Abstract: A polishing pad having a novel structure, which is applicable to highly accurate various polishing process, such as a CMP process, is provided. An annular rear plane groove (22) extending in a circumferential direction is formed on a rear plane (20) of the polishing pad.

Abstract: A movable headrest provided on a seat back of a seat mounted in a vehicle and capable of changing a position from a normal position to an emergency position, the headrest including a headrest support supported by the seat back and having a guide section, a rotary support member pivotally supported by the headrest support and rotatable between a first position corresponding to the normal position and a second position corresponding to the emergency position, and a headrest body pivotally supported by the rotary support member and having a headrest body support which moves along the guide section, whereby as the rotary support member rotates relative to the headrest support, the position of the headrest body relative to the headrest support changes while the headrest body support moves along the guide section.

Abstract: A foamed resin product having shape-formable properties, a method of using the same and a cushion material that is to be worn by the human body are provided. The foamed resin product (a flexible polyurethane foam, etc.) has a glass transition temperature, expressed as the temperature of the loss tangent peak, of 10° C. to 35° C., a loss tangent within this temperature range of 0.20 to 0.80, and, with respect to the storage elastic modulus (G?) within this temperature range, the ratio (G?max/G?min) of maximum value (G?max) to minimum value (G?min) of 3.0 to 30. The using method thereof has attaching a molded article made of the foamed resin product to the surface of the human body, and lowering the hardness of the molded article due to the heat transferred from the human body so as to deform the molded article by allowing to follow-up the shape of the body.

Abstract: A flexible polyurethane foam is produced by blending a polyurethane raw material containing a polyol, a polyisocyanate, a blowing agent, and a catalyst with an inorganic compound hydrate having a specific gravity of 1.5 to 4.0 and reacting the above polyurethane raw material to effect foaming and curing. The inorganic compound hydrate is preferably an iron sulfate hydrate, a calcium sulfate hydrate, or a magnesium sulfate hydrate. The above inorganic compound hydrate preferably has decomposition temperature of from 100 to 170° C. Then, an increase in exothermic temperature owing to the above foaming and curing is diminished by evaporation of water formed through decomposition of the above inorganic compound hydrate.

Abstract: An interior part for a vehicle including a first rib(s) extending on the side that faces a vehicle body at a time of mounting the interior part to the vehicle body, and a second rib(s) extending to cross the first rib, in which an inserting portion(s) that is inserted into an opening(s) provided in the vehicle body is formed at portion(s) where the first rib and the second rib cross each other and projects toward the vehicle body, and this inserting portion(s) is provided with a third rib(s) that extends toward the vehicle body from the first rib and a fourth rib(s) that extends toward the vehicle body from the second rib.

Abstract: Interior parts for vehicles such as a front pillar garnish having a mounting bracket 32 to which a mounting clip 40 is connected so that the front pillar garnish is mounted to a front pillar. The mounting bracket 32 is formed on the inner side (that faces the front pillar) of the garnish main body 30 and has an inclined guiding portion 70 in its accommodating space 36 so that the flexible portion 46 of the mounting clip 40 inserted into the accommodating space 36 is bent inside the mounting bracket 32 by the inclined guiding portion 70, and the second engaging portion 50 at the distal end of the flexible portion 46 is prevented from contacting the garnish main body 30 by way of the opening 72 of the mounting bracket 32, thus allowing the mounting clip 40 not to be forcibly pressed against the garnish main body 30.

Abstract: A polyurethane foam for vehicles is obtained by reaction, foaming, and curing of a polyurethane-foam raw material comprising polyol, polyisocyanate, a blowing agent, and a catalyst, and is used for vehicle parts. The foam raw material comprises expanded graphite and an inorganic compound hydrate. The polyol preferably comprises polymeric polyol in which a polyether polyol is graft-polymerized with a vinyl monomer, polyether polyol having a mass average molecular weight of from 400 to 1,000 in which a polyhydric alcohol is addition-polymerized with an alkylene oxide, and polyether polyol having a mass average molecular weight of from 2,000 to 4,000 in which a polyhydric alcohol is addition-polymerized with an alkylene oxide.

Abstract: A duct installation structure in which an air conditioning duct for sending warm air or cold air into a vehicle interior of an automobile is attached to a vehicle interior structure member and an outlet grill is attached to an outlet opening end portion of the air conditioning duct. A grill fixing portion to which the outlet grill is to be fixed is integrally molded with a duct main body portion at the outlet opening end portion of the air conditioning duct. The outlet grill is directly fixed to the grill fixing portion. The outlet opening end portion of the air conditioning duct including, at one point near its center in a width direction, a fastening fixing portion that is fastened and fixed to the vehicle interior structure member and including, at its opposite ends in the width direction, a pair of contact portions for coming in contact with the vehicle interior structure member.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a shock absorbing member enabled to reduce stress applied at the moment of impact to each part serving as an attaching portion.

Abstract: Disclosed is a capturing material including a substrate containing a porous body having continuous pores, wherein the substrate has a bilayer structure including: a surface region to which a graft polymer chain to which a capturing functional group for capturing an object to be captured is incorporated is bonded; and an inner region to which the graft polymer chain is not bonded.

Abstract: A polyurethane foam is obtained by reacting, foaming, and curing raw material that includes a polyol, a polyisocyanate, a blowing agent, a catalyst, and an inorganic compound hydrate. The raw material includes, as the polyol, a polymeric polyol obtained by graft polymerization of a vinyl monomer onto a polyether polyol and a polyether polyol obtained by addition polymerization of an alkylene oxide to a polyhydric alcohol and having a mass average molecular weight of 400 to 1,000. The blending quantity of the inorganic compound hydrate is 10 to 80 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the polyol. Preferably, the raw material further includes, as the polyol, a polyether polyol obtained by addition polymerization of an alkylene oxide to a polyhydric alcohol and has a molecular weight of 2,000 to 4,000.

Abstract: A polyurethane foam is obtained by reacting raw materials containing a polyisocyanate, a polyol, a water-absorbency-imparting agent, a catalyst, and a blowing agent, foaming the reaction mixture, and curing the foamed product. The polyol is a polyester polyol. The water-absorbency-imparting agent is a polyoxyalkylene compound having a molecular weight of 100 to 1000 and having a hydroxy group at an end of the molecular chain, or an alcohol with 1 to 8 carbon atoms. The amount of the water-absorbency-imparting agent is from 0.5 to 8 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the polyester polyol. The polyisocyanate is an aliphatic polyisocyanate, an alicyclic polyisocyanate, or an aromatic polyisocyanate in which the isocyanate groups are not directly attached to an aromatic ring. The foam has a water absorption ratio of 10 to 30 and a color difference ?YI of 7 or less. The time required until water dropped onto a surface of the foam is completely absorbed into the foam is 20 seconds or less.

Abstract: A test cell for magnetic immunoreaction assay, comprising a polymer having a quantity of residual magnetism of 15 pT or less, when a magnetic field is applied under a magnetic field of 0.1 T, and with a distance between a sample and a SQUID sensor being set at 1.5 mm, and a method for producing the test cell are provided. A test cell for magnetic immunoreaction assay, comprising a polymer having a metal content of 30 ppb or less, and a method for producing the test cell are also provided. A magnetic signal detected from a magnetic marker to be measured is not buried in or lost to the residual magnetic signal of the test cell itself, but data discrimination can be made clearly.

Abstract: A water-absorbing polyurethane foam is produced by reacting, foaming, and curing a raw material which includes aliphatic or alicyclic polyisocyanate, polyester polyol, a polyoxyethylene compound for a hydrophilizing agent, a catalyst and a blowing agent. Thus obtained water-absorbing polyurethane foam has a coating film made from a cured substance of the foam formed on both surfaces. The content of the polyoxyethylene compound in the raw material is 1 to 10 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass in total of the polyester polyol and the polyoxyethylene compound. The raw material is reacted, foamed, and cured at a temperature of 40 to 130° C. The polyisocyanate has an isocyanate index of preferably 85 to 100.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire and a rim includes a noise damper, fixed to a tire inner surface or a rim inner surface with the upper surface facing a tire inner space, and extending in the tire circumferential direction. The noise damper is made of a sponge having a volume ranging from 0.4 to 20% of the volume of the tire inner space. The noise damper is a laterally long and flat, with a maximum thickness ranging from 5 to 45 mm and a width more than the maximum thickness. The upper surface extends along a wavy curve including a hilltop, valley bottoms on each side of the hilltop and slopes extending down to the respective valley bottoms from the hilltop. Each end of the upper surface is terminated at the valley bottoms or the slopes. A thickness from the upper surface to the bottom surface ranges from 1.0 to 15.0 mm.

Abstract: Disclosed is a molded member with a foamed body, which is foamed on the top surface sides of a first member and a second member and is prevented from leaking from between abutment surfaces of those members toward the back side. A seal piece of a required width extending in an eaves form outward over the perimeter of the outer contour edge of an airbag door is provided at the outer contour edge. When the airbag door is laid out at a door mount portion, so formed as to surround an opening formed in a base material, the seal piece is set in close contact with the outer surface of the door mount portion in such a way as to surround the opening. This prevents the foamed body, foamed on the top surface side of the base material facing the airbag door, from leaking from a clearance, produced between abutment surface of the base material and the airbag door, toward the back side.

Abstract: A cushion sheet has a sheet body and a low-friction layer formed on the sheet body. The low-friction layer is formed by a plurality of synthetic resin fibers. The synthetic resin fibers are bonded with a surface of the sheet body in a state resembling a spread cloth. It is preferred that the diameter of each of the synthetic resin fibers be set in a range of 10 to 600 micrometers. It is also preferred that the amount of the synthetic resin fibers bonded with the surface of the sheet body be set in a range of 5 to 100 grams per square meter of the sheet body.

Abstract: In a method of working a recessed portion 2 in a headrest stay 32 which is provided in the stay portion 32 of the headrest stay 3 formed of a pipe, a recess 2? is preformed by pressing against the stay portion 32 an outer peripheral portion 4a of a first punch roller 4 for preforming having a rounded portion 47 on the outer peripheral portion 4a in a side view. Subsequently, an outer peripheral portion 7a of a second punch roller 7 on the outer periphery portion 7a of which a punch portion for final forming has been formed is directed toward and pressed against the recess 2?, so as to form a recessed portion 2.

Abstract: A polyurethane foam for vehicles is obtained by reaction, foaming, and curing of a polyurethane-foam raw material comprising polyol, polyisocyanate, a blowing agent, and a catalyst, and is used for vehicle parts. The foam raw material comprises expanded graphite and an inorganic compound hydrate. The polyol preferably comprises polymeric polyol in which a polyether polyol is graft-polymerized with a vinyl monomer, polyether polyol having a mass average molecular weight of from 400 to 1,000 in which a polyhydric alcohol is addition-polymerized with an alkylene oxide, and polyether polyol having a mass average molecular weight of from 2,000 to 4,000 in which a polyhydric alcohol is addition-polymerized with an alkylene oxide.