Abstract: A laminated ring is manufactured by severing a cylindrical drum, which comprises a sheet of maraging steel with welded opposite ends, into a plurality of rings of predetermined width, rolling the rings to a predetermined target circumferential length, correcting circumferential lengths of the rings, aging and nitriding the rings, and laminating the rings into a laminated ring for transmitting power in a continuously variable transmission. A load applied to a circumferential edge of each of the rolled rings and a load applied to another circumferential edge thereof are measured while supporting an inner circumferential surface of the ring and applying a tensile load in a direction to expand the ring. The difference between circumferential lengths of the circumferential edges of the ring is detected based on the difference between the loads applied to the circumferential edges when the difference between the loads is maximum.

Abstract: A thermosensitive recording material with a high resistance to fogging has a thermosensitive colored image-forming layer formed on a support and includes at least one colorless dye precursor, a color-developing agent and a binder, the dye precursor being contained in a plurality of fine solid composite particles prepared by dissolving a solute including the dye precursor in a solvent which includes a polymerization component including a polyvalent isocyanate compound; emulsifying the resultant solution in an aqueous medium; and subjecting the aqueous emulsion to a polymerization reaction to thereby form the fine solid composite particles in which the dye precursor is solid-dissolved in a solid thermoplastic resin matrix formed from a resultant polyurea or polyurethane polyurea resin.

Abstract: An electrostatic recording material, capable of recording clear resist marks and colored images without generating a lead edge fog and colored image slippage, comprises an insulating support 1, an electroconductive intermediate layer 2 formed on a surface of the support, a dielectric layer 3 formed on the electroconductive intermediate layer, and a pair of electroconductive side edge layers 4, 5 formed on a record-starting side edge portion of the dielectric layer, in which side a recording operation in a transversal direction of the recording material is started, and on a record-ending side edge portion of the dielectric layer, in which side the recording operation is ended, extending along the longitudinal axis of the recording material, spaced from each other, and each having a surface resistivity of from 1.times.10.sup.4 to 5.times.10.sup.5 .OMEGA.