Abstract: To provide resin compositions suitable for molding sliding parts that have lubricity and the heat-resistant property and further show excellent friction and wearing resistances and compression creeping resistance. The fluororesin compositions comprise a tetrafluoroethylene polymer, zinc oxide whisker and granular fillers having average particle size of not more than 200 ?m and/or fibrous fillers having average fiber length of not more than 500 ?m. Preferable zinc oxide whisker contains tetrapod-shape one. Preferable fillers are at least one selected from carbon fiber, coke powder, graphite powder, bronze powder, copper powder, zinc oxide powder, talc and glass fiber.

Abstract: A method for efficiently purifying 5? protected 2?-deoxypurine nucleosides, efficient production of which has previously been difficult. Impurities can be separated by obtaining the 5? protected 2?-deoxypurine nucleoside as an inclusion crystal including a solvent such as that having a nitrile structure in order to purify the 5? protected 2?-deoxypurine nucleoside at a high purity. This invention enables synthesis of highly purified, protected deoxypurine nucleosides easily on a large scale, which has previously been performed by column chromatography method.

Abstract: A transportation apparatus for a film carrier tape for mounting electronic components comprises an unwinding side tension applying means 21 for applying a tension on the unwinding side to the film carrier tape 3, and a winding side tension applying means 23 for applying more larger tension on the winding side to the film carrier tape 3 than the tension on the unwinding side, and thereby the film carrier tape 3 is transported in such a condition that the gear protrusions 31 of the drive gear 17 are not abutted with the edges of the transportation direction side in the sprocket holes 40 of the film carrier tape 3.

Abstract: A powered sliding device comprises wire cables (21?, 21?) provided between a sliding door (11) and a vehicle body (10), and a power unit (20) for sliding the sliding door when the wire cables are moved by the power of a motor. The power unit is provided in the inner space of the sliding door. The wire cables are composed of the door-opening cable (21?) and the door-closing cable (21?) connected to the power unit at a base end side, respectively. A front end of the door-opening cable is fixed to the vicinity of the rear end of a lower rail (14) after having passed through a lower roller bracket (18) of the sliding door, and the front end of the door-closing cable is fixed to the vicinity of the front end of a center rail (16) after having passed though a center roller bracket (19) of the sliding door.

Abstract: A film carrier tape for mounting electronic devices thereon has a tin-bismuth alloy deposit in which the bismuth content in the deposit is substantially uniform along a thickness direction thereof. The film carrier tape can be produced by plating at least a part of a wiring pattern with a tin-bismuth alloy and washing the tin-bismuth alloy deposit formed by plating with a water-ejecting washing nozzle within 6 seconds after the plating is completed. A plating apparatus for use in the above production includes a washing nozzle for washing the film carrier tape within 6 seconds after the film carrier tape has exited a plating tank.

Abstract: Disclosed is a polyethylene wax defined by the features (i) to (iv): (i) said polyethylene wax is an ethylene homopolymer or a copolymer of ethylene and an ?-olefin of 3 to 20 carbon atoms, (ii) a ratio (Mw/Mn) of the weight-average molecular weight (Mw) to the number-average molecular weight (Mn), as measured by GPC, is in the range of 1.7 to 4.0, (iii) the softening point is not higher than 125° C., and (iv) the penetration hardness is not more than 15 dmm. Also disclosed are a lost wax composition for precision casting, which comprises the polyethylene wax, and a method for forming a model for precision casting, which uses the lost wax composition for precision casting.

Abstract: The present invention is mainly for providing a flake copper powder for a conductive paste with particle properties which are defined by that the particle thickness is thinner being possible for use to form an electrode or a circuit, and a production process thereof. To achieve the object of producing the following particles, each powder particles shape is plastically processed into a flake-shape, wherein the flake copper powder has a cumulative particle diameter D50 of 10 ?m or smaller measured with laser diffraction scattering particle size distribution method. The D10, D50 and D90 measured with the laser diffraction scattering particle size distribution method are illustrative and the SD/D50 value measured by the standard deviation of particle distribution with the laser diffraction scattering particle size distribution, is 0.55 or larger and/or a D90/D10 of 4.5 or smaller.

Abstract: An olefin wax (A) is (i) a copolymer (A1) obtained by copolymerizing ethylene and at least one diene or a copolymer (A2) obtained by copolymerizing ethylene, at least one olefin selected from ?-olefins of 3 to 12 carbon atoms and at least one diene; wherein (ii) the content of unsaturated groups per one molecule is in the range of 0.5 to 3.0 groups; (iii) the density is in the range of 870 to 980 kg/m3; (iv) the melting point is in the range of 70 to 130° C.; (v) the number-average molecular weight is in the range of 400 to 5,000; and (vi) the ratio (Mw/Mn) of the weight-average molecular weight to the number-average molecular weight is not more than 4.0. A silicone-modified olefin wax can be obtained by reacting hydrogen silicone with the olefin wax (A). Cosmetics contain the silicone-modified olefin wax.

Abstract: A spunbonded elastic nonwoven fabric according to the invention comprises fibers formed from a polymer comprising a thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer, wherein the thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer has a solidifying point of 65° C. or above as measured by a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) and contains 3.00×106 or less polar-solvent-insoluble particles per g as counted on a particle size distribution analyzer, which is based on an electrical sensing zone method, equipped with an aperture tube having an orifice of 100 ?m in diameter, and wherein the fibers have diameters such that the standard deviation of fiber diameters (Sn) divided by the average fiber diameter (Xave) (Sn/Xave) gives a value of 0.15 or less.

Abstract: A novel graft polymer useful in various uses that has a polyolefin backbone having polyolefin segments excellent in moldability can be obtained by homopolymerizing a novel polyolefin macromonomer or polymerizing the novel polyolefin macromonomer in the coexistence of other olefins depending on need, wherein the macromonomer has at the terminal of its polyolefin chain a vinyl group whose ?-position may be substituted, and the macromonomer can be efficiently obtained by a method, for example, successively carrying out i) a step of producing a polyolefin having a hydroxyl group at the terminal of the polyolefin chain and ii) a step of converting the terminal hydroxyl group of the polyolefin in chain into an acryloyl group, a methacryloyl group or a styryl group.

Abstract: The clutch includes a drive disk, a follower disk and a brake disk. When current flows, the follower disk is connected with the drive disk to transmit a power from a driving unit to a door-opening/closing mechanism. When no current flows, the follower disk is separated from the drive disk to cut off the power transmission from the driving unit to the door-opening/closing mechanism. In a state that the drive disk and the follower disk are separated from each other, the brake disk is connected to the follower disk to brake the door-opening/closing mechanism in the opening direction of the door, and to allow the door-opening/closing mechanism to move in the closing direction of the door.

Abstract: A polyimide metal laminate comprising a polyimide resin formed on a metal foil, wherein the polyimide resin does not cause the peeling of not less than 100 ?m in the polyimide resin and/or at an interface between the polyimide resin and the metal foil when the polyimide resin is heated in an oven at an atmospheric temperature of from 340 to 360° C. for 5 to 10 minutes, the coefficient of humidity expansion at 320 is from 1 to 20 ppm/% RH, and an average value of the etching rate by a 50 wt % aqueous solution of potassium hydroxide at 80° C. is not less than 1.0 ?m/min. The polyimide metal laminate can provide good heat resistance, superior dimensional stability and can be etching processed by an aqueous alkaline solution.

Abstract: A film carrier tape for mounting electronic components or devices that excels in not only migration resistance but also adhesiveness of wiring to insulating film; and a process for producing the same. The film carrier tape for mounting electronic components or devices has seed layer comprising a zinc layer superimposed on a treated surface of insulating film and a nickel base metal layer superimposed on a surface of a zinc layer, or comprising a layer of alloy containing elemental nickel and elemental zinc in specified proportion, superimposed on a treated surface of insulating film). In the film carrier tape for mounting electronic components or devices, at least part of a region extending across a width of wiring from an edge side thereof to the treated surface of the insulating film may be continuously covered with a zinc coating layer comprising elemental zinc.

Abstract: A door system includes a front door and a rear door that are configured to shut together a continuous opening in a vehicle body; a striker configured to be inserted in both the front door and the rear door so as to couple the front door and the rear door when the continuous opening is shut by the front door and the rear door. When at least one of the front door and the rear door is opened, the striker is drawn out from one of the front door and the rear door so as to cancel the coupling between the front door and the rear door.

Abstract: A carrier for electrophotographic developer comprises a resin carrier core comprising a binder resin and magnetic powder dispersed in the binder resin, and a coating layer comprising a coating resin on a surface of the core, the binder resin being a silicone resin obtained by curing of a polysiloxane compound (A) having an epoxy group and a polysiloxane compound (B) having a group capable of reacting with the epoxy group, due to a ring-opening addition reaction; the binder resin containing a functional group which is an epoxy group and/or a group capable of reacting with an epoxy group; the coating resin containing a functional group capable of reacting with the functional group of the binder resin; the functional group of the coating resin and the functional group of the binder resin forming a chemical bond.

Abstract: A fiber mixture according to the invention comprises fibers A comprising a polymer A containing a thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer and fibers B comprising a thermoplastic polymer B other than the thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer, said thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer having a solidifying point of 65° C. or above as measured by a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) and containing 3.00×106 or less polar-solvent-insoluble particles per g counted on a particle size distribution analyzer, which is based on an electrical sensing zone method, equipped with an aperture tube having an orifice of 100 ?m in diameter. An elastic nonwoven fabric comprises the fiber mixture.

Abstract: A control method wherein sliding of a sliding door by a powered sliding device is started after sounding an annunciation buzzer when an operating switch is operated, but when a remote control transmitter integrally having an ignition key is operated, the sliding of the sliding door by the powered sliding device is started without operating the annunciation buzzer.

Abstract: A flowmeter for achieving a fluid flow rate value by using calibration curves on the basis of the output of a detection circuit using a bridge circuit (73) containing as constituent resistors respective temperature sensing elements of a flow rate detector containing a heating element (33) and a fluid temperature detector in an indirectly heated type flow rate sensor unit. The bridge circuit (73) varies the circuit characteristic value in plural steps by a multiplexer (731) for selectively connecting the output terminal and any one of the connection terminals between the in-series connected resistors. Plural calibration curves are provided in association with the steps of the circuit characteristic value, and any one of the plural calibration curves is selected in accordance with the step of the circuit characteristic value selected by the multiplexer (731).

Abstract: Under a method to control a sliding speed in accordance with this invention, the motor is initially accelerated for a predetermined reference speed, and then during the initial acceleration period, if a rotational speed of the wire drum is of and above a given value, a difference between a rotational speed of the wire drum and a rotational speed of the motor is of and above a given value, and a rate of acceleration of the wire drum is of and above a given value, the rotational speed of the motor is reduced temporarily judging the slide door is in a state of abnormal acceleration, and then the motor is accelerated again at a lower rate than the initial acceleration toward the reference speed.

Abstract: A synthetic lubricating oil comprising an ?-olefin (co)polymer defined by the following features (i) to (v): (i) the (co)polymer contains constituent units derived from (a) at least one monomer selected from ?-olefins of 8 to 20 carbon atoms in amounts of 90 to 100% by mol and contains constituent units derived from (b) ethylene in amounts of 0 to 10% by mol, (ii) the dynamic viscosity at 100° C. is in the range of 8 to 500 mm2/s, (iii) the number-average molecular weight (Mn), as measured by gel permeation chromatography, is in the range of 500 to 15,000, (iv) the (co)polymer satisfies the following formulas (I) and (II): A?24.0×Exp (?0.0239×K) ??(I) B?0.0775×K ??(II) wherein A is a content (%) of a (co)polymer having a molecular weight, as measured by gel permeation chromatography, of not more than 1,000, B is a content (%) of a (co)polymer having a molecular weight of not less than 20,000, and K is a dynamic viscosity (mm2/s) at 100° C.