Abstract: An actuator for a vehicle, in particular for an automobile door lock includes a rotatable rotor; a lever that is disposed so as to be swingable between a first position and a second position; and an engagement mechanism through which the lever is engaged with the rotor. The engagement mechanism also includes a protrusion that engages with the rotor; and a guide mechanism that makes, along with rotation of the rotor, the lever swing between the first position and the second position, and allows, when the rotor stops rotating, a movement of the lever without turning the rotor.

Abstract: Disclosed is a black pigment having adequate degree of blackness and high electrical resistance at the same time. Specifically disclosed is a granular black pigment containing cobalt which is characterized in that it is composed of an oxide containing at least cobalt and the divalent cobalt content accounts for 40-70% of the total cobalt content. It is preferable that the total cobalt content in a whole particle is 60-80% by mass, and the divalent cobalt content in a whole particle is 20-50% by mass. It is also preferable that the primary particle diameter is 0.02-0.6 ?m.

Abstract: An improved circuit substrate is provided wherein glass cloth is completely embedded within fluoropolymer by thermocompression to form a composite structure, which when containing an adhesive agent such as the combination of functional groups and liquid crystal polymer is self-adhering to a metal layer such as of copper.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal sealing composition and a liquid crystal display panel excellent in adhesion, moisture permeation resistance and heat resistance and superior for use in a sheet press heating bonding system. The liquid crystal sealing composition comprises (1) an alkoxysilyl group-containing modified epoxy resin obtained by de-alcohol condensation reaction of (a) an epoxy resin having at least one hydroxyl group in one molecule and (b) an alkoxysilyl group-containing compound, (2) a heat latent epoxy curing agent, (3) a filler having an average particle diameter of 0.1 to 10 ?m, and if necessary (4) an epoxy resin having at least 1.2 epoxy groups on average in one molecule, (5) an aprotic solvent having a boiling point in the range of 140 to 220° C., compatible with epoxy resin and inert to an epoxy group, and (6) other additives.

Abstract: A COF flexible printed wiring board, used for a semiconductor device, contains an insulating layer, a wiring pattern formed of a conductor layer on one side of the insulating layer, on which a semiconductor chip is to be mounted, and a heat-resistant releasing layer, wherein the releasing layer is formed from a releasing agent and is provided on a surface of the insulating layer, which surface is opposite to the mounting side of the semiconductor chip, and the releasing layer and the insulating layer, as a whole, exhibit an optical transmittance of 50% or higher, excluding the area corresponding to the wiring pattern.

Abstract: A door latch apparatus closes a door of a vehicle by, when a striker and a latch are in a first engagement state, shifting the striker and the latch into a second engagement state through an effective operation of an output lever by driving an actuator. When the shift of the striker and the latch into the second engagement state is restricted, the output lever is allowed to perform a retracting operation by driving the actuator.

Abstract: In a vehicle door lock control, an operating handle is provided at a door inside or outside a vehicle to enable a door to open and close. The handle is connected to an operating lever. In a locked position, the door cannot be opened by the operating handle, while it can be opened by the operating handle via a release lever in an unlocking position. The release lever pivotally secured on a base plate is connected to a door latch device of the door to allow the door latch device to disengage from a striker of a vehicle body in the unlocking position thereby opening the door by the operating handle. A lock control pin is moved by a knob lever to control the release lever to allow the door to open. The knob lever is operated by a knob manually inside the vehicle or by an actuator electrically.

Abstract: A clutch mechanism of the power device includes a movable gear member which is rotated integrally with a wheel and engaged with a stationary gear member when moved in a first direction and disengaged from the stationary gear member when moved in a second direction opposite to the first direction, an armature which moves the movable gear member in the first direction when rotated relatively to the movable gear member, and an electromagnetic coil for applying brake resistance to the armature by attracting the armature by magnetic force to restrict a co-rotating state of the armature and the movable gear member. The armature has a clutch holding surface for maintaining a clutch-engaged state where the movable gear member and the stationary gear member are engaged with each other even when the electromagnetic coil is turned off in the clutch-engaged state.

Abstract: The present invention provides a polishing slurry which remarkably inhibits the occurrence of scratch, dishing or erosion.

Abstract: A cyclic olefin resin composition which can be suitably used as a material for a substrate having low permittivity, low dielectric tangent, low water absorbability, excellent heat resistance, and the like, and a substrate obtained from the resin composition are provided. In particular, there is provided a novel cyclic olefin resin composition that can be suitably used as a material for a substrate for high frequency circuit dealing with high frequency signal transmission. The cyclic olefin resin composition comprises (A) 5 to 95 parts by weight of a cyclic olefin polymer having a glass transition temperature of 60 to 200° C. and (B) 5 to 95 parts by weight of a flexible copolymer, prepared by polymerizing at least two monomers selected from the group consisting of an olefin compound, a diene compound and an aromatic vinyl hydrocarbon compound, and having a glass transition temperature of 0° C. or below.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to prevent temperature decrease in a border portion of each of heating coils and to enable to eliminate an influence given by the change in a load state. In order to attain this object, an induction heating unit according to the present invention is provided with control units respectively corresponding to a plurality of heating units. A phase detector of the control unit obtains a phase difference between an output current (heating coil current) of an inverter detected by a current transformer reference signal outputted by a reference signal generating section, and inputs it to a drive control section. The drive control section adjusts an output timing (phase) of a gate pulse to be given to the inverter so as to make a phase of the heating coil current of the inverter coincide with a phase of the reference signal outputted by the reference signal generating section.

Abstract: A vibration analysing device for determining the vibrational response of a structural element, comprising: a vibration sensor for providing an output in response to a force input imparted to the structural element; processing means adapted to determine one of a plurality of classifications in response to the output, each classification corresponding to a condition of the structural element; and display means for displaying the determined classification.

Abstract: The printed wiring board of the present invention is a printed wiring board produced by selectively etching a base film having a base metal layer and a conductive metal layer, which are formed on an insulating film, through plural etching steps comprising a conductive metal etching step and a base metal etching step to form a wiring pattern and then bringing the base film having the thus formed wiring pattern into contact with a reducing aqueous solution containing a reducing substance, wherein the amount of a residual metal derived from the etching solution on the printed wiring board is not more than 0.05 ?g/cm2. According to the present invention, the metal derived from the etching solution is removed by the use of a reducing substance-containing solution. Therefore, the water rinsing step in the production process can be shortened, occurrence of migration attributable to the residual metal can be prevented, and a printed wiring board having high reliability can be efficiently produced.

Abstract: In a packaging material for electrochemical cell, a thermally adhesive resin layer is configured of a resin having a propylene based elastomer resin in a propylene based resin. This propylene based elastomer resin is a copolymer composed of a constitutional unit derived from propylene and a constitutional unit derived from an ?-olefin having from 2 to 20 carbon atoms; when the total sum of the constitutional unit derived from propylene and the constitutional unit derived from an ?-olefin is defined as 100% by mole, contains 50% by mole or more of the constitutional unit derived from propylene; and is satisfied with (a) a Shore A hardness (ASTM D2240) of from 65 to 90, (b) a melting point of from 130 to 170° C., (c) a density (ASTM D1505) of from 860 to 875 kg/m3 and (d) a glass transition temperature as measured by DSC of from ?25° C. to ?35° C.

Abstract: A door operating apparatus includes a motor bracket that covers a driving shaft of a driving motor; an output shaft that is disposed from the motor bracket toward the supporting bracket so as to be orthogonal to an extending direction of the driving shaft; a first rotational element that is linked with the driving shaft, and disposed on the output shaft; a second rotational element that is linked with a door operating mechanism, and disposed between the first rotational element and the supporting bracket on the output shaft; and a clutch unit including a clutch driving section that supports a rotation of the output shaft. When the first rotational element and the second rotational element are engaged by driving of the clutch driving section, the door operating mechanism is actuated by the driving force.

Abstract: The object is to provide a material for forming a capacitor layer which is excellent in adhesion within a dielectric layer and a bottom electrode of a capacitor circuit. And to provide a material for forming a capacitor layer which has a new conductive layer for forming a bottom electrode capable of being used as an electrode serving also as a resistance circuit and the like. To solve the problem, the invention provides a conductive layer in which a pure nickel layer and a nickel-phosphorus alloy layer are deposited in order on a surface of a copper layer or a nickel-phosphorus alloy layer, a pure nickel layer and a nickel-phosphorus alloy layer are deposited in order on a surface of a copper layer, to assure excellent adhesion within the bottom electrode of a capacitor circuit and the dielectric layer in a printed wiring board having a dielectric layer between an top electrode and a bottom electrode.

Abstract: The present invention aims at providing a stretched film of an olefin polymer excellent in anti-static property, which is obtained from an olefin polymer composition comprising an olefin polymer and potassium salt of an ethylene-unsaturated carboxylic acid copolymer, and a gist in construction resides in a stretched film of an olefin polymer, which has been obtained from an olefin polymer composition (C) comprising an olefin polymer (A) and potassium salt of an ethylene-unsaturated carboxylic acid copolymer (B) and has been stretched at a stretching factor in terms of plane factor of at least 3 times. Stretching is preferably biaxially stretching and the olefin polymer composition (C) is preferably comprised of 99-60% by weight of the olefin polymer (A) and 1-40% by weight of potassium salt of an ethylene-unsaturated carboxylic acid copolymer (B).

Abstract: A clutch mechanism of the present power device comprises a fixed gear member, a moving gear member engaged with the fixed gear member when moving to a clutch connecting position, an armature for moving the moving gear member to the clutch connecting position when rotated relatively to the moving gear member, an electromagnetic coil unit for applying a brake resistance to the armature, and a clutch holding surface for abutting against the moving gear member when the electromagnetic coil unit is turned off in the clutch connecting state and for holding the moving gear member at a brake-clutch connecting position. The abutment of the moving gear member against the clutch holding surface is released by rotating the moving gear member relatively to the armature in a state in which the electromagnetic coil unit is operated.

Abstract: The present invention provides a flexible wiring substrate which does not form anomalous deposition of tin-bismuth alloy plating, through prevention of exfoliation, during the process of plating with tin-bismuth alloy, of a solder resist layer. The invention also provides a method for producing the flexible wiring substrate.