Abstract: Plant cultivation materials, which have the liquid retentivity and the liquid transitivity, which provide the best environment for plants respiration, which comprises polyesters, natural pulps and/or synthetic pulps such as polyolefin pulps, from which plants can absorb the amount of the elements necessary for the plant growth as much as plants want whenever plants want, and which provide the cultivation environment to accelerate the plant growth, and the plant cultivation methods by using the materials can be provided.

Abstract: The present invention provides an olefin resin with an improved heat resistance, reduced stickiness, excellent optical and low temperature properties, as well as the balance between these physical properties. The olefin resin according to the present invention satisfies the following requirements: (I) a melting peak (Tm) is observed within the range of from 60° C. to 130° C., and the heat of fusion ?H at the melting peak is within the range of from 5 to 150 J/g; (II) the percentage E (wt %) of a portion soluble in o-dichlorobenzene at 20° C. or lower, and the heat of fusion ?H satisfy certain relationships; (III) the glass transition temperature (Tg) is from ?80 to ?30° C.

Abstract: The objectives of the present invention are to provide an olefin oligomerization catalyst that allows properties of particles of a polymer component by-produced in an ?-olefin production process to be obtained in such a shape that does not negatively affect a separation process for the particles and to provide a method for producing an olefin oligomer performed in the presence of the olefin oligomerization catalyst. The objectives can be achieved by the olefin oligomerization catalyst obtained by contacting (D) a transition metal compound with a preliminary contact solid catalyst component (II) obtained by contacting a solid catalyst component (I) formed by supporting (B) an organoaluminum oxy-compound (b-2) on (A) a solid carrier with (C) at least one compound selected from the group consisting of an organometallic compound (c-1), an organoaluminum oxy-compound (c-2), and a compound (c-3) that reacts with the transition metal compound (D) to form a pair of ion.

Abstract: Plant cultivation materials, which have the liquid retentivity and the liquid transitivity, which provide the best environment for plants respiration, which comprises polyesters, natural pulps and/or synthetic pulps such as polyolefin pulps, from which plants can absorb the amount of the elements necessary for the plant growth as much as plants want whenever plants want, and which provide the cultivation environment to accelerate the plant growth, and the plant cultivation methods by using the materials can be provided.

Abstract: The present invention provides an olefin resin (?) satisfying the following requirements (I) to (VI), and a propylene resin composition including the same. (I) (?) includes a grafted olefin polymer [R1] containing a main chain composed of an ethylene/?-olefin copolymer and a side chain composed of a propylene polymer. (II) The ratio P wt % of the amount of the propylene polymer contained in (?) 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 cross-fractionation chromatography (CFC) using o-dichlorobenzene as a solvent of less than 65° C., to the amount of (?) is taken as E wt %, the value a represented by the following equation (Eq-1), in relation to the ratio E and the ratio P, is 1.4 or more. (IV) The melting point (Tm) and the glass transition temperature (Tg), as measured by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), are from 120 to 165° C. and from ?80 to ?30° C., respectively.

Abstract: Provided is a plant disease control composition that has a plurality of disease spectra against various plant pathogens and demonstrates superior control effects (synergistic control effects) that cannot be predicted from each component alone. The plant disease control composition comprises as active ingredients thereof at least one quinoline compounds represented by the following general formula: wherein, R1 and R2 represent, for example, optionally substituted alkyl groups or optionally substituted aryl groups, R3 and R4 represent, for example, hydrogen atoms, fluorine atom or methyl group, X represents, for example, a halogen atom or optionally substituted alkyl group, and Y represents a fluorine atom or methyl group, n is 0 to 2 and m is 0 or 1, or a salt thereof (group a), and one or more fungicidal compounds selected from group b.

Abstract: An adhesive resin composition includes an expandable sticky polymer having a structure derived from a Meldrum's acid derivative, or a Meldrum's acid derivative represented by the following general formula (1) and an adhesive resin.

Abstract: A low-resilience polyurethane foam is produced by allowing a low-resilience polyurethane foam composition containing polyisocyanate (a), polyol (b), catalyst (c), and blowing agent (d) to react. The polyisocyanate (a) contains bis(isocyanatomethyl)cyclohexane, and the polyol (b) contains 5 to 30 mass % of polyol (b-1) having an average functionality of 1.5 to 4.5 and a hydroxyl number of 20 to 70 mgKOH/g, and 70 to 95 mass % of polyol (b-2) having an average functionality of 1.5 to 4.5 and a hydroxyl number of 140 to 300 mgKOH/g.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to obtain crimped conjugated fibers having excellent crimp properties. The present invention provides a crimped conjugated fiber having a crimpable cross-sectional configuration, wherein a cross section of the fiber includes at least two portions: a portion (a) and a portion (b); the portion (a) includes an olefin polymer (A) and the portion (b) includes an olefin polymer (B); the olefin polymer (A) differs from the olefin polymer (B) in at least any one of Mz/Mw, melting point and MFR; and a specific fatty acid amide is added to the olefin polymer (A) and/or the olefin polymer (B). The present invention also provides a non-woven fabric including said crimped conjugated fiber.

Abstract: A blanking die apparatus includes multiple machining stations having respective cutting tools operated simultaneously to perform predetermined blanking operations on a belt-shaped workpiece fed progressively in a longitudinal direction and finally to perform a contour blanking operation on the workpiece, thereby forming core pieces used for manufacturing a laminated iron core, and an auxiliary cutting tool that forms a disposal hole by partly blanking a scrap forming area of the workpiece simultaneously with the operations of the cutting tools of the machining stations.

Abstract: A pellicle membrane includes a film consisting of an organic material and an inorganic material, wherein a region containing an organic material and a region consisting of an inorganic material are present in the same plane of the film, and wherein at least a central portion of the film is a region consisting of an inorganic material, and at least a peripheral edge portion of the film is a region containing an organic material.

Abstract: The process for producing photochromic optical materials of the present invention includes a step (i) of reacting at least one polymerizable monomer (A) having two or more ethylene-based unsaturated groups with at least one polythiol (B) having two or more mercapto groups to obtain a prepolymer; a step (ii) of mixing the prepolymer and a photochromic compound (C) to obtain a polymerizable composition; and a step (iii) of polymerizing the polymerizable composition, wherein, before the reaction of the step (i), the molar number of the mercapto groups included in the polythiol (B) is smaller than the molar number of the ethylene-based unsaturated groups included in the polymerizable monomer (A).

Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a molded product comprising preparing a polymerizable composition for optical materials and curing the polymerizable composition for optical materials to produce the molded product. The preparation of the polymerizable composition comprises preparing a polythiol compound containing, as a main component, one kind or two or more kinds selected from a defined group of compounds, and preparing the polymerizable composition from the polythiol compound.

Abstract: Provided are a propylene-based polymer useful for providing a toner that is excellent in offset resistance, can be fixed by using a low-temperature heating element and hardly has stickiness even after stored for a long period of time; and a toner including said propylene-based polymer. The present invention is directed to a propylene/?-olefin copolymer (A) which includes 60 to 90 mol % of structural units derived from propylene (a) and 10 to 40 mol % of structural units derived from ?-olefins having 4 or more carbon atom (b) wherein (a)+(b)=100 mol % and which satisfies: (i) a weight average molecular weight (Mw) as measured by GPC of 3,000 to 40,000; (ii) a melting point (Tm) as measured by DSC of 60 to 90° C.; and (iii) a half width of a crystalline melting point peak as measured by DSC of 1 to 20° C.

Abstract: A power door opening device that shortens time from start of manual operation to assistance starting. The device comprises an actuator that assists a motion for opening and closing a door supported by a vehicle body; a door-end sensor that detects the motion of the door; and a control that carries out opening/closing control of the actuator on the basis that the door-end sensor detects the motion of the end of the door.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a propylene-based resin composition capable of providing a molded article having an excellent balance between rigidity and impact resistance. The object can be achieved by a propylene-based resin composition including an olefin-based resin characterized by including a grafted ethylene-based copolymer having an ethylene polymer as a side chain.

Abstract: A composition for a protection layer of a thermal recording material includes emulsion (A) and non-crosslinkable urea compound (B), and emulsion (A) has a pH of 6 or more, and contains copolymer resin (a) produced by copolymerizing reactive monomer component (a?) containing at least a vinyl monomer component having a carboxyl group and a vinyl monomer component that is copolymerizable with the vinyl monomer component having a carboxyl group.

Abstract: In an exhaust gas purification catalyst system for use in an automobile including an exhaust gas purification catalyst product disposed in both a front section and a rear section, the exhaust gas purification catalyst product of the front section has a layered catalyst including a lower layer which contains aluminum borate.

Abstract: In a vehicle door latch device, a latch engages with a striker of a vehicle body and a ratchet engages with the latch, so that a vehicle door is closed, and an inside operating lever and a childproof lock mechanism are disposed between a cover and a casing. To connect the childproof lock mechanism to the casing, the inside operating lever is held in an assembling position and the childproof lock mechanism is held in its locking state or in its unlocking state. The cover has a covering portion over a broader portion of a hole in the cover.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are devices and methods for the design and manufacturing of electronic eyeglasses and associated components thereof. Electronic eyeglasses consist of electro-active lenses, receiving electrical signals that turn them on and off from an electronic control module. The electronic control module is embedded within a temple of the eyeglass frame, and is powered by a removable power source pack residing at a temple tip through a flexible cable. Various methods describe the interconnection schemes between the components of the electronic eyeglasses.