Abstract: A manufacturing method for laminated iron cores includes processing a metal sheet to form product sheets, in each of which iron core pieces are arranged inside an outer frame piece and the iron core pieces are connected to the outer frame piece in such a way that outer peripheral sides of the iron core pieces are connected to nearest parts of the outer frame piece through bridge pieces, laminating the product sheets and temporarily fixing the product sheets adjacent to each other in a vertical direction together to form a sheets laminated body including iron core pieces laminated parts and bridge pieces laminated parts, sealing the iron core pieces laminated parts by a resin while being pressurized to form pre-formed laminated iron cores, and separating the bridge pieces laminated parts from the pre-formed laminated iron cores to form the laminated iron cores which are individually separated.

Abstract: There is provided a metal foil suitable for an electrode substrate for an electronic element, which makes it possible to suppress oxidation of the ultra-smooth surface and also prevent roll scratches when wound in a roll. The metal foil of the present invention is made of copper or copper alloy. The front surface of the metal foil has an ultra-smooth surface profile having an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of 30 nm or less as determined in accordance with JIS B 0601-2001. The back surface of the metal has a concave-dominant surface profile having a Pv/Pp ratio of 1.5 or more, the Pv/Pp ratio being a ratio of a maximum profile valley depth Pv to a maximum profile peak height Pp of a profile curve as determined in a rectangular area of 181 ?m by 136 ?m in accordance with JIS B 0601-2001.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a polyamide-based thermoplastic elastomer composition [Y] in which a rubber composition [X] and a phenol resin-based crosslinking agent [IV] are dynamically crosslinked, the rubber composition [X] comprising a polyamide [I] including 30 to 100% by mole of a terephthalic acid structural unit and having a melting point of 220 to 290° C.; an ethylene-?-olefin-unconjugated polyene copolymer rubber [II] including structural units of ethylene, an ?-olefin having 3 to 20 carbon atoms and an unconjugated polyene, respectively; and an olefin-based polymer [III] including 0.3 to 5.0% by mass of a functional group structural unit, (the total of [I] to [IV]: 100% by mass).

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide modified polyolefin particles which have a satisfactory amount of grafting and a sufficient molecular weight, are substantially free from gels, and exhibit excellent handleability and workability when shaped or mixed with various resins. The particles include a modified polyolefin obtained by grafting a monomer having an ethylenically unsaturated group and a polar functional group in the same molecule to a polymer including one, or two or more ?-olefins selected from C2-18 ?-olefins and having a melting point of not less than 50° C. and less than 250° C., the modified polyolefin particles satisfying the following requirements (1) to (3): (1) the amount of grafting x by the monomer having an ethylenically unsaturated group and a polar functional group in the same molecule is not less than 0.5 wt % and not more than 20 wt %; (2) the amount of grafting x (wt %) and the intrinsic viscosity [i](dl/g) measured in decalin at 135° C. satisfy the relation: log10[?]?0.1?0.

Abstract: A pellicle is contaminated with dust or the like for various reasons during the production thereof. Especially, there is a problem that the risk that the dust or the like is attached is high during trimming or various other processes performed on a pellicle film. The present invention provides a method for producing a pellicle for EUV that decreases the attachment of dust or the like. A method for producing a pellicle includes forming a pellicle film on a substrate; trimming the substrate; and removing at least a part of the substrate after trimming the substrate. Before the part of the substrate is removed, at least particles attached to a surface of the pellicle film are removed.

Abstract: A front face side substrate provided between a supporting member and a receiving layer of a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet. The front face side substrate includes a front face side layer provided on one surface of a substrate layer and a rear face side layer provided on another surface of the substrate layer. The substrate layer includes (A) a propylene-based polymer, (B) calcium carbonate, and (C) titanium oxide, and the weight of (A) is 70% by weight to 94.5% by weight, the weight of (B) is 5% by weight to 28% by weight, and the weight of (C) is 0.5% by weight to 3% by weight, based on the assumption that the total weight of (A), (B) and (C) is 100% by weight. The front face side layer includes a modified propylene-based polymer, and the rear face side layer includes a propylene-based polymer.

Abstract: The polymerizable composition of the present invention contains (A) an alicyclic isocyanate compound (a1) having two or more functional groups and/or an aliphatic isocyanate compound (a2) having two or more functional groups, (B) a thiol compound having one or more sulfide bonds and/or one or more ester bonds and having two or more functional groups, and (C) an imidazole-based curing catalyst, in which the amount of the imidazole-based curing catalyst (C) is 5 ppm to 3,000 ppm with respect to the total amount of the isocyanate compound (A) and the thiol compound (B).

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device including: a process of applying a sealing composition for a semiconductor to a semiconductor substrate, to form a sealing layer for a semiconductor on at least the bottom face and the side face of a recess portion of an interlayer insulating layer, the sealing composition including a polymer having a cationic functional group and a weight average molecular weight of from 2,000 to 1,000,000, each of the content of sodium and the content of potassium in the sealing composition being 10 ppb by mass or less on an elemental basis; and a process of subjecting a surface of the semiconductor substrate at a side at which the sealing layer has been formed to heat treatment of from 200° C. to 425° C., to remove at least a part of the sealing layer.

Abstract: A polythiol composition according to the present invention includes a polythiol compound (A) having three or more mercapto groups and a nitrogen-containing compound (B) in which one of a mercapto group of the polythiol compound (A) is replaced with a group represented by the following formula (a) and other one of a mercapto group of the polythiol compound (A) is replaced with a hydroxyl group, in which the peak area of the nitrogen-containing compound (B) is equal to or less than 3.0 with respect to the peak area of 100 of the polythiol compound (A) in a high performance liquid chromatography measurement.

Abstract: A polymerizable composition for an optical material includes (A) one or more isocyanate compounds selected from aliphatic isocyanate compounds and alicyclic isocyanate compounds, (B) an active hydrogen compound having two or more functional groups, and (C) a photochromic compound.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a laminated iron core includes setting a blanking position on a strip-shaped workpiece for iron core pieces each including a yoke piece part having a linear shape and a magnetic pole piece part extending from the yoke piece part, such that a pair of iron core pieces are opposed each other and the magnetic pole piece part of one iron core piece is arranged between adjacent magnetic pole piece parts of the other iron core piece among the pair of iron core pieces, simultaneously blanking a front end side of the magnetic pole piece part and a back surface side of the yoke piece part of the one iron core piece from the strip-shaped workpiece before simultaneously blanking those of the other iron core piece from the strip-shaped workpiece, and blanking the iron core pieces from the strip-shaped workpiece.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for efficiently producing an olefin (co)polymer containing a constituent unit derived from 1-butene, the (co)polymer having a molecular weight that is sufficiently high even for high temperature conditions that are beneficial for industrial production methods.

Abstract: An olefin resin having requirements (I) to (VI) is provided: (I) a grafted olefin polymer containing a main chain with an ethylene/?-olefin copolymer and a side chain with a propylene polymer; (II) the ratio P wt % of propylene polymer is from 5 to 60 wt %; (III) when the ratio of the amount of a component(s) having a peak temperature of a differential elution curve as measured by CFC using o-dichlorobenzene of less that 65° C., to the amount of (?) taken as E wt %, the value a represented by an equation (Eq-1), is 1.4 or more; (IV) the melting point (Tm) is 120 to 165° C. and the glass transition temperature (Tg) is ?80 to ?30° C., as measured by DSC; (V) the hot xylene-insoluble content is less than 3 wt %; and, (VI) the limiting viscosity as measured in decalin at 135° C. is 0.5 to 5.0 dl/g.

Abstract: A laminate film (30) of the present invention includes a heat sealing layer (10) composed of a resin composition including, with respect to 20 to 95 parts by weight of a propylene-based polymer (A) having a melting point (Tm) of equal to or higher than 120° C. and equal to or lower than 170° C. as measured by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), a total of 5 to 80 parts by weight of two or more kinds of copolymers selected from the group consisting of a propylene.

Abstract: There is provided a method of manufacturing a laminated rotor core, including: a mounting step of placing a core body on a carrier tray, the core body having a plurality of magnet insertion holes provided around the shaft hole, the carrier tray having a mount plate and a columnar guide member standing on a front surface of the mount plate 41, the placement of the core body being carried out by fitting the guide member into the shaft hole; an inserting step of inserting permanent magnets respectively in the magnet insertion holes; an injecting step of injecting a liquefied resin material in each of the magnet insertion holes; and a first preheating step of heating the core body before the mounting step, wherein the inserting step and the injecting step are carried out in a state in which the core body is placed on the carrier tray.

Abstract: A mutant lysine decarboxylase produced by replacing at least one of the amino acids in SEQ ID NO:4 with another amino acid.

Abstract: A negative electrode active material for nonaqueous secondary batteries is disclosed. The active material contains a silicon solid solution having one or more than one of a group 3 semimetal or metal element, a group 4 semimetal or metal element except silicon, and a group 5 nonmetal or semimetal element incorporated in silicon as a solute element. The solute element is present more on the crystal grain boundaries of the silicon solid solution than inside the grains.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an encapsulating material sheet for a solar battery of the invention includes a step of producing an additive-containing pellet by soaking an additive A into a pellet including a polyolefin-based resin as a main component, a step of injecting the additive-containing pellet into a cylinder from a supply opening in an extrusion molder, and melting and kneading a resin composition including the polyolefin-based resin and the additive A in the cylinder, and a step of molding by extrusion the resin composition from a die in the extrusion molder into a sheet shape.

Abstract: Provided is a brake device (2) which has reduced manufacturing cost, is compact, and can generate sufficient braking force. Also provided is a crane (1) which comprises the brake device (2). The brake device (2) is installed in a movable body (1) which travels. The brake device (2) is provided with a receiving section (22) affixed to the movable body (1) and is also provided with a brake shoe (21) disposed below the receiving section (21). The brake shoe (21) has a brake shoe upper surface (24) provided with sloped sections (24u, 24d). The receiving section (22) has a receiving lower surface (26) corresponding to the brake shoe upper surface (24) and provided with sloped sections (26u, 26d). The brake device (2) is configured so that, when the brake device (2) is activated, the brake shoe (21) drops, and the receiving section (22) rides over the brake shoe upper surface (24) when the movable body (1) moves.

Abstract: A die apparatus includes a first die and a second die which are respectively used in adjacent working stations that sequentially blank or stamp out a progressively fed thin metal sheet. The first and second dies are held in a state where outer peripheral surfaces of the first and second dies directly contact each other.