Abstract: A composition and method that provides a chemically grafted coating onto a substrate. The composition comprises an acrylate and a grafting initiator. The acrylate may be a waterborne urethane acrylate. The composition may also comprise resistance agents, adhesion agents, UV curing photoinitators, defoaming agents, and/or deglossing agents. The substrate may be any wood or plastic, but works well with heat shrinkable polyolefin tubing. The composition may also be quick curing such that the coating from the composition may be cured under a D bulb and an H bulb at a rate of 100-160 feet/minute. The coating on the substrate resists delamination and wear. The coating may have indicia printed on the coating, the indicia being composed from ink or other printable materials.

Abstract: According to the tire air-pressure reduction detecting apparatus and method of the present invention, when a vehicle travels, the detected rotational angular speeds F.sub.i of the tires W.sub.i are multiplied by correction coefficients C.sub.i to correct initial differences. Vehicle speed V.sub.0 is calculated based on angular speeds F.sub.i0, and is put in a relationship formula f(V) to obtain a front/rear wheel ration f(V.sub.0) corresponding to the speed V.sub.0. Based on the front/rear wheel ratio f(V.sub.1) corresponding to a speed V.sub.1 at which the correction coefficients C.sub.i have been obtained, and the ration f(V.sub.0), there is obtained a variation of the front/rear wheel ratio f(V.sub.0)/f(V.sub.1), by which rotational angular speeds F.sub.3, F.sub.4 are then multiplied. The products are used for detecting a reduction in the air pressure of a tire W.sub.i, thereby to calculate a judgement value D. When D satisfies the conditions:D<-D.sub.TH1 or D>D.sub.

Abstract: An elongated prestressing steel material for use in the fabrication of prestressed concrete comprises a steel member and an outer coat of many microcapsules each containing a flowable material in its interior.

Abstract: A stripping apparatus for stripping coated electric wires b has a pair of clamping plates movable into and out of contact with each other and provided with cutting edges formed at a constant pitch in their opposing contactable edges. The corresponding cutting edges in both clamping plates cooperate with each other in defining, when the clamping plates are held in contact with each other, cutting gaps of different sizes. The clamping plates are adapted to clamp and sever, at their cutting edges, the end portion of the coating d on the coated electric wire at least partially. Means are provided for causing a relative movement between the coated electric wire and the clamping plates thereby to remove the severed end portion of the coating from the core wire of the coated electric wire.

Abstract: The invention relates an Al-stabilized superconducting wire for use in a superconducting magnet used in a charging magnetic field, such as a pulse magnet and the like, and particularly to an Al-stabilized superconducting wire having the properties of reduced size and light weight, high current density, high stability, low AC loss, etc., and a method for producing the same. The said Al-stabilized superconducting wire has a core chosen from a superconducting elementary wire, an electrically insulated Cu or a Cu alloy, or a nonmagnetic metal or alloys thereof, and wherein the superconducting elementary wires and high purity Al wires are alternately stranded around said core. The stranded cable is bonded by impregnating it with solder, or further by subjecting it to a reduction process and heat treatment thereby making it possible to obtain an aluminum stabilized superconducting wire having said high properties.