Abstract: A sliding spline shaft device of the present invention includes a male spline and a female spline that is fitted to the male spline in an axially slidable manner, and at least one of the splines has a surface processed layer. The surface processed layer includes an undercoat layer, an intermediate layer containing phosphate, and a topcoat layer containing solid lubricant, in this order. The undercoat layer contains iron nitride and/or iron carbide. Thus, the surface of a base material has high hardness. As a result, microscopic deformation of the sliding surface is reduced, and increase in a real contact area is suppressed, whereby stick-slip is prevented.

Abstract: A film that has high rigidity and high heat resistance and good releasability from a roughened copper foil surface, which is subjected to surface oxidization or etching treatment with acid, such as a black oxidized copper foil surface and that is suitable as a release film for producing an MLB; and a process for producing the same. A drawn film having a layer (A) which comprises a copolymer that is made from 4-methyl-1-pentene and ethylene or an ?-olefin, except 4-methyl-1-pentene, having 3 to 20 carbon atoms and that comprises 80% or more by mole of 4-methyl-1-pentene, the thermal coefficient of contraction of the film being 20% or more in the film-drawn direction, or the peel area of the film being 50% or more when the film, together with a copper foil surface subjected to roughening treatment, is subjected to heating and pressing treatment. This film is suitable for producing an MLB and has good releasability from the roughened copper foil surface, for example, a black oxidized copper foil surface.

Abstract: A film that has high rigidity and high heat resistance and good releasability from a roughened copper foil surface, which is subjected to surface oxidization or etching treatment with acid, such as a black oxidized copper foil surface and that is suitable as a release film for producing an MLB; and a process for producing the same. A drawn film having a layer (A) which comprises a copolymer that is made from 4-methyl-1-pentene and ethylene or an ?-olefin, except 4-methyl-1-pentene, having 3 to 20 carbon atoms and that comprises 80% or more by mole of 4-methyl-1-pentene, the thermal coefficient of contraction of the film being 20% or more in the film-drawn direction, or the peel area of the film being 50% or more when the film, together with a copper foil surface subjected to roughening treatment, is subjected to heating and pressing treatment. This film is suitable for producing an MLB and has good releasability from the roughened copper foil surface, for example, a black oxidized copper foil surface.

Abstract: A resin composition is a transparent, low-water-absorption polyolefin-based resin composition containing a sorbitol-based derivative of a particular structure, whose polyolefin-based resin having crystallinity of 0% to 20% shows haze of not more than 10%, total light transmittance of not less than 80%, when measured in accordance with ASTM D1003 using an article 3 mm thick molded therefrom as the test specimen, and shows water absorption of not more than 0.1% after 100-hour immersion in water at 23° C., or whose polyolefin-based resin comprises a cyclic olefin-based polymer comprising a cyclic olefin of a particular structure. Preferable examples of the polyolefin-based resin include the aforesaid cyclic olefin-based polymer and a polycyclohexane-based resin.

Abstract: The present invention provides a multi-layer laminate consisting essentially of:(A) a layer formed from an ethylene/cycloolefin random copolymer which is a copolymer of ethylene and a cycloolefin represented by a specific formula (e.g., tetracyclododecene), or a layer formed from a cycloolefin resin which is a graft modified product of the ethylene/cycloolefin random copolymer, or a layer formed from a cycloolefin resin composition comprising the cycloolefin resin and a polyolefin, and(B) a barrier layer consisting essentially of ethylene/vinyl alcohol copolymer, polyvinylidene chloride, or polyacrylonitrile, with the barrier layer having an oxygen permeability, as measured at 23.degree. C. and RH of 0%, of not more than 10 cc(STP).mm/m.sup.2.24 hr.atm; said multi-layer laminate having a moisture permeability of not more than 0.2 g.mm/m.sup.2.24 hr.atm and an oxygen permeability of not more than 5 cc(STP).mm/m.sup.2.24 hr.atm. This multi-layer laminate has excellent gas-barrier properties and high rigidity.

Abstract: A polyolefin multilayer laminate in which a first layer (A) made of a cycloolefin-based resin, such as an ethylene/cycloolefin random copolymer resulting from copolymerization of ethylene and a cycloolefin represented by the formula (1) given below, or a cycloolefin-based resin blend and a second layer (B) made of an olefin (co)polymer or a composition containing it are laminated. This laminate can be used as a packaging material which is superior in the interlayer adhesion, shapability, moistureproof property, transparency, flexibility, easiness of hand-cutting, heat-sealability and dead-hold property. Formula (1) comprises ##STR1## in which n and q are 0 or 1, m is 0 or any positive integer, R.sup.1 -R.sup.18 and R.sup.a and R.sup.b denote each H, a halogen atom or a hydrocarbon group, wherein R.sup.15 -R.sup.18 may form, by combining with each other, a monocyclic or polycyclic ring, which may have double bond(s), and wherein R.sup.15 -R.sup.16 may have terminal-located alkylidene group.

Abstract: An air-fuel mixture heating device for heating an air-fuel mixture supplied from a carburetor to an intake manifold includes an insulator mounted between the carburetor and the intake manifold and having a first air-fuel mixture passage communicating with the primary air-fuel mixture passage in the carburetor, an electric heater disposed in the first air-fuel mixture passage of the insulator for heating the air-fuel mixture, and a plurality of conductors embedded in the insulator and having portions connected to the electric heater and an electric power supply. The insulator has access holes extending to the portions of the conductors for allowing said portions to be joined to the electric heater therethrough. The access holes are filled up with masses of sealing resin after said portions are joined to the electric heater.

Abstract: A flow control honeycomb structure for use in an intake passage of an engine for producing turbulent flow in an air-fuel mixture flowing through the intake passage, which structure includes a short cylindrical peripheral wall defining therein a circular passage having a substantially circular cross section, a plurality of substantially crisscross partitions joined to and disposed in the peripheral wall and dividing the circular passage into a first group of square passageways each having a substantially square cross section and a second group of four triangular passageways each having a substantially triangular cross section and a relatively large cross-sectional area, and a plurality of ribs extending obliquely from joints of those of the passageways which define the triangular passageways radially outwardly to the peripheral wall through the triangular passageways to divide each of the triangular passageways into a plurality of subpassageways of substantially the same cross-sectional area as the square pass