Abstract: A quartz glass plate has a quartz glass plate body and a quartz glass member adhered to the quartz glass plate body through an adhesive layer, where the adhesive layer contains silica, and a sum of concentrations of Li, Na, and K ions, being alkali metal ions and Ca ions, being alkaline earth metal ions contained in the adhesive layer is 10 ppm by mass or less. Consequently, a step with a uniform thickness can be formed, and a quartz glass plate is not easily damaged by irradiation with a light containing an ultraviolet ray.

Abstract: A decorated sheet according to the present disclosure consists of a plurality of resin layers, wherein at least one of the resin layers comprises a nano-sized additive.

Abstract: A method for producing a metal cylinder includes preparing a metal slug having a surface adjusted so that the crystal grain diameter at a depth of 10 ?m from the surface is smaller than that at a depth of 100 ?m from the surface, and the crystal grain diameter at a depth of 10 ?m from the surface is 30 ?m or more and 120 ?m or less; and forming a cylinder by impact pressing of the metal slug having the surface as a bottom.

Abstract: In a coil-embedded dust core constituting an inductance element, a winding body of a coil disposed inside a coil-embedded dust core and a dust core have a relationship that the inner core volume ratio RV defined below is 3 or more and 5 or less: RV=(V1/V2)/(1?V/Vp), where V1 represents a volume of a region in the dust core located on an inner side of the winding body of the coil when the coil-embedded dust core is viewed in a first direction, which is a direction along a winding axis of the coil, V2 represents a volume of a region in the dust core located on an outer side of the winding body of the coil when the coil-embedded dust core is viewed in the first direction, V represents a volume of the dust core, and Vp represents a volume of the coil-embedded dust core.

Abstract: Provided is a water-based ink which has high dispersibility of a pigment and imparts high smoothness and glossiness to a coating film obtainable from the water-based ink. Water-based ink of the present invention is a water-based ink containing a pigment, a vehicle, and water, in which the vehicle contains an alkali-soluble resin (I) and a composite resin (II), and the composite resin (II) is a composite resin of a urethane polymer (e) and an acrylic polymer (f).

Abstract: To provide a decorative sheet including a transparent resin layer having excellent post-processing resistance and high transparency. A decorative sheet (1) according to one aspect of the present invention has a transparent resin layer (4) containing a crystalline polypropylene resin as the main component. A value of a peak intensity ratio x represented by the following expression (1) of the transparent resin layer (4) is x?0.65. Herein, I997, I938, and I973 in the following expression (1) are peak intensity values calculated from the absorption spectrum obtained by Fourier infrared spectrometry of the transparent resin layer, and I997 is the peak intensity value at a wavenumber of 997 cm?1, I938 is the peak intensity value at a wavenumber of 938 cm?1, and I973 is the peak intensity value at a wavenumber of 973 cm?1.

Abstract: To provide a cast iron cylindrical member capable of improving the bonding strength when metal on the outer peripheral side and the cast iron cylindrical member are integrated. For this objective, in a cast iron cylindrical member including a plurality of projections including constricted projections on the outer peripheral surface, the anchor portion index (I) represented by {(Aav2?Bav2)×?/4×Pn×Pr/100}×0.35H/2 is set in a specific range.

Abstract: A decorative sheet including a substrate layer, and one or more layers of at least one of a transparent resin layer and a top coat layer provided on one surface of the substrate layer, the one or more layers being provided as a front surface layer, wherein at least one layer of the transparent resin layer and the top coat layer contains a radical scavenger, and the radical scavenger is contained in a form of radical scavenger vesicles, which encapsulate the radical scavenger within an outer membrane.

Abstract: A cylinder liner that is casted in a block and defines a cylinder bore corresponding to one cylinder includes: a cylindrical liner body; a projection part provided so as to include a plurality of projections on an outer peripheral surface of a part of the liner body; and a bore adjacent part formed such that the outer peripheral surface at an upper side end of the liner body is positioned more on an inner side of the liner body than the outer peripheral surface below the upper side end, and the projections are absent on at least a part of the outer peripheral surface at the upper side end, in a predetermined range of the outer peripheral surface of the liner body, which faces another cylinder bore to be adjacent when casted in the block.

Abstract: To provide a cast iron cylindrical member capable of improving the bonding strength when metal on the outer peripheral side and the cast iron cylindrical member are integrated. For this objective, in a cast iron cylindrical member including a plurality of projections including constricted projections on the outer peripheral surface, the anchor portion index (I) represented by {(Aav2?Bav2)×?/4×Pn×Pr/100}×0.35H/2 is set in a specific range.

Abstract: Provided are a method of manufacturing an engine, an engine, and a connected cylinder. The method of manufacturing an engine includes at least a fitting step of fitting a connected cylinder to a hollow portion of a cylinder block main body. The connected cylinder is (1) a first connected cylinder including two or more cylinder liners and a connecting portion configured to connect the two or more cylinder liners to each other or (2) a second connected cylinder including a connected cylinder main body portion having two or more cylinder bores and a coating configured to cover an inner peripheral surface of the connected cylinder main body portion in which the cylinder bores are formed. The cylinder block main body has one end side, another end side, and the hollow portion passing through the cylinder block main body from the one end side to the another end side.

Abstract: In one embodiment, an antibacterial material includes at least one microparticles selected from tungsten oxide microparticles and tungsten oxide complex microparticles. The microparticles, which have undergone a test to evaluate viable cell count by inoculating in a test piece, to which the microparticles are adhered in a range of 0.02 mg/cm? or more and 40 mg/cm? or less, at least one bacterium selected from among Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, and enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli, and storing for 24 hours, have an antibacterial activity value R of 0.1 or more expressed by the following: R=log(B1/C1) where, B1 denotes an average value (number) of viable cell count after storing an untreated test piece for 24 hours, and C1 denotes an average value (number) of viable cell count after storing the test piece on which the microparticles are coated for 24 hours.

Abstract: A conductive element includes wiring having a flat portion at a top portion and including metal particles. An average value of a ratio of a width of the flat portion to a width of the wiring is 20% or more. An average value of arithmetic average roughness of the top portion is 1 ?m or less.

Abstract: A decorative sheet that has a transparent resin layer having good V groove bending processability (post-processability) while maintaining high scratch resistance and transparency and a method of producing the decorative sheet. A decorative sheet (1) according to the present embodiment is a decorative sheet including at least a transparent resin layer (3) containing a highly crystalline polypropylene resin as a main component. The transparent resin layer (3) contains a low crystalline polypropylene resin added thereto in the range of 0.1 part by mass or more and 20 parts by mass or less relative to 100 parts by mass of the highly crystalline polypropylene resin, the low crystalline polypropylene resin having a tensile modulus in the range of 25 MPa or more and 500 MPa or less.

Abstract: An exhaust gas receiver 21 is provided between an expanded passage portion 132 of an upstream connection member 13 and a catalyst end surface 111. The exhaust gas receiver 21 extends along the entire circumference of a catalyst accommodation case 12. The exhaust gas receiver 21 extends from an upstream opening end portion 121 of the catalyst accommodation case 12 toward an inner part of the passage of the expanded passage portion 132 such that the exhaust gas receiver 21 separates from the expanded passage portion 132, and a space 211 is defined between the exhaust gas receiver 21 and the catalyst end surface 111. Flows of bypass exhaust gas hitting against the catalyst end surface 111 and bouncing off the catalyst end surface 111 hit against and are received by the exhaust gas receiver 21.

Abstract: An outer housing 12 formed of a sheet metal is provided such that its open end portion 312 surrounds an outer edge portion 26 of an inner housing 11 formed by casting. An outer protrusion 216, an annular protrusion 227, and a connecting portion 27 are provided on the outer edge portion 26 of the inner housing 11. The open end portion 312 of the outer housing 12 is joined to a protruding end 217 of the outer protrusion 216, a protruding end 228 of the annular protrusion 227, and an end edge 271 of the connecting portion 27, whereby the inner housing 11 and the outer housing 12 are integrated.

Abstract: A Raman probe includes: a first illuminating fiber and a second illuminating fiber that are arranged in series and that are formed of different materials from each other; a coupling optical system for optically coupling the first and second illuminating fibers; a light-collecting fiber that is formed of the same material as the second illuminating fiber and that collects Raman scattered light from an examination subject; and an optical filter that is disposed between the first and second illuminating fibers and that selectively transmits a laser beam being guided by the first illuminating fiber and, of Raman scattered light of the first illuminating fiber excited by the laser beam, Raman scattered light the amount of Raman shift of which is smaller than a predetermined amount of Raman shift in a Raman spectrum of the examination subject.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a decorative sheet excellent in post-processability and usable for flame-retardant application. A decorative sheet (1) according to one aspect of the present invention includes a plurality of resin layers. At least one layer of the resin layers is formed of a uniaxially stretched resin sheet (3) or a biaxially stretched resin sheet (3) constituted of a thermoplastic resin composition. The thermoplastic resin composition is produced by adding an inorganic pigment vesicle to a polyolefin-based resin. The inorganic pigment vesicle is produced by including an inorganic pigment in a vesicle having a monolayer outer membrane. The uniaxially stretched resin sheet (3) and the biaxially stretched resin sheet (3) have a value of a dichroic ratio R of R?0.3.

Abstract: Provided is a cast-iron cylindrical member having projections (P) formed integrally with a casted surface (an outer peripheral surface), and a composite structure including the cast-iron cylindrical member and an outer periphery-side member. The cast-iron cylindrical member satisfies: (A) 0.50 mm>a height (H) of the projections (P)?0.20 mm; (B) 180?a total number (N) of the projections (P) per cm2 of the outer peripheral surface?61; (C) the projections (P) include a projection (Pn) having a constricted shape; (D) a ratio (NP) of the projections (Pn) to the projections (P)?50%; (E) a bonding strength index (S) expressed by: S=H2×N×NP is equal to or larger than 310; and (F1) a bonding strength F(Al) obtained when the outer peripheral surface of the cast-iron cylindrical member is cast-in inserted with an aluminum alloy exceeds a boundary bonding strength (Fb) expressed by: Fb=1.325×H2×N?0.75.

Abstract: A cylinder liner that is casted in a block and defines a cylinder bore for one cylinder includes: a cylindrical liner body; a projection part including a plurality of projections on an outer peripheral surface of a part of the liner body; and a bore adjacent part inclined at a predetermined angle to an axial direction of the body and extending in the inclination direction, at a predetermined part between an upper side end and a lower side end of the body, of the outer peripheral surface of the body, which faces another cylinder bore to be adjacent when casted in the block. The outer peripheral surface of the bore adjacent part is positioned more on an inner side of the body than the outer peripheral surface above and below, and is formed such that the projections are absent on at least a part of the outer peripheral surface.