Abstract: An active material sheet includes an active material that stores charge, and a binder that binds the active material. The active material is granular and 90% or more of active material particles have a particle diameter equal to or less than 20 ?m. The active material particles include a first group of particles having a particle diameter equal to or less than 5 ?m and a circularity ranging from 0.850 to 1.000 and a second group of particles having a particle diameter greater than 5 ?m and equal to or less than 20 ?m and a circularity ranging from 0.500 to 0.850.

Abstract: An electrode including a collector layer, an active material layer, and a bonding layer is disclosed. The collector layer is made of an electric conductor. The active material layer includes active material particles that stores charge, a conduction assistant that transports the charge stored in the active material particles to the collector layer, and a binder that binds the active material particles with the conduction assistant. The active material layer has a first surface relatively distal from the collector layer and a second surface opposing the first surface and relatively proximal to the collector layer. The projections and recesses are formed on the first surface side. The bonding layer bonds the collector layer and the active material layer.

Abstract: Disclosed is a sliding bearing used in turbochargers of internal combustion engines. It is formed with a copper alloy containing, by mass %, 25 to 45% Zn, 0.3 to 2.0% Si, 1.5 to 6.0% Mn, and the balance being Cu and unavoidable impurities. The sliding bearing has a cylindrical shape for supporting a rotating shaft. Crystallized Mn—Si compounds are dispersed in a matrix of the copper alloy, the compounds extending in an axial direction of the rotating shaft on a sliding surface of the sliding bearing. The crystallized Mn—Si compounds have an average inter-grain distance of 20 to 80 ?m. The matrix may contain precipitated Mn—Si compounds as well as the crystallized Mn—Si compounds.

Abstract: There is provided a shoe bottom repair agent consisting of one-component thermosetting composition comprising as main ingredients a terminal isocyanate having urethane prepolymer and/or a polyisocyanate compound and a latent curing agent. This shoe bottom repair agent is free from, experienced in use of solvent base shoe bottom repair agents, safety and sanitation problems such as odor and inflammation by solvent evaporated at the time of curing as well as cured matter thickness reduction of a mended part caused by solvent evaporation. With use of this shoe bottom repair agent, damaged shoe bottom portion can be mended to a desired shape through one-time repair work. Short-time curing can be effected by heating. Further, before heating, there is substantially no viscosity increase and no surface film is formed to avoid adhesion of a film resulting from surface drying to a spatula. Therefore, the repair surface can be finished smoothly and neatly.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is that in a sliding member whose substrate is improved in sliding characteristics by a coating layer comprising a solid lubricant, the coating layer is obtained as one having a low coefficient of friction and an excellent wear resistance. In the present invention, the coating layer 7 has a structure formed by laminating solid lubricant plate crystal grains 3, and contains not more than 10 mass % of a resin for binder 8 for bonding the solid lubricant plate crystal grains 3, and the lubricant plate crystal grains have a crystal structure formed by piling (00l) planes (wherein l is an integer of not less than 1) in parallel, the index of orientation of the (00l) planes being not less than 90% at least on the sliding surface.

Abstract: Disclosed is a sliding bearing used in turbochargers of internal combustion engines. It is formed with a copper alloy containing, by mass %, 25 to 45% Zn, 0.3 to 2.0% Si, 1.5 to 6.0% Mn, and the balance being Cu and unavoidable impurities. The sliding bearing has a cylindrical shape for supporting a rotating shaft. Crystallized Mn—Si compounds are dispersed in a matrix of the copper alloy, the compounds extending in an axial direction of the rotating shaft on a sliding surface of the sliding bearing. The crystallized Mn—Si compounds have an average inter-grain distance of 20 to 80 ?m. The matrix may contain precipitated Mn—Si compounds as well as the crystallized Mn—Si compounds.

Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a sliding member which exhibits an excellent anti-seizure property even under starved lubricant conditions. In the present invention, there is provided a sliding member with a structure, in which a coating layer having a sliding surface is adhered to the surface of the base material, wherein the coating layer does not contain a resin binder but has solid lubricant plate crystal particles laminated therein, wherein these solid lubricant plate crystal particles have a lamellar crystal structure in which (001) planes are stacked in parallel, and at least in the sliding surface, the orientation index of the (001) plane of the solid lubricant plate crystal particles is 90% or more.

Abstract: There is provided a shoe bottom repair agent consisting of one-component thermosetting composition comprising as main ingredients a terminal isocyanate having urethane prepolymer and/or a polyisocyanate compound and a latent curing agent. This shoe bottom repair agent is free from, experienced in use of solvent base shoe bottom repair agents, safety and sanitation problems such as odor and inflammation by solvent evaporated at the time of curing as well as cured matter thickness reduction of a mended part caused by solvent evaporation. With use of this shoe bottom repair agent, damaged shoe bottom portion can be mended to a desired shape through one-time repair work. Short-time curing can be effected by heating. Further, before heating, there is substantially no viscosity increase and no surface film is formed to avoid adhesion of a film resulting from surface drying to a spatula. Therefore, the repair surface can be finished smoothly and neatly.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is that in a sliding member whose substrate is improved in sliding characteristics by a coating layer comprising a solid lubricant, the coating layer is obtained as one having a low coefficient of friction and an excellent wear resistance. In the present invention, the coating layer 7 has a structure formed by laminating solid lubricant plate crystal grains 3, and contains not more than 10 mass % of a resin for binder 8 for bonding the solid lubricant plate crystal grains 3, and the lubricant plate crystal grains have a crystal structure formed by piling (00l) planes (wherein l is an integer of not less than 1) in parallel, the index of orientation of the (00l) planes being not less than 90% at least on the sliding surface.

Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a sliding member which exhibits an excellent anti-seizure property even under starved lubricant conditions. In the present invention, there is provided a sliding member with a structure, in which a coating layer having a sliding surface is adhered to the surface of the base material, wherein the coating layer does not contain a resin binder but has solid lubricant plate crystal particles laminated therein, wherein these solid lubricant plate crystal particles have a lamellar crystal structure in which (001) planes are stacked in parallel, and at least in the sliding surface, the orientation index of the (001) plane of the solid lubricant plate crystal particles is 90% or more.

Abstract: A slide bearing for internal combustion engines, comprising a slide layer including a lubricant outer layer in which a solid lubricant is contained, and wherein the lubricant outer layer contains an element which is contained in the solid lubricant, at a maximum concentration of not less than 5 mass % in the lubricant outer layer, and at least a solid lubricant gathered particle is formed on a surface of the lubricant outer layer, the solid lubricant gathered particle being a particle of the solid lubricant formed by gathering a plurality of primary particles, the solid lubricant gathered particle having a long side of not less than 20 ?m but less than 100 ?m in terms of surface visual field of the lubricant outer layer.

Abstract: The present invention provides one-pack type curing paste material to be used in a method of mechanically mixing and dispersing a low-pressure gas into a paste material to produce an expandable material, followed by discharging and expanding the expandable material to produce a curable product, especially a cured product with dense uniform closed-cells by using a mechanical foaming apparatus suitable for performing of the method. The one-pack type curing paste material of the present invention has viscosity characteristics included in the zone defined by points A, B, C and D in the graph of FIG. 1 showing the relationship between shear rate and apparent viscosity, said points A and B being at 50-30000 poises of an apparent viscosity (measured by a Brookfield rotary viscometer using spindle No.7, at 2 rpm, at 20° C.) in low shear rate region (0.43 sec?1) and said points C and D being at 20-2000 poises of an apparent viscosity (measured by an apparent viscosity meter according to JIS K2220, at 20° C.

Abstract: The present invention provides a moisture curing one-pack urethane adhesive composition which has a good adhesive property to a painted steel. The moisture-curing one-pack urethane adhesive composition according to the present invention contains an isocyanate group-terminated urethane prepolymer as a main component, and also contains (1) a silane coupling agent and/or a polyisocyanate derivative of a silane coupling agent, as an adhesive promoter, and (2) (a) 2,2′-dimorpholinodiethyl ether and/or di(2,6-dimethylmorpholinoethyl)ether, and (b) at least one tin-based catalyst selected from the group consisting of dibutyltindiacetylacetonate, dibutyltindilaurate, dibutyltin diacetate, dibutyltin dimaleate, dioctyltin dilaurate and tin octanoate, as curing catalysts. The moisture-curing one-pack urethane adhesive composition according to the present invention is particularly suitable for bonding automotive window glasses to automotive bodies.

Abstract: The present invention provides a moisture-curing one-pack urethane adhesive composition which has a good adhesive property to a painted steel. The moisture-curing one-pack urethane adhesive composition according to the present invention contains an isocyanate group-terminated urethane prepolymer as a main component, and also contains (1) a silane coupling agent as an adhesive promoter, and (2) (a) 2,2′-dimorpholinodiethyl ether and/or di(2,6-dimethylmorpholinoethyl)ether, and (b)dibutyltin diacetylacetonate, as curing catalysts. The moisture-curing one-pack urethane adhesive composition according to the present invention is particularly suitable for bonding automotive window glasses to automotive bodies.

Abstract: A polyolefin material can be adhered to other material with good adhesion durability by 1) applying a first primer which contains i) a resin comprising a backbone of hydrocarbon chains and/or polybutadiene chains, and ii) a polyisocyanate compound or an alkoxysilane compound, to the surface of a polyolefin material, 2) applying a second primer which contains a polyisocyanate compound or an alkoxysilane compounds, onto the layer of the first primer, and 3) adhering the surface of the polyolefin material to which the first and second primers are applied to other material using a moisture-curing polyurethane adhesive.

Abstract: There is provided a semiconductor integrated circuit including an output circuit having a first buffer section to which a first power supply voltage is applied and an input signal is supplied to amplify and output the input signal, and a second buffer section to which a second power supply voltage is applied and a signal output from said first buffer section is supplied to amplify and output the signal outside through an output terminal, a switching element which has two terminals respectively connected to said output terminal and a ground voltage terminal and receives a control signal to change a conductive resistance, and a bias circuit for receiving the input signal or a signal output from said first buffer section, generating a control signal, and supplying the control signal to said switching element to control the conductive resistance of said switching element so as not to allow a potential of said output terminal to exceed a predetermined value.

Abstract: A CMOS output buffer comprises an output stage circuit including MOS transistors each having a CMOS structure, for outputting a signal, and an output stage control circuit arranged prior to the output stage circuit. The output stage control circuit includes a pull-up circuit and a pull-down circuit for controlling the gate of the final stage MOS transistor of the MOS transistors so that a speed at which a gate-to-source voltage varies when the final stage MOS transistor is turned on, is slower than a speed at which the gate-to-source voltage varies when the final stage MOS transistor is turned off.

Abstract: A buffer circuit comprising a first power terminal, second power terminal, a complementary first FET pair arranged between the first and second power temrinals to receive an external signal, a complementary second FET pair which is arranged between the first and second power terminals and whose input terminal is connected to an output terminal of the first FET pair, and voltage drop means arranged between the first power terminal and the first FET pair.