Abstract: Multilayer nonwoven fabrics for foam molding that have excellent resistance to the separation of layers, have reinforcing effects and urethane leakage prevention performance, and are producible without the occurrence of fiber dust on the surface. In the multilayer nonwoven fabric for foam molding, a reinforcing layer is stacked on at least one side of a dense layer, the dense layer includes a meltblown nonwoven fabric layer (A) and spunbonded nonwoven fabric layers (B) that are stacked on both sides of the layer (A), and the meltblown nonwoven fabric layer (A) and the spunbonded nonwoven fabric layers (B) are partially thermocompression bonded with each other.

Abstract: There is provided a resin-coated copper foil including a resin layer having excellent dielectric characteristics suitable for high frequency applications, exhibiting high interlayer adhesion and heat resistance in the case where the resin layer is used in a copper-clad laminate or printed circuit board. The resin-coated copper foil of the present invention includes a copper foil and a resin layer on at least one side of the copper foil. The resin layer comprises a resin mixture containing an epoxy resin, a polyimide resin, and an aromatic polyamide resin; and an imidazole curing catalyst.

Abstract: In a method of manufacturing a laminated core, a laminated core body 14 including magnet insertion holes 12 and 13 with magnet pieces 15 inserted therein is placed between a molding (upper) die 10 and a retaining (lower) die 11, and a molding resin 19 is filled from resin reservoir portions (pots) 16 to fix the pieces 15 in the holes 12 and 13. Between the die 10 and the body 14, a guide member 18 is placed, which includes resin passages 31 provided from the portions 16 to the holes 12 and 13 and gates 30 connecting to the holes 12 and 13 on downstream sides of the passages 31. The method can reduce lead time of a production line without replacing the molding dies for different laminated rotor cores and thus without preparing different types of molding dies.

Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a lubricating oil composition having excellent heat resistance (suppression of discoloration in heating) and tackiness while maintaining excellent viscosity properties of a lubricating oil composition using a ricinolic acid polymer. The present invention provides a copolymer (B) containing structural units (a) derived from ricinolic acid, structural units (b) derived from an aliphatic dicarboxylic acid and structural units (c) derived from a diol having 2 to 10 carbon atoms in a specific ratio and having a specific intrinsic viscosity, and provides a lubricating oil composition containing a base oil and the copolymer (B) and having a mass ratio (mass of (A) /mass of (B)) of the base oil (A) to the copolymer (B) of 60/40 to 99.5/0.5.

Abstract: To reduce an OSC material, while maintaining necessary OSC capacity; and to improve heat resistance and reactivity of a precious metal. Proposed is an exhaust gas purifying catalyst which comprises a first catalyst layer that is formed on the surface of a substrate that is formed of a ceramic or a metal, and a second catalyst layer that is formed on the upper side of the first catalyst layer. The first catalyst layer comprises a precious metal, an OSC material and an alumina, and the OSC material and the alumina are comprised at a mass ratio of OSC material:alumina=1:7 to 1:3. The second catalyst layer comprises a precious metal, an OSC material and an alumina, and the OSC material and the alumina are comprised at a mass ratio of OSC material:alumina=1:1 to 10:0.

Abstract: In a cross sectional plane perpendicular to a center axis line of an annular core, a connection projection and a connection recess have complementary configurations in which the connection projection and the connection recess are narrowed in width with distance from coupling surfaces, the connection projection and the connection recess respectively include a pair of friction surfaces and a pair of friction surfaces extending in a direction separate from the coupling surfaces, the friction surface of the connection projection is inclined relative to a virtual normal line perpendicular to a line connecting bottom portions of the pair of friction surfaces of the connection projection, and the friction surface of the connection recess is inclined relative to a virtual normal line perpendicular to a line connecting bottom portions of the pair of friction surfaces of the connection recess.

Abstract: A production method of a negative electrode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries containing a silicon compound (SiOx: 0.5?1.6) that contains Li, includes: making a silicon compound into which the lithium has been inserted contact with a solution B containing a polycyclic aromatic compound or a derivative thereof or both thereof (here, the solution B contains one or more kinds selected from an ether-based solvent, a ketone-based solvent, an ester-based solvent, an alcohol-based solvent, and an amine-based solvent as the solvent); and making the silicon compound contact with a solution C (here, the solution C contains one or more kinds selected from an alcohol-based solvent, a carboxylic acid-based solvent, and water as the solvent). Thereby, a production method of a negative electrode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries is capable of increasing a battery capacity and improving the cycle characteristics.

Abstract: A process for producing a polymerizable composition for an optical material of the present invention includes a step of mixing (A) at least one kind of thiol compound having at least two mercapto groups, (B) a tin compound represented by general formula (1), and (C) at least one kind of isocyanate compound having at least two isocyanato groups, in which the polymerizable composition for an optical material obtained in the above step has a haze value of 0.05 or less.

Abstract: This semiconductor wafer surface protection film has a substrate layer A, an adhesive absorption layer B, and adhesive surface layer C, in the stated order. The adhesive absorption layer B comprises an adhesive composition containing a thermoset resin b1, said adhesive absorption layer B having a minimum value G?bmin of the storage elastic modulus G?b in the range of 25° C. to less than 250° C. of 0.001 MPa to less than 0.1 MPa, a storage elastic modulus G?b250 at 250° C. of 0.005 MPa or above, and a temperature at which G?bmin is exhibited of 50-150° C. The adhesive surface layer C has a minimum value G?cmin of the storage elastic modulus G?c in the range of 25° C. to less than 250° C. of 0.03 MPa.

Abstract: Provided is a vehicle door latch device capable of shortening of energization time to an electrical drive source while a moving member is restrained by abutting against a stopper portion and improvement of durability of the electrical drive source. A control unit of the door latch device controls an electric motor for driving a sector gear in a release direction based on a door operation of an operation switch, and controls to stop a power supply to the electric motor when the latch is rotated from the full-latch position to the open position and a full-latch detecting switch is activated while the moving member is brought into abutment with the stopper portion and is stopped.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide compositions which have low-temperature heat sealing properties, are free from stickiness, may achieve a heat seal strength controlled within a certain definite range when heat sealing takes place at low temperatures, have small changes in heat seal strength with time, and are such that in the packaging applications, the strength required to open the packages may be easily controlled within a certain definite range, and high-performance packages may be designed. The invention resides in a 1-butene.?-olefin copolymer composition including 99 to 1 parts by mass of at least one olefin polymer (X) selected from propylene polymers (X-1) and ethylene polymers (X-2), and 1 to 99 parts by mass of a 1-butene.?-olefin copolymer (Y) containing 0.1 to 30 mol % of one or more ?-olefins selected from ?-olefins and having a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) of 1.0 to 3.5 [wherein the total of (X) and (Y) in the composition is 100 parts by mass].

Abstract: What is aimed at is provision of an inexpensive and efficient saccharification method for lignocellulose using a thermostable xylanase and provision of a mutant xylanase that has a substitute amino acid residue, and that exhibits stable activity even under severe conditions in which enzymes easily inactivate, and that provides an initial rate of reaction not significantly reduced as compared to a wild-type xylanase corresponding to the mutant xylanase. Provided is a method of producing a saccharified product of lignocellulose, including contacting a lignocellulosic raw material with a thermostable xylanase, and a mutant xylanase that provides an initial rate of reaction that is at least 70% of that provided by a wild-type xylanase corresponding thereto, that has a xylanase activity after heat treatment at 50° C. for 24 hours that is at least 50% of its xylanase activity before the heat treatment, and that has a substitute amino acid residue.

Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a composite body, the method containing: a composition preparation process of preparing a composition that contains a polymer having a cationic functional group and having a weight average molecular weight of from 2,000 to 1,000,000, and that has a pH of from 2.0 to 11.0; a composite member preparation process of preparing a composite member that includes a member A and a member B, a surface of the member B having a defined isoelectric point, and that satisfies a relationship: the isoelectric point of a surface of the member B< the pH of the composition<the isoelectric point of a surface of the member A; and an application process of applying the composition to the surface of the member A and the surface of the member B included in the composite member.

Abstract: A motor vehicle door latch device which comprises a body, a latch and a pawl. The pawl engages with the latch to prevent the latch from turning. The pawl comprises a core and a synthetic-resin portion. A releasing portion is disposed on a basic axial portion of a core. The releasing portion is formed together with the core or the synthetic-resin portion in order to reduce the associated manufacturing costs and weight of the device.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a heat shrink tube excellent in peelability and transparency, and a method for producing the heat shrink tube. The present invention provides a peelable heat shrink tube comprising a composition containing a melt-processable fluororesin and PTFE, the PTFE lacking a heat history of its melting point or higher after polymerization and having a specific gravity, as measured according to ASTM D4894, of 2.20 or less. The content of the PTFE is 0.05 to 3.0 wt % based on the total weight of the melt-processable fluororesin and the PTFE. The present invention also provides a method for producing the tube which comprises melt-extruding the composition at a temperature lower than the melting point of the PTFE.

Abstract: A process for producing a pentaerythritol mercaptocarboxylic acid ester of the present invention includes: a step of reacting pentaerythritol with a mercaptocarboxylic acid, in which an absorbance of a 5 wt % aqueous solution of the pentaerythritol at a wavelength of 270 nm, which is measured using a quartz cell having an optical path length of 50 mm, is 0.07 or less.

Abstract: Provided is a vehicle door latching device that can be assembled in a door more easily. A hole to be engaged is provided in a portion of a housing that faces an inner panel to which a cover plate is fixed, wherein the hole to be engaged allows an engaging unit and an operating unit to be suspended in a door by way of engaging with an engaging part of the inner panel in a state in which the engaging unit is not anchored to the inner panel.

Abstract: Provided is a purified lactic acid-glycolic acid copolymer, preferably in the form of powder, having a reduced content of dimers such as residual lactide and glycolide that can be produced by a simple industrial process without the use of any high-shear special device. Further provided is a high-purity lactic acid-glycolic acid copolymer which has small amounts of dimers such as residual lactide and glycolide and small amounts of a low-molecular weight lactic acid-glycolic acid copolymer or a salt thereof and which has a small ratio of weight average molecular weight to number average molecular weight (Mw/Mn). The copolymer can be produced in accordance with a defined process.

Abstract: Provide is a new carrier for exhaust gas purification catalyst which exhibits excellent catalytic activity, particularly catalytic activity at a low temperature. Proposed is a carrier for exhaust gas purification catalyst composed of particles which contain a silicate or phosphate containing one kind or two or more kinds among the elements belonging to Group 1 and Group 2 in the periodic table.

Abstract: A polycarbodiimide composition is a reaction product of polyisocyanate having a primary isocyanate group and alcohols, wherein in an infrared absorption spectrum, the intensity ratio (IRCI/IRUI+U) of absorbance IRCI at or near 2120 cm?1 due to stretching vibration of the carbodiimide group relative to absorbance IRUI+U at or near 1720 cm?1 due to stretching vibration of the uretonimine group and urethane group is 1.5 or more and 4.5 or less.