Abstract: An exterior member of an electrical wire includes a first tubular body and a second tubular body. The first tubular body includes a hollow portion through which the electrical wire is inserted, an opening portion from which the electrical wire is drawn out, and a vent portion which is impermeable to moisture and permeable to air. The second tubular body is provided to extend from the first tubular body and to cover an outer periphery of the electrical wire drawn from the opening portion, and is made of a material more flexible than a material of the first tubular body.

Abstract: Provided are an electrophotographic photosensitive member including a support and a photosensitive layer above the support, in which a surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a polymerization product of a composition containing a specific hole transporting compound, and an electrophotographic apparatus and a process cartridge including the electrophotographic photosensitive member. Also provided is a method of producing the electrophotographic photosensitive member, including (i) forming a coating film of a coating solution for a surface layer which is a composition containing a specific hole transporting compound, and (ii) forming the surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member by a polymerization reaction of the composition containing the specific hole transporting compound.

Abstract: As an example of an EC element in which vertical color separation is suppressed, the present disclosure provides an EC element including a pair of electrodes, a solvent, an anodic EC compound, and a cathodic EC compound. In the EC element, the difference between a solvation free energy of an oxidized form of the anodic EC compound in water and a solvation free energy of the oxidized form in octanol is 35 kcal/mol or more, and the cathodic EC compound has a substituent containing any one element selected from halogens, sulfur, boron, phosphorus, and silicon.

Abstract: As an example of an EC element in which vertical color separation is suppressed, the present disclosure provides an EC element including a pair of electrodes, a solvent, an anodic EC compound, and a cathodic EC compound. In the EC element, the difference between a solvation free energy of an oxidized form of the anodic EC compound in water and a solvation free energy of the oxidized form in octanol is 35 kcal/mol or more, and the difference between a solvation free energy of a reduced form of the cathodic EC compound in propylene carbonate and a solvation free energy of the reduced form in octanol is ?35 kcal/mol or less.

Abstract: An electrophotographic photosensitive member has a surface layer that contains a polymer of a hole transport material having at least one monovalent polymerizable functional group.

Abstract: Provided are an electrophotographic photosensitive member including a support and a photosensitive layer above the support, in which a surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a polymerization product of a composition containing a specific hole transporting compound, and an electrophotographic apparatus and a process cartridge including the electrophotographic photosensitive member. Also provided is a method of producing the electrophotographic photosensitive member, including (i) forming a coating film of a coating solution for a surface layer which is a composition containing a specific hole transporting compound, and (ii) forming the surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member by a polymerization reaction of the composition containing the specific hole transporting compound.

Abstract: Provided is a photoelectric conversion element including an anode, a photoelectric conversion layer that contains a first organic semiconductor, a second organic semiconductor, and a third organic semiconductor, and a cathode. As each of the first organic semiconductor, the second organic semiconductor, and the third organic semiconductor, a low-molecular weight organic semiconductor is used. The first organic semiconductor, the second organic semiconductor, and the third organic semiconductor have mass ratios that satisfy the following relationship: the first organic semiconductor?the second organic semiconductor?the third organic semiconductor. Further, when a total amount of the first organic semiconductor, the second organic semiconductor, and the third organic semiconductor is 100 mass %, a content of the second organic semiconductor is 6 mass % or more, and a content of the third organic semiconductor is 3 mass % or more.

Abstract: There is provided a method for manufacturing an electrical wire. The electrical wire includes a rod-like conductor having a shape corresponding to a predetermined wiring route and also having rigidity to enable the rod-like conductor to hold the shape by itself, and an insulation sheath covering the rod-like conductor. The method includes: preparing a plurality of rod-like preliminary conductors having the rigidity so as to correspond to a plurality of sub routes into which the wiring route is divided; processing at least one of the plurality of preliminary conductors into a shape conforming to the corresponding sub routes; connecting the plurality of preliminary conductors to form the rod-like conductor; and forming the insulation sheath to cover the rod-like conductor.

Abstract: An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a support member, a charge generating layer containing a phthalocyanine pigment as a charge generating material, a charge transport layer containing a charge transporting material in this order. The charge generating layer has a thickness of less than 200 nm, and the phthalocyanine pigment includes phthalocyanine crystalline particles having a particle size distribution and satisfies a requirement that the volume average of the products of ?i and ?i is 0.31 or more.

Abstract: There is provided a wire harness and a manufacturing method thereof. A wire harness routed in a vehicle body is provided with an electric wire and a metallic shield pipe in which the electric wire is inserted. The shield pipe has a rigidity that enables self-maintenance of an after-bent shape. The shield pipe is bent with the electric wire being inserted therein so as to form the shield pipe in a shape conforming to piping to be assembled to the vehicle body.

Abstract: An exterior member of an electrical wire includes a first tubular body and a second tubular body. The first tubular body includes a hollow portion through which the electrical wire is inserted, an opening portion from which the electrical wire is drawn out, and a vent portion which is impermeable to moisture and permeable to air. The second tubular body is provided to extend from the first tubular body and to cover an outer periphery of the electrical wire drawn from the opening portion, and is made of a material more flexible than a material of the first tubular body.

Abstract: An organic compound represented by the following general formula is provided. In the above formula (1), R11 to R15 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an aryl group, an aryloxy group, an aralkyl group, an acyl group, or a halogen atom provided that at least one of R11, R13, and R15 represents the alkoxy group or the aryloxy group; and R11 to R15 may form a ring structure therebetween. R5 and R6 each independently represent an alkyl group, an aryl group, or an aralkyl group. In addition, R21 to R24 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an aryl group, an aryloxy group, an aralkyl group, an acyl group, or a halogen atom and may form a ring structure therebetween. The above groups except the acyl group may be substituted when necessary.

Abstract: There is provided a wire harness and a manufacturing method thereof. A wire harness routed in a vehicle body is provided with an electric wire and a metallic shield pipe in which the electric wire is inserted. The shield pipe has a rigidity that enables self-maintenance of an after-bent shape. The shield pipe is bent with the electric wire being inserted therein so as to form the shield pipe in a shape conforming to piping to be assembled to the vehicle body.

Abstract: A wire harness includes a plurality of electric wires, a plurality of tubular metal pipes corresponding the number to the plurality of electric wires, each of the plurality of electric wires being inserted through respective one of the plurality of tubular metal pipes, a connector configured to be connected to end portions of the plurality of electric wires, and a tubular metal connecting portion provided at a pipe end portion of each of the plurality of pipes and connected to the connector. Each of the pipes has a rigidity capable of self-holding a bent shape thereof when each of the pipes are bent. The connecting portion has a flexibility incapable of self-holding a bent shape thereof when the connecting portion is bent.

Abstract: An organic compound represented by the following general formula is provided. In the above formula (1), R11 to R15 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an aryl group, an aryloxy group, an aralkyl group, an acyl group, or a halogen atom provided that at least one of R11, R13, and R15 represents the alkoxy group or the aryloxy group; and R11 to R15 may form a ring structure therebetween, R5 and R6 each independently represent an alkyl group, an aryl group, or an aralkyl group. In addition, R21 to R24 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an aryl group, an aryloxy group, an aralkyl group, an acyl group, or a halogen atom and may form a ring structure therebetween. The above groups except the acyl group may be substituted when necessary.

Abstract: A wire harness includes a plurality of electric wires, a plurality of tubular metal pipes corresponding the number to the plurality of electric wires, each of the plurality of electric wires being inserted through respective one of the plurality of tubular metal pipes, a connector configured to be connected to end portions of the plurality of electric wires, and a tubular metal connecting portion provided at a pipe end portion of each of the plurality of pipes and connected to the connector. Each of the pipes has a rigidity capable of self-holding a bent shape thereof when each of the pipes are bent. The connecting portion has a flexibility incapable of self-holding a bent shape thereof when the connecting portion is bent.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrophotographic photosensitive member in which a surface layer contains a polymer of a hole transport material having a polymerizable functional group, and the hole transport material has a specific fluorene structure.

Abstract: An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a support member, a charge generating layer containing a phthalocyanine pigment as a charge generating material, a charge transport layer containing a charge transporting material in this order. The charge generating layer has a thickness of less than 200 nm, and the phthalocyanine pigment includes phthalocyanine crystalline particles having a particle size distribution and satisfies a requirement that the volume average of the products of ?i and ?i is 0.31 or more.

Abstract: An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a substrate and a photosensitive layer containing a phthalocyanine pigment. The crystalline particles of the phthalocyanine pigment have a crystallite correlation length r and a particle size R of 400 nm or less, and a parameter k defined by r/R is in the range of 0.17 to 0.42.

Abstract: The present invention provides an electrophotographic photosensitive member that allows positive ghost to be reduced even in repeated use. The electrophotographic photosensitive member of the present invention is an electrophotographic photosensitive member wherein an undercoat layer contains a polymerization product of a composition including a compound represented by the following formula (1).