Abstract: A lead frame includes a plurality of unit lead frames arranged in a matrix. Leads of adjacent ones of the unit lead frames are connected via a connecting bar, in which a longitudinal connecting bar and a transverse connecting bar are crossed at a crossing part. The lead frame further includes a dicing part including the connecting bar and a part of the leads, to be cut along a dicing line, a half-etching part formed along the dicing part, and being smaller in width than the dicing part, and a strength retention part formed in the half-etching part and extended from the crossing part of the connecting bar at least to an end lead located closest to the crossing part among the leads of the unit lead frame adjacent to the crossing part.

Abstract: The dynamo of the present invention is provided in the flow field of a fluid, and has: a columnar oscillating body, one end of the oscillating body being supported in the flow field of the fluid by a shaft that is parallel to the flow direction of the fluid, and the oscillating body being moved reciprocally by self-excited oscillation about the shaft; and an electricity generation unit for generating electrical energy in response to the reciprocal oscillation of the oscillating body.

Abstract: An encapsulating material for solar cell excellent in a balance among properties including transparency, flexibility, adhesiveness, heat resistance, appearance, crosslinking properties, electrical properties and calender moldability. The encapsulating material includes an ethylene/?-olefin copolymer satisfying the following requirements: (a1) the content ratio of structural units derived from ethylene is from 80 to 90 mol % and the content ratio of structural units derived from ?-olefin having 3 to 20 carbon atoms is from 10 to 20 mol %; (a2) MFR is equal to or more than 2 g/10 minutes and less than 10 g/10 minutes as measured under the conditions of a temperature of 190 degrees centigrade and a load of 2.16 kg in accordance with ASTM D1238; (a3) the density is from 0.865 to 0.884 g/cm3 as measured in accordance with ASTM D1505; and (a4) the shore A hardness is from 60 to 85 as measured in accordance with ASTM D2240.

Abstract: Provided is a method of peeling an electronic member from a laminate composed of the electronic member adhered to a supporting substrate via an adhesive film having a self-peeling adhesive layer in a defined location and having an exposed region A. The method includes the steps of: reducing adhesive strength between the supporting substrate and the self-peeling adhesive layer in the region A by applying energy on the region A; removing the supporting substrate from the laminate by further applying energy on the region and thus further reducing the adhesive strength reduced in the prior step between the supporting substrate and the self-peeling adhesive layer from a starting point of the interface between the supporting substrate and the self-peeling adhesive layer; and peeling the electronic member from the laminate by removing the adhesive film from the electronic member.

Abstract: To provide a process for producing an olefin polymer, which makes it possible to use, as a solvent for use in the catalyst preparation and the like, an aliphatic hydrocarbon solvent instead of an aromatic hydrocarbon solvent causing large environmental burden, and which has good olefin polymerization activity. A process for producing an olefin polymer, characterized by having a step comprising feeding an olefin polymerization catalyst solution, which is obtained by mixing a metallocene compound, a compound that reacts with the metallocene compound to form an ion pair and at least one compound selected from an organoaluminum compound and an organoaluminum oxy compound with a saturated hydrocarbon solvent, to a polymerization reactor and solution-polymerizing an olefin in the polymerization reactor.

Abstract: Provided is a low-cost polyimide, containing cyclohexane diamine as a diamine unit, that has a low thermal expansion coefficient. Said block polyimide contains blocks having the repeating structural unit shown in formula (1A) and blocks having the repeating structural unit shown in formula (1B). This block polyimide is preferably obtained by imidizing a block polyamide acid imide that contains blocks having the repeating structural unit shown in formula (2A) and blocks having the repeating structural unit shown in formula (2B).

Abstract: Provided are a gas barrier resin composition, and a gas barrier composite film excellent in gas barrier properties with respect to oxygen, carbon dioxide gas, water vapor or the like, particularly in gas barrier properties even after hot water treatment. The gas barrier resin composition includes an oxazoline group-containing aqueous polymer (A), an aqueous acrylic resin (B) and/or an aqueous polyester resin (C) each at a specific concentration, wherein the ratio of the mole number of the oxazoline group to the mole number of the carboxyl group [the ratio of the mole number of the oxazoline group (x mmol) to the mole number of the carboxyl group (y mmol), which is indicated as (x/y)×100 (mol %)], is within the specific range. The gas barrier composite film uses this composition.

Abstract: A crystallized polymer film including a polymer (A) that has a weight-average molecular weight of from 50,000 to 1,000,000 and a crystallization half time at the temperature at which the polymer crystallizes fastest in a range of from 180 seconds to 900 seconds; having a crystallinity of from 20% to 80% as obtained by a DSC method; and having a difference between a total haze and an internal haze of 0.8% or less in a case in which the total haze and the internal haze are measured at 25° C. in accordance with JIS-K7105.

Abstract: There is provided a method of manufacturing a rotor that includes a permanent magnet inserted into a magnet-insert hole formed in a rotor core, a positioning member which is inserted into the magnet-insert hole and positions the permanent magnet with respect to the rotor core, and a resin material for fixing the permanent magnet to the magnet-insert hole by filling the magnet-insert hole with the resin material. In the method, a mold unit is provided above or below the rotor core, and another positioning member used for manufacturing another rotor is molded using the mold unit while filling the magnet-insert hole with the resin material.

Abstract: According to the present invention, there is provided a semiconductor wafer protective film including a substrate layer (A) and an adhesive layer (C) formed on the substrate layer (A), in which the substrate layer (A) includes polymer, and a solubility parameter of the polymer determined by a Van Krevelen method is equal to or greater than 9.

Abstract: A film having a molecular orientation; having an absolute difference ?Re between the maximum and minimum retardations Re of 100 nm or less in a case wherein the retardations Re are measured at every 0.8 mm along a measured length of 10 mm centered at the center of a principal plane of the film and at a wavelength of 550 nm; and having an average Re (ave) of the retardations Re in a range of from 700 nm to 900 nm or in a range of from 1250 nm to 1450 nm.

Abstract: Provided is a novel spinel-type lithium-manganese composite oxide, allowing gas generation amount to be limited for a gas generated via a reaction with an electrolytic solution. Proposed is a spinel-type lithium-manganese composite oxide, wherein, when the spinel-type lithium-manganese composite oxide is placed in an ion-exchanged water at 20° C., stirred for 10 minutes, then, left to stand undisturbed for 2 minutes, separated into a supernatant and a precipitate and recovered, with respect to the “16d-site-to-32e-site inter-atomic distance (100%)” of the spinel-type lithium-manganese composite oxide contained in the precipitate measured by the Rietveld method using the fundamental method, proportionally, the “16d-site-to-32e-site inter-atomic distance” of the spinel-type lithium-manganese composite oxide contained in the supernatant is less than 101.5%.

Abstract: A manganese oxide particle having a hexagonal crystal structure or an analogous hexagonal crystal structure with an a-axis length of 8.73±1 ? and a c-axis length of 14.86±1 ?. The manganese oxide particle is preferably produced by a process including mixing an aqueous solution containing manganese (II) and an organic compound having a hydroxyl group while in a heated state with an alkali.

Abstract: A method-of producing a printed wiring board comprises: forming a via-hole for interlayer connection in a laminate in which a copper foil for laser processing comprises a copper foil and an easily soluble laser absorption layer provided on a surface of the copper foil which has a higher etching rate to a copper etchant than the copper foil and absorbs an infrared laser beam and another conductor layer is laminated through an insulating layer, directly irradiating the infrared laser beam on the easily soluble laser absorption layer; and removing the easily soluble laser absorption layer from the surface of the copper foil in a desmear step of removing a smear in a via-hole and/or a microetching step as a pretreatment of an electroless plating step is adopted.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method of producing a corresponding olefin such as propylene with a high activity and a high selectivity even in a high LHSV range by an intramolecular dehydration reaction of an alcohol such as isopropyl alcohol. The present invention provides a method of producing an olefin represented by General Formula (II) below from an alcohol represented by General Formula (I) below, which method uses, as a dehydration catalyst, a chemically treated silica gel (X) in which an aluminum compound is supported onto a silica gel (A) with an average fine pore diameter of 10 to 50 nm in the amount of 1,000 to 10,000 ppm by weight in terms of aluminum element. (In General Formulae (I) and (II), R1 is selected from alkyl groups of 1 to 5 carbon atoms and R2 is selected from a hydrogen atom and alkyl groups of 1 to 5 carbon atoms.

Abstract: Means for solving the problems The thermoplastic resin composition (X1) of the present invention comprises (A1), (B1), (C1), and optionally (D1) below: 1 to 90 wt % of an isotactic polypropylene (A1); 9 to 98 wt % of a propylene/ethylene/?-olefin copolymer (B1) containing 45 to 89 mol % of propylene-derived structural units, 10 to 25 mol % of ethylene-derived structural units, and optionally, 0 to 30 mol % of C4-C20 ?-olefin-derived structural units (a1); 1 to 80 wt % of a styrene-based elastomer (C1); and 0 to 70 wt % of an ethylene/?-olefin copolymer (D1) whose density is in the range of 0.850 to 0.910 g/cm3, wherein (A1)+(B1)+(C1)+(D1)=100 wt %.

Abstract: Disclosed are a paddy rice seed treated by a herbicidal composition and a method for controlling weed which comprises sowing the above-mentioned paddy rice seed on a surface of a soil of a paddy field.

Abstract: The invention provides an imide compound represented by the following Formula (1) and an insecticide including the imide compound: wherein, each of A1, A2, A3, and A4 represents a carbon atom, a nitrogen atom, or an oxidized nitrogen atom; R1 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group which may be substituted, or a C2-C4 alkylcarbonyl group which may be substituted; each of G1 and G2 independently represents an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom; each X may be the same as or different from one another and represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a C1-C3 alkyl group, or a trifluoromethyl group; n represents an integer from 0 to 4; and each of Q1 and Q2 represents a phenyl group, naphthyl group, or a heterocyclic group, each of which may be substituted.

Abstract: In a vehicle, a striker engages with a latch which engages with a ratchet. A door of the vehicle is closed. A motion-transmitting path for transmitting power to the ratchet from an electric drive mechanism is provided. A release-canceling mechanism connects or cuts off the motion-transmitting path. When the ratchet is released from the latch, the door-cooperating lever cuts off the release-canceling mechanism to enable the ratchet to engage with the latch again. Hence the door is closed.