Abstract: Provided is a coating composition capable of forming a coating film which exhibits excellent durability and is suitable for repair. It is a coating composition containing a resin component and a pigment, in which a linear expansion coefficient at a temperature equal to or less than a glass transition temperature of a nonvolatile component is 3.2×10?5/K or less.

Abstract: A steel product bent by heating to 600° C. or more, specifically a heat treated steel product having high strength and excellent chemical conversion coating ability which has scale with FeO content of 90% or more, having a thickness of 1 ?m or less on the surface.

Abstract: A membrane element includes a central pipe having, in its outer periphery, holes; a membrane wound body in which a membrane member is wound on the central pipe; end members arranged, respectively, at both ends of the membrane wound body; and an exterior member fitted to at least an outer periphery of the membrane wound body. In this element, the exterior member includes a fiber reinforced resin having a reinforcing fiber wound on the outer periphery of the membrane wound body; the end members each includes flexible portions extended from a main body toward the membrane wound body; and the reinforcing fiber is wound also onto an outer periphery of the flexible portions in a state that the flexible portions are deformed toward an outer peripheral surface of the membrane wound body.

Abstract: Provided is a connecting rod which can be manufactured without increasing the cost, and is provided with an effectively strengthened rod portion. The rod portion includes a pair of ribs (21) extending in parallel to each other in cross sectional view, and a web (22) connected between substantially vertically middle parts of the ribs. Each rib includes a rib root portion (23) located in a vertically central part thereof in cross sectional view, and a pair of rib tip portions (24) located at both vertical ends thereof, and each rib tip portion has a higher hardness than the web by 40 HV or more, and the rib root portion has a higher hardness than the web by 30 HV or more.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to find a primer coating composition for aluminum wheels, the composition having excellent stability and being capable of forming a coating film having excellent corrosion resistance, edge corrosion resistance, and filiform corrosion resistance. The invention provides (1) a primer coating composition for aluminum wheels comprising a copolymer resin (A), and 1 to 30 parts by mass of fumed silica (B) and 0.1 to 10 parts by mass of a magnesium-containing phosphoric acid-based compound (C), per 100 parts by mass of the total solids content of the copolymer resin (A). The invention also provides (2) the primer coating composition for aluminum wheels according to Item (1), further comprising 0.1 to 10 parts by mass of metal-ion exchanged silica (D), per 100 parts by mass of the total solids content of the copolymer resin (A).

Abstract: An image acquisition device includes a member having a plurality of non-transmissive portions that extends in a first direction and does not transmit at least a part of incident light. The plurality of non-transmissive portions being disposed in a second direction intersecting the first direction at intervals of a period P. The image acquisition device further includes a first illumination unit, an imaging unit that images an area of an illuminated target via the member, and a driving unit that relatively shifts the member and the target in the second direction during exposure for acquiring one image by imaging the target illuminated by the first illumination unit.

Abstract: Provided is a connecting rod which can be manufactured without increasing the cost, and is provided with an effectively strengthened rod portion. The rod portion includes a pair of ribs (21) extending in parallel to each other in cross sectional view, and a web (22) connected between substantially vertically middle parts of the ribs. Each rib includes a rib root portion (23) located in a vertically central part thereof in cross sectional view, and a pair of rib tip portions (24) located at both vertical ends thereof, and each rib tip portion has a higher hardness than the web by 40 HV or more, and the rib root portion has a higher hardness than the web by 30 HV or more.

Abstract: An inspection apparatus for performing inspection of an object includes an illumination device configured to illuminate the object, an imaging device configured to image the object illuminated by the illumination device, and a processor configured to perform processing for the inspection based on an image obtained by the imaging device. The processor is configured to perform the processing based on a first image obtained by the imaging device under dark field illumination by the illumination device with light having a first wavelength and a second image obtained by the imaging device under dark field illumination by the illumination device with light having a second wavelength different from the first wavelength.

Abstract: According to the present invention, there is provided a cooling apparatus for a steel material in which one portion in a longitudinal direction of an elongated steel material (10) is heated while the steel material is fed in the longitudinal direction in a state where one end portion of the steel material is gripped, and the one end portion is moved in a two-dimensional or three-dimensional direction so as to form the steel material into a predetermined shape including a bent portion and thereafter to cool a heated portion including the bent portion. The cooling apparatus includes a first cooling apparatus (22) that ejects a first cooling medium to the heated portion, and a second cooling apparatus (23) that is disposed on a downstream side from the first cooling apparatus when viewed along a feeding direction of the steel material, and that ejects a second cooling medium to the heated portion.

Abstract: A rolled steel material for fracture splitting connecting rods consists of, C: 0.30 to 0.40%, Si: 0.60 to 1.00%, Mn: 0.50 to 1.00%, P: 0.04 to 0.07%, S: 0.04 to 0.13%, Cr: 0.10 to 0.30%, V: 0.05 to 0.14%, Ti: more than 0.15% to 0.20% or less, N: 0.002 to 0.020%, and optionally may contain Cu, Ni, Mo, Pb, Te, Ca, and Bi, with the balance being Fe and impurities. fn1, defined by Formula (1), ranges from 0.65 to 0.80. Relative to the V content in the steel material, a V content in coarse precipitates having a particle size of 200 nm or more is 70% or less, and relative to the Ti content in the steel material, a Ti content in the coarse precipitates is 50% or more.

Abstract: A steel product bent by heating to 600° C. or more, specifically a heat treated steel product having high strength and excellent chemical conversion coating ability which has scale with FeO content of 90% or more, having a thickness of 1 ?m or less on the surface.

Abstract: A composition for bonded magnets according to the present invention contains from 88% by mass to 91% by mass (inclusive) of a samarium-iron-nitrogen magnet powder having an average particle diameter of from 1.8 ?m to 2.8 ?m (inclusive), from 0.5% by mass to 2.5% by mass (inclusive) of a polyamide elastomer having a tensile elongation at break of 400% or more and a bending modulus of elasticity of 100 MPa or more, from 0.5% by mass to 2.0% by mass (inclusive) of carbon fibers having fiber diameters of from 10 ?m to 12 ?m (inclusive) and from 0.3% by mass to 1.0% by mass (inclusive) of a carboxylic acid ester, with the balance made up of a polyamide resin which is composed of a polyamide 12 having a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of from 4,500 to 7,500 (inclusive) as determined by molecular weight distribution measurement.

Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a nitrocarburized crankshaft which is obtained by subjecting a bainitic microalloyed steel to a forging and a machining, and further subjecting the bainitic microalloyed steel to at least a strain releasing heat treatment and a subsequent nitrocarburizing treatment, the bainitic microalloyed steel containing, as essentially added elements, in terms of mass %: 0.10% to 0.40% of C; 0.10% to 1.0% of Si; 1.0% to 2.0% of Mn; 0.05% to 0.40% of Mo; and 0.05% to 0.40% of V, and the bainitic microalloyed steel optionally further containing, as arbitrarily added elements, in terms of mass %: 0.01% to 0.1% of S; 0.005% to 0.2% of Ti; 0.001% to 0.03% of Al; 0.50% or less of Cr; 0.5% or less of Cu; and 0.5% or less of Ni, with the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities.

Abstract: A problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a method for forming a multilayer coating film, the method being capable of achieving excellent finished appearance and excellent corrosion resistance without affecting electrodeposition coatability even when a part or all of the water-washing step is omitted after chemical conversion treatment, and to provide a coated article.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to find a primer coating composition for aluminum wheels, the composition having excellent stability and being capable of forming a coating film having excellent corrosion resistance, edge corrosion resistance, and filiform corrosion resistance. The invention provides (1) a primer coating composition for aluminum wheels comprising a copolymer resin (A), and 1 to 30 parts by mass of fumed silica (B) and 0.1 to 10 parts by mass of a magnesium-containing phosphoric acid-based compound (C), per 100 parts by mass of the total solids content of the copolymer resin (A). The invention also provides (2) the primer coating composition for aluminum wheels according to Item (1), further comprising 0.1 to 10 parts by mass of metal-ion exchanged silica (D), per 100 parts by mass of the total solids content of the copolymer resin (A).

Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a nitrocarburized crankshaft which is obtained by subjecting a bainitic microalloyed steel to a forging and a machining, and further subjecting the bainitic microalloyed steel to at least a strain releasing heat treatment and a subsequent nitrocarburizing treatment, the bainitic microalloyed steel containing, as essentially added elements, in terms of mass %: 0.10% to 0.40% of C; 0.10% to 1.0% of Si; 1.0% to 2.0% of Mn; 0.05% to 0.40% of Mo; and 0.05% to 0.40% of V, and the bainitic microalloyed steel optionally further containing, as arbitrarily added elements, in terms of mass %: 0.01% to 0.1% of S; 0.005% to 0.2% of Ti; 0.001% to 0.03% of Al; 0.50% or less of Cr; 0.5% or less of Cu; and 0.5% or less of Ni, with the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities.

Abstract: A network management control device includes a link information storing unit that stores information about connections between nodes belonging to respective networks that are controlled by different protocols. The network management control device receives an input of the configuration information about each of the networks. The network management control device then generates combined information between different protocols, based on the information stored in the link information storing unit about connections between nodes and the received network configuration information. After that, the network management control device performs provisioning in accordance with the generated combined information between the different protocols.

Abstract: The present invention provides a measurement apparatus which measures a surface shape of a measurement target surface, the apparatus including an optical system configured to split light from a light source into measurement light and reference light, guide the measurement light onto the measurement target surface, and guide the reference light onto a reference surface, a detection unit configured to detect an intensity of the measurement light reflected by the measurement target surface, an intensity of the reference light reflected by the reference surface, and an interference pattern formed between the measurement light reflected by the measurement target surface and the reference light reflected by the reference surface, and a processing unit configured to obtain a surface shape of the measurement target surface based on an interference signal of the interference pattern detected by the detection unit.

Abstract: A content processing system includes a content management device storing contents and information associated with the contents, and a plurality of portable terminals capable of accessing the content management device through a network, and performs a process on the contents according to a workflow using the plurality of portable terminals. The content processing system may include a first executing unit that let at least a part of the contents and the associated information be stored in a portable terminal among the plurality of portable terminals to perform a second process when the process to be currently performed in the workflow is moved from a first process to the second process.

Abstract: There is provided a means to produce industrially a highly pure 2-hydroxy-4-oxa-5-thiatricyclo[4.2.1.03,7]nonane 5,5-dioxide derivative in high yield from highly pure and industrially available raw materials. The production method for a sultone derivative of the present invention comprises a step (A) to obtain a sulfonic acid derivative by hydrolyzing a sulfonyl halide derivative represented by the following chemical formula 1: or an enantiomer thereof and a step (B) to obtain a corresponding sultone derivative represented by the following chemical formula 2: or an enantiomer thereof by treating the sulfonic acid derivative with a oxidizing agent.