Abstract: A self-light emitting device in a tiling scheme includes an array of a plurality of self-light emitting units. Each of the self-light emitting units is partitioned into a plurality of unit regions, and each of the unit regions includes at least one light emitting cell each including one or more self-light emitting elements. A central portion and an outer edge portion of each self-light emitting unit differ in number or positions of one or more light emitting cells in each unit region.

Abstract: A smoking system includes a consumable containing a smokable substance and a device that includes a chamber receiving the consumable and heats and atomizes the smokable substance of the consumable received in the chamber. The chamber includes an opening through which the consumable is inserted and a holding unit that holds the consumable. The holding unit includes a first pressing unit which presses a part of the consumable. The consumable includes a first portion having a first hardness and a second portion having a second hardness, in which the second portion is a different portion from the first portion in the insertion direction of the consumable. When the consumable is positioned at the desired position in the chamber, the consumable is positioned such that at least a part of the first portion is pressed against the first pressing unit, while at the same time, at least a part of the second portion is pressed against the first pressing unit.

Abstract: This aerosol generation system including an elongated heat generation unit that, when energized, generates heat to heat an aerosol generating substrate from the inside thereof; and a pair of metal plates disposed to respectively cover the facing surfaces of the heating unit along the elongated shape. The electrical resistance value of the heating unit in the direction in which the pair of metal plates faces each other is 100 to 1400 times the electrical resistance value of each of the pair of metal plates in the longitudinal direction of the elongated shape.

Abstract: An aerosol generation system that generates aerosol by heating an aerosol generation product containing an aerosol source, and comprises: an accommodation part that has an internal space and an opening through which the internal space communicates with the outside, and that accommodates the aerosol generation product inserted into the internal space though the opening; a first electrically-insulating part, which is an electrically-insulating film-like member disposed outward of the accommodation part; an electrical resistance part that is disposed outward of the first electrically-insulating part and generates heat when energized; and a heat radiation suppressing part that is disposed further outward than the electrical resistance part and suppresses heat radiation.

Abstract: This aerosol generation system including a heating unit for heating an aerosol generation component, and an electric power supply unit for supplying electric power to the heating unit. The heating unit has a ceramic part, an electricity-resistant part that is disposed inside the ceramic part and that generates heat due to the electric power supplied from the electric power supply unit, and a metal electrode that is disposed in close contact with the vicinity of the ceramic part and that electrically connects the electricity-resistant part and the electric power supply unit. The heating unit is inserted into the aerosol generation component.

Abstract: A smoking system includes a consumable containing a smokable substance and a device that includes a chamber receiving the consumable and heats and atomizes the smokable substance of the consumable received in the chamber. The chamber includes an opening through which the consumable is inserted and a holding unit that holds the consumable. The holding unit includes a first pressing unit which presses a part of the consumable. The consumable includes a first portion having a first hardness and a second portion having a second hardness, in which the second portion is a different portion from the first portion in the insertion direction of the consumable. When the consumable is positioned at the desired position in the chamber, the consumable is positioned such that at least a part of the first portion is pressed against the first pressing unit, while at the same time, at least a part of the second portion is pressed against the first pressing unit.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a photocurable composition having a sheet shape at 25° C. in an uncured state, the photocurable composition including a urethane-modified (meth)acrylate oligomer and a photoinitiator and being free from a film-forming component. The present invention also relates to a photocurable composition, a method for producing a photocurable composition having a sheet shape at 25° C. in an uncured state, and a laminated body.

Abstract: This aerosol generation system is provided with a power supply unit for supplying electric power; a heating unit for heating a substrate containing an aerosol source; and a holding unit for holding the heating unit. The heating unit is inserted into the substrate and comprises: an electric resistor that generates heat using electric power supplied from the power supply unit; a rigid body; and an electric insulator disposed between the electric resistor and the rigid body. The rigid body has a first portion extending in a first direction in which the substrate is inserted or removed and a second portion extending in a second direction different from the first direction. The holding unit holds the second portion of the rigid body.

Abstract: Provided is an aerosol generation system capable of controlling the temperature distribution in a substrate to be heated. This aerosol generation system comprises: an elongated heat generation unit that, when energized, generates heat to heat an aerosol generating substrate from the inside thereof; and a pair of metal plates disposed to respectively cover the facing surfaces of the heat generation unit along the elongated shape. The heat generation unit includes at least two regions having different heat quantities.

Abstract: An aerosol generation system including a power supply unit that supplies power, and a heating unit that heats a base material containing an aerosol source. The heating unit is inserted in the base material and includes an electrical resistor that generates heat by using the power supplied from the power supply unit, a rigid body, and an electrical insulator disposed between the electrical resistor and the rigid body.

Abstract: Provided is a motorcycle tire, that provides excellent steering stability while using steel cords as a belt layer material, which comprises a carcass extending from a tread portion to a bead core of a bead portion via a sidewall portion, and a belt layer arranged outside the carcass and inside the tread portion in the tire radial direction, wherein the belt layer is a steel belt layer having steel cords; the steel cord is a steel cord having an m×n configuration in which n strands, formed by twisting m steel filaments, are twisted together in the same direction as the steel filaments, and the m is 1 or more and 3 or less and n is 2 or more and 6 or less; the diameter of the steel filament is 0.15 mm or more and 0.25 mm or less; the rubber composition forming the tread portion is a rubber composition having a complex elastic modulus E* (MPa) of 5.

Abstract: A trivalent-chromium chemical conversion coating from which substantially no hexavalent chromium is released. The trivalent-chromium chemical conversion coating is one formed on the surface of a zinc or zinc-alloy deposit. In a brine spray test, the chemical conversion coating has unsusceptibility to corrosion (time required for white-rust formation) of 96 hours or longer. The chemical conversion coating has a hexavalent-chromium concentration less than 0.01 ?g/cm2 in terms of metal atom amount. The amount of hexavalent chromium released after 30-day standing in a thermo-hygrostatic chamber at a temperature of 80° C. and a humidity of 95% (amount of hexavalent chromium released when the coating is immersed in 100° C. water for 10 minutes) is smaller than 0.05 ?g/cm2.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a zinc-nickel-silica composite plating bath that has been improved in terms of: covering power for articles having a complex shape; and corrosion resistance of a low current density portion where the film thickness is small. The present invention pertains to a zinc-nickel-silica composite plating bath, the plating bath having a pH of 3.5 to 6.9, and containing zinc ions, nickel ions, colloidal silica, and chloride ions. The colloidal silica is a cationic colloidal silica having on the surface thereon at least one species of metal cation selected from the group consisting of trivalent to heptavalent metal cations.

Abstract: An object is to provide a trivalent chromium chemical conversion treatment liquid for a zinc or zinc alloy base capable of forming an environmentally-friendly chemical conversion coating with high corrosion resistance. The present invention provides a hexavalent chromium-free trivalent chromium chemical conversion treatment liquid for zinc or zinc alloy, the liquid comprising trivalent chromium ions, zirconium ions, nitrate ions, and chain colloidal silica, in which the pH of the treatment liquid is 2.5 to 5.0.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a ply having a plurality of cords each having an average cord diameter D, and a sidewall rubber having a loss tangent tan ? The plurality of cords each includes a plurality of filaments twisted together, the plurality of filaments each having an outer diameter d. The plurality of cords each has a ratio D/d of the average cord diameter D to the outer diameter d being equal to or more than 28. The ratio D/d and the loss tangent tan ? of the sidewall rubber satisfy the following formula; (tan ?)/(D/d)*1000?5.5.

Abstract: The present invention provides a zinc or zinc alloy electroplating method comprising: performing energizing in an alkaline zinc or zinc alloy electroplating bath provided with a cathode and an anode, wherein the anode is an anode in which a conductive substrate is coated in a conductive state with alkali-resistant ceramics, the alkaline zinc or zinc alloy electroplating bath is an alkaline zinc plating bath containing an organic compound additive or an alkaline zinc alloy electroplating bath containing an amine chelating agent or an organic compound additive, oxidation decomposition, on a surface of the anode caused by the energizing, of the organic compound additive in the alkaline zinc plating bath or the amine chelating agent and the organic compound additive in the alkaline zinc alloy electroplating bath is suppressed as compared with a case of using as an anode the same conductive substrate uncoated with the alkali-resistant ceramics.

Abstract: Display device (2) includes display panel (20) that displays an image, backlight (16) that irradiates a back surface of display panel (20) with light, polarization modulator (10) that modulates light representing the image of display panel (20) into either one of first polarized light and second polarized light that differ in polarization direction, first mirror (12) that is inclined relative to display panel (20), reflects toward user (6) the first polarized light that comes from polarization modulator (10), and transmits the second polarized light that comes from polarization modulator (10), and second mirror (14) that is in spaced and opposed relation to first mirror (12) and reflects toward user (6) the second polarized light that passes through first mirror (12).

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an electrical Al plating bath that poses little danger of exploding or igniting as a result of contacting air or water, and contains no benzene, toluene, xylene, naphthalene, or 1,3,5-trimethylbenzene, which have detrimental effects to humans. The present invention provides an electrical aluminum or aluminum alloy fused salt plating bath that is obtained by heat treatment of an electrical aluminum or aluminum alloy fused salt plating bath containing (A) a halogenated aluminum as the primary component and (B) at least one other type of halide after adding (C) one, two or more reducible compounds selected from the group consisting of hydrides of elements in Group 1 Periods 2 through 6 of the Periodic Table of Elements and/or hydrides of Group 13 Periods 2 through 6 of the Periodic Table of Elements and amine borane compounds.

Abstract: Provided is a cleaning solvent composition that comprises a cis-1-chloro-3,3,3-trifluoropropene solvent and an additive, wherein the additive contains at least one type of compound selected from the group consisting of nitroalkanes and epoxides.

Abstract: Provided is a black coupling member for vehicles, comprising a trivalent chromium black chemical conversion film and a black coating film upon the trivalent chromium black chemical conversion film, on the surface of a zinc-plated metal substrate. The trivalent chromium black chemical conversion film is formed using a hexavalent chromium-free trivalent chromium black chemical conversion treatment solution having a Zn ion concentration of no more than 20 g/L. The lightness (L) of the trivalent chromium black chemical conversion film is no more than 33. The black coating film includes a black chemical conversion component, a modified organopolysiloxane, and a friction coefficient-adjustment component. The black chemical conversion component content is 2-25 wt % relative to 100 wt % of the black coating film. The lightness (L) is no more than 28.