Abstract: A method for enabling a presetter to connect connecting portions of belts having different widths, and for forming an endless connection of a flat belt with no defects such as the bend of the connecting portions. This method includes a first step of setting so that the connecting portions at both ends of the flat belt are placed on a lower mold surface of the presetter, and that, with the flat belt held from both sides by a wall part standing from the lower mold surface and a flat belt member having substantially the same compression property as the flat belt, an upper mold of the presetter is placed on the flat belt and the flat belt member, and then fixing the flat belt and the flat belt member by the presetter; and a second step of connecting the connecting portions at the both ends by pressing the presetter with the flat belt and the flat belt member fixed.

Abstract: The invention provides a non-oriented electrical steel sheet excellent in yield strength for use as an iron core material for high rpm motors that does not sacrifice yield or productivity in motor core punching or steel sheet production, which non-oriented electrical steel sheet is given a chemical composition of, in mass %, C: 0.01 to 0.05%, Si: 2.0 to 4.0%, Mn: 0.05 to 0.5%, Al: 3.0% or less and Nb: 0.01 to 0.05%, and optionally Ni at a preferable content of more than 0.5% and less than 3.0%, the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities, Mn and C contents expressed in mass % are made to satisfy Mn?0.6?10×C, recrystallized portion area fraction is made 50% or greater, yield strength in tensile testing is made 650 MPa or greater, and average-grain diameter viewed in steel sheet cross-section is made 40 ?m or less, and electrical steel sheet production is conducted using a hot-rolled sheet whose transition temperature in impact testing is 70° C. or less.

Abstract: A nonoriented electrical steel sheet excellent in core loss comprising copper sulfides with a sphere-equivalent radius of 100 nm or less, wherein the number density of the copper sulfides is less than 1×1010 [inclusions/mm3]. Preferably, the percentage of the number of copper sulfides with a (major axis)/(minor axis) ratio of more than 2 per total number of copper sulfides is 30% or less. The steel preferably further comprises Cu of 0.5 mass % or less and REM of 0.0005% or more and 0.03% or less, wherein the following expression (1) or expressions (1) and (2) are met: [REM]×[Cu]3?7.5×10?11??(1), ([REM]?0.003)0.1×[Cu]2?1.25×10?4??(2).

Abstract: A rapidly-solidified non-oriented electrical steel sheet having high magnetic flux density and low core loss is provided. The method of producing the non-oriented electrical steel sheet excellent in magnetic properties comprises casting a steel strip by using a traveling cooling roll surface(s) to solidify a steel melt of a prescribed chemical composition, which melt contains one or both of REM and Ca at a total content of 0.0020 to 0.01% and is cast in an atmosphere of Ar, He or a mixture thereof.

Abstract: A hydrophobic compound having at least one each of hydrophobic group (an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms or a —C6H5 group) and polymerizable group (a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group or a halogen atom) is allowed to undergo a gas-phase polymerization reaction, under reduced pressure (of not more than 30 kPa), in the presence of a raw porous silica film and to thus form a modified porous silica film wherein a hydrophobic polymer thin film is formed on the inner walls of holes present in the raw porous silica film. The resulting porous silica film has a low relative dielectric constant and a low refractive index and the silica film is likewise improved in the mechanical strength and hydrophobicity. A semiconductor device is produced using the porous silica film.

Abstract: A marionette toy is provided with a container to accommodate a marionette, a lid for the container, a plurality of suspending members and a driving mechanism. One end of each of the suspending members one is connected to the marionette to suspend the marionette. The driving mechanism drives at least one of the suspending members and is arranged inside the lid.

Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet is characterized in that the number density of inclusions with an equivalent volume diameter of less than 100 nm contained in the steel sheet is 1×1010 [/mm3] or less, and that the steel sheet contains, by mass %, C: up to 0.01%, Si: 0.1% to 7.0%. Al: 0.1% to 3.0%. Mn: 0.1% to 2.0%, REM: 0.0003% to 0.05%. Ti: up to 0.02%. S: up to 0.005%. and N: up to 0.005%. the balance Fe and inevitable impurities and the mass % of Al represented by [Al] and the mass % of Ti represented by [Ti] satisfy the equation log([Ti]×[N])?1.19×log([Al]×[N])+1.84>0 . . . (1).

Abstract: There are provided a composition for matte layer formation suitable for the production of a matte synthetic leather having a matte surface with a high level of jet-blackness even without the practice of embossing, raising, etc., and a release sheet for the production of a matte synthetic leather by using the composition. The composition for matte layer formation suitable for the production of a matte synthetic leather comprises a thermosetting resin and a matting agent as indispensable components. The matting agent comprises one or at least two types of organic or/and inorganic porous fine particles. The porous fine particles have a mean particle diameter in the range of 0.5 to 20 ?m and a specific surface area in the range of 1 to 1000 m2/g. The release sheet is produced by using the composition.

Abstract: A screen printing apparatus has: a screen mask having an opening pattern; a squeegee for coating a paste disposed on the screen mask to a plane of a substrate disposed on the lower part of the screen mask via the opening pattern; and a stage for holding the substrate comprising: a stage base; and a height adjusting member disposed or attached to the stage base, the height adjusting member adjusting a relationship between a plane composed of a part of the stage and the height of the plane of the substrate.

Abstract: A method for enabling a presetter to connect connecting portions of belts having different widths, and for forming an endless connection of a flat belt with no defects such as the bend of the connecting portions. This method includes a first step of setting so that the connecting portions at both ends of the flat belt are placed on a lower mold surface of the presetter, and that, with the flat belt held from both sides by a wall part standing from the lower mold surface and a flat belt member having substantially the same compression property as the flat belt, an upper mold of the presetter is placed on the flat belt and the flat belt member, and then fixing the flat belt and the flat belt member by the presetter; and a second step of connecting the connecting portions at the both ends by pressing the presetter with the flat belt and the flat belt member fixed.

Abstract: A nonoriented electrical steel sheet excellent in core loss comprising copper sulfides with a sphere-equivalent radius of 100 nm or less, wherein the number density of the copper sulfides is less than 1×1010 [inclusions/mm3]. Preferably, the percentage of the number of copper sulfides with a (major axis)/(minor axis) ratio of more than 2 per total number of copper sulfides is 30% or less. The steel preferably further comprises Cu of 0.5 mass % or less and REM of 0.0005% or more and 0.03% or less, wherein the following expression (1) or expressions (1) and (2) are met: [REM]×[Cu]3?7.5×10?11, ??(1) ([REM]?0.003)0.1×[Cu]2?1.25×10?4.

Abstract: Non-oriented electrical steel sheet superior in core loss characterized by containing, by mass %, C: 0.01% or less, Si: 0.1% to 7.0%, Al: 0.1% to 3.0%, Mn: 0.1% to 2.0%, N: 0.005% or less, Ti: 0.02% or less, REM: 0.05% or less, S: 0.005% or less, O: 0.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display holding a liquid crystal layer between a picture element substrate on which a pixel electrode driven by a thin film transistor is formed and a opposed counter substrate and forming a terminal to an external driving circuit on the picture element substrate, includes forming a semiconductor layer on the substrate, forming a gate insulating film on the semiconductor layer, forming a gate electrode on the gate insulating film, forming a source-drain region in the semiconductor layer, forming a source-drain wire on the substrate, forming a terminal wire on the substrate, forming insulating inorganic films on regions of the terminal wire on the external driving circuit and a display area sides, forming an organic resin film on the insulating inorganic film, and forming a conductive film on the terminal wire. The conductive film has a predetermined distance to the organic resin film.

Abstract: The coating liquid for forming porous silica according to the present invention is characterized by preferably containing a partial hydrolysis-condensation product of an alkoxysilane compound, a surfactant and an organic ampholyte, and by having a metal content of not more than 50 ppb. Conventional coating liquids for forming porous silica have such a problem that porous silica films formed therefrom may have poor regularity in micropore alignment when the shelf life of the coating liquids are long. On the contrary, the coating liquid for forming porous silica of the present invention is excellent in self-life stability. Namely, the quality of porous silica formed therefrom is hardly affected by the length of self-life period of the coating liquid.

Abstract: In a synthetic method for porous silica crystals through a hydrothermal reaction, a method for synthesizing porous silica crystals with a size of 0.5 mm or larger in high reproducibility and efficiency is provided using a method for manufacturing the porous silica crystals, wherein a high concentration area with silicon is formed as a partial area inside a hydrothermal synthesis vessel, and at least a part of a surface-smoothed bulk material is present in the high concentration area with silicon to perform the hydrothermal reaction, the bulk material comprising a compound containing both silicon and oxygen as a supply source for a part or a whole of the structure composition elements of the porous silica crystals.

Abstract: A process cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus includes an electrophotographic photosensitive drum, a process device actable on the drum, and a movable operation member. After the cartridge is mounted to the main assembly of the apparatus, the movable operation member is displaced by a driving force transmitted from the main assembly of the apparatus to the cartridge, so that the movable operation member is engaged with a displaceable member provided in the main assembly to move the displaceable member, in interrelation with which an output contact of the apparatus is moved from a retracted to an electrical connection position against an elastic force of an elastic function member. In addition, the cartridge includes an input electrical contact for receiving a voltage for enabling the process device means by engagement with the output contact moved to the electrical connection position.

Abstract: A quench solidification method, wherein a steel cast strip having a mean grain size 50 ?m or more is prepared and then the steel cast strip is rolled to produce a non-oriented electrical steel sheet having high magnetic flux density in both L and C directions. However the magnetic flux density reduces when the cold reduction rate exceeds 70%. To avoid this problem the non-oriented electrical steel sheet is manufactured with a ratio of at least 4 of the integrated intensity of the {100} plane for a given sample of steel to the integrated intensity of {100} plane for a “random” sample in which crystal grains have random orientations; and a cold reduction rate of the cold-rolling is between 70% and 85%. The superheating degree of the molten steel can be 70° C. or more.

Abstract: A process cartridge is detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus. The main assembly includes an output contact movable between electrical connecting and retracting positions, a displaceable member for moving the output contact, and an elastic member for elastically urging the displaceable member to urge the output contact toward the retracted position. The process cartridge includes a drum, a process device actable on the drum, an operating member, a movable operation member operable by the operating member, after mounting the cartridge to the main assembly, to move the displaceable member, in interrelation with which the output contact is moved from the retracted to the electrical connection position against an elastic force of the elastic member, and an input electrical contact for receiving a voltage enabling the process device by engagement with the output contact moved to the electrical connecting position.