra-fine cemented carbide with a Ni binder phase for a wear resistant tool. An ultra-fine cemented carbide having high specularity and/or high strength, high hardness, and high wear resistance is obtained by using an ultra-fine raw powder of WC, controlling the amount of Ni, and the contents of V and Cr, so that a third phase containing V and Cr precipitates in a microstructure of the cemented carbide in a finely dispersed state, and at the same time, the size of Ni pool is controlled to a value equal to or less than the average grain size of WC. By using this cemented carbide, the range of application to an aspherical glass lens mold, an ultrahigh pressure generation container for neutron diffraction experiment, a non-ferromagnetic corrosion resistant and wear resistant tool, and the like is expanded.

Abstract: A hybrid drive system configured to selectively establish one of a first drive mode in which a first motor/generator MG1 is operated with a drive force of an engine, to generate an electric energy and in which a vehicle drive force is generated primarily by a second motor/generator MG2, and a second drive mode in which the vehicle drive force is generated by the engine, and at least one of the first motor/generator MG1 and second motor/generator MG2 is operated to generate an assisting vehicle drive force, as needed, and further configured such that an amount of a working oil to be supplied to the first motor/generator MG1 is larger in the first drive mode than in the second drive mode, permitting sufficient cooling of the electric motor depending upon a selected one of the vehicle drive modes.