Abstract: The scaffold for culturing a cardiovascular tissue of the present invention is a scaffold for culturing a cardiovascular tissue, which is tubular, and comprises a foamed polymer comprising a bioabsorbable material reinforced with a reinforcing material comprising a bioabsorbable material, the foamed polymer comprising lactide (D, L, DL isomer)-?-caprolactone copolymer containing lactide (D, L, DL isomer) in a content of 50 to 54 mole % and ?-caprolactone in a content of 50 to 46 mole %, and the reinforcing material being covered with the foamed polymer.

Abstract: Materials for culturing cardiovascular tissues wherein a sponge made of a bioabsorbable material is reinforced with a reinforcement made of a bioabsorbable material.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a suture reinforcement material for an automatic suturing device, which has excellent loadability into an automatic suturing device and excellent cuttability with a cutter. The present invention is a suture reinforcement material for an automatic suturing device, which comprises a tubular body comprising an inner layer and an outer layer, the inner layer comprising a nonwoven fabric, the outer layer comprising a foamed polymer, wherein the nonwoven fabric of the inner layer and the foamed polymer of the outer layer are integrated together.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a hydrogen gas sensor which requires no purging, has excellent hydrogen gas selectivity, and can be produced at relatively low cost. The hydrogen gas sensor includes a detection unit having a base body composed of a solid polymer electrolyte or a carbon-containing solid polymer electrolyte obtained by dispersing a carbon material in a solid polymer electrolyte and a catalyst layer provided on one of the surfaces of the base body to perform catalytic function on contact with hydrogen gas.

Abstract: A primary object of the present invention is to provide a multilayer heat-shrinkable styrene-based film that makes it possible, even when the film is transparent, to confirm that the film is correctly applied on a drink bottle and the like as a label. The present invention provides a heat-shrinkable styrene-based film having at least one layer containing a styrene-based resin containing a copolymer b1 of 98 to 40% by weight vinyl aromatic hydrocarbon and 2 to 60% by weight aliphatic unsaturated carboxylic acid ester, and/or a block copolymer b2 of 70 to 85% by weight vinyl aromatic hydrocarbon and 15 to 30% by weight conjugated diene hydrocarbon, and a fluorescent brightening agent in an amount of 100 to 2,000 weight ppm with respect to the total weight of the styrene-based resin. The present invention also provides a heat-shrinkable film having a three-layer structure containing front and back layers and a core layer, wherein the above-mentioned copolymer b1 and/or copolymer b2 forms the core layer.

Abstract: 1. A fluororesin tube in which the machine direction shrinkage rate is 1 to 8% and the transverse direction shrinkage rate is 2 to 8%, upon heating to 150° C. 2. A fluororesin tube in which the machine direction expansion rate is 0.5 to 4% and the transverse direction shrinkage rate is 1 to 6%, upon heating to 150° C. 3. A fluororesin tube in which the machine direction shrinkage rate is 1 to 8% and the transverse direction expansion rate is 1 to 4%, upon heating to 150° C.

Abstract: A terminal knitting texture for a single welt consisting of a single knit that starts knitting on a terminal side, wherein a plurality of courses in an antirun area at knit starting are knit without being knit at all the wales, and are knit by using first-kind knitting yarns consisting of single covering yarns provided with thick elastic core yarns in the antirun area so as to provide knitting not causing outward curls with the first-kind knitting yarns in the antirun area. In a welt knitting area continuous to the antirun area, a course knitted with the first-kind yarns is combined with a course knitted with knitting yarns lower in stretching/shrinking force than the first-kind yarns.

Abstract: The invention provides innerwear with a structure in which the body fabric and the hem are joined together without sewing and which has outstanding effects in discrimination as products and in showing individuality for users. The innerwear includes a body fabric 2 made of a cylindrical double material with a body size and a hem 3 disposed at the end of the body fabric 2 and having apparently different texture therefrom, the body fabric 2 and the hem 3 being joined to each other without sewing. The body fabric 2 partly has a heterogeneously knitted part 5 with different functions, appearance, and texture therefrom by differentiating the way of knitting in the consecutive knitting process.

Abstract: The present invention provides a conjugate fiber having excellent elastic extensibility and transparency. The present invention relates to a highly elastic conjugate fiber comprising an elastomeric resin (A) having elastic extensibility; and an elastomeric resin (B) having elastic extensibility, permanent elongation of 25 to 70% and a tensile elongation of 100 to 800%; a core comprising the elastomeric resin (A), and a sheath comprising the elastomeric resin (B).

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for producing a conjugate fiber that is excellent in strength, stretch elasticity, and transparency. The process includes a step (1) in which an elastomer resin (A) having stretching elasticity and an elastomer resin (B) having stretch elasticity, a permanent elongation of 25-70%, and a tensile elongation of 100-800% are separately melted and subjected to conjugate spinning using a conjugate spinneret having two nozzles so that the elastomer resin (A) forms a core and the elastomer resin (B) form a sheath; a step (2) in which the fiber obtained by composite spinning in the step (1) is heat-treated; and a step (3) in which the fiber heat-treated in the step (2) is stretched.

Abstract: A sheet material accumulating apparatus for accumulating a sheet material W into an accumulated bundle P by arranging it in a mutually overlapping state is configured to be able to suppress an enlargement, a higher tallness, more complication, etc. of the apparatus and attain a curtailment of various costs, including a manufacture cost.

Abstract: A carbon black-dispersed polyamic acid solution composition that utilizes carbon black excelling in safety and environmental adaptability and excels in the dispersion stability and fluidity of carbon black dispersed in polyamic acid solution, and that realizes high solid content and high carbon black content. Further, an intermediate transfer belt of polyimide, which produces a transfer image of high quality in a color image-forming apparatus, is provided with the use of the above polyamic acid solution composition. In particular, there is provided a carbon black-dispersed polyamic acid solution composition containing a polyamic acid solution obtained by reaction of approximately equimolar amounts of biphenyltetracarboxylic acid dianhydride and an aromatic diamine, and containing a carbon black of 2 to 6% volatile content produced by oil furnace process, wherein the solid content of the solution composition is 23 wt. % or more and wherein the carbon black content of the solid is in the range of 20 to 30 wt.

Abstract: A garment is provided which a purchaser can freely cut after purchase into any design shape and then wear, and also which has a cut-off part requiring no high-level cutting and sewing processing techniques. The garment is formed of a fray-preventing knitted fabric woven with heat-welding elastic yarn. Sizes of opening parts of the neck, side, and bottom of the garment are smaller than those of a standard product; a total length and sleeve length of the garment are larger than those of the standard product; and a body width, cuff, waist, and lower bottom edge of the garment are equal to those of the standard product. The garment can be cut into any design shape and can be used with the opening parts left cut-off.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a heat-shrinkable multilayer film which, in the case of using the heat-shrinkable multilayer film as a heat-shrinkable label for a container, does not produce delamination in covering a container, is superior in heat resistance, oil resistance, tearing properties along the perforation and appearance and can prevent the reduction in strength between the layers after a printing step, and a heat-shrinkable label comprising the heat-shrinkable multilayer film as a base film. The present invention is a heat-shrinkable multilayer film which comprises: an outer surface layer comprising a polyester type resin; and an intermediate layer comprising a polystyrene type resin, said outer surface layer and said intermediate layer being laminated by interposing an adhesive layer comprising a polyester type elastomer or a modified polyester type elastomer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a safe biodegradable and bioabsorbable polymer having an extremely low metal catalyst content, while retaining the properties desired for a medical implant or the like; and a process for producing the same. The present invention further provides a method for reducing the content of a metal catalyst in a biodegradable and absorbable polymer that can be applied on an industrial scale. A method for producing a biodegradable and bioabsorbable polymer having a metal catalyst content of less than 1 ppm in terms of a metal comprising the steps of (1) copolymerizing lactide and ?-caprolactone at a molar ratio ranging from 40/60 to 60/40 in the presence of the metal catalyst to produce a copolymer; and (2) washing the copolymer with a mixed solvent comprising acetic acid and isopropanol at a volume ratio ranging from 25/75 to 45/55 at less than 40° C., and drying the copolymer. 13.

Abstract: The present invention provides a tissue regeneration substrate that has the ability to release a basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) and like cell growth factors in a sustained manner, into which cells can easily enter, and that is suitably used for regeneration of tissues. Specifically, the present invention provides a tissue regeneration substrate that comprises a cell growth factor adsorbed in a bioabsorbable porous substrate that contains collagen and gelatin, and a method for producing the same.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an anti-adhesion membrane that has no toxicity to a living body, has flexibility allowing itself to fit an affected part as a hydrated gel, is uniformly crosslinked, and is immediately absorbed in a living body after maintaining its shape in the living body for a certain period of time. The present invention provides anti-adhesion material, which comprises a thermally crosslinked gelatin film, and has a water content of 60 to 85% calculated by the following formula (1): water content (%)=[(Ws?Wd)/Ws]×100(%)??(1), in the formula (1), Ws representing a weight (wet weight) of the anti-adhesion material immersed in a phosphate buffered saline solution at a temperature of 25° C. for one hour, and Wd representing a weight (dry weight) of the anti-adhesion material dried completely using a vacuum drying apparatus.

Abstract: A terminal knitting texture for a single welt consisting of a single knit that starts knitting on a terminal side, wherein a plurality of courses in an antirun area at knit starting are knit without being knit at all the wales, and are knit by using first-kind knitting yarns consisting of single covering yarns provided with thick elastic core yarns in the antirun area so as to provide knitting not causing outward curls with the first-kind knitting yarns in the antirun area. In a welt knitting area continuous to the antirun area, a course knitted with the first-kind yarns is combined with a course knitted with knitting yarns lower in stretching/shrinking force than the first-kind yarns.

Abstract: A garment is provided which a purchaser can freely cut after purchase into any design shape and then wear, and also which has a cut-off part requiring no high-level cutting and sewing processing techniques. The garment is formed of a fray-preventing knitted fabric woven with heat-welding elastic yarn. Sizes of opening parts of the neck, side, and bottom of the garment are smaller than those of a standard product; a total length and sleeve length of the garment are larger than those of the standard product; and a body width, cuff, waist, and lower bottom edge of the garment are equal to those of the standard product. The garment can be cut into any design shape and can be used with the opening parts left cut-off.

Abstract: Provided are a sheet material accumulating method and a sheet material accumulating apparatus capable of performing a proper accumulation of a sheet material that does not produce a defective in the next process even when an overlap condition of a conveyed sheet material, such as a printed sheet, varies. Provided is a sheet material accumulating method for accumulating the sheet material W continuously conveyed from the above while a part of the sheet material W is overlapped, with the sheet material standing on a lower horizontal table 7, including the steps of: detecting a backpressure F that a bundle of sheet materials applied to a holder 8 for preventing a head side collapse of a bundle of sheet materials accumulated on the table during an accumulation process; and controlling a movement of the holder in an accumulation direction so that a backpressure may maintain a predetermined magnitude.