Abstract: An object is to provide a vent filter in which a vent film is less likely to be broken when cut and a measure to shrinkage is taken while the characteristics and functions both inherent to the vent film are being kept. The vent filter includes a frame-shaped adhesive layer 2 and a vent film 3 attached to the adhesive layer 2, wherein an outer peripheral portion of the vent film 3 is positioned at an outer side than an outer peripheral portion of the frame-shaped adhesive layer 2.

Abstract: An object is to provide a vent plug making liquid unlikely to accumulate therein, while preventing an air-permeable membrane from breaking by means of at least one convex part. The vent plug of the present invention includes a cylindrical member 1 having a through-hole 1a, and an air-permeable membrane 2 attached around the cylindrical member 1, wherein the air-permeable membrane 2 has a circumferential attachment region which is in contact with the cylindrical member 1, and an air-permeable region facing the through-hole 1a, the cylindrical member 1 is provided with at least one convex part 1b which projects beyond the plane including the air-permeable region, and the circumferential attachment region of the air-permeable membrane 2 has a shape following a part or the entire of the convex part 1b.

Abstract: A conductive adhesive with increased thermoresistant adhesion for connection between a sheet-like collector and a polarizing electrode layer serving as the structural member of an electrode for an electric double layer capacitor, and including a conductive material and a poly-N-vinylacetamide-based binder.

Abstract: An object is to provide a structure in which when a waterproof filter having an adhesive layer 1 attached thereto is attached to a housing of an electronic device, the adhesive layer 1 hardly rides onto a stepped portion 13. An acoustic part includes a housing 11 having at least one sound hole 12, an adhesive layer 1 formed into a frame shape, and a waterproof filter attached so as to cove the sound hole 12 with the adhesive layer 1 interposed therebetween, wherein the housing 1 is provided with a step position 13 for allowing the waterproof filter to engage therewith or a stepped portion 13 as a marker showing an attachment position of the waterproof filter, and an outer peripheral portion of the frame-shaped adhesive layer 1 is positioned at an inner side than an outer peripheral portion of the waterproof filter.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a waterproof sound-permeable hood having excellent waterproofness and excellent sound permeability. The waterproof sound-permeable hood of the present invention is formed of a waterproof material, which hood includes a waterproof sound-permeable means provided on at least one of portions respectively facing to the ears of a wearer who wears the waterproof material, wherein the waterproof sound-permeable means includes a waterproof sound-permeable membrane having a sound-transmission loss of not greater than 5 db.

Abstract: A slit yarn wherein both side parts of the slit yarn are folded one or more times, and the folded width is substantially uniform along the direction of length of the yarn. In this slit yarn, when the width is measured at 20 or more points at intervals of 0.5 m, and the fluctuation coefficient X shown in the following Equation (1) is calculated on the basis of the average value W(avg) and the standard deviation W(?), this X is (for example) approximately 4% or less. Furthermore, in the slit yarn of the present invention, the abovementioned folded parts are ordinarily shape-set.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electric double layer capacitor comprising polarizable electrodes formed from a carbon material having graphite-like microcrystalline carbon, wherein said carbon material is stored for a predetermined period of time while holding said carbon material in contact with an electrolytic solution, and thereafter, at a temperature higher than room temperature, said capacitor is charged at least once with an end-of-charge voltage higher than an expected operating voltage of said capacitor, while applying to said electrodes, at the start of said charging, a pressure that is necessary to keep said carbon material from expanding in a thickness direction thereof during said charging.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electric double layer capacitor that comprises: a polarizable electrode containing a carbon material having graphite-like microcrystalline carbon; and an electrolyte containing a spiro compound represented by the general formula (where A represents a spiro atom having an sp3 hybrid orbital, Z1 and Z2 each represent a group of atoms forming a saturated ring or unsaturated ring in which the number of ring atoms including A is four or more, and X? represents a counter-anion). According to the present invention, an electric field activation type electric double layer capacitor can be obtained that simultaneously achieves improved volumetric capacitance density, improved resistance, and improved withstand voltage.

Abstract: A membrane 12 that exhibits superior condensation resistance regardless of the type of moisture-permeable resin, that has satisfactory adhesion between a porous film and a reinforcing member, and that can be manufactured in a simple manner. The membrane 12 is a laminated article 23 containing a porous film 20 and a reinforcing member 40, and the reinforcing member 40 has a moisture-permeable resin layer 30 on the side of an interface 50 with the porous film 20. To reliably form the moisture-permeable resin layer (moisture-permeable resin film) 30, the average pore diameter of the porous film 20 is preferably 0.01 to 10 ?m, and the porosity of the reinforcing member 40 is preferably 30 to 95%. According to the membrane 12 of the present invention, even if the moisture-permeable resin is water-soluble (for example, polyvinyl alcohol), condensation resistance is still satisfactory.

Abstract: An elastic composite film provided with a sintered ePTFE film and an elastomeric resin layer, produced by continuously forming the elastomeric resin layer on at least one side of the sintered ePTFE film, continuously elongating the resulting multilayer film at less than the yield point of the expanded, sintered, porous film and at an elongation factor of 1.3 times or more in the biaxial directions, or in the uniaxial direction without contracting in the direction perpendicular to the direction of elongation, and relaxing the resulting elongated multilayer film, wherein when the composite film is elongated by 10% in the longitudinal and/or transverse direction, the tensile stress strength of the composite film is 2.5 N/15 mm or less, and/or the elongation percentage of the composite film in the longitudinal and/or transverse direction is 30% or more and the elongation recovery rate is 70% or more.

Abstract: The present invention is an electrode for electric double layer capacitors wherein a polarizable porous sheet composed of constituent materials including a carbonaceous electric double layer-forming material, a carbon material for ensuring conductivity, and a binder is integrated to at least one surface of a collector via a conductive intermediate layer; and is characterized in that the conductive intermediate layer contains a synthetic rubber and two more kinds of carbon materials having different particle diameters. According to the present invention, the electrode can be readily manufactured in a continuous manner with high heat resistant adhesion between the polarizable porous sheet and the collector and a low internal resistance; and when used in an electric double layer capacitor, it is possible to obtain an electrode capable of ensuring a higher capacity and lower internal resistance than is conventionally achieved.

Abstract: An IC chip bonding sheet having adhesive resin layers formed on both faces of a porous polytetrafluoroethylene layer comprising a porous polytetrafluoroethylene sheet, the porous polytetrafluoroethylene layer retaining porous voids, and the adhesive resin layers comprising a bromine-free flame retardant resin composition.

Abstract: An adsorbent molded article comprising granular absorbant and binder having sustained adsorption over an indefinite period; an adsorbent unit employing said adsorbent molded article; and a housing employing said adsorbent molded article or adsorbent unit.

Abstract: The present invention is an electrode for electric double layer capacitors wherein a polarizable porous sheet composed of constituent materials including a carbonaceous electric double layer-forming material, a carbon material for ensuring conductivity, and a binder is integrated to at least one surface of a collector via a conductive intermediate layer; and is characterized in that the conductive intermediate layer contains a synthetic rubber and two more kinds of carbon materials having different particle diameters. According to the present invention, the electrode can be readily manufactured in a continuous manner with high heat resistant adhesion between the polarizable porous sheet and the collector and a low internal resistance; and when used in an electric double layer capacitor, it is possible to obtain an electrode capable of ensuring a higher capacity and lower internal resistance than is conventionally achieved.

Abstract: This invention provides a solid polymer ion exchange membrane/electrode assembly, or an electrode/solid polymer ion exchange membrane/electrode assembly, for an electrochemical cell, which consists of planar layers of materials intimately joined together to form a unitary structure. The layers are joined together by solid polymer ion exchange resin present in at least one of each pair of adjacent layers. The unitary assembly can be used in an electrochemical cell such as a battery, electrolytic reactor, or fuel cell.

Abstract: The invention provides an electric double-layer capacitor sealed up by a flexible casing material that ensures a release of pressure upon an increasing internal pressure. A pressure release valve (1) is attached to the flexible casing material. The pressure release valve (1) comprises a collar airtightly joined to the flexible casing material and a cylindrical portion (3) connected to the collar, extending out of a capacitor enclosure. The cylindrical portion (3) comprises an end part (5) having a self-closing passage (6) that is opening to the outside only upon a pressure release and is closed up in a normal state, and a channel (4) in communication with the interior of the capacitor enclosure.

Abstract: A dielectric film for a printed wiring board that has excellent heat resistance, moisture resistance, insulation properties, adhesiveness, ease of handling, ease of processing, and the like, and possesses low elasticity and high elongation as stress relief functions. The dielectric film has drawn porous polytetrafluoroethylene used as the base material; this is impregnated with an adhesive or fusible resin; the post-solidification tensile modulus of elasticity is 0.1 to 1.8 GPa; and the tensile elongation at break (at 25° C.) is at least 4.0%. A semiconductor device, comprising a multilayer printed board having a plurality of circuit layers, and a semiconductor element mounted on the multilayer printed board, this semiconductor device having an insulating/adhesive layer with a stress relief function between the outermost circuit layer of the multilayer board on the side of the semiconductor element, and the circuit layer adjacent thereto; and the insulating/adhesive layer is formed from the dielectric film.

Abstract: To provide a mounting structure for a gas adsorption filter and a housing equipped with the gas adsorption filter that make it possible to overcome the contradiction between achieving a further reduction in the size of airtight containers such as casings for magnetic storage disk devices, and ensuring improved control over moisture, noxious gases, and other types of contaminants in the airtight containers.

Abstract: The present invention is a luminous fabric and garment that have excellent luminescent properties under conditions of poor lighting, that lose their luminescent properties only slightly due to wear degradation and the like during prolonged use, that have the same color tone and design as regular fabrics and garments during day use, and that possess excellent aesthetic qualities and are free from design limitations.

Abstract: A membrane-electrode-assembly with a solid polymer electrolyte, wherein a laminated structure is obtained by a process in which a membrane/catalyst layer conjugate produced by bonding a first catalyst layer containing a catalyst and an ion-conducting resin to a solid polymer electrolyte membrane, and a gas diffusion layer/catalyst layer conjugate produced by forming a second catalyst layer containing a catalyst and an ion-conducting resin on one side of a gas diffusion layer consisting of a gas-permeable electroconductive sheet material are laminated at least on the anode or cathode side such that the first catalyst layer and second catalyst layer face each other.