Abstract: To provide a disposable diaper enabling reduction in re-wet amount and having an excellent speed of incorporating liquid regardless of concentration and configuration of a water-absorbing agent in an absorbent material. A water-absorbing agent having excellent Gel Capillary Absorption (GCA) and Free Gel Bed Permeability (FGBP) is obtained by crushing a crosslinked hydrogel polymer obtained in a polymerization step to have a specific weight average particle diameter while fluid retention capacity and a surface tension of a water-absorbing agent are adjusted in a specific range, drying the crushed crosslinked hydrogel polymer, and then adding a liquid permeability enhancer thereto during surface crosslinking or after surface crosslinking.

Abstract: A high filler-loaded thermally conductive thin sheet is obtained by uniformly dispersing a mixture containing organic polymer particles and highly thermally conductive filler particles using a pulverizer or a mixer to obtain a powder composition, conveying the powder composition at a constant thickness between two belts of a double belt press device, and continuously heating and pressurizing the powder composition at a temperature higher than or equal to a deflection temperature under load, melting point, or a glass transition temperature of the organic polymer and at a specific pressure and then cooling and solidifying the powder composition in the double belt press device.

Abstract: A problem of heat dissipation in motors, converters, high-luminance LEDs, power devices, power supplies, and the like becomes significant. Provided is a means for capable of providing a product, which has favorable workability, segregation stability, storage stability, and the like, penetrates into a gap in a coil portion, an interface in casing, and the like without any gaps, enhances thermal conductivity/heat dissipation properties of a molded product thus obtained, and is excellent in electrical characteristics, toughness/elastic modulus, thermal resistance, thermal cycle properties, and the like, in the case of using the product for a cast molding resin, a pottingmaterial (sealingmaterial), an adhesive, grease, and the like.

Abstract: A conductive member includes an adhesive layer and a metal foil layer. The adhesive layer consists of an adhesive composition containing conductive particles. The metal foil layer is disposed on the adhesive layer. The conductive member can be used to form, for example, a predetermined metal film.

Abstract: A machine component includes a base portion and strain gauges. The base portion extends in a direction intersecting a central axis. The strain gauges are provided on the base portion and arrayed in a circumferential direction about the central axis. Gap regions are provided between adjacent strain gauges in the circumferential direction. The gap regions include gap regions arranged at angular intervals of approximately 90° about the central axis.

Abstract: A grinding material includes a base sheet and a grinding layer overlaid on a front face side of the base sheet and including abrasive grains and a binder for the abrasive grains. The grinding layer includes the abrasive grains of a plurality of types. Of the abrasive grains of the plurality of types, provided that first abrasive grains have the largest average diameter and second abrasive grains have the second largest average diameter, the percentage of the average diameter of the second abrasive grains with respect to that of the first abrasive grains is 5-70%. The total content of the abrasive grains in the grinding layer is preferably 50-85% by volume. The content of the first abrasive grains in the grinding layer is preferably 1-25% by volume. The first abrasive grains are preferably diamond abrasive grains and the second abrasive grains are preferably alumina abrasive grains.

Abstract: An annular body includes a base, a first resistance wire, a second resistance wire, a first terminal, and a second terminal. The base surrounds a central axis and expands in a direction intersecting the central axis. Resistance values of the first and second resistance wires change according to strain of the base. The first terminal is electrically connected to the end of the first resistance wire. The second terminal is electrically connected to an end of the second resistance wire. The first terminal is at a first position in the circumferential direction. The second terminal is at a second position in the circumferential direction. When viewed in the axial direction, the central angle defined by the first position, the central axis, and the second position is equal to or greater than about 90°.

Abstract: Provided are a water-absorbing resin having more excellent balance of fluid retention capacity, liquid permeability, and low dustiness and a novel measurement method which enables evaluation of excellent physical properties of the water-absorbing resin. A method for measuring an absorption speed of a particulate water-absorbing agent is a method including the step of applying pressure to a portion of a bottom surface of a measurement container (51) by use of a flat plate (52) in a state in which part or whole of the particulate water-absorbing agent (56) is fixed on the bottom surface of the measurement container (51), the bottom surface being surrounded by a frame, introducing an aqueous solution through a liquid injection inlet (54) with which the flat plate (52) is equipped, and then measuring the amount of time elapsed until an end of absorption of the introduced aqueous solution by the particulate water-absorbing agent (56).

Abstract: To provide a disposable diaper enabling reduction in re-wet amount and having an excellent speed of incorporating liquid regardless of concentration and configuration of a water-absorbing agent in an absorbent material. A water-absorbing agent having excellent Gel Capillary Absorption (GCA) and Free Gel Bed Permeability (FGBP) is obtained by crushing a crosslinked hydrogel polymer obtained in a polymerization step to have a specific weight average particle diameter while fluid retention capacity and a surface tension of a water-absorbing agent are adjusted in a specific range, drying the crushed crosslinked hydrogel polymer, and then adding a liquid permeability enhancer thereto during surface crosslinking or after surface crosslinking.

Abstract: An annular body includes a base portion and a resistance wire located in the base portion and including first and second resistance wire portions. The first resistance wire portion includes first regions arranged at intervals in the circumferential direction and each including a region in which a first portion extending in a direction including components in both the radial direction and the circumferential direction is repeatedly provided in the circumferential direction. The second resistance wire portion includes the second regions arranged at intervals in the circumferential direction and each including a region in which a second portion extending in a direction including components in both the radial direction and the circumferential direction is repeatedly arranged in the circumferential direction.

Abstract: An external gear includes a body, external teeth, a diaphragm, and a strain gauge. The diaphragm extends in a direction intersecting with an axial direction on another side in of the body the axial direction. The strain gauge is on at least one of a surface on one side of the diaphragm in the axial direction and a surface on another side of the diaphragm in the axial direction. The strain gauge is only in a region that is about a half or less of a radial length from one end of the diaphragm in the axial direction to the other end of the diaphragm in the axial direction with a radial midpoint between the one end of the diaphragm in the axial direction and the other end of the diaphragm in the axial direction as a center in a section passing through the central axis.

Abstract: Provided is a container (10) including a base material (1) including a plurality of concave portions (2); a recognition unit (3) disposed on the base material and configured to recognize the base material; and a storage unit (4) disposed in a position other than a measurement region of the base material and configured to store information on biomaterials contained in the plurality of concave portions, wherein the recognition unit and the storage unit are allowed to correspond to each other.

Abstract: A sensor includes a base, and first and second resistance lines. The base extends in a direction intersecting with a central axis. The first resistance lines are arrayed in a circumferential direction on a surface of the base. The second resistance lines are arranged concentrically with the first resistance lines and between the first resistance lines in the circumferential direction on the surface of the base. In the first resistance lines, the number of regions of the resistance line along the circumferential direction is one or less, and the number of regions of the resistance line along a radial direction is one or less.

Abstract: To provide a disposable diaper enabling reduction in re-wet amount and having an excellent speed of incorporating liquid regardless of concentration and configuration of a water-absorbing agent in an absorbent material. A water-absorbing agent having excellent Gel Capillary Absorption (GCA) and Free Gel Bed Permeability (FGBP) is obtained by crushing a crosslinked hydrogel polymer obtained in a polymerization step to have a specific weight average particle diameter while fluid retention capacity and a surface tension of a water-absorbing agent are adjusted in a specific range, drying the crushed crosslinked hydrogel polymer, and then adding a liquid permeability enhancer thereto during surface crosslinking or after surface crosslinking.

Abstract: [Problem] In an embodiment involving addition of a chelating agent in an upstream process of the process for production, such as the polymerization step, the residual ratio of the chelating agent in the final product, a particulate water-absorbing agent, is improved. [Solution] A particulate water-absorbing agent having a poly(meth)acrylic acid (salt)-based water-absorbing resin as a main component, containing a chelating agent having a nitrogen atom and an inorganic reducing agent having a sulfur atom, wherein the particulate water-absorbing agent has a chelating agent ratio of 0.8 to 1.

Abstract: Provided is a cell tissue producing method including: a cell adhesive portion forming step of forming a cell adhesive portion formed of a cell adhesive material and having a predetermined shape at a predetermined position over a substrate having a cell non-adhesive surface; and a cell locating step of discharging a cell suspension containing at least cells and a cell drying inhibitor onto the cell adhesive portion in the form of a liquid droplet to locate the cells.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to obtain a distilled liquor which has a sufficient excellent citrus aroma but has reduced unfavorable odor generated by distillation. A distilled liquor with an excellent citrus aroma is produced by subjecting an aqueous ethanol solution having a citrus fruit immersed therein to distillation under atmospheric pressure while the ethanol concentration of a distillate falls within the range of from 50 to 80%.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optically clear adhesive sheet that has excellent flexibility and prevents delay bubbles in high temperature and high humidity environments. The optically clear adhesive sheet of the present invention sequentially includes a first surface-adhesive layer, an intermediate adhesive layer, and a second surface-adhesive layer. The first surface-adhesive layer and the second surface-adhesive layer each have a higher storage elastic modulus at 85° C. than the intermediate adhesive layer. The first surface-adhesive layer and the second surface-adhesive layer each have a storage elastic modulus at 85° C. of 3.0×104 Pa or higher and 30.0×104 Pa or lower. The intermediate adhesive layer has a storage elastic modulus at 85° C. of 1.0×104 Pa or higher and 15.0×104 Pa or lower. The intermediate adhesive layer contains polyurethane.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to control a stimulation of a tingling aftertaste caused by limonene and alcohol in an alcoholic beverage containing limonene. The present invention provides an alcoholic beverage containing 10 to 60 ppm of limonene and 5 to 25 ppm of eriocitrin.

Abstract: A cell-containing container includes at least one recessed part accommodating cells, in which the cells adhere to a bottom surface of the recessed part, and a cell density in a first region of the bottom surface is 250 to 20,000 cells/mm2, and a cell density in a second region surrounding a periphery of the first region is less than 250 cells/mm2.