Abstract: A medical device is provided, including: a sheath portion (10); a pair of operation wires (30); and a turning operation portion (60) in which the sheath portion (10) is bent in a direction corresponding to the pulled one operation wire (30) through a turning operation. The turning operation portion (60) includes a wire fixation panel (64) around which the operation wires (30) are wound on a side peripheral surface; and a penetration portion (63c) and a closing portion (63d) which are provided further radially outwards than the side peripheral surface of the wire fixation panel (64) and at a position facing the side peripheral surface, so as to be integrated with the wire fixation panel (64).

Abstract: There is provided a coating material for coating at least a part of an inner wall of a pipe for transporting oil and or gas mined from underground. It contains an acid curing agent and an acid curable resin to be cured by the acid curing agent. The coating material passes through the pipe for transporting the oil and/or gas mined from the underground to coat at least a part of the inner wall of the pipe with a cured product of the acid curable resin. It is possible to provide the coating material for coating the inner wall of the pipe for transporting the oil and/or gas mined from the underground to prevent corrosion of the inner wall of the pipe by a high anti-corrosion effect thereof. There is also provided a method for coating the inner wall of the pipe with the cured product of the coating material.

Abstract: A brake pad 10 can brake a disc 200, and includes a friction material 12 provided on the side of the disc 200 and a back plate 11 bonded on the side of the friction material 12 opposite from the disc 200. The back plate 11 has a contact portion 111 making contact with a piston 30 and an edge portion, and a thickness of the contact portion 111 is substantially constant and larger than a thickness of the edge portion. It is preferred that the back plate 11 has a gradual decrease portion 112 whose thickness gradually decreases from the contact portion 111 toward the edge portion. This makes it possible to provide the brake pad capable of sufficiently and uniformly transmitting a pressing force of the piston to the disc through the whole surface of the friction material, and a caliper device provided with the brake pad.

Abstract: A composition is provided, including: polymer particles having a functional group for capturing a sugar chain, wherein the rate of change of mass calculated by Equation (F1) below is more than 90% and less than 112%. Rate of change (%)=A/B×100??(F1) In Equation (F1), A represents the mass of the composition after incubation for 4 hours under an environment of a relative humidity of 50% and a temperature of 25° C., and B represents the mass of the composition before the incubation.

Abstract: A thermosetting resin composition (P) of the present invention is used for forming a resin member (101) in a metal-resin composite body (100) including the resin member (101) and an aluminum-based metal member (102) bonded to the resin member (101) and contains a thermosetting resin (A) and a filler (B), in which a rate of change of warpage is equal to or greater than ?35% and equal to or less than 35%.

Abstract: The present invention relates to polynorbornene (PNB) composition embodiments that are useful for forming microelectronic and/or optoelectronic devices and assemblies thereof, and more specifically to compositions encompassing PNBs having norbornene-type repeating units that are polyether functionalized where such the PNBs of such compositions and the microelectronic and/or optoelectronic devices made therefrom are resistant to thermo-oxidative chain degradation of said polyether functionalization.

Abstract: A metal-resin composite body (100) of the present invention is obtained by bonding a resin member (101) and a metal member (102) together. The resin member (101) is obtained by curing a thermosetting resin composition (P) containing a thermosetting resin (A) and a filler (B). The metal member (102) has a roughened layer (104) including fine irregularities on at least a bonding surface (103) bonded to the resin member (101). A portion of the filler (B) is present in depression portions constituting the irregularities of the roughened layer (104).

Abstract: According to the present invention, there is provided a resol phenolic resin for a friction material wherein the resol phenolic resin has a structural unit A represented by Formula (1) and a structural unit B represented by Formula (2): wherein in Formula (1), m represents an integer of 1 or more; in a case where m is 1, R represents a methylol group; and in a case where m is 2 or more, R's independently represent a hydrogen atom or a methylol group and at least one R is a methylol group; and wherein in Formula (2), n represents an integer of 1 or more; in a case where n is 1, R represents a methylol group; and in a case where n is 2 or more, R's independently represent a hydrogen atom or a methylol group and at least one R is a methylol group.

Abstract: An optical module-member is provided, including: a layer-shaped optical waveguide; a light-emitting unit substrate including an insulating substrate, light-emitting element-mounting portions where light-emitting elements are configured to be mounted so as to be optically connected to the optical waveguide, and driving element-mounting portions which are electrically connected to the light-emitting element-mounting portions where driving elements for driving the light-emitting elements are configured to be mounted; and a light-receiving unit substrate which is separated from the light-emitting unit substrate, the light-receiving unit substrate including: an insulating substrate, light-receiving element-mounting portions where light-receiving elements are configured to be mounted so as to be optically connected to the optical waveguide, and signal amplification element-mounting portions which are electrically connected to the light-receiving element-mounting portions and where signal amplification elements for

Abstract: A medical treatment tool (10) includes a retractor main body (30) and a converter (20). The retractor main body (30) forms a cylindrical shape and is placed in an incision. The converter (20) is detachably installed on an opening end (32) of the retractor main body (30) and closes the opening end (32). Ports (22a) to (22d) through which treatment tools are respectively inserted into the retractor main body (30) are provided in a plurality of sites of the converter (20). The converter (20) can be installed on the opening end (32) at an installation angle which is selected from a plurality of angles. The positional relationships of the ports (22a) to (22d) with respect to the retractor main body (30) when the converter (20) is installed on the opening end (32) at the respective installation angles become different from each other.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are various amine treated maleic anhydride containing polymers and compositions thereof, which are useful for forming self-imageable films. In some embodiments, such polymers encompass norbornene-type repeating units and maleic anhydride-type repeating units where at least some of such maleic anhydride-type repeating units are either ring-opened or have been transformed into maleimide repeat units. The films formed from such copolymer compositions provide self imageable, low-k, thermally stable layers for use in microelectronic and optoelectronic devices.

Abstract: The present invention relates to polynorbornene (PNB) composition embodiments that are useful for forming microelectronic and/or optoelectronic devices and assemblies thereof, and more specifically to compositions encompassing PNBs having norbornene-type repeating units that are polyether functionalized and an additive package containing a phenolic antioxidant and a synergist, and the microelectronic and/or optoelectronic devices made therefrom are resistant to thermo-oxidative chain degradation of said polyether functionalization.

Abstract: A resin composition having improved mechanical strength, hardness, and low heat generation property (low fuel consumption property) is developed, and when the same is used particularly in a rubber composition, a rubber composition that has a low tan ? (loss tangent) around 60° C., an improved E? (storage elastic modulus), and a reduced load on the environment is provided. A resin composition containing a lignin derivative (A), as well as either a modified novolac type phenol resin (B) or a cashew resin (B?), is provided. In one or a plurality of embodiments, the modified novolac type phenol resin (B) has a softening point of 150° C. or lower, and the modified novolac type phenol resin (B) is obtained by modification with a plant-derived compound.

Abstract: The present invention relates to photosensitive compositions containing polynorbornene (PNB) polymers and certain additives that are useful for forming microelectronic and/or optoelectronic devices and assemblies thereof, and more specifically to compositions encompassing PNBs and certain hindered phenols as additives which are capable of controlling the adhesiveness by radiation.

Abstract: Coated particles of the present invention are adapted to be packed in fractures formed in a subterranean formation. Each of the coated particles includes: a core particle having an outer surface; and a surface layer coating at least a part of the outer surface of the core particle, wherein the surface layer contains an acid curing agent and an acid curable resin to be cured in the presence of an acid, and wherein the acid curing agent is composed of acidic compounds having acidic groups, and at least a part of the acidic groups of the acidic compounds are blocked by block compounds having reactivity with the acidic groups. This makes it possible to provide the coated particles adapted to be packed in the fractures formed in the subterranean formation and capable of maintaining high fluid permeability thereof, an injection material containing the coated particles, and a packing method for injecting such an injection material into the fractures.

Abstract: A resin composition of the present invention is used for forming surface layers coating at least a part of outer surfaces of particles, the particles adapted to be packed in fractures formed in a subterranean formation. The resin composition contains an acid curing agent having an acidic group, an acid curable resin to be cured in the presence of an acid, and a polyester. The acid curing agent exists in a state that the acidic group thereof is blocked by a compound having reactivity with the acidic group. This makes it possible to provide a resin composition which can reliably cure an acid curable resin at a required place, an injection material containing such a resin composition and particles, and a packing method for packing such particles in the fractures formed in the subterranean formation.

Abstract: To provide a temporary bonding adhesive for a semiconductor wafer that reduces damage to a semiconductor wafer, makes it readily detachable, and can shorten the time required for thermal decomposition, and a manufacturing method for a semiconductor device using this. A temporary bonding adhesive for a semiconductor wafer, being a temporary bonding adhesive used for temporarily bonding a semiconductor wafer onto a supporting substrate in order to process a semiconductor wafer, and for detaching a semiconductor wafer from a supporting substrate by heating after processing, containing a resin composition whereof the 50% weight loss temperature decreases after irradiation by active energy rays.

Abstract: There is provided a carbonaceous negative electrode material used for an alkali metal ion battery. The average layer plane spacing d002 of a (002) plane obtained using an X-ray diffraction method in which a CuK? ray is used as a radiation source is 0.340 nm or greater, and either or both the following condition A and condition B are satisfied. In addition, in a specific condition, the cross section includes a first region (101) and a second region (103) having different hardness values measured by means of micro-hardness measurement. Alternatively, the cross section includes a first region (101) and a second region (103) having different intensities of a peak, which corresponds to a lattice constant of graphite, of a curve obtained by means of an image analysis of an electron beam diffraction image observed using a transmission electron microscope.

Abstract: According to the present invention, a semiconductor having excellent yield is provided. The semiconductor device (10) of the present invention includes: a base material (die pad) (2), a semiconductor element (3), and an adhesive layer (1) intervening the space between the base material and the semiconductor element (3) to adhere the base material and the semiconductor element. Thermal conductive filler (8) is contained in the adhesive layer (1), and when the content of the thermal conductive filler dispersed in the whole of the adhesive layer is expressed as C, the content of the thermal conductive filler in the region 1 ranging from the interface of the adhesive layer at the side of the semiconductor element to the depth by 2 ?m is expressed as C1, and the content of the thermal conductive filler in the region 2 ranging from the interface of the adhesive layer at the side of the base material to the depth by 2 ?m is expressed as C2, the following formulae are satisfied: C1<C, and C2<C.

Abstract: A compound having the following structure has been found out: (R1 and R2 each independently represent any one of a hydrogen atom and an alkyl group).