Abstract: There are provided a powder slush molding machine that preheats a mold using the transfer time of the mold and may be reduced in size, and a powder slush molding method using the powder slush molding machine. There are provided a powder slush molding machine and a powder slush molding method using the powder slush molding machine. The powder slush molding machine includes: a mold heating portion that heats a mold so that the temperature of the mold is set to a value equal to or higher than a predetermined temperature; a powder slush portion that sprays a molding resin, while powdering the molding resin, to mold a sheet-like material having a predetermined thickness on the inner surface of the heated mold; a mold cooling portion that cools the mold so that the temperature of the mold is equal to or lower than a predetermined temperature; a mold working portion that separates the cooled sheet-like material from the mold; and a transport device that moves the mold between the respective portions.

Abstract: An aqueous solvent solution of an imide group-containing compound which contains an imide group-containing compound produced by partial hydrolysis of a polyimide molded article is provided. Provided are an aqueous solvent solution of an imide group-containing compound and a method for producing the same including steps of: (1) preparing a polyimide molded article by cutting the polyimide molded article into a predetermined size, (2) hydrolyzing the polyimide molded article at temperature conditions of 50 to 100° C. in the presence of water and a basic compound to have a crude imide group-containing compound in solution state, (3) purifying the crude imide group-containing compound in solution state to have an imide group-containing compound in semi-solid state, and (4) dissolving the imide group-containing compound in semi-solid state, an aqueous solvent, and a predetermined alkali compound to have a predetermined aqueous solvent solution.

Abstract: [Object] Provided is an aqueous treatment agent having a satisfactory environmental safety and aqueous solution stability, with which satisfactory surface modification properties are obtained for various molded articles and the like. [Solving Means] An aqueous treatment agent including an imide group-containing compound derived from an imide group-containing compound obtained by partially hydrolyzing a polyimide molded article; a fluororesin-containing aqueous dispersion liquid; and an amine compound, in which an incorporation amount of a fluororesin included in the fluororesin-containing aqueous dispersion liquid is adjusted to a value within the range of 0.1 to 10,000 parts by weight, in terms of solid content, with respect to 100 parts by weight of an imide group-containing compound included in the imide group-containing compound.

Abstract: To provide a portal-shaped tear processing device which is capable of stably performing high precision tear processing. Provided is a portal-shaped tear processing device including: a portal-shaped frame; a rail member; a controlled movement robot; and a tear processing means, in which the column member and the beam member have an outer shell portion, a filling member enclosed in the outer shell portion, and a hollow portion boring the filling portion along a major axis direction of the column member and the beam member.

Abstract: There are provided a powder slush molding machine that preheats a mold using the transfer time of the mold and may be reduced in size, and a powder slush molding method using the powder slush molding machine. There are provided a powder slush molding machine and a powder slush molding method using the powder slush molding machine. The powder slush molding machine includes: a mold heating portion that heats a mold so that the temperature of the mold is set to a value equal to or higher than a predetermined temperature; a powder slush portion that sprays a molding resin, while powdering the molding resin, to mold a sheet-like material having a predetermined thickness on the inner surface of the heated mold; a mold cooling portion that cools the mold so that the temperature of the mold is equal to or lower than a predetermined temperature; a mold working portion that separates the cooled sheet-like material from the mold; and a transport device that moves the mold between the respective portions.

Abstract: Provided are a vehicular interior member manufacturing method and an airbag rupturing groove manufacturing method which can form an airbag rupturing groove excellent in invisibility even in a vehicular interior member having a hard substrate layer, while performing a proper control of the thickness of the remainder of the airbag rupturing groove to be formed. The vehicular interior member manufacturing method is characterized by protruding a metal blade having an edge flattened at least partially against a forming face of the rupturing groove, from a back side of the vehicular interior member and partially into the skin layer wherein a thickness of the skin layer into which the metal blade has not protruded corresponds to a remaining thickness of the skin layer, and confirming whether or not the metal blade is detected at a second detecting position while the metal blade is not detected at a first detecting position.

Abstract: There are provided a machining device that is excellent in an effect of cooling a machining tool and can perform machining with high accuracy and a machining method using the machining device. There are provided a machining device that performs predetermined machining of a workpiece by a machining tool housed in a cylindrical body and a machining method using the machining device. The machining device includes a scatter-preventing member that is provided at a tip of the cylindrical body and comes into contact with the workpiece without a gap therebetween during the predetermined machining, a transfer passage that is provided on a side surface of the cylindrical body and sucks in waste of the workpiece produced due to the predetermined machining, and an air-blowing device that is provided on the side surface of the cylindrical body at a position symmetrical to the position of the transfer passage and blows air to at least a tip of the machining tool.

Abstract: Provided is an imide group-containing compound solution which includes an imide group-containing compound obtained by partially hydrolyzing a polyimide molded article, a solvent, and a viscosity stabilizer and is excellent in long-term storage stability. It is an imide group-containing compound solution including an imide group-containing compound obtained by partially hydrolyzing a polyimide molded article, a solvent, and a viscosity stabilizer. In the imide group-containing compound solution, an absorption peak derived from an imide group is observed at a wavenumber of 1,375 cm?1, an absorption peak derived from an amide group is observed at a wavenumber of 1,600 cm?1, and an absorption peak derived from a carboxyl group is observed at a wavenumber of 1,413 cm?1 in an infrared spectroscopy chart obtained by an infrared spectroscopic measurement of the imide group-containing compound and the viscosity stabilizer is an orthocarboxylic ester and a chelating agent or either one of the two.

Abstract: Provided by the invention is a compound containing an imido group that is obtained by partial hydrolysis of a polyimide molded article, in which the compound has an absorption peak derived from an imido group at wave number of 1375 cm?1, an absorption peak derived from an amide group at wave number of 1600 cm?1, and an absorption peak derived from a carboxyl group at wave number of 1413 cm?1 in the IR spectrum chart obtained by IR spectroscopic measurement.

Abstract: This invention provides a machining device with waste collection equipment, which is suitable for collecting an easily charged waste and the like, and a machining method using the machining device. In the machining device with waste collection equipment, which collects waste generated by a predetermined machining processing, the waste collection equipment is provided with a transfer path through which the waste is transferred using an air flow, a water supply device which is provided at an intermediate portion of the transfer path and supplies a predetermined amount of water to the waste thereby applying antistatic treatment to the waste, a cyclone which applies separation processing to the waste subjected to the antistatic treatment, and a collection tank which collects the waste subjected to the separation processing by the cyclone.

Abstract: Provided are a vehicular interior member manufacturing method and an airbag rupturing groove manufacturing method which can form an airbag rupturing groove excellent in invisibility even in a vehicular interior member having a hard substrate layer, while performing a proper control of the thickness of the remainder of the airbag rupturing groove to be formed. The vehicular interior member manufacturing method is characterized by protruding a metal blade having an edge flattened at least partially against a forming face of the rupturing groove, from a back side of the vehicular interior member and partially into the skin layer wherein a thickness of the skin layer into which the metal blade has not protruded corresponds to a remaining thickness of the skin layer, and confirming whether or not the metal blade is detected at a second detecting position while the metal blade is not detected at a first detecting position.

Abstract: To provide a powder slush molding apparatus and a powder slush molding method that could quickly and stably produce a 2-color molded sheet-like article with high-durability and the like. The present invention is directed to a powder slush molding apparatus provided with a powder slush part (Part A), a mold heating part (Part B), a mold cooling part (Part C), and a coating/demolding part (Part E) for manufacturing the 2-color molded sheet-like article and the powder slush molding method thereof. After a 1-200 ?m thick coating layer consisting of a first resin is coated by a resin coating device in the coating/demolding part, a sheet-like article consisting of a second resin which is different from the first resin is molded on or adjacent to the coating layer consisting of the first resin in the powder slush part.

Abstract: Provided by the invention is a compound containing an imido group that is obtained by partial hydrolysis of a polyimide molded article, in which the compound has an absorption peak derived from an imido group at wave number of 1375 cm?1, an absorption peak derived from an amide group at wave number of 1600 cm?1, and an absorption peak derived from a carboxyl group at wave number of 1413 cm?1 in the IR spectrum chart obtained by IR spectroscopic measurement.

Abstract: A device for producing a break-scheduled line for a vehicle upholstery member having an air bag door equipped with a fabricated skin. The device for producing the vehicle upholstery member having such air bag door comprises a support base for substantially flatly mounting the skin thereon, a cutting blade for forming the break-scheduled line in the skin, and measuring means for measuring the depth of the break-scheduled line or the thickness of the remaining portion. The support base includes a protrusion having a shape corresponding to that of the break-scheduled line formed in the skin on an upper surface of the support base.

Abstract: This invention provides a machining device with waste collection equipment, which is suitable for collecting an easily charged waste and the like, and a machining method using the machining device. In the machining device with waste collection equipment, which collects waste generated by a predetermined machining processing, the waste collection equipment is provided with a transfer path through which the waste is transferred using an air flow, a water supply device which is provided at an intermediate portion of the transfer path and supplies a predetermined amount of water to the waste thereby applying antistatic treatment to the waste, a cyclone which applies separation processing to the waste subjected to the antistatic treatment, and a collection tank which collects the waste subjected to the separation processing by the cyclone.

Abstract: An airbag rupturing groove forming apparatus forms an airbag rupturing groove excellent in invisibility even in a vehicular interior member having a hard substrate, while performing proper control of the thickness of the remainder of the airbag rupturing groove. A method also is provided for manufacturing the vehicular interior member. The airbag rupturing groove forming apparatus has a rupturing groove former for forming the airbag rupturing groove by protruding a metal blade at the back side of the vehicular interior member. First and second blade detectors confirm the presence or absence of the blade protruded into the vehicular interior member individually at detecting positions that are different in the thickness direction of the surface layer. An edge position deciding unit decides whether the blade is detected by the second blade detector, although the blade is not detected by the first blade detector.

Abstract: To provide a powder slush molding apparatus and a powder slush molding method that could quickly and stably produce a 2-color molded sheet-like article with high-durability and the like. The present invention is directed to a powder slush molding apparatus provided with a powder slush part (Part A), a mold heating part (Part B), a mold cooling part (Part C), and a coating/demolding part (Part E) for manufacturing the 2-color molded sheet-like article and the powder slush molding method thereof. After a 1-200 ?m thick coating layer consisting of a first resin is coated by a resin coating device in the coating/demolding part, a sheet-like article consisting of a second resin which is different from the first resin is molded on or adjacent to the coating layer consisting of the first resin in the powder slush part.

Abstract: A device for producing a break-scheduled line for a vehicle upholstery member having an air bag door equipped with a fabricated skin. The device for producing the vehicle upholstery member having such air bag door comprises a support base for substantially flatly mounting the skin thereon, a cutting blade for forming the break-scheduled line in the skin, and measuring means for measuring the depth of the break-scheduled line or the thickness of the remaining portion. The support base includes a protrusion having a shape corresponding to that of the break-scheduled line formed in the skin on an upper surface of the support base.

Abstract: There are provided a fluid injection nozzle, a fluid mixer, a microbubble generating apparatus, a vapor phase generating apparatus, a method of producing swirling flow, and a swirling flow producing apparatus that can be applied to any kind of fluid and can efficiently generate a swirling flow at high speed. The swirling flow producing apparatus includes a housing and a cylindrical member. The housing includes a cylindrical portion of which at least one end is opened, and a fluid introducing passage that is opened on an inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical portion. The cylindrical member is provided in the cylindrical portion of the housing. The cylindrical member includes a cylindrical portion of which at least one end in a direction corresponding to an opening direction of the cylindrical portion is opened, and holes formed in a peripheral wall of the cylindrical portion.

Abstract: A coated metal formed article includes: a metal formed article, a zinc-containing porous coating layer laminated on a surface of the metal formed article, a phenol-modified silicon compound layer laminated on the zinc-containing porous coating layer, and a fluorine resin-containing layer laminated on the phenol-modified silicon compound layer. The fluorine resin containing layer contains a fluorine resin and at least one organic resin selected from a polyester resin, a polyacryl resin, a polyolefin resin, a polyurethane resin, and a polycarbonate resin. An amount of the fluorine resin ranges from 1 to 200 parts by weight with respect to 100 parts by weight of the organic resin. When a thickness of the phenol-modified silicon compound layer is t2 (?m) and a thickness of the fluorine resin-containing layer is t1 (?m), a ratio of t1 to t2 ranges from 0.05 to 50 so that dimensional accuracy and mechanical properties are increased.