Abstract: The electric conductor connecting member of this invention comprises a metal foil having a roughened surface on at least one main side, and an adhesive layer formed on the roughened surface of the metal foil.

Abstract: The electric conductor connection method of the invention is a method for electrical connection between a mutually separated first electric conductor and second electric conductor, comprising a step of hot pressing a metal foil, a first adhesive layer formed on one side of the metal foil and a first electric conductor, arranged in that order, to electrically connect and bond the metal foil and first electric conductor, and hot pressing the metal foil, the first adhesive layer or second adhesive layer formed on the other side of the metal foil, and the second electric conductor, arranged in that order, to electrically connect and bond the metal foil and the second electric conductor.

Abstract: A method for producing a catalyst of the present invention is characterized by sequentially performing the steps of: (i) dipping an end face portion of a carrier structure having a catalytic component carried thereon in an aqueous metal salt solution at a concentration of 2.7 to 3.88 mol/L in terms of mole of the metal; (ii) drying the dipped end face portion; (iii) dipping the dried end face portion again in an aqueous metal salt solution whose metal species is the same as that in the aqueous metal salt solution at a concentration of 2.7 to 3.88 mol/L in terms of mole of the metal; and (iv) performing a calcination treatment to harden the catalytic end face.

Abstract: Provided is a photovoltaic (PV) module by which electric power generation efficiency can be improved by improving light use rate. An encapsulant (202) is permitted to be a first layer (A cover glass (201) and the encapsulant (202) are considered optically equivalent, since their refractive indexes are substantially the same), a light trapping film (300) to be a second layer, an anti-reflective layer (104) to be a third layer, and an n-type layer (103) to be a fourth layer. When the reflective indexes of the layers are expressed as first reflective index (n1), second reflective index (n2), third reflective index (n3) and fourth reflective index (n4), relationship n1?n2?n3?n4 is satisfied. The light trapping film (300) of the second layer, i.e., one layer among the light transmitting layers, has a structured shape on an incident side (300a) where incident light (205) enters.

Abstract: Disclosed is a volume phase hologram recording material of high sensitivity, high contrast, and excellent record retention properties and also disclosed is a volume phase hologram recording medium using the said material. The volume phase hologram recording material mainly contains a three-dimensional crosslinked polymer matrix, a radically polymerizable monomer, and a photoradical polymerization initiator. The three-dimensional crosslinked polymer matrix is formed from a matrix-forming compound having two photoradically polymerizable unsaturated groups and two non-photoradically polymerizable hydroxyl groups represented by the following general formula (1) and another matrix-forming compound having no photoradically polymerizable group.

Abstract: The conductive adhesive film of the invention is a conductive adhesive film for electrical connection between photovoltaic cell surface electrodes and wiring members, which comprises an insulating adhesive 2 and conductive particles 1 and has a (t/r) value in the range of 0.75-17.5, where r (?m) is the mean particle size of the conductive particles 1 and t (?m) is the thickness of the conductive adhesive film, wherein the content of the conductive particles 1 is 1.7-15.6 vol % based on the total volume of the conductive adhesive film.

Abstract: Provided is a production process by which a novel alicyclic oxetane compound which has an oxetane ring, has excellent light transmission in the near ultraviolet region, and is useful as a cationically polymerizable monomer can be easily obtained. The production process which is for obtaining an alicyclic oxetane compound includes subjecting an aromatic oxetane compound to nuclear hydrogenation in high-pressure hydrogen in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst. For example, when 4,4?-bis[(3-ethyloxetan-3-yl)methoxymethyl]biphenyl is used as the aromatic oxetane compound, 4,4?-bis[(3-ethyloxetan-3-yl)methoxymethyl]bicyclohexyl is obtained as the alicyclic oxetane compound.

Abstract: The present invention provides an adhesive tape 10 for electrically connecting a plurality of solar battery cells, which adhesive tape has a metal foil 1 and an adhesive layer 2 composed of an adhesive provided on at least one surface of the metal foil 1, and a solar battery module using the adhesive tape. The adhesive tape of the present invention can suppress the decrease in the product yield and can improve the connection workability of solar battery cells.

Abstract: A mark unit includes a holding section that is disposed at the top of a display section so that a light-emitting section is positioned on a side of a display screen of the display section and a weight section is positioned on a side opposite to the display screen to hold the light-emitting section on the side of the display screen that intersects a horizontal plane.

Abstract: A polyurethane elastomer useful as a cleaning blade of an electronic copying machine having a small temperature dependency over a wide range of atmospheric temperatures is produced by reacting (1) a polyol component, (2) a chain extender, and (3) an isocyanate component. The polyol component includes a bifunctional silicone oil having hydroxyl groups at both ends and containing an ester group. The isocyanate component includes an aromatic isocyanate. The silicone oil content of the elastomer is from 5.0 to 50% by weight, based on the weight of the polyurethane elastomer. In a preferred embodiment, the polyurethane elastomer is produced from a polyol component which includes a polycaprolactone ester polyol and a silicone oil having hydroxyl groups at both ends which also contains an ester group.

Abstract: A gun-type controller includes a main grip and a subgrip respectively provided to the rear portion and the front portion of a barrel. The view point direction of a view point camera CM is input using a main lever provided at a position reached by the thumb when holding the main grip with the right hand, and the moving direction of a player's character PC is input using a sublever provided at a position reached by the thumb when holding the subgrip with the left hand.

Abstract: A gun-type controller has an outward appearance imitating an automatic rifle in which a main grip and a subgrip extend from a barrel, and is used in a state in which the player holds the gun-type controller in the forward/backward direction and aims a muzzle at a screen. A view point direction lever for inputting the view point direction of a player's character is provided at a position at which the thumb reaches the view point direction lever when the player holds the main grip with the right hand, and a moving direction lever for inputting the moving direction of the player's character is provided at a position at which the thumb reaches the moving direction lever when the player holds the main grip with the left hand.

Abstract: Provided is a production process by which a novel alicyclic oxetane compound which has an oxetane ring, has excellent light transmission in the near ultraviolet region, and is useful as a cationically polymerizable monomer can be easily obtained. The production process which is for obtaining an alicyclic oxetane compound includes subjecting an aromatic oxetane compound to nuclear hydrogenation in high-pressure hydrogen in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst. For example, when 4,4?-bis[(3-ethyloxetan-3-yl)methoxymethyl]biphenyl is used as the aromatic oxetane compound, 4,4?-bis[(3-ethyloxetan-3-yl)methoxymethyl]bicyclohexyl is obtained as the alicyclic oxetane compound.

Abstract: A semiconductor device having a functional circuit block with predictive power controller is provided so as to construct a system LSI manufactured in a practicable number of design steps, which is extensible and in which power is reduced. The functional circuit block includes a prediction circuit and a predictive power shutdown circuit having a power status control circuit. The prediction circuit controls a power status of the functional circuit block by using the power status control circuit, based on input information thereto. When no information is inputted for a predetermined a period of time, the power status control circuit shifts from a power status of the functional circuit block to a low-power status.

Abstract: A sweetener containing a Stevia-derived sweet substance is provided that, while containing cyclodextrin only in small amounts, can mask the bitter taste inherent in the Stevia-derived sweet substance. Cyclodextrin with a particle size of less than or equal to 30 ?m is blended into the Stevia-derived sweet substance at 0.5 to 20 mass % with respect to the mass of the Stevia-derived sweet substance.

Abstract: In view of a necessity of alleviating factors obstructing an effect of SIMD operation such as in-register data alignment in high speed formation of an SIMD processor, numerous data can be supplied to a data alignment operation pipe 211 by dividing a register file into four banks and enabling to designate a plurality of registers by a single piece of operand to thereby enable to make access to four registers simultaneously and data alignment operation can be carried out at high speed. Further, by defining new data pack instruction, data unpack instruction and data permutation instruction, data supplied in a large number can be aligned efficiently. Further, by the above-described characteristic, definition of multiply accumulate operation instruction maximizing parallelism of SIMD can be carried out.

Abstract: The hydrogenated aromatic oligomer of this invention is represented by the following formula (1) (A-F)n-A??(1) (wherein A is a segment comprising mainly a polycyclic aromatic compound, a phenol and at least partly hydrogenated products of these two, F is methylene or dimethylene ether and n is a number in the range of 1-100) and obtained by the reaction of a polycyclic aromatic compound such as naphthalene with formaldehyde or a derivative thereof and a phenol in the presence of an acid catalyst followed by hydrogenation of the product aromatic oligomer. This oligomer is odorless, highly transparent and useful as an improver of the adhesiveness and vibration damping properties when incorporated in resins and rubbers and performs excellently as a vibration damping agent in a wide temperature range.

Abstract: There are disclosed a photosensitive resin composition comprising: at least one photosensitive resin among a polyamide resin (A) having a repeating unit (U1) represented by general formula (I) below and a polyamideimide resin (B) having a repeating unit (U2) represented by general formula (II); and at least one photopolymerizable compound among a silane coupling agent (C) having a photopolymerizable unsaturated bond and a photopolymerizable unsaturated monomer (D) comprising a monomer (d1) having at least 5 photopolymerizable unsaturated bonds per molecule General formula (I): (in the formula, X1 denotes a trivalent organic group having an aromatic ring, Y1 denotes a divalent organic group having an aromatic ring, and R1 denotes a monovalent organic group having a photosensitive group) General formula (II): (in the formula, X2 and Y2 denote trivalent organic groups having an aromatic ring, and R2 denotes a monovalent organic group having a photosensitive group), a pattern production process using s

Abstract: There are disclosed a photosensitive resin composition comprising:

Abstract: An optical element in which a hard coat layer is formed on an organic glass base material surface via a primer layer. For a primer composition forming a primer layer, whole or the main body of the primer layer formation polymer is made as being ester based TPE. Moreover, a hard coat composition forming a hard coat layer is consisted of a hydrolysate of alkoxysilane in which trialkoxysilane containing monoexpoxy organic group is the main body as a matrix formation ingredient, and the titanium based metal oxide complex particle as being an optical interference control agent, the foregoing titanium based metal oxide complex particle is consisted of T1O2 as the main body, SiO2 as a major sub-ingredient, and further, ZrO2 and K2O as a trace sub-ingredient.