Abstract: The present invention provides an Ag or Ni conductive powder, which can show the high conductivity even in condition that a resin is included and can has the narrow particle size distribution, and a conductive composition using the same, and a producing method of the same. In such an Ag or Ni conductive powder, a conductive composition and a producing method of the conductive powder, the conductive powder having a convex radially extended and a concave, wherein a core material which is at least one particle selected from the group consisting of an organic type particle, a metal type particle and a ceramic type particle is included into the conductive powder.

Abstract: A device to be fitted on a vehicle wheel in order to increase the friction between the wheel and the road surface during winter conditions, comprises a belt that can encircle the tread of the wheel and be held in place by means of flexible inner and outer side portions. The inner side portion is tightened on the inner side of the wheel by means of an elastic member. The internal circumference of the belt is at least 4% larger, preferably 5-6% larger than the largest circumference of the wheel. The belt can be made substantially of a woven polyamide material. The outer side portion of the device can be fully covering or be provided with one or more openings, and may in addition be provided with radially extending straps in order to facilitate fitting the device to the vehicle wheel or removing it therefrom. A method for such fitting without lifting the wheel from the road surface is also disclosed.

Abstract: The invention concerns a compressible plate for flexographic printing, designed to be positioned on a support cylinder of a printing machine. The invention is characterized in that said plate (1) comprises a photopolymer layer (10) and a compressible layer (11) made of a material exhibiting voids forming between 10 and 60% by volume of said compressible layer, the material comprising at least 70% by weight of a polymer or a mixture of polymers chemically compatible with the photopolymer.

Abstract: A plating process for plating chromium metal onto substrates is disclosed. The process uses a trivalent chromium plating bath with a sulfate and/or sulfonate matrix. The process also utilizes insoluble anodes. An addition of manganese ions to the plating bath inhibits the formation of detrimental hexavalent chromium ions upon use of the plating bath.

Abstract: The present invention provides a cleaning agent for removing the solder flux and method for cleaning the solder flux which exhibit the excellent cleaning property even at the time of cleaning a lead-free soldering flux, a high-melting-point solder flux or the like and, at the same time, exhibits the excellent rinsing property in the rinsing using an alcoholic solvent in a next step. Accordingly, the present invention provides a cleaning agent for removing the solder flux which sets a content of benzyl alcohol to a value which falls within a range of 70 to 99.9 weight % and a content of amino alcohol to a value which falls within a range of 0.1 to 30 weight % when a content of a glycol compound is below 1 weight % with respect to a total amount of the cleaning agent for removing the solder flux, and sets a content of benzyl alcohol to a value which falls within a range of 15 to 99 weight % and a content of amino alcohol to a value which falls within a range of 0.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image forming apparatus and an image forming method capable of preventing excessive charging in the toner within the cleaning device for effectively preventing generation of the black spots derived from the leak current. In the image forming apparatus comprising a cleaning device having a cleaning blade for scraping out the toner on a latent image carrier body surface and the image forming method using the same, the toner contains a titanium oxide as an additive agent, and with the premise that the fluorescence X ray intensity of the titanium oxide added to the toner before use is X1, and the fluorescence X ray intensity of the titanium oxide added to the toner within the cleaning device is X2, X1 and X2 satisfy the following relationship formula (1): X2/X1?1.2??(1).

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of selectively pre-exposing a photosensitive printing element prior to imagewise exposure in order to remove oxygen from the photosensitive layer prior to imagewise exposure. The invention is usable in a computer-to-plate process to produce flexographic relief image printing elements.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus capable of reducing white streaks in gray images and an image forming method using the same are provided. The image forming apparatus including a charging means, a developing means, a transferring means, and a discharging means which are arranged in sequence around a monolayer type electrophotographic photoconductor. The charging means is a means for positively charging the surface of the monolayer type electrophotographic photoconductor, and the pre-charging means has a conductive brush composed of a conductive substrate and conductive brush filaments and is arranged between the charging means and the discharging means. The conductive filaments on the surface of the photoconductor have a bending ratio that is calculated so that the conductive brush filament tips are properly curved near the surface of the photoconductor so as to reduce abnormal discharge between the conductive brush and the surface of the photoconductor.

Abstract: A method of providing axially alternating N and S poles in a portion of an axially extending, cylindrical, smooth shaft for a linear stepper motor and a method of manufacturing a magnetizing fixture are provided. A magnetizing fixture is provided including a hollow cylindrical mandrel formed from a non-magnetic material, a single conductive wire serially disposed in parallel, circumferential channels defined in an outer surface of the mandrel, and a central bore defined axially and centrally through the mandrel. The portion of the shaft is inserted in the central bore and a direct current is provided through the wire to magnetize alternating N and S poles along the cylindrical shaft. The wire may be placed in the parallel, circumferential channels such that the direction of flow of a direct current in one channel is in the opposite direction of the flow in the adjacent channels.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a tissue preservation solution that has excellent tissue-preserving ability and is useful in the field of medicine, medical experiment, etc. Thus, the invention relates to a tissue preservation solution including oxygen nanobubbles.

Abstract: The present invention provides a diphenyl amine derivative having the excellent solubility to a solvent and compatibility to a binding resin, an efficient production method therefor, and an electrophotographic photoconductor having the excellent sensitivity, capable of effectively preventing generation of the black dots. A diphenyl amine derivative represented by the following general formula (1) is used: (In the general formula (1), R1 to R12 each are a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group which may have a substituent, or the like, Z is a ring structure linked with a benzene ring, which is a 4 to 8-membered ring including a hydrogen atom, a nitrogen atom, an oxygen atom, a carbon atom or a sulfur atom, m1, m2, n1, n2 each are 0 or 1, m1+n1 is 1 or 2, and m2+n2 is 1 or 2.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved slip film composition for use in manufacturing flexographic printing plates. The improved slip film composition of the invention comprises one or more solvents, one or more polymeric binders, a layered silicate, and optionally, a surfactant. The use of the layered silicate as a filler in the slip film composition produces an slip film composition with improved release properties and improved imaging. The slip film of the invention can be used with flexographic printing plates that are solvent developed or thermally developed.

Abstract: A shim for use in a braking subassembly comprising a metal backing plate comprising a first side surface, wherein the shim comprises at least one flexible tab extending from an edge thereof for assisting in coupling the shim to the backing plate along a backing plate side surface thereof, and wherein the at least one flexible tab comprises an integrally formed and extending finger therefrom, wherein the finger has a leading edge that frictionally engages the backing plate edge surface when the shim is subjected to a separation force, which, relative to the backing plate, has a directional component at least essentially parallel to and in the same direction as the direction in which the finger extends; whereby the shim is resisted from separating from the first side surface of the backing plate at least in part by the frictional resistance of the leading edge of the finger against the backing plate side surface.