Abstract: A metal gasket having an annular planar shape with a vertical cross-section having a sideways U-shape has angular portions in an upper surface portion and a lower surface portion, respectively. In the angular portions, inclined faces inclined toward the inner peripheral direction and having a minimum thickness portion with a thickness corresponding to 3-25% of the height of the metal gasket are formed at a boundary between an upper surface of the upper member and an inner peripheral surface of an inner peripheral portion and a boundary between a lower surface of the lower surface portion and the inner peripheral surface of the inner peripheral portion, respectively. A height from the upper surface of the upper surface portion to a vertex of the angular portion and a height from the lower surface of the lower surface portion to a vertex of the angular portion are 0.01 mm or greater.

Abstract: A low heat-resistant sensor that has high chemical resistance, excellent drip-proof properties, and excellent dust-proof properties is provided. The low heat-resistant sensor includes a sensor body that includes a sensor unit that is disposed in a housing and a cable that is electrically connected to the sensor unit of the sensor body. The housing of the sensor body is composed of fluorine resin, the cable is covered by a tube composed of fluorine resin, a portion at which the housing and the tube are connected to each other is thermally bonded, and the housing and the tube are integrally formed.

Abstract: A substrate with a conductive layer including a substrate, which is a woven or nonwoven fabric containing polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) nanofibers; and a conductive layer formed on the substrate, the conductive layer being formed from a conductive composition with a viscosity in a range of 1 to 500 Pa·s measured at 25° C. with a rotational viscometer at a rotational speed of 50 rpm, wherein the following requirement (1) is satisfied: requirement (1); the substrate with a conductive layer has a Gurley permeability of 10 s/100 ml or less.

Abstract: Provided is a metal gasket, which is used for connecting pipes to each other in a thermal power plant, a nuclear power plant, a steam engine in a steam turbine ship, an oil refinery line, a petrochemical industry process line, a semiconductor manufacturing line or the like, and which is characterized in that a V-shaped circumferential groove 2 is provided on the outer circumferential surface of the metal gasket 1, the ratio (circumferential groove depth A/horizontal length B) of the depth A of the circumferential groove 2 and the horizontal length B in a cross section of the metal gasket 1 is 0.1 to 0.95, and the notch angle of the V-shaped circumferential groove 2 is 30° to 120°.

Abstract: A PTFE sheet in which PTFE fibers having a diameter of 1 ?m or less are spun, the PTFE sheet having a Gurley value in the range of 1 s/100 cc/in2 to 3 s/100 cc/in2 and a shrinkage factor in a direction orthogonal to a sheet winding direction of no more than 10% when heated to 300° C. The PTFE sheet makes a die adsorbable via a tool, which is for heating the die when the die is mounted on a mounting body, by being sandwiched between the die and the tool, and suppresses the adhesion, to an adsorption surface of the tool or to the die, of an adhesion member for fixing the die to the mounted body. Through this configuration, a PTFE sheet capable of stabilizing vacuum adsorption and improving maintainability and a method for mounting a die are provided.

Abstract: A sealing member includes a thermoplastic fluororesin composition including a thermoplastic fluororesin (A) having a Shore D hardness of less than or equal to 50, the Shore D hardness being measured at 23° C. in accordance with ASTM D2240, and a cross-linked structure forming agent (B) that is selected from the group consisting of a polyfunctional unsaturated compound (b-1), a polyamine compound (b-2), and a polyhydroxy compound (b-3) and that is capable of forming a cross-linked structure through a reaction with the thermoplastic fluororesin (A), the thermoplastic fluororesin composition not substantially containing a peroxide compound when containing the (b-1), not substantially containing an acid acceptor when containing the (b-2), and not substantially containing at least one of the acid acceptor and an onium compound when containing the (b-3); and a method for producing a cross-linked body including a step of cross-linking the thermoplastic fluororesin composition by an ionizing radiation.

Abstract: Provided is a rubber composition for sealing material which contains 100 parts by mass of a rubber component, 50 to 140 parts by mass of silica, 1 to 20 parts by mass of a silane coupling agent, and 15 to 35 parts by mass of carbon black. The rubber component is preferably an ethylene-propylene-diene rubber.

Abstract: Provided are a perfluoroelastomer composition which contains 100 parts by weight of a perfluoroelastomer containing a constituent unit derived from a nitrile group-containing monomer, and 0.01 to 5 parts by weight of ketjen black; and a sealing material including a crosslinked product of the perfluoroelastomer composition.

Abstract: Provided are an elastomer composition including a first fluoroelastomer that is a copolymer of tetrafluoroethylene and perfluoro (alkoxyvinyl ether) and a second fluoroelastomer different from the first fluoroelastomer, and a sealing material including a crosslinked product of the elastomer composition.

Abstract: A laminate including a metal substrate having a chemically etched surface and a fluoroelastomer layer laminated in contact with the chemically etched surface or laminated in contact with a surface of a fluororesin layer laminated in contact with the chemically etched surface, and a gate seal including the laminate, are provided.

Abstract: Provided is a composite seal member that can maintain performance such as vacuum seal performance, plasma resistance, and corrosive gas resistance over a long period. The composite seal member is mounted in a seal groove provided in a body surface of a first member, and establishes a sealed state between the first member and a second member when the second member is moved closer toward the first member. The composite seal member includes a first seal member disposed on the side of a first side wall of the seal groove and made of an elastic member, and a second seal member disposed on the side of a second side wall of the seal groove and made of a material that is harder than the first seal member.

Abstract: An arrangement structure for a seal member includes: a first member having a first mating surface and provided with a groove portion; a second member having a second mating surface, and configured to move relatively to the first member; and an annular seal member fitted into the groove portion, providing sealing between the first member and the second member, and serving as a partition between an atmosphere-side space and a pressurized-side space. The seal member includes a plurality of first protruding portions protruding toward the second mating surface and aligned from the atmosphere-side space toward the pressurized-side space. The seal member has such a shape that, in a state of not being fitted into the groove portion, a protrusion height of the first protruding portion increases in stages from the first protruding portion arranged close to the pressurized-side space toward the first protruding portion arranged close to the atmosphere-side space.

Abstract: Provided are a laminate including a metal substrate having a surface with an anodic oxide coating formed thereon, a fluororesin layer laminated in contact with the anodic oxide coating and a fluoroelastomer layer laminated in contact with a surface of the fluororesin layer facing away from the metal substrate, and a gate seal including the laminate.

Abstract: A metal gasket includes: a metal gasket body having, in the outer circumferential surface thereof, a recessed circumferential groove; and an elastic body. An elastic body is inserted into the circumferential groove of the gasket body; in a vertical cross-section of the metal gasket, an arc-shaped upper seal surface having an upward-facing bulge is formed on the top surface of the gasket body which contacts a material to be sealed, and an arc-shaped lower seal surface having a downward-facing bulge is formed on the bottom surface of the gasket body which contacts the material to be sealed; and an upper flat surface or an upper notched section is provided to the upper seal surface, and a lower flat surface or a lower notched section is provided to the lower seal surface.

Abstract: A seal structure includes a ring-shaped seal member. The seal member is disposed in a seal groove. The case includes a low-pressure lateral face in a cross section of the seal structure, the cross section being taken along an imaginary plane in parallel with a shaft axial direction of the shaft and passing through a center line of the shaft. The seal member includes a first protruding portion. The first protruding portion protrudes from a main portion having a bottom face in contact with the low-pressure lateral face, and has a shape such that the first protruding portion extends toward the shaft as the first protruding portion extends toward the low-pressure side. The first protruding portion includes a tip. The first protruding portion includes a contact region in contact with the shaft. The tip is closer to the low-pressure side than the contact region is.