Abstract: Provided are a fine silver particle dispersion which exhibits low temperature sinterability and in which fine silver particles are uniformly dispersed in a variety of solvents (and especially highly polar solvents); fine silver particles that exhibit low temperature sinterability and excellent dispersion stability in a variety of solvents (and especially highly polar solvents); a dispersion obtained using the fine silver particles; and a method for producing same. The fine silver particle dispersion is characterized by containing fine silver particles, a short chain amine having 5 or fewer carbon atoms, and a highly polar solvent and in that the partition coefficient (log P) of the short chain amine is ?1.0 to 1.4.

Abstract: Provided is a clamping-type tensile force measurement device configured to clamp a belt being used to lash a cargo and to measure a tensile force of the belt. The measurement device includes: a base having a pair of support rollers which are rotatable; and a lid connected to the base via a hinge portion such that the base and the lid form a foldable structure. A load cell is installed in a backside portion of the lid. A pressing plate having a pressing portion positioned to face a space between the pair of support rollers is provided on a backside of the lid.

Abstract: A power transmission belt includes a transparent or semitransparent sheet material covering a portion of a surface of a belt body including a mark. At least a portion of the belt body covered with the sheet material is made of a rubber composition vulcanized with sulfur. The sheet material is made of a rubber material containing a diene rubber. The sheet material is vulcanized with sulfur together with the rubber composition forming the portion of the belt body covered with the sheet material such that the sheet material is connected to the belt body.

Abstract: A sensor device includes a sensor element, a converter, and an output unit. The sensor element includes a sheet-like dielectric layer including an elastomer composition and a top electrode layer and a bottom electrode layer each including an electroconductive composition containing carbon nanotubes. The top and the bottom electrode layers are formed on a top surface and a bottom surface of the dielectric layer, respectively, and are at least partially opposed to each other across the dielectric layer. The at least partially opposed portions of the top and the bottom electrode layers constitute a detection portion, and the dielectric layer reversibly deforms to change an area of a main surface of the dielectric layer. The converter electrically is connected to the sensor element and converts capacitance at the detection portion that varies in accordance with the deformation of the dielectric layer to electric characteristics.

Abstract: A belt attachment jig includes a jig body (10) located along a side surface of a pulley (1), and a belt guide portion (15) which protrudes forward in the pulley rotational direction from a contact portion (11) near one end of the jig body (10). The belt (B) is held between the twisting preventing plate (12) which forms the other end of the jig body (10) and the side surface of the jig-attached pulley (1) such that an inner circumferential surface of the belt (B) faces the jig-attached pulley (1). As the pulley (1) is rotated, the belt attachment jig is moved in the pulley rotational direction together with the belt (B) in a manner that makes the belt (B) fitted in the pulley groove.

Abstract: A power transmission belt has an uneven surface of rubber which when the power transmission belt is wound around a flat pulley, comes in contact with the flat pulley. The uneven surface has projected parts each having a flat top surface.

Abstract: A power transmission belt has an uneven surface of rubber which when the power transmission belt is wound around a flat pulley, comes in contact with the flat pulley. The uneven surface has projected parts each having a flat top surface.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a capacitive sensor sheet excellent in detection sensitivity and detection accuracy in measuring changes in capacitance, and the capacitive sensor sheet of the present invention includes: a dielectric layer including an elastomer composition (A); a top electrode layer laminated on the obverse surface of the dielectric layer; and a bottom electrode layer laminated on the reverse surface of the dielectric layer, wherein portions at which the top electrode layer and the bottom electrode layer intersect as viewed in a thickness direction serve as a plurality of detection portions, and the capacitive sensor sheet further includes at least one of: a top covering electrode layer formed over the top electrode layer so as to cover the detection portions with a top flexible layer including an elastomer composition (B1) interposed therebetween; and a bottom covering electrode layer formed over the bottom electrode layer so as to cover the detection portions with a bottom flexible la

Abstract: To provide a bonding composition where high joint strength can be obtained due to joining at a comparatively low temperature and under a pressureless condition, and, that is also equipped with thermal resistance that is difficult to cause a reduction of joint strength due to decomposition, deterioration and/or the like of a resin component at the time of an increase of an operating temperature, and to provide a bonding composition particularly containing metallic particles.

Abstract: A vehicle periphery monitoring system is provided, in which by matching a behavior of a semitransparent tire image with an operation from a driver's viewpoint, a feeling of strangeness is reduced, an intuitive space perception is assisted and also a moving direction and a behavior of a vehicle can be easily perceived. In a side-view monitor system an image processing controller converts a real camera image including a blind spot into an image to be viewed from a driver's viewpoint to generate a blind spot image, and superimposes a semitransparent vehicle image which is obtained by making a vehicle viewed from the driver's viewpoint semitransparent and a semitransparent tire image which is obtained by making a tire semitransparent and displaying a behavior following a handle operation viewed from the driver's viewpoint on the blind spot image.

Abstract: Provided is a composition for metal bonding, especially a bonding composition containing metal particles, which is capable of achieving high bonding strength by bonding at a relatively low temperature without the application of a pressure, and which has heat resistance and is thus not susceptible to decrease in the bonding strength due to decomposition or deterioration of a resin component when the service temperature thereof is increased. A bonding composition which is characterized by containing two or more kinds of metal particles having different average particle diameters, an organic component and a dispersant, and which is also characterized in that the particle diameter ratio of the average particle diameter (DS) of metal particles (S) that have the smallest average particle diameter to the average particle diameter (DL) of metal particles (L) that have the largest average particle diameter, namely DS/DL is from 1×10-4 to 0.5.

Abstract: A friction transmission belt includes a belt body made of a rubber composition and wrapped around pulleys to transmit power. A thermoplastic resin film(s) adheres to a pulley contact-side surface of the belt body, and friction coefficient reduction powder particles dispersively adhere to the pulley contact-side surface of the belt body.

Abstract: Provided is a capacitive sensor sheet for use in measuring at least one of an amount of strain due to elastic deformation and a distribution of strain due to elastic deformation, and the capacitive sensor sheet comprises: a dielectric layer; a top electrode layer laminated on the obverse surface of the dielectric layer; and a bottom electrode layer laminated on the reverse surface of the dielectric layer, wherein the dielectric layer is composed of an elastomer composition containing a urethane elastomer, and each of the top electrode layer and the bottom electrode layer is composed of an electroconductive composition containing carbon nanotubes.

Abstract: A friction drive belt (B) includes short fibers (14) and carbon black (18) both scattered so as to be exposed at a surface of at least a contact part (13) of a rubber belt body (10) with a pulley. The short fibers (14) include short, high modulus fibers made of polymers having a main chain which does not contain an aromatic compound and having an initial tensile resistance, measured according to JIS L 1013, of equal to or greater than 100 cN/dtex, and the carbon black (18) contain large-particle-diameter carbon black having an iodine absorption, measured according to JIS K 6217-1, of equal to or less than 40 g/Kg, and/or a specific surface area, measured by nitrogen adsorption according to JIS K 6217-2, of equal to or less than 40 m2/g.

Abstract: To provide a bonding composition where high joint strength can be obtained due to joining at a comparatively low temperature and under a pressureless condition, and, that is also equipped with thermal resistance that is difficult to cause a reduction of joint strength due to decomposition, deterioration and/or the like of a resin component at the time of an increase of an operating temperature, and to provide a bonding composition particularly containing metallic particles.

Abstract: The invention provides a transmission belt that can suppress lowering in transmission efficiency and has improved durability. A rubber layer adhered to core wires is formed to have a durometer hardness (shore A) of not less than 72 and not more than 85, or have a tensile stress of not less than 0.5 MPa and not more than 1.7 MPa when stretched 10% in the belt longitudinal direction at 25° C., and the rubber layer is formed to have a weight increase of 90% or less after immersed in light oil for 48 hours at 25° C. or have a weight increase of 80% or less after immersed in toluene for 48 hours at 25° C. Alternatively, the rubber layer adhered to the core wires is formed to have a storage modulus of not less than 10 MPa and not more than 50 MPa and a tan ? of not more than 0.15 as measured by dynamic viscoelasticity measurement under conditions at a static load of 3 kgf/cm2, a dynamic strain of 0.4%, a frequency of 10 Hz and a temperature of 25° C. in a tensile mode in a belt longitudinal direction.

Abstract: An conductive paste comprises inorganic particles having alkylamine with 6 or less of carbon number on at least a portion of a surface, a polymer dispersant having a pigment affinity group in a main chain and/or a plurality of side chains, and, that comprising a polymer with a comb structure having a plurality of side chains constituting a solvation portion, a polymer having a plurality of pigment affinity portions made from a pigment affinity group in the main chain or a straight-chain polymer having a pigment affinity portion made from a pigment affinity group in one terminal of the main chain, a dispersion medium, wherein a weight reduction percentage at the time of heating solid content of the conductive paste from room temperature to 500° C. by thermal analysis is 15% by weight or less.

Abstract: A belt detachment preventing jig (J1) is used for wrapping a belt around a crank pulley and a compressor pulley, each having a pulley groove, in a tight belt tension by having the belt fitted to the pulley groove of the crank pulley, with the belt looped over the compressor pulley, to prevent the belt from being detached from a belt-entering side of the compressor pulley. The belt detachment preventing jig (J1) is includes a fitting groove (11a) positioned on an outer side surface of a pulley flange of the compressor pulley, and configured to be slidably fitted to the pulley flange of the pulley, and a notch (10b) configured to be fitted to the pulley flange of the crank pulley and prevent the jig (J1) from being driven into rotation by a rotation movement of the compressor pulley.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for measuring a stable-state tension of a power transmission belt in which a temperature of an endless power transmission belt B including a belt body made of rubber in which a cord made of an organic fiber is embedded, is made higher than a glass transition temperature of the organic fiber forming the cord, with the endless power transmission belt B wound around a plurality of pulleys, and thereafter, a belt tension of the power transmission belt wound around the plurality of pulleys is measured as a stable-state tension.

Abstract: A belt attachment jig includes a jig body positioned such that a side surface faces a side surface of a pulley, and a belt guide portion located at one end of the side surface of the jig body and protruding along a circumference of the pulley, and having, in a surface on a base side, a holding surface for holding a belt. The belt guide portion being configured to guide the belt onto the holding surface and lead the belt out to a lateral side of the pulley, when fitted in a pulley groove of the pulley. The holding surface has a top at a portion on a side closer to the jig body, and is tilted obliquely downward in radial directions from the top and is curved in an inverted U shape along a lead-out direction of the belt so that an inner circumferential surface of the belt faces the jig body.